FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv

Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 2016, the club plays in Ukrainian Premier League. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity.

For the original football club which was founded in 1925, see FC Metalist Kharkiv.
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Full nameFootball Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Founded17 August 2016 (2016-08-17)
GroundOSC Metalist
Capacity41,307
Head coachValeriy Kriventsov
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2020–21Ukrainian First League, 3rd (promoted)
WebsiteClub website

Metalist 1925 is the Bronze medalist of the 2020–21 Ukrainian First League and 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League, and Silver medalist of the 2016–17 Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship. In the 2021 it was promoted to Ukrainian Premier League.

Metalist 1925 is the second club in Ukraine to attend home matches in the championship.

The club ethos is to rely on local players. Thus in the first team of Metalist 1925 22 players are from Kharkiv. In the team list in the first part of the 2017–18 season, 24 players from 27 were from Kharkiv football schools, in the second part of the season - 21 players from 25, in the 2018–19 season - 23 players from 30.

Legally, Metallist 1925 is not the legal successor of FC Metalist Kharkiv, which was disbanded in 2016 because its last owner, Serhiy Kurchenko, ceased to fund the club and refused to sell it to other potential investors.[nb 1]

History

It was established in the summer of 2016. As several football clubs in the league due to debts, the original club FC Metalist Kharkiv owned by Serhiy Kurchenko was refused a license in 2014 by the Football Federation of Ukraine and expelled from national competitions. The Kurchenko's Metalist continued to play in regional competitions as SC Metalist Kharkiv.

On the initiative of former FFU vice-president and head of Kharkiv Oblast Football Federation Storozhenko along with former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, a new club was created that received the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.[3] Metalist 1925 entered the 2016–17 Ukrainian Football Amateur League and won its group, but lost in the final match. In July 2017, the club was admitted to the Ukrainian Second League.[4]

On 7 July 2017, Metalist 1925 presented a new logo.[5]

Infrastructure

Metalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in a town of Vysokyi, yet some training it also conducts at H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.

Squad

Players
As of 14 April 2022[6][7][8]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  UKR Denys Sydorenko (captain)
3 DF  UKR Yevhen Tkachuk
4 DF  UKR Ivan Kovalenko
5 MF  UKR Vitaliy Yermakov
7 FW  UKR Vitaliy Ponomar
9 MF  UKR Yuriy Batyushyn
10 MF  UKR Rostyslav Rusyn
11 FW  UKR Andriy Remenyuk
19 FW  UKR Illya Zubkov
21 MF  UKR Serhiy Chenbay
22 FW  UKR Vladyslav Dmytrenko
23 MF  UKR Mykhaylo Shershen
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 DF  UKR Yuriy Potimkov
25 GK  UKR Maksym Kovalenko
27 MF  UKR Dmytro Kravchenko
28 MF  UKR Artem Habelok
29 DF  UKR Maksym Zhychykov
30 DF  UKR Mykyta Bezuhlyi
35 GK  UKR Denys Shelikhov
77 FW  UKR Anton Savin
94 MF  UKR Maksym Zaderaka
— MF  UKR Denys Ndukve
— FW  UKR Valeriy Blazhko

On loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
55 DF  BIH Amar Kvakić (at Floridsdorfer until 30 June 2022)
70 MF  BRA Fabinho (at Ponte Preta until 30 June 2022)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  UKR Denys Rezepov (at Vovchansk until 30 June 2022)

Administration

Managers

Honours
Ukrainian First League
Ukrainian Second League
Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship

Seasons
Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Other Notes
2016–17 4th
(Championship among amateurs)		 1 20 13 4 3 46 18 43 LF Lost final Group winner, Promoted
2017–18 3rd "B"
(Second League)		 2 33 21 4 8 77 27 67 1⁄64 finals Promoted
2018–19 2nd
(First League)		 4 28 15 6 7 35 20 51 1⁄16 finals
2019–20 7 30 15 6 9 44 34 51 1⁄32 finals
2020–21 3 30 16 8 6 36 22 56 1⁄64 finals Promoted

Notes
  1. In October 2017, a Ukrainian court confiscated (the original) Metalist Kharkiv from Kurchenko and placed it under state property.[1] At the time the club did not participate in any official sanctioned competitions.[1] In July 2020 former FC Metalist sports director Yevhen Krasnikov created FC Metal Kharkiv. After winning the Second League in June 2021, it was confirmed that Metal was renamed to Metalist and the old FC Metalist Kharkiv logo was returned to this club, along with its brand and history.[2]

References
  1. (in Ukrainian) The court returned the Metalist FC to the state property, The Ukrainian Week (3 October 2017)
  2. "УАФ затвердила перейменування Металу в Металіст - заява Ярославського". 16 June 2021.
    "Ярославський: Емблема Металіста вже наша. Борги Курченка не вплинуть на майбутнє клубу". 26 May 2021.
  3. "Our club was created by fans for fans". In Kharkiv they went the other way ("Наш клуб создали болельщики для болельщиков". В Харькове пошли другим путем). UA-Football. 5 August 2017.
  4. "Металлист 1925 стал профессиональным футбольным клубом". 16 May 2017.
  5. Metalist 1925 presented new logo and uniform (Металіст 1925 представив нові логотип і форму). UA-Football. 7 July 2017
  6. "Основний склад".
  7. "Metalist 1925".
  8. "Професіональна футбольна ліга України".
  9. There became known founders of Metalist 1925. Metalist unofficial website. 17 August 2016
  10. ФК "Металлист-1925" не является правопреемником клуба, купленного Курченко – основатели
  11. Oleksandr Pryzetko is a head coach of Metalist 1925
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