Ukraina Lviv (full name: ''Sports Society Ukraina Lviv'') was a Galician and then Polish association football team of the ''ST Ukraina'' (Sports Society), located in the city of

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. At that time the ''ST Ukraina'' was a sports society of ethnic

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and earlier

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. The football team existed in 1911–14, 1921–39 and 1942–44. The club was liquidated twice by the Soviet regime. The society had an alternate name of ''Tryzub'' (Trident) which after

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was used by Ukrainian emigrants to Canada such as the

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History

The club was founded in 1911 based on the Ukrainian Sports Club (USK, which existed since 1904) on the initiative of professor Ivan Bobersky, who had previously been a teacher of physical education in a Ukrainian junior high school in

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. During their first three years of existence, Ukraina mostly played against other ethnic Ukrainian sides from Galicia, but in 1914, with the outbreak of

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, the club ceased its activities. Ukraina returned in 1921 and in 1928 became a member of the

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. The team played in Lwów A-Class, which was equivalent of today's second level of football games (see: Lower Level Football Leagues in Interwar Poland). In the 1930s, Ukraina was one of the strongest football teams in southeastern Poland, its top player, Oleksandr Skotsen' went to

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after

to play for

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(see: List of foreign Ligue 1 players). Altogether, Ukraina played twelve seasons in the Lwów A-Class, three times achieving second position (1937, 1938 and 1939). Overall, Ukraina gained 199 points over 182 games (with two points for a victory and one for a tie), with goal difference 433:351.Lwow and Stanislawow A-Classes 1920–1940
Ukraina played its last known game on August 27, 1939. On that day, using the field of the friendly side of

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, the Ukrainians beat Kazimierz Gorski's team, Worker's Lwow 4–0. Ukraina Lwów also had an

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department, which in February 1938 became a sensational vice-champion of the Lwów region. After World War II ST Ukraine was dissolved by the Soviet authorities. Former members reestablished the society in

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References

External links

Scans of Przeglad Sportowy magazine, with results of Ukraina's games

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