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Chornomorets Odessa
Full name	FC Chornomorets Odessa
Nickname(s)	"Moryaky"("Sailors"), "Dyvo"("Miracle")
Founded	1936
Ground	Tsentralnyi-Chornomorets Stadium (Capacity 34,362)
Chairman	Leonid Klymov
Head Coach	Vitaliy Shevchenko
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2006–07	6th
Home colours 　 Away colours

FC Chornomorets Odessa (Ukrainian: ФК «Чорноморець») is a professional football club in the Ukrainian Premier League. The club's home ground is the 34,362 capacity Tsentralnyi-Chornomorets Stadium in the Black Sea port city of Odessa. Despite their official name being changed to FC Chornomorets (Ukrainian spelling) in 1991, many people refer to the club as FC Chernomorets (its Russian spelling). The official club colors are black, blue and white ^[1].

In the recent 2005-06 season, Chornomorets took third place in the Ukrainian Premier League with 45 points, just ahead of three other teams (who had 43 points each). This finish became their highest achievement since the 1995-96 season, during which they took second place.

Contents 1 Honors 2 Promotions and demotions 3 History 4 Squad 4.1 Transfers In 2007/2008 4.2 Transfers Out 2007/2008 5 Famous players 6 Head coaches 7 League and Cup History 8 Notes 9 External links

USSR Federation Cup:

• Winners (1): 1990

Ukrainian Cup:

• Winners (2): 1992, 1994

UEFA Intertoto Cup:

• Runners-up (1): 2007

Soviet Top League:

• Runners-up, Bronze (1): 1974

Ukrainian Championship:

• Runners-up, Silver (2): 1994-95, 1995-96
• Runners-up, Bronze (3): 1992-93, 1993-94, 2005-06

Ukrainian First League:

• Runners-up, Silver (2): 1998-99, 2001-02

The club was a founding member of the Ukrainian Premier League. After the 1997-98 season, the club was relegated to the Persha Liha. The club was then promoted back to the Premier League for the 1999-2000 season, but it took second-to-last place that year and was relegated again. Chornomorets resurfaced for the 2002-03 season and is currently in the Premier League.

• 1936 : Club founded as Dynamo Odessa
• 1940 : Club renamed Pishchevik Odessa
• 1941 : Club renamed Spartak Odessa
• 1944 : Club renamed Pishchevik Odessa
• 1953 : Club renamed Metalurg Odessa
• 1955 : Club renamed Pishchevik Odessa
• 1958 : Club renamed Chernomorets Odessa
• 1966 : Best performance in USSR Cup - reached semi-finals
• 1974 : Best performance in USSR Top League - third place
• 1975 : First participation in the UEFA Cup (1975/76)
• 1992 : Took part in the Ukrainian Premier League after the break-up of the Soviet Union

Squad is given according to the club's official website [1], as of October 29, 2007.

No. Position Player 1 GK Vitaliy Rudenko 2 DF Gennadiy Nizhegorodov 3 MF Valentin Poltavets 4 DF Damián Giménez 5 DF Oleh Shandruk 6 MF Maksym Biletskyi 7 MF Vladimir Korytko 8 MF Andriy Kirlyk 9 MF Oleksandr Zotov 10 MF Oleg Gumenyuk 11 FW Oleh Venglinsky 12 GK Yevgen Shiryayev 13 FW Rinar Valeyev 17 MF Serhiy Politilo 18 DF Oleksandr Yatsenko

No. Position Player 19 DF Igor Lozo 21 DF Roman Bochkur 22 GK Vladimir Gaev 24 MF Konstyantyn Yaroshenko 25 DF Paolo de la Haza 27 FW Sergey Osipov 30 MF Sebastián Vázquez 37 DF Dmytro Gryshko 55 FW Igor Bugaev 77 DF Andriy Kornev 79 FW Alejandro Mello 88 MF Serhiy Shyschenko 98 FW Marko Jovanović 99 MF Ruslan Valeyev

No. Position Player - DF Oleh Shandruk (from FC Arsenal Kyiv) - MF Ruslan Valeyev (from FC Emmen) - MF Maksym Biletskyi (from FC Rostov) - DF Igor Lozo (from NK Pula) - DF Paolo de la Haza (from Cienciano) - FW Alejandro Mello (from Atlético Bucaramanga) - DF Oleksandr Yatsenko (from FC Dynamo Kyiv) - DF Damián Giménez (from Pescara Calcio) - FW Marko Jovanović (from FK Dečić) - MF Sebastián Vázquez (from Estudiantes) - MF Oleg Gumenyuk (from FC Sheriff Tiraspol)

