FC Kolos Kovalivka ( uk, 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 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).From competitions of the PFL to continental competitions! Compliments to "Kolos" (Зі змагань ПФЛ - до континентальних турнірів! Вітаємо "Колос")
Professional Football League. 30 July 2020 Outside of the league pyramid, the club also holds several honours of regional competitions for Kyiv Oblast which it represents. The club is named after the Ukrainian sports society

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trade unions) that has existed since after World War II.

History

The club was established in 2012 and until 2015 it participated in championship of Kyiv Oblast playing its games in a neighboring town of Hlevakha. The team were champions three times from 2012 to 2014. The club in 2014 made their debut in the

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. Later that year after winning the Oleh Makarov Memorial Tournament, which is played in winter the head coach

Ruslan Kostyshyn Ruslan Volodymyrovych Kostyshyn (born 8 January 1977) is a Ukrainian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder and current football manager of Kazakhstani club Aksu. Career Kostyshyn began his career in Podillya-Khmelnytskyi, ...

announced that the club intended to go into professional football. That year in 2015 after finishing third in the

, the club obtained professional status and joined the

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entering into the Ukrainian Second League. In their first season the club won the championship and were promoted to the Ukrainian First League. On 29 July 2020, FC Kolos in overtime beat FC Mariupol 1–0 and qualified for the European competitions. The head coach

was merely shocked stating that did not expect his club to place higher the 8th place.

Honours

* Ukrainian First League **Runners-up (1): 2018–19 * Ukrainian Second League **Winners (1): 2015–16 * Kyiv Oblast Football Championship **Winners (3): 2012, 2013, 2014 * Football cup of Kyiv Oblast **Winners (1): 2014

Squad

''As of 20 September 2022''

Out on loan

Coaches and administration

League and cup history

European record

Notable players

* Vitaliy Lysytskyi * Yaroslav Vyshnyak * Yevhen Seleznyov

Managers

Kostyantyn Sakharov Kostyantyn or Kostiantyn is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Kostyantyn Balabanov (born 1982), Ukrainian football player * Kostyantyn Bocharov (born 1997), Ukrainian singer and songwriter *Kostyantyn Dankevych (1905–1984), Uk ...

(2012 – 2014) *

(6 February 2014 – 29 August 2021) * Syarhey Kuznyatsow (interim) (29 August 2021 – November 2021) * Yaroslav Vyshnyak (November 2021 – present)

External links

Kolos Kovalivka
at the Professional Football League of Ukraine
Official website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kolos Kovalivka Ukrainian Premier League clubs Football clubs in Kyiv Oblast Association football clubs established in 2012 2012 establishments in Ukraine Agrarian association football clubs in Ukraine