FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv

For the original football club which was founded in 1925, see FC Metalist Kharkiv.

Metalist 1925 Kharkiv

Full name	Футбольний клуб Металіст 1925 Харків Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Nickname(s)	Zhovto-syni (Yellow-blue)
Founded	17 August 2016
Ground	OSC Metalist Arena Livyi Bereh
Capacity	40,003
Owner	[1] [2] Volodymyr Nosov [2] [2]
Chairman	Anton Ivanov [2]
Head coach	Patrick van Leeuwen
League	Ukrainian First League
2023–24	Ukrainian Premier League, 16th of 16 (relegated)
Website	https://metalist1925.com
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (Ukrainian : Металіст 1925) is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Founded in 2016, the club plays in the Ukrainian First League. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity.

Metalist Kharkiv was promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League after finishing in third place in the 2020–21 Ukrainian First League. They earned promotion on two previous occasions: placing second in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Football Amateur League and placing third in the 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League.

History

The club was established in the summer of 2016 after the original club, FC Metalist Kharkiv, was refused a license by the Football Federation of Ukraine and expelled from national competitions.^{[ citation needed ]}

On the initiative of former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, among others, a new club was created under the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv. ^[3] It entered the Ukrainian Football Amateur League for the 2016–17 season and earned promotion to the Ukrainian Second League the next year. ^[4]

In 2018 the club was promoted to the Ukrainian First League and from 2021 it is playing in the highest tier of the Ukrainian assotiation football – at the Ukrainian Premier League.

Infrastructure

Metalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in the town of Vysokyi.

Squad

Players

As of 15 March 2025 ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   UKR Oleh Mozil 2 DF   UKR Dmytro Kapinus 3 DF   UKR Vasyl Kravets 5 MF   BRA Pedro Arthur(on loan from Concórdia) 6 MF   ZAM Golden Mafwenta (on loan from Vyškov) 7 FW   BRA Ari Moura 8 MF   UKR Samuel Obinaya 9 FW   UKR Andriy Boryachuk 10 MF   UKR Vladlen Yurchenko 11 MF   UKR Vyacheslav Churko 12 GK   UKR Ihor Potimkov 13 DF   UKR Volodymyr Salyuk 14 MF   UKR Ivan Lytvynenko 15 DF   UKR Oleksandr Chornomorets (on loan from Vorskla Poltava) 17 DF   UKR Ihor Kurylo 19 MF   ALB Ermir Rashica 20 DF   UKR Dmytro Sabiyev 21 MF   UKR Denys Nahnoynyi

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 FW   UKR Vladyslav Dmytrenko 23 GK   UKR Yaroslav Protsenko 25 GK   UKR Maksym Kovalenko 27 MF   UKR Dmytro Kravchenko 28 FW   UKR Ramik Hadzhyiev 29 DF   UKR Maksym Zhychykov 30 GK   UKR Danylo Varakuta 31 FW   UKR Serhiy Sten 32 DF   UKR Maksym Imerekov (captain) 40 DF   UKR Oleksiy Husyev(on loan from Dynamo Kyiv) 45 MF   UKR Vladyslav Kalitvintsev 74 DF   UKR Ihor Snurnitsyn 77 FW   UKR Vladyslav Buhay (on loan from Zorya Luhansk) 79 FW   UKR Andriy Chyruk 80 FW   NGA Christian Mba 91 MF   UKR Matviy Panchenko

Other players under contract

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF   UKR Illya Krupskyi (at Vorskla Poltava until 30 June 2025) — DF   UKR Yevhen Pasich (at Vorskla Poltava until 30 June 2025) — DF   UKR Yuriy Potimkov (at Kudrivka until 30 June 2025)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   UKR Ihor Kohut (at Chornomorets Odesa until 30 June 2025) — FW   GHA Raymond Owusu (at Horn until 30 June 2025) — FW   UKR Oleksiy Sydorov (at Kolos Kovalivka until 30 June 2025)

Administration and coaches

Administration

• Owner – LLC FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv ^[8]

Current staff (senior team)

• Head coach – Patrick van Leeuwen
• Head coach assistant – Oleksandr Chyzhov
• Assistant coach – Maksym Tsvirenko
• Assistant coach – Ori David
• Assistant coach – Dmytro Kabachok
• Goalkeeper coach – Serhiy Volvakov
• Fitness Coach – Valeriy Blokhin
• Fitness Coach – Andriy Shabalin ^[9]

General Directors

• 2016–2020 Volodymyr Linke
• 2020–2023 Yaroslav Vdovenko ^{[10] [11]}
• 2023–2024 Andriy Niedielin
• 2024–present Anton Ivanov

