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Halychyna Galicia ()"Galicia"
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Karpaty (

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). In the Soviet times all sport teams were "tied" to certain industrial unions or sport societies, therefore Karpaty joined the republican sport society of trade unions "Avanhard", while the Lviv Television Production Plant "Elektron" became its sponsor. Out of "Silmash" only two joined Karpaty:

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and

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. Karpaty also adopted the same jersey colors of Silmash. Also the club was reinforced with several players from SKA Lvov and transfers. The club played its first game on 14 April 1964 against Zenit Izhevsk at the

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(today – the location of the building of the Regional Tax Administration) winning it 1–0. The goal was scored by the club's captain

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. The first official game was against Lokomotiv Gomel on 23 April 1963, which Karpaty won 1–0 (goal scored by

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). Karpaty debuted in

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in 1963 and remained there for four seasons, until in 1968 they were promoted to

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.

Winning the USSR Cup

On 17 August 1969, Karpaty became the first (and the only) club in the

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football history which won the

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while playing in the

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. The road to the cup was no less exciting as the final itself. On the way there the Lions were challenged by such Soviet heavy-weights as

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and

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. The quarterfinal round matched them with Trud Voronezh that in the prior round had eliminated

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. After a slight victory over Voronezh, Karpaty faced

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's Shipbuilders. The game was perceived by the Lvivians as the chance to avenge for the last year loss to the Mykolaivans, which cost them a ticket to the Soviet Premiership. A score of 2–0 was enough to secure a trip to

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. In the final, Karpaty faced the Red Army team from

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at the Lenin Stadium. The Rostov army-men were one of the best Soviet clubs in the mid-1960s and for that game they were considered as the favorites being the representatives of the

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. Before the start of the game the Karpaty's captain

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traditionally shacked hands with every referee, except the

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, Eugen Härms. The reason was that Härms, the

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referee in charge of their game a year earlier against Uralmash Sverdlovsk, allowed a goal from an obvious offside that eventually contributed to the Karpaty's denial of a promotion. Karpaty were trailing 0–1 already after the first 20 minutes and to the end of the half were not able to equalize, but numerous Karpaty's fans drove their team forward.

''(

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, "Karpaty" defender)''

''( Ihor Kulchytsky, "Karpaty" captain)''

In the second half the Ukrainians broke the course of the game flow and two goals from Lykhachov and Bulhakov put the Lions ahead. Near the end of the game the Rostov team scored another goal, but from offside. The main referee, without consulting his assistants, initially allowed the goal and the Russians ran joyfully towards the center of the field. However, a moment later he noticed the hand signal from Härms, who had identified an offside and reversed his decision, awarding the victory to Lviv. In the following season, Karpaty's first opponent in the

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was

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n Steaua București, that led by István Kovács advanced on 4–3 aggregate.

Soviet Top League (1970–1977)

In 1970–77 and 1980, Karpaty played in the

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. Karpaty's best achievement was 4th place in 1976. Karpaty placed 4th twice that year since the season was split into 2 separate championships (spring and fall). Karpaty were primed to win silver that season, but an unexpected loss in their last home game to Zenit Leningrad pushed Karpaty back into 4th place. While playing in the Soviet First League in 1979, Karpaty were close to repeating their 1969 achievement, when they met

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in the USSR Cup semi-final. The match, which was played in Moscow, went into overtime with a 1–1 score with Dynamo prevailing in the end, scoring a penalty kick in extra time.

SKA Karpaty (1981–1989)

In 1981, Karpaty were merged with another city team,

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belonging to the

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. In 1980 Karpaty were relegated from the

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(Vysshaya Liga) and in the 1981 Soviet First League placed only 11th. Already before the season's finish there appeared rumors about possible merger. The logic of authors of that decision was in following, the city is receiving one, but strong and competitive team. In January 1982 the leaders of regional football ultimately decided to unite to clubs. It was motivated by the fact that it is difficult to finance two teams. As a result, Karpaty were liquidated and their place in the Soviet First League was taken by army team SKA Karpaty that was established in place of SKA Lvov. The new team was gathered from players of SKA, Karpaty, and several other who have recently arrived. The head coach became Russian Nikolay Samarin. It is believed that Ukrainian and Soviet coach

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commented on liquidation of Karpaty, that it is a disaster of football in all western region of the republic. That it would take not single decade before they realize the whole tragedy of this merger. The newly created SKA Karpaty were playing in red and white colors, and traditional green and white colors were banned.

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were watching that fans would not bring to stands any green markings. The club's attendance fell immediately. Back in 1980 the Karpaty's home games were visited on average by 20-25 thousands spectators. In the first season after merging of the Lviv teams at stadium were gathering about 5-6 thousands spectators. The newly arrived footballers also did not stay long with the army club and were leaving as soon as their military service was terminated. ''SKA Karpaty'' continued playing in the Soviet First League until 1989, getting close to promotion in 1986, when

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was promoted ahead of Karpaty on goal difference. As their highest achievement, SKA Karpaty placed third place twice while being coached by Volodymyr Bulhakov. After that their performance worsened. If in 1987 the club managed to place the fifth place, after two more years it literally hit the hard bottom placing dead last. It lost 18 of its 21 away games and its losing streak reached 15 games. To one of home games came to watch only 54 spectators, which was the absolute anti-record of the season.

