FC Stal Kamianske

FC Stal Kamianske (Ukrainian: Сталь Кам'янське) was a professional Ukrainian football club based in Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. After being relegated to the Ukrainian First League after the 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League season, the club re-registered to Bucha and changed its name to PFC Feniks Bucha in June 2018.^[1][2] The club didn't play any game under the new name and was dissolved on 9 July 2018.^[3]

Stal Kamianske

Full name	FC Stal Kamianske
Founded	1926
Dissolved	2018
Ground	Metalurh Stadium, Kamianske (until 2015) Meteor Stadium, Dnipro (2015–2017) Obolon Arena, Kyiv (2017–2018)
Capacity	2,900 (Metalurh Stadium)
Chairman	Vardan Israelian
2017–18	UPL, 12th (relegated)
Website	http://fcstal.com.ua
Home colours Away colours

The club was sponsored by the Dnieper Metallurgical Combine (DMK) which is a member of the Industrial Union of Donbas (ISD).

History

Former logo, as Stal Kamianske.

Gor Malakyan in the Stal's jersey with ISD

The club traces its history to a factory team that was created in 1926 under the name of FC Metalist Kamianske. Later the name was changed to FC Dzerzhynka Kamianske (1934). The team participated in competitions irregularly. It entered Soviet competitions in 1935 as a city's team (Kamianske, 1935–1936) participating in Ukrainian Championship. In 1936, the city of Kamianske was renamed as Dniprodzerzhynsk. In 1936 and in 1938 it entered the Soviet Cup competitions and in 1938 was a runner up of the Ukrainian Championship as Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk yielding only to Dzerzhynets Voroshylovhrad (today FC Zorya Luhansk). There is no record of any competitions in the region during World War II.

In 1945, Dniprodzerzhynsk city players participated in the Ukrainian Spartakiad as members of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast team. In 1949, Metalurh Dniprodzerzhynsk was again a runner-up at the republican competitions, losing a championship playoff to the Kievan Officers' Club (modern FC CSKA Kyiv). Between 1954 and 1975, the Dniprodzerzhynsk metallurgical team did not participate in any national or republican competitions focusing only on regional and city's championships. The club was completely overshadowed by another team from Kamianske (at that time Dniprodzerzhynsk), SC Prometei Dniprodzerzhynsk, that after World War II and until the 1970s was the main city's team.

In 1976, under the name of Metalurh Dniprodzerzhynsk, the team was revived including not only factory players, but also football players of SC Prometei Dniprodzerzhynsk (sports club of the Dnieper Chemical Plant) and Burevisnyk Dniprodzerzhynsk (city's education department sports society). In 1978, the new team won the Ukrainian championship for amateur clubs and was promoted to the Soviet Second League. The club's best achievement was 12th place in the 1982–83 season, and it was soon relegated in 1985.

In 1994, the club became almost defunct. In 1998, the team was reorganized again under the name FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk. The team became one of the strongest in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and in 2001, it was promoted to the Ukrainian amateur championship. In the same year, Stal won the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Cup and was promoted to the Druha Liha B. In the 2003–04 season, Stal became the champions of the division and were promoted to the Persha Liha.

Stal finished in 20th place (bottom) in the 2007–08 season and were relegated to Ukrainian Second League.

After a six-season absence, the club was promoted to Ukrainian First League in 2014.^[4] In 2015, the club was set to merge with FC Metalurh Donetsk.^[5] However, on 11 July 2015 Metalurh declared bankruptcy, citing the economic difficulties caused by the War in Donbas.^[5] FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk did take Metalurh's place in the Ukrainian Premier League.^[5]

In May 2016, the city of Dniprodzerzhynsk was renamed back into Kamianske and team name was changed to FC Stal Kamianske.^[6]

After being relegated to the Ukrainian First League following the 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League season, the club re-registered to Bucha (Kyiv Oblast) and changed its name to PFC Feniks Bucha.^[1] Before the start of the new season, the club withdrew from 2018–19 Ukrainian First League due to financial difficulties.^[7]

Colors and badge

Club's colors are silver, blue and white.

Last squad

Further information: 2017–18 FC Stal Kamianske season

As of 16 July 2018^[8][9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  UKR Danylo Ryabenko 4 DF  UKR Bohdan Mytsyk 7 MF  UKR Danylo Knysh 10 MF  UKR Kyrylo Kostenko 11 MF  UKR Yuriy Klymchuk 13 MF  UKR Dmytro Kopytov 14 MF  BUL Aram Adamyan 16 FW  UKR Artem Khotsyanovskyi 20 DF  UKR Anatoliy Ulyanov 22 DF  ARM Artur Danielyan

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  UKR Mykhaylo Meskhi 25 GK  UKR Ivan Siletskyi 66 DF  BRA Ebert 74 FW  UKR Ihor Nekhayev 77 GK  UKR Mykyta Zelenskyi 87 DF  UKR Bohdan Rudyuk 88 DF  UKR Ihor Oshchypko 92 MF  BRA Thiago Rômulo 97 MF  UKR Andriy Yakymiv 98 FW  UKR Vladyslav Andrusenko

Coaches and administration (before dissolving)

