FC Metalurh Donetsk

FC Metalurh Donetsk
Metalurh Donetsk
FC Metalurh Donetsk logo
Full name Football Club Metalurh Donetsk
Nickname(s) MetaDon
Founded June 17, 1996; 15 years ago (1996-06-17)
Ground Metalurh Stadium
(Capacity: 5,094)
Chairman Serhiy Taruta
Manager Volodymyr Pyatenko
League Ukrainian Premier League
2010–11 8th
Home colours
Away colours

FC Metalurh Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. The club currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League.

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History

Pre-history

Metalurh takes its roots from the Football Club Antratsyt Kirovske that was allowed to participate on the non-amateur level once Ukraine attained its independence. After a disappointing first season in the Second League, in the 1993 season Antratsyt placed third in the Third League and was promoted back to the Second League. Once there, the club relocated to Shakhtarsk and changed its name first to Shakhtar, but then to FC Medita Shahtarsk.

Metalurh Donetsk

A couple of years later, the club was reorganized again and renamed to, already widely accepted, Football Club Metalurh Donetsk. The club was purchased by ISD, Ukrainian industrial corporation owned by Serhiy Taruta, one of the most wealthy businessmen in Ukraine and Europe. After placing second in the Druha Liha Group C, the club gained the promotion to the Persha Liha. In the next season, 1996–97, Metalurh won the Persha Liha championship and were promoted to the Vyscha Liha.

The club successfully started in the Top League and also improved significantly at the domestic Cup competition. Metalurh has managed to obtain few bronze medals in the League and since 1998 made through to at least the quarter-finals of the Ukrainian Cup.

Throughout majority of the first decade of the new millennium, Metalurh's owners developed a close working relationship with well known Ukrainian agent Dmytro Sylyuk, who soon became club's acting chairman and has gained a lot of bad publicity for bringing numerous foreign players into the club. Also, while working with Metalurh, Selyuk has lived in Barcelona and was a rare visitor to Ukraine. For several seasons, the foreigners, Selyuk's clients, have outnumbered domestic players. Many of the signed players were brought in without manager's consent, and a lot have been given an overly generous pay; among those were Yaya Touré, Andrés Mendoza, and Jordi Cruyff. After Sylyuk's questionable tactics, he was dismissed from his position and majority of the players brought in by him also left. As it appeared later, many of them have had contracts with Sylyuk, and not directly with the club.

After the era of Sylyuk ended, Metalurh's performance declined and a hunt for medals turned into a struggle for survival. However, in 2008, Bulgarian specialist Nikolay Kostov was brought in to rebuild the team. In his first season with the club, Kostov turned Metalurh's performance around and the club came fourth in the league, which granted them a spot in newly formed UEFA Europa League.

Stadium

Metalurh has its own small stadium named after the club, Metalurh Stadium. In most of the domestic matches, the club plays at the stadium which just barely exceeds the 5,000 mark for a possible attendance. In case when it is expected for an upcoming game to gather a significantly larger crowd, Metalurh plays at the Shakhtar Stadium, which is the property of the well-established club Shakhtar Donetsk. The Shakhtar Stadium is mostly used for the European competitions. A new stadium with capacity 17,500 is under construction at Makiivka, near Donetsk. It will be the new home ground of Metalurh Donetsk

Rivalry

Metalurh's top rivals are the neighbor club and one of Ukraine's most successful teams, Shakhtar Donetsk. The two clubs have not only had a close history since formation of Metalurh, but the club has also played at Shakhtar's former venue, Shakhtar Stadium. The games between the two clubs have been dubbed by the fans and the media as Donbass Derby, although Shakhtar has been dominant in the rivalry for a decade from 1996 and up until 2006, winning all 18 games between them, matches between the two have always been of a major significance to fans.

Sponsors

  • ISD (Industrial Union of Donbas) (main)
  • Kremen
  • Umbro
  • Alchevskkoks
  • Keramet
  • DMKD
  • Enerhomashspecstal
  • Ukruglesnab
  • Onyx Don
  • and others.

