FC Shakhtar Donetsk junior squads and academy

FC Shakhtar Donetsk has been fielding its reserve (junior) team since 1949 when the club returned to the Soviet top league (Pervaya Gruppa). In 1953 the club established its own training center in Kirsha. Since discontinuation of the Soviet Top League in 1991, Shakhtar reserve team was discontinued as well.

In 1992 based on reserve team there was created FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk which was based in Kostiantynivka and entered competitions among professional teams the 1992 Ukrainian First League.

At the end of 1990s there were more discussions about revival of junior competitions. In 1998 there was created All-Ukrainian youth football championship among senior and junior youth teams and which in 2000 Shakhtar junior youth team won. In 2001 there was established the DYuFL (Youth Football League) and teams of Vyshcha Liha (Higher League) were mandated to field four teams in each age group competition (U-14, U-15, U-16, U-17). In 2002 there also was established provisional competitions among under-19 teams.

• UEFA Youth League (under 19)
  • Runners-up (1): 2014–15

• Soviet Top League / Ukrainian youth championship (under 21)
  • Winners (6): 1967, 1969, 2008-09, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2017–18
  • Runners-up (8): 1968, 1976, 1977, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17

• Ukrainian youth championship (under 19)
  • Winners (1): 2014-15
  • Runners-up (2): 2013–14, 2017–18

• Ukrainian Youth Football League (under 17)
  • Winners (7): 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2017–18
  • Runners-up (2): 2004–05, 2009–10

As of 9 November 2016.[1]

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

No. Position Player 20 FW Giorgi Arabidze 42 FW Denys Arendaruk 43 DF Yurii Senytskyi 46 DF Volodymyr Hrachov 47 DF Illya Ichuaidze 48 DF Dmytro Shevchenko 49 MF Oleksandr Pikhalyonok 50 FW Roman Yalovenko 51 DF Mykyta Bezuhlyi 52 DF Ihor Kyriukhantsev 53 GK Vladyslav Trescheyko 54 GK Yevhen Hrytsenko 56 MF Artem Habelok

No. Position Player 57 MF Oleksandr Mihunov 60 MF Oleksiy Zinkevych 62 DF Danylo Sahutkin 63 GK Ruslan Yefanov 64 MF Yuriy Hluschuk 67 MF Artur Avahimyan 68 MF Rostyslav Rusin 69 DF Oleksandr Masalov 75 MF Danylo Ihnatenko DF Taras Kacharaba MF Mykyta Adamenko FW Oleksandr Hlahola

Since 2013 Shakhtar's junior team competed at the UEFA Youth League. Its first game it played on 17 September 2013 at the Zubieta Facilities against Real Sociedad Juvenil. The team played in every season except for the 2016–17 season. Since 2015 Shakhtar fields its junior team along with its main rival Dynamo.

In 2014 Shakhtar's juniors reached the UEFA Youth League finals, but lost it.

• Vladyslav Kulach
• Artur Miranyan
• Artur Zahorulko

• Kirsha Training Centre
• FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk