FC Shakhtar Donetsk (youth)

Shakhtar U-21 Donetsk

Full name	Youth team of FC Shakhtar Donetsk
President	Rinat Akhmetov
Coach	Miguel Cardoso
League	Youth Championship
Website	Club home page

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 In 2007 it was merged with FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk that was withdrawn from the Ukrainian First League.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 February 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 GK Yaroslav Stavytsky GK Ruslan Yefanov GK Yevhen Hrytsenko GK Oleh Kudryk DF Illia Ichuaidze DF Vasyl Sahaidak DF Taras Kacharaba DF Daniil Sahutkin DF Ihor Kyriukhantsev DF Dmytro Styfliuk DF Dmytro Shevchenko DF Ivan Semenikhin

No. Position Player MF Andrii Korobenko MF Bohdan Kuksenko MF Serhii Horbunov MF Rostyslav Rusin MF Mykyta Adamenko MF Artem Habelok MF Oleksandr Pykhalionok MF Mykhailo Shyshka MF Artem Ivanov FW Giorgi Arabidze FW Denys Arendaruk FW Vladyslav Buhai FW Andriy Boryachuk FW Ihor Sukhaninsky FW Oleksandr Zubkov

Notable players

• Vladyslav Kulach
• Artur Miranyan
• Artur Zahorulko

See also

• FC Shakhtar Donetsk
• FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk

References

1. "Squad - 2015 / 2016". shakhtar.com. Shakhtar Donetsk. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016. Retrieved February 2016.