Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк , short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional

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club from the city of

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. In 2014, due to the

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, the club was forced to move to

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, and had played matches in Lviv (2014–2016) and in

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. In May 2020, Shakhtar started to play home matches at NSC Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv.Shakhtar will spend the rest of the season at the Olimpiyskiy
/ref> Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and is often a participant in the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first club in independent Ukraine to win the

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, the last year before the competition was revamped as the Europa League. FC Shakhtar Donetsk is one of two Ukrainian clubs, the other being

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, who have won a major UEFA competition. The club formerly played its home matches in Donetsk at the newly built

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, however due to the

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in 2014, the team were forced to relocate to the west in

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in the interim. Following the winter break of the 2016–17 season the club then moved again to the Metalist Stadium in

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(30 January 2017) In May–July 2020 Shakhtar played home matches at NSC Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv. Shakhtar Donetsk is one of Ukraine's most popular football clubs,Poll: 40% of Ukrainians consider themselves football supporters, most against idea of CIS league

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(27 August 2013) and is particularly favoured in the eastern

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region. The club draws its history from the very start of the Soviet football league competitions and is one of the oldest clubs in Ukraine. The club was a member of the Soviet Voluntary Sports Society of Shakhtyor, having connections with other Soviet teams from Karaganda (

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), Soligorsk (

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), among others. In the late Soviet period, Shakhtar was considered a tough mid-table club of the Soviet Top League and a cup competition specialist after winning the

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two years in a row in 1961 and 1962. The team has played under the following names: Stakhanovets (1936–46), Shakhtyor (Shakhtar) (1946–92), and FC Shakhtar (1992–present).

History

Early years – first two decades

The Shakhtar club was originally formed on a decision of the All-Union Council on physical culture and sports of 3 April 1936. It was initially named Stakhanovets, meaning "the participant of Stakhanovite movement", which derived from Aleksei Stakhanov, a coal-miner in the Donets basin and propaganda celebrity in 1935. The first team was based upon two other local teams, the participants of the All-Ukrainian

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s: '' Dynamo Horlivka'' and ''Dynamo Stalino''. The first game was against Dynamo Odessa as part of the 1936 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR (at that time known as Ukrainian spring challenge) and took place on 12 May 1936 at Balitsky Stadium in

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(the first home stadium). The team that played as Stakhonovets Horlivka lost 3–2 after scoring the first goal by Mykhailo Pashchenko, the second goal belonged to Boris Terentiev.Today Shakhtar is 70!!! Congratulations! (Cегодня «Шахтеру» – 70!!! Поздравляем!)
Ura-Inform. 24 May 2006 Its first league game in Group V took place on 24 May 1936 against ''Dynamo Kazan'' was even more disappointing, which miners lost 4–1. Stakhonovets that had on its roster 15 players left for

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by train on 20 May. Beside players, as part of delegation there were representative of regional council of physical culture Gololobov and republican referee I.Rozanov. The team returned to Stalino on 28 May and the same day Gololobov in interview to newspaper "Stalinskiy rabochiy" told that "... the game in Kazan with local "Dynamo" was witnessed by 3,000 spectators. With the first minutes, the field hosts offered a high pace. The "Miners", who were road weary, could not respond with the same. On the 13th minute they conceded the first goal and by the end of first half, two more. In many respects the reason was poor performance of right halfback Kutsev (who played instead of K.Pashchenko) and right outside forward Korotynsky. Through their flank Dynamo players successfully attacked. In the first half Stakhanovets forwards looked bleak and uncertain. In the second half the game equalized and on 55th minute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts." Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the ''war championship'' of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions

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and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after the start of the

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, which they lost at home to Traktor Stalingrad. During the war many players went to frontlines and perished among which are Ivan Ustinov, Ivan Putyatov, Volodymyr Shkurov, Ivan Horobets, Mykhailo Vasin and others.FC Shakhtar history of the club (История клуба «ФК Шахтер»)
Football News portal. From the pre-war squad in 1945 there were left only three players Georgiy Bikezin, Mykola Kuznetsov, and Petro Yurchenko. The All-Union coal mining society of Stakhanovite (Stakhanovets) had changed its name in July 1946 to Shakhtyor (Shakhter) and so did the Sports Society of Donbas Miners. In 1950,

Viktor Fomin Viktor Trokhymovych Fomin ( ua, Віктор Троxимович Фомін, russian: Виктор Трофимович Фомин; born 13 January 1929 in Sloviansk; died 29 December 2007) was a Ukrainian football player. Master of Sports of the ...

was named

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, despite the club finishing only 11th in the league. The first success for the team was in 1951, when it achieved third place in the USSR Championship. The most notable player of that achievement was the

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Aleksandr Ponomarev Oleksandr Ponomariov (Russian: Александр Семёнович Пономарёв; ua, Олександр Семенович Пономарьов 23 April 1918 – 7 June 1973) was a Soviet Ukrainian football player and manager. Ca ...

