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2002–03 Ukrainian First League
The 2002–03 Ukrainian First League was the twelfth season of the Ukrainian First League which was won by Zirka Kirovohrad. The season started on July 6, 2002, and finished on June 21, 2003. Promotion and relegation Promoted teams Five clubs promoted from the 2001–02 Ukrainian Second League. ;Group A * FC Krasyliv – champion ''(debut)'' * Sokil Zolochiv – runner-up ''(debut)'' ;Group B * Systema-Boreks Borodyanka – champion ''(debut)'' ;Group C * FC Sumy – champion ''(returning after a season)'' * Arsenal Kharkiv – runner-up ''(debut)'' Relegated teams One club was relegated from the 2001-02 Ukrainian Top League: * FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod – 14th place ''(returning after a season)'' Renamed teams * Before the season FC Sumy changed back to FC Spartak Sumy . * During winter break SC Mykolaiv changed its name to MFC Mykolaiv. Teams In 2002-03 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams: Final table Top ...
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Ukrainian First League
The Persha Liha ( ) or Ukrainian First League is a Ukrainian football league system, level of national football competitions (second tier) in Ukraine governed by the Professional Football League of Ukraine, Professional Football League at the discretion of the Ukrainian Association of Football. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup. The league is the intermediate level of competitions within the three-tiered "competition pyramid". History The league was set up by the newly reorganized Football Federation of Ukraine (a successor of the Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR) with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, falling apart Soviet Union as a second tier, lower than Ukrainian Higher League (Vyshcha Liha) and higher that Ukrainian Transitional League (Perekhidna Liha). The very first round of games that took place for this league was on 14 March 1992. The league itself was organised just a few months before that and consisted mostly of all the Ukrainia ...
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FC CSKA Kyiv
FC CSKA Kyiv () is a Ukrainian amateur football club, until 2001 of the Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is government sponsored by the Ministry of Defense. As its farm team CSKA-2 Kyiv, in 1994–2001 it served as a farm team of CSKA Kyiv which later was renamed into Arsenal Kyiv. After reorganization in 2001 the football section "FC CSKA Kyiv" was privately sponsored until 2009 when it withdrew from the professional league 4 September 2009 due to lack of financial support. History DO/SKA Kyiv (1934–1992) The football team has founded in 1934 in Kharkiv as part of the Soviet Officers' Club (later CSKA) receiving the name ''UVO Kharkiv'' (, Ukrainian Military District – Kharkiv). During the Soviet regime the team was part of the Soviet Armed Forces sports society. At the end of 1934 the team was transferred to Kyiv during the transfer of republican capital. Its name has changed to ''DO Kyiv'' (, Officers' Club – Kyiv). In 1947–1956 the team ...
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Myroslav Bundash
Myroslav Omelyanovych Bundash (; born 22 December 1976) is a former Ukraine, Ukrainian association football, footballer. Since 2012 he coaches professional clubs as an assistant coach. References External links Official Website Profile
* * 1976 births Living people Footballers from Zakarpattia Oblast Ukrainian men's footballers Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Ukraine men's student international footballers FC Karpaty Mukacheve players FC Hoverla Uzhhorod players FC Zakarpattia-2 Uzhhorod players FK Rīga players FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi players FC Atyrau players PFC Sumy players FC Uzhhorod players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players Men's association football forwards 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-forward-1970s-s ...
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Artem Milevskyi
Artem Volodymyrovych Milevskyi (also transliterated Milevskyy, , ; born 12 January 1985) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a second striker. Milevskyi is known both for his technical ability and physicality which allows him to play with a quicker forward. He holds a degree of Master of Sports of Ukraine, International Class (2005). He was also a Ukrainian international, earning 50 caps and representing his country at 2006 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012. Milevskyi is a brother of Belarusian female tennis player Ksenia Milevskaya. Club career Early career and Dynamo Kyiv Milevskyi played at youth level for Belarusian club Smena Minsk. In 2000, he moved to Ukrainian side Boryfsfen Boryspil before joining Dynamo Kyiv in 2002. He made his debut for Dynamo as a late substitute in a UEFA Champions League match against Internazionale on 10 December 2003, aged just 18. It was his only appearance of the 2003–04 season. The next season, he also only ...
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2003–04 Vyshcha Liha
The 2003–04 Vyshcha Liha season was the 13th since its establishment. The season began on 12 July 2003 with seven games of the first season round. FC Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet ... were the defending champions, having won their 11th league title in the 2002–03 season and they successfully defended their title by winning the championship in the last round of the competition. A total of sixteen teams participated in the league, the best fourteen sides of the 2002–03 season and two promoted clubs from the 2002–03 Ukrainian First League. The competition had a winter break which began on 11 November 2003 and the season resumed on 14 March 2004. The season concluded on 19 June 2004. Teams Promotions * Zirka Kirovohrad, the winners of the 2002 ...
