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Club facts: Shakhtar Donetsk

Club facts: Shakhtar
Club facts: Shakhtar ©FC Shakhtar Donetsk

FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Formed:
1936
Nickname: Hirnyky (The Pitmen)

UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
UEFA Cup (1): 2009
UEFA Super Cup: (2009)

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 14 (2023)
USSR/Ukrainian Cup: 17 (2019)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise)
2022/23: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2021/22: UEFA Champions League group stage
2020/21:
round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2019/20: semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2018/19:
round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2017/18: UEFA Champions League round of 16
2016/17:
round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2015/16:
semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2014/15: UEFA Champions League round of 16
2013/14:
round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)

Records
UEFA club competition

Biggest home win
5-0 three times, most recently v Gent
20/10/16, UEFA Europa League group stage

Biggest away win
0-7: BATE Borisov v Shakhtar
21/10/14, UEFA Champions League group stage

Heaviest home defeat
0-6: Shakhtar v Borussia Mönchengladbach
03/11/20, UEFA Champions League group stage

Heaviest away defeat
7-0: Bayern München v Shakhtar
11/03/15, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
Biggest home win
5-0: Shakhtar v Gent (see above)

Biggest away win
0-4: Birkirkara v Shakhtar
29/07/98, first qualifying round second leg

Heaviest home defeat
1-3 twice, most recently v AZ Alkmaar
10/03/05, round of 16 first leg
0-2: Shakhtar v Celta Vigo (aet)
23/02/17, round of 32 second leg

Heaviest away defeat
7-1: Feyenoord v Shakhtar
16/03/23, round of 16 second leg