FC Metalist-2 Kharkiv

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FC Metalist-2 Kharkiv was a Ukrainian football team based in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The club has been featured regularly in the Ukrainian Second Division it serves as a junior team for the FC Metalist Kharkiv franchise. Like most tributary teams, the best players are sent up to the senior team, meanwhile developing other players for further call-ups.

The FC Avanhard Merefa that represented the Kharkiv Glass Factory was promoted to the Ukrainian Second League in 1996. After bankruptcy of the factory, the club was merged with FC Metalist Kharkiv and moved to Kharkiv initially as Avanhard-Metalist Kharkiv. The next season the club was officially renamed into Metalist-2 Kharkiv.

With introduction of competitions for reserves teams of the Higher League and placing 14th out of 15 team in the Second League competition, the team was withdrawn out of the league.

League history

SeasonDiv.Pos.Pl.WDLGSGAP Domestic Cup EuropeNotes
1997team created based on FC Avanhard-Metalist (formerly FC Avanhard Merefa)
1997–98 3rd
(Druha Liha)
133084183952281/128 finals
1998–99 4261538261948
1999–2000 11268513213129
2000–01 93011712394340
2001–02 103412913424145
2002–03 7289109322437
2003–04 5301749552755
2003–04 5301749552755
2004–05 14286616284924dissolved