ODESA, FEBRUARY 13th, 2012, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE — FC Chornomorets has set off to Turkey on the third training camp, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

The press service of the club informed today, 13 February.

According to the press service, the third training camp of FC Chornomorets began yesterday, 12 February. In the morning, the Chornomorets delegation left for Turkey from Odesa International Airport. The “Sailors” will again be located at the Starlight hotel, in Side, Turkey. The team of Odesa will be staying in the Mediterranean until 25 February.

On the Turkish Mediterranean, Chornomorets is planning to hold seven training matches: 15 February, with the Partizan (Belgrade, Serbia), 16 February — the Astra (Ploiesti, Romania), 19 February — FC Brondby (Denmark), 22 February — FC Örebro (Sweden), 25 February — the Amkar (Perm, Russia). The opponents in the games scheduled for 18 and 23 February are being clarified.

INFORMATION: FC Chornomorets Odesa is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Odessa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. During the reconstruction (2009-2011), the team played in the 4,610 Spartak Stadium. The club was officially formed in 1936 as Dynamo, but after a number of name and management changes, it emerged under its current name in 1958. Chornomorets were deducted 6 points by FIFA on November 6, 2008. It was confirmed by Ukrainian Premier League on March 2, 2009. The club managed to finish the 2008–09 season in 10th place despite the deduction. The 2009–10 season started badly with a 5:0 loss to FC Dynamo Kyiv and a poor run of form that saw the team finish the first half of the season in 13th place, just two spots away from the relegation zone. The club was relegated to the First League at the end of the season. It took, however, just a year for Chornomorets to return to the Ukrainian top flight for the 2011–12 season.