The team was created in 1988 and entered football competitions of Donetsk Oblast as one of football teams of the Oktyabrugol Mining Association.
[1] The team was created on initiative of the mining association general director V. Khamulyak and the president of the local Mining Industry Trade Union V. Moskalenko.
The next season in 1989 it competed at the top tier and placed third behind Kirovets Makiivka and Shakhtar Selidove.
[2] In 1990 and 1991 Antratsyt played at the Ukrainian republican competitions.
In 1992 the team was admitted to the Ukrainian Transitional League where it played 2 seasons.