, who came to finish his football career in

, the region he was born in, and was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year for 1951. Despite the latest achievement, Shakhtar was relegated at the end of the 1952 season and as part of the re-organization of the team, former player

became the head coach of the club. In 1954, Shakhtar under Ponomarev won the Class B League, thus sealing a return to the top league.

Cup triumphs and establishment in the Soviet League

In 1958, the players of the club received fewer yellow and red cards than any other team in the championship, for what the '' Sovetsky Sport'' newspaper awarded the club with the "Fair Play Award." In the 1960s, Shakhtar, under Oleg Oshenkov's coaching, were three-time

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finalists, winning it twice in 1961 and 1962. Among the players playing for the club then where defenders Viacheslav Aliabiev and

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. The club was nicknamed "The Cup Team" due to Shakhtar's success in vying for the trophy every year. The Miners’ more notable achievements, however, occurred later from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Despite the departure of the team's leader midfielder

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, in 1975, Shakhtar under management of former player

, earned second place in the USSR Championship and received the right to represent the Soviet Union in

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. At the end of the season, Shakhtar received the

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for making the biggest progress from previous season in the league. They received the award again in 1977. In 1978, Shakhtar finished third in the USSR Championship. In 1979, the team finished second in the league campaign and its captain—

Vitaliy Starukhin Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin (russian: Старухин, Виталий Владимирович; born 6 June 1949 in Minsk; died 9 August 2000) was a Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is considered by many fans t ...

—became the top scorer in the USSR Championship with 26 goals scored, also being named

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. The club was only two points away from the first place, despite having important players leaving the club before the season, and other important players receiving injuries. Other important players besides Starukhin at the time were

Mykhaylo Sokolovsky Mykhaylo Ivanovich Sokolovsky ( uk, Михайло Іванович Соколовский; russian: Михаил Иванович Соколовский; born November 15, 1951) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player. Curr ...

, who went on to set a caps record for the club (for what he received the Club Loyalty Award in 1987), defenders

Viktor Zvyahintsev Viktor Oleksandrovych Zvyahintsev ( ua, Віктор Олександрович Звягінцев, russian: Виктор Александрович Звягинцев; 22 October 1950 – 22 April 2022) was a Ukrainian footballer who play ...

and

Valeriy Horbunov Valeriy Petrovych Horbunov ( ua, Валерій Петрович Горбунов, russian: Валерий Петрович Горбунов, born 13 November 1953 in Horlivka, died 1996) was a Ukrainian and Soviet football player. Honours * So ...

, who both made it numerous times to the 33 Top Players of the Soviet Championship lists, and goalkeeper

Yuriy Dehteryov Yuriy Vitaliyovych Dehteryov ( uk, Юрій Віталійович Дегтерьов, russian: Юрий Витальевич Дегтерёв, ''Yuriy Vitalyevich Degteryov''; 5 October 1948 – 9 October 2022) was a Ukrainian association footb ...

, who was named Soviet goalkeeper of the year and took third place for

in 1977. Shakhtar twice, in 1980 and 1983, brought home the crystal USSR Cup to Donetsk and in 1983, it won the

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over then-domestic league champions

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. Shakhtar reached the

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quarter-final, and strikers Viktor Hrachov and Serhiy N. Morozov became joint top scorers of the tournament. In 1987, Shakhtar received the fewest yellow and red cards in the championship, for which the club was awarded the "Soviet Top League Fair Play Award" by ''Man and Law'' magazine. Between 1982 and 1988, Shakhtar received the "Together With The Club" award five times, an award given for good organization of home games and behaviour of the home fans.

