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 Ukrainian professional 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 1 March 2026[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 Dmytro Matsapura
2 DF  GEO Zurab Rukhadze
3 DF  UKR Eduard Kozik (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
5 DF  UKR Valeriy Bondarenko (captain)
6 DF  UKR Mykyta Burda
7 MF  UKR Oleksandr Demchenko
8 MF  UKR Artem Chelyadin
9 DF  UKR Andriy Tsurikov
10 MF  MKD Luka Stankovski
11 FW  KOS Ardit Tahiri
14 MF  MLI Ibrahim Kane
15 FW  UKR Artem Husol
17 FW  UKR Anton Salabay
19 FW  UKR Danyil Alefirenko
20 MF  GEO Nika Gagnidze
No. Pos. Nation Player
27 MF  UKR Taras Stepanenko
31 GK  UKR Ivan Pakholyuk
38 GK  UKR Tymur Puzankov (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
44 DF  UKR Vladyslav Shershen
45 DF  UKR Daniil Khrypchuk
47 MF  UKR Daniil Denysenko
54 MF  UKR Maksym Vasylets
55 MF  BRA Elias
70 FW  UKR Yuriy Klymchuk
77 DF  UKR Andriy Ponedelnik
80 MF  UKR Oleh Kryvoruchko
81 DF  UKR Yehor Popravka
90 MF  UKR Oleksiy Bezruchuk
99 MF  ALB Arinaldo Rrapaj

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
10 MF  KOS Albin Krasniqi (at Prishtina until 30 June 2026)
No. Pos. Nation Player

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

Kolos Kovalivka has participated in European competition since 2020, playing its first game against Aris Thessaloniki in the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League. Participating in only two European seasons, Kolos played only at the qualification stage.

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

Only two players scored for Kolos at the European competitions, Yevheniy Novak and Denys Antyukh.

Reserves and academy

Kolos-2

Kolos fielded its reserve team in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Second League.[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.

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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