Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk () is a Ukrainian professional

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club that was based in the city of

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until 2014 when, due to the

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, the club was forced to move to

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, and played matches in Lviv (2014–2016) and in

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(2017–2020) whilst having its office headquarters and training facilities in

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. In May 2020, Shakhtar started to play home matches at NSC Olimpiyskyi in Kyiv.Shakhtar will spend the rest of the season at the Olimpiyskiy
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. 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

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, the last year before the competition was revamped as the Europa League. FC Shakhtar Donetsk is one of two Ukrainian clubs, the other being

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, who have won a major UEFA competition. The club formerly played its home matches in Donetsk at the newly built

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, however due to the

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in 2014, the team were forced to relocate to the west in Arena Lviv in the interim. Following the winter break of the 2016–17 season the club then moved again to the

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( to the northwest of Donetsk) early in 2017.Still in exile, Shakhtar Donetsk picks new home

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(30 January 2017) In May–July 2020 Shakhtar played home matches at NSC Olimpiyskyi in Kyiv. Shakhtar Donetsk is one of Ukraine's most popular football clubs,Poll: 40% of Ukrainians consider themselves football supporters, most against idea of CIS league

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(27 August 2013) and is particularly favoured in the eastern

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region. On 28 October 2021, Shakhtar had 1.4 million followers on Facebook, the highest in Ukraine. The club draws its history from the very start of the Soviet football league competitions and is one of the oldest clubs in Ukraine. The club was a member of the Soviet Voluntary Sports Society of Shakhtyor, having connections with other Soviet teams from

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), among others. In the late Soviet period, Shakhtar was considered a tough mid-table club of the

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and a cup competition specialist after winning the

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two years in a row in 1961 and 1962.

History

The club's names and etymology

The team has played under the following names: Stakhanovets (1936–46), Shakhtyor (Shakhtar) (1946–92), and FC Shakhtar (1992–present). The club has a meaningful association with the

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underground coal-mining using vertical mining shafts, called '' Schacht'' in German. This was taken over into Cyrillic ''Шахтн'', end re-transcribed into Latin letters as, for example, ''shakt'' in English use. As part of the so-called Stalin industrialisation and

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, in 1936 the local football teams of Dynamo sports societies of Horlivka and Stalino (today Donetsk) established a joint team that represented the mining volunteer sports society Stakhanovets (later Shakhter). The team was transferred from the sports society for the

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to a trade union "volunteered sports society" (DSO). Following the

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, the DSO Stakhanovets changed its name to DSO Shakhter which in the Ukrainian SSR had its local corresponding nomenclature as DSS Shakhtar. The word "Shakhter" or "Shakhtar" means a coal miner working at a sub-surface mine, shafted mine, shakhta is a derivative of shaft. During the

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(1989–1992), the Donetsk club was reorganized and commercialized as a professional football team. It also made its Ukrainian name as its only name, Шахтар Донецьк, with ''Shakhtar Donetsk'' in English, ''Schachtar Donezk'' in German and ''Szachtar Donieck'' in Polish, the latter two being languages of countries that hosted international "home" games for the club due to the situation since 2014.

Early years – first two decades

The Shakhtar club was originally formed on a decision of the

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of 3 April 1936. It was initially named Stakhanovets, meaning "the participant of

", which derived from Aleksei Stakhanov, a coal-miner in the

and propaganda celebrity in 1935. The first team was based upon two other local teams, the participants of the All-Ukrainian

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s: '' Dynamo Horlivka'' and ''Dynamo Stalino''. The first game was against

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as part of the 1936 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR (at that time known as Ukrainian spring challenge) and took place on 12 May 1936 at Balitsky Stadium in

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(the first home stadium). The team that played as Stakhonovets Horlivka lost 3–2 after scoring the first goal by Mykhailo Pashchenko, the second goal belonged to Boris Terentiev. Its first league game in Group V took place on 24 May 1936 against ''Dynamo Kazan'' was even more disappointing, which miners lost 4–1. Stakhonovets that had on its roster 15 players left for

