FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv

For the original football club which was founded in 1925, see FC Metalist Kharkiv.

Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (Ukrainian: Металіст 1925) is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Founded in 2016, the club plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity.

Metalist 1925 Kharkiv

Full name	Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Founded	17 August 2016; 6 years ago (2016-08-17) 1925; 98 years ago (1925) (claimed)
Ground	OSC Metalist
Capacity	40,003
Head coach	Edmar
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2021–22	Ukrainian Premier League, 10th of 16
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Metalist 1925 was promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League after finishing in third place in the 2020–21 Ukrainian First League. They earned promotion on two previous occasions: placing second in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Football Amateur League and placing third in the 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League.

History

The club was established in the summer of 2016 after the original club, FC Metalist Kharkiv, was refused a license by the Football Federation of Ukraine and expelled from national competitions.^{[citation needed]}

On the initiative of former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, among others, a new club was created under the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.^[1] It entered the Ukrainian Football Amateur League for the 2016–17 season and earned promotion to the Ukrainian Second League the next year.^[2]

In 2018 the club was promoted to the Ukrainian First League and from 2021 it is playing in the highest tier of the Ukrainian assotiation football – at the Ukrainian Premier League.

Infrastructure

Metalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in the town of Vysokyi.

Squad

Players

As of 5 March 2023^[3][4][5]

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) 2 DF   UKR Dmytro Kapinus (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) 3 DF   UKR Yevhen Tkachuk 4 DF   UKR Ivan Kovalenko 5 DF   UKR Mykhaylo Rudavskyi 6 MF   GEO Beka Vachiberadze 7 FW   UKR Vitaliy Ponomar 8 MF   UKR Yaroslav Martynyuk 10 MF   UKR Rostyslav Rusyn 11 FW   UKR Andriy Remenyuk 13 GK   UKR Ihor Potimkov 15 MF   UKR Abdulla Abdullayev 17 DF   UKR Ihor Kurylo

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 FW   UKR Kostyantyn Bychek 22 FW   UKR Vladyslav Dmytrenko 23 MF   UKR Mykhaylo Shershen 27 MF   UKR Dmytro Kravchenko 28 MF   UKR Artem Habelok 29 DF   UKR Maksym Zhychykov 30 DF   UKR Mykyta Bezuhlyi 33 MF   BRA Igor Henrique 37 GK   UKR Oleh Mozil 69 DF   UKR Yuriy Potimkov 79 FW   UKR Andriy Chyruk 99 FW   UKR Vladyslav Ostrovskyi

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 — GK   UKR Maksym Kovalenko (at Nyva Vinnytsia until 30 June 2023)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF   UKR Antoniy Emere (at Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni until 30 June 2023)

Administration

• Owner – LLC FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv^[6]
• Co-owner – Solar Solutions Ukraine and Borky Solar^[7]
• CEO – Yaroslav Vdovenko^[8]

Managers

• Oleksandr Pryzetko (16 Aug 2016 – 26 Sep 2017)^[9]
• Vyacheslav Khruslov (caretaker) (26 Sep 2017 – 28 Sep 2017)
• Oleksandr Ivanov (28 Sep 2017 – 3 May 2018)
• Serhiy Ralyuchenko (caretaker) (3 May 2018 – 8 May 2018)
• Serhiy Valyayev (8 May 2018 – 11 September 2018)
• Oleksandr Horyainov (caretaker) (11 September 2018 – 10 December 2018)
• Oleksandr Horyainov (10 December 2018 – 4 June 2019)
• Andriy Demchenko (4 June 2019 – 21 July 2020)
• Vyacheslav Khruslov (caretaker) (21 July 2020 – 21 Aug 2020)
• Valeriy Kriventsov (21 Aug 2020 – 22 Oct 2022)
• Edmar (caretaker) (23 Oct 2022 – present)

Honours

• Ukrainian First League
  • Third place (1): 2020–21

• Ukrainian Second League
  • Third place (1): 2017–18

• Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship
  • Runners-up (1): 2016–17

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

References

1. "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.
2. "Металлист 1925 стал профессиональным футбольным клубом". 16 May 2017.
3. "Основний склад".
4. "Metalist 1925".
5. "Професіональна футбольна ліга України".
6. "Металіст 1925 став професійним футбольним клубом". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 16 May 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
7. "Металіст 1925 змінив власників – "сонячні" енергетики та коксохіміки взяли контроль". Футбол 24 (in Ukrainian). football24.ua. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
8. "Гендиректор Металіста 1925: Зауважень до тренерського штабу Кривенцова немає". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 30 December 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

External links

• Official website
• “Ми більше не хочемо президента-олігарха“. Сергій Стороженко про Металіст 1925. UA-Football (www.ua-football.com). 29 May 2017