Sport Club Poltava ( uk, Спортивний клуб «Полтава») is a professional Ukrainian football club from the city of

Poltava Poltava (, ; uk, Полтава ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administratively ...

. The team is currently playing

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after competing in the Ukrainian Amateur championship.

History

The team was founded in 2011 by two football enthusiasts, a football veteran of

FC Vorskla Poltava FC Vorskla Poltava ( uk, ФК «Во́рскла» Полта́ва ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Poltava that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, the top flight of Ukrainian football. History Kolos Poltava The clu ...

Volodymyr Sysenko and a local journalist Stanislav Maizus. The first team was formed based on students out of schools of the Poltava's Levada neighborhood. Before 2014, the club playing in regional competitions of

Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast ( uk, Полта́вська о́бласть, translit=Poltavska oblast; also referred to as Poltavshchyna – uk, Полта́вщина, literally 'Poltava Country') is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative ...

remained in a shadow of another more successful club

FC Poltava FC Poltava ( uk , ФК Полтава) was a Ukrainian football club based in Poltava in 2007–2018. History The club was created by the newly elected mayor of the Poltava city Andriy Matkovsky (2006-2010) who is the club's Honorary Preside ...

which at that time competed at the

. During that period SC Poltava played its home games at the FC Poltava training base in

Kopyly Kopyly ( uk, Копили) is a village in Poltava Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. The village has a population of 2,525. The village is located 3 km southeast of Poltava, within Tereshky village council, at the E 40 chaussee and at the r ...

. In 2014 SC Poltava became a champion of Poltava Oblast, but ceased its existence for several seasons due to lack of funding. The 2014 championship title for SC Poltava became the first title for Poltava-based teams at competitions in

in 19 years (Velta Poltava, 1995).Аматорські імена. СК Полтава
UA-Football. 18 December 2014 In 2014 for SC Poltava played several professional footballers who retired or were recovering from injuries included

Yuriy Fomenko Yuriy Fomenko ( uk, Юрій Сергійович Фоменко; born 31 December 1986 in Kotelva, Poltava Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a professional Ukrainian football striker who plays for FC Rukh Vynnyky. Fomenko's first trainer was Ihor Bon ...

, Ruslan Solyanyk, others. In 2019, five years later, Sysenko and Maizus managed to invite Serhiy Ivashchenko who became the club's president providing necessary funding and SC Poltava was revived. Serhiy Ivashchenko owns a construction company "Kombinat vyrobnychykh pidpryiemstv" (Complex of manufacturing enterprises). By that time FC Poltava already withdrew from all of competitions after a scandal with the stadium in 2018. In 2019–20 SC Poltava entered the AAFU cup competitions and in 2020–21 debuted at the AAFU championship. The club placed 5th within its group in its first national football season. Later SC Poltava was admitted to the

Professional Football League of Ukraine Professional Football League of Ukraine ( uk, Професіональна футбольна ліга України, translit=Profesionalna futbolna liha Ukrayiny; also known as PFL) is a sport organization and collective member of the Footb ...

and entered the

2021–22 Ukrainian Second League The 2021–22 Ukrainian Second League is the 31st since its establishment. Summary On June 1, 2021, the PFL Central Council adopted decision that new season competitions in the PFL Second League would start on July 25, 2021, just as competitio ...

competitions.

Honours

* Poltava Oblast championship ** Winner (1): 2014

Players

Current squad

League and cup history

Non-playing personnel

Presidents

* 2011–2014 Stanislav Maizus * 2019– Serhiy Ivashchenko

Managers

* 2011–2014 Volodymyr Sysenko * 2019– Volodymyr Sysenko

References

External links

Official website

Profile
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