First decade in independent Ukraine – the beginning of the Akhmetov era

In the newly independent Ukraine, Shakhtar, along with Dynamo Kyiv, became perennial first place competitors. In October 1995, a bombing-assassination took place at the team's stadium, killing club president

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. In 1996, Rinat Akhmetov took over as president and invested heavily in the club. Despite Shakhtar not being a strong contender for the championship at the time, finishing second many times with a large point gap from the first-place position, they won the

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three times, in

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(under the management of former player

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and

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. In the

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, Shakhtar were eliminated after a 5–2 aggregate loss to

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, losing the first and second legs. Important players at the time were defenders

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and

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, goalkeeper

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, striker

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(who was top scorer of the Premier League in the 1996–97 season), and

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and

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. Most of the players playing for the team of the time came through the team's youth ranks. Towards the end of the decade, the team finally started to look like a team able to become champion. In 1999, a Shakhtar football academy was opened and now hosts football training for roughly 3,000 youth. In 2000,

Andriy Vorobey Andriy Oleksiyovych Vorobey ( uk, Андрій Олексійович Воробей; born 29 November 1978) is a Ukrainian retired football striker. He was a three times national champion while playing for FC Shakhtar Donetsk. In 2000 the ma ...

was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year by ''Komanda'', the first Shakhtar player in independent Ukraine to do so, and became the top scorer in the

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. That year, Shakhtar competed in the

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for the first time, drawn in a group with Lazio, Arsenal and Sparta Prague. They finished third in the group, qualifying for the

after a 3–0 home win against Arsenal.

First league triumph

The club won its first ever Ukrainian Premier League title in the 2001–02 season under coach Nevio Scala, winning by a single point over Dynamo Kyiv. They were also victorious in the

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, defeating Dynamo 3–2 after extra time in the

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. Among the key players at the club at the time were captain defensive midfielder

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, striker Andriy Vorobey, midfielder Hennadiy Zubov and defender

. At the end of the season, Tymoshchuk, who emerged as the club's leader on the field, was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year by ''Komanda'' and ''Ukrainskiy Football''. Mircea Lucescu Shakhtar Donetsk-Arsenal Kiev 2013 (1)

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After multiple managerial changes, in 2004 the Romanian Mircea Lucescu was invited to build a team in Shakhtar. After ten days at the club, he won the

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and after three months, for the first time in club history, the club made it to the

group stage, which won him the 2004

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title. The strategy chosen was looking for young talented players in Brazil, which was to form the base of the attack, while the defence would supplied by largely Ukrainian talent in order to adjust to rules forcing teams to have a certain number of local players on the field. The large amount of Brazilians arriving at the club earned Shakhtar the nickname "the most Brazilian club in Europe". They won their second Premier League title in the 2004–05 season, but lost to Dynamo Kyiv in the inaugural

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tournament in 2004. They finished as runners up in the

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, losing to Dynamo in a penalty shoot-out the

. They retained the Premier League crown in the 2005–06 season and managed to avenge the defeat to Dynamo in the previous Super Cup by defeating them on penalties to win their first-ever Super Cup title. At the end of the season, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year for by ''Ukrainskiy Football'' for the second time, becoming the first Shakhtar player to be named so more than once. Brazilian striker Brandão became the league's joint top scorer. Shakhtar appeared in all three editions of the Channel One Cup, winning the 2007 edition and finishing runners-up in 2008. Having missed out on the league title in 2006–07, Shakhtar regained the title in 2007–08, also being victorious in the

after defeating Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 in the final. Shakhtar's attendance levels at league matches have continually risen over the years to a point where they averaged 36,983 spectators over the 2011–12 Premier League season.

UEFA Cup triumph and domination in Ukraine

In 2009, they became only the second Ukrainian team to win a European competition (and the first since independence), and the first to win the

after defeating Werder Bremen in the final, with goals from Brazilians Luiz Adriano and

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. The victory earned the player

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the 2009 Polish Footballer of the Year award. This also made them the last UEFA Cup winners before the tournament was rebranded as the

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. Before the start of the 2009–10 season, Shakhtar won the friendly

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tournament. Shakhtar won the Premier League title in the 2009–10 season, goalkeeper

Andriy Pyatov Andriy Valeriyovych Pyatov ( uk, Андрій Валерійович П'ятов; born 28 June 1984) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk. Club career Artemida K ...

was named Ukraine Premier League MVP by ''Komanda'', and Manager Mircea Lucescu was named Romania Coach of the Year for the second time. The 2010–11 season was a very successful one for Shakhtar. They reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, their then-best-ever performance in the competition. Captain

