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 First League. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity.
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| Full name | Футбольний клуб Металіст 1925 Харків Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Zhovto-syni (Yellow-blue) | |||
| Founded | 17 August 2016 | |||
| Ground | OSC Metalist Arena Livyi Bereh | |||
| Capacity | 40,003 | |||
| Owner | [1][2] Volodymyr Nosov[2] [2] | |||
| General Director | Andriy Nedelin[2] | |||
| Head coach | Patrick van Leeuwen | |||
| League | Ukrainian First League | |||
| 2023–24 | Ukrainian Premier League, 16th of 16 (relegated) | |||
| Website | https://metalist1925.com | |||
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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
editThe club was established in the summer of 2016 after the original club, FC Metalist Kharkiv, was refused a license by the Football Federation of Ukraine and expelled from national competitions.[citation needed]
On the initiative of former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, among others, a new club was created under the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.[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
editMetalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in the town of Vysokyi.
Squad
editPlayers
editNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Other players under contract
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Out on loan
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Administration and coaches
editAdministration
editCurrent staff (senior team)
edit- Head coach –
Patrick van Leeuwen - Head coach assistant – Oleksandr Chyzhov
- Assistant coach – Maksym Tsvirenko
- Assistant coach – Dmytro Kabachok
- Goalkeeper coach – Serhiy Volvakov
- Fitness Coach – Valeriy Blokhin
- Fitness Coach – Andriy Shabalin[10]
General Directors
edit- 2016–2020 Volodymyr Linke
- 2020–2023 Yaroslav Vdovenko[11][12]
- 2023–present Andriy Niedielin
Presidents and vice-presidents
edit- 2023–present Volodymyr Nosov[13]
- 2023–present Yuriy Korotun
Managers
edit- Oleksandr Pryzetko (16 Aug 2016 – 26 September 2017)[14]
- 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 – 28 July 2024)
- Serhiy Karpenko (caretaker) (28 July 2024 – 20 August 2024)
- Patrick van Leeuwen (20 August 2024 – present)[15]
Honours
edit- 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
edit| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Domestic Cup | Other | Notes | |
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| 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 | ||||||||||||
Women, reserves teams and academy
editMetalist 1925-2
editIt was announced that Metalist 1925 will be fielding its second squad in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Second League. Metalist 1925-2 would be formed based on Metalist 1925 under-19 team that competed at the UPL U-19 competitions.[16]
Metalist 1925 (women)
editCreated in 2006 as Zhilstroi-1 Kharkiv (Zhytlobud-1), in 2024 the women team from Kharkiv was fully integrated by Metalist 1925 as its women team. Zhilstroi-1/Zhytlobud-1 is a leader of the women club's football in Ukraine.
See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "Тренери команди".
- ^ "Гендиректор Металіста 1925: Зауважень до тренерського штабу Кривенцова немає". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 30 December 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "Ярослав Вдовенко залишає "Металіст 1925"". metalist1925.com (in Ukrainian). 22 November 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Нові лідери, нові перспективи: Володимир Носов стає президентом ФК "Металіст 1925"". metalist1925.com (in Ukrainian). 23 November 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Oleksandr Pryzetko is a head coach of Metalist 1925
- ^ "Патрік ван Леувен - головний тренер "Металіста 1925"" (in Ukrainian). metalist1925.com. 4 September 2024. Archived from the original on 5 September 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ^ "У Другій лізі нового сезону виступлять 8 нових резервних команд: ми дізналися, хто їх очолить і де вони будуть грати – є сюрпризи" [In the new season's Second League 8 new reserve teams will participate: we discovered who will manage them and where they will play, there are surprises]. ukrfootball.ua (in Ukrainian). 13 June 2024. Archived from the original on 30 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
External links
edit- Official website
- “Ми більше не хочемо президента-олігарха“. Сергій Стороженко про Металіст 1925. UA-Football (www.ua-football.com). 29 May 2017