FC Kolos Kovalivka

Kolos Kovalivka
Full nameFC Kolos Kovalivka
Founded2012 (2012)
GroundKolos Stadium
Capacity5,000
PresidentAndriy Zasukha[1]
General DirectorYevhen Yevseyev[1]
Head coachRuslan Kostyshyn (interim)
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2024–25Ukrainian Premier League, 10th of 16
Websitekoloskovalivka.com

FC Kolos Kovalivka (Ukrainian: Колос Ковалівка) is a professional Ukrainian football club from the village of Kovalivka, Kyiv Oblast which competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, having been promoted from the Ukrainian First League on the 8 June 2019 for the first time in their history. The club colors are white and black. The club has three football teams including women and youth.

The club has made a real cinderella story in 2020 transforming in five years from an amateur team into a continental challengers by advancing through the full league pyramid (4 tiers).[2] Outside of the league pyramid, the club also holds several honours of regional competitions for Kyiv Oblast which it represents.[2]

The club is named after the Ukrainian sports society Kolos (Agro-Industrial Complex trade unions) that has existed since after World War II. The main sponsor of the club is the Svitanok agrarian company (firm), formerly the Shchors collective farm (kolkhoz).

History

Previous team

Before establishment of Kolos, the village of Kovalivka had a team Svitanok Kovalivka. In 2008 it made appearance in the Ukrainian Amateur Cup and was eliminated in Round of 16.

Current club

The club was established in 2012 and until 2015 it participated in championship of Kyiv Oblast playing its games in a neighboring town of Hlevakha. The team were champions three times from 2012 to 2014.[3]

The club in 2014 made their debut in the Ukrainian Football Amateur League. Later that year after winning the Oleh Makarov Memorial Tournament, which is played in winter the head coach Ruslan Kostyshyn announced that the club intended to go into professional football.[3] That year in 2015 after finishing third in the Ukrainian Football Amateur League, the club obtained professional status and joined the PFL entering into the Ukrainian Second League.[3]

In their first season the club won the championship and were promoted to the Ukrainian First League.[4]

On 29 July 2020, FC Kolos in overtime beat FC Mariupol 1–0 and qualified for the European competitions. The head coach Ruslan Kostyshyn was merely shocked stating that did not expect his club to place higher the 8th place.[5]

Honours

Squad

As of 4 July 2025[6][7]

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 Valentyn Horokh
2 DF  ROU Ștefan Vlădoiu
4 DF  UKR Vladyslav Shershen
5 DF  UKR Valeriy Bondarenko (captain)
6 DF  UKR Mykyta Burda
7 MF  UKR Oleksandr Demchenko
8 MF  UKR Vladyslav Veleten
9 DF  UKR Andriy Tsurikov
10 MF  UKR Pavlo Orikhovskyi
11 FW  VEN Jovanny Bolívar (on loan from Albacete)
15 FW  UKR Artem Husol
16 DF  KOS Ilir Krasniqi
17 FW  UKR Oleksiy Sydorov (on loan from Metalist 1925 Kharkiv)
20 MF  GEO Nika Gagnidze
22 FW  UKR Mykola Kovtalyuk
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 FW  UKR Ivan Holovkin (on loan from Zorya Luhansk)
23 GK  UKR Roman Mysak
27 DF  UKR Tymofiy Sukhar
29 DF  UKR Vladyslav Yemets
31 GK  UKR Ivan Pakholyuk
32 DF  UKR Eduard Kozik (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
33 MF  UKR Maksym Tretyakov
48 MF  UKR Oleh Kryvoruchko
54 DF  UKR Artem Tyeryekhov
55 MF  BRA Elias
77 FW  UKR Danyil Alefirenko
81 DF  UKR Yehor Popravka
88 DF  UKR Andriy Boyko
99 MF  ALB Arinaldo Rrapaj
— MF  KOS Albin Krasniqi

Out on loan

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
— MF  UKR Oleh Ilyin (at Obolon Kyiv until 30 June 2025)
— FW  LTU Gytis Paulauskas (at Dinamo Batumi until 31 December 2025)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW  UKR Anton Salabay (at Vorskla Poltava until 30 June 2025)

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Kolos Kovalivka.

