FC Chornomorets Odessa
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| Full name | Football Club Chornomorets Odesa |
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| Nickname(s) | The Sailors |
| Founded | 26 March 1936 |
| Ground | Chornomorets Stadium |
| Capacity | 34,164 |
| President | Leonid Klimov |
| Head coach | Oleksandr Babych |
| League | Ukrainian Premier League |
| 2015–16 | 11th |
| Website | Club home page |
Chornomorets Odesa (Ukrainian: Футбо́льний Клуб Чорномо́рець Оде́са [t͡ʃornoˈmɔrɛt͡sʲ oˈdɛsɐ]) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Odesa.
The club's home ground is the 34,164 capacity Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. According to the club's website, it was formed in 1936 as Dynamo, but until 2002 carried a logo with 1958 year on it when it received its current name. For over 30 years the club was sponsored by the Black Sea Shipping Company (1959-1991).
The club was among top 20 Soviet clubs.
At the beginning of the 20th century, in Odessa, within limits of Shevchenko Park, a construction started of what was supposed to become a lake. However, after the trench for the lake was dug out, the funding stopped and so did the construction. Soon the hole began to serve as a field for one of city's non-league teams. As the hole resembled a shape of the Black Sea, that was the nickname given to the field, and the team was named Chornomorets, which means "Black Sea man". And although that team is unrelated to the today's club, it was the first team in Odessa to play under that name.
The official date of foundation of Chornomorets Odessa is considered to be March 26, 1936 as Dynamo Odessa. Dynamo Odessa, however, participated before that in the city championship since 1923 (the year of establishment of the Ukrainian football competitions) winning it in 1933. Initially the club was named as Sparta Odessa. In 1940 after relegating from the Top level the club was merged with Kharchovyk Odessa that participated in the republican competitions (Championship of Ukrainian SSR). In 1941 the club was included into the War Championship (Top division) under the name of Spartak Odessa.
After the World War II the club was reestablished as Kharchovyk Odessa in the lower Soviet division. In 1950 the club lost its place in the play-offs to Spartak Uzhhorod (Zakarpattia Uzhhorod) and was dissolved. In 1953 upon the enlargement of the "Class B" competitions (Second division), the city of Odessa was represented by Metalurh which soon was renamed into more familiar Kharchovyk Odessa. In 1957-58 there was established Avanhard sports society which adopted number of other smaller societies in Ukraine under its umbrella. In 1958 the Odessa city team adopted the name Chornomorets and represented the city's Rope Factory. In 1959 Chornomorets was handed over to the Black Sea Shipping Company which was a member of Vodnik sports society. In 2001 Chornomorets was acquired by Imexbank.
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