thumb|Old emblem (2001–2019) FC Olimpik Donetsk ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football team based in Donetsk, Ukraine.
The club currently competes in the Ukrainian First League.
Since its promotion to Ukrainian Premier League in 2014,  it plays its games in Kyiv due to the war in Donbas.
During the 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League, there were attempts to move the club either to Sumy or Cherkasy, which were never realized.
History
The football club Olimpik Donetsk was formed in 2001 along with a charity regional fund of football development.
The club was meant to rely on players from its academy.
Olimpik Donetsk entered the professional competition in 2004.
After six seasons Druha Liha Olympik became champions in the 2010–11 season and were promoted to the Persha Liha.
Olympik became the champions of the 2013–14 Ukrainian First League and earned promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League.
They play at their stadium "Olimpik".
The clubs has several youth teams that play in youth competitions under the name "Olimpik-UOR" (Olimpik – Uchylyshche of Olympiyskoho Rezervu).
Since 2009, UOR Donetsk and Olimpik have agreement about mutual training of young footballers.Academy history .
FC Olimpik Donetsk.
Since its promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League in 2014, the club is forced to play its games in Kyiv.
The Olimpik Donetsk participation in the 2019–20 season was under question because both of its youth teams (U-21 and U-19) were expelled from the Ukrainian Premier League due to match fixing, and are banned from competitions until the end of 2019-20 season.
One of the conditions to receive a season license in UPL was presence of youth teams in a club.
The league members voted to keep Olimpik's senior team in the league, yet final decision was reserved for the UAF (formerly FFU) Executive Committee.
On 18 June 2019, the UAF Executive Committee approved the League's decision about OlimpikOfficial.
Olimpik stays in the UPL (Официально.
Олимпик остается в УПЛ).
UA-Football.
19 June 2019 and later explained that it made changes to its regulations where clubs will not be penalized for having its youth teams banned from the UPL competitions as long as the club will sponsor other youth teams.UAF changed its regulation for clubs' licensing.
Now for participation in UPL presence of youth teams is not required (УАФ изменила регламент аттестации клубов.
Теперь для участия в УПЛ наличие молодежных команд не обязательно).
UA-Football.
19 June 2019 On 9 July 2019 Olimpik filed a lawsuit against UAF to the Court of Arbitration for Sport about falsification of a case against the club and sanctions that were introduced against the club.Olimpik submitted a claim to Lausanne against UAF (Олимпик подал в Лозанну иск против УАФ).
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9 July 2019 At the end of July in media appeared information that the club might have withdrawn its lawsuit from the CAS.Olimpik withdrew its lawsuit in Lausanne against UAF – Tsyhanyk (Олимпик отозвал иск в Лозанну против УАФ – Цыганык).
Sport Arena.
23 July 2019 Infrastructures
The main ground in Sports Complex Olimpik in Donetsk, but due to the War in Donbas, from 2014 until 2016 the team was moved to Bannikov Stadium in Kyiv.
From august 2016 until december 2016 the team played in the Yuvileiny Stadium in Sumy.
In 2016, due to COVID-19 pandemic the team played in Stadion Yuri Gagarin in Chernihiv  and then to Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv in the same year.
On 5 october 2021 the club played in Yunist Stadium in Chernihiv for the Ukrainian First League for the season 2021-22 in the option to play all season.
Honours
Ukrainian First League
Winners: 2013–14
Ukrainian Second League – Group B
Winners: 2010–11
League and cup history
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European record
Players
Current squad
Out on loan
Coaches and administration
Presidents and other officials
Presidents
2001–2021: Vladyslav Helzin
General directors
2017 – present Oleksiy Antonov
Executive directors
2017 – present Dmytro Andreyev
Sports directors
2001 – 2017 Oleksiy Antonov
2019 – present Maksym Kovalenko
Directors
2006 – 2019 Oleksandr Protsiv
Managers
See also
Serhiy Bubka College of Olympic Reserve, formerly a school of Olympic Reserve in Donetsk (UOR Donetsk)
Notes and references
External links
Official website of club
