Football Club Kudrivka () is a Ukrainian

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club based in Kudrivka,

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. The team set to play in

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, the top tier of Ukrainian football after promotion from

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in 2024–25.

History

The club was established in 1982. The club won the Chernihiv Oblast Football Cup in 2016, 2019 and in 2021. In the season 2020–21 and 2021–22, the club played in

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. In 2022 the club won the Chernihiv Oblast Football Cup. In March 2023, the club won the Super Cup of Chernihiv Oblast, against the football club Khvylia. The match was played in Yunist Stadium, Volodymyr Kurbakov, the Deputy Chairman of the National Olympic Committee, awarded Nazar Voloshyn as the top scorer of the competition.

Ukrainian Second League

In 2023 the club was admitted to the

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. The club to reinforce the team signed some players, including Denys Skepskyi,

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, Volodymyr Zubashivskyi, Oleksandr Rudenko, Myroslav Serdyuk and

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. On 25 November 2023, the club's president, Roman Solodarenko, announced that the club would relocate to

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in 2024. The club's president bought the

club Nyva Buzova, and it was merged with FC Kudrivka.

Ukrainian First League

The club began to use the

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primarily for matches in the Ukrainian First League. The club was included in Group B, finishing first and entering the play-offs for promotion to the

. On 1 June 2025, Kudrivka secure promotion to

for the first time in their history from next season after win against

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on aggregate 1–1 and win penalty 3–4.

Infrastructure

Stadium

The team play at

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in Kudrivka built in 2018. The club used the Yunist Stadium and in 2024 with the relocation to

started using the

for the

matches.

Training centre

FC Kudrivka train in the

and sometimes in the Yunist Stadium in

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Players

Current squad

As of 28 Apri 2025

Out on loan

Other players under contract

League and cup history

Honours

Domestic competitions

Chernihiv Oblast Football Championship * Gold medal icon

Winners (1): 2022 Chernihiv Oblast Football Cup * Gold medal icon

Winners (5): 2016 2019, 2021, 2022, 2025 Chernihiv Oblast Super Cup: * Gold medal icon

Winners (3):2019, 2021, 2022

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Winners (1): 2020 Kyiv Oblast Football Cup * Gold medal icon

Winners (1): 2021

Individual Player & Coach awards

;Top Scorer of Ukrainian Cup *

: 2023–24 (4 goals together with

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)

Notable players

* Andriy Porokhnya *

* Roman Vovk * Myroslav Serdyuk * Volodymyr Zubashivskyi * Pavlo Shchedrakov * Serhiy Datsenko * Artem Lutchenko * Artem Hryshchenko * Dmytro Pronevych * Valentyn Krukovets

Coaches

* Valentyn Krukovets (2020) * Oleksandr Babor (2020–2022) * Serhiy Datsenko (2022–2023) * Roman Loktionov (2023–2024) * Vasyl Baranov (2024) * Roman Loktionov (2024, merger of Kudrivka-Nyva and Kudrivka) * Vasyl Baranov (interim, 2024–present)

References

External links

Official website
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