FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was a

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football team based in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, the unofficial capital of the Prykarpattia region.

History

The club was founded in 1940 after the Soviet occupation of the Eastern Poland during the

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. All previous local sports clubs were liquidated and replaced with "proletarian". In 1956 the club gained promotion to the Soviet Class B (second tier) by winning a play-off match-up against SKCF Sevastopol in 1955. Since that time, Ivano-Frankivsk had at least one club in football competitions among teams of masters until dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 1981 until 2003 the club competed under the name FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk and in 1989 (the Perestroika epoch) was converted from team of masters to professional club by "western standards". In 1992 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk was admitted to the first

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, after being initially chosen to participate for being a runner-up from 1st Zone of the

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in 1991. After being demoted following their first season, the club returned to the

in 1994 and remained there for six seasons. In 2003 the club managed to preserve its place in the

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only with the help of LUKOR Kalush (

FC Kalush FC Kalush ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Калуш») was a Ukrainian professional football club from Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. History The club was founded soon after World War II as Khimik Kalush and in the Soviet competitions ...

) that was financed by the Russian Lukoil and coincidentally merged with Ivano-Frankivsk club after winning the Second League and obtaining promotion to the First League. Upon merging of two clubs, the Ivano-Frankivsk team was renamed to Spartak as a "People Football Club", while Kalush team became Prykarpattia-2. Calling a club as "people's" is very effective in Ukrainian football and later was implemented with

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. After the 2007 season ''Spartak'' was finally relegated to the Second League, with no money. The club folded right before the start of the next season. Following liquidation of its senior, the club continues to field its junior squads in competitions of Ukrainian Youth League. Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk's best achievement in the

was eleventh place (twice, in 1994–95 and 1995–96). The team's colours were red shirts and white shorts.

Top scorers

* 2000 – Andriy Spivak 6 * 1999 – Vitaliy Shumsky 5 * 1998 – Petro Rusak 9 * 1997 – Andriy Zavyalov 9 * 1996 –

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and Petro Rusak 9 * 1995 –

Ihor Yurchenko Ihor Mykolayovych Yurchenko ( uk, Ігор Миколайович Юрченко; born in 5/9/1960) is the Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer known for his performance in the Ukrainian club Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk. Ihor has a young ...

8 * 1992 – Yuri Shulyatytsky 3 * 1991 –

Roman Hryhorchuk Roman Yosypovych Hryhorchuk ( uk, Роман Йосипович Григорчук; born 22 March 1965) is a Ukrainian football manager who is the head coach of Chornomorets Odesa and a former player. Playing career He started playing with Lys ...

26 * 1990 – Mykola Yurchenko 6 * 1989 –

Yaroslav Dumansky Yaroslav Myroslavovich Dumanskyi ( uk, Ярослав Мирославович Думанський; 4 August 1959 – 22 June 2021) was a Soviet professional footballer who played as a midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position ...

13 (

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of International Level)

Notable managers

* Viktor Lukashenko, 1972 Ukrainian republican championship winner, 1973 Ukrainian Cup finalist * Viktor Kozyn, first manager of reorganized football club in 1989 * Ivan Krasnetskyi, 1991 Ukrainian republican championship runner-up and admission to the top league, first manager in competitions of the independent Ukraine *

, 1994 First League winner *

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 ...

, first manager of the revived Spartak in 2003

Club's Presidents

Honours

*Soviet First League **Runner-up (1): 1957 *Ukrainian Cup **Runner up (1): 1973 *

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**Winners (3): 1955, 1969, 1972 **Runner-up (2): 1991 *Ukrainian First League **Winner (1): 1994

Derbies

The fiercest rivalry of the club was 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 ...

. The regional neighbors' games sometimes ended with disorders at the respective stadiums. The rivalry was part of the West Ukrainian football derby that after a while transferred from the

to the

. The other rivalry worth mentioning was with

FC Karpaty Lviv Football Club Karpaty Lviv ( ) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Lviv. History Early years (1963–68) The team of Karpaty was founded on 18 January, 1963 in association football, 1963. In 1961 Silmash Lvi ...

League and cup history

Ukrainian SSR (Soviet Union)

Ukraine

References

External links

Extensive historical database for the Ukrainian Top League with some extra

Database of the Soviet championship from klisf
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