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by train on 20 May. Beside players, as part of delegation there were representative of regional council of physical culture Gololobov and republican referee I.Rozanov. The team returned to Stalino on 28 May and the same day Gololobov in interview to newspaper "Stalinskiy rabochiy" told that "... the game in Kazan with local "Dynamo" was witnessed by 3,000 spectators. With the first minutes, the field hosts offered a high pace. The "Miners", who were road weary, could not respond with the same. On the 13th minute they conceded the first goal and by the end of first half, two more. In many respects the reason was poor performance of right halfback Kutsev (who played instead of K.Pashchenko) and right outside forward Korotynsky. Through their flank Dynamo players successfully attacked. In the first half Stakhanovets forwards looked bleak and uncertain. In the second half the game equalized and on 55th minute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4–1 in favor of the hosts." Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the ''war championship'' of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions

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and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after the start of the

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, which they lost at home to Traktor Stalingrad. During the war many players went to frontlines and perished among which are Ivan Ustinov, Ivan Putyatov, Volodymyr Shkurov, Ivan Horobets, Mykhailo Vasin and others. From the pre-war squad in 1945 there were left only three players Georgiy Bikezin, Mykola Kuznetsov, and Petro Yurchenko. The All-Union coal mining society of Stakhanovite (Stakhanovets) had changed its name in July 1946 to Shakhtyor (Shakhter) and so did the Sports Society of Donbas Miners. The term Shakhtar or Shakhter (Russian variation) is occupational referring to a miner working in a subterranean mining shaft (see

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), the word "shakhtar" is a local adaptation and derivative of shaft. In the Soviet Union, due to an elevated risk working underground, a subterranean mining job was more compensated in relation to other unskilled work and always in demand. In 1950,

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was named

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, despite the club finishing only 11th in the league. The first success for the team was in 1951, when it achieved third place in the USSR Championship. The most notable player of that achievement was the striker

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, who came to finish his football career in

, the region he was born in, and was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year for 1951. Despite the latest achievement, Shakhtar was relegated at the end of the 1952 season and as part of the re-organization of the team, former player

became the head coach of the club. In 1954, Shakhtar under Ponomarev won the Class B League, thus sealing a return to the top league.

Cup triumphs and establishment in the Soviet League

In 1958, the players of the club received fewer yellow and red cards than any other team in the championship, for what the ''

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'' newspaper awarded the club with the "Fair Play Award." In the 1960s, Shakhtar, under Oleg Oshenkov's coaching, were three-time

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finalists, winning it twice in 1961 and 1962. Among the players playing for the club then where defenders Viacheslav Aliabiev and Vladimir Salkov. The club was nicknamed "The Cup Team" due to Shakhtar's success in vying for the trophy every year. The Miners' more notable achievements, however, occurred later from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Despite the departure of the team's leader midfielder

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, in 1975, Shakhtar under management of former player Vladimir Salkov, earned second place in the USSR Championship and received the right to represent the Soviet Union in European competition. At the end of the season, Shakhtar received the Progress Cup for making the biggest progress from previous season in the league. They received the award again in 1977. In 1978, Shakhtar finished third in the USSR Championship. In 1979, the team finished second in the league campaign and its captain— striker

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—became the top scorer in the USSR Championship with 26 goals scored, also being named

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. The club was only two points away from the first place, despite having important players leaving the club before the season, and other important players receiving injuries. Other important players besides Starukhin at the time were Mykhaylo Sokolovskyi, who went on to set a caps record for the club (for what he received the Club Loyalty Award in 1987), defenders Viktor Zvyahintsev and

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, who both made it numerous times to the 33 Top Players of the Soviet Championship lists, and goalkeeper Yuriy Dehteryov, who was named Soviet goalkeeper of the year and took third place for

in 1977. Shakhtar twice, in 1980 and 1983, brought home the crystal USSR Cup to Donetsk and in 1983, it won the

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over then-domestic league champions

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. Shakhtar reached the

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quarter-final, and strikers Viktor Hrachov and Serhiy N. Morozov became joint top scorers of the tournament. In 1987, Shakhtar received the fewest yellow and red cards in the championship, for which the club was awarded the "Soviet Top League Fair Play Award" by ''Man and Law'' magazine. Between 1982 and 1988, Shakhtar received the "Together With The Club" award five times, an award given for good organization of home games and behaviour of the home fans.

