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FC Shakhtar Donetsk

March 25, 2023

"FC Shakhtar" redirects here. For the volleyball club, see VC Shakhtar Donetsk. For the futsal club, see MFC Shakhtar Donetsk. For the handball club, see Shakhtar-Academiya. For other uses, see Shakhtar.

Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк [fʊdˈbɔlʲnɪj ˈklub ʃɐxˈtɑr doˈnɛtsʲk], short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, the club was forced to move to Lviv, and had played matches in Lviv (2014–2016) and in Kharkiv (2017–2020) whilst having its office headquarters and training facilities in Kyiv.[2] In May 2020, Shakhtar started to play home matches at NSC Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv.[3]

Shakhtar Donetsk
Full nameФутбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк
Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk
Nickname(s)Hirnyky (Miners)
Kroty (Moles)
Founded24 May 1936; 86 years ago (1936-05-24)
GroundDonbass Arena, Donetsk
(due to war in the Donbas region, temporarily moved to NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kyiv since May 2020)
Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw (European cups)
Capacity70,050
Owner/
President		Rinat Akhmetov
Head coachIgor Jovićević
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2021–22[1]Ukrainian Premier League, 1st of 16 (champions)[1]
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and is often a participant in the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first club in independent Ukraine to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year before the competition was revamped as the Europa League. FC Shakhtar Donetsk is one of two Ukrainian clubs, the other being Dynamo Kyiv, who have won a major UEFA competition.

The club formerly played its home matches in Donetsk at the newly built Donbass Arena, however due to the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014, the team were forced to relocate 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) to the west in Arena Lviv in the interim.[4] Following the winter break of the 2016–17 season the club then moved again to the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv (250 kilometres (160 mi) to the northwest of Donetsk) early in 2017.[2] In May–July 2020 Shakhtar played home matches at NSC Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv.[3]

Shakhtar Donetsk is one of Ukraine's most popular football clubs,[5] and is particularly favoured in the eastern Donbas region.[5]

The club draws its history from the very start of the Soviet football league competitions and is one of the oldest clubs in Ukraine. The club was a member of the Soviet Voluntary Sports Society of Shakhtyor, having connections with other Soviet teams from Karaganda (Kazakhstan), Soligorsk (Belarus), among others. In the late Soviet period, Shakhtar was considered a tough mid-table club of the Soviet Top League and a cup competition specialist after winning the Soviet Cup two years in a row in 1961 and 1962.

The team has played under the following names: Stakhanovets (1936–46), Shakhtyor (Shakhtar) (1946–92), and FC Shakhtar (1992–present).

History

Early years – first two decades

See also: FC Shakhtar Horlivka and FC Metalurh Donetsk
 
The team in 1937.

The Shakhtar club was originally formed on a decision of the All-Union Council on physical culture and sports of 3 April 1936. It was initially named Stakhanovets, meaning "the participant of Stakhanovite movement", which derived from Aleksei Stakhanov, a coal-miner in the Donets basin and propaganda celebrity in 1935. The first team was based upon two other local teams, the participants of the All-Ukrainian Spartakiads: Dynamo Horlivka and Dynamo Stalino. The first game was against Dynamo Odesa as part of the 1936 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR (at that time known as Ukrainian spring challenge) and took place on 12 May 1936 at Balitsky Stadium in Horlivka (the first home stadium). The team that played as Stakhonovets Horlivka lost 3–2 after scoring the first goal by Mykhailo Pashchenko,[a] the second goal belonged to Boris Terentiev.[7]

Its first league game in Group V took place on 24 May 1936 against Dynamo Kazan was even more disappointing, which miners lost 4–1. Stakhonovets that had on its roster 15 players left for Kazan by train on 20 May.[7] Beside players, as part of delegation there were representative of regional council of physical culture Gololobov and republican referee I.Rozanov.[7] The team returned to Stalino on 28 May and the same day Gololobov in interview to newspaper "Stalinskiy rabochiy" told that "... the game in Kazan with local "Dynamo" was witnessed by 3,000 spectators.[7] With the first minutes, the field hosts offered a high pace.[7]

The "Miners", who were road weary, could not respond with the same. On the 13th minute they conceded the first goal and by the end of first half, two more.[7] In many respects the reason was poor performance of right halfback Kutsev (who played instead of K.Pashchenko) and right outside forward Korotynsky.[7] Through their flank Dynamo players successfully attacked.[7] In the first half Stakhanovets forwards looked bleak and uncertain.[7] In the second half the game equalized and on 55th minute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals.[7] Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts."[7]

Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the war championship of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after the start of the Great Patriotic War,[8] which they lost at home to Traktor Stalingrad.[9] During the war many players went to frontlines and perished among which are Ivan Ustinov, Ivan Putyatov, Volodymyr Shkurov, Ivan Horobets, Mykhailo Vasin and others.[6] From the pre-war squad in 1945 there were left only three players Georgiy Bikezin, Mykola Kuznetsov, and Petro Yurchenko.[6]

The All-Union coal mining society of Stakhanovite (Stakhanovets) had changed its name in July 1946 to Shakhtyor (Shakhter) and so did the Sports Society of Donbas Miners. In 1950, Viktor Fomin was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year, despite the club finishing only 11th in the league. The first success for the team was in 1951, when it achieved third place in the USSR Championship. The most notable player of that achievement was the striker Aleksandr Ponomarev, who came to finish his football career in Donbas, the region he was born in, and was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year for 1951. Despite the latest achievement, Shakhtar was relegated at the end of the 1952 season and as part of the re-organization of the team, former player Aleksandr Ponomarev became the head coach of the club. In 1954, Shakhtar under Ponomarev won the Class B League, thus sealing a return to the top league.

Cup triumphs and establishment in the Soviet League

 
A star in the Shakhtar Walk of Fame in honor of Oleg Oshenkov, who as manager twice led Shakhtar to Soviet Cup victory.

In 1958, the players of the club received fewer yellow and red cards than any other team in the championship, for what the Sovetsky Sport newspaper awarded the club with the "Fair Play Award."[10] In the 1960s, Shakhtar, under Oleg Oshenkov's coaching, were three-time USSR Cup finalists, winning it twice in 1961 and 1962. Among the players playing for the club then where defenders Viacheslav Aliabiev and Vladimir Salkov. The club was nicknamed "The Cup Team" due to Shakhtar's success in vying for the trophy every year. The Miners’ more notable achievements, however, occurred later from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s.

 
A star in the Shakhtar Walk of Fame in honor of Vitaliy Starukhin, considered by many fans the greatest player in the history of Shakhtar.[11]

Despite the departure of the team's leader midfielder Anatoliy Konkov, in 1975, Shakhtar under management of former player Vladimir Salkov, earned second place in the USSR Championship and received the right to represent the Soviet Union in European competition. At the end of the season, Shakhtar received the Progress Cup for making the biggest progress from previous season in the league. They received the award again in 1977. In 1978, Shakhtar finished third in the USSR Championship.[12]

In 1979, the team finished second in the league campaign and its captain—striker Vitaliy Starukhin—became the top scorer in the USSR Championship with 26 goals scored, also being named Soviet Footballer of the Year. The club was only two points away from the first place, despite having important players leaving the club before the season, and other important players receiving injuries.[13]

Other important players besides Starukhin at the time were Mykhaylo Sokolovsky, who went on to set a caps record for the club (for what he received the Club Loyalty Award in 1987), defenders Viktor Zvyahintsev and Valeriy Horbunov, who both made it numerous times to the 33 Top Players of the Soviet Championship lists, and goalkeeper Yuriy Dehteryov, who was named Soviet goalkeeper of the year and took third place for Soviet Footballer of the Year in 1977.[11]

Shakhtar twice, in 1980 and 1983, brought home the crystal USSR Cup to Donetsk and in 1983, it won the USSR Super Cup over then-domestic league champions Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Shakhtar reached the 1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final, and strikers Viktor Hrachov and Serhiy N. Morozov became joint top scorers of the tournament. In 1987, Shakhtar received the fewest yellow and red cards in the championship, for which the club was awarded the "Soviet Top League Fair Play Award" by Man and Law magazine.[14] Between 1982 and 1988, Shakhtar received the "Together With The Club" award five times, an award given for good organization of home games and behaviour of the home fans.[15]

First decade in independent Ukraine – the beginning of the Akhmetov era

In the newly independent Ukraine, Shakhtar, along with Dynamo Kyiv, became perennial first place competitors. In October 1995, a bombing-assassination took place at the team's stadium, killing club president Akhat Bragin. In 1996, Rinat Akhmetov took over as president and invested heavily in the club.[16]

Despite Shakhtar not being a strong contender for the championship at the time, finishing second many times with a large point gap from the first-place position, they won the Ukrainian Cup three times, in 1995 (under the management of former player Vladimir Salkov), 1997 and 2001. In the 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Shakhtar were eliminated after a 5–2 aggregate loss to Vicenza, losing the first and second legs. Important players at the time were defenders Serhiy Popov and Mykhaylo Starostyak, goalkeeper Dmytro Shutkov, striker Oleh Matveyev (who was top scorer of the Premier League in the 1996–97 season), and midfielders Hennadiy Orbu, Valeriy Kriventsov and Ihor Petrov. Most of the players playing for the team of the time came through the team's youth ranks.

