FC Khimik Sievierodonetsk

In the Ukrainian soccer competitions as well as in the Soviet, the club was called Khimik (chemical scientist).

The club for several season was showing good results and was one of the contenders to be promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League, but in 1998 it became defunct.

Among notable achievements was elimination of FC Shakhtar Donetsk during the 1992–93 Ukrainian Cup.

[1] In 2005–08, there was another club from Sievierodonetsk called Blyskavka (Thunder-bolt) that competed on the amateur level.

The Khimik Stadium was officially opened on International Labor Day, 1 May 1951.