FC Nyva Vinnytsia is a professional

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club based in the city of

Vinnytsia Vinnytsia ( ; uk, Вінниця, ; yi, װיניצע) is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast and the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. A ...

. The name "Nyva" translates to "grain field". The club was originally created in 1958 in the

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and folded in 2005 and 2012, but was reformed again in 2015 as Nyva-V and renamed back to Nyva in 2018.

History

Previous clubs

A football team in

existed before the

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as a local team of Vinnytsia city, which participated in championships among other cities. After the 1936 reorganization of football competition, the team then continued to play in lower tiers. Following World War II, in

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football in Vinnytsia was represented by the

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society. In

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the team played under Dynamo's colors which for the next several years was regularly winning regional competitions and making finals appearances. The teams names including "Trud", "Burevisnyk", and City Team.

Lokomotyv → Nyva

In 1958 then current club was established as a Soviet team of the local locomotive factory as Lokomotyv Vinnytsia, which was established on the initiative of the director of Southwestern Railway Petro Kryvonos. After Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Nyva was selected to play in the inaugural

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in 1992, due to being one of the top 9 (of 11) Ukrainian teams from the West Division of the

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in 1991. After being relegated in 1992, Nyva spent the 1993 season in the Ukrainian second division in the First League. Nyva was quickly promoted back to the top level next season after winning the competition. Nyva Vinnytsia's best achievement in the

was 10th place finish in the 1993–94 season. The club also surprisingly made the 1995–96 Ukrainian Cup finals, only to lose to

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. As a result, Nyva took part in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, even progressing to the First round after beating

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on away goals (1:2 loss in

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and 1:0 win in

). However, Swiss side

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beat the Ukrainian side with a 6:0 score on aggregate (2:0 in

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and 4:0 in

) ending the dream run in Europe. The club ceased to exist after it was relegated from the First League in 2006 because of financial difficulties. In 2006 it was replaced with ''FC Bershad'' from

Bershad Bershad ( uk, Бершадь, translit., ''Bershad’''; pl, Berszad; ro, Berșad) is a town in the Vinnytsia Oblast (province) of Ukraine, located in the historic region of Podolia. It is the administrative center of the predominantly-agricult ...

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(see

FC Nyva Bershad Nyva Bershad is a Ukrainian football club and currently competes in the Vinnytsia Oblast Football League is from Bershad, Vinnytsia Oblast. History From 1996 the team competed in the Vinnytsia Oblast Football League replacing FC Sportinvest Kryv ...

Reformation 2007

In the 2007–08 season the club reentered professional league competition into the Second League as ''FC Nyva-Svitanok'', the new part of its name meaning dawn, or new beginning. Also Svitanok is a name of a city's flower market. On 8 July 2008, the club changed their name from "FC Nyva-Svitanok Vinnytsia" to "PFC Nyva Vinnytsia".

Reformation 2015

The club was again reformed and entered the Vinnytsia Oblast competition for the 2015–16 finishing in fifth place. The club competed in 2016 in the

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finishing second in their group. The club successfully passed attestation and competed in the

2016–17 Ukrainian Second League The 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League is the 26th season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. The competition commenced on 23 July 2016 with one match from Round 1. The spring session started on 18 March 2017 with the competition ending ...

season finishing 7th place. At the end of 2020, the club announced about financial hardship, and acting president of the club Vadym Kudiarov complained about lack of interest from local government and public.

Stadiums

The club plays in one of two stadiums in

, Sports Complex Nyva which has a capacity of 5,000 spectators with the club's training facilities located there, and the Municipal Central Stadium (previously ''Lokomotyv'') which was expanded prior to 1980's Olympics which now has a capacity of 24,000 spectators. The Central Stadium is usually used in "big" matches against famous opponents with all the other matches were played at SC Nyva.