 
Shakhtar's jersey with DCC instead of SCM

Towards the end of the decade, the team finally started to look like a team able to become champion. In 1999, a Shakhtar football academy was opened and now hosts football training for roughly 3,000 youth. In 2000, Andriy Vorobey was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year by Komanda, the first Shakhtar player in independent Ukraine to do so, and became the top scorer in the 2000–01 Ukrainian Premier League. That year, Shakhtar competed in the UEFA Champions League for the first time, drawn in a group with Lazio, Arsenal and Sparta Prague. They finished third in the group, qualifying for the UEFA Cup after a 3–0 home win against Arsenal.

First league triumph

 
President of the club, Rinat Akhmetov, shaking hands with captain Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, 2002 Ukrainian Footballer of the Year.

The club won its first ever Ukrainian Premier League title in the 2001–02 season under coach Nevio Scala, winning by a single point over Dynamo Kyiv. They were also victorious in the 2001–02 Ukrainian Cup, defeating Dynamo 3–2 after extra time in the final.[17] Among the key players at the club at the time were captain defensive midfielder Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, striker Andriy Vorobey, midfielder Hennadiy Zubov and defender Mykhaylo Starostyak. At the end of the season, Tymoshchuk, who emerged as the club's leader on the field, was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year by Komanda and Ukrainskiy Football.

 
Manager Mircea Lucescu took over Shakhtar in 2004 and has led them to becoming the dominant force in the league.

After multiple managerial changes, in 2004 the Romanian Mircea Lucescu was invited to build a team in Shakhtar. After ten days at the club, he won the 2003–04 Ukrainian Cup and after three months, for the first time in club history, the club made it to the UEFA Champions League group stage, which won him the 2004 Romania Coach of the Year title.[11] The strategy chosen was looking for young talented players in Brazil, which was to form the base of the attack, while the defence would supplied by largely Ukrainian talent in order to adjust to rules forcing teams to have a certain number of local players on the field.[18][19]

The large amount of Brazilians arriving at the club earned Shakhtar the nickname "the most Brazilian club in Europe".[20][21][22][23][24][25] They won their second Premier League title in the 2004–05 season, but lost to Dynamo Kyiv in the inaugural Ukrainian Super Cup tournament in 2004. They finished as runners up in the 2004–05 Ukrainian Cup, losing to Dynamo in a penalty shoot-out the final.[26]

They retained the Premier League crown in the 2005–06 season and managed to avenge the defeat to Dynamo in the previous Super Cup by defeating them on penalties to win their first-ever Super Cup title.[27] At the end of the season, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year for by Ukrainskiy Football for the second time, becoming the first Shakhtar player to be named so more than once. Brazilian striker Brandão became the league's joint top scorer.

Shakhtar appeared in all three editions of the Channel One Cup, winning the 2007 edition and finishing runners-up in 2008. Having missed out on the league title in 2006–07,[28] Shakhtar regained the title in 2007–08, also being victorious in the Ukrainian Cup after defeating Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 in the final.[29] Shakhtar's attendance levels at league matches have continually risen over the years to a point where they averaged 36,983 spectators over the 2011–12 Premier League season.

UEFA Cup triumph and domination in Ukraine

 
Team captain Darijo Srna, one of the greatest players in the history of the team[11] and considered by some "the icon of Shakhtar."[30]

In 2009, they became only the second Ukrainian team to win a European competition (and the first since independence), and the first to win the UEFA Cup after defeating Werder Bremen in the final, with goals from Brazilians Luiz Adriano and Jádson.[31] The victory earned the player Mariusz Lewandowski the 2009 Polish Footballer of the Year award. This also made them the last UEFA Cup winners before the tournament was rebranded as the UEFA Europa League.

Before the start of the 2009–10 season, Shakhtar won the friendly Uhrencup tournament. Shakhtar won the Premier League title in the 2009–10 season,[32] goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov was named Ukraine Premier League MVP by Komanda, and Manager Mircea Lucescu was named Romania Coach of the Year for the second time. The 2010–11 season was a very successful one for Shakhtar. They reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, their then-best-ever performance in the competition.[33]

Captain Darijo Srna was chosen to be part of the Champions League Team of the Season as voted by fans.[34] They also won a domestic treble with victory in the Premier League, Ukrainian Cup and the Super Cup.[35] The successful season did not go unnoticed by the experts, and in 2011, the IFFHS gave Shakhtar a special award for making the biggest progress of the decade among football clubs.[36][37]

They went on to win the Premier League and Ukrainian Cup in the 2011–12 season.[38] Shakhtar player Yevhen Seleznyov topped the goal scoring charts in the league, with 14 goals, midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan was named Armenian Footballer of the Year, and manager Mircea Lucescu was named 2012 Romania Coach of the Year, receiving the award for the third time. The main players at that time were captain Darijo Srna, defender Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan (who was named Armenian Footballer of the Year twice while playing for Shakhtar) and Brazilian midfielders Fernandinho and Willian.

 
Henrikh Mkhitaryan was named the 2012 CIS Footballer of the Year[39] and set the Ukrainian Premier League record for goals scored in one season (25).[40]

In the 2012–13 season Shakhtar won the Premier League, Cup and Super Cup. Henrikh Mkhitaryan became the top scorer of the league, setting a Ukrainian championship record of 25 goals. He was also named the Ukraine Premier League MVP by Komanda, Armenian Footballer of the Year and the CIS Footballer of the Year for 2012.

Leaders depart, new titles and war in Donbas

Prior to the 2013–14 season, many of the club's main players were sold after Shakhtar accepted high bids for them – Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Fernandinho and Willian brought the club over €100 million. Shakhtar spent the following summer trying to integrate new young players into the team, who along with the remaining players were to form the backbone of the renewed Shakhtar.[41][42][43] Despite selling its leaders, before the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar set a new record for East Europe for number of season tickets sold.[44] Before the beginning of the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar won two friendly tournaments in Abu Dhabi, the Match World Cup, and the Super Cup of Champions played against Russian champions Zenit Saint Petersburg.[45]

In the mid-season break, Shakhtar won the 2014 United Supercup (the second edition of the United Tournament), a tournament between the top-two placed clubs of Ukraine and of Russia,[46][47] which strengthened Shakhtar's status as the strongest club in Eastern Europe.[43][48][49] At the end of the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar won the Ukraine Premier League, while Luiz Adriano was the league top scorer. Shakhtar also won the 2014 Ukrainian Super Cup, holding the trophy for the sixth time. Manager Mircea Lucescu was named the 2014 Romania Coach of the Year, receiving the award for the fourth time.

Due to the war in Donbas, Shakhtar had to temporarily move and play its games in Arena Lviv,[50] resulting in very low attendance.[51] As an anti-war protest, the players of Shakhtar refused the initiative to wear the "Glory to the Ukrainian Army" shirts.[52] In the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, Shakhtar finished second in the group stage, therefore qualifying to the next stage. Striker Luiz Adriano equaled both Lionel Messi's record of five goals in a Champions League match and Cristiano Ronaldo's record of scoring nine goals in the group stage; as a result, UEFA named him MVP of the competition's group stage.[53] Shakhtar finished the season second in the 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League after playing the whole season away from Donbas, with Alex Teixeira finishing as a joint top scorer in the league. At the end of the season, Douglas Costa was sold to Bayern Munich,[54] while Luiz Adriano moved to Milan.[55]

While the club itself moved to a Ukraine-controlled zone, a few prominent Shakhtar players remained in the Donetsk People's Republic and supported the unrecognised state. Among them were former defender Viktor Zvyahintsev, former goalkeeper Yuriy Dehteryov, former Shakhtar and Ukraine national football team captain Ihor Petrov, and the club's first press officer Vyacheslav Sharafutdinov.[56][57]

During the 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League, on 16 October, Shakhtar beat Dynamo Kyiv 3–0 in Kyiv and set two new records. One record was that for the first time during a Ukrainian derby game in Kyiv a team scored three goals. The other record was that for the first time Shakhtar had more Ukrainian derby victories, 26, than Dynamo.[58] In the middle of the season, Alex Teixeira moved to Chinese club Jiangsu Suning for a fee of €50 million,[59] breaking both the Asian and Ukrainian[60] transfer record.[61][62] The club finished the 2015/16 season as runner up and Marlos was recognised best league player by Komanda. After the 2015–16 season, long-time manager Mircea Lucescu moved on to Zenit Saint Petersburg; he was replaced by the Portuguese Paulo Fonseca, previously of Braga.

