FC Shakhtar Luhansk

[2] At the team's beginning stood former players of FC Zorya Luhansk Volodymyr Abramov and Anatoliy Shulzhenko.

[2] The team competed in the Luhansk city championship hosting its games in a field next to the local Agricultural Institute.

[2] In the early 1990s the team moved to the newly built stadium in the Luhansk's suburb Yuvileine.

[2] In 1993 out of Vahonobudivnyk Stakhanov was invited former Zorya goalkeeper Oleksandr Tkachenko who appointed the club's head coach (manager).

In 2000 when the club was headed by Yuriy Pohrebnyak it brought along several better players and de facto uniting another local team Ellada-Enerhiya and Shakhtar.