The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Bohdan Biloshevskyi would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Bohdan Biloshevskyi is living that version at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Ermin Mahmić
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Metalurh Zaporizhzhia have done the hard part with Slovan Liberec, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Andrei Dorobanţu rejects the move
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Unirea Slobozia, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dmytro Shcherbak in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Maksym Pukhtieiev signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Maksym Pukhtieiev and Metalurh Zaporizhzhia agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
another club tell Metalurh Zaporizhzhia: Vladyslav Doroshenko is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match8 Aug 2026
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia find a way past Metalist
Metalist made Metalurh Zaporizhzhia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market10 Aug 2026
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia promote Oleh Babenko from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oleh Babenko has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Roman Shakhov steps up from the Metalurh Zaporizhzhia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Roman Shakhov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Oleksandr Malynovskyi joins the Metalurh Zaporizhzhia first team
- Market One of our own: Yaroslav Harmash joins the Metalurh Zaporizhzhia first team
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Andrii Savitskyi at his very best