Full name | FC Zhemchuzhyna Odesa |
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Founded | 2013 |
Ground | Spartak Stadium |
Capacity | 4,800 |
Chairman | Oleksandr Demenchuk |
Head Coach | Denys Kolchin |
League | Ukrainian Second League |
2016–17 | Admitted |
Website | Club home page |
FC Zhemchuzhyna Odesa is a professional Ukrainian football from Odesa. The club and will compete in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League.
The club was created in August 2013 and formed from the graduates of the Odessa football school. Initially, the team consisted football veterans from Odesa, friends of the club president, Oleksandr Babych, Gennadiy Nizhegorodov and Vitaliy Rudenko. From the first days of creation head coach of the club was a former defender of Chornomorets Odesa and Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Denys Kolchin.
In the 2014–15 season the team participated in the Odesa City winter championship and won the championship defeating FC Real Pharma Odesa.
In 2015, the club debuted in the Amateur League of Ukraine, finishing in the eight best teams of the tournament and in 2016 they repeated in reaching the quarterfinals of the tournament.
The club has been admitted to the PFL and will compete in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League.