No. Position Player 23 MF Pavel Kirilchik (on loan to FC Karpaty Lviv) 11 MF Ruslan Hilazev (on loan to FC Dniester Ovidiopol) 20 DF Kahaber Mzhavanadze (on loan to FC Dniester Ovidiopol)

Igor Belanov Valery Lobanovsky Timerlan Huseinov Oleksandr Kosyrin Dmytro Parfenov Valeriy Porkujan

Vladislav Vashchuk Andriy Voronin Yuri Nikiforov Ilia Tsymbalar Vladimir Gaev Leonid Buryak

Nikita Simonyan (1980-1981) Viktor Prokopenko (1989-1994) Leonid Buriak (1994-1998) Semen Altman (2003-2007) Vitaliy Shevchenko (2007-)

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	1st	5	18	9	7	2	30	12	35	Winner
1992-93	1st	3	30	17	4	9	31	12	38	1/16 finals	CWC	1st round
1993-94	1st	3	34	20	8	6	52	23	48	Winner
1994-95	1st	2	34	22	7	5	62	29	73	1/2 finals	CWC	1st round
1995-96	1st	2	34	22	7	5	56	25	73	1/16 finals	UC	2nd round
1996-97	1st	7	30	12	6	12	36	31	42	1/4 finals	UC	1st round
1997-98	1st	15	30	8	8	14	31	39	32	1/4 finals			Relegated
1998-99	Appeared in lower levels									1/64 finals			Promoted
1999-00	1st	15	30	6	8	16	20	50	26	1/16 finals			Relegated
2000-01	Appeared in lower levels									1/8 finals
2001-02	Appeared in lower levels									1/16 finals			Promoted
2002-03	1st	8	30	10	4	16	31	45	34	1/16 finals
2003-04	1st	5	30	11	12	7	38	33	45	1/2 finals
2004-05	1st	6	30	12	6	12	29	29	42	1/16 finals
2005-06	1st	3	30	13	6	11	36	31	45	1/16 finals
2006-07	1st	6	30	11	8	11	36	33	41	1/16 finals	UC	1st round

1. ^ http://www.chernomorets.odessa.ua/?name=symbol

• Official site. chernomorets.odessa.ua. Retrieved on 2006-07-30. (Russian)
• Black Sea Stadium. 2odessa.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-30. Stadium where Chornomorets plays (English)
• Ukrainian Soccer Team Chornomorets. ukrainiansoccer.net. Retrieved on 2006-07-30. (English)
• Одесский футбол. football.odessa.ua. Retrieved on 2006-07-30. (Russian)
• Un-official site. chernomorets.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-30. (Russian)
• Ukraine Soccer. uasocceronline.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-30. (English)

UEFA Intertoto Cup 2007 v • d • e
Aalborg • Ararat Yerevan • Atlético Madrid1 • Baku • Birkirkara • Blackburn Rovers • Cherno More • Chornomorets Odessa • Cliftonville • Cork City • Dacia Chişinău • Differdange 03 • Dinaburg • Ethnikos Achna • Gent • Gloria Bistriţa • Grbalj • Hajduk Kula • Hamburg1 • Hammarby • Honka • Klaksvík • Legia Warsaw • Leiria• Lens • Llanelli • Maccabi Haifa • Makedonija ĞP • Maribor • OFI Crete • Oţelul Galaţi • Rapid Wien • Rubin Kazan • Sampdoria • Sant Julià • Shakhtyor • Slavija • Slovan Bratislava • Slovan Liberec • St. Gallen • Tobol • Trabzonspor • TVMK • Utrecht • Valur • Vėtra • Vllaznia • Zagreb • Zalaegerszeg • Zestaponi 1Currently not be eliminated in UEFA Cup
Ukrainian Premier League 2007-08 clubs v • d • e
Arsenal Kyiv · Chornomorets Odessa · Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk · Dynamo Kyiv · Karpaty Lviv · Kharkiv · Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih · Metalist Kharkiv · Metalurg Donetsk · Metalurg Zaporozhye · Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka · Shakhtar Donetsk · Tavriya Simferopol · Vorskla Poltava · Zakarpattia Uzhhorod · Zorya Luhansk