FC HU ZIDMU-Spartak Zaporizhzhia explained

FC HU ZIDMU-Spartak Zaporizhzhia was a Ukrainian football club from Zaporizhzhia.

Brief overview

Until 2000, the club was known as Viktor Zaporizhzhia. The club represents the Classic Private University that before 2007 was called the Humanitarian University of Zaporizhzhia State and Municipal Administration (HU ZIDMU).

Initially, the club carried the name of the university's rector Viktor Oharenko who became the club's main sponsor, hence Viktor Zaporizhzhia. The club was organized by a coach from Belarus Oleksandr Tomakh.[1] The new team was formed out of players of Metalurh Zaporizhzhia academy.[1] Viktor played its games at the older "Lokomotyv" stadium.[1] Its first head coach of Vladyslav Ishchenko.[1] After being admitted to the Transitional League in 1993, Ishchenko was replaced by Russian head coach Boris Stukalov.[1] Its first game in the league the club played on 21 August 1993 in Borodianka.[1]

In 1994 the main club of the region FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia experienced crisis and to save situation Oleksandr Tomakh joined Metalurh at first as part of merger.[1] It was planned to rename the club as FC Metalurh-Viktor Zaporizhzhia, but the merger fell through.[1]

League and cup history

Viktor Zaporizhzhia

SeasonDiv.Pos.Pl.WDLGSGAPDomestic CupEuropeNotes
1993–943rd "lower"align=center bgcolor=tan3342086652548align=center bgcolor=lightgreenpromoted
1994–953rd174212624546042
1995–963rd83819514543462
1996–973rd83212812464844
1997–983rd63212713413843
1998–993rd102610511243635
1999–003rd14263617154915

HU ZIDMU-Spartak Zaporizhzhia

SeasonDiv.Pos.Pl.WDLGSGAPDomestic CupEuropeNotes
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581169204
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540044160

See also

References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20190725092248/https://ffu.ua/article/22305 Phenomena of "Viktor" of Zaporizhzhia (Феномен запорізького «Віктора»)

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