FC Pivdenstal Yenakiieve, also known by its Russian transcription as Yugostal (Russian: Футбольный клуб «Югосталь», Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб "Південьсталь") was a Ukrainian football club from Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast.
Those were the full-back (defender), a French engineer De-Sev and the goalkeeper, an employee of the main office Apelchenko.
In 1957, after finishing his playing career, native of Yenakiieve Alexey Pshenichny, winner of the 1944 Soviet Cup as part of Zenit Leningrad, returned to his hometown.
Pshenichny became the head coach of the local Metallurg and was able to very quickly improve the results of the factory team.
[2] In 1961, the team became the champion of Donetsk Oblast and received the right to contest for a place in Class B of the Soviet Football Championship.
In 1984, with the arrival of coaches V. I. Nikitenko and V. I. Ivanov to Metallurg, the metallurgists became the winners of the final games of the best teams of the region.
This allowed the factory footballers to gain the right to play in the championship of the Ukrainian SSR 15 years later.
Metallurg reached the regional Cup final for the first time and, having won a prize place in the Donetsk regional championship, again won the right to play in the championship of the Ukrainian SSR among physical education teams.
The Yenakiyevites continued to attack, and in one of the episodes in the guests' penalty area, V. Gromov was knocked down.
Pivdenstal received the Ukrainian Cup, and with it the prize of the republican newspaper "Radyanska Ukraina".
The next two games against the Greek Imathia and Georgian Tbilisi teams were won 7:0 and 6:0, respectively, but the first place in the group, giving the right to continue playing in the tournament, was taken by the Azerbaijanis.