FC Shakhtar Donetsk (youth)

Shakhtar U-21 Donetsk is a youth team of Ukrainian professional football club Shakhtar Donetsk. It participates in the Youth championship of the Ukrainian Premier League.

Brief history

The team was created in 2004 as Shakhtar-D Donetsk for the Championship for reserve teams of the Ukrainian Top League (Vyshcha Liha). In 2007 it was merged with FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk that was withdrawn from the Ukrainian First League. In 2008 it was renamed Shakhtar U-21 Donetsk to participate in the Youth championship of the newly formed Ukrainian Premier League.

History

• Youth championship: 3
  • Winner: 2008-09, 2010-11, 2011-12
• Under-19: 1
  • Winner: 2014-15

Current squad

As of 9 November 2016.^[1]

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

No. Position Player 20 FW Giorgi Arabidze 42 FW Denys Arendaruk 43 DF Yurii Senytskyi 46 DF Volodymyr Hrachov 47 DF Illya Ichuaidze 48 DF Dmytro Shevchenko 49 MF Oleksandr Pikhalyonok 50 FW Roman Yalovenko 51 DF Mykyta Bezuhlyi 52 DF Ihor Kyriukhantsev 53 GK Vladyslav Trescheyko 54 GK Yevhen Hrytsenko 56 MF Artem Habelok

No. Position Player 57 MF Oleksandr Mihunov 60 MF Oleksiy Zinkevych 62 DF Danylo Sahutkin 63 GK Ruslan Yefanov 64 MF Yuriy Hluschuk 67 MF Artur Avahimyan 68 MF Rostyslav Rusin 69 DF Oleksandr Masalov 75 MF Danylo Ihnatenko DF Taras Kacharaba MF Mykyta Adamenko FW Oleksandr Hlahola

Notable players

• Vladyslav Kulach
• Artur Miranyan
• Artur Zahorulko

See also

• FC Shakhtar Donetsk
• FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk

References