[Lord Snooty]

FC Oleksandriya:

Commonly known as Oleksandriya, is a Ukrainian professional football club based in the city of Oleksandriya, Kirovohrad Oblast. Founded in 1948, the club plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. The year 1948 on the club's crest depicts football heritage of the club rather than the club's foundation.

That former club was FC Shakhtar Oleksandriya, who folded in 1990 and the new club were formed in the same year, by workers at the local printing equipment plant.

In the 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League season, FC Oleksandriya finished 6th place, earning their best achievement in the Ukrainian top flight yet and qualifying for the third qualifying round of UEFA Europa League.

The club plays its games at the Sports Complex "Nika" that was built in place of the old Shakhtar Stadium. Oleksandriya have played at the new stadium since the summer of 1998.

When the club was formed in 1990, it was still part of the Soviet Union, but from 1991 onwards, they played in the Ukranian Leagues, winning the second division in 2001, 2011 and 2015 and since that last promotion, they have been in the Premier League.

They have qualified for the Europa League three times. The first two times they were eliminated in the qualifying rounds, but in 2019/20 they were in Group I, playing Saint-Étienne, Wolfsburg and Gent.

And there's your Huddersfield Town connection. In the two games against Gent, Laurent Depoitre scored once in the game in Oleksandriya and twice in the return match in Gent.

Have a watch of that here.......

https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/ma...a-vs-gent/

https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/ma...exandriya/

FC Oleksandriya finished bottom of the table with three points from three draws and three defeats.

Oleksandriya has a population of 77,000, which makes it less than half the size of Huiddersfield. the most famous person from the city is Leonid Popov, the Cosmonaut, who was Commander on Soyuz 35, Soyuz 40 and Soyuz T-7.