Following the winter break of the 2016–17 season, a season when the club won the league, the cup, and the supercup, the club moved to the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv (241 km to the north of Donetsk).[2] In 2017–18, the club won the league and the cup again, with Facundo Ferreyra becoming the league top scorer and Marlos the league assist leader. In the 2018–19 season, the club won Ukrainian Premier League for the third time in a row.[63] In 2019–20, Shakhtar retained their league title for the fourth time in a row. They also reached the semi-finals of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League.[64]

Infrastructure

See also: Donbass Arena, RSC Olimpiyskiy, Shakhtar Stadium (Donetsk), and Kirsha Training Centre
 
Donbass Arena has been awarded a UEFA five star rating, the highest rating achievable.
 
Shakhtar Stadium as seen from tailings (locally terra-cone)

Until 2009 Shakhtar had been playing most of its games at the RSC Olimpiyskiy stadium which is a property of administration of Donetsk Oblast and the Serhiy Bubka College of Olympic Reserve. The stadium was built during Soviet period for another Donetsk club, FC Lokomotyv Donetsk and carried its name.

On 29 August 2009 the construction of its new stadium, Donbass Arena, was accomplished and the stadium was opened. Located in the City Park of Culture and Recreation, it has a capacity of 50,149 and has been honored with a UEFA five star rating, the highest rating achievable.

Shakhtar's old home, the central Shakhtar Stadium which was built in 1936 and reconstructed four times, is currently being used by Shakhtar Donetsk Reserves. The stadium received some major renovations, including the installation of bench seats in 2000 when Shakhtar made it to the Champions League Group Stage.

A mascot mole (moles is a nickname for the club) will entertain spectators during the home matches. Shakhtar are rated 40th by the average game attendance, being the top eastern European club on the rating charts.[65] Before the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar set a new record for Eastern Europe for number of season tickets sold, selling 27,000 season tickets, which means 52% of the seats in Donbass Arena belong to season ticket holders.[44]

From 2014 until the end of 2016, due to the war in Donbas, Shakhtar played its home matches at the Arena Lviv.[66][67] Following the winter break of the 2016–17 season the club moved to the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv (250 kilometers to the northwest of Donetsk).[2]

Training centre

Shakhtar Donetsk has its own training facilities for its first team, reserve team and youth academy all located at Kirsha Training Centre.

Due to the war conditions in the eastern Ukraine, Shakhtar temporary venue for its home matches has changed several times, while it was announced that the team will use training facilities in Kyiv.[67] It was clarified that its training facility is the Training base of Olympic Preparation "Sviatoshyn" located 20 km (12 mi) away from Kyiv and belongs to the Ukrainian Federation of Trade Unions.[68][69][70]

Youth, academy and reserves

The club used to field a couple of reserve teams that competed at professional level. By 2015 all reserve teams such as FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk and FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk were withdrawn from professional competitions. The club however fields its youth Shakhtar U-21 team in the youth championship of Ukrainian Premier League. Shakhtar also has its football academy that fields four teams in a special youth league designated for teenagers. Since 2012 the club also has a team for the U-19 championship of Ukrainian Premier League.

During the Soviet times the club used to have one youth team named Shakhter-D Donetsk that participated in a separate Soviet championship for doubles. Shakhter-D later was reorganized into FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk and admitted to the Ukrainian First League.

Due to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the youth academy has relocated to Split, Croatia.[71][72]

Crests and colours

 
A public billboard in Donetsk in 2009, using the Russian name of the club

The first logo of the club was designed in 1936, it featured a blue hexagon, with a red 'S' in the middle, crossed over by a jackhammer. In 1946, when the club was renamed, the logo was changed to black and white, with addition of club's name. Later, in the middle of the 1960s, their logo depicted two crossed hammers, with "Shakhtar Donetsk" written in the circle. The crest was added to the kit and remained there since, except for several seasons in the beginning of the 1990s. The club's name was depicted in the Russian language until the latest logo was chosen. Therefore, some sources have its name written often as "Shakhter" or rarely "Shakhtyor."

In 1989, an artist, Viktor Savilov, on the event of the club restructuring offered a draft variant of a logo with elements of the ball and a pitch. Some time later, the logo was remodelled into the present one. The emblem was added to the kit in 1997.[73]

In 2007, during the presentation of the club's new stadium, Shakhtar's new logo was unveiled. For the first time in over 30 years, the crossed hammers, the traditional symbols of the club, were present on the crest. Also, for the first time the name was written in the Ukrainian language and not Russian.

Since 1961 the official colours are black and orange.

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Period[74] Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
1992–98 Adidas Carlsberg
1998–05 DCC[75][76]
2005–06 Lifecell
2006–07 SCM
2008–21 Nike
2021– Puma

Supporters and rivalries

See also: Ukrainian derby and Donetsk derby
 
Shakhtar ultras at the Donbass Arena

The first riots associated with Shakhtar fans took place on 20 September 1959 in the match against CSKA Moscow, when several dozen Shakhtar supporters ran onto the field, and as a result the match was frustrated. In all matches involving Donetsk, many people came that promoted the development of fan movement in Donetsk. Active development of football movement began in the early 1980s. In the early 2000s to the Ukrainian stadiums came English style – hooliganism. In 2003, during the final of the Ukrainian Cup there was a fierce fight between Dynamo and Shakhtar fans.

The other rivalry was with Metalurh Donetsk. This was another local club and, although not as significant as games against the rivals from the capital, the games between the two Donetsk teams were proclaimed the Donetsk Derby. Metalurh went bankrupt in July 2015.[77]

Among the extinguished rivalries are the games against Spartak Moscow and, particularly, the third place champions Dinamo Tbilisi of Georgia that took place at times during the Soviet Top League. Another interesting rivalry, the Donbas Derby, is with Zorya Luhansk, which gathered a significant crowd in Luhansk. During the early Ukrainian championships, another interesting rivalry developed with Chornomorets Odesa labelled the "Miners vs. Sailors", which declined with the turn of the millennium due to the inconsistent performance of the Odesa-based club.

Honours

Players

First team squad

As of 5 March 2023[80][81]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
23 DF   BRA Lucas Taylor (on loan from PAOK)
26 DF   UKR Yukhym Konoplya
27 MF   UKR Oleh Ocheretko
28 DF   UKR Marian Faryna
29 MF   UKR Yehor Nazaryna
30 GK   UKR Andriy Pyatov (captain)
31 GK   UKR Dmytro Riznyk
32 DF   UKR Eduard Kozik
34 MF   UKR Ivan Petryak
44 DF   UKR Yaroslav Rakitskyi
45 FW   UKR Andriy Boryachuk
77 FW   TJK Khusrav Toirov
81 GK   UKR Anatoliy Trubin
99 DF   UKR Viktor Korniyenko
— MF   UKR Mykhaylo Khromey

Out 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
— DF   UKR Valeriy Bondarenko (at Oleksandriya until 30 June 2023)
— DF   UKR Andriy Buleza (at Mynai until 30 June 2023)
— DF   UKR Oleksandr Drambayev (at   Zulte Waregem until 30 June 2023)
— DF   UKR Dmytro Kapinus (at Metalist 1925 Kharkiv until 30 June 2023)
— DF   BRA Marlon (at   Monza until 30 June 2023)
— DF   BRA Marquinhos Cipriano (at   Cruzeiro until 30 June 2023)
— DF   BRA Vinicius Tobias (at   Real Madrid until 30 June 2023)
— DF   BRA Vitão (at   Internacional until 30 June 2023)
— MF   UKR Maksym Chekh (at   Sabail until 30 June 2023)
— MF   UKR Oleksiy Kashchuk (at   Sabah until 30 June 2023)
— MF   BRA Maycon (at   Corinthians until 31 December 2023)
— MF   UKR Artur Mykytyshyn (at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih until 30 June 2023)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF   BRA Pedrinho (at   Atlético Mineiro until 30 June 2023)
— MF   UKR Denys Shostak (at   Estoril until 30 June 2023)
— MF   UKR Kyrylo Siheyev (at Oleksandriya until 30 June 2024)
— MF   ISR Manor Solomon (at   Fulham until 30 June 2023)
— MF   BRA Tetê (at   Leicester City until 30 June 2023)
— FW   UKR Danylo Honcharuk (at   El Ejido until 30 June 2023)
— FW   NGA Olarenwaju Kayode (at   Ümraniyespor until 30 June 2023)
— FW   UKR Vladyslav Pohorilyi (at Zorya Luhansk until 30 June 2023)
— FW   UKR Denys Svityukha (at   Lleida Esportiu until 30 June 2023)
— FW   UKR Vladyslav Vakula (at Polissya Zhytomyr until 31 December 2022)
— FW   UKR Bohdan Vyunnyk (at   Grazer AK until 30 June 2023)

