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Chernomorets Odessa
FC Chornomorets Odesa ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Odesa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 capacity Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. According to the club's website, it was formed in 1936 as ''Dynamo'', but until 2002 it carried a logo with 1958 and 1959Chornomorets Odesa Kopanyi-myach. years of foundation on its shield when the club received its current name. Moreover, the club's shield is very similar to the shield of Romanian FC Farul Constanța. For over 30 years, the club was sponsored by the Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chornomorets Stadium
The Chernomorets Stadium (, ''Stadium "Chornomorets'"'') is a football stadium built in 2011 in Odesa, Ukraine. The stadium has a capacity of 34,164 and is the home of FC Chornomorets Odesa. The inaugural match, between FC Chornomorets Odesa and FC Karpaty Lviv, was played on 19 November 2011, and ended with a 2–2 draw. The first goal was scored by Vitaliy Balashov in the 46th minute from a penalty. The stadium was constructed on the site of the old Soviet multi-use Central Stadium of the Black Sea Shipping Company (ChMP), which was demolished in 2009. The venue was considered to be one of the stadiums of UEFA Euro 2012 but failed to be nominated as such. There is an ongoing renovation of the stadium. The completion date is still unknown. Former stadium The former ChMP stadium was built on the same site in 1935, and it was originally named as Stanislav Kosior Stadium after the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR, Stanislav Kosior. After Stanislav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vodnik (sports Society)
Vodnik (russian: Водник; English: Water transport worker) was the All-Union Voluntary Sports Society of Trade Unions. The present professional bandy club Vodnik Arkhangelsk used to be a part of the Vodnik Sports Society. Notable members * Leonid Geishtor (canoeing) * Valentyn Mankin (sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' ( sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' ( iceboat) or on ''land'' ( land yacht) over a chose ...) External links Sport Flags of the USSR Multi-sport clubs in Russia Sport societies in the Soviet Union 1938 establishments in the Soviet Union {{USSR-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998–99 Ukrainian First League
1998–99 Ukrainian First League was the eighth season of the Ukrainian First League which was won by FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv. The season started on July 31, 1998, and finished on July 4, 1999. Promotion and relegation Promoted teams Two clubs promoted from the 1997-98 Ukrainian Second League through a promotion/relegation play-off tournament. ;Group A * FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi – champion ''(returning after a season)'' ;Group C * FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk – champion ''(returning after six seasons)'' Relegated teams Two clubs were relegated from the 1997-98 Ukrainian Top League: * FC Chornomorets Odesa – 15th place ''(debut)'' * FC Torpedo Zaporizhia – 16th place ''(debut)'' Renamed teams * FC Nyva Vinnytsia changed its name to FC Vinnytsia at winter break. * FC Yavir Krasnopillia moved to Sumy from Krasnopillia and changed its name to FC Yavir-Sumy at winter break. Teams Standings Promotion play-off ''FC Cherkasy failed to obtain berth in the Top Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian First League
The Persha Liha ( uk, Перша ліга) or Ukrainian First League is a professional football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions pyramid. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup. It is the highest division of Professional Football League. History The league was set up by the newly reorganized Football Federation of Ukraine (a successor of the Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR) with the falling apart Soviet Union as a second tier, lower than Ukrainian Higher League (Vyshcha Liha) and higher that Ukrainian Transitional League (Perekhidna Liha). The very first round of games that took place for this league was on 14 March 1992. The league itself was organised just a few months before that and consisted mostly of all the Ukrainian clubs that previously competed in the one of groups of the Soviet Lower Second League (4th tier, see Ukrainian Soviet competitions). To the league were also added some Soviet Top League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Buryak
Leonid Yosipovich Buryak ( uk, Леонід Йосипович Буряк; born 10 July 1953) is a Ukrainian football coach, and a former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player. Career Buryak was born in Odessa, in the Soviet Union. He was a midfielder for the USSR national football team. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal. Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager. As a player, he had a tremendous impact on his team, similar to what Pavel Nedvěd or Zinedine Zidane had on theirs. Buryak has coached the Ukrainian national football team. In 1979 Buryak played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. Coach of Ukraine national team In 2002, Leonid Buryak was appointed coach of the Ukraine national team. Making this choice, the Football Federation set the target for the new coach to get into the final par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Prokopenko
