Football Club Alians was a Ukrainian football club based in Lypova Dolyna,

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, in north-eastern

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, founded in 2016. The club last competed in the

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following promotion from the 2019–20 Ukrainian Second League. Alians's home field is

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History

Alians Lypova Dolyna was founded in 2016. The team played its first match on May 21 of the same year within the framework of the Sumy Oblast Championship against Lebedynets from

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. According to the results of the 2016 season, Alians won gold medals in the championship, ahead of Yavir and Trostianets. Since 2017, the team participated in the highest league of the championship of Sumy Oblast. Alians finished the first draw in third place, and a year later became the champion. In 2018, Alians was admitted into the Amateur Championship of Ukraine. In its group, the team took third place, skipping ahead of

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and LNZ Cherkasy, and in the quarterfinals of the playoffs lost to the future champion VPK Ahro. In 2019, the club won the Hennady Svirsky Cup and the Super Cup of Sumy Oblast, and in the summer season Alians received the status of a professional club and began playing in the

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. In the early completed draw of the 2019/20 season, the team took third place in Group B and in the play-offs with

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won addmitance to play in the

of the 2020/21 season. In its first draw of the

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, Alliance lost in the quarterfinals to premier league club

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with a score of 2:4.

Honors

* Sumy Oblast Championship **Winners (1): 2018

League and cup history

Head coaches

* 2018–2022 Yuriy Yaroshenko * 2022 Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi (came in winter break as part of the upcoming merger and didn't play any competitive games)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alians Lypova Dolyna Romny Raion Football clubs in Sumy Oblast 2016 establishments in Ukraine Association football clubs established in 2016