FC Chornomorets Odesa

At the beginning of the 20th century, in Odesa, within limits of Alexander Park (today Shevchenko Park), a construction started of what was supposed to become a pond. However, after the pit for the pond 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 "Чорне море" Chorne more. And although that team is unrelated to the today's club, it was the first team in Odesa to play under that name.

The official date of foundation of Chornomorets Odesa is considered to be 26 March 1936 as Dynamo Odesa. Dynamo Odesa, however, participated before that in the city championship since 1923 (the year of establishment of the Ukrainian football competitions)[7] winning it in 1933. Dynamo Odesa itself was first called Spartak Odesa until 1926.[7] In 1940, after relegating from the Top level, the club was merged with Kharchovyk Odesa that participated in the republican competitions (Championship of Ukrainian SSR) and replaced Dynamo in next competitions.[7][10] In 1941, the club was reformed again when it was included into the War Championship (Top division) under the name of Spartak Odesa.[10]

Concurrently in league competitions of the Ukrainian SSR, since 1936 in Odesa played another team Kharchovyk Odesa.

Until Chornomorets Odesa was bought out by Leonid Klimov sometime in 2001, the club's foundation was considered to be 1958.[7]

After World War II the club was reestablished as Kharchovyk Odesa in the lower Soviet division (Class B).[10] 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 Odesa was represented by Metalurh (in Class B 1953, 1954) which soon was replaced again with already more familiar Kharchovyk Odesa.[10] In 1957–58, there was established Avanhard sports society which adopted number of other smaller societies in Ukraine under its umbrella.[10] In 1958, the Odesa city team adopted the name Chornomorets and represented the city's Rope Factory.[10]

In 1959, Chornomorets was handed over to the Black Sea Shipping Company which was a member of Vodnik sports society. Since then its emblem corresponded with the main emblem of Vodnik society.

In the last season of the Soviet Top League, Chornomorets earned fourth place, the only time it ever placed above the big clubs in Ukraine, Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

The club was a founding member of the Ukrainian Premier League, winning the Ukrainian Cup and finishing 5th in the inaugural 1992 season. Chornomorets finished 3rd the next two seasons and 2nd during the following two seasons. They also won another domestic Cup in 1994. The club's most successful spell was achieved under the guidance of Viktor Prokopenko, and later under Leonid Buryak. At the end of the 1997–98 season, following big financial troubles and the sale of a number of leading players, the club was relegated to the First League.

They won promotion the following 1998–99 season, but finished in the second last place next year and were relegated again. Sometimes in 2001, the Klimov's Primorie company which owned SC Odesa along with Imexbank acquired the city's main team.[11] In 2002 SC Odesa was merged with Chornomorets. Chornomorets came back up again for the 2002–03 season and enjoyed several decent seasons in the Premier League. They finished third in the 2005–06 season and took part in the 2006–07 UEFA Cup tournament.

Chornomorets were deducted 6 points by FIFA on 6 November 2008. It was confirmed by Ukrainian Premier League on 2 March 2009.[12] The club managed to finish the 2008–09 season in 10th place despite the deduction. The 2009–10 season started badly with a 5–0 loss to Dynamo Kyiv and a poor run of form that saw the team finish the first half of the season in 13th place, just two spots away from the relegation zone. The club was relegated to the First League at the end of the season. It took, however, just a year for Chornomorets to return to the Ukrainian top flight for the 2011–12 season.

Following a loss in relegation playoffs on 27 May 2018 Chornomorets fans attacked the head coach of the club.[13]

• Ukrainian Premier League
  • Runners-up (2): 1994–95, 1995–96
  • Third place (3): 1992–93, 1993–94, 2005–06
• Ukrainian First League
  • Runners-up (3): 1998–99, 2001–02, 2010–11
• Ukrainian Cup
  • Winners (2): 1992, 1993–94
  • Runners-up (1): 2012–13
• Ukrainian Super Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2013
• Soviet Top League
  • Third place (1): 1974
• Soviet First League
  • Winners (3): 1961,[14] 1973, 1987
  • Runners-up (1): 1962
• Soviet League Cup
  • Winners (1): 1990

• UEFA Intertoto Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2007

As of 1 September 2023[15][16][17]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  UKR Danylo Varakuta 3 DF  UKR Vitaliy Yermakov 4 MF  UKR Mykyta Sytnykov 5 DF  SVN Luka Guček 7 MF  UKR Orest Kuzyk 8 MF  SVN Jon Šporn 9 MF  UKR Illya Putrya (captain) 10 MF  ISR Guy Hadida 11 FW  UKR Bohdan Boychuk 20 FW  UKR Artur Avahimyan (on loan from Oleksandriya) 21 DF  UKR Illya Ukhan 27 MF  UKR Oleksandr Vasylyev

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 MF  UKR Vladyslav Vakula (on loan from Polissya Zhytomyr) 30 MF  UKR Yevhen Danylyuk 31 GK  UKR Oleh Bilyk 39 MF  BEL Ziguy Badibanga 45 MF  UKR Maksym Braharu 70 FW  NGA Samson Iyede (on loan from Horsens) 77 FW  UKR Andriy Shtohrin 79 DF  UKR Volodymyr Salyuk 97 MF  BRA Dadá Belmonte (on loan from América Mineiro) 99 GK  UKR Oleksiy Shevchenko

• Semen Altman
• Oleksiy Antonov
• Oleksandr Babych
• Oleh Bazylevych
• Leonid Buryak
• Ihor Byelanov
• Anatoliy Didenko
• Oleksiy Hay
• Viktor Hryshko
• Serhiy Kovalets
• Valeriy Lobanovskyi
• Ihor Nakonechnyi
• Valeriy Porkuyan
• Vitaliy Shevchenko
• Oleksandr Skrypnyk
• Eduard Stoyanov
• Oleksandr Zabara

• Oleksandr Skrypnyk (2004 – 2005)
• Vladyslav Zubkov (2005)