FC Shakhtar DonetskFC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional association football club, playing in the city of Donetsk, the capital of the Donetsk region. The club has won numerous domestic honours and appeared in several European competitions, but they are best known for having won the final UEFA Cup in 2009. In the Soviet times the Donetsk football team was the leader within the Soviet Volunteer Society of Shakhtyor having connections with teams from Karaganda (Kazakhstan), Soligorsk (Belarus), and others. It is the main representative and became culturally entwined with the heavily industrialized Donets Basin, better known as the Donbass hence the name of its stadium. The team has played under the following names: Stakhanovets (1936–1946), Shakhtyor (Shakhtar) (1946–1992) and FC Shakhtar (since 1992).
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