First decade in independent Ukraine – the beginning of the Akhmetov era

In the newly independent Ukraine, Shakhtar, along with Dynamo Kyiv, became perennial first place competitors. A bombing-assassination took place at the team's stadium, killing club president

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in October 1995. In 1996,

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took over as president and invested heavily in the club. Despite Shakhtar not being a strong contender for the championship at the time, finishing second many times with a large point gap from the first-place position, they won the

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three times, in

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(under the management of former player Vladimir Salkov),

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and

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. In the

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, Shakhtar were eliminated after a 5–2 aggregate loss to

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, losing the first and second legs. Important players at the time were defenders

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and Mykhaylo Starostyak, goalkeeper

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, striker Oleh Matvyeyev (who was top scorer of the Premier League in the 1996–97 season), and

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and

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. Most of the players playing for the team of the time came through the team's youth ranks. Towards the end of the decade, the team finally started to look like a team able to become champion. In 1999, a Shakhtar football academy was opened and now hosts football training for roughly 3,000 youth. In 2000,

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was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year by ''Komanda'', the first Shakhtar player in independent Ukraine to do so, and became the top scorer in the

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. That year, Shakhtar competed in the

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for the first time, drawn in a group with Lazio, Arsenal and Sparta Prague. They finished third in the group, qualifying for the

after a 3–0 home win against Arsenal.

First league triumph

The club won its first ever Ukrainian Premier League title in the 2001–02 season under coach

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, winning by a single point over Dynamo Kyiv. They were also victorious in the 2001–02 Ukrainian Cup, defeating Dynamo 3–2 after extra time in the

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. Among the key players at the club at the time were captain

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, striker Andriy Vorobey, midfielder Hennadiy Zubov and defender Mykhaylo Starostyak. At the end of the season, Tymoshchuk, who emerged as the club's leader on the field, was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year by ''Komanda'' and ''Ukrainskiy Football''. After multiple managerial changes, in 2004 the Romanian

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was invited to build a team in Shakhtar. After ten days at the club, he won the 2003–04 Ukrainian Cup and after three months, for the first time in club history, the club made it to the

group stage, which won him the 2004

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title. The strategy chosen was looking for young talented players in Brazil, which was to form the base of the attack, while the defence would supplied by largely Ukrainian talent in order to adjust to rules forcing teams to have a certain number of local players on the field. The large amount of Brazilians arriving at the club earned Shakhtar the nickname "the most Brazilian club in Europe". They won their second Premier League title in the 2004–05 season, but lost to Dynamo Kyiv in the inaugural

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tournament in 2004. They finished as runners up in the

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, losing to Dynamo in a penalty shoot-out the

. They retained the Premier League crown in the 2005–06 season and managed to avenge the defeat to Dynamo in the previous Super Cup by defeating them on penalties to win their first-ever Super Cup title. At the end of the season, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year for by ''Ukrainian Football'' for the second time, becoming the first Shakhtar player to be named so more than once. Brazilian striker

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became the league's joint top scorer. Shakhtar appeared in all three editions of the Channel One Cup, winning the 2007 edition and finishing runners-up in 2008. Having missed out on the league title in 2006–07, Shakhtar regained the title in 2007–08, also being victorious in the

after defeating Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 in the final. Shakhtar's attendance levels at league matches have continually risen over the years to a point where they averaged 36,983 spectators over the 2011–12 Premier League season.

UEFA Cup triumph and domination in Ukraine

In 2009, they became only the second Ukrainian team to win a European competition (and the first since independence), and the first to win the

after defeating

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in the final, with goals from Brazilians

Luiz Adriano Luiz Adriano de Souza da Silva (born 12 April 1987), or simply Luiz Adriano (), is a Brazilian professional association football, footballer who plays as a striker (association football), striker for Esporte Clube Vitória, Vitória. Born in P ...

and

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. The victory earned the player

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the 2009 Polish Footballer of the Year award. This also made them the last UEFA Cup winners before the tournament was rebranded as the

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. Before the start of the 2009–10 season, Shakhtar won the friendly

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tournament. Shakhtar won the Premier League title in the 2009–10 season, goalkeeper

Andriy Pyatov Andriy Valeriyovych Pyatov (; born 28 June 1984) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, primarily for Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk. Club career Artemida Kirovohrad Pyatov started his career i ...

was named Ukraine Premier League MVP by ''Komanda'', and Manager Mircea Lucescu was named Romania Coach of the Year for the second time. The 2010–11 season was a very successful one for Shakhtar. They reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, their then-best-ever performance in the competition. Captain