Honors

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** Runners-up (1): 1995–96 *

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** Winners (1): 1992–93 *

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** Winners (2):

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, 1984 ** Runners-up (3): 1963, 1981, 1985 *

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** Runners-up (1): 2009–10 (Group A) *

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(among amateurs and lower leagues' clubs) ** Winners (1): 2009–10

Current squad

As of 16 July 2022

European record

Its first and the only European competition participation occurred in 1996–97 season in

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. ;Notes * 1R: First round * Q: Qualifying round

League and Cup history

Managers

Vyacheslav Hroznyi Vyacheslav Viktorovych Hrozny ( uk, В'ячеслав Вікторович Грозний; 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 Tern ...

– 1990–92 *

Valeriy Petrov Valeriy Pavlovych Petrov ( uk, Валерій Павлович Петров; 2 March 1955 – 8 March 2022) was a Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach. Biography He played as a striker for SC Tavriya Simferopol. Petrov died from complic ...

– 1992 * Serhiy Morozov – 1995–96 *

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 ...

– 1997–98 *

Volodymyr Bezsonov Volodymyr Vasylyovych Bezsonov ( uk, Володимир Васильович Безсонов, also spelled Vladimir Vasilijević Bessonov, born 5 March 1958) is a Ukrainian football manager and former player, he played for the Soviet Union nat ...

– 2009–11 * Yuriy Solovyenko – 2006 *

Ivan Panchyshyn Ivan Panchyshyn ( uk, Іван Миколайович Панчишин; born 15 June 1961 in Kolodruby, Mykolaiv Raion, Lviv Oblast) is a former Ukrainian–Soviet professional football player and Ukrainian manager. Panchyshyn played over 300 lea ...

– 2007–08 * Yuriy Solovyenko – 2008 *

Bohdan Blavatskyi Bohdan Blavatskyi ( uk, Богдан Ігорович Блавацький; born 7 June 1963) is a Soviet Ukrainian former football forward and now a football coach since 1994. Coaching career Bohdan Blavatskyi started his coaching career in ...

– 2009 *

Oleh Fedorchuk Oleh Fedorchuk ( ua, Олег Вікторович Федорчук; born February 10, 1961), is a retired Soviet footballer and Ukrainian football manager. Career In 2009–2011, he was a coach in PFC Nyva Vinnytsia FC Nyva Vinnytsia is a ...

– 2009–11 * Oleh Ostapenko (caretaker) – 2011 * Oleh Shumovytskyi (caretaker) – 2012 * Oleh Ostapenko (caretaker) – 2012 * Volodymyr Reva – 2015–16 * Yuriy Solovyenko – 2016 *

Colince Ngaha Poungoue Colince Ngaha Poungoue (born 26 September 1981) is an amateur Ukrainian professional football striker of Cameroonian descent and manager. He became the first Afro-Ukrainian athlete who was appointed a head coach of professional club in Ukraine.A ...

(caretaker) – 2016 * Yuriy Solovyenko (caretaker) – 2016–17 *

Volodymyr Horilyi Volodymyr Ivanovych Horilyi (; born 11 October 1965) is a Soviet and Ukrainian retired football defender and a football coach. Career Horilyi played for a number of teams based in USSR including Tavriya Simferopol, Dynamo Kyiv, Zenit Leningrad ...

– (11 March 2017 – 18 September 2017) *

Denys Kolchin Denys Kolchin ( uk, Денис Колчін; born 13 October 1977) is a former professional Ukrainian football defender and current football manager of Balkany Zorya. Career He last played for FC Dnister Ovidiopol and worked as a coach of anot ...

– 2017–18 *

– 2019 * Oleh Shumovytskyi – 2019–21 *

Volodymyr Tsytkin Volodymyr Borysovych Tsytkin ( uk, Володимир Борисович Циткін; born 1 August 1966) is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian footballer who played as a goalkeeper and current football manager of Khust Khust ( uk, Хуст; hu, ...

– 2021 *

Ihor Leonov Ihor Ivanovych Leonov ( uk, Ігор Іванович Леонов; born 17 September 1967) is a Ukrainian former professional football midfielder and manager. On 6 October 2011 he was appointed as interim coach for Illichivets Mariupol after ...

(15 January 2022 – present)

Notes

References

External links

Official website

Ukrainian Second League official web site
*(In English
Facebook Page

Fan team website

Sportive-football club Nyva — V (Спортивно-футбольний клуб "Нива – В")
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