FC Oleksandriya

Oleksandriya

Full name	Футбольний клуб Олександрія Football Club Oleksandriya
Nickname(s)	Mistiany (The Citizens), Sashka (The Alex)
Founded	1990; 34 years ago (1990)[1]
Ground	CSC Nika
Capacity	7,000
Owner	Serhiy Kuzmenko (honorary president)[2] UkrAhroKom (98.5%)[2] AhroVista (1.5%)[2]
General Director	Ivan Kuzmenko[2]
Manager	Ruslan Rotan
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2023–24	Ukrainian Premier League, 8th of 16
Website	fco.com.ua
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Football Club Oleksandriya (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб Олександрія), commonly known as Oleksandriya, is a Ukrainian professional football club based in the city of Oleksandriya, Kirovohrad Oblast. Founded in 1990, the club plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. The year 1948 on the club's crest appeared after its merger with UkrAhroKom in 2014 and depicts football heritage of the club rather than the club's foundation.

In 2014 the club changed ownership when the original owner Mykola Lavrenko sold it to Serhiy Kuzmenko, the owner of UkrAhroKom.

Debuting in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League in July 2016, the club became the first one from Kirovohrad Oblast to qualify for the European competitions and second after Kryvbas in Central Ukraine (right-bank).

• 1990–2003 Polihraftekhnika
• 2004–2014 PFC Oleksandriya
• 2014–present FC Oleksandriya (merger with UkrAhroKom)

FC Shakhtar Oleksandriya was established in 1948 at the production association "Oleksandriyavuhillya". At first the club played at the amateur competitions of the Ukrainian SSR until 1962 when it was accepted to the Class B which was a professional competitions. It played in Class B until the tournament was disbanded in 1971. After that the club returned to the amateurs where it played from 1971 to 1985 and 1988 to 1990. After 1990 season the club folded.

The club played its games at its own Shakhtar Stadium.

The club was formed on 6 March 1990^[1] as Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya (Ukrainian: Поліграфтехніка Олександрія)^[3] at the local printing equipment plant.^[4][5] The same year the club won the regional football competitions of the Kirovohrad Oblast. At same time in 1990 another Oleksandriya club Shakhtar represented the Kirovohrad region at the republican amateur level. FC Shakhtar Oleksandriya was a club of the Oleksandriyavuhillya coal mine company. At first Polihraftekhinka was leasing the Shakhtar Stadium, while building its own stadium Olimp.^[3]

From 2001 to 2003, PFC Oleksandriya played in the Ukrainian Premier League under the name of Polihraftechnika Oleksandriya, which it had since 1991. After the 2003 season the club's administration citing fiscal problems left the Professional Football League and was idle for one season.

In 2004 the president of Polihraftekhnika reestablished the club as PFC Oleksandriya, rejoined the Professional Football League and entered the Druha Liha.^[6] At the same time the Oleksandriya city administration created own football club MFC Oleksandriya which also entered the Druha Liha, however, soon thereafter the city's club withdrew from professional competitions.

Prior to the start of 2014–15 Ukrainian First League season PFC Oleksandriya going through some financial difficulties merged with UkrAhroKom Holovkivka who were also competing in the Ukrainian First League into one club and renaming themselves to FC Oleksandriya.^[7] The merger saved the Oleksandriya's club from another bankruptcy. Since the 2014 merger under the new manager Serhiy Kuzmenko (former chairman of FC UkrAhroKom), the club now claims its heritage of the Soviet miner's team of Shakhtar Oleksandriya by adding year of Shakhtar's establishment onto its club shield.

In the 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League season, FC Oleksandriya finished 6th place, earning their best achievement in the Ukrainian top flight yet and qualifying for the third qualifying round of UEFA Europa League, where they will mark their debut in a European competition.

The club plays its games at the Sports Complex "Nika" that was built in place of the old Shakhtar Stadium. At the new stadium Oleksandriya plays since summer of 1998.

Since 1992 Oleksandriya, at that time Polihraftekhnika, was forced to play at another city stadium "Olimp" which is located on western outskirts of the city.^[8] FC Shakhtar Oleksandriya denied its city rival to play at its home stadium "Shakhtar" which was located in the center of the city. After Shakhtar Oleksandriya became defunct, its stadium was demolished and on its place was built sports complex "Nika" which was hand over to Polihraftekhnika in 1998.

A regional rivalry exists with FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi.

Year	Name
1991–2003	Polihraftechnika
2004–2014	PFC Oleksandria
2014–present	FC Oleksandria[7]

Years[9]	Football kit	Shirt sponsor
2001–2002	Puma	–
2002–2003	Puma/Lotto
2011–2012	Nike	?

