FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv

Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 2016, the club plays in Professional Football League of Ukraine. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity.

For the original football club which was founded in 1925 and dissolved in 2016, see FC Metalist Kharkiv.
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Full nameFootball Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Founded2016 (2016)
GroundOSC Metalist
Capacity41,307
Head coachAndriy Demchenko
LeagueUkrainian First League
2018–19First League, 4th
WebsiteClub website

Bronze medalist of the Second League of Ukraine Championship 2017/18. Silver medalist of the Championship of Ukraine among amateurs 2016/17. In the 2018/19 season it performs to the Professional Football League of Ukraine.

Metalist 1925 is the second club in Ukraine to attend home matches in the championship.

The club ethos is the bet on local players. Thus, in the first team of Metalist 1925, 22 players are from Kharkiv. In the team application in the first part of the 2017/18 season, 24 players from 27 were from Kharkiv football schools, in the second part of the season - 21 players from 25, in the 2018/19 season - 23 players from 30.

Legally, Metallist 1925 is not the legal successor of Metalist, which was disbanded because his last owner, Serhiy Kurchenko, ceased to fund the club and refused to sell it to other potential investors.[nb 1]

History

It was established in the summer of 2016. As several football clubs in the league due to debts, the original club FC Metalist Kharkiv owned by Serhiy Kurchenko was refused a license in 2014 by the Football Federation of Ukraine and expelled from national competitions. The Kurchenko's Metalist continued to play in regional competitions as SC Metalist Kharkiv.

On the initiative of former FFU vice-president and head of Kharkiv Oblast Football Federation Storozhenko along with former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, a new club was created that received the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.[2] Metalist 1925 entered the 2016–17 Ukrainian Football Amateur League and won its group, but lost in the final match. In July 2017, the club was admitted to the Ukrainian Second League.[3]

On 7 July 2017, Metalist 1925 presented a new logo.[4]

Infrastructure

Metalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in a town of Vysokyi, yet some training it also conducts at H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.

Squad

Players
As of 14 February 2020[5][6]

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

No. Position Player
1 GK Denys Sydorenko
3 DF Vadym Zhuk
4 DF Ivan Kovalenko
6 DF Chidera Anih Kelit
7 FW Maksym Yermolenko
8 MF Vitaliy Koltsov
9 FW Serhiy Davydov (captain)
11 MF Mykhaylo Storozhenko
10 MF Yaroslav Yampol
12 GK Arsen Byelimenko
14 MF Yaroslav Dekhtyarenko
17 MF Kyrylo Yermoshenko
20 MF Serhiy Romanov
No. Position Player
21 MF Serhiy Chenbay
22 MF Vladyslav Dmytrenko
23 MF Mykhaylo Shershen
24 DF Maksym Tsvirenko
27 DF Oleksandr Osman
29 MF Yevheniy Bilokin
30 MF Lucas
60 DF Dmytro Pospelov
70 MF Yevhen Prodanov
77 FW Anton Savin
81 GK Denys Dyakov
97 MF Derek

Administration and coaches

Managers

Honours
Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship

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 ​1⁄32 finals

Notes
  1. In October 2017, a Ukrainian court confiscated (the original) Metalist Kharkiv from Kurchenko and placed it under state property.[1] At the time the club did not participate in any official sanctioned competitions.[1]

References
  1. (in Ukrainian) The court returned the Metalist FC to the state property, The Ukrainian Week (3 October 2017)
  2. "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.
  3. https://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/amateur/1494937659-metallist-1925-stal-professionalnym-futbolnym-klubom.html
  4. Metalist 1925 presented new logo and uniform (Металіст 1925 представив нові логотип і форму). UA-Football. 7 July 2017
  5. https://metalist1925.com/players/
  6. http://pfl.ua/teams/16-metalist
  7. There became known founders of Metalist 1925. Metalist unofficial website. 17 August 2016
  8. ФК "Металлист-1925" не является правопреемником клуба, купленного Курченко – основатели
  9. Oleksandr Pryzetko is a head coach of Metalist 1925
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