Darijo Srna Darijo Srna (; born 1 May 1982) is a Croatian former professional association football, footballer and current director of football of Ukrainian Premier League club FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Shakhtar Donetsk. During most of his career he played as a r ...

was chosen to be part of the Champions League Team of the Season as voted by fans. They also won a domestic treble with victory in the Premier League,

and the Super Cup. The successful season did not go unnoticed by the experts, and in 2011, the

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gave Shakhtar a special award for making the biggest progress of the decade among football clubs. They went on to win the

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and

in the 2011–12 season. Shakhtar player

Yevhen Seleznyov Yevhen Oleksandrovych Seleznyov (; born 20 July 1985) is a former Ukrainian professional footballer. He previously played three spells at Shakhtar Donetsk, winning the UEFA Cup in 2009, and a domestic double three years later. He was the league ...

topped the goal scoring charts in the league, with 14 goals, midfielder

Henrikh Mkhitaryan Henrikh Mkhitaryan ( ; born 21 January 1989) is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Inter Milan. Mkhitaryan won four Armenian Premier League titles with Pyunik, and joined Metalurh Donetsk in 2009; he moved ...

was named

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, and manager Mircea Lucescu was named 2012 Romania Coach of the Year, receiving the award for the third time. The main players at that time were captain Darijo Srna, defender

Yaroslav Rakitskyi Yaroslav Volodymyrovych Rakitskyi (, ; born 3 August 1989) is a ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for ukrainian club Chornomorets Odesa. He is best known for his passing ability and free-kicks. He was also a member o ...

, Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan (who was named Armenian Footballer of the Year twice while playing for Shakhtar) and Brazilian midfielders Fernandinho and Willian. Heinrich Mkhitaryan 2012

In the 2012–13 season Shakhtar won the

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and

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. Henrikh Mkhitaryan became the top scorer of the league, setting a Ukrainian championship record of 25 goals. He was also named the Ukraine Premier League MVP by ''Komanda'', Armenian Footballer of the Year and the CIS Footballer of the Year for 2012.

Leaders depart, new titles and war in Donbas

Prior to the 2013–14 season, many of the club's main players were sold after Shakhtar accepted high bids for them – Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Fernandinho and Willian brought the club over €100 million. Shakhtar spent the following summer trying to integrate new young players into the team, who along with the remaining players were to form the backbone of the renewed Shakhtar. Despite selling its leaders, before the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar set a new record for East Europe for number of season tickets sold. Before the beginning of the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar won two friendly tournaments in

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, the Match World Cup, and the Super Cup of Champions played against Russian champions

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. In the mid-season break, Shakhtar won the

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(the second edition of the

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), a tournament between the top-two placed clubs of Ukraine and of Russia, which strengthened Shakhtar's status as the strongest club in Eastern Europe. At the end of the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar won the Ukraine Premier League, while

was the league top scorer. Shakhtar also won the 2014 Ukrainian Super Cup, holding the trophy for the sixth time. Manager Mircea Lucescu was named the 2014 Romania Coach of the Year, receiving the award for the fourth time. Due to the war in Donbas, Shakhtar had to temporarily move and play its games in

, resulting in very low attendance. As an anti-war protest, the players of Shakhtar refused the initiative to wear the "Glory to the Ukrainian Army" shirts. In the

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, Shakhtar finished second in the group stage, therefore qualifying to the next stage. Striker Luiz Adriano equaled both

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's record of five goals in a Champions League match and

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's record of scoring nine goals in the group stage; as a result,

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named him MVP of the competition's group stage. Shakhtar finished the season second in the

2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League The 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 24th since its establishment. The competition commenced on 25 July when Metalurh Donetsk hosted Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in Lviv. Due to the war in Donbas, the league reduced the number of team ...

after playing the whole season away from Donbas, with

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finishing as a joint top scorer in the league. At the end of the season,

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was sold to

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, while Luiz Adriano moved to

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. While the club itself moved to a

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-controlled zone, a few prominent Shakhtar players remained in the

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and supported the unrecognised state. Among them were former defender Viktor Zvyahintsev, former goalkeeper Yuriy Dehteryov, former Shakhtar and

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captain

, and the club's first press officer Vyacheslav Sharafutdinov. During the

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, on 16 October, Shakhtar beat Dynamo Kyiv 3–0 in Kyiv and set two new records. One record was that for the first time during a