Revival

The Karpaty's revival started with publication in a newspaper. In 1983 journalist and writer Ivan Salo wrote a critical article "Football... outside of play" ( uk, Футбол...поза грою, in Ukrainian "outside of play" phrase is actually used for football term of offside). Now due to

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, it dared to be printed only in four years in newspaper "Leninska molod" (The Lenin's Youth). The author was demanding to separate SKA Karpaty into two teams as it was earlier. The subject was expanded by "

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" (The Sports Gazette). In November–December 1988 the publisher held a rally "Ya, mama, tato – za komandu Karpaty" (Mother, father and I – for the Karpaty team). The newspaper succeeded to gather 70,000 signatures from the whole Ukraine. After that the case actually moved from standstill. The Lviv delegation departed to Kyiv for negotiations with republican football federation (Ukrainian SSR, precursor of UAF). Negotiations also were held with Moscow. Finally on 5 January 1989 at 15:00 in office No.290 of the State Committee on Sports of the Soviet Union at Luzhniki Embankment in

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was signed the certificate about revival of the Karpaty football team. His signature placed the future president of the

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. And on 10 January in "

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" was printed a text titled "The birthday of the club". It has been seven years from the moment of the Karpaty's liquidation. The Lions began to play from the Second League (Zone 5, not "Ukrainian"), and SKA continued to play in the First. The revival of the club was taken over by leadership of the Elektron Factory, at facilities of which in 1963 Karpaty were actually created. In 2019 already the late

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was telling, "At that time I worked as a head coach of Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk. To Lviv I was invited along with Rostyslav Zaremba (at that time he headed a club of the Karpaty football fans). We were told that the club needed to be moved ahead. For office we were allotted a space at vulytsia Dudaieva. On the third story there were two rooms. We found couple of chairs and a magazine table. I brought my personal typewriter, many people remember it. My friends laughed at me telling "Why do you need this?" The same thing was told Rostyslav as both of us came to an empty lot de facto. However, in renewed Karpaty gathered a battle-ready team as to Lviv returned a good number of local "fosterlings" (former recruits) such as

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, Serhiy Kvasnykov,

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, Hryhoriy Batych, Vasyl Leskiv, Bohdan Bandura and others. A squad chief became

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, as a head coach was appointed Borys Rossykhin, while his assistant became Rostyslav Potochniak. Companies were transferring us their funds, and people were simply bringing in their caps their money that they gathered at the city's streets. So, I ask you not to be confused, the football team was created in 1963, and the club – in 1989. (Many football teams were forced to adopt the Soviet policy of

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during that period, some earlier than others.) Those are two important historical dates".

Ukrainian League (1991–present)

Since

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gained its independence, Karpaty have primarily participated in

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competitions. They reached 3rd place in 1997–98, their highest Ukrainian top division finish to date, and were

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runners-up twice, losing both times to

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in the final. The thirteenth season in

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became an unfortunate one for Karpaty and in the 2003–04 season the team was relegated to the

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. However, Karpaty remained there only for two seasons and in the 2005–06 season, the club was successful in taking second place in the

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, which promoted them to the

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the following year. In August 2017 the president of the club

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while driving near

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ran into another car killing a younger lady. Few days later he left Ukraine on a private jet as the police started investigation. In December 2017 the district court in Kyiv gave an order to detain him and asked Interpol for assistance. In 2018 Dyminskyi appealed to Interpol to ignore the request. Dyminskyi is still at large and hiding. It was then Oleh Smaliychuk became among main executives of the club as a vice-president. Karpaty avoided relegation in previous 2016–17 season due to administrative sanctions that were imposed against

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. In June 2017 Karpaty replaced its head coach with foreign specialist Sergio Navarro, while Argentinian

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who recently worked in

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became the club's executive director. To the club were also brought several Spanish speaking players. The club poorly started its 2017–18 season losing at home to the newly promoted

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that temporarily moved to Lviv (1:6) which led fans requesting players to undress their uniform and stop to disgrace the club's colors. Following the loss Navarro resigned and was replaced with Serhiy Zaytsev, but that did not help a lot. The club still struggled and after the away cup game loss against the Second League FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk (1:2), the club's hooligans began mass riots at the stadium, brawl with the local police and stopped the bus with the returning Karpaty near Lviv. Following another home loss to

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and remaining at the 11th place (out of 12), Zaitsev left the post and was replaced Oleh Boychyshyn. The new coach managed improve the club's table standing during the second half and the club cleared the relegation zone. Following somewhat poor start in the 2018–19 with two home losses in four games Boychyshyn was replaced with

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. The club's form did not improve much and after view surprising away wins against

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and

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, Karpaty still continued to struggle to clear the relegation zone. At the end of November 2018 the Portuguese head coach left for Korea and Boychyshyn took over as interim. However, before the end of the half the club following this coach swap returned to the relegation zone. During the winter break to the club was brought another Spanish specialist Fabri González who was supposed to refresh the club, however his efforts were meager and the club remained at its 10th place. Fabri also failed to win against

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in the domestic quarterfinals that played in a tier lower. Just before the finish Fabri was replaced with

Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi ( uk, Олександр Арсенійович Чижевський; born 27 May 1971) is a Ukrainian football coach for Ahrobiznes Volochysk and a former player. He is on the fourth place the all-time appearance leader in ...

who managed to win against the struggling

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and relegation play-off against

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. An excellent season had a prospect player Marian Shved who just turned 22 and finished the season third on the top scorers list with 14 tallies. He also was traded away to the Scottish

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, but remained with Karpaty on loan until the season's end.

