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FC Chornomorets Odessa (Ukrainian: ФК «Чорноморець»; Russian: ФК «Черноморец») is a professional soccer club in the Ukrainian Premier League. The club's home ground is the 34,362 capacity Tsentralnyi-Chornomorets Stadium in the Black Sea port city of Odessa. Despite their official name being changed to FC Chornomorets (Ukrainian spelling) in 1991, many people refer to the club as FC Chernomorets (its Russian spelling). The official club colors are black, blue and white [1].
In the recent 2005-06 season, Chornomorets took third place in the Ukrainian Premier League with 45 points, just ahead of three other teams (who had 43 points each). This finish became their highest achievement since the 1995-96 season, during which they took second place.
FC Chornomorets was playing in the UEFA Cup.
[edit] Honors
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- 1990
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- 1992, 1994
Runner-Up
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- 1995, 1996
[edit] Promotions and demotions
The club was a founding member of the Ukrainian Premier League. After the 1997-98 season, the club was relegated to the Persha Liha. The club was then promoted back to the Premier League for the 1999-2000 season, but it took second-to-last place that year and was relegated again. Chornomorets resurfaced for the 2002-03 season and is currently in the Premier League.
[edit] History
- 1936 : Club founded as Dynamo Odessa
- 1940 : Club renamed Pishchevik Odessa
- 1941 : Club renamed Spartak Odessa
- 1944 : Club renamed Pishchevik Odessa
- 1953 : Club renamed Metalurg Odessa
- 1955 : Club renamed Pishchevik Odessa
- 1958 : Club renamed Chernomorets Odessa
- 1966 : Best performance in USSR Cup - reached semi-finals
- 1974 : Best performance in USSR 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
Squad is given according to the club's official website [1], as of August 1, 2006.
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 1 |
 |
GK |
Vitaliy Rudenko |
| 2 |
|
DF |
Pavel Skoropad |
| 3 |
|
MF |
Valentin Poltavets |
| 4 |
|
DF |
Serhiy Symonenko |
| 5 |
|
DF |
Serhiy Bilozor |
| 8 |
|
MF |
Andrey Kirlik |
| 9 |
|
MF |
Aleksandr Zotov |
| 10 |
|
FW |
Oleh Venglinsky |
| 11 |
|
MF |
Ruslan Gilazev |
| 12 |
|
GK |
Yevgeniy Shiryayev |
| 14 |
 |
MF |
Yevgeniy Loshankov |
| 15 |
 |
DF |
Georgi Shashiashvili |
| 17 |
|
FW |
Serhiy Zghura |
|
|
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 21 |
|
DF |
Andrei Ostrovskiy |
| 22 |
|
GK |
Hennadiy Altman |
| 23 |
|
MF |
Pavel Kirilchik |
| 27 |
 |
FW |
Sergey Osipov |
| 28 |
|
DF |
Kakhaber Mjavanadze |
| 31 |
|
DF |
Gennady Nizhegorodov |
| 33 |
|
MF |
Serhiy Danylovsky |
| 35 |
|
MF |
Ilya Kandelaki |
| 37 |
|
DF |
Dmytro Gryshko |
| 43 |
|
MF |
Yevgeniy Lutsenko |
| 55 |
 |
FW |
Igor Bugaev |
| 88 |
|
MF |
Serhiy Shyschenko |
|
[edit] Famous players
[edit] Head coaches
 Nikita Simonyan (1980-1981)- Viktor Prokopenko (1989-1994)
- Leonid Buriak (1994-1998)
- Semen Altman (2003-)
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- ^ http://www.chernomorets.odessa.ua/?name=symbol
[edit] External links
Leonid Klimov
Shakhtar Donetsk