Klasychne derby Klasychne derby (Ukrainian: ''Класичне'', as ''Classico''), or the ''Ukrainian football rivalry'' is the Association football, football match between the two top Ukrainian clubs FC Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Kyiv and FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Shakht ...

game in Kyiv a team scored three goals. The other record was that for the first time Shakhtar had more

victories, 26, than Dynamo. In the middle of the season, Alex Teixeira moved to Chinese club

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for a fee of €50 million, breaking both the Asian and Ukrainian transfer record. The club finished the 2015/16 season as runner up and

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was recognised best league player by Komanda. After the 2015–16 season, long-time manager Mircea Lucescu moved on to Zenit Saint Petersburg; he was replaced by the Portuguese

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, previously of

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. Following the winter break of the 2016–17 season, a season when the club won the league, the cup, and the supercup, the club moved to the

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

(241 km to the north of Donetsk). In 2017–18, the club won the league and the cup again, with Facundo Ferreyra becoming the league top scorer and

the league assist leader. In the 2018–19 season, the club won Ukrainian Premier League for the third time in a row. In 2019–20, Shakhtar retained their league title for the fourth time in a row. They also reached the semi-finals of the

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Infrastructure

Until 2009 Shakhtar had been playing most of its games at the RSC Olimpiyskyi stadium which is a property of administration of

Donetsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast, also referred to as Donechchyna (, ), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast in eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 million residents. Its capital city, administrative centre is Donetsk, though d ...

and the

Serhiy Bubka College of Olympic Reserve Serhiy Bubka College of Olympic Reserve (; ) is a sports college in Donetsk. Brief description The college was established on 18 August 1989 on the basis of the Donetsk Tekhnikum of Physical Culture. In 1995 the college was named after Ukrainian ...

. The stadium was built during Soviet period for another Donetsk club,

FC Lokomotyv Donetsk FC Lokomotyv Donetsk () was a football club from Donetsk. History The club was created sometime around 1957 and initially represented city of Artemivsk (today Bakhmut). After being promoted to the Soviet Class B in 1958, the club moved to Stalino ...

and carried its name. On 29 August 2009 the construction of its new stadium,

, was accomplished and the stadium was opened. Located in the City Park of Culture and Recreation, it has a capacity of 50,149 and has been honored with a

five star rating, the highest rating achievable. Shakhtar's old home, the central Shakhtar Stadium which was built in 1936 and reconstructed four times, is currently being used by Shakhtar Donetsk Reserves. The stadium received some major renovations, including the installation of bench seats in 2000 when Shakhtar made it to the Champions League Group Stage. A

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mole (''moles'' is a nickname for the club) will entertain spectators during the home matches. Shakhtar are rated 40th by the average game attendance, being the top eastern European club on the rating charts. Before the 2013–14 season, Shakhtar set a new record for

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for number of season tickets sold, selling 27,000 season tickets, which means 52% of the seats in Donbas Arena belong to season ticket holders. From 2014 until the end of 2016, due to the

war in Donbas The war in Donbas, or the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. The war Timeline of the war in Donbas (2014), began in April 2014, when Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, Russian para ...

, Shakhtar played its home matches at the

.Shakhtar to play home matches in Lviv

(24 July 2014) Following the winter break of the 2016–17 season the club moved to the

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

(250 kilometers to the northwest of Donetsk). Shakhtar played their 2022–23 matches in the Champions League and

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due to the 2022 invasion. They are set to play their

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matches at

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, Germany.

Training centre

Shakhtar Donetsk has its own training facilities for its first team, reserve team and youth academy all located at Kirsha Training Centre. Due to the war conditions in the

eastern Ukraine Eastern Ukraine or East Ukraine (; ) is primarily the territory of Ukraine east of the Dnipro (or Dnieper) river, particularly Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts (provinces). Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts are often also regarded as ...

, Shakhtar temporary venue for its home matches has changed several times, while it was announced that the team will use training facilities in

. It was clarified that its training facility is the Training base of Olympic Preparation "

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" located away from Kyiv and belongs to the Ukrainian Federation of Trade Unions.

