FC Metalist Kharkiv
The FK Metalist Kharkiv (Ukrainian ФК Металіст Харків, Russian ФК Металлист Харьков / FK Metal List Kharkov, English FC Metalist Kharkiv ) is a Ukrainian football club from the city, in eastern town of Kharkiv.
- 3.1 National
- 3.2 International
History
Soviet Union
The club was as a works team of a local railway station in 1925 under the name of HPS ( ХПЗ - Харьковский паровозостроительный завод ) was founded. In 1938, the team took part in the first cup competition of the Soviet Union, before the team was recorded in 1946 under the name FK Kharkov tractor in the third-highest Soviet league.
For the 1960 season the team promotion to the top division of the Soviet Union, where the sixth space could be occupied in the 1961 season, before two years later the relegation followed in the second division. Until 1981, the club returned back to the highest Soviet league. Metalist Kharkiv in 1983 lost the final of the Soviet Cup 0-1 against Shakhtar Donetsk. 1988 handed it to date only major trophy when it was defeated in the final of the Soviet Cup Torpedo Moscow 2-0. After the eternal table of the Soviet League Metalist is below all Ukrainian teams who each took part in the Soviet league in 5th place, 19th overall place
Ukraine
The club was in 1992 one of the founding members of the newly created after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent Ukrainian independence Premjer - Liha of Lords. After the 18th place in the table from the 1993/94 season the team was relegated to the second-class Perscha Liha. Four seasons required the team 's re-emergence in the Ukrainian elite class. After the 2002/ 03 season of renewed crash followed in the second division. Since the 2004/05 season, the club plays in the Premjer - Liha. In 2004, took over the billionaire Olexandr Metalist Kharkiv Jaroslawskyj, who consistently built the team with generous cash donations. The team from Kharkiv Dynamo Kiev and Shakhtar Donetsk behind was a result, the third force in Ukrainian football, was from 2007 to 2012 six times in third place in the Ukrainian championship in a row and also occurs in the UEFA competitions increasingly successful.
In the 2008 /09 season the club was in the UEFA Cup. After surprisingly won the group victory against Galatasaray, Olympiakos Piraeus, Hertha BSC and Benfica in the group stage, but the club failed in the second round at Dynamo Kiev. In the next 2009/10 season the team from Kharkiv difference in the play-off round against SK Sturm Graz, which the team was not represented in the European Cup. Similarly, the club played in the 2010/11 season in the UEFA Europa League, as the team in the Round of after by a triumph against Omonia Nicosia for the Europa League qualifying (first European Cup participation after one year of abstinence ) and in the group stage number two finished behind PSV Eindhoven and before Sampdoria and Debrecen VSC, Bayer 04 Leverkusen was inferior. Also in the 2011/12 season the team played in Kharkiv in the UEFA Europa League and had been there for a first place in the group stage against AZ Alkmaar, Austria Wien and Malmo FF and triumphs against FC Red Bull Salzburg and Olympiakos Piraeus, for the quarter-finals, which was, however, lost to the Portuguese representative Sporting Lisbon, qualified - the biggest international success of the club's history.
In December 2012, selling club president Olexandr Metalist Kharkiv Jaroslawskyj to the Ukrainian company GasUkraina. During his tenure, Jaroslawskyj had invested a total of 440 million euros in the club and in the preparation of the 2012 European Football Championship. GasUkrainas CEO Serhiy Kurtschenko assumes the office of Olexandr Jaroslawskyj as CEO of Metalist.
In the season 2012/13 the team from Kharkiv celebrated by winning the first runner-up the biggest success in club history. As Metalist in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League was 2013/14 prevail against PAOK Thessaloniki, the team qualified for the athletic play-off round and as an opponent of FC Schalke 04 was randomly assigned. However, the UEFA had already been opened against Metalist Kharkiv due to involvement of the former sporting director Yevgeny Krasnikow in a match-fixing scandal in 2008, disciplinary proceedings and on August 14, 2013 disqualified the Appeal to UEFA the club for all UEFA club competitions of the Season 2013 / 14th The appeal of Metalist against this decision at the International Sports Court was dismissed.
Stadium
The home ground of the association is the built in 1926 and most recently the European Football Championship 2012 modernized for 75 million euros Metalist Stadium, which holds 38,633 spectators. In August 2013, the club acquired the stadium for 64 million euros from the Kharkiv Oblast.
Achievements
National
- Runner-up in the Premjer - Liha: 2013
- Soviet Cup winner: 1988
Internationally
- Knockout round of the UEFA Cup: 2008/ 09
- Quarter-finals of the UEFA Europa League: 2011/12
Current squad
Status: May 2013
Well-known former players
Ukraine and CIS
- Lithuania Vidas Alunderis
- Soviet Union Volodymyr Bessonov
- Soviet Union Leonid Buriak
- Marko Devic Ukraine
- Ukraine Olexandr Hladkyj
- Ukraine Olexandr coachman
- Ukraine Denis Ljaschko
- Ukraine Oleksandr Yakovenko
- Ukraine Andriy Worobej
- Russia Roman Chagba
Europe
- Alexei Eremenko Finland
- Macedonia Vlade Lazarevski
- Poland Marcin Burkhardt
- Poland Seweryn Gancarczyk
- Romania Flavius Stoican
- Serbia Aleksandar Trišović
- Slovakia Lukáš Štetina
South America
- Brazil Jajá
- Brazil Marcos Paulo Alves
- Brazil Taison
Africa
- Morocco Hicham Mahdoufi
- Sani Kaita Nigeria
- Senegal Issa Ndoye
Well-known former coach
- Soviet Union Yuri Voinov
- Ukraine Oleksandr Sawarow
- Ukraine Mikhail Fomenko
- Ukraine Hennadij Lytowtschenko