Retired numbers

See also: Retired numbers in association football
No. Player Nationality Position Shakhtar debut Last match Ref
33 Darijo Srna   Croatia Right back 12 July 2003 13 September 2017 [82][83]

Coaches and administration

Main article: List of FC Shakhtar (Donetsk) head coaches
Administration [84] Coaching (senior team)[80] Coaching (U-19 team)[85]
  • Senior coach –   Oskar Ratulutra
  • Assistant coach –   Oleksandr Knyazev
  • Assistant coach –   Oleksandr Alimov
  • Goalkeeping coach –   Oleh Shevchenko

Presidents and other officials

Presidents

Chairmen of the Board

  • 1990–1992: Oleksandr Kosevych (chair of the board)
  • 2006–present: Oleh Popov (chair of council of directors)

Vice Presidents

General directors

Director of Football

Player records

Top goalscorers

As of 21 May 2016[86]

# Name Years League Cup Europe Other Total
1   Luiz Adriano 2007–2015 77 16 32 3 128
2   Andriy Vorobey[87] 1998–2007 80 22 12 0 114
3   Vitaliy Starukhin[88] 1973–1981 84 23 3 0 110
4   Mykhaylo Sokolovsky[89] 1974–1987 87 11 5 2 105
5   Brandão[90] 2002–2008 65 11 15 0 91
6   Alex Teixeira[91] 2010–2016 67 10 12 0 89
7   Ihor Petrov[92] 1982–1991
1994–1996
1998		 70 12 2 0 84
8     Serhiy Atelkin[93] 1990–1995
1996–1997
2000–2002		 61 9 12 0 82
9     Viktor Hrachov[94] 1980–1981
1982–1990
1994		 65 10 5 0 80
10   Oleh Matveyev[95] 1992–1995
1996–2000		 61 16 1 0 78
  • Other – National Super Cup

Most appearances

As of match played 6 September 2022
# Name Years League Cup Europe Other Total
1   Darijo Srna 2003–2018 339 48 137 12 536
2   Mykhaylo Sokolovsky 1974–1987 400 63 18 4 485
3   Andriy Pyatov 2007– 299 39 131 11 480
4   Serhiy Yashchenko [96] 1982–1995 384 51 8 1 444
5   Yuriy Dehteryov[97] 1967–1983 321 47 10 0 378
6   Taras Stepanenko 2010– 237 31 82 11 361
7   Dmytro Shutkov[98] 1991–2008 267 56 24 0 347
8   Valeriy Rudakov [99] 1974–1986 277 44 16 3 340
9   Valeriy Yaremchenko[100] 1966–1978 297 32 8 0 337
10   Viktor Hrachov 1980–1981
1982–1990
1994		 282 40 6 3 331
  • Other – National Super Cup

Notable coaches

Years Name Trophies
1952–56   Aleksandr Ponomarev 1 Soviet First League
1960–69   Oleg Oshenkov 2 Soviet Cup
1979–85   Viktor Nosov 2 Soviet Cup
1 USSR Super Cup
1995   Vladimir Salkov 1 Ukrainian Cup
1 August 1996 – 30 March 1999   Valeriy Yaremchenko 1 Ukrainian Cup
30 November 1999 – 12 October 2001   Viktor Prokopenko 1 Ukrainian Cup
1 January 2002 – 18 September 2002   Nevio Scala 1 Ukrainian Premier League
1 Ukrainian Cup
17 May 2004 – 21 May 2016   Mircea Lucescu 8 Ukrainian Premier League
6 Ukrainian Cup
7 Ukrainian Super Cup
1 UEFA Cup
31 May 2016 – 11 June 2019   Paulo Fonseca 3 Ukrainian Premier League
3 Ukrainian Cup
1 Ukrainian Super Cup
12 June 2019 – 12 May 2021   Luís Castro 1 Ukrainian Premier League
22 September 2021 – 11 July 2022   Roberto De Zerbi 1 Ukrainian Super Cup

League and Cup history

See also: List of FC Shakhtar Donetsk seasons
Tier Years Last Promotions Relegations
Top League (tier 1) 44 1991 5 times to Europe   3 (1971)
First League (tier 2) 7 1972   3 (1972) never
Group V (tier 3) 3 1937   1 (1937) never
56 years of professional football in Soviet Union since 1936
Tier Years Last Promotions Relegations
Premier League (tier 1) 31 2021–22 26 times to Europe never
31 years of professional national football in Ukraine since 1992

Soviet Union

World War II

Ukraine

European history

Main article: FC Shakhtar Donetsk in European football

Shakhtar Donetsk has participated in European competition since 1976, playing its first game against Berliner FC Dynamo in the UEFA Cup. Since 1997, the club has participated in UEFA competition annually with variable amounts of success, and first took part in the UEFA Champions League competition in 2000. Shakhtar Donetsk played against Arsenal, Lazio and Sparta Prague upon qualifying for the group stage for the first time in 2000–01.

Season Achievement Notes
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
2010–11 Quarter-finals eliminated by   Barcelona 1–5 in Barcelona, 0–1 in Donetsk
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
2008–09 Winners defeated   Werder Bremen 2–1 in Istanbul
2015–16 Semi-finals eliminated by   Sevilla 1–3 in Seville, 2–2 in Lviv
2019–20 Semi-finals eliminated by   Inter Milan 0–5 in Düsseldorf
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
1983–84 Quarter-finals eliminated by   Porto 2–3 in Porto, 1–1 in Donetsk
UEFA Super Cup
2009 Runners-up defeated by   Barcelona 0–1 in Monaco
UEFA Youth League
2014–15 Runners-up defeated by   Chelsea 2–3 in Nyon

Notes

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  2. ^ Fourth oldest club competition, organized by the IFA (W.B.) and played between local clubs of West Bengal and other invited ones.

