Facts and figures
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
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Shakhtar's performance in the 2017/18 season
Paulo Fonseca’s men have claimed the ‘golden double’ for two consecutive years, also securing the third trophy this time - the Ukrainian Super Cup.
Results
Aggregately, Shakhtar played 45 games in 4 competitions (the Ukrainian league, Cup, and Super Cup, plus the Champions League). They secured 34 wins, with 8 defeats and 3 draws.
Wins
Just like in the 2016/17 season, the Donetsk team boast 9 major wins: vs Vorskla (3-0), Veres (4-0), Chornomorets (5-0), Zirka (5-0), Karpaty (3-0), Vorskla (3-0), Mariupol (3-0), Zorya (3-0), Mariupol (5-1).
Goals
Shakhtar repeated the scoring performance of the previous season - 99 goals. Most often, the Miners netted 2 goals per game (14 times), in 10 cases, also scoring 3 goals over 90 minutes on 10 other occasions. In the Premier League, the champions surpassed their last year's figure (71 vs 66), scoring 7 more goals vs Dynamo.
Scorers
The top scorer is Ferreyra (30 goals), narrowly followed by Marlos (22). Bernard has 10 goals, Taison has 7 goals, Kovalenko has 5. We also want to mention Fred and Ismaily (4 goals each), Alan Patrick, Blanco Leschuk and Kayode (3 each), Kryvtsov and Petriak (2 each), plus Dentinho, Rakits’kyy, and Khocholava (1 each). On one more occasion, Fedetskyi scored an own goal.
Head coach
The average scoring performance under Paulo Fonseca after 2 seasons has been 2.1 goals per game. Aggregately during his tenure, the Miners have scored 198 goals. Fonseca has claimed 5 trophies with Shakhtar. Another interesting fact is that Paulo won 49 championship games, with his next triumph expected to be the milestone one.
Streaks
During the football year, the Miners had 2 long-lasting winning streaks in all competitions: 7 wins (from 29 July to 13 September) and 6 wins (from 18 April to 13 May).
Character
On several occasions this season, the Donetsk team conceded the openers, still claiming 8 comeback wins. Such were the encounters with Stal, Oleksandriia, Veres, and Roma, with two come-from-behind wins vs Zorya and Feyenoord.
Captains
4 footballers played as captains in the reporting season: Taison (25 games), Srna (10), Stepanenko (6) and Pyatov (4).
Milestones
A number of players have conquered new frontiers in terms of the number of apps for Shakhtar. Rakits’kyy now has 310 apps, Taison has 202; over 100 appearances belong to Ismaily (133), Kovalenko (125), Ferreyra (115) and Kryvtsov (113).
Fans
Almost 600 thousand football fans (597,414) attended the Miners’ games in the 2017/18 season, averaging 13,276 per game. The team held 22 home matches at the OSC Metalist, with the aggregate attendance of 248,994 (averaging 11,318 per game).
Results
Aggregately, Shakhtar played 45 games in 4 competitions (the Ukrainian league, Cup, and Super Cup, plus the Champions League). They secured 34 wins, with 8 defeats and 3 draws.
Wins
Just like in the 2016/17 season, the Donetsk team boast 9 major wins: vs Vorskla (3-0), Veres (4-0), Chornomorets (5-0), Zirka (5-0), Karpaty (3-0), Vorskla (3-0), Mariupol (3-0), Zorya (3-0), Mariupol (5-1).
Goals
Shakhtar repeated the scoring performance of the previous season - 99 goals. Most often, the Miners netted 2 goals per game (14 times), in 10 cases, also scoring 3 goals over 90 minutes on 10 other occasions. In the Premier League, the champions surpassed their last year's figure (71 vs 66), scoring 7 more goals vs Dynamo.
Scorers
The top scorer is Ferreyra (30 goals), narrowly followed by Marlos (22). Bernard has 10 goals, Taison has 7 goals, Kovalenko has 5. We also want to mention Fred and Ismaily (4 goals each), Alan Patrick, Blanco Leschuk and Kayode (3 each), Kryvtsov and Petriak (2 each), plus Dentinho, Rakits’kyy, and Khocholava (1 each). On one more occasion, Fedetskyi scored an own goal.
Head coach
The average scoring performance under Paulo Fonseca after 2 seasons has been 2.1 goals per game. Aggregately during his tenure, the Miners have scored 198 goals. Fonseca has claimed 5 trophies with Shakhtar. Another interesting fact is that Paulo won 49 championship games, with his next triumph expected to be the milestone one.
Streaks
During the football year, the Miners had 2 long-lasting winning streaks in all competitions: 7 wins (from 29 July to 13 September) and 6 wins (from 18 April to 13 May).
Character
On several occasions this season, the Donetsk team conceded the openers, still claiming 8 comeback wins. Such were the encounters with Stal, Oleksandriia, Veres, and Roma, with two come-from-behind wins vs Zorya and Feyenoord.
Captains
4 footballers played as captains in the reporting season: Taison (25 games), Srna (10), Stepanenko (6) and Pyatov (4).
Milestones
A number of players have conquered new frontiers in terms of the number of apps for Shakhtar. Rakits’kyy now has 310 apps, Taison has 202; over 100 appearances belong to Ismaily (133), Kovalenko (125), Ferreyra (115) and Kryvtsov (113).
Fans
Almost 600 thousand football fans (597,414) attended the Miners’ games in the 2017/18 season, averaging 13,276 per game. The team held 22 home matches at the OSC Metalist, with the aggregate attendance of 248,994 (averaging 11,318 per game).