The 2020 crisis

As in the previous season, the club again struggled to get out of the relegation zone in 2019-20. Although the league was scheduled to expand the following season, which would reduce the number of relegated teams, this did not help Karpaty. After 6 games the club remained 11th out of 12 and Chyzhevskyi was replaced with Roman Sanzhar. The change of coaches was not successful as the club by the midway point of the season hit bottom of the table and also suffered elimination from the domestic cup in the first round against

FC Inhulets Petrove Football Club Inhulets Petrove ( uk, "Інгулець" Петрове) is a professional Ukrainian football club from the town of Petrove, Kirovohrad Oblast that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League following the promotion from 2019–20 Ukrai ...

. As the club was leaving for the winter break,

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started to develop in Chinese

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. The competitions resumed before introduction of quarantine and the UPL managed to finish the competition's first stage where Karpaty finished dead last. Soon after the UPL started its second stage of competitions all sports events in Ukraine were placed on halt on 18 March following the worldwide crisis. Sometime in May it was announced that Oleh Smaliychuk bought out a control package from

Petro Dyminskyi Petro Petrovych Dyminskyi ( uk, Петро́ Петро́вич Димі́нський; born 27 November 1954) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman and former footballer for FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. Biography In the 1990s, Dyminskyi worked as a d ...

who continued to hide from the law. After two months of quarantine, the UPL competitions renewed on 30 May. However, The UPL administration decided not to conduct the game Karpaty – Mariupol on 31 May 2020 as in the Lviv's team camp were found positive test results on COVID-19. FC Mariupol that was already on the way to the game was forced to turn around. On 2 June 2020 FC Karpaty Lviv released its official statement announcing that the club goes on 2 weeks self-isolation due to mass spread of the illness among players. The upcoming games with SC Dnipro-1 and

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will not take place as previously scheduled. On 26 June 2020 were announced new rescheduled dates for the Karpaty's games against Mariupol and Dnipro-1. About a month later on 27 June they finally met in derby game against

FC Lviv FC Lviv ( uk, ФК «Львів», pl, FK Lwów) is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Lviv, that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League. While the first president of FC Lviv Oleksandr Didenko insisted that FC Lviv of 1 ...

and promised to finish all their games they owed to other clubs before the new end of season on 19 July. But later Karpaty started to complain that the schedule is too tight and they won't be able to comply with the new schedule and refused to travel to any other games at all leaving on early vacations on 10 July. On 30 June 2020 the Ukrainian Premier League filed a document to the UAF Control and Disciplinary Committee informing that FC Karpaty Lviv were not able to show up for the game in Mariupol on 1 July 2020. The Mariupol–Karpaty game scheduled on 4 July will not take place. As it was the second failure to appear to the match for FC Karpaty Lviv, according to regulations the club was expelled from the championship by the UAF Control-Disciplinary Committee on 9 July 2020. The club was counted two technical defeats for two matches against

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as 3:0 and 0:3. For all other remaining games that were due to play the club was counted -:+. On 22 July the UAF decision became final as the club did not appeal it. On 31 July 2020 Smaliychuk announced that Karpaty would play in the Second League. In the beginning of August 2020 there surfaced information that Karpaty might even be able to play in the First League. On 14 August 2020 it was announced that the club never submitted registration for either the First or Second leagues. On 20 August 2020 it became confirmed that Karpaty will be actually playing in the Second League.

The 2021 club reorganization

A big transformation of the club took place in summer of 2021. Owned by

Petro Dyminskyi Petro Petrovych Dyminskyi ( uk, Петро́ Петро́вич Димі́нський; born 27 November 1954) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman and former footballer for FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. Biography In the 1990s, Dyminskyi worked as a d ...

in 2001–2020, the Karpaty ownership was changed with Oleh Smaliychuk claiming it to have either full or partial. In 2020 the club announced about its bankruptcy and was excluded from the

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, yet allowed to enter competitions in lower leagues and keep professional status. In fall of 2020 veteran footballers of Karpaty Lviv

Stepan Yurchyshyn Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn ( uk, Степан Федорович Юрчишин; born 28 August 1957) is a Ukrainian retired football player. The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, ...

,

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and others created another club with same name that entered the national amateur competitions. The next season the Smaliychuk's Karpaty were relegated and finally announced to be dissolved, while in their place were promoted the Yurchyshyn's Karpaty. During the

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Karpaty temporarily played with a different logo. On 14 July 2021 Smaliychuk announced that club is dissolved and would not participate in amateur championship after relegating from Second League while he promised to continue the work in repaying club's old debts.

