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Links With The Past: Mementos From City's Europa League Debut

Club Historian John Hutchinson reveals one of the newest additions to the Leicester City archives from the Foxes' maiden appearance in the UEFA Europa League.

2020-11-22T06:01:00.000Z

by John Hutchinson

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22 Nov, 2020

Links With The Past: Mementos From City's Europa League Debut

Club Historian John Hutchinson reveals one of the newest additions to the Leicester City archives from the Foxes' maiden appearance in the UEFA Europa League.

John Hutchinson

2020-11-22T06:01:00.000Z

Links With The Past: Mementos From City's Europa League Debut

Club Historian John Hutchinson reveals one of the newest additions to the Leicester City archives from the Foxes' maiden appearance in the UEFA Europa League.

John Hutchinson

2020-11-22T06:01:00.000Z

Links With The Past: Mementos From City's Europa League Debut

Club Historian John Hutchinson reveals one of the newest additions to the Leicester City archives from the Foxes' maiden appearance in the UEFA Europa League.

John Hutchinson

2020-11-22T06:01:00.000Z

Links With The Past: Mementos From City's Europa League Debut

Club Historian John Hutchinson reveals one of the newest additions to the Leicester City archives from the Foxes' maiden appearance in the UEFA Europa League.

John Hutchinson

2020-11-22T06:01:00.000Z

Several mementoes from Leicester City’s first Europa League match against Zorya Luhansk have been added to the Club’s collection.

These include a Luhansk shirt worn in the match by the Ukraine Under-21s international midfielder Yehor Nazaryna together with a pennant from the Ukrainian club.

Goals from James Maddison, Harvey Barnes and Kelechi Iheanacho sealed a 3-0 victory on Filbert Way for the Foxes on 22 October.

The date 1923 and the Cyrillic lettering surrounding the crest on the shirt and pennant reflect Zorya's chequered history.

The lettering reads ЗАPЯ (Zarya) and ПЧГАНСК, (Luhansk). Zorya means ‘Dawn’ and implies a new start.

This was because the club has undergone 11 name changes since it was founded in 1923 as FC Metallist Lugansk (now Luhansk) when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.

Even the name of the city kept changing from Lugansk to Voroshilov, back to Lugansk and finally to Luhansk.

The new dawn began when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Ukraine became independent, the city was renamed Luhansk and the team switched from the Soviet League to the newly-formed Ukrainian Premier League

In 2014, though, Russian separatists detached the Luhansk region from Ukraine to establish the Russian-backed Luhansk People’s Republic, a proto-state which has no international recognition.

As a consequence, Zorya Luhansk left their home city and now play in Zaporizhzhya over 200 miles away.

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