FC Ocean Kerch

FC Ocean Kerch
Full name Football Club Ocean Kerch
Founded 1938 as Stal, 1955 as Metalurh, 1976 as Okean, 2010 as Okean
Dissolved ?, 1970, 1997
Ground Stadium 50th Anniversary of October
Head coach Serhiy Yesin
League Crimean Premier League

FC Ocean Kerch (Russian: Футбольный клуб «Океан» (Керчь)) is a Ukrainian football team based in Kerch. After the Russian annexation of Crimea was admitted to the Crimean Premier League as a Russian team.

History

The city association football team in Kerch existed as early as 1938 under a name of Stal. It is not known what happened with the original team.

The current club was established in 1955 as Metallurg (Metalurh) soon after the Crimean peninsula was transferred to Ukraine within the Soviet Union, but it was not until 1962 when it represented the city at professional level, competing in the Ukrainian championship of the Soviet Second League. In 1970, the club dissolved again, but soon was revived in 1976 competing all the way pass the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 1993 it carried a name of Voikovets, in 1994 – Metalurh. In 1997, the club lost its professional license and disappeared for quite some time.

In 2010, it was reestablished anew.[1][2] Following the Russian annexation of Crimea, the Football Federation of Ukraine lodged a complaint with UEFA about Crimean clubs' participation in Russian competitions. On 22 August 2014, UEFA decided "that any football matches played by Crimean clubs organised under the auspices of the Russian Football Union will not be recognised by UEFA until further notice".[3]

On 4 December 2014, UEFA banned Crimean clubs from participating in Russian professional competitions,[4] and announced that a new local Crimean Premier League would be set up in the future that UEFA will manage directly.[5] Ocean Kerch was one of the 8 original clubs that formed the Crimean Premier League for the 2015–16 season.

Honours

1949, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1962, 1995/96

Notable people

Current squad

As of March 2017

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

No. Position Player
1 Russia GK Maksim Shumailov
2 Russia DF Aleksandr Nikulichev
3 Russia MF Aleksei Mishin
4 Russia DF Dmitri Narizhniy
5 Russia DF Vladimir Danilov
7 Ukraine MF Artyom Scherbak
8 Russia MF Mikhail Svetozarov
9 Russia FW Boris Gogichaishvili
10 Ukraine FW Ihor Zubko
No. Position Player
17 Ukraine MF Pavlo Hryshchenko
18 Russia DF Vyacheslav Verushkin
19 Russia DF Radik Yusupov
28 Ukraine DF Volodymyr Sheshenya
42 Russia FW Timur Shadrin
47 Russia FW Aleksandr Andoskin
73 Ukraine GK Anatoliy Pylypenko
77 Russia MF Maksim Tazetdinov

Coaches (since annexation)

References

  1. ↑ "FC Ocean". Crimean Football Union. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  2. ↑ History of the club. FC Okean Kerch website
  3. ↑ UEFA Emergency Panel decision on Crimean clubs, UEFA (22 August 2014)
  4. ↑ "Crimea clubs banned from playing in Russian league by Uefa". BBC. 4 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "UEFA to set up new soccer league in Crimea". Associated Press. 6 March 2015.


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