Stadium

''Main articles:

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and

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'' FC Karpaty play their home games at the

Ukraina Stadium Ukraina Stadium ( uk, стадіон Україна) is a multi-purpose stadium in Lviv, Ukraine. It is currently used mostly for association football matches, and is the home of FC Karpaty Lviv. "Ukraina" is also an alternative stadium for the U ...

. The stadium was built in 1963 as ''Druzhba'' ('

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") ''Stadium'' and renamed into Ukraina Stadium in 1992. The stadium was renovated on several occasions since, the latest one taking place in 2001. Currently the arena has a capacity of 29,004 spectators. The stadium was also the venue hosting the final match of the first

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season in 1992, in which

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defeated

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. It has also been one of the venues for

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matches, the most recent being a 1–0 win over

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on 6 September 2008 during

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.

Logo history

Since the club has been named after the Carpathian Mountains, the image of the forest and mountains has been present on team's logo for many years. However, the logo has since been updated, inspired by

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with a segment of a fortress and lion shown on the new crest. The club's nickname 'The Green Lions' also originated from their new logo. The club also has a ceremonial logo, however, it is very rarely used, mostly during TV broadcasts or video packages.

Football kits and sponsors

Colours

Traditionally the club colours have been white and green. Throughout the club's history its kit has always been designed in green and white colours; other colours are almost never used and are usually highly criticized by fans. Green is considered to be the dominant of the two in club nicknames like ''"Green Lions"'' and ''"Green-Whites"''. For some time black was also used and was even displayed on one of the club's former logos.

Rivalries

Karpaty's biggest rivals today are

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and

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. The match against FC Volyn Lutsk is called the Galician-

Volhynia Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. Th ...

n rivalry (derby) which is the main football event in

western Ukraine Western Ukraine or West Ukraine ( uk, Західна Україна, Zakhidna Ukraina or , ) is the territory of Ukraine linked to the former Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, which was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austria ...

. Derby with FC Lviv has shorter history (six matches by the end of 2019)

Galician–Volhynian rivalry

Former rivalries

Karpaty became the longest surviving city's professional football club and over the years participated in Lviv city derbies with SKA Lvov (in 1966–1969) before the club was dissolved. In the beginning of the 1990s a rivalry with

FC Nyva Ternopil FC Nyva Ternopil ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Нива» Тернопіль) is a Ukrainian football club from the city of Ternopil, the administrative center of Ternopil Oblast. As of the 2020–21 season, it played in the Ukrainian Fi ...

became overshadowed by the rivalry with

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as the Ternopil club was relegated from the top division in 2001.

Supporters

Karpaty Lviv is among the most popular clubs in Ukraine and according to social polls of local polling organizations such as "RATING" and KIIS that were conducted in 2013 it was claimed that 2.7% to 5.6% of all football fans in Ukraine support the club (sharing the 3rd-5th place in the country). Just before being appointed a director of the Moscow studio of

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, German journalist Markus Reher wrote an article in which he claimed that Ukraine is not ready to hold an event such as 2012 UEFA Euro, because there are too many "nationalist thugs" and

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, particularly referring to Karpaty supporters. In the article an interviewed Karpaty supporter claims that supporters of the club "don't start fights" and are "just giving their team support". The supporter went on to say that "everything'll be fine" if supporters of other clubs don't provoke him or other supporters of Karpaty Lviv, and if they had foreign players at the club, they would send them back home if they could. The article claimed that the club protects its players from its nationalist fans, and Danilo Avelar, a player from

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, stated that he "hasn't heard of nationalist fans and hopes it isn't true". The article goes on to report that authorities have had problems in the past with violent fans in

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, citing a riot in Lviv's old town when ultranationalist Karpaty supporters clashed with supporters of German side

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with injuries on both sides. Detailing the pre-independence history of the team, British correspondent Manuel Veth notes that the nickname ''Banderstadt'' later adopted by football ultras was given by "Soviet anti-terrorist forces" for the city's role in the

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's nationalist guerrilla campaign. The American journalist Michael Goldfarb pointed out that demonstration of antisemitism and xenophobia among the Karpaty Lviv fans could be politically influenced and is not uncommon in region including similar instances in neighboring

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.

FC Karpaty Lviv in European competitions

Karpaty made its debut in European tournaments at the

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, being eliminated by

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in the first round. Just four visits to European competition have followed, the most successful being a run to the Group Stage of the

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.

UEFA club coefficient ranking

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Honours

Domestic

Soviet Union

*

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (russian: Кубок СССР),, be, Кубак СССР, uz, СССР Кубоги, kk, КСРО Кубогы, ka, სსრკ თასი, az, ССРИ кубоку, lt, TSRS taurė, ro, Cupa URSS (Moldova ...

**Winners (1):

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*

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**Winners (2):

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,

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

*

Soviet Second League The Soviet Second League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу (вторая лига), Soviet football championship (Second League)) was the third highest division of Soviet football, below the Soviet First League. The leagu ...