Presidents and vice-presidents

• 2023–present Volodymyr Nosov ^[12]
  • 2023–present Yuriy Korotun

Managers

• Oleksandr Pryzetko (16 Aug 2016 – 26 September 2017) ^[13]
• Vyacheslav Khruslov (caretaker) (26 September 2017 – 28 September 2017)
• Oleksandr Ivanov (28 September 2017 – 3 May 2018)
• Serhiy Ralyuchenko (caretaker) (3 May 2018 – 8 May 2018)
• Serhiy Valyayev (8 May 2018 – 11 September 2018)
• Oleksandr Horyainov (caretaker) (11 September 2018 – 10 December 2018)
• Oleksandr Horyainov (10 December 2018 – 4 June 2019)
• Andriy Demchenko (4 June 2019 – 21 July 2020)
• Vyacheslav Khruslov (caretaker) (21 July 2020 – 21 August 2020)
• Valeriy Kriventsov (21 August 2020 – 22 October 2022)
• Edmar (caretaker) (23 October 2022 – 5 November 2023)
• Oleh Holodyuk (caretaker) (5 November 2023 – 20 December 2023)
• Viktor Skrypnyk (20 December 2023 – 28 July 2024)
• Serhiy Karpenko (caretaker) (28 July 2024 – 20 August 2024)
• Patrick van Leeuwen (20 August 2024 – present) ^[14]

Honours

• Ukrainian First League
  • Third place (1): 2020–21
• Ukrainian Second League
  • Third place (1): 2017–18
• Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship
  • Runners-up (1): 2016–17

Seasons

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Other		Notes
2016–17	4th (Championship among amateurs)	1	20	13	4	3	46	18	43		LF	Lost final	Group winner, Promoted
2017–18	3rd "B" (Second League)	2	33	21	4	8	77	27	67	1⁄64 finals			Promoted
2018–19	2nd (First League)	4	28	15	6	7	35	20	51	1⁄16 finals
2019–20		7	30	15	6	9	44	34	51	1⁄32 finals
2020–21		3	30	16	8	6	36	22	56	1⁄64 finals			Promoted
2021–22	1st (Premier League)	10	18	6	1	11	17	29	19	1⁄8 finals
2022–23		12	30	6	14	10	23	42	32	Not played
2023–24										1⁄8 finals

Women, reserves teams and academy

Metalist 1925-2

It was announced that Metalist 1925 will be fielding its second squad in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Second League. Metalist 1925-2 would be formed based on Metalist 1925 under-19 team that competed at the UPL U-19 competitions. ^[15]

Metalist 1925 (women)

Main article: FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (women)

Created in 2006 as Zhilstroi-1 Kharkiv (Zhytlobud-1), in 2024 the women team from Kharkiv was fully integrated by Metalist 1925 as its women team. Zhilstroi-1/Zhytlobud-1 is a leader of the women club's football in Ukraine.

References

1. Неделин: Околофутбольное чудо произошло, угроза исчезновения Металлиста 1925 прошла. sportarena.com. 31 August 2023
2. Кому официально принадлежат украинские клубы. ukrrudprom.com. 12 November 2021
3. "Our club was created by fans for fans". In Kharkiv they went the other way ("Наш клуб создали болельщики для болельщиков". В Харькове пошли другим путем). UA-Football. 5 August 2017.
4. "Металлист 1925 стал профессиональным футбольным клубом". 16 May 2017.
5. "Основний склад".
6. "Metalist 1925".
7. "Професіональна футбольна ліга України". Archived from the original on 22 October 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
8. "Металіст 1925 став професійним футбольним клубом". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 16 May 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
9. "Тренери команди".
10. "Гендиректор Металіста 1925: Зауважень до тренерського штабу Кривенцова немає". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 30 December 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
11. "Ярослав Вдовенко залишає "Металіст 1925"". metalist1925.com (in Ukrainian). 22 November 2023. Archived from the original on 3 October 2024. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
12. "Нові лідери, нові перспективи: Володимир Носов стає президентом ФК "Металіст 1925"". metalist1925.com (in Ukrainian). 23 November 2023. Archived from the original on 3 October 2024. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
13. Oleksandr Pryzetko is a head coach of Metalist 1925
14. "Патрік ван Леувен - головний тренер "Металіста 1925"" (in Ukrainian). metalist1925.com. 4 September 2024. Archived from the original on 5 September 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
15. "У Другій лізі нового сезону виступлять 8 нових резервних команд: ми дізналися, хто їх очолить і де вони будуть грати – є сюрпризи" [In the new season's Second League 8 new reserve teams will participate: we discovered who will manage them and where they will play, there are surprises]. ukrfootball.ua (in Ukrainian). 13 June 2024. Archived from the original on 30 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.

External links

• Official website
• “Ми більше не хочемо президента-олігарха“. Сергій Стороженко про Металіст 1925. UA-Football (www.ua-football.com). 29 May 2017