The International Charitable Foundation “Oleksandr Feldman Foundation” will render financial assistance to Kharkiv football club Metallist 1925. UAH 300,000 will be aimed at the winter preparation of the club for the second half of Ukrainian Football Championship 2018/19 among the teams of the First League. In particular, the funds will cover the training camp in Turkey, where the warm climate, good football grounds and strong opponents make up the perfect conditions for qualitative training.
“Kharkiv is a city with great football traditions and a huge army of devoted fans, and Metallist 1925 must be among the top teams of Ukrainian football. The team created ‘from scratch’ several years ago has already demonstrated its great potential by overcoming the way from an amateur level to one of the leaders of the second important division of the country’s professional football. It order to make the next step – to get into the Premier League – the team needs qualitative training and the relevant level of material support. We will help it in this. We believe that Metallist 1925 is able to achieve even the most ambitious goals,” the founder of the Foundation, Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Feldman emphasized.
It should be reminded that in summer 2018, the International Charitable Foundation “Oleksandr Feldman Foundation” and the AVEC Concern and Co. PJSC together with AES Group provided financial assistance to football club Metallist 1925. These means were directed at the training sessions carrying out.
Kharkiv’s Metallist 1925 was established in 2016. It won the second place in the Amateur League in the season 2016/17 and the second place in the Ukrainian championship among the teams of the Second League in Group B in the season 2017/18. In the season 2018/19, it is already playing in the First League and, after 17 matches, it has the second place in the ranking with 38 points.