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was chosen to be part of the Champions League Team of the Season as voted by fans. They also won a domestic treble with victory in the Premier League,

and the Super Cup. The successful season did not go unnoticed by the experts, and in 2011, the

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gave Shakhtar a special award for making the biggest progress of the decade among football clubs. They went on to win the

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and

in the 2011–12 season. Shakhtar player Yevhen Seleznyov topped the goal scoring charts in the league, with 14 goals, midfielder

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was named

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, and manager Mircea Lucescu was named 2012 Romania Coach of the Year, receiving the award for the third time. The main players at that time were captain Darijo Srna, defender

Yaroslav Rakitskiy Yaroslav Volodymyrovych Rakitskyi ( uk, Ярослав Володимирович Ракіцький, ; born 3 August 1989) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who currently plays as a defender for Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Done ...

, Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan (who was named Armenian Footballer of the Year twice while playing for Shakhtar) and Brazilian midfielders

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and Willian. Heinrich Mkhitaryan 2012

In the 2012–13 season Shakhtar won the

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and

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. Henrikh Mkhitaryan became the top scorer of the league, setting a Ukrainian championship record of 25 goals. He was also named the Ukraine Premier League MVP by ''Komanda'', Armenian Footballer of the Year and the CIS Footballer of the Year for 2012.

Leaders depart, new titles and war in Donbas

Prior to the 2013–14 season, many of the club's main players were sold after Shakhtar accepted high bids for them – Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Fernandinho and Willian brought the club over €100 million. Shakhtar spent the following summer trying to integrate new young players into the team, who along with the remaining players were to form the backbone of the renewed Shakhtar. Despite selling its leaders, before the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar set a new record for East Europe for number of season tickets sold. Before the beginning of the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar won two friendly tournaments in

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, the Match World Cup, and the Super Cup of Champions played against Russian champions Zenit Saint Petersburg. In the mid-season break, Shakhtar won the

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(the second edition of the

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), a tournament between the top-two placed clubs of Ukraine and of Russia, which strengthened Shakhtar's status as the strongest club in Eastern Europe. At the end of the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar won the Ukraine Premier League, while Luiz Adriano was the league top scorer. Shakhtar also won the 2014 Ukrainian Super Cup, holding the trophy for the sixth time. Manager Mircea Lucescu was named the 2014 Romania Coach of the Year, receiving the award for the fourth time. Due to the war in Donbas, Shakhtar had to temporarily move and play its games in

, resulting in very low attendance. As an anti-war protest, the players of Shakhtar refused the initiative to wear the "Glory to the Ukrainian Army" shirts. In the

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, Shakhtar finished second in the group stage, therefore qualifying to the next stage. Striker Luiz Adriano equaled both

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's record of five goals in a Champions League match and

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's record of scoring nine goals in the group stage; as a result,

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named him MVP of the competition's group stage. Shakhtar finished the season second in the

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after playing the whole season away from Donbas, with Alex Teixeira finishing as a joint top scorer in the league. At the end of the season,

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was sold to

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, while Luiz Adriano moved to

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. While the club itself moved to a

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-controlled zone, a few prominent Shakhtar players remained in the

Donetsk People's Republic The Donetsk People's Republic ( rus, Донецкая Народная Республика, Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika, dɐˈnʲetskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə; abbreviated as DPR or DNR, rus, ДНР) is a Territorial ...

and supported the unrecognised state. Among them were former defender

, former goalkeeper

, former Shakhtar and Ukraine national football team captain

, and the club's first press officer Vyacheslav Sharafutdinov. During the

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, on 16 October, Shakhtar beat Dynamo Kyiv 3–0 in Kyiv and set two new records. One record was that for the first time during a

Ukrainian derby Klasychne derby (Ukrainian: ''Класичне'', as ''Classico''), or the ''Ukrainian football rivalry'' is the football match between the two top Ukrainian clubs Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk. The game between those two clubs is a focal poi ...

game in Kyiv a team scored three goals. The other record was that for the first time Shakhtar had more

victories, 26, than Dynamo. In the middle of the season, Alex Teixeira moved to Chinese club Jiangsu Suning for a fee of €50 million, breaking both the Asian and Ukrainian transfer record. The club finished the 2015/16 season as runner up and

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was recognised best league player by Komanda. After the 2015–16 season, long-time manager Mircea Lucescu moved on to Zenit Saint Petersburg; he was replaced by the Portuguese Paulo Fonseca, previously of Braga. Following the winter break of the 2016–17 season, a season when the club won the league, the cup, and the supercup, the club moved to the Metalist Stadium in