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FC Shakhtar redirects here For the volleyball club see VC Shakhtar Donetsk For the futsal club see MFC Shakhtar Donetsk For the handball club see Shakhtar Academiya For other uses see Shakhtar Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk Ukrainian Futbolnij klub Shahtar Doneck fʊdˈbɔlʲnɪj ˈklub ʃɐxˈtɑr doˈnɛtsʲk short nickname miners is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk In 2014 due to the War in Donbass the club was forced to move to Lviv and had played matches in Lviv 2014 2016 and in Kharkiv 2017 2020 whilst having its office headquarters and training facilities in Kyiv 2 In May 2020 Shakhtar started to play home matches at NSC Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv 3 Shakhtar DonetskFull nameFutbolnij klub Shahtar DoneckFootball Club Shakhtar DonetskNickname s Hirnyky Miners Kroty Moles Founded24 May 1936 86 years ago 1936 05 24 GroundDonbass Arena Donetsk due to war in the Donbas region temporarily moved to NSC Olimpiyskiy Kyiv since May 2020 Stadion Wojska Polskiego Warsaw European cups Capacity70 050Owner PresidentRinat AkhmetovHead coachIgor JovicevicLeagueUkrainian Premier League2021 22 1 Ukrainian Premier League 1st of 16 champions 1 WebsiteClub websiteHome coloursAway coloursThird coloursCurrent seasonShakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and is often a participant in the UEFA Champions League The club became the first club in independent Ukraine to win the UEFA Cup in 2009 the last year before the competition was revamped as the Europa League FC Shakhtar Donetsk is one of two Ukrainian clubs the other being Dynamo Kyiv who have won a major UEFA competition The club formerly played its home matches in Donetsk at the newly built Donbass Arena however due to the Russo Ukrainian War in 2014 the team were forced to relocate 1 000 kilometres 620 mi to the west in Arena Lviv in the interim 4 Following the winter break of the 2016 17 season the club then moved again to the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv 250 kilometres 160 mi to the northwest of Donetsk early in 2017 2 In May July 2020 Shakhtar played home matches at NSC Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv 3 Shakhtar Donetsk is one of Ukraine s most popular football clubs 5 and is particularly favoured in the eastern Donbas region 5 The club draws its history from the very start of the Soviet football league competitions and is one of the oldest clubs in Ukraine The club was a member of the Soviet Voluntary Sports Society of Shakhtyor having connections with other Soviet teams from Karaganda Kazakhstan Soligorsk Belarus among others In the late Soviet period Shakhtar was considered a tough mid table club of the Soviet Top League and a cup competition specialist after winning the Soviet Cup two years in a row in 1961 and 1962 The team has played under the following names Stakhanovets 1936 46 Shakhtyor Shakhtar 1946 92 and FC Shakhtar 1992 present Contents 1 History 1 1 Early years first two decades 1 2 Cup triumphs and establishment in the Soviet League 1 3 First decade in independent Ukraine the beginning of the Akhmetov era 1 4 First league triumph 1 5 UEFA Cup triumph and domination in Ukraine 1 6 Leaders depart new titles and war in Donbas 2 Infrastructure 2 1 Training centre 2 2 Youth academy and reserves 3 Crests and colours 3 1 Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors 4 Supporters and rivalries 5 Honours 5 1 Ukrainian competitions 5 2 Soviet competitions 5 3 European competitions 5 4 UEFA club coefficient ranking 5 5 Friendly competitions 5 6 Team awards 5 7 Individual player awards 6 Players 6 1 First team squad 6 2 Out on loan 6 3 Retired numbers 7 Coaches and administration 8 Presidents and other officials 8 1 Presidents 8 2 Chairmen of the Board 8 3 Vice Presidents 8 4 General directors 8 5 Director of Football 9 Player records 9 1 Top goalscorers 9 2 Most appearances 10 Notable coaches 11 League and Cup history 11 1 Soviet Union 11 2 Ukraine 12 European history 13 Notes 14 References 15 External linksHistory EditEarly years first two decades Edit See also FC Shakhtar Horlivka and FC Metalurh Donetsk The team in 1937 The Shakhtar club was originally formed on a decision of the All Union Council on physical culture and sports of 3 April 1936 It was initially named Stakhanovets meaning the participant of Stakhanovite movement which derived from Aleksei Stakhanov a coal miner in the Donets basin and propaganda celebrity in 1935 The first team was based upon two other local teams the participants of the All Ukrainian Spartakiads Dynamo Horlivka and Dynamo Stalino The first game was against Dynamo Odesa as part of the 1936 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR at that time known as Ukrainian spring challenge and took place on 12 May 1936 at Balitsky Stadium in Horlivka the first home stadium The team that played as Stakhonovets Horlivka lost 3 2 after scoring the first goal by Mykhailo Pashchenko a the second goal belonged to Boris Terentiev 7 Its first league game in Group V took place on 24 May 1936 against Dynamo Kazan was even more disappointing which miners lost 4 1 Stakhonovets that had on its roster 15 players left for Kazan by train on 20 May 7 Beside players as part of delegation there were representative of regional council of physical culture Gololobov and republican referee I Rozanov 7 The team returned to Stalino on 28 May and the same day Gololobov in interview to newspaper Stalinskiy rabochiy told that the game in Kazan with local Dynamo was witnessed by 3 000 spectators 7 With the first minutes the field hosts offered a high pace 7 The Miners who were road weary could not respond with the same On the 13th minute they conceded the first goal and by the end of first half two more 7 In many respects the reason was poor performance of right halfback Kutsev who played instead of K Pashchenko and right outside forward Korotynsky 7 Through their flank Dynamo players successfully attacked 7 In the first half Stakhanovets forwards looked bleak and uncertain 7 In the second half the game equalized and on 55th minute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals 7 Final score is 4 1 in favor of the hosts 7 Nonetheless the selective job conducted constructively by the club s administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s During the war championship of 1941 which was interrupted unexpectedly the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league In the last game of that championship played on 24 June two days after the start of the Great Patriotic War 8 which they lost at home to Traktor Stalingrad 9 During the war many players went to frontlines and perished among which are Ivan Ustinov Ivan Putyatov Volodymyr Shkurov Ivan Horobets Mykhailo Vasin and others 6 From the pre war squad in 1945 there were left only three players Georgiy Bikezin Mykola Kuznetsov and Petro Yurchenko 6 The All Union coal mining society of Stakhanovite Stakhanovets had changed its name in July 1946 to Shakhtyor Shakhter and so did the Sports Society of Donbas Miners In 1950 Viktor Fomin was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year despite the club finishing only 11th in the league The first success for the team was in 1951 when it achieved third place in the USSR Championship The most notable player of that achievement was the striker Aleksandr Ponomarev who came to finish his football career in Donbas the region he was born in and was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year for 1951 Despite the latest achievement Shakhtar was relegated at the end of the 1952 season and as part of the re organization of the team former player Aleksandr Ponomarev became the head coach of the club In 1954 Shakhtar under Ponomarev won the Class B League thus sealing a return to the top league Cup triumphs and establishment in the Soviet League Edit A star in the Shakhtar Walk of Fame in honor of Oleg Oshenkov who as manager twice led Shakhtar to Soviet Cup victory In 1958 the players of the club received fewer yellow and red cards than any other team in the championship for what the Sovetsky Sport newspaper awarded the club with the Fair Play Award 10 In the 1960s Shakhtar under Oleg Oshenkov s coaching were three time USSR Cup finalists winning it twice in 1961 and 1962 Among the players playing for the club then where defenders Viacheslav Aliabiev and Vladimir Salkov The club was nicknamed The Cup Team due to Shakhtar s success in vying for the trophy every year The Miners more notable achievements however occurred later from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s A star in the Shakhtar Walk of Fame in honor of Vitaliy Starukhin considered by many fans the greatest player in the history of Shakhtar 11 Despite the departure of the team s leader midfielder Anatoliy Konkov in 1975 Shakhtar under management of former player Vladimir Salkov earned second place in the USSR Championship and received the right to represent the Soviet Union in European competition At the end of the season Shakhtar received the Progress Cup for making the biggest progress from previous season in the league They received the award again in 1977 In 1978 Shakhtar finished third in the USSR Championship 12 In 1979 the team finished second in the league campaign and its captain striker Vitaliy Starukhin became the top scorer in the USSR Championship with 26 goals scored also being named Soviet Footballer of the Year The club was only two points away from the first place despite