The Donetsk derby (, Donetske derbi) is the name given by the media to a football derby contested by any two of Shakhtar, Metalurh, Olimpik, Titan - the four Ukrainian professional clubs that play in the Ukrainian championship in Donetsk, Ukrainian city in the Donbas. It also may include some of their reserve teams, such as Shakhtar-2, Shakhtar-3, and Metalurh-2. The most prominent of all could be considered a match-up between Shakhtar and Metalurh. The derby was also called the Donbas derby. The derby was discontinued soon after the Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014.
While Donetsk hosted professional clubs at least since 1936, the two clubs (Shakhtar and Lokomotyv) that existed during the Soviet period never met as they played at different tiers of the Soviet football league pyramid. The first ever derby between two clubs from Donetsk took place on 17 October 1997, when Shakhtar beat Metalurh 2âÂÂ0 at Tsentralnyi stadion "Shakhtar". The derby kicked off during the 1997âÂÂ98 Vyshcha Liha season when Metalurh received its promotion from the Ukrainian First League. In a total of 39 matches between those clubs, Shakhtar won 34, drew 3, and Metalurh won 2.
The last ever derby was played on 6 March 2021, when Shakhtar beat Olimpik 1âÂÂ0 at Stadion Dynamo imeni Lobanovskoho in Kyiv.