FC Metalurh Donetsk

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Metalurh Donetsk

Full name

Football Club Metalurh Donetsk

Founded

17 June 1996

Ground

Metalurh Stadium

Capacity

5,094

President

Serhiy Taruta

Head coach

Sergei Tashuyev

League

Ukrainian Premier League

2012–13

5th

Website

Club home page

Home colours

Away colours

Football Club Metalurh Donetsk (Ukrainian: Футбо́льний Клуб Металу́рг Доне́цьк) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Donetsk.

History

Pre-history

Main article: FC Shakhtar Shakhtarsk

Metalurh takes its roots from the Football Club Antratsyt Kirovske that was allowed to participate on the non-amateur level once Ukraine attained its independence. After a disappointing first season in the Second League, in the 1993 season Antratsyt placed third in the Third League and was promoted back to the Second League. Once there, the club relocated to Shakhtarsk and changed its name first to Shakhtar, but then to FC Medita Shahtarsk.

Metalurh Donetsk

A couple of years later, the club was reorganized again and renamed to, already widely accepted, Football Club Metalurh Donetsk. The club was purchased by ISD, Ukrainian industrial corporation owned by Serhiy Taruta, one of the most wealthy businessmen in Ukraine and Europe. After placing second in the Druha Liha Group C, the club gained the promotion to the Persha Liha. In the next season, 1996–97, Metalurh won the Persha Liha championship and were promoted to the Vyscha Liha.

The club successfully started in the Top League and also improved significantly at the domestic Cup competition. Metalurh has managed to obtain few bronze medals in the League and since 1998 made through to at least the quarter-finals of the Ukrainian Cup.

Throughout majority of the first decade of the new millennium, Metalurh's owners developed a close working relationship with well known Ukrainian agent Dmytro Sylyuk, who soon became club's acting chairman and has gained a lot of bad publicity for bringing numerous foreign players into the club. Also, while working with Metalurh, Selyuk has lived in Barcelona and was a rare visitor to Ukraine. For several seasons, the foreigners, Selyuk's clients, have outnumbered domestic players. Many of the signed players were brought in without manager's consent, and a lot have been given an overly generous pay; among those were Yaya Touré, Andrés Mendoza, and Jordi Cruyff. After Sylyuk's questionable tactics, he was dismissed from his position and majority of the players brought in by him also left. As it appeared later, many of them have had contracts with Sylyuk, and not directly with the club.

After the era of Sylyuk ended, Metalurh's performance declined and a hunt for medals turned into a struggle for survival. However, in 2008, Bulgarian specialist Nikolay Kostov was brought in to rebuild the team. In his first season with the club, Kostov turned Metalurh's performance around and the club came fourth in the league, which granted them a spot in newly formed UEFA Europa League.

Stadium

Metalurh has its own small stadium named after the club, Metalurh Stadium. For most domestic matches the club plays at this stadium, which has a capacity barely in excess of 5,000. For games expected to draw a significantly larger crowd, Metalurh plays at Shakhtar Stadium, owned by Shakhtar Donetsk. The Shakhtar Stadium is mostly used for the European competitions. A new stadium with a capacity of 17,500 is under construction in Makiivka, near Donetsk. It will be the new home ground of Metalurh Donetsk.

Rivalry

Metalurh's top rivals are the neighbor club and one of Ukraine's most successful teams, Shakhtar Donetsk. The two clubs have not only had a close history since formation of Metalurh, but the club has also played at Shakhtar's former venue, Shakhtar Stadium. The games between the two clubs have been dubbed by the fans and the media as Donbass Derby, although Shakhtar has been dominant in the rivalry for a decade from 1996 and up until 2006, winning all 18 games between them, matches between the two have always been of a major significance to fans.

Honours

Ukrainian First League: 1

1996–97 Champions

National Cup: 2

2009-10, 2011-12 Runners-Up

Super Cup: 1

2011-12 Runners-Up

Football kits and sponsors

Years^[1]	Football kit	Shirt sponsor
2000-2001	umbro	РУТЕКС^[2]
2001-2002	lotto	-
2001-2002	umbro/adidas	ИСD
2002-2003	adidas/lotto
2003-2007	lotto
2007-2009	puma
2009-2014	umbro

Players

Current squad

As of 2 September 2013^[3]^[4]

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

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Artem Baranovskyi
4	DF	Vyacheslav Checher (captain)
5	DF	Volodymyr Polyovyi
7	DF	Mykola Morozyuk
8	MF	Gregory Nelson
9	MF	Đorđe Lazić
10	FW	Júnior Moraes
11	MF	Danilo
12	GK	Oleksandr Bandura
13	MF	Constantinos Makrides
14	MF	Alexandre
15	DF	Georgiy Zotov
19	FW	Daniel Oliveira
23	DF	Oleksandr Nasonov

No.	Position	Player
24	DF	Darren O'Dea
26	MF	Kyrylo Nesterenko
33	MF	Ruslan Mamutov
35	MF	Yevhen Troyanovskyi
36	MF	Mykyta Polyulyakh
44	MF	Vasyl Pryima
50	FW	Serhiy Bolbat (on loan from Shakhtar)
77	FW	Maksym Dehtyarev
79	GK	Yuriy Pankiv
90	MF	Vitaliy Tymofiyenko
	MF	Sergey Karetnik (on loan from Kuban)
	MF	Roger Cañas
	MF	Gevorg Ghazaryan