| Full name | Football Club Chornomorets Odesa | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Moryaky (Sailors), Odesyts (Odessa-residents) | ||
| Founded | 26 March 1936 | ||
| Ground | Chornomorets Stadium (Capacity: 34,164) |
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| Chairman | Leonid Klimov | ||
| Head Coach | Roman Hryhorchuk | ||
| League | Ukrainian Premier League | ||
| 2010–11 | Ukrainian First League, 2nd (promoted) | ||
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FC Chornomorets Odesa is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Odessa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. During the reconstruction (2009-2011), the team played in the 4,610 Spartak Stadium. The club was officially formed in 1936 as Dynamo,[1] but after a number of name and management changes, it emerged under its current name in 1958.[2]
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At the beginning of the 20th century, in Odessa, within limits of Shevchenko Park, a construction started of what was supposed to become a lake. However, after the trench for the lake was dug out, the funding stopped and so did the construction. Soon the hole began to serve as a field for one of city's non-league teams. As the hole resembled a shape of the Black Sea, that was the nickname given to the field, and the team was named Chornomorets, which means "Black Sea man". And although that team is unrelated to the today's club, it was the first team in Odessa to play under that name.
The club was a founding member of the Ukrainian Premier League, winning the Ukrainian Cup and finishing 5th in the inaugural 1992 season. Chornomorets finished 3rd the next two seasons and 2nd during the following two seasons. They also won another domestic Cup in 1994. The club’s most successful spell was achieved under the guidance of Viktor Prokopenko, and later under Leonid Buryak. At the end of the 1997–98 season, following big financial troubles and the sale of a number of leading players, the club was relegated to the First League. They won promotion the following 1998–99 season, but finished in the second last place next year and were relegated again. Chornomorets came back up again for the 2002–03 season and enjoyed several decent seasons in the Premier League. They finished third in the 2005–06 season and took part in the 2006–07 UEFA Cup tournament.
Chornomorets were deducted 6 points by FIFA on November 6, 2008. It was confirmed by Ukrainian Premier League on March 2, 2009.[3] The club managed to finish the 2008–09 season in 10th place despite the deduction. The 2009–10 season started badly with a 5:0 loss to FC Dynamo Kyiv and a poor run of form that saw the team finish the first half of the season in 13th place, just two spots away from the relegation zone. The club was relegated to the First League at the end of the season. It took, however, just a year for Chornomorets to return to the Ukrainian top flight for the 2011–12 season.
Winners
Runners-Up
3rd Place/Semi-finalists
Squad is given according to the club’s official website (as of September 10, 2011).
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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For recent transfers, see List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2011 and List of Ukrainian football transfers winter 2010-2011.
Information from the club’s official website statistics page
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| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Domestic Cup | Europe | Notes | |
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| 1992 | 1st | 5 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 30 | 12 | 35 | Winner | yielded to PFC CSKA Moscow in 1/4 finals of Soviet Cup |
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| 1992–93 | 1st | 3 | 30 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 31 | 12 | 38 | 1/16 finals | CWC | 1st round | |
| 1993–94 | 1st | 3 | 34 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 52 | 23 | 48 | Winner | |||
| 1994–95 | 1st | 2 | 34 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 62 | 29 | 73 | 1/2 finals | CWC | 1st round | |
| 1995–96 | 1st | 2 | 34 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 56 | 25 | 73 | 1/16 finals | UC | 2nd round | |
| 1996–97 | 1st | 7 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 36 | 31 | 42 | 1/4 finals | UC | 1st round | |
| 1997–98 | 1st | 15 | 30 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 31 | 39 | 32 | 1/4 finals | Relegated | ||
| 1998–99 | 2nd | 2 | 38 | 25 | 4 | 9 | 77 | 38 | 79 | 1/64 finals | Promoted | ||
| 1999-00 | 1st | 15 | 30 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 20 | 50 | 26 | 1/16 finals | Relegated | ||
| 2000–01 | 2nd | 6 | 34 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 44 | 28 | 57 | 1/8 finals | |||
| 2001–02 | 2nd | 2 | 34 | 21 | 4 | 9 | 48 | 21 | 67 | 1/16 finals | Promoted | ||
| 2002–03 | 1st | 8 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 31 | 45 | 34 | 1/16 finals | |||
| 2003–04 | 1st | 5 | 30 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 38 | 33 | 45 | 1/2 finals | |||
| 2004–05 | 1st | 6 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 29 | 29 | 42 | 1/16 finals | |||
| 2005–06 | 1st | 3 | 30 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 36 | 31 | 45 | 1/16 finals | |||
| 2006–07 | 1st | 6 | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 36 | 33 | 41 | 1/16 finals | UC | 1st round | |
| 2007–08 | 1st | 7 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 27 | 33 | 38 | 1/2 finals | IC | 3rd round | |
| 2008–09 | 1st | 10 | 30 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 34 | 42 | 32 | 1/16 finals | (−6) disciplinary[3] | ||
| 2009–10 | 1st | 15 | 30 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 21 | 44 | 24 | 1/16 finals | Relegated | ||
| 2010–11 | 2nd | 2 | 34 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 53 | 26 | 65 | 1/16 finals | Promoted | ||
| 2011–12 | 1st | 1/4 finals | |||||||||||
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