FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv


Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 2016, the club plays in Professional Football League of Ukraine. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity.
Bronze medalist of the Second League of Ukraine Championship 2017/18. Silver medalist of the Championship of Ukraine among amateurs 2016/17. In the 2018/19 season it performs to the Professional Football League of Ukraine.
Metalist 1925 is the second club in Ukraine to attend home matches in the championship.
The club ethos is the bet on local players. Thus, in the first team of Metalist 1925, 22 players are from Kharkiv. In the team application in the first part of the 2017/18 season, 24 players from 27 were from Kharkiv football schools, in the second part of the season - 21 players from 25, in the 2018/19 season - 23 players from 30.
Legally, Metallist 1925 is not the legal successor of Metalist, which was disbanded because his last owner, Serhiy Kurchenko, ceased to fund the club and refused to sell it to other potential investors.

History

It was established in the summer of 2016. As several football clubs in the league due to debts, the original club FC Metalist Kharkiv owned by Serhiy Kurchenko was refused a license in 2014 by the Football Federation of Ukraine and expelled from national competitions. The Kurchenko's Metalist continued to play in regional competitions as SC Metalist Kharkiv.
On the initiative of former FFU vice-president and head of Kharkiv Oblast Football Federation Storozhenko along with former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, a new club was created that received the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv. Metalist 1925 entered the 2016–17 Ukrainian Football Amateur League and won its group, but lost in the final match. In July 2017, the club was admitted to the Ukrainian Second League.
On 7 July 2017, Metalist 1925 presented a new logo.

Infrastructure

Metalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in a town of Vysokyi, yet some training it also conducts at H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.

Squad

Players

Administration and coaches

;Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship