Full name | FC Kolos Kovalivka | |||
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Founded | 2012 | |||
Ground | Kolos Stadium | |||
Capacity | 5,000 | |||
President | Andriy Zasukha[1] | |||
General Director | Yevhen Yevseyev[1] | |||
Head coach | Oleksandr Pozdeyev | |||
League | Ukrainian Premier League | |||
2023–24 | Ukrainian Premier League, 11th of 16 | |||
Website | http://www.koloskovalivka.com/ | |||
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FC Kolos Kovalivka (Ukrainian: Колос Ковалівка) is a professional Ukrainian football club from the village of Kovalivka, Kyiv Oblast which competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, having been promoted from the Ukrainian First League on the 8 June 2019 for the first time in their history. The club colors are white and black. The club has three football teams including women and youth.
The club has made a real cinderella story in 2020 transforming in five years from an amateur team into a continental challengers by advancing through the full league pyramid (4 tiers).[2] Outside of the league pyramid, the club also holds several honours of regional competitions for Kyiv Oblast which it represents.[2]
The club is named after the Ukrainian sports society Kolos (Agro-Industrial Complex trade unions) that has existed since after World War II. The main sponsor of the club is the Svitanok agrarian company (firm), formerly the Shchors collective farm (kolkhoz).