**Winners (1): 1991 (Zone West)

Ukraine

* Ukrainian Premier League U–21 **Winners (1): 2009–10 *

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**Runners-up (2): 1992–93, 1998–99 *

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**Runners-up (1): 2004–05

Non-official

*

Copa del Sol The Copa del Sol was an annual exhibition international club football tournament played on the south coast of Spain in January–February, one month before the kickoff of the national leagues, that ran from 2010 to 2014. The tournament was a ch ...

**Winners (1):

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Players

Current squad

http://pfl.ua/teams/1-karpaty – Professional Football League website

Staff and management

Administration history

President

* 1999–2001: Leonid Tkachuk * 2001–2020:

Petro Dyminskyi Petro Petrovych Dyminskyi ( uk, Петро́ Петро́вич Димі́нський; born 27 November 1954) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman and former footballer for FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. Biography In the 1990s, Dyminskyi worked as a d ...

* 2020–2021: Oleh Smaliychuk * 2020–present:

Stepan Yurchyshyn Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn ( uk, Степан Федорович Юрчишин; born 28 August 1957) is a Ukrainian retired football player. The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, ...

General director

* 1999–2001: Ivan Lypnytskyi * 2001:

Oleksandr Yefremov Oleksandr Yefremov or Aleksandr Efremov ( uk, Олександр Сергійович Єфремов, russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ефре́мов) is a Ukrainian former parliamentarian and politician. A former governor o ...

* 2001–2004: Mykhaylo Praktyka * 2004: Petro Komar * 2004–2005:

Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi ( uk, Юрій Михайлович Дячук-Ставицький; 26 January 1947 – 24 June 2020) was a Ukrainian football manager. Career He coached following teams FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi, FC Prykarpattya Ivano-F ...

* 2005–2006: Bohdan Fedoryshyn * 2006: Vasyl Ravryk * 2006–2008:

Oleksandr Yefremov Oleksandr Yefremov or Aleksandr Efremov ( uk, Олександр Сергійович Єфремов, russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ефре́мов) is a Ukrainian former parliamentarian and politician. A former governor o ...

* 2008–2009:

Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi ( uk, Юрій Михайлович Дячук-Ставицький; 26 January 1947 – 24 June 2020) was a Ukrainian football manager. Career He coached following teams FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi, FC Prykarpattya Ivano-F ...

* 2009: Yuriy Korotysh * 2009–2015:

Ihor Dedyshyn Ihor Dedyshyn (born 9 March 1977) is a Ukrainian football manager, media manager, and journalist. Dedyshyn was born in Krupsko village, Lviv, Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the se ...

* 2015–2017:

Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi ( uk, Юрій Михайлович Дячук-Ставицький; 26 January 1947 – 24 June 2020) was a Ukrainian football manager. Career He coached following teams FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi, FC Prykarpattya Ivano-F ...

* 2017–2020: Yuriy Korotysh

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

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Ukraine

ImageSize = width:900 height:60 PlotArea = left:10 right:10 bottom:30 top:10 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/1992 till:01/01/2021 ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:1992 Colors = id:bl1 value:rgb(0.5,0.8,0.5) id:bl2 value:rgb(0.9,0.9,0.3) id:rs value:rgb(0.8,0.6,0.6) id:rn value:rgb(0.9,0.1,0.1) PlotData= bar:Position width:15 color:white align:center from:01/01/1992 till:01/07/1992 shift:(0,-4) text:13 from:01/07/1992 till:01/01/1993 shift:(0,-4) text:6 from:01/01/1993 till:01/01/1994 shift:(0,-4) text:5 from:01/01/1994 till:01/01/1995 shift:(0,-4) text:8 from:01/01/1995 till:01/01/1996 shift:(0,-4) text:8 from:01/01/1996 till:01/01/1997 shift:(0,-4) text:5 from:01/01/1997 till:01/01/1998 shift:(0,-4) text:3 from:01/01/1998 till:01/01/1999 shift:(0,-4) text:4 from:01/01/1999 till:01/01/2000 shift:(0,-4) text:9 from:01/01/2000 till:01/01/2001 shift:(0,-4) text:10 from:01/01/2001 till:01/01/2002 shift:(0,-4) text:8 from:01/01/2002 till:01/01/2003 shift:(0,-4) text:7 from:01/01/2003 till:01/01/2004 shift:(0,-4) text:15 from:01/01/2004 till:01/01/2005 shift:(0,-4) text:6 from:01/01/2005 till:01/01/2006 shift:(0,-4) text:2 from:01/01/2006 till:01/01/2007 shift:(0,-4) text:8 from:01/01/2007 till:01/01/2008 shift:(0,-4) text:10 from:01/01/2008 till:01/01/2009 shift:(0,-4) text:9 from:01/01/2009 till:01/01/2010 shift:(0,-4) text:5 from:01/01/2010 till:01/01/2011 shift:(0,-4) text:5 from:01/01/2011 till:01/01/2012 shift:(0,-4) text:14 from:01/01/2012 till:01/01/2013 shift:(0,-4) text:14 from:01/01/2013 till:01/01/2014 shift:(0,-4) text:11 from:01/01/2014 till:01/01/2015 shift:(0,-4) text:13 from:01/01/2015 till:01/01/2016 shift:(0,-4) text:7 from:01/01/2016 till:01/01/2017 shift:(0,-4) text:10 from:01/01/2017 till:01/01/2018 shift:(0,-4) text:8 from:01/01/2018 till:01/01/2019 shift:(0,-4) text:10 from:01/01/2019 till:01/01/2020 shift:(0,-4) text:12 from:01/01/2020 till:01/01/2021 shift:(0,-4) text: from:01/01/1992 till:01/01/2004 color:bl1 shift:(0,13) text: "Vyshcha Liha" from:01/01/2004 till:01/01/2006 color:bl2 shift:(0,13) text: "Persha Liha" from:01/01/2006 till:01/01/2020 color:bl1 shift:(0,13) text: "Vyshcha Liha / Premier Liha" from:01/01/2020 till:01/01/2021 color:rs shift:(0,13) text: "Druha Liga"

