FC Kalush ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Калуш») was a Ukrainian professional football club from Kalush,

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History

The club was founded soon after

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as Khimik Kalush and in the Soviet competitions competed at regional level and KFK (amateur level). The club was reestablished in place of previously existed Polish club at the chemical plant TESP that also was overtaken by Soviets. Khimik Kalush also was associated with the Soviet chemical and metallurgical association "Khlorvinil" that was expanded in 1961. At KFK level the club competed until 1995, when as Khimik entered the Druha Liha. Its main sponsor "Khlorvinil" was reorganized as a state enterprise "Oriana". Later in 1995, Khimik renamed themselves to FC Kalush. The club struggled at this level of competition. In 2001, "Oriana" and the Russian oil conglomerate

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created a joint venture "Lukor". In 2001 the club also renamed themselves to FC LUKOR Kalush and the new sponsorship immediately improved the status of the club. In 2002 Lukor already announced about its financial instability and filed for bankruptcy. In the next season the club won the Druha Liha 2002–03 Group A championship. However, at the end of the season the club was bought out by neighboring club FC Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk and they were subsequently renamed and made into a reserve club. The club renamed again to FC Spartak-2 Ivano-Frankivsk in 2004 and later in that year they were dissolved. The club reformed in 2006 and played at the Amateur level. On 17 January 2014, Lukor Kalush filed for bankruptcy and its liquidation.Lukor announced about its liquidation ("Лукор" объявил о ликвидации)
Kommersant. 20 January 2014 After a break of over 10 years the club was readmitted to the Professional Football League of Ukraine for the

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competition.

Emblems

File:Prykarp Kalush.png, Emblem of Prykarpattia Kalush (a farm club of

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) File:Lukor Kalush.png, Emblem of FC LUKOR Kalush, note that the name is spelled as Luk and Or

Honors

* Ukrainian Druha Liha **Winners (1): 2002/03 Group A (as LUKOR Kalush) *

Ukrainian Football Amateur League Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship ( uk, Чемпіонат України з футболу серед аматорів) is an annual association football competition in Ukraine among amateur teams. The competition is administered by the Uk ...

**Winners (1): 1994-95 Group 1 **Finalists (1):

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Group 1 *

Ukrainian Amateur Cup The Ukrainian Amateur Cup ( uk, Кубок України з футболу серед аматорських команд) or AAFU Cup ( uk, Кубок ААФУ) is a national cup competition in Ukraine for amateur clubs. The nationwide competitio ...

**Finalists (1): 1972 * Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Football Federation championship **Winners (13): 1947, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1978, 1995 **Finalists (9): 1949 * Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Football Federation Cup **Winners (14):

League and cup history

Notable players

Yozhef Sabo Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo ( uk, Йожеф Йожефович Сабо; hu, Szabó József; born 29 February 1940) is a former Ukrainian football player and football manager. He is of Hungarian background. He is baptized as a Greek-Catholic. ...

Coaches

* 1997

Ivan Krasnetskyi Ivan Krasnetskyi (27 December 1945 – 23 April 2010) was a Soviet and Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relati ...

* 2000

Volodymyr Holovatyi Volodymyr ( uk, Володи́мир, Volodýmyr, , orv, Володимѣръ) is a Ukrainian given name of Old East Slavic origin. The related Ancient Slavic, such as Czech, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, etc. form of the name is Володимѣръ ...

* 2001

Volodymyr Mandryk Volodymyr ( uk, Володи́мир, Volodýmyr, , orv, Володимѣръ) is a Ukrainian given name of Old East Slavic origin. The related Ancient Slavic, such as Czech, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, etc. form of the name is Володимѣръ ...

* 2001–2002

Mykola Prystay Mykola Prystay ( uk, Микола Семенович Пристай) (born 26 November 1954 in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) is a retired Soviet football player and current Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukr ...

* 2002 Ihor Yurchenko * 2003

* 2016–2017

Petro Lesiv Petro is a masculine given name, a surname and an Ancient Roman cognomen. It may refer to: Given name * Petro Balabuyev (1931-2007), Ukrainian airplane designer, engineer and professor, lead designer of many Antonov airplanes * Petro Doroshenko ...

* 2017 Stepan Matviyiv * 2017–2018

Vasyl Malyk Vasyl Malyk ( uk, Василь Іванович Малик; born 23 November 1968) is a former Soviet and Ukrainian footballer and Ukrainian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to s ...

* 2019–2020 Andriy Nesteruk * 2019

Vasyl Kachur The name Basil (''royal, kingly'') comes from the male Greek name Vassilios (, female version ), which first appeared during the Hellenistic period. It is derived from "basileus" ( el, βασιλεύς, links=no), of greek origin, meaning "king", ...

* 2019– Stepan Matviyiv

Notes

References

External links

Official website

FC Kalush
at AAFU {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalush, Fc Defunct football clubs in Ukraine Football clubs in Kalush, Ukraine FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk Lukoil Association football clubs established in 1947 Association football clubs disestablished in 2020 1947 establishments in Ukraine 2020 disestablishments in Ukraine