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becoming the league top scorer and

the league assist leader. In the 2018–19 season, the club won Ukrainian Premier League for the third time in a row. In 2019–20, Shakhtar retained their league title for the fourth time in a row. They also reached the semi-finals of the

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Infrastructure

Regional Sport Complex Olimpiyskyi in Donetsk 1

Until 2009 Shakhtar had been playing most of its games at the

RSC Olimpiyskiy Regional Sports Complex "Olimpiyskyi" stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Donetsk, Ukraine. The stadium is part of bigger sports complex Olimpiyskyi and until 2014 was property of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine. Since 2014 along with ...

stadium which is a property of administration of

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and the Serhiy Bubka College of Olympic Reserve. The stadium was built during Soviet period for another Donetsk club,

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and carried its name. On 29 August 2009 the construction of its new stadium,

, was accomplished and the stadium was opened. Located in the City Park of Culture and Recreation, it has a capacity of 50,149 and has been honored with a

five star rating, the highest rating achievable. Shakhtar's old home, the central Shakhtar Stadium which was built in 1936 and reconstructed four times, is currently being used by Shakhtar Donetsk Reserves. The stadium received some major renovations, including the installation of bench seats in 2000 when Shakhtar made it to the Champions League Group Stage. A

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mole (''moles'' is a nickname for the club) will entertain spectators during the home matches. Shakhtar are rated 40th by the average game attendance, being the top eastern European club on the rating charts. Before the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar set a new record for

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for number of season tickets sold, selling 27,000 season tickets, which means 52% of the seats in Donbass Arena belong to season ticket holders. From 2014 until the end of 2016, due to the war in Donbas, Shakhtar played its home matches at the

.Shakhtar to play home matches in Lviv

(24 July 2014) Following the winter break of the 2016–17 season the club moved to the Metalist Stadium in

Training centre

Shakhtar Donetsk has its own training facilities for its first team, reserve team and youth academy all located at Kirsha Training Centre. Due to the war conditions in the

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, Shakhtar temporary venue for its home matches has changed several times, while it was announced that the team will use training facilities in

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. It was clarified that its training facility is the Training base of Olympic Preparation "

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" located away from Kyiv and belongs to the Ukrainian Federation of Trade Unions.

Youth, academy and reserves

The club used to field a couple of reserve teams that competed at professional level. By 2015 all reserve teams such as

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and FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk were withdrawn from professional competitions. The club however fields its youth Shakhtar U-21 team in the youth championship of Ukrainian Premier League. Shakhtar also has its football academy that fields four teams in a special youth league designated for teenagers. Since 2012 the club also has a team for the U-19 championship of Ukrainian Premier League. During the Soviet times the club used to have one youth team named Shakhter-D Donetsk that participated in a separate Soviet championship for doubles. Shakhter-D later was reorganized into

and admitted to the

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. Due to the

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, the youth academy has relocated to

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Crests and colours

The first logo of the club was designed in 1936, it featured a blue

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, with a red 'S' in the middle, crossed over by a jackhammer. In 1946, when the club was renamed, the logo was changed to black and white, with addition of club's name. Later, in the middle of the 1960s, their logo depicted two crossed hammers, with "Shakhtar Donetsk" written in the circle. The crest was added to the kit and remained there since, except for several seasons in the beginning of the 1990s. The club's name was depicted in the Russian language until the latest logo was chosen. Therefore, some sources have its name written often as "Shakhter" or rarely "Shakhtyor." In 1989, an artist, Viktor Savilov, on the event of the club restructuring offered a draft variant of a logo with elements of the

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and a pitch. Some time later, the logo was remodelled into the present one. The emblem was added to the kit in 1997. In 2007, during the presentation of the club's new stadium, Shakhtar's new logo was unveiled. For the first time in over 30 years, the crossed hammers, the traditional symbols of the club, were present on the crest. Also, for the first time the name was written in the Ukrainian language and not Russian. Since 1961 the official colours are black and orange.

