FC Shakhtar Donetsk

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Shakhtar Donetsk

Full name

FC Shakhtar Donetsk

Nickname(s)

Girnyky ("Miners"), Kroty ("Moles")

Founded

1936

Ground

RSK Olimpiyskiy

Capacity

25,813

Chairman

Rinat Akhmetov

Executive director
Head coach

Viktor Prokopenko

Mircea Lucescu

League

Ukrainian Premier League

2005–06

Ukrainian Premier League, 1st





Home colours





Away colours

FC Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukrainian: Шахтар Донецьк, also known as Shakhtyor Donetsk; Russian: Шахтёр Донецк) is a Ukrainian professional football club, playing in the city of Donetsk, the capital of Donetsk region.

1 History overview
- 1.1 Stadium
- 1.2 Logo history
2 Honors
3 Squad
- 3.1 Out on loan
4 Famous former players
5 Head coaches
6 UEFA Ranking
7 Club song
8 External links
9 See also

[edit] History overview

The team has played under the following names: Stakhanovets (1936-1946), Shakhtyor (1946-1992) and FC Shakhtar (since 1992).

The club was originally formed in May 1936 and was initially named Stakhanovets after Alexei Stakhanov, a legendary coal-miner in the Donbass distinguished for his prominently hard work. The first success for the team was in 1951, when then-renamed Shakhtyor took third-place in the USSR Championship.

The 'Miners’ country' team has always been famous for its willing disposition, team identity, and never-say-die attitude. Beginning in the 1960s, Shakhtyor under Oleg Oshenkov’s coaching were three-time USSR Cup finalists, winning it twice in 1961 and 1962. The club was nicknamed “The Cup Team” due to Shakhtar’s success in vying for the trophy every year, however the Miners’ more notable achievements occurred later from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s.

In 1975, Shakhtyor took 2nd in the USSR Championship and received the right to represent the Soviet Union in EuroCups. In 1978, Shakhtyor finished third in the USSR Championship. A year later, the team once again took the honorable second place and its captain – striker Vitaliy Starukhin – was named the best player and the best forward in the USSR Championship (26 goals scored).

Shakhtyor twice, in 1980 and 1983, brought home the crystal USSR Cup to Donbass and in 1983, it won the USSR Super Cup over then-domestic league champions FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

In the newly independent Ukraine, FC Shakhtar along with Dynamo Kyiv became perennial first place competitors. In part to the generosity of Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov who has run FC Shakhtar since 1996, the club has steadily improved its play and infrastructure, as promised by the club president himself (who has vowed to bring European glory to FC Shakhtar and its fans).

In 1999, an FC Shakhtar Football academy was opened and nowadays hosts football training for roughly 3000 children. The same year, a Sports Training Complex "Kirsha", considered to be one of the best in Europe,^{[citations needed]} was opened for the senior squad's use.

[edit] Stadium

FC Shakhtar has been playing most of its games at the recently renovated RSK Olimpiyskiy stadium. The team has started construction on a new stadium, Shakhtar Stadium which will have a capacity of 50,000 and will be a UEFA five star venue.

FC Shakhtar's old home, the central Shakhtar Stadium which was built in 1936, and was reconstructed four times, is currently being used by FC Metalurg Donetsk. The stadium received some major rennovations, including the installation of bench seats in 2000, when FC Shakhtar made it to the Champions League Group Stage.

[edit] Logo history

In 1989, an artist, Viktor Savilov, on the event of the club restructuring offered a draft variant of a logo with elements of the ball and a pitch. Today's emblem was added to the kit in 1997.

[edit] Honors

Ukrainian Championship: 3

2002, 2005, 2006

USSR Cup: 4

1961, 1962, 1980, 1983

Ukrainian Cup: 5

1995, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004

USSR Super Cup: 1

1983

Ukrainian Super Cup: 1

2005

Runner-Up

Ukrainian Championship: 8

1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004

USSR Championship: 2

1975, 1979

USSR Cup: 4

1963, 1978, 1985, 1986

Ukrainian Cup: 1

2003

USSR Super Cup: 2

1980, 1985

Ukrainian Super Cup: 2

2004, 2006

Other

Yuriy Degterev (1977): the best goalkeeper of the season.
Vitaliy Starukhin (1979): the best USSR footballer player, the best USSR League striker (26 goals).
Mikhail Sokolovsky: Prize holder 'Loyalty to Club' (400 matches in the same team squad).
Oleh Matviiv (1997): Ukrainian League best striker (21 goals).
Andriy Vorobei (2001): Ukrainian League best striker (21 goals).

[edit] Squad

Squad is given according to the club's official website [1], as of March 26, 2007.

No.	Position	Player
3	DF	Tomáš Hübschman
5	DF	Oleksandr Kucher
6	MF	Igor Duljaj
7	MF	Fernandinho
9	MF	Matuzalem
10	MF	Zvonimir Vukić
11	FW	Andriy Vorobei
12	GK	Dmytro Shutkov
13	DF	Vyacheslav Shevchuk
17	FW	Luiz Adriano
18	DF	Mariusz Lewandowski
19	MF	Oleksiy Hai
20	FW	Oleksiy Byelik

No.	Position	Player
22	MF	Maksym Trusevich
23	DF	Ihor Korotetsky
25	FW	Brandão
26	DF	Răzvan Raţ
27	DF	Dmytro Chigrinsky
28	MF	Oleksiy Polyansky
29	FW	Ciprian Marica
33	MF	Darijo Srna
34	DF	Oleh Karamushka
35	GK	Bohdan Shust
36	MF	Elano
38	MF	Jádson
--	GK	Yuri Virt