Vidomy Ukrainian coach Sergey Kovalets became the new head coach of Zaporizhzhya Metalurh. The press service informed the First League club about this.

The details please the 57-year mentor and the Metallurgist;. At the beginning of the flowing season, Kovalets worked from the Khmelnytsky Podillia, as if he had deprived the leaf fall of 2025 of fate.

At the end of his playing career, Sergiy Kovalets captured the colors of Dynamo Kiev, Dnipro, Carpathians, Chornomorets, Obolon, Volina, Borysfen, the Netherlands Twente, as well as Podill. From 2000 to 2002, he played for the local Metalurg in Zaporizhia. He also has 10 matches at the warehouse of the national team of Ukraine.

After completing his playing career, Kovalets worked for a number of Ukrainian and foreign clubs.

He won FC Lviv, Oleksandriya, Obolon, Chornomorets, Podillya, Inhulets, Slovakian Tatran, Lithuanian Trakai, and also coached Zaporizian Metalurg. From 2012 to 2015, Fahivets was the head coach of the youth national team of Ukraine, winning the Sports Friendship Cup for two days.

Narazy Metalurh is in the fold: after 18 matches played, the team finishes the First League standings, with just 8 points left..

Previously, it was reported that Oleksandriya terminated the contract with Kirill Kovalets, the son of the new head coach of Metalurh and the rich captain of the team..