Football Club Hoverla Uzhhorod ( ) was a Ukrainian professional

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club based in

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. Following the end of the 2015–16 season it was expelled from the

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because of debts to (current and former) players.Hoverla and Metalist expelled from the Premier League
,

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(8 June 2016) It then ceased to exist.

History

The club was inaugurated in 1946 as Spartak Uzhhorod. However some of its emblems point to a predecessor, SC Rus, founded in 1925, although direct links between the two franchises can barely be traced. In 1961, Spartak was renamed ''Verhovyna'', and in 1971 Hoverla. In 1982, it was renamed ''Zakarpattia'', then Verhovyna again in 1997 for two years. Zakarpattia started the 2001–02 season in the

, but a last-place finish saw the club demoted to the

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. They returned in 2004–05 and 2007–08 but each time with the same result: relegation from the Premier League after a single season. Before the start of the

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season the club renamed itself ''FC Hoverla-Zakarpattia Uzhhorod''. The team renamed themselves Hoverla prior to the start of the

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season. Following the season the club was supposed to be relegated according to the season's regulations, yet conveniently both runners-up PFC Oleksandriya and

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refused to get promoted, while the

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refused other teams to get promoted. On 8 June 2016, (after the end of the 2015–16 season) the club did not get a licence to continue to play in the league due to debts to (current and former) players and was thus de facto expelled from the

. It then ceased to exist.

Name changes

* 1946 – Spartak * 1961 – Verkhovyna * 1971 – Hoverla * / 1982 – Zakarpattia * 1997 – Verkhovyna * 1999 – Zakarpattia * 2011 – Hoverla-Zakarpattia * 2012 – Hoverla

Football kits and sponsors

Honors

**Winners (3): 2003–04, 2008–09, 2011–12 **Runners-up (2): 2001–02, 2006–07 *

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**Winners (1): 1998–99 (Group A)

In Soviet Union

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** Winners (3): 1946, 1950, 1953 ** Runners-up (1): 1972 *

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** Winners (1): 1950

League and cup history

: In their last season the club was deducted nine points due to not complying with decisions of the

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Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC).

Managers

;USSR * Bertalon Veyg (1946–47) * Fedir Kuruts & Bertalon Veig (1948–49) * Vasyl Radyk & Ferents Kuruts (1950–51) * Vasyl Radyk (1952) * Bertalon Veyg & Vasyl Radyk (1953) * Karoy Sabo & Ferenc Kuruc (1954–55) *

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(1956–59) *

& Ernest Yust (1960–61) *

(1963–68) * Vasyl Revachko & Zoltan Dyerfi (1969–70) *

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) was a Ukrainian ...

(1971) * Dezyderiy Tovt & Ivan Pazho (1972–73) *

(1975) * Ishtvan Shandor (197x–78) * Ernest Kesler (1979–8?) * Ishtvan Shandor (1984–87) * Ivan Pazho (1987–88) * Ivan Krasnetskyi (1989–90) ;Ukraine * Stepan Voytko (1990–92) * Yuriy Chirkov (1992–93) * Ivan Shanhin (1993–94) * Ernest Kesler (1994) * Ivan Ledney (1994) * Yuriy Chirkov (1995) *

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(1995–96) * Oleksandr Holokolosov (1997) * Stepan Voytko (1997) * Ivan Shanhin (1997–98) * Valentyn Khodukin (1998) * Viktor Ryashko (1998–2000) * Yuriy Kalitvintsev (1 July 2001 – 30 June 2002) * Viktor Ryashko (2002–22 Aug 2005) * Petro Kushlyk (Sept 7, 2005 – Sept 28, 2007) * Volodymyr Sharan (Sept 28, 2007–21 April 2008) *

Mykhaylo Ivanytsya Mykhailo Ivanytsia (, born 8 August 1960) is a Ukrainian professional football manager and former Soviet player. Biography Mykhailo Ivanytsia was born in a village Stavne, Velykyi Bereznyi Raion.Yuriy Kychak. Mykhailo Ivanytsia: "It is time to ...

(21 April 2008 – 30 June 2009) * Igor Gamula (1 July 2009 – 5 April 2011) * Oleksandr Sevidov (7 April 2011 – 26 May 2013) *

Vyacheslav Hroznyi Vyacheslav Viktorovych Hrozny (; born 12 July 1956) is a Ukrainian football player and manager. Career He is a holder of the 1980 KFK Cup of the Ukrainian SSR as a player of FC Nyva Ternopil when it used to play in Pidhaitsi. Hrozny is a gr ...

(18 June 2013 – May 2016)

Famous players

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References

External links

* (archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoverla Uzhhorod Football clubs in Zakarpattia Oblast Association football clubs established in 1925 Association football clubs disestablished in 2016 Football clubs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Sport in Uzhhorod Defunct football clubs in Ukraine 1925 establishments in Czechoslovakia 2016 disestablishments in Ukraine