From our football correspondent
Steady
Match13 Nov 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
“I did not go to Rukh to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Match13 Nov 2027
A 2-2 draw with Kryvbas leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad15 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Bohdan Liedniev
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
16 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
18 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Valeriy Bondar joins up with his country. Shakhtar lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Dmytro Kryskiv joins up with his country. Shakhtar lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Nov 2027
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Dmytro Riznyk : 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match3 Nov 2027
Shakhtar march on in the cupAhrobiznes are out and Shakhtar go through, 0-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match6 Nov 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Alisson gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match5 Nov 2027
Three points for Shakhtar , 2-1 the final word against Willem II in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Kauã Elias named player of the monthThe award goes to Kauã Elias , and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Shakhtar release $5.0M for the managerThe board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Loan watch8 Nov 2027
“I did not go to Vorskla to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad1 Nov 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match30 Oct 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A season average of 7.12 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Shakhtar know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Match30 Oct 2027
Chornomorets made Shakhtar work for it, but the scoreboard read 4-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A season average of 7.38 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Prosper Obah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
10 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
16 appearances at Cherno More and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
5 appearances at Vikingur and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Upbeat
Match25 Oct 2027
Shakhtar up to position 127 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match23 Oct 2027
3-0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad25 Oct 2027
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad25 Oct 2027
At 21, Kauã Elias is already the best thing here
An average of 7.36 in a first team he is several years too young for. Shakhtar have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Match23 Oct 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Market25 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Shakhtar is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad25 Oct 2027
5 goals and a season average of 7.49. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad25 Oct 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Shakhtar pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Match22 Oct 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Oct 2027
Stanislav Boyko : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Shakhtar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Prosper Obah and Shakhtar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match16 Oct 2027
Still nobody has beaten Shakhtar
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match16 Oct 2027
Epicentr made Shakhtar work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A season average of 7.29 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch18 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Rukh to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Nika Gagnidze
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market18 Oct 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Oleh Pushkariov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market18 Oct 2027
The Marlon talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Market11 Oct 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Match9 Oct 2027
Kolos made Shakhtar work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Vorskla to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A season average of 7.21 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
6 goals on loan for Newertton
11 appearances at Chornomorets and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Shakhtar that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Shakhtar that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
10 appearances at Epicentr and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
New owners walk into Shakhtar
The sale has gone through and every plan made for next season is now provisional. New owners arrive promising patience; the promise has a shelf life.
Match1 Oct 2027
Racing Genk will want this one forgotten quickly: 3-0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Shakhtar were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market4 Oct 2027
Heorhii Sudakov wants to know where this is going“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Shakhtar hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marlon Gomes and Shakhtar agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A season average of 7.02 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Shakhtar know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The award goes to Muhamadou Kanteh , and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Dmytro Riznyk lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Match2 Oct 2027
A 1-1 draw with Metalist leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The terraces4 Oct 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Dmytro Riznyk
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match27 Sep 2027
Shakhtar up to position 117 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match25 Sep 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4-1 against Veres , and it could have been more.
Market27 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Shakhtar is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Kauã Elias is the real thing at 21A season average of 7.21 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Shakhtar know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alisson and Shakhtar agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad27 Sep 2027
5 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Loan watch27 Sep 2027
5 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market27 Sep 2027
The name of Dmytro Kryskiv keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Shakhtar say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad20 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match18 Sep 2027
No end in sight to Shakhtar 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Shakhtar has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Sep 2027
1-2 to Galatasaray , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Dmytro Riznyk
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rostyslav Bahlai and Shakhtar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch20 Sep 2027
“I did not go to Rukh to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Market20 Sep 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match18 Sep 2027
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Upbeat
Match11 Sep 2027
Derby day misery for Shakhtar
Losing 1-2 is one thing; losing to Dynamo Kyiv in a derby is a wound that takes months to close.
