Zorya Luhansk

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Zorya Luhansk
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Basic data
Surname FK Zorya Luhansk
Seat Luhansk
founding 1923
Colours Black-and-white
president Olexander Jehorow
Website zarya-lugansk.com
First soccer team
Head coach Jurij Vernydub
Venue Awanhard Stadium (currently: Slavutytsch Arena , Zaporizhia )
Places 22,320
league Premjer-Liha
2019/20 3rd place
home
Away

The FK Zorya Luhansk , ( Ukrainian ФК Зоря Луганськ , Russian ФК Заря Луганск FK Zarya Lugansk ), formerly Zorya Voroshilovgrad and Zorya-MALS, is a Ukrainian football club from Luhansk .

history

Soviet Union

The club celebrated its greatest successes during the 1970s, when the city was still called Vorozhylovhrad . At that time the club was first division , Sorja won in 1972 as one of only three Ukrainian teams, in addition to Dynamo Kiev and FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk , the championship of the USSR , also was the team in 1974 and 1975 in the final of the Cup of the Soviet Union . In total, Zorya played in the top league of the USSR for 14 years and is 20th in the all-time best list of the USSR .

Ukraine

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992, Zorya was one of the 20 founding members of the new Wyschtscha Liha . There the club played five seasons before he was relegated to the second-rate Perscha Liha after the 1995/96 season as table eighteenth , where the team spent two seasons before further relegation to the third-rate Druha Liha followed. After ten years of inferiority, Zorya Luhansk has been back in the top Ukrainian league since the 2006/07 season , where the team was initially mostly in the lower midfield of the table, but was able to fight for a place in the qualification for the UEFA Europa League for the first time in 2014 .

Because of the war in eastern Ukraine , Zorya has been playing his home games in Zaporizhia since the 2014/15 season .

Trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Almantas Lauzadis: USSR Championships 1936-1991 All-Time Table , rsssf.com ( English, as of May 9, 2001, visited April 29, 2008 ).
  2. Message on the official club website (Ukrainian, accessed on June 4, 2019 )