Coaches

First team

* Sergei Korshunov (1964–65) * Nikolay Dementyev (1965–66) *

Yevhen Lemeshko Yevhen Lemeshko ( uk, Євген Пилипович Лемешко; 11 December 1930 – 2 June 2016) was a Ukrainian football coach and chairman of the Council of Veteran Footballers. He started his football career as a player for FC Dynamo Kyiv, ...

(1967) *

Valentin Bubukin Valentin Borisovich Bubukin (russian: Валентин Борисович Бубукин; 23 April 1933 – 30 October 2008) was a Soviet/Russian footballer. Biography Bubukin started training in aged 12 in the club Krylia Sovetov. He then moved ...

(1972–74) * Ishtvan Sekech (1978–80) *

Stepan Yurchyshyn Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn ( uk, Степан Федорович Юрчишин; born 28 August 1957) is a Ukrainian retired football player. The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, ...

(1992) *

Myron Markevych Myron Bohdanovych Markevych ( uk, Мирон Богданович Маркевич; born 1 February 1951) is a Ukrainian football manager and a former midfielder. He worked as a manager in the Ukrainian Premier League and the Ukrainian national ...

(1 July 1992 – 30 June 1995) *

Volodymyr Zhuravchak Volodymyr Zhuravchak ( ua, Володимир Олексійович Журавчак; born 3 May 1957) is a Ukrainian football coach and a former player. Coaching career The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Kamianka-Buzka in 1991. He ...

(1995–96), (2002) *

Myron Markevych Myron Bohdanovych Markevych ( uk, Мирон Богданович Маркевич; born 1 February 1951) is a Ukrainian football manager and a former midfielder. He worked as a manager in the Ukrainian Premier League and the Ukrainian national ...

(1 July 1996 – 1 March 1999) *

Stepan Yurchyshyn Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn ( uk, Степан Федорович Юрчишин; born 28 August 1957) is a Ukrainian retired football player. The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, ...

(1999) *

Lev Brovarskyi Lev Rudolfovych Brovarskyi ( uk, Лев Рудольфович Броварський) (30 November 1948, Drohobych – 4 June 2009, Lviv) was a Soviet football player and a Ukrainian coach. Honours * Soviet Cup winner: 1969 International ...

(1999–00) *

Stepan Yurchyshyn Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn ( uk, Степан Федорович Юрчишин; born 28 August 1957) is a Ukrainian retired football player. The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, ...

(2001) *

Myron Markevych Myron Bohdanovych Markevych ( uk, Мирон Богданович Маркевич; born 1 February 1951) is a Ukrainian football manager and a former midfielder. He worked as a manager in the Ukrainian Premier League and the Ukrainian national ...

(1 July 2001 – 30 June 2002) *

Valentyn Khodukin Valentyn Mykhailovych Khodukin ( uk, Валентин Михайлович Ходукін; 17 August 1939 – 16 December 2020) was a Soviet association football, footballer and Ukrainian football manager. He died on 16 December 2020 in Lviv.

(Sept 15, 2002 – 31 Dec 2002) *

Myron Markevych Myron Bohdanovych Markevych ( uk, Мирон Богданович Маркевич; born 1 February 1951) is a Ukrainian football manager and a former midfielder. He worked as a manager in the Ukrainian Premier League and the Ukrainian national ...

(1 Jan 2003 – 30 June 2004) *

Valentyn Khodukin Valentyn Mykhailovych Khodukin ( uk, Валентин Михайлович Ходукін; 17 August 1939 – 16 December 2020) was a Soviet association football, footballer and Ukrainian football manager. He died on 16 December 2020 in Lviv.

(July 2004 – Sept 2004) *

Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi ( uk, Юрій Михайлович Дячук-Ставицький; 26 January 1947 – 24 June 2020) was a Ukrainian football manager. Career He coached following teams FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi, FC Prykarpattya Ivano-F ...

(Sept 15, 2004 – 30 June 2006) *

Oleksandr Ishchenko Oleksandr Ishchenko ( uk, Олександр Олексійович Іщенко, born 3 September 1953) is a former association football, football player and manager who is currently the head coach of the YFS Dynamo Kyiv of Valeriy Lobanovsky, D ...