having important players leaving the club before the season and other important players receiving injuries 13 Other important players besides Starukhin at the time were Mykhaylo Sokolovsky who went on to set a caps record for the club for what he received the Club Loyalty Award in 1987 defenders Viktor Zvyahintsev and Valeriy Horbunov who both made it numerous times to the 33 Top Players of the Soviet Championship lists and goalkeeper Yuriy Dehteryov who was named Soviet goalkeeper of the year and took third place for Soviet Footballer of the Year in 1977 11 Shakhtar twice in 1980 and 1983 brought home the crystal USSR Cup to Donetsk and in 1983 it won the USSR Super Cup over then domestic league champions Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Shakhtar reached the 1983 84 European Cup Winners Cup quarter final and strikers Viktor Hrachov and Serhiy N Morozov became joint top scorers of the tournament In 1987 Shakhtar received the fewest yellow and red cards in the championship for which the club was awarded the Soviet Top League Fair Play Award by Man and Law magazine 14 Between 1982 and 1988 Shakhtar received the Together With The Club award five times an award given for good organization of home games and behaviour of the home fans 15 First decade in independent Ukraine the beginning of the Akhmetov era Edit In the newly independent Ukraine Shakhtar along with Dynamo Kyiv became perennial first place competitors In October 1995 a bombing assassination took place at the team s stadium killing club president Akhat Bragin In 1996 Rinat Akhmetov took over as president and invested heavily in the club 16 Despite Shakhtar not being a strong contender for the championship at the time finishing second many times with a large point gap from the first place position they won the Ukrainian Cup three times in 1995 under the management of former player Vladimir Salkov 1997 and 2001 In the 1997 98 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Shakhtar were eliminated after a 5 2 aggregate loss to Vicenza losing the first and second legs Important players at the time were defenders Serhiy Popov and Mykhaylo Starostyak goalkeeper Dmytro Shutkov striker Oleh Matveyev who was top scorer of the Premier League in the 1996 97 season and midfielders Hennadiy Orbu Valeriy Kriventsov and Ihor Petrov Most of the players playing for the team of the time came through the team s youth ranks Shakhtar s jersey with DCC instead of SCM Towards the end of the decade the team finally started to look like a team able to become champion In 1999 a Shakhtar football academy was opened and now hosts football training for roughly 3 000 youth In 2000 Andriy Vorobey was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year by Komanda the first Shakhtar player in independent Ukraine to do so and became the top scorer in the 2000 01 Ukrainian Premier League That year Shakhtar competed in the UEFA Champions League for the first time drawn in a group with Lazio Arsenal and Sparta Prague They finished third in the group qualifying for the UEFA Cup after a 3 0 home win against Arsenal First league triumph Edit President of the club Rinat Akhmetov shaking hands with captain Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2002 Ukrainian Footballer of the Year The club won its first ever Ukrainian Premier League title in the 2001 02 season under coach Nevio Scala winning by a single point over Dynamo Kyiv They were also victorious in the 2001 02 Ukrainian Cup defeating Dynamo 3 2 after extra time in the final 17 Among the key players at the club at the time were captain defensive midfielder Anatoliy Tymoshchuk striker Andriy Vorobey midfielder Hennadiy Zubov and defender Mykhaylo Starostyak At the end of the season Tymoshchuk who emerged as the club s leader on the field was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year by Komanda and Ukrainskiy Football Manager Mircea Lucescu took over Shakhtar in 2004 and has led them to becoming the dominant force in the league After multiple managerial changes in 2004 the Romanian Mircea Lucescu was invited to build a team in Shakhtar After ten days at the club he won the 2003 04 Ukrainian Cup and after three months for the first time in club history the club made it to the UEFA Champions League group stage which won him the 2004 Romania Coach of the Year title 11 The strategy chosen was looking for young talented players in Brazil which was to form the base of the attack while the defence would supplied by largely Ukrainian talent in order to adjust to rules forcing teams to have a certain number of local players on the field 18 19 The large amount of Brazilians arriving at the club earned Shakhtar the nickname the most Brazilian club in Europe 20 21 22 23 24 25 They won their second Premier League title in the 2004 05 season but lost to Dynamo Kyiv in the inaugural Ukrainian Super Cup tournament in 2004 They finished as runners up in the 2004 05 Ukrainian Cup losing to Dynamo in a penalty shoot out the final 26 They retained the Premier League crown in the 2005 06 season and managed to avenge the defeat to Dynamo in the previous Super Cup by defeating them on penalties to win their first ever Super Cup title 27 At the end of the season Anatoliy Tymoshchuk was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year for by Ukrainskiy Football for the second time becoming the first Shakhtar player to be named so more than once Brazilian striker Brandao became the league s joint top scorer Shakhtar appeared in all three editions of the Channel One Cup winning the 2007 edition and finishing runners up in 2008 Having missed out on the league title in 2006 07 28 Shakhtar regained the title in 2007 08 also being victorious in the Ukrainian Cup after defeating Dynamo Kyiv 2 0 in the final 29 Shakhtar s attendance levels at league matches have continually risen over the years to a point where they averaged 36 983 spectators over the 2011 12 Premier League season UEFA Cup triumph and domination in Ukraine Edit Team captain Darijo Srna one of the greatest players in the history of the team 11 and considered by some the icon of Shakhtar 30 In 2009 they became only the second Ukrainian team to win a European competition and the first since independence and the first to win the UEFA Cup after defeating Werder Bremen in the final with goals from Brazilians Luiz Adriano and Jadson 31 The victory earned the player Mariusz Lewandowski the 2009 Polish Footballer of the Year award This also made them the last UEFA Cup winners before the tournament was rebranded as the UEFA Europa League Before the start of the 2009 10 season Shakhtar won the friendly Uhrencup tournament Shakhtar won the Premier League title in the 2009 10 season 32 goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov was named Ukraine Premier League MVP by Komanda and Manager Mircea Lucescu was named Romania Coach of the Year for the second time The 2010 11 season was a very successful one for Shakhtar They reached the quarter finals of the Champions League their then best ever performance in the competition 33 Captain Darijo Srna was chosen to be part of the Champions League Team of the Season as voted by fans 34 They also won a domestic treble with victory in the Premier League Ukrainian Cup and the Super Cup 35 The successful season did not go unnoticed by the experts and in 2011 the IFFHS gave Shakhtar a special award for making the biggest progress of the decade among football clubs 36 37 They went on to win the Premier League and Ukrainian Cup in the 2011 12 season 38 Shakhtar player Yevhen Seleznyov topped the goal scoring charts in the league with 14 goals midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan was named Armenian Footballer of the Year and manager Mircea Lucescu was named 2012 Romania Coach of the Year receiving the award for the third time The main players at that time were captain Darijo Srna defender Yaroslav Rakitskiy Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan who was named Armenian Footballer of the Year twice while playing for Shakhtar and Brazilian midfielders Fernandinho and Willian Henrikh Mkhitaryan was named the 2012 CIS Footballer of the Year 39 and set the Ukrainian Premier League record for goals scored in one season 25 40 In the 2012 13 season Shakhtar won the Premier League Cup and Super Cup Henrikh Mkhitaryan became the top scorer of the league setting a Ukrainian championship record of 25 goals He was also named the Ukraine Premier League MVP by Komanda Armenian Footballer of the Year and the CIS Footballer of the Year for 2012 Leaders depart new titles and war in Donbas Edit Prior to the 2013 14 season many of the club s main players were sold after Shakhtar accepted high bids for them Henrikh Mkhitaryan Fernandinho and Willian brought the club over 100 million Shakhtar spent the following summer trying to integrate new young players into the team who along with the remaining players were to form the backbone of the renewed Shakhtar 41 42 43 Despite selling its leaders before the 2013 14 season Shakhtar set a new record for East Europe for number of season tickets sold 44 Before the beginning of the 2013 14 season Shakhtar won two friendly tournaments in Abu Dhabi the Match World Cup and the Super Cup of Champions played against Russian champions Zenit Saint Petersburg 45 In the mid season break Shakhtar won the 2014 United Supercup the second edition of the United Tournament a tournament between the top two placed clubs of Ukraine and of Russia 46 47 which strengthened Shakhtar s status as the