Youth, academy and reserves

The club used to field a couple of reserve teams that competed at professional level. By 2015 all reserve teams such as

FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk was a Ukrainian reserve football team based in Donetsk, Ukraine. History The club was formed in 1992. It was preceded by Shakhter-D Donetsk (where D stood for double) which since 1949 participated in the Soviet football ...

and

FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk was a Ukrainian football team based in Donetsk, Ukraine. The team competed in the Ukrainian Second Division, and was considered the 3rd squad team or junior team from the FC Shakhtar Donetsk franchise. History Like most t ...

were withdrawn from professional competitions. The club however fields its youth Shakhtar U-21 team in the youth championship of

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. Shakhtar also has its football academy that fields four teams in a special youth league designated for teenagers. Since 2012 the club also has a team for the U-19 championship of Ukrainian Premier League. During the

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the club used to have one youth team named Shakhter-D Donetsk that participated in a separate Soviet championship for doubles. Shakhter-D later was reorganized into

and admitted to the

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. Due to the

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, the youth academy has relocated to

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Crests and colours

The first logo of the club was designed in 1936, it featured a blue

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, with a red 'S' in the middle, crossed over by a

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. In 1946, when the club was renamed, the logo was changed to black and white, with addition of club's name. Later, in the middle of the 1960s, their logo depicted two crossed hammers, with "Shakhtar Donetsk" written in the circle. The crest was added to the kit and remained there since, except for several seasons in the beginning of the 1990s. The club's name was depicted in the Russian language until the latest logo was chosen. Therefore, some sources have its name written often as "Shakhter" or rarely "Shakhtyor." In 1989, an artist, Viktor Savilov, on the event of the club restructuring offered a draft variant of a logo with elements of the

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and a pitch. Some time later, the logo was remodelled into the present one. The emblem was added to the kit in 1997. In 2007, during the presentation of the club's new stadium, Shakhtar's new logo was unveiled. For the first time in over 30 years, the crossed hammers, the traditional symbols of the club, were present on the crest. Also, for the first time the name was written in the Ukrainian language and not Russian. Since 1961 the official colours are black and orange.

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Supporters and rivalries

The first riots associated with Shakhtar fans took place on 20 September 1959 in the match against

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, when several dozen Shakhtar supporters ran onto the field, and as a result the match was frustrated. In all matches involving Donetsk, many people came that promoted the development of fan movement in Donetsk. Active development of football movement began in the early 1980s. In the early 2000s to the Ukrainian stadiums came English style –

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. In 2003, during the final of the

there was a fierce fight between

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and Shakhtar fans. The other rivalry was with

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. This was another local club and, although not as significant as games against the rivals from the capital, the games between the two Donetsk teams were proclaimed the Donetsk derby. Metalurh went bankrupt in July 2015. Among the extinguished rivalries are the games against

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and, particularly, the ''third place champions''

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of Georgia that took place at times during the

. Another interesting rivalry, the Donbas Derby, is with

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, which gathered a significant crowd in

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. During the early Ukrainian championships, another interesting rivalry developed with

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-based club.

Honours

Ukrainian competitions

**Winners (15): 2001–02, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10,

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, 2011–12,

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, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20,

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, 2023–24 **runner-up (13): 1993–94, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2014–15, 2015–16,

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**Winners (15, record): 1994–95, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2007–08,

, 2011–12,

, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2023–24, 2024–25 **runner-up (6): 2002–03, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2013–14, 2014–15 *

**Winners (9, record):

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

**runner-up (8):

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

European competitions

**Winners (1): 2008–09 *

UEFA Super Cup The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup Association football, football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions: the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's offic ...

**runner-up (1):

Soviet competitions

**runner-up (2):

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

**Winners (4):

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

**runner-up (4):

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

Soviet First League The Soviet First League in football () was the second highest division of Soviet football,Evgeni Kazakov. The Soviet First Football League (Первая лига СССР по футболу)''. History of Soviet football championships. Volume 1 ...

**Winners (1):

1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...

**runner-up (1):

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

* Season's Cup (unofficial tournament as Super Cup) **Winners (1): 1984 **runner-up (2): 1981,1986 *

Cup of the Ukrainian SSR A cup is an open-top vessel (container) used to hold liquids for drinking, typically with a flattened hemispherical shape, and often with a capacity of about . Cups may be made of pottery (including porcelain), glass, metal, wood, stone, ...

**runner-up (1):

UEFA club coefficient ranking

UEFA Rankings since 2004

Football Club Elo ranking

Friendly competitions

* Channel One Cup:

La Manga Cup La Manga Cup is a winter football tournament played in La Manga Club, La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia, Spain). Usual participants are clubs from countries with a summer football season: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Ukraine Ukr ...

