FC Olimpik Donetsk

FC Olimpik Donetsk ( ) is a Ukrainian inactive football team based in Donetsk, Ukraine. The club currently doesn't play in any Ukrainian competition due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since its promotion to Ukrainian Premier League in 2014, it played its games in Kyiv due to the war in Donbas. During the 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League, there were attempts to move the club either to Sumy or Cherkasy, which were never realized.

On 21 June 2023 the 31st PFL Conference excluded several clubs that did not compete in the 2022–23 season and did not renew their membership.

History

The football club Olimpik Donetsk was formed in 2001 along with a charity regional fund of football development.

The club was meant to rely on players from its academy. Olimpik Donetsk entered the professional competition in 2004. After six seasons Druha Liha Olympik became champions in the 2010–11 season and were promoted to the Persha Liha. Olympik became the champions of the 2013–14 Ukrainian First League and earned promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League. They play at their stadium " Olimpik".

The clubs has several youth teams that play in youth competitions under the name "Olimpik-UOR" (Olimpik – Uchylyshche of Olympiyskoho Rezervu). Since 2009, UOR Donetsk and Olimpik have agreement about mutual training of young footballers.

Since its promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League in 2014, the club is forced to play its games in Kyiv.

The Olimpik Donetsk participation in the 2019–20 season was under question because both of its youth teams (U-21 and U-19) were expelled from the Ukrainian Premier League due to match fixing, and are banned from competitions until the end of 2019–20 season. One of the conditions to receive a season license in UPL was presence of youth teams in a club. The league members voted to keep Olimpik's senior team in the league, yet final decision was reserved for the UAF (formerly FFU) Executive Committee. On 18 June 2019, the UAF Executive Committee approved the League's decision about Olimpik and later explained that it made changes to its regulations where clubs will not be penalized for having its youth teams banned from the UPL competitions as long as the club will sponsor other youth teams. On 9 July 2019 Olimpik filed a lawsuit against UAF to the Court of Arbitration for Sport about falsification of a case against the club and sanctions that were introduced against the club. At the end of July in media appeared information that the club might have withdrawn its lawsuit from the CAS.

In July 2021, the president of the club Vladyslav Helzin announced that the club is withdrawing from all competitions for the 2021/22 season and suspends its activities.

Infrastructures

The main ground in Sports Complex Olimpik in Donetsk, but due to the war in Donbas, from 2014 until 2016 the team was moved to Bannikov Stadium in Kyiv. From August 2016 until December 2016 the team played in the Yuvileiny Stadium in Sumy. In 2016, due to COVID-19 pandemic the team played in Stadion Yuri Gagarin in Chernihiv and then to Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv in the same year. On 5 October 2021 the club played in Yunist Stadium in Chernihiv for the Ukrainian First League for the season 2021-22 in the option to play all season.

Honours

* Ukrainian First League
** Winners: 2013–14
* Ukrainian Second League – Group B
** Winners: 2010–11

League and cup history

ImageSize = width:900 height:60
PlotArea = left:10 right:10 bottom:30 top:10
TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy
DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy
Period = from:01/01/2004 till:01/01/2022
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:2004
Colors =
id:bl1 value:rgb(0.5,0.8,0.5)
id:bl2 value:rgb(0.9,0.9,0.3)
id:rs value:rgb(0.8,0.6,0.6)
id:rn value:rgb(0.9,0.1,0.1)

PlotData=
bar:Position width:15 color:white align:center

from:01/01/2004 till:01/07/2004 shift:(0,-4) text:4
from:01/01/2004 till:01/01/2005 shift:(15,-4) text:11
from:01/01/2005 till:01/01/2006 shift:(0,-4) text:5
from:01/01/2006 till:01/01/2007 shift:(0,-4) text:10
from:01/01/2007 till:01/01/2008 shift:(0,-4) text:6
from:01/01/2008 till:01/01/2009 shift:(0,-4) text:6
from:01/01/2009 till:01/01/2010 shift:(0,-4) text:5
from:01/01/2010 till:01/01/2011 shift:(0,-4) text:1
from:01/01/2011 till:01/01/2012 shift:(0,-4) text:12
from:01/01/2012 till:01/01/2013 shift:(0,-4) text:11
from:01/01/2013 till:01/01/2014 shift:(0,-4) text:1
from:01/01/2014 till:01/01/2015 shift:(0,-4) text:8
from:01/01/2015 till:01/01/2016 shift:(0,-4) text:9
from:01/01/2016 till:01/01/2017 shift:(0,-4) text:4
from:01/01/2017 till:01/01/2018 shift:(0,-4) text:9
from:01/01/2018 till:01/01/2019 shift:(0,-4) text:9
from:01/01/2019 till:01/01/2020 shift:(0,-4) text:9
from:01/01/2020 till:01/01/2021 shift:(0,-4) text:13
from:01/01/2021 till:01/01/2022 shift:(0,-4) text:11

from:01/01/2004 till:01/07/2004 color:rn shift:(0,13) text: "Amateurs"
from:01/07/2004 till:01/01/2011 color:rs shift:(0,13) text: "Druha Liha"
from:01/01/2011 till:01/01/2014 color:bl2 shift:(0,13) text: "Persha Liha"
from:01/01/2014 till:01/01/2021 color:bl1 shift:(0,13) text: "Premier Liha"
from:01/01/2021 till:01/01/2022 color:bl2 shift:(0,13) text: "Persha Liha"

:

European record

Coaches and administration

Presidents and other officials

Presidents

* 2001–2021: Vladyslav Helzin

General directors

* 2017 – present Oleksiy Antonov

Executive directors

* 2017 – present Dmytro Andreyev

Sports directors

* 2001 – 2017 Oleksiy Antonov
* 2019 – present Maksym Kovalenko

Directors

* 2006 – 2019 Oleksandr Protsiv

Managers

See also

* Serhiy Bubka College of Olympic Reserve, formerly a school of Olympic Reserve in Donetsk (UOR Donetsk)

Notes and references

External links

* . .

{{DEFAULTSORT:Olimpik Donetsk, FC

Football clubs in Donetsk
2001 establishments in Ukraine
Association football clubs established in 2001
2022 disestablishments in Ukraine
Association football clubs disestablished in 2022
Sports team and club relocations