FC Zorya Luhansk

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Zorya Luhansk

Full name

FC Zorya Luhansk

Founded

1923

Ground

Avanhard Stadium

Capacity

31,243

Chairman

Valery Shpichka

Head Coach

Vladimir Bessonov

League

Ukrainian Premier League

2005–06

Persha Liha, 1st (promoted)





Home colours





Away colours

Club Crest, Soviet time

FC Zorya Luhansk, formerly known as Zorya Voroshilovgrad and Zorya-MALS, is a Ukrainian football team. Zorya Luhansk is based in the city of Luhansk (formerly known as Voroshilovgrad), Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.

In the season 2005-06 the team won the first place in the Persha Liha, and has been promoted to the Vyscha Liha. Zorya was one of the original twenty teams to debut for the first season of the Ukrainian Premier League. The team played for five seasons until the 1995-96 season in which they finished eighteenth and where sent down to the Persha Liha. Zorya relegated to Druha Liha in 1996-97 season but she returned to Persha Liha in 2003-2004 season.

1 Honors
2 Squad
- 2.1 Out on loan
3 Famous players
4 Former coaches
5 References

[edit] Honors

Winner

USSR Championship: 1

1972

UkrainianSSR Championship: 3

1938 (as Dzerzhynec), 1962 (as Trudovi rezervy), 1986 (as Zorya)

Runner-Up

USSR Cup: 2

1974, 1975

[edit] Squad

Squad is given according to the club's official fansite [1], as of August 1, 2006.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Dmytro Kozachenko
2	DF	Yaroslav Vishnyak
3	MF	Patrick Ibanda
4	DF	Serhiy Zadorozhnuy
5	DF	Andriy Kanyuk
6	MF	Nikita Kamenyuka
7	MF	Oleksiy Gorodov
8	MF	Ivan Pogorelov
10	MF	Guvunchumakhmed Ovekov
11	MF	Andriy Smalko
13	DF	Oleksandr Malyugin

No.	Position	Player
14	DF	Oleksandr Honchar
15	DF	Yuri Kondakov
16	MF	Oleh Onyschenko
17	MF	Vadim Kirillov
23	MF	Maksim Kremenchutsky
31	GK	Serhiy Yakovets
32	GK	Anton Ivanov
33	MF	Yuri Miterev
38	DF	Oleksiy Khramtsov
40	MF	Viktor Dotsenko

[edit] Out on loan

[edit] Famous players

[edit] Former coaches

Oleh Bazilevich (1984)
Samir Gasanov (-2006)
Yuri Koval (2006-)

[edit] References

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