FC Kolos Kovalivka

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.

Kolos Kovalivka
Full nameFC Kolos Kovalivka
Founded2012 (2012)
GroundKolos Stadium
Capacity5,000
PresidentAndriy Zasukha[1]
General DirectorYevhen Yevseyev[1]
Head coachYaroslav Vyshnyak
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2023–24Ukrainian Premier League, 11th of 16
WebsiteClub website

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

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
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)

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

References
  1. Кому официально принадлежат украинские клубы. ukrrudprom.com. 12 November 2021
  2. 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
  3. Історія створення футбольного клубу "Колос" [History of the formation of the club "Kolos"]. Kolos Kovalika Official Website (in Ukrainian). 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. "Колос".
  7. "Kolos". upl.ua.
  8. "Менеджмент". Archived from the original on 2021-04-15. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  9. Won playoff against Chornomorets Odesa on aggregate 2–0
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