FC Kolos Kovalivka

FC Kolos Kovalivka is a professional Ukrainian football club from village of Kovalivka, Kyiv Oblast that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, having 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.

Kolos Kovalivka
Full nameFC Kolos Kovalivka
Founded2012
GroundKolos Stadium (Kovalivka)
Capacity1,850
Chairman Andriy Zasukha
Head Coach Ruslan Kostyshyn
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2019–206th
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).[1] Outside of the league pyramid, the club also holds several honours of regional competitions for Kiev Oblast which it represents.[1]

The club is named after the Ukrainian sports society Kolos (Agro Industrial Complex trade unions) that exists since after the 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]

Honors
Club emblem (2012–18)

Squad

As of 15 August 2020[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
1 GK  UKR Anton Yashkov
3 DF  UKR Illya Kovalenko
5 DF  UKR Kyrylo Petrov
6 DF  UKR Maksym Maksymenko
7 FW  UKR Volodymyr Lysenko
8 MF  UKR Yevhen Smyrnyi (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
9 MF  UKR Denys Antyukh
10 MF  UKR Yevhen Morozko
11 MF  UKR Oleh Kozhushko (on loan from SC Dnipro-1)
13 MF  UKR Vitaliy Havrysh (captain)
14 MF  UKR Vadym Milko
15 DF  UKR Oleksandr Chornomorets
17 FW  UKR Oleksandr Bondarenko
18 FW  UKR Denys Kostyshyn
19 MF  UKR Stanislav Sorokin
24 DF  UKR Oleksiy Zozulya
No. Pos. Nation Player
25 GK  UKR Yevhen Volynets
29 MF  UKR Vladyslav Yemets (on loan from Zorya)
48 MF  UKR Pavlo Orikhovskyi
28 MF  MKD Darko Micevski
69 MF  UKR Oleh Ilyin
71 GK  UKR Yevhen Kucherenko
77 FW  ISL Árni Vilhjálmsson
81 MF  LVA Vladislavs Soloveičiks
89 MF  UKR Oleksandr Volkov (on loan from Desna)
90 MF  UKR Andriy Bohdanov
94 MF  SEN Mamadou Danfa
99 MF  UKR Yevhen Zadoya
— GK  UKR Anton Kotovyi
— DF  UKR Yevhen Novak
— MF  UKR Mykyta Kravchenko (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)

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
— MF  UKR Arsentiy Doroshenko (at Podillya Khmelnytskyi)
No. Pos. Nation Player

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[7]
2019–20 1st 6 32 10 2 20 33 59 32 ​1⁄8 finals Europa League play-offs – Winners
2020–21 1st EL 2nd qual. round

European record
Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2020–21 UEFA Europa League 2Q

Notable players

Managers

References
  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
  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.
  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
  5. https://koloskovalivka.com/kolos-golovnyj-sklad/
  6. https://upl.ua/en/clubs/view/1806
  7. Won playoff against Chornomorets Odesa on aggregate 2–0
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