(1 July 2006 – 1 Jan 2008) * Valeriy Yaremchenko (1 Jan 2008 – 30 May 2008) *

Oleg Kononov Oleg Georgiyevich Kononov (russian: Олег Георгиевич Кононов, born 23 March 1966) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is the manager of Arsenal Tula. Playing career Oleg Kononov began his playing career i ...

(20 May 2008 – 18 Oct 2011) *

Pavel Kucherov Pavel Kucherov (russian: Павел Владимирович Кучеров; born 18 August 1964) is a Russian former footballer. Kucherov was an assistant coach at Dinamo Minsk and later a scout at Arsenal F.C. Career Born in August 1964 wi ...

''(interim)'' (18 Oct 2011 – 21 Jan 2012) *

Volodymyr Sharan Volodymyr Bohdanovych Sharan ( uk, Володимир Богданович Шаран; born 18 September 1971 in the Mariyampil) is a Ukrainian retired Football (soccer), football midfielder who represented Ukraine national football team, Ukrain ...

(21 Jan 2012 – 26 March 2012) *

Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi ( uk, Юрій Михайлович Дячук-Ставицький; 26 January 1947 – 24 June 2020) was a Ukrainian football manager. Career He coached following teams FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi, FC Prykarpattya Ivano-F ...

(26 March 2012 – 8 June 2012) *

Pavel Kucherov Pavel Kucherov (russian: Павел Владимирович Кучеров; born 18 August 1964) is a Russian former footballer. Kucherov was an assistant coach at Dinamo Minsk and later a scout at Arsenal F.C. Career Born in August 1964 wi ...

''(interim)'' (8 June 2012 – 30 July 2012) *

Nikolay Kostov Nikolay Kostov ( bg, Николай Костов; born 2 July 1963) is a Bulgarian football manager and former footballer who most recently managed Shakhter Karagandy. Career Much of his coaching career has taken place in Cyprus. His first co ...

(29 July 2012 – 10 May 2013) *

Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi ( uk, Юрій Михайлович Дячук-Ставицький; 26 January 1947 – 24 June 2020) was a Ukrainian football manager. Career He coached following teams FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi, FC Prykarpattya Ivano-F ...

''(interim)'' (10 May 2013 – 18 June 2013) *

Oleksandr Sevidov Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Sevidov ( uk, Олександр Володимирович Севідов; born 18 July 1969) is a Ukrainian Association football, football manager and former player. He play ...

(19 June 2013 – 17 June 2014) *

Igor Jovićević Igor Jovićević (; born 30 November 1973) is a Croatian former professional football player and current manager of Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk. Playing career After being labeled as the new Zvonimir Boban while playing in the youth team o ...

(caretaker) (18 June 2014 – 1 September 2015) *

Igor Jovićević Igor Jovićević (; born 30 November 1973) is a Croatian former professional football player and current manager of Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk. Playing career After being labeled as the new Zvonimir Boban while playing in the youth team o ...

(1 September 2015 – 12 January 2016) *

Oleh Luzhnyi Oleh Romanovych Luzhnyi ( uk, Олег Романович Лужний; born 5 August 1968) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Club career Luzhnyi is a product of the Karpaty sports school (coached by Yur ...

/ Volodymyr Bezubyak (Jan 2016 – June 2016) * Valeriy Yaremchenko (June, 6 – 17 June 2016) * Anatoliy Chantsev (caretaker) (17 June 2016 – 5 July 2016) * Serhiy Zaytsev (5 July 2016 – 7 October 2016) * Oleg Dulub (7 October 2016 – 11 June 2017) * Sergio Navarro (16 June 2017 – 14 Sep 2017) * Serhiy Zaytsev (14 Sep 2017 – 19 Nov 2017) *

Dario Drudi Dario Hernan Drudi (born 23 April 1987) is an Argentine football manager. Career Drudi lived in Spain from age 15 and the next year joined the youth team of CF Gandía. But later he decided to concentrate on a coaching career. He started his ma ...

(caretaker) (19 Nov 2017 – 21 Nov 2017) * Oleh Boychyshyn (21 Nov 2017 – 16 Aug 2018) *

José Morais José Manuel Ferreira de Morais (born 27 July 1965) is a Portuguese professional football coach and former player. Morais arrived at Inter Milan in July 2009 to replace the departing André Villas-Boas, who took the head coaching position with ...

(16 Aug 2018 – 28 Nov 2018) * Oleh Boychyshyn (caretaker) (28 Nov 2018 – 13 Jan 2019) * Fabri González (13 Jan 2019 – 27 May 2019) *

Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi ( uk, Олександр Арсенійович Чижевський; born 27 May 1971) is a Ukrainian football coach for Ahrobiznes Volochysk and a former player. He is on the fourth place the all-time appearance leader in ...

(27 May 2019 – 3 Sep 2019) * Roman Sanzhar (3 Sep 2019 – 29 July 2020) * Lyubomyr Vovchuk (23 August 2020 – 14 July 2021) *

Andriy Tlumak Andriy Tlumak (born 1979) is a retired professional Ukrainian football player and former manager of FC Volyn Lutsk. Career Andriy Tlumak started his football career in Lviv, Ukraine, playing in the local football academy. He made his professi ...