Coaches and administration

Administration[8] Coaching[6] (senior team) Coaching (U-19 team)

League and cup history

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Ukrainian Cup Other Notes
2014 4th
(Championship among amateurs) 		2 10 6 3 1 19 5 21 AC 1⁄2 finals
2 3 1 1 1 2 4 4
2015 1 6 6 0 0 26 3 18
2 10 5 1 4 17 5 16 joined the Second League
2015–16 3rd
(Second League) 		1 26 19 3 4 62 22 60 1⁄32 finals Promoted
2016–17 2nd
(First League) 		5 34 16 9 9 52 38 57 1⁄32 finals
2017–18 5 34 19 4 11 39 30 61 1⁄16 finals
2018–19 2 28 15 9 4 45 18 54 1⁄32 finals Promoted[9]
2019–20 1st
(Premier League) 		6 32 10 2 20 33 59 32 1⁄8 finals
2020–21 4 26 10 11 5 36 26 41 1⁄4 finals EL 3QR
2021–22 8 18 7 3 8 14 23 24 1⁄16 finals ECL 3QR
2022–23 8 30 10 6 14 23 36 36 None
2023–24 11 30 7 11 12 22 31 32 1⁄16 finals
2024–25 10 25 6 9 10 22 22 27 1⁄16 finals

European record

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2020–21 UEFA Europa League 2Q Aris — 2–1 —
3Q Rijeka — 0–2 (a.e.t.) —
2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League 3Q Shakhter Karagandy 0–0 0–0 (a.e.t.) 0–0 (1–3 p)

Reserves and academy

Kolos-2

It was announced that Kolos will be fielding its second squad in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Second League. Kolos-2 would be formed based on another football club of Kyiv Oblast, Shturm Ivankiv, that competed at amateur and regional levels.[10]

Youth squads

Since 2017 Kolos fields its under-19 squad in youth competitions. Also, in 2019–2021 there existed Kolos U-21 which competed in respective competitions of the Ukrainian Premier League (UPL under-21).

Academy and junior squads

In 2017 there were formed first junior squads of the Academy.[11] At first there were under-17 and under-15 squads which expanded substantially by 2021.

Notable players

Managers

References

  1. ^ a b Кому официально принадлежат украинские клубы. ukrrudprom.com. 12 November 2021
  2. ^ a b From competitions of the PFL to continental competitions! Compliments to "Kolos" (Зі змагань ПФЛ - до континентальних турнірів! Вітаємо "Колос"). Professional Football League. 30 July 2020
  3. ^ a b c Історія створення футбольного клубу "Колос" [History of the formation of the club "Kolos"]. Kolos Kovalika Official Website (in Ukrainian). 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  4. ^ Колос Ковалівка - чемпіон другої ліги сезону-2015/16 [Kolos Kovalivka - 2015–16 Second League Champions]. UA-Football (in Ukrainian). 21 May 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  5. ^ Dmitriy Malianov. Ruslan Kostyshyn, "I did not think that Kolos in its debut season in the UPL will qualify for the European cups. I am not an idiot (Руслан Костышин: "Не думал, что "Колос" в дебютном сезоне УПЛ выйдет в еврокубки. Я же не идиот"). Footboom. 29 July 2020
  6. ^ a b "Колос".
  7. ^ "Kolos". upl.ua.
  8. ^ "Менеджмент". Archived from the original on 2021-04-15. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  9. ^ Won playoff against Chornomorets Odesa on aggregate 2–0
  10. ^ "У Другій лізі нового сезону виступлять 8 нових резервних команд: ми дізналися, хто їх очолить і де вони будуть грати – є сюрпризи" [In the new season's Second League 8 new reserve teams will participate: we discovered who will manage them and where they will play, there are surprises]. ukrfootball.ua (in Ukrainian). 13 June 2024. Archived from the original on 30 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  11. ^ Академія ФК "Колос". koloskovalivka.com
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