Kolos Kovalivka

Full name	FC Kolos Kovalivka
Founded	2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Ground	Kolos Stadium
Capacity	5,000
President	Andriy Zasukha [1]
General Director	Yevhen Yevseyev [1]
Head coach	Yaroslav Vyshnyak
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2022–23	Ukrainian Premier League, 8th of 16
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Kolos Kovalivka ( Ukrainian: 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 three football teams including women and youth.

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). ^[2] Outside of the league pyramid, the club also holds several honours of regional competitions for Kyiv Oblast which it represents. ^[2]

The club is named after the Ukrainian sports society Kolos ( Agro-Industrial Complex trade unions) that has existed since after World War II. The main sponsor of the club is the Svitanok agrarian company (firm), formerly the Shchors collective farm ( kolkhoz).

History

Previous team

Before establishment of Kolos, Kovalivka had a team Svitanok Kovalivka. In 2008 it made appearance in the Ukrainian Amateur Cup and was eliminated in Round of 16.

Current club

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. ^[3]

The club in 2014 made their debut in the Ukrainian Football Amateur League. Later that year after winning the Oleh Makarov Memorial Tournament, which is played in winter the head coach Ruslan Kostyshyn announced that the club intended to go into professional football. ^[3] That year in 2015 after finishing third in the Ukrainian Football Amateur League, the club obtained professional status and joined the PFL entering into the Ukrainian Second League. ^[3]

In their first season the club won the championship and were promoted to the Ukrainian First League. ^[4]

On 29 July 2020, FC Kolos in overtime beat FC Mariupol 1–0 and qualified for the European competitions. The head coach Ruslan Kostyshyn was merely shocked stating that did not expect his club to place higher the 8th place. ^[5]

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 1 March 2024 ^{[6] [7]}

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   UKR Valentyn Horokh 2 DF   MDA Cătălin Cucoș 3 DF   UKR Roman Honcharenko 5 DF   UKR Valeriy Bondarenko (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) 6 DF   UKR Mykyta Burda 7 MF   UKR Oleksandr Demchenko 8 MF   UKR Vladyslav Veleten 9 DF   UKR Andriy Tsurikov 10 MF   UKR Pavlo Orikhovskyi 11 FW   BRA Lucas Rangel 14 MF   UKR Vadym Milko 15 DF   UKR Oleksandr Chornomorets 17 MF   UKR Anton Salabay 19 FW   BRA Diego Carioca

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 GK   UKR Roman Mysak 22 FW   UKR Denys Bezborodko 23 GK   UKR Kiril Fesyun 27 DF   UKR Valeriy Luchkevych 29 DF   UKR Vladyslav Yemets 30 MF   UKR Andriy Totovytskyi (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) 31 GK   UKR Ivan Pakholyuk 48 MF   UKR Oleh Kryvoruchko 67 DF   UKR Ihor Dorosh 69 MF   UKR Oleh Ilyin 70 MF   UKR Dmytro Topalov (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) 90 MF   UKR Andriy Bohdanov ( captain) 91 FW   UKR Artem Husol 99 FW   LTU Gytis Paulauskas

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 32 FW   UKR Kiril Popov (at Mynai until 30 June 2024) — DF   UKR Vyacheslav Stavnychyi (at Dinaz Vyshhorod until 30 June 2024)

Coaches and administration

Administration [8]	Coaching [6] (senior team)	Coaching (U-19 team)
President – Andriy Zasukha General director – Yevhen Yevseyev Sporting director – Vitaliy Lysytskyi First Vice-President – Irina (Faizutdinova) Zasukha	Head coach – Yaroslav Vyshnyak Assistant coach – Vitaliy Havrysh Assistant coach – Yevheniy Novak Goalkeeping coach – Vyacheslav Kernozenko Fitness coach – Vitaliy Mandzyuk	Senior coach – Oleksandr Pozdeyev Assistant coach – Andriy Hyrcha Assistant coach – Serhiy Kozyr Goalkeeper coach U19 - Serhiy Sitalo

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Ukrainian Cup	Other		Notes
2014	4th (Championship among amateurs)	2	10	6	3	1	19	5	21		AC	1⁄2 finals
		2	3	1	1	1	2	4	4
2015		1	6	6	0	0	26	3	18
		2	10	5	1	4	17	5	16				joined the Second League
2015–16	3rd (Second League)	1	26	19	3	4	62	22	60	1⁄32 finals			Promoted
2016–17	2nd (First League)	5	34	16	9	9	52	38	57	1⁄32 finals
2017–18		5	34	19	4	11	39	30	61	1⁄16 finals
2018–19		2	28	15	9	4	45	18	54	1⁄32 finals			Promoted [9]
2019–20	1st (Premier League)	6	32	10	2	20	33	59	32	1⁄8 finals			Europa League play-offs – Winners
2020–21		4	26	10	11	5	36	26	41	1⁄4 finals	EL	3QR
2021–22		8	18	7	3	8	14	23	24	1⁄16 finals	ECL	3QR
2022–23		8	30	10	6	14	23	36	36	None

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Aris	—	2–1	—
		3Q	Rijeka	—	0–2 ( a.e.t.)	—
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	3Q	Shakhter Karagandy	0–0	0–0 ( a.e.t.)	0–0 (1–3 p)

Notable players

Managers

External links

• Kolos Kovalivka at the Professional Football League of Ukraine (archived 16 February 2017)
• Official website

References