Kharkiv

Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 2016, the club plays in Professional Football League of Ukraine. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity. Bronze medalist of the Second League of Ukraine Championship 2017/18. Silver medalist of the Championship of Ukraine among amateurs 2016/17. In the 2018/19 season it performs to the Professional Football League of Ukraine. Metalist 1925 is the second club in Ukraine to attend home matches in the championship. The club ethos is the bet on local players. Thus, in the first team of Metalist 1925, 22 players are from Kharkiv. In the team application in the first part of the 2017/18 season, 24 players from 27 were from Kharkiv football schools, in the second part of the season - 21 players from 25, in the 2018/19 season - 23 players from 30. Legally, Metallist 1925 is not the legal successor of FC Metalist Kharkiv, which was disbanded in 2016 because its last owner, Serhiy Kurchenko, ceased to fund the club and refused to sell it to other potential investors.