Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. The team has played under the following names: Stakhanovets, Shakhtyor, and FC Shaktar. The club is one of Ukraine’s most popular football clubs, and is particularly favoured in the eastern Donbass region. In May 2020, Shakhtar started to play home matches at NSC Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv.
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Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In May 2020, Shakhtar started to play home matches at NSC Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and is often a participant in the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first club in independent Ukraine to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year before the competition was revamped as the Europa League. FC Shakhtar was originally formed on a decision of the All-Union Council on physical culture and sports of 3 April 1936. The team has played under the following names: Stakhanovets, Shakhtyor , and FC Shaktar. The club is one of Ukraine’s most popular football clubs, and is particularly favoured in the eastern Donbass region. In the late Soviet period, Shaktar was considered a tough mid-table club of the Soviet Top League and a cup competition specialist after winning the Soviet Cup two years in a row in 1961 and 1962. During the war championship of 1941, which was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. The last game of that championship played on 24 June, two days after the start of the war, which they lost at home to Traktor Stalinglines. In 2014, due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, the club was forced to move to Lviv, and had played matches in Lviv and in Kharkiv whilst having its office headquarters and training facilities inKyiv.
The first game was against Dynamo Odessa as part of the 1936 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR and took place on 12 May 1936 at Balitsky Stadium in Horlivka. Its first league game in Group V took place on 24 May 1936 against Dynamo Kazan, which miners lost 4–1. The team that played as Stakhonovets Hor Livka lost it 3–2 after scoring the first goal by Mykhailo Pashchenko, the second goal belonged to Boris Terentiev. The game in Kazan was witnessed by 3,000 spectators, with Fedor Manov equalizing for the hosts in the 55th minute. The final score is 4-1 in favor of the hosts, but the game was played at the Donbass Arena, which is home to the Donetsk Football Association. The match was played in front of a crowd of 2,000 people, with the score at the end of the first half being 1-0 in Shakhtar’s favour. The next game in the group was played on 28 May against Dynamo Stalino, and Shakhtar won 3-2. The second game of the group took place at the Dynamo Stalino Stadium in Horlivka, with Shakhtar winning 2-1. The third game was held at the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv early in the 2017 season, and the club won 2-0.
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