FC METALIST 1925 KHARKIV

Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Full name	Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Founded	2016
Ground	OSC Metalist
Capacity	40,003
Owner	?(52%); Vitaliy Zhuravskyi (29%); Group of owners (19%)
General Director	Yaroslav Vdovenko
Head coach	Viktor Skrypnyk
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2022–23	Ukrainian Premier League, 12th of 16
Website	Club website

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

Metalist Kharkiv 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.^{[
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On the initiative of former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, among others, a new club was created under the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.^[3] It entered the Ukrainian Football Amateur League for the 2016–17 season and earned promotion to the Ukrainian Second League the next year.^[4]

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 4 March 2024^[5]^[6]^[7]

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
2	DF	UKR	Dmytro Kapinus
3	DF	UKR	Yevheniy Tkachuk
4	DF	UKR	Ivan Kovalenko
6	MF	UKR	Beka Vachiberadze
7	FW	BRA	Ari Moura (on loan from Metropolitano)
9	FW	UKR	Andriy Boryachuk
10	MF	UKR	Rostyslav Rusyn
14	FW	UKR	Dmytro Yusov
17	DF	UKR	Ihor Kurylo
19	MF	UKR	Denys Harmash
20	DF	UKR	Vadym Chervak
21	FW	UKR	Kostyantyn Bychek
22	FW	UKR	Vladyslav Dmytrenko


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
23	GK	UKR	Yaroslav Protsenko
24	FW	GHA	Raymond Owusu
27	MF	UKR	Dmytro Kravchenko
28	MF	UKR	Artem Habelok ( captain)
29	DF	UKR	Maksym Zhychykov
30	DF	UKR	Mykyta Bezuhlyi
32	DF	UKR	Maksym Imerekov
37	GK	UKR	Oleh Mozil
40	MF	UKR	Samuel Obinaiia
74	DF	UKR	Maryan Faryna (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
79	FW	UKR	Andriy Chyruk
80	MF	UKR	Vladlen Yurchenko
97	FW	UKR	Oleksiy Sydorov

Other players under contract

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	Yuriy Potimkov
—	MF	UKR	Andriy Remenyuk

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
—	GK	UKR	Maksym Kovalenko (at Zviahel until 30 June 2024)
—	GK	UKR	Ihor Potimkov (at Dinaz Vyshhorod until 30 June 2024)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	UKR	Andriy Tkachuk (at Dinaz Vyshhorod until 30 June 2024)
—	MF	UKR	Yaroslav Martynyuk (at Dinaz Vyshhorod until 30 June 2024)

Administration and coaches

Administration

Owner – LLC FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv^[8]
Co-owner – Solar Solutions Ukraine and Borky Solar^[9]
CEO – Yaroslav Vdovenko^[10]

Coaches (senior team)

Head coach – Viktor Skrypnyk
Assistant coach – Serhiy Popov
Assistant coach – Maksym Tsvirenko
Assistant coach – Serhiy Chernyshov
Goalkeeper coach – Serhiy Volvakov
Fitness Coach – Hryhoriy Yarmash
Fitness Coach – Andriy Shabalin^[11]

Managers

Oleksandr Pryzetko (16 Aug 2016 – 26 September 2017)^[12]
Vyacheslav Khruslov (caretaker) (26 September 2017 – 28 September 2017)
Oleksandr Ivanov (28 September 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 August 2020)
Valeriy Kriventsov (21 August 2020 – 22 October 2022)
Edmar (caretaker) (23 October 2022 – 5 November 2023)
Oleh Holodyuk (caretaker) (5 November 2023 – 20 December 2023)
Viktor Skrypnyk (20 December 2023 – 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
2021–22	1st (Premier League)	10	18	6	1	11	17	29	19	1⁄8 finals
2022–23		12	30	6	14	10	23	42	32	Not played
2023–24										1⁄8 finals

Notes

References

^ Неделин: Околофутбольное чудо произошло, угроза исчезновения Металлиста 1925 прошла. sportarena.com. 31 August 2023
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Кому официально принадлежат украинские клубы. ukrrudprom.com. 12 November 2021
^ "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.
^ "Металлист 1925 стал профессиональным футбольным клубом". 16 May 2017.
^ "Основний склад".
^ "Metalist 1925".
^ "Професіональна футбольна ліга України". Archived from the original on 22 October 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
^ "Металіст 1925 став професійним футбольним клубом". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 16 May 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
^ "Металіст 1925 змінив власників – "сонячні" енергетики та коксохіміки взяли контроль". Футбол 24 (in Ukrainian). football24.ua. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
^ "Гендиректор Металіста 1925: Зауважень до тренерського штабу Кривенцова немає". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 30 December 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
^ "Тренери команди".
^ Oleksandr Pryzetko is a head coach of Metalist 1925

External links

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

[1] Неделин: Околофутбольное чудо произошло, угроза исчезновения Металлиста 1925 прошла. sportarena.com. 31 August 2023

[ukrrudprom-2] Кому официально принадлежат украинские клубы. ukrrudprom.com. 12 November 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] "Основний склад".

[6] "Metalist 1925".

[7] "Професіональна футбольна ліга України". Archived from the original on 22 October 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.

[8] "Металіст 1925 став професійним футбольним клубом". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 16 May 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

[9] "Металіст 1925 змінив власників – "сонячні" енергетики та коксохіміки взяли контроль". Футбол 24 (in Ukrainian). football24.ua. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

[10] "Гендиректор Металіста 1925: Зауважень до тренерського штабу Кривенцова немає". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 30 December 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

[11] "Тренери команди".

[coach-12] Oleksandr Pryzetko is a head coach of Metalist 1925

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