Market13 Sep 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Giorgi Gocholeishvili and Shakhtar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Marlon Gomes
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market13 Sep 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“I did not go to Vorskla to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
8 appearances at an average of 6.21. The minutes were the point and he is getting them, which makes the numbers harder to explain away rather than easier.
Market13 Sep 2027
The window shut and Marian Shved is still in the building
Shakhtar spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
Market13 Sep 2027
The name of Diego Arroyo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Shakhtar say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Market6 Sep 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market6 Sep 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market6 Sep 2027
Oleh Ocheretko wants to know where this is going“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Shakhtar hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad6 Sep 2027
At 21, Alisson is already the best thing here
An average of 7.23 in a first team he is several years too young for. Shakhtar have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Match4 Sep 2027
A bad afternoon for Shakhtar against Zorya
0-1 to Zorya , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Nobody left the Shakhtar dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The month belongs to Kauã Elias
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Shakhtar have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
$5.0M on the table at Shakhtar
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Dmytro Kryskiv
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match25 Aug 2027
Shakhtar march on in the cupUCSA are out and Shakhtar go through, 4-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match28 Aug 2027
LNZ will want this one forgotten quickly: 4-1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Shakhtar were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match28 Aug 2027
Shakhtar make it 4 in a rowMomentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Shakhtar have 4 straight wins of it.
Market30 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Prosper Obah gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market30 Aug 2027
Javor-Matis are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Pedrinho asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad30 Aug 2027
At 20 years old, Mykyta Sheleketa became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Marian Shved finally opens his accountHe wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Shakhtar have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Triumph
Match21 Aug 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Market23 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market23 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Diego Arroyo Shakhtar turn down Oleksandriya for Diego Arroyo
Market23 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match21 Aug 2027
Three points for Shakhtar , 2-1 the final word against Rukh in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market23 Aug 2027
He is 19, and nobody at Shakhtar signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Nika Gagnidze
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Heorhii Sudakov keeps the shirt for now, at Shakhtar 's convenience rather than his own.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Triumph
Match14 Aug 2027
Obolon will want this one forgotten quickly: 3-0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Shakhtar were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match14 Aug 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Market16 Aug 2027
The bid was some way short and Shakhtar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Marlon Wisla Krakow come back empty-handed
Squad16 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Eguinaldo and Shakhtar agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Pedrinho gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market16 Aug 2027
The name of Diego Arroyo has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market16 Aug 2027
Chernihiv are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Eguinaldo asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market9 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match7 Aug 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Market9 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oleh Buialskyi commits to Shakhtar for another 4 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market9 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match7 Aug 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match31 Jul 2027
4-1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market2 Aug 2027
Epicentr come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Shakhtar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match31 Jul 2027
Shakhtar make it 4 in a rowMomentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Shakhtar have 4 straight wins of it.
Market2 Aug 2027
The shirt still fits. Mykhailo Lunyov is back at Shakhtar , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market2 Aug 2027
The shirt still fits. Vitaliy Lunyov is back at Shakhtar , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market2 Aug 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 25 days on the sidelines for Oleksandr Stepanov , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Prosper Obah gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Shakhtar release $5.0M for the managerThe board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market26 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Danylo Udod and Shakhtar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market26 Jul 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market26 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Makar Tverdokhlib keeps the shirt for now, at Shakhtar 's convenience rather than his own.
In brief
Squad
Pedrinho is starting to look at home
Boardroom
The Shakhtar production line keeps running
Market
The trail goes cold on Alaa Ghram
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Upbeat
Match19 Jul 2027
Shakhtar up to position 357 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market19 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Gleiker Mendoza has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market19 Jul 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Market12 Jul 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market12 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market12 Jul 2027
The bid was some way short and Shakhtar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Heorhii Sudakov commits to Shakhtar for another 5 years.
Market12 Jul 2027
Victoriia Sumy are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Somebody wants to buy Shakhtar
Nothing has been signed and nothing has been denied. Supporters who have lived through one of these before know the quiet part lasts months and the loud part lasts a week.
