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| Full name | Football Club Metalurh Donetsk | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Methadone (MetaDon) | ||
| Founded | 17 June 1996; 29 years ago (1996-06-17) | ||
| Dissolved | 10 July 2015[1] | ||
| Ground | Metalurh Stadium (until 2014) Obolon Arena (2014–15 season; due towar in Donbas) | ||
| Capacity | 5,094 | ||
| President | Serhiy Taruta | ||
| League | Ukrainian Premier League | ||
| 2014–15 | 10th | ||
| Website | metallurg.donetsk.ua (archived) | ||
Football Club Metalurh Donetsk (Ukrainian:Футбо́льний клуб «Металу́рг» Доне́цьк,pronounced[metɐˈlurɦdoˈnɛtsʲk]) was a Ukrainian professionalfootball club based inDonetsk that went bankrupt in July 2015.[2]
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Football came to the Donetsk region in the time of theRussian Empire when the industrialization of the country began. Numerous foreigners, particularly British workers, were forming their own football teams. In September 1911, at the factory ofNovorossiysk Association (currently the Donetsk Steel Works Factory – DMZ) owned byJohn Hughes has created theYuzovka Sports Society (YuSO) which contained a football club as well. The football club became one of the founders of the Donbas football league based out ofKramatorsk in 1913. The football team existed until 1919 and was liquidated due to theRussian Civil War. In the 1920s, the factory (known at time as Lenin Steel Works) revived the club as part of its ownLenin Sports Club which later carried the name ofFC Metalists Stalino. One of the most prominent players of that period wasViktor Shylovsky[3] who later became famous, however, playing forDynamo Kyiv.
In 1929 based on the team in Stalino (todayDonetsk) was createdFC Dynamo Stalino. In 1936 based on FC Dynamo Stalino andFC Dynamo Horlivka there was created a united team of DonbasVuhilnyky Stalino that participated in aspring football championship of 1936 in Group V (precursor of theSoviet Second League). During the season the club moved to Stalino (Donetsk) and changed its name toFC Stakhanovets Stalino.
Metalurh takes its roots from theFootball Club Prometei Shakhtarsk that was allowed to participate on the non-amateur level once Ukraine attained its independence. After a disappointing first season in theSecond League, in the 1993 seasonPromotei placed fifth in theThird League and was promoted back to theSecond League when the third place Antratsyt withdrew from competitions. Due to being sponsored by a Medita health clinic of Oleksandr Opryshchenko, in 1993 the club was renamed asMedita Shakhtarsk. However, in 1995 the club's owner was killed and Promotei returned under ownership of the state coal-mining company "Shakhtarantratsyt" under the name ofShakhtar Shakhtarsk.
In 1996 a team of theDonetsk Metallurgical Factory replaced the insolvent FC Shakhtar Shakhtarsk during the 1995–96 season under the name of Shakhtar. In summer 1996 the Donetsk Regional Football Federation agreed to hand over the Shakhtar's past season achievements to the newly formed and already widely acceptedFootball Club Metalurh Donetsk. After placing second in theDruha Liha Group C, the club gained the promotion to thePersha Liha. In the next season, 1996–97, Metalurh won thePersha Liha championship and were promoted to theVyscha Liha.
The club successfully started in theTop League and also improved significantly at the domestic Cup competition. Metalurh has obtained a few bronze medals in the league and since 1998 made through to at least the quarter-finals of theUkrainian Cup. The club financially struggled between 1999 and 2001 being kept afloat by individual efforts of Mykhailo Lyashko andVladyslav Helzin, who both in 2001 decided to create their own club (seeFC Olimpik Donetsk).
In 2001 Metalurh was purchased byISD,Ukrainian industrial corporation owned bySerhiy Taruta, one of the most wealthy businessmen inUkraine andEurope. 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 who gained much bad publicity for bringing so many foreign players into the club that they outnumbered domestic players. Many were brought in without the manager's consent, and were given overly generous pay,[according to whom?] among themYaya Touré,Andrés Mendoza, andJordi Cruyff. Furthermore, while working with Metalurh, Selyuk lived inBarcelona and was a rare visitor to Ukraine. After Sylyuk's questionable signings, he was dismissed from his position and the majority of the players brought in by him also left. It later appeared that many of them 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 specialistNikolay Kostov was brought in to rebuild the team. In his first season with the club, Kostov turned Metalurh's performance around and the club finished fourth in the league, which won them a spot in newly formedUEFA Europa League.