Administration[10]	Coaching[11] (senior team)	Coaching[12] (U-21 team)
President – Vardan Israelian	Head coach – Nikolay Kostov Senior coach – Nedelcho Matushev Coach – Kyrylo Nesterenko Goalies coach – Ihor Bilan	Senior coach – Viktor Zhuravlyov Coach – Oleksandr Zotov Goalies coach – Volodymyr Havrylov

Presidents

• 2001–2005: Maksym Zavhorodniy
• 2005–2007: Oleh Dubina
• 2007–2010: Maksym Zavhorodniy
• 2010–2011: Illia Buha
• 2011–2015: Maksym Zavhorodniy
• 2015–2018: Vardan Israelian

Honours

• Ukrainian First League
  • Runners-up (1): 2014–15
• Ukrainian Second League
  • Winners (1): 2003–04
  • Runners-up (1): 2013–14
• Championship of the Ukrainian SSR
  • Runners-up (2): 1938, 1949 (amateur level competitions until 1960)
• Ukrainian KFK championship
  • Winners (1): 1978
• Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Championship
  • Winners (10): 1938, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1978, 1988, 1992

League and cup history

Soviet Union

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
Stal
1936	6th "Tretia Hrupa" (Ukrainian Championship)	W	Elimination tournament in final Stal beat Dynamo Kryvyi Rih 4:1
1937	5th "Druha Hrupa" (Ukrainian Championship)	2	5	3	1	1	17	7	12
1938	4th "Persha Hrupa" (Ukrainian Championship)	2	11	7	3	1	40	20	28
1939		4	9	3	3	3	17	12	18
1940		4	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
1941-1944	Due to World War II, the club was dissolved and did not function.
Metallurg / Metalurh
1948	4th "Zone 3" (Ukrainian Championship)	1	10	10	0	0	48	10	20
		3	4	2	0	2	10	8	4				semifinal group 2
1949		1	9	7	1	1	34	8	15
		1	4	3	0	1	7	2	6				Lost championship playoff to DO Kiev
1950	4th "Zone 2" (Ukrainian Championship)	2	17	13	1	3	40	24	27
1951	4th "Zone 4" (Ukrainian Championship)	4	18	11	4	3	40	15	26
1952	4th "Zone 3" (Ukrainian Championship)	9	22	5	6	11	19	45	16
1953-1957	Club's status is unknown
1958	4th "Zone 8" (Ukrainian Championship)	7	14	3	1	10	11	29	7
1959-1974	Club's status is unknown
1975-1976	Club participates in regional competitions
1977	4th (KFK (Ukraine))	6	22	8	7	7	25	21	23
1978		1	18	13	4	1	31	9	30				qualified for final group
		1	5	5	0	0	9	3	10				Promoted
1979	3rd (Vtoraya Liga)	23	46	13	8	25	37	71	34
1980		18	44	11	11	22	47	58	33
1981		22	44	8	13	23	31	71	29
1982		12	46	17	9	20	47	47	43
1983		12	50	17	14	19	35	39	48
1984		11	24	4	7	13	23	38	15
		24	14	5	4	5	17	19	14
1985		13	26	5	4	17	20	45	14
		28	14	4	3	7	14	22	11				Relegated
1986-1988	Club participates in regional competitions
1989	4th (KFK (Ukraine))	7	24	9	7	8	34	32	25
1990-1992	Club participates in regional competitions

Ukraine

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
Metalurh
1992–93	4th (Amateurs)	10	26	6	11	9	30	30	23
1993–2001	Club participates in regional competitions. In 1998 changed its name to Stal.
2001	4th (Amateurs)	2	4	2	1	1	5	4	7				applied to Second League
2001–02	3rd "C" (Druha Liha)	12	34	11	7	16	29	47	40	Did not enter
2002–03		5	28	16	4	8	35	22	52	1/32 finals
2003–04		1	30	23	6	1	53	16	75	1/32 finals			Promoted
2004–05	2nd (Persha Liha)	9	34	14	7	13	42	47	49	1/16 finals
2005–06		8	34	13	9	12	34	29	48	1/8 finals
2006–07		9	36	15	8	13	42	37	53	1/4 finals
2007–08		20	38	3	11	24	23	58	20	1/32 finals			Relegated
2008–09	3rd "B" (Druha Liha)	3	34	21	7	6	62	29	70	1/32 finals
2009–10		4	26	15	6	5	38	23	51	1/16 finals
2010–11		4	22	10	7	5	32	18	37	1/16 finals
2011–12		6	26	15	3	8	34	19	48	1/8 finals
2012–13		8	24	10	3	11	47	30	33	1/16 finals			qualified for Group 4
		2	8	5	1	2	16	10	16				Relegation group 4
2013–14		2	36	23	8	5	81	32	77	1/16 finals			Promoted
2014–15	2nd (Persha Liha)	2	30	17	9	4	45	21	60	1/8 finals			Promoted
2015–16	1st (Premier Liha)	8	26	7	8	11	22	31	29	1/4 finals
2016–17[13]		8	32	11	8	13	27	31	41	1/8 finals
2017–18		12	32	6	8	18	23	44	26	1/8 finals			Relegated and withdrew
Feniks

See also

• SC Prometei Dniprodzerzhynsk
• FC Prometei Dniprodzerzhynsk