Zorya Luhansk
Zorya Luhansk | |||
Basic data | |||
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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 | ||
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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
- József Szabó (1977)
- Viktor Skripnik (2019)
Web links
- Official website of the club
- zarya.lg.ua - Information site of fans of FC Zarya Lugansk
- Unofficial website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Almantas Lauzadis: USSR Championships 1936-1991 All-Time Table , rsssf.com ( English, as of May 9, 2001, visited April 29, 2008 ).
- ↑ Message on the official club website (Ukrainian, accessed on June 4, 2019 )