Market5 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Alaa Ghram Shakhtar turn down Kryvbas for Alaa Ghram
Market5 Jul 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gleiker Mendoza commits to Shakhtar for another 3 years.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Heorhii Sudakov asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market28 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oleh Ocheretko commits to Shakhtar for another 5 years.
Market28 Jun 2027
Viktor Korniienko has left for Zorya in a $450.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Eguinaldo Shakhtar turn down Zorya for Eguinaldo
Market28 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market28 Jun 2027
Jablonec are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Match21 Jun 2027
Shakhtar up to position 357 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market21 Jun 2027
Kudrivka come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Shakhtar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market21 Jun 2027
The name of Alaa Ghram has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Makar Tverdokhlib and Shakhtar agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market21 Jun 2027
Marian Shved is free to find somewhere else“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Shakhtar has been clear about where Marian Shved stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market21 Jun 2027
A season-long audition: Metalist still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Shakhtar 's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
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Market14 Jun 2027
Jablonec come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Shakhtar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market14 Jun 2027
Oleh Ocheretko wants to know where this is going“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Shakhtar hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market14 Jun 2027
A conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Nika Gagnidze joins up with his country. Shakhtar lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Shakhtar that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Dmytro Kryskiv joins up with his country. Shakhtar lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Market7 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market7 Jun 2027
The bid was some way short and Shakhtar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kauã Elias and Shakhtar agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Valeriy Bondar
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Boardroom31 May 2027
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad31 May 2027
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Lucas Ferreira , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad31 May 2027
Newertton knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch31 May 2027
26 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market31 May 2027
The Marlon talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market31 May 2027
0 appearances and 0 goals away from home. What he did there is settled; what happens now at Shakhtar is not.
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Boardroom24 May 2027
They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.
Match19 May 2027
Shakhtar march on in the cupMetalist are out and Shakhtar go through, 5-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match24 May 2027
Shakhtar up to position 357 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match19 May 2027
Shakhtar make it 3 in a rowMomentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Shakhtar have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad24 May 2027
A season average of 7.06 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Shakhtar know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad24 May 2027
Eguinaldo is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.46 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch24 May 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shakhtar , and 9 appearances in 38 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad24 May 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Shakhtar pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Loan watch24 May 2027
25 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Loan watch17 May 2027
Isaque wants to come home“I did not go to Naftan to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 8 appearances in 35 matches say the rest.
Squad17 May 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad17 May 2027
Łukasz Fabiański asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Isaque Isaque wants to come home
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Market10 May 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad10 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vinicius Tobias commits to Shakhtar for another 5 years.
Loan watch10 May 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shakhtar , and 3 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.
Market10 May 2027
Eguinaldo linked with a move awayThe name of Eguinaldo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Shakhtar say nothing, which says plenty.
Loan watch10 May 2027
34 starts and a season average of 6.44. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.
Squad10 May 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Loan watch3 May 2027
Alisson wants to come home“I did not go to NK Osijek to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 8 appearances in 36 matches say the rest.
Loan watch3 May 2027
26 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Loan watch3 May 2027
6 goals on loan for Newertton
20 appearances at Wisla Krakow and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch3 May 2027
4 goals on loan for Alisson
8 appearances at NK Osijek and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad3 May 2027
Danylo Udod knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market3 May 2027
The Marlon talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Match26 Apr 2027
Shakhtar up to position 357 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A season average of 7.06 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Shakhtar know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shakhtar , and 5 appearances in 34 say he has earned the hearing.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
24 appearances at Alanyaspor and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Irakli Azarovi asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market26 Apr 2027
The name of Viktor Korniienko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Shakhtar say nothing, which says plenty.
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Squad19 Apr 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shakhtar , and 4 appearances in 31 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Valeriy Bondar
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
26 starts and a season average of 7.15. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
30 appearances at Kudrivka and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market19 Apr 2027
The name of Dmytro Kryskiv keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Shakhtar say nothing, which says plenty.