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Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League ( ) or UPL is a professional association football league in Ukraine and the highest level of the Ukrainian football league system. Originally known as the Vyshcha Liha ( , ) it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 in Ukrainian football, 1992Hunchenko, O., Kazakov, V., Kulikovska, O. Historic and geographic characteristics of football development in Ukraine (ІСТОРИКО-ГЕОГРАФІЧНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ РОЗВИТКУ ФУТБОЛУ В УКРАЇНІ)' Ukrainian football championship upon discontinuation of the 1991 Soviet football championship and included the Ukraine-based clubs that competed previously in the Soviet top three tiers competitions as well as better clubs of the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR, Ukrainian republican competitions. The initial season of the league featured six former Soviet Top League clubs among which were FC Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Shakhtar, FC Chornomorets Odesa, Chornomoret ...
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PFC Olexandria
Football Club Oleksandriya (), commonly known as Oleksandriya, is a Ukrainian professional football club based in the city of Oleksandriya, Kirovohrad Oblast. Founded in 1990, the club plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. The year 1948 on the club's crest appeared after its merger with UkrAhroKom in 2014 and depicts football heritage of the club rather than the club's foundation. In 2014 the club changed ownership when the original owner Mykola Lavrenko sold it to Serhiy Kuzmenko, the owner of UkrAhroKom. Debuting in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League in July 2016, the club became the first one from Kirovohrad Oblast to qualify for the European competitions and second after Kryvbas in Central Ukraine ( Right-bank). History Names *1990–2003 Polihraftekhnika *2004–2014 PFC Oleksandriya *2014–present FC Oleksandriya (merger with UkrAhroKom) Pre-existing club (Shakhtar Oleksandriya) FC Shakhtar Oleksandriya was established in 1948 at the production association "Olek ...
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MFK Mykolaiv
MFС Mykolaiv (''Municipal Football Club "Mykolaiv"'', ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Mykolaiv. It is one of the oldest football clubs that exists in Ukraine. Originally was established as a football team of the Black Sea Shipyard, since dissolution of the Soviet Union and cutting of the shipyard's budget which was based mostly on military contacts, it is sponsored mostly by the city of Mykolaiv. Description Names * 1920–1922: Naval Factory * 1922–1926: Marti-Badin Factory * 1926–1926: Metalisty Mykolaiv * 1927–1928: Raikom Metalistiv * 1929–1935: Marti Factory * 1936–1940: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv * 1941–1944: ''Nazi Germany occupation of Ukraine'' * 1944–1949: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv * 1951–1952: Mykolaiv City * 1953–1959: Avanhard Mykolaiv * 1960–1965: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv * 1966–1966: Budivelnyk Mykolaiv * 1967–1991: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv * 1992–1994: Evis Mykolaiv * 1994–2002: SC Mykolaiv * 2002–2022: MFC Mykolaiv History The club ...
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FC Nyva Vinnytsia
FC Nyva Vinnytsia is a Ukrainian professional association football, football club based in the city of Vinnytsia. The name "Nyva" translates to "grain field". The club was originally created in 1958 in the Soviet Union 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 Vinnytsia existed before the World War II 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 1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR, 1946 football in Vinnytsia was represented by the Spartak (sports society), Spartak society. In 1947 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR, 1947 the team played under Dynamo Sports Club, Dynamo's colors which for the next several years was regularly winning regional competitions and making finals appearances. ...
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FC Polissya Zhytomyr
Football Club Polissya Zhytomyr () is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Zhytomyr, Polesia, Polissya. It plays in the Ukrainian Premier League, the top tier of Ukrainian football, following promotion from the 2022–23 Ukrainian First League. The original Soviet team of masters became defunct after the 2004–05 season and for almost decade the city was without its professional club, although the Polissia football academy as a specialized sports school continued to play at local competitions. History The club traces its history back to 1959 when there was created the first "team of masters" (Soviet terminology of professional team). However, the team functioned before 1959 at republican level which was considered to be amateur. For example, in 1958 Avanhard Zhytomyr became a champion of Zhytomyr Oblast. In Soviet times the club carried the name ''Avtomobilist'' (car maker), then it changed to ''Polissya'' (the name for the local region (Polesie ...
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FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was a Ukrainian 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 World War II. 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 1981 – 1989 the team of masters belonged to the local Soviet scientific and defense manufacturer Positron. In 1992 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk was ...
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