FC Zorya Luhansk

Zorya Luhansk

Full name	Футбольний клуб «Зоря» Луганськ Football Club Zorya Luhansk
Nickname(s)	Muzhyky (The Men)
Founded	5 May 1923; 101 years ago (5 May 1923)[1]
Ground	Slavutych-Arena, Zaporizhzhia (Avanhard Stadium, Luhansk)
Capacity	12,000
Owner	Yevhen Heller
General Director	Ihor Huz (interim)[2]
Head Coach	Valeriy Kryventsov
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2023–24	Ukrainian Premier League, 10th of 16
Website	Club website
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FC Zorya Luhansk (Ukrainian: ФК «Зоря» Луганськ [zoˈrʲɑ lʊˈɦɑnʲsʲk]) is a Ukrainian football team. Zorya Luhansk is based in the city of Luhansk, Ukraine. However, because of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the team plays its games at Slavutych-Arena in Zaporizhzhia.

The modern club as a team of masters was established on 10 April 1964 by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union merging the October Revolution Plant (Luhanskteplovoz) sports club Zorya and the Luhansk regional branch of the "Trudovye Rezervy" sports society. In 1972, as Zaria Voroshilovgrad, the club became the first provincial Soviet club to win the Soviet Top League title. Today, the modern club considers its predecessor the football team of the Luhansk Steam Locomotive Plant^[1] (October Revolution Steam Locomotive Plant, today Luhanskteplovoz) that was established back in 1923, however due to poor performance of the factory team in the 1950s which played at republican level, the playing record of "Trudovye Rezervy" which played at all-Union level is also considered part of the club's history.

The club is a flagman club in Luhansk Oblast and one of three Ukrainian football "teams of masters" that won the Soviet Top League. The name Zorya roughly means "dawn" in Ukrainian or more precisely the red skies phenomenon.