FC Chornomorets Odesa

Chornomorets Odesa

Full name	Football Club Chornomorets Odesa
Nickname(s)	Moryaky (Sailors), Odesyts (Odessa-residents)
Founded	26 March 1936
Ground	Chornomorets Stadium (Capacity: 34,164)
Chairman	Leonid Klimov
Head Coach	Roman Hryhorchuk
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2010–11	Ukrainian First League, 2nd (promoted)
Home colours Away colours

FC Chornomorets Odesa is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Odessa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. During the reconstruction (2009-2011), the team played in the 4,610 Spartak Stadium. The club was officially formed in 1936 as Dynamo,^[1] but after a number of name and management changes, it emerged under its current name in 1958.^[2]

History

Black Sea

At the beginning of the 20th century, in Odessa, within limits of Shevchenko Park, a construction started of what was supposed to become a lake. However, after the trench for the lake was dug out, the funding stopped and so did the construction. Soon the hole began to serve as a field for one of city's non-league teams. As the hole resembled a shape of the Black Sea, that was the nickname given to the field, and the team was named Chornomorets, which means "Black Sea man". And although that team is unrelated to the today's club, it was the first team in Odessa to play under that name.

Recent History

The club was a founding member of the Ukrainian Premier League, winning the Ukrainian Cup and finishing 5th in the inaugural 1992 season. Chornomorets finished 3rd the next two seasons and 2nd during the following two seasons. They also won another domestic Cup in 1994. The club’s most successful spell was achieved under the guidance of Viktor Prokopenko, and later under Leonid Buryak. At the end of the 1997–98 season, following big financial troubles and the sale of a number of leading players, the club was relegated to the First League. They won promotion the following 1998–99 season, but finished in the second last place next year and were relegated again. Chornomorets came back up again for the 2002–03 season and enjoyed several decent seasons in the Premier League. They finished third in the 2005–06 season and took part in the 2006–07 UEFA Cup tournament.

Chornomorets were deducted 6 points by FIFA on November 6, 2008. It was confirmed by Ukrainian Premier League on March 2, 2009.^[3] The club managed to finish the 2008–09 season in 10th place despite the deduction. The 2009–10 season started badly with a 5:0 loss to FC Dynamo Kyiv and a poor run of form that saw the team finish the first half of the season in 13th place, just two spots away from the relegation zone. The club was relegated to the First League at the end of the season. It took, however, just a year for Chornomorets to return to the Ukrainian top flight for the 2011–12 season.

Honours

Winners

• USSR Federation Cup: 1

1990

• Ukrainian Cup: 2

1992, 1993–94

Runners-Up

• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1

2007

• Ukrainian Premier League: 2

1994–95, 1995–96

3rd Place/Semi-finalists

• Soviet Top League: 1

1974

• Ukrainian Premier League: 3

1992–93, 1993–94, 2005–06

• Soviet Cup: 1

1965–66

• Ukrainian Cup: 3

1994–95, 2003–04, 2007–08

History

• 1936: Club founded as Dynamo Odessa
• 1940: Club renamed Pischevik Odessa
• 1941: Club renamed Spartak Odessa
• 1944: Club renamed Pischevik Odessa
• 1953: Club renamed Metallurg Odessa
• 1955: Club renamed Pischevik Odessa
• 1958: Club renamed Chernomorets Odessa
• 1966: Best performance in Soviet Cup – reached semi-finals
• 1974: Best performance in Soviet Top League – third place
• 1975: First participation in the UEFA Cup (1975/76)
• 1992: Took part in the Ukrainian Premier League after the break-up of the Soviet Union and officially registered as the non-amateur club Chornomorets Odesa

Current squad

Squad is given according to the club’s official website (as of September 10, 2011).

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 1 GK Yevhen Past 2 DF Petro Kovalchuk 3 DF Andriy Donets' 4 MF Serhiy Rozhok 5 DF Oleksandr Babych (captain) 6 DF Léo Matos 7 FW Vitaliy Balashov 8 MF Dmytro Vladov 9 FW Anatoliy Didenko (vice-captain) 10 FW Denys Vasin 11 MF Ivan Bobko 12 GK Dmytro Bezotosnyi 14 FW Ihor Silantyev 15 FW Artur Kaskov (on loan from Metalurh Z) 16 DF Wojciech Szymanek

No. Position Player 18 FW Jymmy (on loan from Sheriff) 19 MF Sebastián Setti (vice-captain) 20 FW Lucian Burdujan 22 FW Igor Ţîgîrlaş 23 MF Serghei Covalciuc 25 DF Valeriy Sokolenko 27 MF Kyrylo Kovalchuk (on loan from Tom) 29 DF Pablo Fontanello (on loan from Parma) 32 DF Kristi Vangjeli 33 DF Andriy Slinkin 35 MF Ruslan Solyanyk 42 MF Yevhen Zubeyko 77 DF Pavlo Kutas 89 MF Serhiy Politylo

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 13 DF Serhiy Melnyk (on loan to FC Odesa)

No. Position Player DF Dmytro Koloda (on loan to FC Odesa)

For recent transfers, see List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2011 and List of Ukrainian football transfers winter 2010-2011.

