FC Poltava

FC Poltava

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Full name	FC Poltava
Founded	June 5, 2007
Ground	Lokomotiv Stadium
Ground Capacity	2,500
Chairman	Leonid Sobolyev
Head coach	Oleh Fedorchuk
League	Persha Liha

FC Poltava (Ukrainian: ФК Полтава, FC Poltava; Russian: ФК Полтава, FC Poltava) is a Ukrainian football club based in Poltava.

History

The club was created by the newly elected mayor of the Poltava city Andriy Matkovsky (2006) who is the club's Honorary President and the main sponsor. FC Poltava entered the professional leagues for the 2007–08 season in the Druha Liha B. The team started the season trepidly but in the second half they improved a great deal.

The teams goal is to train players for the teams of the Premier League and First League. The club also has intentions to reestablish the forgotten Poltava derby that in the Soviet times took place between teams of Kolkhospnyk (today's Vorskla) and Lokomotyv. FC Poltava has an agreement of cooperation with the local Horpynka sports school. In summer of 2010 the club announced of its withdrawal from the professional football due to a biased attitude from the PFL of Ukraine, particularly its refereeing. After some talks with several state officials and from Ministry of sport a consensus was found. It was decided that the club would continue its participation in the Second League.

Home uniforms are dark green.

Honours

• Ukrainian Druha Liha: 3

Champions 2011–12 Group B

Runners-up 2008–09, 2010–11 Group B

Players

http://fc-poltava.at.ua/index/osnovnoj_sostav/0-195

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Volodymyr Krynsky 2 DF Serhiy Vovkodav 4 DF Oleksiy Kovtun 5 MF Dmytro Milko 6 DF Vadym Paramonov 7 MF Artem Nedolya 8 DF Oleksandr Stetsenko 11 MF Maksym Zelenevych 13 MF Vitali Sokurenko 16 FW Bohdan Semenets

No. Position Player 17 FW Ihor Ivanov 21 GK Myroslav Bon 22 MF Serhiy Semenyuk 27 DF Roman Hudak 30 GK Ihor Popovych 44 MF Oleh Dmytrenko 70 MF Mykyta Konovalov 77 MF Anatoliy Masalov 89 MF Vladyslav Nasibulin 95 DF Bohdan Kushnirenko

Technical staff

• Head coach – Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi
• Assistant coach – Mykhaylo Stelmakh

Former Head coaches

• Ivan Shariy
• Oleksandr Omelchuk

League and cup history

Emblem before 2012

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
2007–08	3rd "B"	11	34	11	10	13	36	51	43	Did not enter
2008–09	3rd "B"	2	34	21	9	4	52	23	72	1/32 finals
2009–10	3rd "B"	3	26	16	6	4	34	16	54	1/16 finals
2010–11	3rd "B"	2	22	15	3	4	41	24	48	1/8 finals
2011–12	3rd "B"	1	26	18	5	3	50	18	59	1/16 finals			Promoted
2012–13	2nd	13	34	11	12	11	35	35	45	1/32 finals
2013–14	2nd	4	30	14	4	12	36	34	46	1/16 finals
2014–15	2nd	10	30	11	9	10	29	27	42	1/8 finals
2015–16	2nd									1/32 finals

External links

• FC Poltava Official page