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| Full name | Municipal Football Club Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Cossacks | ||
| Founded | 1935 | ||
| Ground | Slavutych Arena | ||
| Capacity | 12,000 | ||
| Director | Maksym Lupashko | ||
| Head coach | Volodymyr Mykytin | ||
| League | Ukrainian First League | ||
| 2022–23 | Ukrainian First League, 4th of 16 | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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MFC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia (Ukrainian: Футбо́льний клуб «Металу́рг» Запорі́жжя [metɐˈlurɦ zɐpoˈr(j)iʒːɐ]) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Zaporizhzhia.[1] Reestablished in 2017, it is a "phoenix club" of the original Soviet factory team Metalurh that existed in 1935–2016. The original club holds several historical records of the Soviet football, particularly while participating in the Soviet second tier (in 1971–1991 known as First League). The club has the highest number of seasons spent in the Soviet second tier as well as the highest number of tournament points it earned. The club also is a three-times champion of Ukrainian republican competitions.
Following dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and until 2015 the club was a member of the Ukrainian top tier and on couple of occasions competed at European club competitions representing Ukraine.
In 2015, the original club went bankrupt and in 2016 the Ukrainian Premier League finally removed it from its competitions. In 2016, it was announced that another amateur club from Zaporizhzhia (FC Rosso-Nero Zaporizhzhia) has officially changed its name to FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia and intends to start participation at the Ukrainian Amateur Football League the same year.[2]
In 2018, the Rosso-Nero's Metalurh was denied license for professional league competitions, while the city-sponsored club was admitted to the Second League.
With Metalurh–Rosso Nero already competing, in May 2017 the mayor of Zaporizhzhia decided to form a separate city club which was formed based on the existing Metalurh sports school of Olympic Reserve. On 31 May 2017 the Zaporizhzhia city council approved the mayor's initiative and created the city's club Metalurh Zaporizhzhia.[3] On proposition of the Rosso-Nero's Metalurh to merge, the newly created club refused.
Youth Sports School of Metalurh Zaporizhya
Youth sports school is located right on the training fields of the main club, where before the Russian-Ukrainian war matches of the local championship of other sports schools were regularly held. this is the largest youth sports school in the city of Zaporizhya, as well as in the entire region.
- ^ Fidelix, Thiago (21 December 2013). "Técnico do União conta sobre Copa do Mundo e acesso a elite ucraniana" [União coach talks about the World Cup and access to the Ukrainian elite]. globoesporte.globo.com (in Portuguese). UNION MOGI. Archived from the original on 3 May 2023.
- ^ Запорожский ФК "Россо Неро" переименован в "Металлург" [Zaporozhian FC Rosso Nero is renamed into Metalurh]. UA-Football (in Russian). 26 March 2016. Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ In Zaporizhzhia created the municipal football club Metalurh (У Запоріжжі створили муніципальний футбольний клуб «Металург»). Hromadske. 31 May 2017