“We’ve just finished the game, our local championship,” Sergei Palkin says. “We won 1-0.” It’s Monday evening and Shakhtar Donetsk’s chief executive officer sounds mildly disappointed that the team ...

At soccer games in Ukraine, crowd sizes are determined by the capacity of the nearest bomb shelter. For the first time since the full-scale war began in 2022, the Ukrainian Premier League is holding a ...

Shakhtar Donetsk host Breidablik this Thursday at the Miejski Henryka Reymana of the Europa Conference League.In their last match, Shakhtar Donetsk prevailed 3-1 against Dynamo Kyiv (Ukrainian ...

Welcome to The Athletic's coverage of today's football news. We'll have the reaction from last night's games, including Chelsea's shock defeat by Dinamo Zagreb, and the build-up to tonight's matches ...

The Ukrainian champions have seen six players fail to return from Sunday's friendly with Lyon due to ongoing politicial tensions in the country. Alex Teixeira, Fred, Dentinho, Douglas Costa, Facundo ...

Austin FC have acquired center back Oleksandr Svatok from Ukrainian Premier League side SC Dnipro-1, the club announced Monday. The 29-year-old Ukranian international defender is under contract ...

C oncerns have been raised as it seems not the full amount received by Roman Abramovich from the sale of Chelsea will be sent ...