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Market12 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shakhtar can pretend not to have heard.
Market12 Apr 2027
The name of Muhamadou Kanteh has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Makar Tverdokhlib commits to Shakhtar for another 3 years.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Radnik Surdulica to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Dmytro Kryskiv
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market12 Apr 2027
The Eguinaldo talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
31 starts and an average of 6.41. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
25 appearances at Rukh and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I am playing every week here and I feel like a footballer again.” 23 appearances and 9 goals on loan, and a decision waiting in the summer.
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Market5 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shakhtar can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Irakli Azarovi commits to Shakhtar for another 4 years.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shakhtar , and 8 appearances in 32 say he has earned the hearing.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
26 appearances at Benfica and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Match29 Mar 2027
Shakhtar are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 57 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Eguinaldo commits to Shakhtar for another 5 years.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Match17 Mar 2027
Cup progress for Shakhtar
A 2-1 win over Epicentr , a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad22 Mar 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match17 Mar 2027
Still nobody has beaten Shakhtar
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Eguinaldo is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.46 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shakhtar , and 2 appearances in 29 say he has earned the hearing.
The terraces22 Mar 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Every debut is a small story about the future: Vladyslav Tiutiunov , 20 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
26 starts and a season average of 7.15. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.
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Squad15 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Denys Tvardovskyi commits to Shakhtar for another 4 years.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shakhtar , and 2 appearances in 26 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Danylo Udod
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market15 Mar 2027
The Eguinaldo talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
27 starts and a season average of 6.46. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.
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Market8 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market8 Mar 2027
The bid was some way short and Shakhtar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market8 Mar 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The award goes to Oleh Ocheretko , and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shakhtar , and 8 appearances in 28 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Valeriy Bondar
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
24 appearances at Benfica and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Market1 Mar 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match1 Mar 2027
Shakhtar are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 57 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Eguinaldo Shakhtar turn down Zorya for Eguinaldo
Market1 Mar 2027
Oleh Ocheretko wants to know where this is going“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Shakhtar hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vinicius Tobias and Shakhtar agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market1 Mar 2027
Poltava are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
20 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Petriak
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 41 with 228 appearances behind him, and Shakhtar have to plan for both answers.
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Match20 Feb 2027
A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 3-1, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.
Market22 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.38 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad22 Feb 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Dmytro Riznyk knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Torpedo-BelAZ to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
Squad22 Feb 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Shakhtar pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market22 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
19 appearances at Alanyaspor and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Market15 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market15 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Dmytro Riznyk lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Eguinaldo is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.47 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
Isaque wants to come home“I did not go to Naftan to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 22 matches say the rest.
Match13 Feb 2027
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Łukasz Fabiański asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
25 starts and a season average of 7.15. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.
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Squad8 Feb 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Polissia come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Shakhtar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market8 Feb 2027
The fee is $490.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Kolos drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market8 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match6 Feb 2027
A 2-1 win over Epicentr , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market8 Feb 2027
Vorskla are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shakhtar , and 8 appearances in 24 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad8 Feb 2027
2 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match1 Feb 2027
Shakhtar up to position 350 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shakhtar can pretend not to have heard.