strongest club in Eastern Europe 43 48 49 At the end of the 2013 14 season Shakhtar won the Ukraine Premier League while Luiz Adriano was the league top scorer Shakhtar also won the 2014 Ukrainian Super Cup holding the trophy for the sixth time Manager Mircea Lucescu was named the 2014 Romania Coach of the Year receiving the award for the fourth time Due to the war in Donbas Shakhtar had to temporarily move and play its games in Arena Lviv 50 resulting in very low attendance 51 As an anti war protest the players of Shakhtar refused the initiative to wear the Glory to the Ukrainian Army shirts 52 In the 2014 15 UEFA Champions League Shakhtar finished second in the group stage therefore qualifying to the next stage Striker Luiz Adriano equaled both Lionel Messi s record of five goals in a Champions League match and Cristiano Ronaldo s record of scoring nine goals in the group stage as a result UEFA named him MVP of the competition s group stage 53 Shakhtar finished the season second in the 2014 15 Ukrainian Premier League after playing the whole season away from Donbas with Alex Teixeira finishing as a joint top scorer in the league At the end of the season Douglas Costa was sold to Bayern Munich 54 while Luiz Adriano moved to Milan 55 While the club itself moved to a Ukraine controlled zone a few prominent Shakhtar players remained in the Donetsk People s Republic and supported the unrecognised state Among them were former defender Viktor Zvyahintsev former goalkeeper Yuriy Dehteryov former Shakhtar and Ukraine national football team captain Ihor Petrov and the club s first press officer Vyacheslav Sharafutdinov 56 57 During the 2015 16 Ukrainian Premier League on 16 October Shakhtar beat Dynamo Kyiv 3 0 in Kyiv and set two new records One record was that for the first time during a Ukrainian derby game in Kyiv a team scored three goals The other record was that for the first time Shakhtar had more Ukrainian derby victories 26 than Dynamo 58 In the middle of the season Alex Teixeira moved to Chinese club Jiangsu Suning for a fee of 50 million 59 breaking both the Asian and Ukrainian 60 transfer record 61 62 The club finished the 2015 16 season as runner up and Marlos was recognised best league player by Komanda After the 2015 16 season long time manager Mircea Lucescu moved on to Zenit Saint Petersburg he was replaced by the Portuguese Paulo Fonseca previously of Braga Following the winter break of the 2016 17 season a season when the club won the league the cup and the supercup the club moved to the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv 241 km to the north of Donetsk 2 In 2017 18 the club won the league and the cup again with Facundo Ferreyra becoming the league top scorer and Marlos the league assist leader In the 2018 19 season the club won Ukrainian Premier League for the third time in a row 63 In 2019 20 Shakhtar retained their league title for the fourth time in a row They also reached the semi finals of the 2019 20 UEFA Europa League 64 Infrastructure EditSee also Donbass Arena RSC Olimpiyskiy Shakhtar Stadium Donetsk and Kirsha Training Centre Donbass Arena has been awarded a UEFA five star rating the highest rating achievable RSC Olimpiyskiy Shakhtar Stadium as seen from tailings locally terra cone Until 2009 Shakhtar had been playing most of its games at the RSC Olimpiyskiy stadium which is a property of administration of Donetsk Oblast and the Serhiy Bubka College of Olympic Reserve The stadium was built during Soviet period for another Donetsk club FC Lokomotyv Donetsk and carried its name On 29 August 2009 the construction of its new stadium Donbass Arena was accomplished and the stadium was opened Located in the City Park of Culture and Recreation it has a capacity of 50 149 and has been honored with a UEFA five star rating the highest rating achievable Shakhtar s old home the central Shakhtar Stadium which was built in 1936 and reconstructed four times is currently being used by Shakhtar Donetsk Reserves The stadium received some major renovations including the installation of bench seats in 2000 when Shakhtar made it to the Champions League Group Stage A mascot mole moles is a nickname for the club will entertain spectators during the home matches Shakhtar are rated 40th by the average game attendance being the top eastern European club on the rating charts 65 Before the 2013 14 season Shakhtar set a new record for Eastern Europe for number of season tickets sold selling 27 000 season tickets which means 52 of the seats in Donbass Arena belong to season ticket holders 44 From 2014 until the end of 2016 due to the war in Donbas Shakhtar played its home matches at the Arena Lviv 66 67 Following the winter break of the 2016 17 season the club moved to the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv 250 kilometers to the northwest of Donetsk 2 Training centre Edit Shakhtar Donetsk has its own training facilities for its first team reserve team and youth academy all located at Kirsha Training Centre Due to the war conditions in the eastern Ukraine Shakhtar temporary venue for its home matches has changed several times while it was announced that the team will use training facilities in Kyiv 67 It was clarified that its training facility is the Training base of Olympic Preparation Sviatoshyn located 20 km 12 mi away from Kyiv and belongs to the Ukrainian Federation of Trade Unions 68 69 70 Youth academy and reserves Edit The club used to field a couple of reserve teams that competed at professional level By 2015 all reserve teams such as FC Shakhtar 2 Donetsk and FC Shakhtar 3 Donetsk were withdrawn from professional competitions The club however fields its youth Shakhtar U 21 team in the youth championship of Ukrainian Premier League Shakhtar also has its football academy that fields four teams in a special youth league designated for teenagers Since 2012 the club also has a team for the U 19 championship of Ukrainian Premier League During the Soviet times the club used to have one youth team named Shakhter D Donetsk that participated in a separate Soviet championship for doubles Shakhter D later was reorganized into FC Shakhtar 2 Donetsk and admitted to the Ukrainian First League Due to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine the youth academy has relocated to Split Croatia 71 72 Crests and colours Edit A public billboard in Donetsk in 2009 using the Russian name of the club The first logo of the club was designed in 1936 it featured a blue hexagon with a red S in the middle crossed over by a jackhammer In 1946 when the club was renamed the logo was changed to black and white with addition of club s name Later in the middle of the 1960s their logo depicted two crossed hammers with Shakhtar Donetsk written in the circle The crest was added to the kit and remained there since except for several seasons in the beginning of the 1990s The club s name was depicted in the Russian language until the latest logo was chosen Therefore some sources have its name written often as Shakhter or rarely Shakhtyor In 1989 an artist Viktor Savilov on the event of the club restructuring offered a draft variant of a logo with elements of the ball and a pitch Some time later the logo was remodelled into the present one The emblem was added to the kit in 1997 73 In 2007 during the presentation of the club s new stadium Shakhtar s new logo was unveiled For the first time in over 30 years the crossed hammers the traditional symbols of the club were present on the crest Also for the first time the name was written in the Ukrainian language and not Russian Since 1961 the official colours are black and orange Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors Edit Period 74 Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor1992 98 Adidas Carlsberg1998 05 DCC 75 76 2005 06 Lifecell2006 07 SCM2008 21 Nike2021 PumaSupporters and rivalries EditSee also Ukrainian derby and Donetsk derby Shakhtar ultras at the Donbass Arena The first riots associated with Shakhtar fans took place on 20 September 1959 in the match against CSKA Moscow when several dozen Shakhtar supporters ran onto the field and as a result the match was frustrated In all matches involving Donetsk many people came that promoted the development of fan movement in Donetsk Active development of football movement began in the early 1980s In the early 2000s to the Ukrainian stadiums came English style hooliganism In 2003 during the final of the Ukrainian Cup there was a fierce fight between Dynamo and Shakhtar fans The other rivalry was with Metalurh Donetsk This was another local club and although not as significant as games against the rivals from the capital the games between the two Donetsk teams were proclaimed the Donetsk Derby Metalurh went bankrupt in July 2015 77 Among the extinguished rivalries are the games against Spartak Moscow and particularly the third place champions Dinamo Tbilisi of Georgia that took place at times during the Soviet Top League Another interesting rivalry the Donbas Derby is with Zorya Luhansk which gathered a significant crowd in Luhansk During the early Ukrainian championships another interesting rivalry developed with Chornomorets Odesa labelled the Miners vs Sailors which declined with the turn of the millennium due to the inconsistent performance of the Odesa based club Honours EditUkrainian competitions Edit Ukrainian Premier LeagueWinners 13 2001 02 2004 05 2005 06 2007 08 2009 10 2010 11 2011 12 2012 13 2013 14 2016 17 2017 18 2018 19 2019 20Ukrainian CupWinners 13 1994 95 1996 97 2000 01 2001 02 2003 04 2007 