FC Shakhtar Donetsk

General

Kit history

Shakhtar Donetsk «Шахтар» Донецьк
Full name	Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк
Nickname(s)	Hirnyky (Miners) Kroty (Moles)
Founded	24 May 1936
Ground	Arena Lviv (Capacity: 34,915)
Owner	Rinat Akhmetov
Chairman	Serhiy Palkin (General director)
Head Coach	Arda Turan
Current League	Ukrainian Premier League
2024–25	Ukrainian Premier League, 3rd
Website	Club home page

Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk, short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, the club was forced to move to Lviv, and since 2023 has played home league matches at Arena Lviv. European "home" matches are played at Schalke 04's Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

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 UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year before the competition was revamped as the Europa League. FC Shakhtar Donetsk is one of two Ukrainian clubs, the other being Dynamo Kyiv, who have won a major UEFA competition.

Club alumni

Former players

Main article: Shakhtar Donetsk players

Managers

Main article: Shakhtar Donetsk managers

Club honours

Ukrainian competitions Ukrainian Premier League Winners (13): 2001–02, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 Ukrainian Cup Winners (13): 1994–95, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 Ukrainian Super Cup Winners (9): 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021 Soviet competitions Soviet Cup Winners (4): 1961, 1962, 1980, 1983 Soviet First League Winners: 1954 Season's Cup (unofficial tournament as Super Cup) Winners: 1984 European competitions UEFA Cup Winners (1): 2008–09 UEFA club coefficient ranking As of 12 March 2020 Rank Team Points 16 Napoli 77.000 Lyon Shakhtar Donetsk 19 Porto 75.000 20 Benfica 70.000 Friendly competitions Channel One Cup: 2006 La Manga Cup : 2008 Uhrencup: 2009 Copa del Sol: 2010, 2013 Salzburgerland Cup: 2011 United Tournament/United Supercup: 2014 IFA Shield (IFA) runners-up: 1985 Team awards Special award from the IFFHS 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. Soviet Footballer of the Year Vitaliy Starukhin (1979) Footballer of the Year in Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States Henrikh Mkhitaryan (2012) Ukrainian Footballer of the Year Viktor Fomin (1950) Aleksandr Ponomarev (1951) Vitaliy Starukhin (1979) Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (2002, 2006, 2007) Ukraine Premier League MVP As awarded by the Komanda newspaper Andriy Vorobey (2000) Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (2002) Andriy Pyatov (2010) Henrikh Mkhitaryan (2012) Alex Teixeira (2015) Marlos (2016–18) Taison (2019) Armenian Footballer of the Year Henrikh Mkhitaryan (2011, 2012) Polish Footballer of the Year Mariusz Lewandowski (2009) Soviet Goalkeeper of the Year Yuriy Dehteryov (1977) Club Loyalty Award Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (1987) Romania Coach of the Year Mircea Lucescu (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014)

External links

• Official website
• Shakhtar news on Tribuna.com

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