As of 4 September 2024^[10][11]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  UKR Viktor Dolhyi 3 DF  UKR Demyan Chubatyi 4 DF  UKR Mykyta Kravchenko 5 MF  UKR Ivan Kalyuzhnyi 6 MF  UKR Kyrylo Kovalets (captain) 8 MF  UKR Denys Kostyshyn 9 FW  UKR Oleksandr Filippov 10 FW  UKR Andriy Kulakov 11 FW  UKR Artem Shulyanskyi 15 MF  UKR Dmytro Myshnyov 17 MF  UKR Yaroslav Bazayev 18 DF  UKR Serhiy Lohinov 19 MF  UKR Rodion Plaksa 20 MF  UKR Daniil Vashchenko 21 MF  UKR Oleksandr Byelyayev

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  UKR Danil Skorko 23 FW  BRA Geovani 24 DF  UKR Oleksandr Martynyuk 26 DF  POR Miguel Campos 30 MF  UKR Yuriy Kopyna 31 DF  UKR Artem Shabanov 33 FW  BRA Juan Alvina 44 GK  UKR Heorhiy Yermakov (on loan from Maccabi Haifa) 55 MF  UKR Yevheniy Smyrnyi 59 MF  UKR Artem Kozak 71 MF  UKR Denys Shostak 72 GK  UKR Nazar Makarenko 77 GK  UKR Mykyta Shevchenko 88 FW  UKR Vladyslav Pohorilyi

• Oleksandr Zabara
• Sehiy Motuz

Administration[12]	Coaching (senior team) [13]	Coaching (U-21 team) [14]
President – Serhiy Kuzmenko Director – Dmytro Kitayev	Head coach – Ruslan Rotan Assistant coach – Volodymyr Yezerskyi Assistant coach – Serhiy Kravchenko Coach – Goalkeeping coach – Volodymyr Tymenko	Head coach – Senior coach – Andriy Havryushov Goalie coach – Serhiy Karpov

• 1989–2014: Mykola Lavrenko^[15]
• 2014–present: Serhiy Kuzmenko

• Ukrainian First League
  • Winners (2): 2010–11, 2014–15
• Ukrainian Second League
  • Winners (1): 2005–06
• Kirovohrad Oblast
  • Winner (1): 1990^[16]

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Soviet Cup		Notes
1991	4th (KFK (Ukraine))	1	28	23	1	4	55	15	47				Qualified for finals
		3	5	2	2	1	5	3	6				Promoted

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	2nd (Persha Liha)	3	26	11	8	7	25	27	30	1/16 finals
1992–93		6	42	19	10	13	69	39	48	1/16 finals
1993–94		3	38	22	11	5	62	22	55	1/16 finals
1994–95		8	42	18	8	16	59	37	62	1/64 finals
1995–96		4	42	23	7	12	69	37	76	1/32 finals
1996–97		10	46	17	14	15	55	50	65	1/8 finals
1997–98		16	42	15	9	18	51	49	54	1/32 finals
1998–99		5	38	15	13	10	47	51	58	1/64 finals
1999–00		8	34	13	10	11	34	34	49	1/16 finals
2000–01		3	34	18	9	7	50	22	63	1/16 finals			Promoted
2001–02	1st (Vyshcha Liha)	13	26	5	8	13	21	39	23	1/16 finals			[17]
2002–03		13	30	7	9	14	26	43	30	1/16 finals			club folded
2003–04	Under financial duress club is idle
2004–05	3rd (Druha Liha)	3	26	13	6	7	30	19	45	1/32 finals			as PFC Oleksandriya
2005–06		2	28	20	5	3	52	14	65	1/32 finals			Promoted
2006–07	2nd (Persha Liha)	12	36	19	4	13	37	27	61	1/32 finals
2007–08		8	38	14	15	9	41	32	57	1/16 finals
2008–09		3	32	15	9	8	43	31	54	1/4 finals
2009–10		5	34	19	6	9	58	34	63	1/16 finals
2010–11		1	34	21	6	7	55	25	69	1/8 finals			Promoted
2011–12	1st (Vyshcha Liha)	16	30	4	8	18	24	58	20	1/16 finals			Relegated
2012–13	2nd (Persha Liha)	3	34	17	9	8	48	35	60	1/32 finals			Refused promotion
2013–14		2	30	14	10	6	47	28	52	1/16 finals			Refused promotion[18]
2014–15		1	30	22	6	2	53	15	72	1/8 finals			Promoted
2015–16	1st (Premier Liha)	6	26	10	8	8	30	29	38	1/2 finals
2016–17[19]		5	32	10	10	12	41	43	40	1/8 finals	EL	3rd qual. round
2017–18		7	32	10	15	7	32	27	45	1/8 finals	EL	Play-off round
2018–19		3	32	14	7	11	39	34	49	1/16 finals
2019–20		5	32	14	7	11	49	47	49	1/4 finals	EL	Group stage	EL play-offs – 1/2 finals
2020–21		9	26	8	5	13	33	37	29	1/2 finals
2021–22 was terminated		6	18	7	5	6	19	16	26	1/8 finals (was terminated)			began on 24.02.2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022–23		6	30	10	14	6	42	39	44	None
2023–24		8	30	8	10	12	30	38	34	1/4 finals
2024–25		2	6	5	1	0	12	5	16	1/8 finals

FC Oleksandriya played its first game of continental competition on 28 July 2016 in a home loss (0:3) to Hajduk Split. It qualified for the group stage of the competition for the first time in the 2019–20 season.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	3Q	Hajduk Split	0–3	1–3	1–6
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	3Q	Astra Giurgiu	1–0	0–0	1–0
		PO	BATE Borisov	1–2	1–1	2–3
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	Group I	Wolfsburg	0–1	1–3	4th
			Gent	1–1	1–2
			Saint-Étienne	2–2	1–1

The club fielded its reserve team for the first time in 1992-93 season as Polihraftekhnika-2 playing at amateur competitions.

• Official website (in Ukrainian)