Honours

1996–97 Champions
1995–96 Runners-Up Group "B"

Current squad

Squad is given according to the club's official website, as of July 22, 2011 , as reported to Ukrainian Premier League. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
4 Ukraine DF Vyacheslav Checher (captain)
6 Armenia MF Karlen Mkrtchyan
7 Ukraine MF Mykola Morozyuk
8 Armenia FW Marcos Pizzelli
9 Serbia MF Đorđe Lazić
10 Portugal MF Ricardo Fernandes (vice-captain)
11 Armenia FW Gevorg Ghazaryan
12 Ukraine GK Oleksandr Bandura
14 Ukraine DF Oleksandr Volovyk
15 Mali FW Dramane Traoré
17 Brazil MF Zé Soares
No. Position Player
18 Bulgaria MF Velizar Dimitrov (vice-captain)
19 Ukraine FW Vitaliy Ivanko
20 Portugal DF China
22 Ukraine FW Myroslav Slavov (on loan from Anzhi)
23 Ukraine GK Rustam Khudzhamov (on loan from Shakhtar)
27 Ukraine MF Oleksiy Hodin
28 Portugal DF Mário Sérgio
30 Republic of Macedonia MF Mario Gjurovski
31 Ukraine GK Dmytro Vorobyov
44 Ukraine DF Vasyl Pryima
84 Ukraine MF Denys Holaydo

For recent transfers, see List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2010 and List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2009.

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player
Ukraine GK Dmytro Nepohodov (to Armenia FC Banants)
Ukraine GK Kostyantyn Odolskyi (to Armenia FC Banants)
Ukraine MF Vitaliy Havrysh (to Stal Alchevsk)
No. Position Player
Bulgaria MF Chavdar Yankov (to Russia FC Rostov)
Nigeria FW Fanendo Adi (to FC Dynamo Kyiv)

Notable former players

Europe
South America
Africa

Head coaches

  • Ukraine Volodymyr Onyschenko (1997–98)
  • Ukraine Volodymyr Havrylov (1998)
  • Ukraine Ihor Yavorskyi (1999)
  • Ukraine Mykhaylo Sokolovskyi (1999)
  • Ukraine Semen Altman (1999–02)
  • Ukraine Oleksandr Sevidov (2003)
  • Netherlands Wim Vrosch (2003)
   
  • Belgium Jos Daerden (2007)
  • Ukraine Serhiy Yaschenko (2007–08)
  • Bulgaria Nikolay Kostov (2008–2010)
  • Ukraine Volodymyr Pyatenko (caretaker) (2010–2011)
  • Russia Andrei Gordeyev (2011)
  • Ukraine Volodymyr Pyatenko (2011–)

League and Cup history

Information since Ukraine's Independence

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Notes
1992 3rd "B" 8 16 2 3 11 15 32 7 1/16 finals Relegated
as Antratsyt Kirovske
1992–93 4th 3 34 22 5 7 46 32 49 N/A Promoted
as Antratsyt Kirovske
1993–94 3rd 8 42 18 6 18 50 41 42 1/32 finals as Medita Shakhtarsk
1994–95 3rd 7 42 22 8 12 57 36 74 1/64 finals as Medita Shakhtarsk
1995–96 3rd "B" 2 38 24 7 7 53 27 94 1/32 finals Promoted
1996–97 2nd 1 46 32 5 9 77 39 101 1/16 finals Promoted
1997–98 1st 6 30 11 7 12 28 27 40 Semi-finals
1998–99 1st 14 30 7 7 16 27 51 28 1/4 finals
1999–00 1st 7 30 11 10 9 39 35 43 1/4 finals
2000–01 1st 5 26 11 9 6 30 24 42 Semi-finals
2001–02 1st 3 26 12 6 8 38 28 42 Semi-finals
2002–03 1st 3 30 18 6 6 44 26 60 1/4 finals UC 1R Lost to Germany Werder Bremen 10–2
2003–04 1st 4 30 14 10 6 51 34 52 1/4 finals UC 1R Lost to Italy Parma 4–1
2004–05 1st 3 30 14 7 9 38 35 49 1/4 finals UC 1R Lost to Italy Lazio 6–0
2005–06 1st 9 30 10 9 11 35 35 39 Semi-finals UC 1R Lost to Greece PAOK 3-3 (away goal)
2006–07 1st 9 30 9 9 12 26 35 36 1/4 finals
2007–08 1st 12 30 6 13 11 34 39 31 Semi-finals
2008–09 1st 4 30 14 7 9 36 27 49 1/4 finals
2009–10 1st 8 30 11 7 12 41 33 40 Runners Up EL Play-off round
2010–11 1st 8 30 11 5 14 36 45 38 1/16 finals
2011-12 1st 1/4 finals

See also

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