Head coaches

Information from the club’s official website statistics page

Anatoliy Zubrytsky (1959–1962) Vsevolod Bobrov (1963) Vladimir Gorokhov (1964) Yuriy Voynov (June 1964 – April 1967) Valentin Fedorov (April 1967 – October 1967) Nikolai Morozov (October 1967 – 1968) Sergey Shaposhnikov (1968–1970) Viktor Zhilin (1971) Nikolai Morozov (1971) Anatoly Zubrytsky (1971–1973) Akhmed Aleskerov (1973–1977) Anatoliy Zubrytsky (1977–1979) Viktor Zubkov (1979) Viktor Prokopenko (1979)

Nikita Simonyan (1980–1981) Viktor Prokopenko (1982–1986) Semen Altman (1986) Anatoli Polosin (1987–1988) Yuriy Zabolotny (1988) Viktor Prokopenko (1989–1994) Leonid Buryak (1994–1998) Volodymyr Kozerenko (1998–1999) Oleksandr Holokolosov (1998–1999) Anatoliy Azarenkov (1999–2001)

Oleksandr Skrypnyk (2001–2003) Semen Altman (2003–2007) Vitaliy Shevchenko (2007–11/2008) Viktor Hryshko[4] (11/2008–08/2009) Ihor Nakonechny (interim) (08/2009) Andriy Bal (09/2009-05/2010) Ihor Nakonechny (interim) (05/2010–11/2010) Roman Hryhorchuk (11/2010–)

League and Cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	1st	5	18	9	7	2	30	12	35	Winner			yielded to PFC CSKA Moscow in 1/4 finals of Soviet Cup
1992–93	1st	3	30	17	4	9	31	12	38	1/16 finals	CWC	1st round
1993–94	1st	3	34	20	8	6	52	23	48	Winner
1994–95	1st	2	34	22	7	5	62	29	73	1/2 finals	CWC	1st round
1995–96	1st	2	34	22	7	5	56	25	73	1/16 finals	UC	2nd round
1996–97	1st	7	30	12	6	12	36	31	42	1/4 finals	UC	1st round
1997–98	1st	15	30	8	8	14	31	39	32	1/4 finals			Relegated
1998–99	2nd	2	38	25	4	9	77	38	79	1/64 finals			Promoted
1999-00	1st	15	30	6	8	16	20	50	26	1/16 finals			Relegated
2000–01	2nd	6	34	17	6	11	44	28	57	1/8 finals
2001–02	2nd	2	34	21	4	9	48	21	67	1/16 finals			Promoted
2002–03	1st	8	30	10	4	16	31	45	34	1/16 finals
2003–04	1st	5	30	11	12	7	38	33	45	1/2 finals
2004–05	1st	6	30	12	6	12	29	29	42	1/16 finals
2005–06	1st	3	30	13	6	11	36	31	45	1/16 finals
2006–07	1st	6	30	11	8	11	36	33	41	1/16 finals	UC	1st round
2007–08	1st	7	30	11	5	14	27	33	38	1/2 finals	IC	3rd round
2008–09	1st	10	30	12	2	16	34	42	32	1/16 finals			(−6) disciplinary[3]
2009–10	1st	15	30	5	9	16	21	44	24	1/16 finals			Relegated
2010–11	2nd	2	34	18	11	5	53	26	65	1/16 finals			Promoted
2011–12	1st									1/4 finals

See also

• FC Chornomorets-2 Odesa

References

1. ^ (Russian) A brief overview of the Club's establishment at the official website
2. ^ (Russian) An overview of the Club's history in 1958-1969 at the official website
3. ^ ^{a b} "(Russian) Chernomorets deducted 6 points". UA Football. 2009-03-02. http://ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/49abea5b.html. Retrieved 2009-05-27. 
4. ^ (Russian)"Черноморец": Виктор Гришко вместо Виталия Шевченко! – November 4, 2008

External links

• Official website