Because of thewar situation in theEast Ukraine, on 17 June 2015, theIndustrial Union of Donbas decided to merge both its clubs FC Metalurh Donetsk andFC Stal Kamianske.[2] The new club was to be primarily based on theKamianske team and to continue its participation under the name ofFC Stal Kamianske.[2] A number of Metalurh players, includingĐorđe Lazić,Gabriel Araújo Carvalho, andOleksandr Bandura, as well as members of the club's staff, such asErik van der Meer and Vardan Israeltian, moved to Stal. However, on 11 July 2015 Metalurh declared bankruptcy, citing the economic difficulties caused by the fighting,[2] although FC Stal Kamianske did indeedtake its place in theUkrainian Premier League.[2]
Metalurh has its own small stadium named after the club,Metalurh Stadium. For most domestic matches the club played at this stadium, which has a capacity barely in excess of 5,000. For games expected to draw a significantly larger crowd, Metalurh played atShakhtar Stadium, owned byShakhtar Donetsk, and mostly used for European competitions. A new stadium for Metalurh with a capacity of 17,500 was planned to be built inMakiivka, nearDonetsk.
In the 2014–15 season, the club played their home games atObolon Arena in Kyiv due to thewar in Donbas.
Metalurh's top rival is the neighboring club, and one of Ukraine's most successful teams,Shakhtar Donetsk. The two clubs have not only had a close history since the formation of Metalurh, but Metalurh has also played home games at Shakhtar's former venue,Shakhtar Stadium. The games between the two clubs have been dubbed by the fans and the media as theDonbas Derby. Shakhtar has been dominant in the rivalry from 1996 to 2006, winning all 18 matches between them.
| Years[4] | Football kit | Shirt sponsor |
|---|---|---|
| 2000–2001 | Umbro | РУТЕКС[5] |
| 2001–2002 | Lotto | – |
| 2001–2002 | Umbro | ИСД |
| 2002–2003 | Adidas | |
| 2003–2007 | Lotto | |
| 2007–2009 | Puma | |
| 2009–2014 | Umbro |
Information since Ukrainian independence
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Domestic Cup | Europe | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995–96 | 3rd | 2 | 38 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 53 | 27 | 94 | 1/32 finals | Promoted (in first half asShakhtar Shakhtarsk) | ||
| 1996–97 | 2nd | 1 | 46 | 32 | 5 | 9 | 77 | 39 | 101 | 1/16 finals | Promoted | ||
| 1997–98 | 1st | 6 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 28 | 27 | 40 | Semi-finals | |||
| 1998–99 | 14 | 30 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 51 | 28 | ¼ finals | ||||
| 1999–00 | 7 | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 39 | 35 | 43 | ¼ finals | ||||
| 2000–01 | 5 | 26 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 30 | 24 | 42 | Semi-finals | ||||
| 2001–02 | 3 | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 38 | 28 | 42 | Semi-finals | ||||
| 2002–03 | 3 | 30 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 44 | 26 | 60 | ¼ finals | UC | 1R | Lost to Werder Bremen 10–2 | |
| 2003–04 | 4 | 30 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 51 | 34 | 52 | ¼ finals | UC | 1R | Lost to Parma 4–1 | |
| 2004–05 | 3 | 30 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 38 | 35 | 49 | ¼ finals | UC | 1R | Lost toLazio 6–0 | |
| 2005–06 | 9 | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 35 | 35 | 39 | Semi-finals | UC | 1R | Lost to PAOK 3–3 (away goal) | |
| 2006–07 | 9 | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 26 | 35 | 36 | ¼ finals | ||||
| 2007–08 | 12 | 30 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 34 | 39 | 31 | Semi-finals | ||||
| 2008–09 | 4 | 30 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 36 | 27 | 49 | ¼ finals | ||||
| 2009–10 | 8 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 41 | 33 | 40 | Runners Up | EL | Play-off round | Lost to Austria Vienna 5–4 (aet) | |
| 2010–11 | 8 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 36 | 45 | 38 | 1/16 finals | ||||
| 2011–12 | 7 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 35 | 34 | 42 | Runners Up | ||||
| 2012–13 | 5 | 30 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 45 | 35 | 49 | 1/16 finals | EL | 3rd qual. round | Lost to Tromsø 2–1 | |
| 2013–14 | 6 | 28 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 45 | 42 | 43 | 1/16 finals | EL | 3rd qual. round | Lost to Kukësi 2–1 | |
| 2014–15 | 10 | 26 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 38 | 22 | 1/16 finals | Excluded from European competitions,[6] −6 points | |||
Metalurh Donetsk made its debut in European tournaments at the2002–03 UEFA Cup, losing in the first round toWerder Bremen. The club has been back to theUEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League a total of seven times, the most successful being a run to the playoff round of the2009–10 UEFA Europa League.