Viktor Prokopenko ( uk, Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 – 18 August 2007) was a Ukrainian football (soccer) player and coach who played in GDR and Ukrainian SSR including teams of the Soviet Top League and later worked as a coach in Russia and Ukraine. Career He was born in Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, which now known as Mariupol, Ukraine. In 1975, he graduated from the Odessa State Pedagogical Institute of Ushynsky and later the Moscow Higher School of Coaches. Prokopenko was the first ever manager of the Ukraine national football team, and authored ''Flexibility, Strength, Endurance'', a popular book on stretching. Prokopenko was elected to the Ukrainian parliament for the Party of Regions as no.45 on their election list in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election. Prokopenko died in Odessa after a heart attack. He was 62 years old. Honours ;Chornomorets Odesa * USSR Federation Cup (1): 1990 * Ukrainian Cup (2): 1992 File:1992 Events Colla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993–94 Ukrainian Cup
The Ukrainian Cup 1993–94 was the third annual edition of Ukraine's football knockout competition, known as the Ukrainian Cup. The Cup started with the round of 32, but it also had couple of preliminaries. The tournament started on August 1, 1993, with numerous games across the country and concluded with its final game on May 29, 1994. The last season defending champion FC Dynamo Kyiv was eliminated in the Round of 16 by FC Veres Rivne on the away goal rule. This season cup holders became FC Chornomorets Odessa that in the final defeated the Crimean SC Tavriya Simferopol on the penalty shootout. Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih served its suspension for refusing to play last season and was not included in competition for the season. Team allocation * Eighty teams entered the competition. * 3 professional clubs did not enter (Second League: Hazovyk Komarne, Medita Shakhtarsk; Top League: Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) * 14 out of 18 teams of the Transitional League did not enter * 7 regions did n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Ukrainian Premier League
1992 Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Чемпіонат серед команд вищої ліги) was the first football championship organized in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and officially recognized by the UEFA. The last Soviet season finished in fall of 1991. The Football Federation of Ukraine when organizing the competition decided to shift its calendar to synchronize it with one common in Europe "fall-spring" and organized a short championship. The first two games of the Round 1 took place on 6 March 1992 in Odesa where local Chornomorets was hosting Karpaty, and Mykolaiv where local Evis was playing against the visiting Temp. Teams and organization League's formation and issues Composition The league and its calendar were adopted at the FFU Executive Committee session on 10 September 1991 with the ongoing 1991 season of the All-Soviet football competitions. It was established that the new league will consist of 20 teams divided in two groups. Six clu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Ukrainian Cup
Like the championship, the first edition of the Cup had a tight schedule as the Football Federation of Ukraine was given just several months in order to switch to the European seasonal format with the minimum required matches played. The competition started on February 10 and the final was played on May 31. Only the clubs participants of the Supreme and First Leagues competed this season. It was the first National Cup edition replacing the previous competition of the Ukrainian SSR Cup, which was organized as a regional qualification competition for the Soviet Cup. The last winner of that Soviet competition FC Temp Shepetivka was eliminated in the first preliminary round by Kremin Kremenchuk. Simultaneously, three of the participating Ukrainian clubs were still competing in the Soviet Cup. The first trophy was won by Chornomorets Odessa thus qualifying to the qualification round of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Organization It was decided that the Cup would start with 16 teams and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Football Club Dnipro ( uk, Футбо́льний Клуб «Дніпро́», ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club was owned by the Privat Group that also owns BC Dnipro and Budivelnyk Kyiv. In 2018 FC Dnipro was forced into bankruptcy by FIFA due to multiple legal claims for failing to pay its promised monetary compensation to players and managers. During the Soviet era, the club was a member of the Soviet Volunteer Sports Society "Metallurg" (therefore it carried names Metallurg/Metalurh and Stal) and until 1961 was under sponsorship of the Petrovsky Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Plant. After that, the club was sponsored by the Southern Machine-building Plant Yuzhmash and carried both names Russian Dnepr and Ukrainian ''Dnipro'', while Dnepr was also used for international competitions. During the Soviet era, the club was the second most successful club, based in Ukraine, that participated in the Soviet Top League, winning in 1983 and 1988. After the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