08 2010 11 2011 12 2012 13 2015 16 2016 17 2017 18 2018 19Ukrainian Super CupWinners 9 2005 2008 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2017 2021Soviet competitions Edit Soviet CupWinners 4 1961 1962 1980 1983Soviet First LeagueWinners 1 1954Season s Cup unofficial tournament as Super Cup Winners 1 1984European competitions Edit UEFA CupWinners 1 2008 09UEFA club coefficient ranking Edit As of 12 March 2020 78 Rank Team Points16 Napoli 77 000 Lyon Shakhtar Donetsk19 Porto 75 00020 Benfica 70 000Friendly competitions Edit Channel One Cup 2006 La Manga Cup 2008 Uhrencup 2009 Copa del Sol 2010 2013 Salzburgerland Cup 2011 United Tournament United Supercup 2014 IFA Shield IFA b runners up 1985 79 Team awards Edit Special award from the IFFHS for making the biggest progress of the decade 2011 36 37 Individual player awards Edit Several players have won individual awards during or for their time with Shakhtar Donetsk Soviet Footballer of the Year Vitaliy Starukhin 1979 Footballer of the Year in Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States Henrikh Mkhitaryan 2012 Ukrainian Footballer of the Year Viktor Fomin 1950 Aleksandr Ponomarev 1951 Vitaliy Starukhin 1979 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2002 2006 2007 Mykhailo Mudryk 2022 Ukraine Premier League MVP As awarded by the Komanda newspaper Andriy Vorobey 2000 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2002 Andriy Pyatov 2010 Henrikh Mkhitaryan 2012 Alex Teixeira 2015 Marlos 2016 18 Taison 2019 Armenian Footballer of the Year Henrikh Mkhitaryan 2011 2012 Polish Footballer of the Year Mariusz Lewandowski 2009 Soviet Goalkeeper of the Year Yuriy Dehteryov 1977 Club Loyalty Award Mykhaylo Sokolovsky 1987 Romania Coach of the Year Mircea Lucescu 2004 2010 2012 2014 Players EditFirst team squad Edit As of 5 March 2023 80 81 Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation Player1 GK UKR Oleksiy Shevchenko2 FW BFA Lassina Traore5 DF UKR Valeriy Bondar6 MF UKR Taras Stepanenko7 MF UKR Andriy Totovytskyi8 MF UKR Heorhiy Sudakov9 MF UKR Marian Shved11 MF UKR Oleksandr Zubkov12 GK UKR Tymur Puzankov13 DF GEO Giorgi Gocholeishvili14 FW UKR Danylo Sikan15 DF UKR Bohdan Mykhaylichenko on loan from Anderlecht 16 MF UKR Dmytro Kryskiv17 MF CRO Neven Đurasek18 FW VEN Kevin Kelsy20 MF UKR Dmytro Topalov21 MF UKR Artem Bondarenko22 DF UKR Mykola Matviyenko No Pos Nation Player23 DF BRA Lucas Taylor on loan from PAOK 26 DF UKR Yukhym Konoplya27 MF UKR Oleh Ocheretko28 DF UKR Marian Faryna29 MF UKR Yehor Nazaryna30 GK UKR Andriy Pyatov captain 31 GK UKR Dmytro Riznyk32 DF UKR Eduard Kozik34 MF UKR Ivan Petryak44 DF UKR Yaroslav Rakitskyi45 FW UKR Andriy Boryachuk77 FW TJK Khusrav Toirov81 GK UKR Anatoliy Trubin99 DF UKR Viktor Korniyenko MF UKR Mykhaylo KhromeyOut on loan Edit Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation Player DF UKR Valeriy Bondarenko at Oleksandriya until 30 June 2023 DF UKR Andriy Buleza at Mynai until 30 June 2023 DF UKR Oleksandr Drambayev at Zulte Waregem until 30 June 2023 DF UKR Dmytro Kapinus at Metalist 1925 Kharkiv until 30 June 2023 DF BRA Marlon at Monza until 30 June 2023 DF BRA Marquinhos Cipriano at Cruzeiro until 30 June 2023 DF BRA Vinicius Tobias at Real Madrid until 30 June 2023 DF BRA Vitao at Internacional until 30 June 2023 MF UKR Maksym Chekh at Sabail until 30 June 2023 MF UKR Oleksiy Kashchuk at Sabah until 30 June 2023 MF BRA Maycon at Corinthians until 31 December 2023 MF UKR Artur Mykytyshyn at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih until 30 June 2023 No Pos Nation Player MF BRA Pedrinho at Atletico Mineiro until 30 June 2023 MF UKR Denys Shostak at Estoril until 30 June 2023 MF UKR Kyrylo Siheyev at Oleksandriya until 30 June 2024 MF ISR Manor Solomon at Fulham until 30 June 2023 MF BRA Tete at Leicester City until 30 June 2023 FW UKR Danylo Honcharuk at El Ejido until 30 June 2023 FW NGA Olarenwaju Kayode at Umraniyespor until 30 June 2023 FW UKR Vladyslav Pohorilyi at Zorya Luhansk until 30 June 2023 FW UKR Denys Svityukha at Lleida Esportiu until 30 June 2023 FW UKR Vladyslav Vakula at Polissya Zhytomyr until 31 December 2022 FW UKR Bohdan Vyunnyk at Grazer AK until 30 June 2023 Retired numbers Edit See also Retired numbers in association football No Player Nationality Position Shakhtar debut Last match Ref33 Darijo Srna Croatia Right back 12 July 2003 13 September 2017 82 83 Coaches and administration EditMain article List of FC Shakhtar Donetsk head coaches Administration 84 Coaching senior team 80 Coaching U 19 team 85 President Rinat Akhmetov General director Serhiy Palkin Director of Football Darijo Srna Commercial director Dmitriy Kirilenko Financial director Gyulnara Akhmedzhanova Manager Igor Jovicevic Assistant manager Daniel de Castro Assistant manager Yuriy Benyo Assistant manager Andriy Khanas Goalkeeping coach Francisco Galan Senior coach Oskar Ratulutra Assistant coach Oleksandr Knyazev Assistant coach Oleksandr Alimov Goalkeeping coach Oleh ShevchenkoPresidents and other officials EditPresidents Edit 1989 1994 Ivan Haivoronskyi 1992 1995 Akhat Bragin 1996 present Rinat AkhmetovChairmen of the Board Edit 1990 1992 Oleksandr Kosevych chair of the board 2006 present Oleh Popov chair of council of directors Vice Presidents Edit 1994 1995 Ivan Haivoronskyi 1994 2000 Ravil Safiullin 1998 present Borys KolesnikovGeneral directors Edit 2004 present Serhiy Palkin financial director in 2003 2004 Director of Football Edit 2020 present Darijo SrnaPlayer records EditTop goalscorers Edit As of 21 May 2016 86 Name Years League Cup Europe Other Total1 Luiz Adriano 2007 2015 77 16 32 3 1282 Andriy Vorobey 87 1998 2007 80 22 12 0 1143 Vitaliy Starukhin 88 1973 1981 84 23 3 0 1104 Mykhaylo Sokolovsky 89 1974 1987 87 11 5 2 1055 Brandao 90 2002 2008 65 11 15 0 916 Alex Teixeira 91 2010 2016 67 10 12 0 897 Ihor Petrov 92 1982 19911994 19961998 70 12 2 0 848 Serhiy Atelkin 93 1990 19951996 19972000 2002 61 9 12 0 829 Viktor Hrachov 94 1980 19811982 19901994 65 10 5 0 8010 Oleh Matveyev 95 1992 19951996 2000 61 16 1 0 78Other National Super CupMost appearances Edit As of match played 6 September 2022 Name Years League Cup Europe Other Total1 Darijo Srna 2003 2018 339 48 137 12 5362 Mykhaylo Sokolovsky 1974 1987 400 63 18 4 4853 Andriy Pyatov 2007 299 39 131 11 4804 Serhiy Yashchenko 96 1982 1995 384 51 8 1 4445 Yuriy Dehteryov 97 1967 1983 321 47 10 0 3786 Taras Stepanenko 2010 237 31 82 11 3617 Dmytro Shutkov 98 1991 2008 267 56 24 0 3478 Valeriy Rudakov 99 1974 1986 277 44 16 3 3409 Valeriy Yaremchenko 100 1966 1978 297 32 8 0 33710 Viktor Hrachov 1980 19811982 19901994 282 40 6 3 331Other National Super CupNotable coaches EditYears Name Trophies1952 56 Aleksandr Ponomarev 1 Soviet First League1960 69 Oleg Oshenkov 2 Soviet Cup1979 85 Viktor Nosov 2 Soviet Cup 1 USSR Super Cup1995 Vladimir Salkov 1 Ukrainian Cup1 August 1996 30 March 1999 Valeriy Yaremchenko 1 Ukrainian Cup30 November 1999 12 October 2001 Viktor Prokopenko 1 Ukrainian Cup1 January 2002 18 September 2002 Nevio Scala 1 Ukrainian Premier League 1 Ukrainian Cup17 May 2004 21 May 2016 Mircea Lucescu 8 Ukrainian Premier League 6 Ukrainian Cup 7 Ukrainian Super Cup 1 UEFA Cup31 May 2016 11 June 2019 Paulo Fonseca 3 Ukrainian Premier League 3 Ukrainian Cup 1 Ukrainian Super Cup12 June 2019 12 May 2021 Luis Castro 1 Ukrainian Premier League22 September 2021 11 July 2022 Roberto De Zerbi 1 Ukrainian Super CupLeague and Cup history EditSee also List of FC Shakhtar Donetsk seasons Tier Years Last Promotions RelegationsTop League tier 1 44 1991 5 times to Europe 3 1971 First League tier 2 7 1972 3 1972 neverGroup V tier 3 3 1937 1 1937 never56 years of professional football in Soviet Union since 1936Tier Years Last Promotions RelegationsPremier League tier 1 31 2021 22 26 times to Europe never31 years of professional national football in Ukraine since 1992Soviet Union Edit Ukraine EditEuropean history EditMain article FC Shakhtar Donetsk in European football Shakhtar Donetsk has participated in European competition since 1976 playing its first game against Berliner FC Dynamo in the UEFA Cup Since 1997 the club has participated in UEFA competition annually with variable amounts of success and first took part in the UEFA Champions League competition in 2000 Shakhtar Donetsk played against Arsenal Lazio and Sparta Prague upon qualifying for the group stage for the first time in 2000 01 Season Achievement NotesEuropean Cup UEFA Champions League2010 11 Quarter finals eliminated by Barcelona 1 5 in Barcelona 0 1 in DonetskUEFA Cup UEFA Europa League2008 09 Winners defeated Werder Bremen 2 1 in Istanbul2015 16 Semi finals eliminated by Sevilla 1 3 in Seville 2 2 in Lviv2019 20 Semi finals eliminated by Inter Milan 0 5 in DusseldorfUEFA Cup Winners Cup1983 84 Quarter finals eliminated by Porto 2 3 in Porto 1 1 in DonetskUEFA Super Cup2009 Runners up defeated by Barcelona 0 1 in MonacoUEFA Youth League2014 15 Runners up defeated by Chelsea 2 3 in NyonNotes Edit some sources suggest it was Kostiantyn Pashchenko instead of Mykhailo Pashchenko 6 Fourth oldest club competition organized by the IFA W B and played between local clubs of West Bengal and other invited ones References Edit a b N12 שחטאר זכתה באליפות הליגה האוקראינית 26 April 2022 a b c d Still in exile Shakhtar Donetsk picks new home The Washington Post 30 January 2017 a b Shakhtar will spend the rest of the season at the Olimpiyskiy Shakhtar Donetsk move training and games over Ukraine conflict BBC Sport 23 July 2014 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