Full name | Футбольний клуб Металіст 1925 Харків Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | |||
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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] | |||
General Director | Andriy Nedelin[2] | |||
Head coach | Patrick van Leeuwen | |||
League | Ukrainian First League | |||
2023–24 | Ukrainian Premier League, 16th of 16 (relegated) | |||
Website | https://metalist1925.com | |||
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Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (Ukrainian: Металіст 1925) is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Founded in 1925, 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.
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.
Metalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in the town of Vysokyi.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Domestic Cup | Other | Notes | |
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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 |
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.[16]
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.