FC Zorya Luhansk
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| Full name | Football Club Zorya Luhansk |
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| Founded | 1923 |
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Slavutych Arena, Zaporizhia (Avanhard Stadium, Luhansk) |
| Capacity | 11,883 |
| Chairman | Yevhen Heller |
| Head Coach | Yuriy Vernydub |
| League | Ukrainian Premier League |
| 2015–16 | 4th |
| Website | Club home page |
FC Zorya Luhansk (Russian: ФК «Заря» Луганск [zaˈrʲɑ luˈgɑnsk] Ukrainian: ФК «Зоря» Луганськ [zoˈrʲɑ luˈɦɑnsʲk]), formerly known as Zorya Voroshilovgrad and Zorya-MALS, is a Ukrainian football team. Zorya Luhansk is based in the city of Luhansk (formerly known as Voroshilovgrad), Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. However, because of the war in Eastern Ukraine, the team is currently playing its games at Slavutych-Arena in Zaporizhia.
The modern club was created on 10 April 1964 on decision of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union merging the October Revolution factory (Luhanskteplovoz) sports club Zorya and the Luhansk regional branch of "Trudovye Rezervy" sports society. Today, the modern club considers the factory team as its predecessor that was established back in 1923.
The history of the club takes place at the dawn of the 20th century right after in the city of Luhansk was built the first stadium. The stadium was built in 1922 under the personal order of Vladimir Lenin and later was named after him. The first games that involved participation of the Luhansk's teams first mentioned in 1911 and in 1913 in Kostyantynivka was created the regional football league of Donets basin. During the World War I and the following Soviet and German aggressions the league was suspended until 1920 when the situation in the region had stabilized.
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