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Supporters and rivalries

The first riots associated with Shakhtar fans took place on 20 September 1959 in the match against CSKA Moscow, when several dozen Shakhtar supporters ran onto the field, and as a result the match was frustrated. In all matches involving Donetsk, many people came that promoted the development of fan movement in Donetsk. Active development of football movement began in the early 1980s. In the early 2000s to the Ukrainian stadiums came English style –

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. In 2003, during the final of the

there was a fierce fight between Dynamo and Shakhtar fans. The other rivalry was with

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. This was another local club and, although not as significant as games against the rivals from the capital, the games between the two Donetsk teams were proclaimed the Donetsk Derby. Metalurh went bankrupt in July 2015. Among the extinguished rivalries are the games against

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and, particularly, the ''third place champions''

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of Georgia that took place at times during the Soviet Top League. Another interesting rivalry, the Donbas Derby, is with

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, which gathered a significant crowd in Luhansk. During the early Ukrainian championships, another interesting rivalry developed with

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labelled the "Miners vs. Sailors", which declined with the turn of the millennium due to the inconsistent performance of the

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-based club.

Honours

Ukrainian competitions

* Ukrainian Premier League :Winners (13): 2001–02, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10,

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, 2011–12,

2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 *

:Winners (13): 1994–95, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2007–08,

, 2011–12,

, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 *

:Winners (9):

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2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

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2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

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Soviet competitions

:Winners (4):

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1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...

* Soviet First League :Winners (1):

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

* Season's Cup (unofficial tournament as Super Cup) :Winners (1): 1984

European competitions

:Winners (1): 2008–09

UEFA club coefficient ranking

Friendly competitions

* Channel One Cup:

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La Manga Cup La Manga Cup is a winter football tournament played in La Manga Club, La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia, Spain). Usual participants are clubs from countries with a summer football season: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Ukraine Uk ...

Copa del Sol The Copa del Sol was an annual exhibition international club football tournament played on the south coast of Spain in January–February, one month before the kickoff of the national leagues, that ran from 2010 to 2014. The tournament was a ch ...

Salzburgerland Cup Red Bull Arena (), known during the UEFA Euro 2008 as the EM-Stadion Wals-Siezenheim and during UEFA club football events as Stadion Salzburg, is a football stadium in Wals-Siezenheim, a municipality in the suburbs of Salzburg, Austria. It w ...

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/ United Supercup:

* IFA Shield (

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) runners-up:

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Team awards

*Special award from the

for making the biggest progress of the decade, 2011.

Individual player awards

Several players have won individual awards during or for their time with Shakhtar Donetsk.

(1979) Footballer of the Year in Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States *

(2012)

(1950) *

(1951) *

(1979) *

(2002, 2006, 2007) Ukraine Premier League MVP :''As awarded by the

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newspaper'' *

(2000) *

(2002) *

(2010) *

(2012) * Alex Teixeira (2015) *

(2016–18) *

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(2019) Armenian Footballer of the Year *

(2011, 2012) Polish Footballer of the Year *

(2009) Soviet Goalkeeper of the Year *

(1977) Club Loyalty Award *

(1987) Romania Coach of the Year * Mircea Lucescu (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014)

Players

First team squad

Other players under contract

Out on loan

Retired numbers

Under-19 team squad

Coaches and administration

Presidents and other officials

Presidents

* 1989–1994:

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* 1992–1995:

* 1996–present: Rinat Akhmetov

Chairmen of the Board

* 1990–1992:

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* * 1965 births Li ...

(chair of the board) * 2006–present: Oleh Popov (chair of council of directors)

Vice Presidents

* 1994–1995:

* 1994–2000:

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* 1998–present: Borys Kolesnikov

General directors

* 2004–present:

Serhiy Palkin Serhiy Anatoliiovych Palkin ( uk, Сергій Анатолійович Палкін; born 22 October 1974) is a Ukrainian football administrator, who works as the general director of FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Shakhtar Donetsk. Career Serhiy Pal ...

(financial director in 2003-2004)

Director of Football

* 2020–present:

Player records

Top goalscorers

''As of 21 May 2016'' *Other – National Super Cup

Most appearances

*Other – National Super Cup

Notable coaches

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

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Ukraine

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European history

Shakhtar Donetsk has participated in European competition since 1976, playing its first game against

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in the

. Since 1997, the club has participated in UEFA competition annually with variable amounts of success, and first took part in the

competition in 2000. Shakhtar Donetsk played against

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and Sparta Prague upon qualifying for the group stage for the first time in 2000–01.

Notes

References

External links

Official websiteShakhtar news on Tribuna.comFC Shakhtar youtube channel
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