(October 2020 – present)

Reserve team

* Roman Tolochko (2007 – 2013) *

Andriy Kuptsov Andriy Serhiyovych Kuptsov ( ua, Андрій Сергійович Купцов; born 23 January 1971) is a Ukrainian professional football manager and former player. Playing career Kuptsov played for teams including FC Metalurh Donetsk, FC Torp ...

(2013 – 2015) *

Andriy Tlumak Andriy Tlumak (born 1979) is a retired professional Ukrainian football player and former manager of FC Volyn Lutsk. Career Andriy Tlumak started his football career in Lviv, Ukraine, playing in the local football academy. He made his professi ...

(2016) *

Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi ( uk, Олександр Арсенійович Чижевський; born 27 May 1971) is a Ukrainian football coach for Ahrobiznes Volochysk and a former player. He is on the fourth place the all-time appearance leader in ...

(2016 – 2019)

Notable managers

*

Ernest Yust Ernest Yust ( hu, Ernő Juszt, uk, Ернест Юст; 1927-1992) was a Soviet and Hungarian football player and later Soviet coach. Overview From 1940 to 1946 played for Ungvari AC (УАК) (Uzhgorod), 1947/1948 and 1959/1960 for Spartak Uzhgo ...

,

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (russian: Кубок СССР),, be, Кубак СССР, uz, СССР Кубоги, kk, КСРО Кубогы, ka, სსრკ თასი, az, ССРИ кубоку, lt, TSRS taurė, ro, Cupa URSS (Moldova ...

, Class A (pervaya gruppa) winner,

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level ...

fourth place * Ishtvan Sekech,

Soviet First League The Soviet First League in football (russian: Первая лига СССР по футболу) was the second highest division of Soviet football,Evgeni Kazakov. The Soviet First Football League (Первая лига СССР по футбо ...

winner *

Stepan Yurchyshyn Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn ( uk, Степан Федорович Юрчишин; born 28 August 1957) is a Ukrainian retired football player. The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, ...

,

Soviet Second League The Soviet Second League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу (вторая лига), Soviet football championship (Second League)) was the third highest division of Soviet football, below the Soviet First League. The leagu ...

winner *

Myron Markevych Myron Bohdanovych Markevych ( uk, Мирон Богданович Маркевич; born 1 February 1951) is a Ukrainian football manager and a former midfielder. He worked as a manager in the Ukrainian Premier League and the Ukrainian national ...

,

Ukrainian Top League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League' ...

third place

References

External links

Official websiteFan site
* Readmission of FC Karpaty Lviv to professional football (Oleksandr Shevchenko is a president of Lviv Oblast Association of Football whom Smaliychuk accused in lack of support for Karpaty)
Oleksandr Shevchenko, "the Smaliychuk's representatives were explaining that the only way to save Karpaty is to register the club from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Lviv (Александр Шевченко: Представители Смалийчука объясняли, что единственный путь спасения Карпат — это зарегистрировать клуб из Ивано-Франковской области во Львове)
Sport Arena. 25 August 2020.;
Oleksandr Shevchenko, "In situation with "Karpaty" it disturbs me whether or not it is another oligarchs' game, part of which is Smaliychuk (Александр Шевченко: В ситуации с Карпатами меня смущает, не очередная ли это игра олигархов, частью которой и является Смалийчук?)
Sport Arena. 25 August 2020. * Artur Malkin.

'. Footboom. 26 August 2020. **[https://sportarena.com/football/ukraina-vtoraya-liga/luzhnyj-mogu-posporit-smalijchuk-ne-yavlyaetsya/ Luzhny, "I can argue that Smaliychuk does not appear as an owner of Karpaty, because someone stands behind him" (Лужный: "Могу поспорить: Смалийчук не является совладельцем Карпат, за ним кто-то стоит")]. Sport Arena. 26 August 2020.
Myron Markevych, "Beside Mykhailiv, I know at least two-three other people who wanted to buy Karpaty" (Мирон Маркевич: "Окрім Михайліва, знаю ще двох-трьох людей, які хотіли купити "Карпати")
Footboom. 26 August 2020.
We are starting to get ready for massive renovation. "Karpaty" will live ("Починаємо готуватись до масштабного оновлення. "Карпати" будуть жити")
FC Karpaty Lviv. 22 August 2020.

Tribuna.com. 12 August 2020. {{DEFAULTSORT:Karpaty Lviv Ukrainian First League clubs Football clubs in Lviv Association football clubs established in 1963 1963 establishments in Ukraine Soviet Top League clubs Football clubs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

History

Early years (1963–68)

Winning the USSR Cup

Soviet Top League (1970–1977)

SKA Karpaty (1981–1989)

Revival

Ukrainian League (1991–present)

The 2020 crisis

The 2021 club reorganization

Stadium

Logo history

Football kits and sponsors

Colours

Rivalries

Galician–Volhynian rivalry

Former rivalries

Supporters

FC Karpaty Lviv in European competitions

UEFA club coefficient ranking

Honours

Domestic

Soviet Union

Ukraine

Non-official

Players

Current squad

Staff and management

Administration history

President

General director

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

Ukraine

Coaches

First team

Reserve team

Notable managers

See also

References

External links