Eguinaldo Shakhtar turn down Zorya for Eguinaldo
Market1 Feb 2027
The fee is $1.3M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Polissia drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market1 Feb 2027
Artem Bondarenko wants to know where this is going“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Shakhtar hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Levadia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.30 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Marian Shved gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match30 Jan 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Market25 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match23 Jan 2027
Three points for Shakhtar , 3-2 the final word against Obolon in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.28 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
“I did not go to Torpedo-BelAZ to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Marlon gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
15 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
18 appearances at Benfica and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Crisis
Market18 Jan 2027
Basel pay $6.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Match16 Jan 2027
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Dmytro Riznyk
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad18 Jan 2027
6 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
Nobody left the Shakhtar dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad18 Jan 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Dmytro Riznyk knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Dmytro Riznyk
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market18 Jan 2027
The Eguinaldo talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad18 Jan 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Shakhtar have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Dmytro Riznyk : 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match6 Jan 2027
Shakhtar march on in the cupAhrobiznes are out and Shakhtar go through, 2-2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match9 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Market11 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match9 Jan 2027
Kryvbas made Shakhtar work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch11 Jan 2027
Isaque wants to come home“I did not go to Naftan to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ivan Petriak gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Prosper Obah asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A first senior shirt for Denys Bida
Every debut is a small story about the future: Denys Bida , 17 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match4 Jan 2027
Shakhtar are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 43 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shakhtar can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Lassina Traoré has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match2 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten Shakhtar
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market4 Jan 2027
River Plate are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Marlon Gomes gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Shakhtar have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
“I did not go to Levadia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Match2 Jan 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match26 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Shakhtar
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Dec 2026
34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Ivan Petriak Ivan Petriak says Shakhtar went back on their word
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
131% of the income goes out in wages at Shakhtar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Torpedo-BelAZ to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Squad28 Dec 2026
4 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match26 Dec 2026
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Dmytro Kryskiv asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
14 appearances at Benfica and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marlon Gomes commits to Shakhtar for another 4 years.
Match19 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Shakhtar
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match19 Dec 2026
LNZ made Shakhtar work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Dec 2026
6 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Łukasz Fabiański asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
4 goals on loan for Newertton
12 appearances at Wisla Krakow and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market21 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
17 starts and an average of 7.10. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
Isaque wants to come home“I did not go to Naftan to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Marlon gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Isaque Isaque wants to come home
Match12 Dec 2026
Shakhtar and Rukh cancel each other outNil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Rukh came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
11 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“Nobody here treats me like a loan player, and that is worth more than people think.” 15 appearances and 1 goals, and a summer that will decide it.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match7 Dec 2026
Shakhtar are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 37 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shakhtar can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Dec 2026
Shakhtar cannot stop winning4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Market7 Dec 2026
Oleh Ocheretko wants to know where this is going“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Shakhtar hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Prosper Obah and Shakhtar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match5 Dec 2026
Kolos made Shakhtar work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Levadia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Prosper Obah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match28 Nov 2026
Shakhtar cannot stop winning3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad30 Nov 2026
64 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 2-1 win over Metalist , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
163% of the income goes out in wages at Shakhtar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Torpedo-BelAZ to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Gleiker Mendoza
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A season average of 7.27 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Oleh Ocheretko unhappy with how he is being usedAsked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Oleh Ocheretko has let it be known that he does not like the way Shakhtar are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
10 appearances at Benfica and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match21 Nov 2026
Three points for Shakhtar , 1-0 the final word against Veres in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Eguinaldo is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.35 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Marian Shved gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Eguinaldo Eguinaldo is in the form of his life
Market23 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market23 Nov 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Viktor Korniienko may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
The press cannot get enough of Pedrinho
Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match14 Nov 2026
A 2-0 win over Poltava , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
Isaque wants to come home“I did not go to Naftan to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad16 Nov 2026
4 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad16 Nov 2026
One booking too many, and Marlon Gomes sits out. Shakhtar lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
12 starts and an average of 6.82. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
12 starts and an average of 6.94. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
11 starts and a season average of 6.51. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.
In brief
The terraces
The press have found their man in Eguinaldo
The terraces
The stand has a song for Eguinaldo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match7 Nov 2026
Derby day misery for Shakhtar
Losing 0-2 is one thing; losing to Dynamo Kyiv in a derby is a wound that takes months to close.
