FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv

Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (Металіст 1925) is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Founded in 1925, the club plays in the Ukrainian First League. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity.

Metalist Kharkiv was promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League after finishing in third place in the 2020–21 Ukrainian First League. They earned promotion on two previous occasions: placing second in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Football Amateur League and placing third in the 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League.

History
The club was established in the summer of 2016 after the original club, FC Metalist Kharkiv, was refused a license by the Football Federation of Ukraine and expelled from national competitions.

On the initiative of former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, among others, a new club was created under the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv. It entered the Ukrainian Football Amateur League for the 2016–17 season and earned promotion to the Ukrainian Second League the next year.

In 2018 the club was promoted to the Ukrainian First League and from 2021 it is playing in the highest tier of the Ukrainian assotiation football – at the Ukrainian Premier League.

Infrastructure
Metalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in the town of Vysokyi.

Administration

 * Owner – LLC FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
 * Co-owner – Solar Solutions Ukraine and Borky Solar
 * CEO – Yaroslav Vdovenko

Coaches (senior team)

 * Head coach – Viktor Skrypnyk
 * Assistant coach – Serhiy Popov
 * Assistant coach – Maksym Tsvirenko
 * Assistant coach – Serhiy Chernyshov
 * Goalkeeper coach – Serhiy Volvakov
 * Fitness Coach – Hryhoriy Yarmash
 * Fitness Coach – Andriy Shabalin

Managers

 * Oleksandr Pryzetko (16 Aug 2016 – 26 September 2017)
 * Vyacheslav Khruslov (caretaker) (26 September 2017 – 28 September 2017)
 * Oleksandr Ivanov (28 September 2017 – 3 May 2018)
 * Serhiy Ralyuchenko (caretaker) (3 May 2018 – 8 May 2018)
 * Serhiy Valyayev (8 May 2018 – 11 September 2018)
 * Oleksandr Horyainov (caretaker) (11 September 2018 – 10 December 2018)
 * Oleksandr Horyainov (10 December 2018 – 4 June 2019)
 * Andriy Demchenko (4 June 2019 – 21 July 2020)
 * Vyacheslav Khruslov (caretaker) (21 July 2020 – 21 August 2020)
 * Valeriy Kriventsov (21 August 2020 – 22 October 2022)
 * Edmar (caretaker) (23 October 2022 – 5 November 2023)
 * Oleh Holodyuk (caretaker) (5 November 2023 – 20 December 2023)
 * Viktor Skrypnyk (20 December 2023 – present)

Honours

 * Ukrainian First League
 * Third place (1): 2020–21


 * Ukrainian Second League
 * Third place (1): 2017–18


 * Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship
 * Runners-up (1): 2016–17

Metalist 1925-2
It was announced that Metalist 1925 will be fielding its second squad in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Second League. Metalist 1925-2 would be formed based on Metalist 1925 under-19 team that competed at the UPL U-19 competitions.