Copa del Sol The Copa del Sol was an annual exhibition international club football tournament played on the south coast of Spain in January–February, one month before the kickoff of the national leagues, that ran from 2010 to 2014. The tournament was a cha ...

Salzburgerland Cup Red Bull Arena (), known during the UEFA Euro 2008 as the EM-Stadion Wals-Siezenheim and during UEFA club football events as Stadion Salzburg, is a football stadium in Wals-Siezenheim, a municipality in the suburbs of Salzburg, Austria. It was ...

* United Tournament/United Supercup:

* Trofeo Bortolotti: 2015 *

IFA Shield The IFA Shield is a football competition organized by the Indian Football Association, the football governing body in the Indian state of West Bengal. The IFA came into existence in 1893, and was named after the association. The IFA Shield to ...

(

IFA IFA or Ifa may refer to: Organisations Economics * Independent financial adviser, a type of financial services professional in the UK * Index Fund Advisors * Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, representing actuaries in the UK * Institute of Act ...

) runners-up:

Team awards

*Special award from the

for making the biggest progress of the decade, 2011.

Individual player awards

Several players have won individual awards during or for their time with Shakhtar Donetsk.

(1979)

Footballer of the Year in Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States Footballer of the Year in Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States (also known as the "Star award") was an annual award given by Sport-Express daily to the Baltic states, Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States player of the season from ...

(2012)

(1950) *

(1951) *

(1979) *

(2002, 2006, 2007) *

Mykhailo Mudryk Mykhailo Petrovych Mudryk (; born 5 January 2001) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Chelsea and the Ukraine national team. Mudryk is currently disqualified from football for alleged doping for 4 years. M ...

(2022) Ukraine Premier League MVP :''As awarded by the

Komanda ''Komanda'' was a sport newspaper published daily in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1995, and as of September 2001, it was available online. It offered sport analysis, original interviews, and opinions. It was published in Russian. Its regi ...

newspaper'' *

(2000) *

(2002) *

(2010) *

(2012) *

(2015) *

(2016–18) * Taison (2019) Armenian Footballer of the Year *

(2011, 2012) Polish Footballer of the Year *

(2009) Soviet Goalkeeper of the Year * Yuriy Dehteryov (1977) Club Loyalty Award * Mykhaylo Sokolovskyi (1987) Romania Coach of the Year *

(2004, 2010, 2012, 2014)

Players

Current squad

Other players under contract

Out on loan

Retired numbers

Coaches and administration

Presidents and other officials

Presidents

* 1989–1994: Ivan Haivoronskyi * 1992–1995:

* 1996–present:

Chairmen of the Board

* 1990–1992:

Oleksandr Kosevych Oleksandr Kosevych (; 4 September 1965 – 10 April 2025) was a Ukrainian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unq ...

(chair of the board) * 2006–present: Oleh Popov (chair of council of directors)

Vice Presidents

* 1994–1995: Ivan Haivoronskyi * 1994–2000:

Ravil Safiullin Ravil Safovych Safiullin (; born 4 February 1955) is a Ukrainian football executive and politician who served as Minister of Youth and Sports. Biography Ravil Safiullin was born in a Tatar family. Prior to his ministerial position, Safiullin ...

* 1998–present:

Borys Kolesnikov Borys Viktorovych Kolesnikov (, born 25 October 1962) is the leader of the political party Ukraine is Our Home. He is the former secretary of the Party of Regions' presidium, former people's deputy in Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliamen ...

General directors

* 2004–present:

Serhiy Palkin Serhiy Anatoliiovych Palkin (; born 22 October 1974) is a Ukrainian football administrator, who works as the general director of Shakhtar Donetsk. Career Serhiy Palkin is graduated from the National Academy of Management in Kyiv. From 1997 ...

(financial director in 2003–2004)

Director of Football

* 2020–present:

Player records

Top goalscorers

''As of 21 May 2016'' *Other – National Super Cup

Most appearances

*Other – National Super Cup

Notable coaches

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

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Ukraine

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European history

Shakhtar Donetsk has participated in European competition since 1976, playing its first game against

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in the

. Since 1997, the club has participated in UEFA competition annually with variable amounts of success, and first took part in the

competition in 2000. Shakhtar Donetsk played against

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and

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upon qualifying for the group stage for the first time in 2000–01.

Notes

References

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