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| Full name | FC Kolos Kovalivka | ||
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| Founded | 2012; 13 years ago (2012) | ||
| Ground | Kolos Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 5,000 | ||
| President | Andriy Zasukha[1] | ||
| General Director | Yevhen Yevseyev[1] | ||
| Head coach | Ruslan Kostyshyn (interim) | ||
| League | Ukrainian Premier League | ||
| 2024–25 | Ukrainian Premier League, 10th of 16 | ||
| Website | koloskovalivka | ||
FC Kolos Kovalivka (Ukrainian:Колос Ковалівка) is a Ukrainian professional football club from the village ofKovalivka,Kyiv Oblast which competes in theUkrainian Premier League, having been promoted from theUkrainian First League on the 8 June 2019 for the first time in their history. The club colors are white and black. The club has three football teams including women and youth.
The club has made a realcinderella story in 2020 transforming in five years from an amateur team into a continental challengers by advancing through the full league pyramid (4 tiers).[2] Outside of the league pyramid, the club also holds several honours of regional competitions forKyiv Oblast which it represents.[2]
The club is named after the Ukrainian sports societyKolos (Agro-Industrial Complex trade unions) that has existed since afterWorld War II. The main sponsor of the club is the Svitanok agrarian company (firm), formerly the Shchors collective farm (kolkhoz).
Before establishment of Kolos, the village of Kovalivka had a team Svitanok Kovalivka. In2008 it made appearance in theUkrainian Amateur Cup and was eliminated in Round of 16.
The club was established in 2012 and until 2015 it participated in championship ofKyiv Oblast playing its games in a neighboring town ofHlevakha. The team were champions three times from 2012 to 2014.[3]
The club in 2014 made their debut in theUkrainian Football Amateur League. Later that year after winning the Oleh Makarov Memorial Tournament, which is played in winter the head coachRuslan Kostyshyn announced that the club intended to go into professional football.[3] That year in 2015 after finishing third in theUkrainian Football Amateur League, the club obtained professional status and joined thePFL entering into theUkrainian Second League.[3]
In their first season the club won the championship and were promoted to theUkrainian First League.[4]
On 29 July 2020, FC Kolos in overtime beatFC Mariupol 1–0 and qualified for the European competitions. The head coachRuslan Kostyshyn was merely shocked stating that did not expect his club to place higher the 8th place.[5]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed inbold represented their countries while playing for Kolos Kovalivka.
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| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Ukrainian Cup | Other | Notes | |
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| 2014 | 4th (Championship among amateurs) | 2 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 21 | AC | 1⁄2 finals | ||
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| 2015 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 3 | 18 | |||||
| 2 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 5 | 16 | joined the Second League | |||||
| 2015–16 | 3rd (Second League) | 1 | 26 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 62 | 22 | 60 | 1⁄32 finals | Promoted | ||
| 2016–17 | 2nd (First League) | 5 | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 52 | 38 | 57 | 1⁄32 finals | |||
| 2017–18 | 5 | 34 | 19 | 4 | 11 | 39 | 30 | 61 | 1⁄16 finals | ||||
| 2018–19 | 2 | 28 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 45 | 18 | 54 | 1⁄32 finals | Promoted[9] | |||
| 2019–20 | 1st (Premier League) | 6 | 32 | 10 | 2 | 20 | 33 | 59 | 32 | 1⁄8 finals | |||
| 2020–21 | 4 | 26 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 36 | 26 | 41 | 1⁄4 finals | EL | 3QR | ||
| 2021–22 | 8 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 24 | 1⁄16 finals | ECL | 3QR | ||
| 2022–23 | 8 | 30 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 36 | 36 | None | ||||
| 2023–24 | 11 | 30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 22 | 31 | 32 | 1⁄16 finals | ||||
| 2024–25 | 10 | 25 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 22 | 22 | 27 | 1⁄16 finals | ||||
Kolos Kovalivka has participated in European competition since 2020, playing its first game againstAris Thessaloniki in the2020–21 UEFA Europa League. Participating in only two European seasons, Kolos played only at the qualification stage.
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 2020–21 | UEFA Europa League | 2Q |  Aris | — | 2–1 | — |
| 3Q |  Rijeka | — | 0–2 (a.e.t.) | — | ||
| 2021–22 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 3Q |  Shakhter Karagandy | 0–0 | 0–0 (a.e.t.) | 0–0(1–3p) |
Only two players scored for Kolos at the European competitions,Yevheniy Novak andDenys Antyukh.
Kolos fielded its reserve team in the2024–25 Ukrainian Second League.[10]
Since 2017 Kolos fields its under-19 squad in youth competitions. Also, in 2019–2021 there existed Kolos U-21 which competed in respective competitions of theUkrainian Premier League (UPL under-21).
In 2017 there were formed first junior squads of the Academy.[11] At first there were under-17 and under-15 squads which expanded substantially by 2021.
Kostyantyn Sakharov (2012 – 2014)Ruslan Kostyshyn (6 February 2014 – 29 August 2021)
Syarhey Kuznyatsow (interim) (29 August 2021 – November 2021)Yaroslav Vyshnyak (November 2021 – present)
