Football Club Kramatorsk is a professional

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football club from the city of

Kramatorsk Kramatorsk ( uk, Краматорськ, translit=Kramatorsk ) is a city and the administrative centre of Kramatorsk Raion in the northern portion of Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine. Prior to 2020, Kramatorsk was a City of regional significa ...

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. The club takes its history from a factory team of the Old Kramatorsk Machine-building Plant (SKMZ).

History

The club Avangard was reformed in 1955. Prior to

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there existed a club that was associated with the machine industry in the city. In 1937, the club participated in the national championship as the champion of Ukraine. In 1939, the team won the Cup of Soviet Ukraine. The team in 1936 won 1st place in Ukraine among working teams and in 1937, 1938 and 1961 reached the 1/16 finals of the

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, and 1/8 finals of the Soviet Cup in 1939. The club regularly participated in the Soviet championship (1946, 1948, 1949, 1960–1970) and the USSR Cup (1937–1939,1949,1961-1966/1967). In the 1998–1999 season, the city of Kramatorsk was presented by a team of the

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, VPS Kramatorsk (Air Force), in the

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. That team was penalized 6 points for failure to pay the licence fees to the PFL and was removed from the competition after the first round. During that period the actual factory team was called Bliuminh Kramatorsk and played in championship of Donetsk Oblast. The team's revival brought back success as they became Donetsk oblast champions in 2010. In 2011, the club appointed head coach Serhiy Shevchenko in preparation for returning to the Second League. The club submitted a license to the

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and was accepted into the

for the 2011–12 season. During the 2014–15 season, the club was suspended from the

as it ended up in the "

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". Earlier that year in spring due

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, the

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occupied the Ukrainian

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. On 7 October 2014, a former press-attache claimed that supporters of the

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killed 16-year-old goalkeeper

Stepan Chubenko Stepan Viktorovych Chubenko (Ukrainian: Степан Вікторович Чубенко; 11 November 1997 – 27 July 2014) was a Ukrainian football player who played as a goalkeeper of Avanhard Kramartorsk. He was tortured and shot by militants ...

.Avanhard Kramatorsk goalkeeper perished from the hands of DNR terrorists

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(Champion). 7 October 2014 Chubenko was killed on 25 July 2014 in Horbachevo-Mykhailivka, two days after he was kidnapped at the

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. Near the end of the 2020–21 season the team name was changed from Avanhard Kramatorsk to FC Kramatorsk.

Honors

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: 1936 (as Ordzhonikidze Factory) *

Cup of the Ukrainian SSR Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR ( uk, Кубок УРСР з футболу, Kubok URSR z futbolu, russian: Кубок УССР по футболу, Kubok USSR po futbolu) was a playoff republican competitions in association football that were ta ...

: 1939 * Donetsk Oblast Champions : 1947, 1996, 2010 *Fair Play award : Gold medal icon

Winners (1) Fair Play award of

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: 2019-20

Sponsorships

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Leadership

Presidents

* 2005 – 2008 Serhiy Karakuts * 2010 – 2017 Oleksandr Bolshakov * 2010 - Maksim Yefimov (honorary president) * 2021 – Karen Zargarian (head)

Directors

* 2011 Vladyslav Dolhopolov (sports) * ???? – 2017 Roman Bolshakov (general) * 2017 – 2021 Andriy Bezsonnyi * 2021 – Yevhen Shvets

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

League and cup history

Soviet period

Ukraine

Managers

* 2011–2013 Sergei Shevchenko * 2013–2016

Yakiv Kripak Yakiv Kripak ( ua, Яків Вікторович Кріпак; born 13 June 1978 in Zaporizhya, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union - in present-day Ukraine) is a former Ukrainian football midfielder. Career Kripak is the product of FC Meta ...

* 2016–2020

Oleksandr Kosevych Oleksandr Kosevych ( ua, Олександр Олександрович Косевич; born 4 September 1965) is a former Ukrainian footballer and Association football, football coach. References External links

* * 1965 births Li ...

* 2020– Oleksiy Horodov

External links

*
Official website

All goals of Avanhard - SC Kramatorsk
(YouTube)
Нардеп Ефимов задекларировал миллионы в банках и дома, шахту и ветряной парк
hi.dn.ua. 6 June 2020
ФК "Краматорск" представил новичков команды. Задача-максимум - 5-е место в Первой лиге
www.kramatorskpost.com. 22 July 2021

References

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Sport in Kramatorsk Association football clubs established in 1955 1955 establishments in Ukraine Football clubs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic