FSC Mariupol () is a Ukrainian professional

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club based in the city of

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. The team currently plays in the

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. The club currently plays its home games near Kyiv in

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( Kolos Stadium, 2023–24), due to the destruction and occupation of Mariupol by Russia.

History

The team was founded in 2007 as Lider. In 2017 the club changed its name to Yarud. It debuted in the Ukrainian Second League in the 2020–21 season, adopting its current name—FSC Mariupol—at the start of the next season as another

FC Mariupol Football Club Mariupol ( ) was a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Mariupol, that competed in the Ukrainian Premier League. The club ceased to exist as a result of the Siege of Mariupol, during the 2022 Russian ...

was forced to withdraw from competition due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. In 2023-2024 the club struggled financially and by the start of 2025 it was bought out by an amateur club Feniks Pidmonastyr from

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Home stadium

The club originally was playing at Azovets Stadium located in the city center of

near the city park. Sometime in 2020 it moved to newer Zakhidnyi Stadium. Due to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Yarud was rebranded and moved to Kyiv suburbs

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at first and then

Current squad

League and cup history

Managers

* –2018 Dmytro Yesin * 2018–2018 Artem Savin * 2017–2020 Dmytro Yesin * 2020–2021 Volodymyr Kilikevych * 2021–2025 Oleh Krasnopyorov * 2025– Maksym Feshchuk (Feniks Pidmonastyr)

References

External links

Profile
at AAFU

Footboom. 25 February 2018. * [https://amateur.footboom.com/amateur/ukrainian-championship/1581944601-dmytro-yesin-zavdannia-ne-ponyzytysia-v-turnirnii-tablytsi.html Dmytro Yesin, "The task is not to get lower in the tournament standings (Дмитро Єсін: "Завдання – не понизитися в турнірній таблиці")]. Footboom (Artur Valerko). 17 February 2020. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mariupol, FSC FSC Mariupol, Ukrainian First League clubs Football clubs in Mariupol 2007 establishments in Ukraine Association football clubs established in 2007