Match4 Nov 2026
Shakhtar through in the cupA 2-0 win over Victoriia Sumy , and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Dmytro Riznyk
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Levadia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Dmytro Strilchuk , 19 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
4 goals on loan for Alisson
8 appearances at NK Osijek and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
6 appearances at Alanyaspor and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 95 days on the sidelines for Łukasz Fabiański , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
163% of the income goes out in wages at Shakhtar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match31 Oct 2026
Oleksandriya left with the points after a 0-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Dmytro Riznyk lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Torpedo-BelAZ to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shakhtar can pretend not to have heard.
Match24 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 2-1 win over Epicentr , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A season average of 7.26 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Łukasz Fabiański asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Oleh Ocheretko wants a proper job in this sideShifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Oleh Ocheretko has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Shakhtar know, and have known for weeks.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
6 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market26 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Shakhtar
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Shakhtar are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Gleiker Mendoza
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Kudrivka came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Prosper Obah asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 20 years old, Oleksandr Lomaha became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Levadia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Marlon
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match10 Oct 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Valeriy Bondar joins up with his country. Shakhtar lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Dmytro Kryskiv joins up with his country. Shakhtar lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Shakhtar that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 129 days on the sidelines for Łukasz Fabiański , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 261% of everything Shakhtar earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Polissia will be the happier side with the point.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
6 appearances at Benfica and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
4 appearances at Alanyaspor and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market5 Oct 2026
Marlon linked with a move awayThe name of Marlon keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Shakhtar say nothing, which says plenty.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
10 appearances at Kudrivka and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Dmytro Riznyk has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match28 Sep 2026
Shakhtar are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 19 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shakhtar can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marian Shved gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Kryvbas came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Eguinaldo wants a proper job in this sideShifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Eguinaldo has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Shakhtar know, and have known for weeks.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
4 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market28 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
3 appearances away from home and 1 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
0 goals on loan for Isaque
3 appearances at Naftan and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market21 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 3-2 win over Karpaty , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Prosper Obah gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market21 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market21 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Eguinaldo has taken the shirtAt 22 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Shakhtar are won quietly and lost loudly.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
2 goals on loan for Newertton
3 appearances at Wisla Krakow and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market21 Sep 2026
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Mykhailo Khromei moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1-0 win over Zorya , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market14 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Levadia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Eguinaldo talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dmytro Kryskiv knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 163 days on the sidelines for Łukasz Fabiański , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Marian Shved has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
314% of the income goes out in wages at Shakhtar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Eguinaldo gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match5 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Shakhtar against LNZ
0-1 to LNZ , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Market7 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market7 Sep 2026
Eguinaldo placed on the listShakhtar have made Eguinaldo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match26 Aug 2026
Shakhtar through in the cupA 1-0 win over UCSA , and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shakhtar can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
Shakhtar make it 3 in a rowMomentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Shakhtar have 3 straight wins of it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Isaque attracts admirersThe name of Isaque has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Lassina Traoré
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match29 Aug 2026
Shakhtar get the job done against Rukh A 1-0 win over Rukh , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Dmytro Riznyk
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Prosper Obah knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match22 Aug 2026
Kolos made Shakhtar work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Alaa Ghram has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market24 Aug 2026
Victoriia Sumy are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marian Shved knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The press have found their man in Pedrinho
Column inches are not points, but a footballer whose name keeps appearing for the right reasons is a footballer whose price has just gone up.
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Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Rostyslav Liakh joins from Karpaty in a deal worth $530.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Market17 Aug 2026
Asteras are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Isaque Shakhtar turn down Jelgava for Isaque
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Shakhtar dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Pedrinho and Shakhtar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Eguinaldo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match8 Aug 2026
Veres made Shakhtar work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 Aug 2026
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pedrinho knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shakhtar , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ivan Petriak is free to find somewhere else“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Shakhtar has been clear about where Ivan Petriak stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Eguinaldo Shakhtar turn down OFK Beograd for Eguinaldo
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dmytro Riznyk commits to Shakhtar for another 4 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Alaa Ghram has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.