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002–03 | UEFA Cup | First round | Werder Bremen | 2–2 | 0–8 | 2–10 |  |
| 2003–04 | UEFA Cup | First Round | Parma F.C. | 1–1 | 0–3 | 1–4 | |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | Second Qualifying Round |  FC Tiraspol | 3–0 | 2–1 | 5–1 |  |
| First Round | S.S. Lazio | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–6 | | ||
| 2005–06 | UEFA Cup | Second Qualifying Round |  FC Sopron | 2–1 | 3–0 | 5–1 | |
| First Round | PAOK | 2–2 | 1–1 | 3–3 (a) | | ||
| 2009–10 | UEFA Europa League | Second Qualifying Round |  MTZ-RIPO Minsk | 3–0 | 2–1 | 5–1 | |
| Third Qualifying Round |  NK Interblock | 2–0 | 3–0 | 5–0 | | ||
| Playoff Round | FK Austria Wien | 2–2 | 2–3(a.e.t.) | 4–5 | | ||
| 2012–13 | UEFA Europa League | Second Qualifying Round |  FK Čelik Nikšić | 7–0 | 4–2 | 11–2 | |
| Third Qualifying Round | Tromsø IL | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | | ||
| 2013–14 | UEFA Europa League | Third Qualifying Round | FK Kukësi | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | |
As of 06.06.2015 (no ranking since 2015), Source:[1]
| Rank | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 158 |  Konyaspor | 7.980 |
| 159 |  FC Oleksandriya | 10.575 |
| 160 | FC Metalurh Donetsk | 7.786 |
| 161 |  C.S. Marítimo | 7.783 |
| 162 |  Gabala FK | 7.650 |
Yevhen Korol (1996–97)Volodymyr Onyshchenko (1997–98)Volodymyr Havrylov (1998)Ihor Yavorskyi (1999)Semen Altman (6 Aug 1999 – 31 Dec 2002)Oleksandr Sevidov (1 Jan 2003 – 29 July 2003)
Wim Vrösch(interim) (2003–04)Ton Caanen (1 Jan 2004 – 30 June 2004)
Slavoljub Muslin (1 July 2004 – 11 March 2005)Vitaliy Shevchenko(interim) (11 March 2005 – 22 June 2005)Oleksandr Sevidov (1 July 2005 – 13 March 2006)Stepan Matviyiv (14 March 2006 – 30 June 2006)
Pichi Alonso (2006)Co Adriaanse (12 Oct 2006 – 17 May 2007)
Jos Daerden (18 May 2007 – 3 Dec 2007)Serhiy Yashchenko(interim) (7 Dec 2007 – 8 April 2008)
Nikolay Kostov (8 April 2008 – 13 Nov 2010)
Andrei Gordeyev (12 Jan 2011 – 3 May 2011)Volodymyr Pyatenko(interim) (6 May 2011 – 23 Aug 2012)Yuriy Maksymov (23 Aug 2012 – 7 Aug 2013)Sergei Tashuyev (7 Aug 2013 – 22 May 2014)Volodymyr Pyatenko (16 June 2014 – 20 June 2015)
