FC Metal Kharkiv

USSR competitions

The team has played under the following names:

KhPZ (1925–1937, 1941) – factory team Zenit (1938–1940) Dzerzhinets (1947–1952) – All-Union Dzerzhinets sports society (merger into Avangard in 1956) Avanhard/Avangard (1956–1967) – Republican Avanhard sports society (until 1957 All-Union Avangard sports society) Metalist/Metallist (since 1967) – All-Union Zenit sports society (part of reinstating and separating from Avanhard) FC Metalist Kharkiv was initially founded on 11 December 1925 as KhPZ (Kharkovskiy Parovoznyi Zavod – Kharkiv Steam Locomotive Factory), when a local locomotive construction facility (Kharkiv Steam-locomotive Factory, today the Malyshev Factory) provided funding and allowed use of its land to start a football club. The first factory team however played under the name of "Parovoznik" since 1922. A big impulse to development of football among factory teams was construction of the Traktor Stadium (today Metalist Stadium) which was opened in September 1926. The stadium was built on a directive of Anastas Mikoyan (Minister of Foreign and Home Trade). It was built by workers of the Lokomotive Factory and became the biggest in the city. After the opening a team of KhPZ met with the city team of Dnipropetrovsk (renamed in previous month from Yekaterinoslav) tying the match in 2:2 with 8,000 spectators observing the match. In August 1927, the stadium was hosting the Ukrainian Spartakiade final stage. Ten years later in 1935, the club won…

Soviet Union

Ukraine

Soviet Union

Ukraine

Metalist-2 (1997–2005)

League

Ukrainian Premier League Runners-up: 2012–13 Third place (6): 2006–07, 2007–08 (stripped), 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14 Soviet First League Winners: 1981 Ukrainian First League Runners-up: 2003–04 Ukrainian Second League (as FC Metal Kharkiv) Winners: 2020–21 Championship of the Ukrainian SSR Winners: 1978

Cups

Soviet Cup Winners: 1987–88 Runners-up: 1983 Ukrainian Cup Runners-up: 1992 USSR Federation Cup Runners-up: 1987 Soviet Super Cup Runners-up: 1989

Invitational

DCM Trophy Winners (1): 1986