FC Kolos Kovalivka

Kolos Kovalivka
Full name	FC Kolos Kovalivka
Founded	2012
Ground	Kolos Stadium
Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Andriy Zasukha
Head coach	Yaroslav Vyshnyak
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2021–22	Ukrainian Premier League, 8th of 16
Website	Club website

FC Kolos Kovalivka 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).^[1] Outside of the league pyramid, the club also holds several honours of regional competitions for Kyiv Oblast which it represents.^[1]

The club is named after the Ukrainian sports society Kolos (Agro-Industrial Complex 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.^[2]

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.^[2] 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.^[2]

In their first season the club won the championship and were promoted to the Ukrainian First League.^[3]

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.^[4]

Honours

File:Kolos Kovalivka.png

Club emblem (2012–18)

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^[5]^[6]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
3	DF	UKR	Roman Honcharenko
4	DF	UKR	Vyacheslav Stavnychyi
7	FW	UKR	Volodymyr Lysenko
8	MF	UKR	Vladyslav Veleten
9	FW	UKR	Yevheniy Smyrnyi (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
10	MF	UKR	Pavlo Orikhovskyi
11	FW	UKR	Yevhen Isayenko (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
14	MF	UKR	Vadym Milko (captain)
15	DF	UKR	Oleksandr Chornomorets
19	MF	UKR	Andriy Solovyov
21	DF	UKR	Yevhen Novak
22	FW	UKR	Denys Bezborodko
23	FW	UKR	Kiril Popov (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
24	DF	UKR	Oleksiy Zozulya


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
25	GK	UKR	Yevhen Volynets
27	DF	UKR	Denys Kuzyk (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
29	DF	UKR	Vladyslav Yemets
33	GK	UKR	Volodymyr Makhankov
35	DF	BLR	Nikolay Zolotov
44	DF	UKR	Serhiy Chobotenko
47	MF	UKR	Serhiy Myakushko
49	FW	GEO	Nika Sichinava
50	MF	UKR	Serhiy Bolbat
69	MF	UKR	Oleh Ilyin
72	GK	UKR	Kiril Fesyun
90	MF	UKR	Andriy Bohdanov
99	MF	UKR	Yevhen Zadoya

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
—	GK	UKR	Yevhen Kucherenko (at Aksu until 31 December 2022)
—	DF	UKR	Yevheniy Kostyuk (at Nyva Vinnytsia until 30 June 2023)
—	DF	UKR	Oleksandr Litvinov (at Dinaz Vyshhorod until 31 December 2022)
—	DF	UKR	Oleksiy Malaki (at Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni until 31 December 2022)
—	MF	UKR	Bohdan Dukhota (at Dinaz Vyshhorod until 30 June 2023)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	UKR	Stanislav Morarenko (at Dinaz Vyshhorod until 30 June 2023)
—	MF	CMR	Alvaro Ngamba (at Mariehamn until 31 December 2022)
—	MF	UKR	Anton Salabay (at Dinaz Vyshhorod until 30 June 2023)
—	FW	BRA	Diego Carioca (at Zalaegerszeg until 30 June 2023)
—	FW	BRA	Renan Oliveira (at Žalgiris until 31 December 2022)

Coaches and administration

Administration^[7]	Coaching^[5] (senior team)	Coaching^[8] (U-21 team)
President – Andriy Zasukha General director – Yevhen Yevseyev Sportive director – Vitaliy Lysytskyi First Vice-President – Hryhoriy Pitsyk	Head coach – Yaroslav Vyshnyak Assistant coach – Vitaliy Havrysh Goalies coach – Vyacheslav Kernozenko	Senior coach – Vladyslav Savchuk Assistant coach – Andriy Hyrcha Goalkeeper coach U21 - Andriy Fedorenko^[9]

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
2014		2	3	1	1	1	2	4	4
2015		1	6	6	0	0	26	3	18
2015		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^[10]
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	3rd qual. round
2021–22											ECL	3rd qual. round

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Aris	—	2–1	—
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	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

Kostyantyn Sakharov (2012 – 2014)
Ruslan Kostyshyn (6 February 2014 – 29 August 2021)
Syarhey Kuznyatsow (interim) (29 August 2021 – November 2021)
Yaroslav Vyshnyak (November 2021 – present)

External links

References

^ ^a ^b 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
^ ^a ^b ^c Історія створення футбольного клубу "Колос" [History of the formation of the club "Kolos"]. Kolos Kovalika Official Website (in Ukrainian). 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
^ Колос Ковалівка - чемпіон другої ліги сезону-2015/16 [Kolos Kovalivka - 2015–16 Second League Champions]. UA-Football (in Ukrainian). 21 May 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
^ Dmitriy Malianov. Ruslan Kostyshyn, "I did not think that Kolos in its debut season in the UPL will qualify for the European cups. I am not an idiot (Руслан Костышин: "Не думал, что "Колос" в дебютном сезоне УПЛ выйдет в еврокубки. Я же не идиот"). Footboom. 29 July 2020
^ ^a ^b "Колос".
^ "Kolos". upl.ua.
^ "Менеджмент".
^ "Колос U-21".
^ "ТРЕНЕРСЬКИЙ СКЛАД". www.koloskovalivka.com. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
^ Won playoff against Chornomorets Odesa on aggregate 2–0

[koloscongr-1] 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

[web-2] Історія створення футбольного клубу "Колос" [History of the formation of the club "Kolos"]. Kolos Kovalika Official Website (in Ukrainian). 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

[champs-3] Колос Ковалівка - чемпіон другої ліги сезону-2015/16 [Kolos Kovalivka - 2015–16 Second League Champions]. UA-Football (in Ukrainian). 21 May 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

[4] Dmitriy Malianov. Ruslan Kostyshyn, "I did not think that Kolos in its debut season in the UPL will qualify for the European cups. I am not an idiot (Руслан Костышин: "Не думал, что "Колос" в дебютном сезоне УПЛ выйдет в еврокубки. Я же не идиот"). Footboom. 29 July 2020

[auto-5] "Колос".

[6] "Kolos". upl.ua.

[7] "Менеджмент".

[8] "Колос U-21".

[9] "ТРЕНЕРСЬКИЙ СКЛАД". www.koloskovalivka.com. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

[10] Won playoff against Chornomorets Odesa on aggregate 2–0

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