FC Lviv ( ua, ФК «Львів») was a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * Som ...

football club from the city of

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukra ...

. It was initially founded in 1992.

History

The idea about a new city's club was initiated by a Ukrainian coach

Mykhailo Vilkhovyi Mykhailo Vilkhovyi ( uk, Михайло Михайлович Вільховий; born 13 April 1958 in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union - in present-day Ukraine) is a Ukrainian football manager. Positively about Vilkhovyi talked another Ukr ...

. The club was established in 1992 as an amateur team that won the

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a relational adjective—in English translating to a noun adjunct w ...

Cup and the oblast second tier competitions. In 1993 the club entered the Ukrainian Transitional League and in two seasons progressed two tiers reaching the

Ukrainian First League The Persha Liha ( uk, Перша ліга) or Ukrainian First League is a professional football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions pyramid. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup. It is th ...

where it stayed until 2001. It was one of three teams that were admitted to the 1993–94 Ukrainian Transitional League and did not play in the previous

1992–93 Ukrainian Football Amateur League The 1992–93 Football championship of Ukraine among amateurs was the first season of the nationwide amateur competitions in the independent Ukraine and was known as the football competitions of fitness collectives or KFK for short. The tournament ...

. In 2001 the club was dissolved and merged with

FC Karpaty Lviv Football Club Karpaty Lviv ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv. History Early years (1963–68) The team of Karpaty was founded on 18 January, 1963. In 1961 Silmash Lviv won the championship of Lviv Oblast but lost its p ...

as its second team. This club held a record for being the only team from outside the

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League' ...

that has progressed twice to the quarterfinals of the

Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup ( uk, Кубок України) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003� ...

competition.

League and Cup history

Coaches

* 1993–1994

* 1994–1998

Stepan Yurchyshyn Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn ( uk, Степан Федорович Юрчишин; born 28 August 1957) is a Ukrainian retired football player. The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, ...

* 1999–2001

Volodymyr Zhuravchak Volodymyr Zhuravchak ( ua, Володимир Олексійович Журавчак; born 3 May 1957) is a Ukrainian football coach and a former player. Coaching career The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Kamianka-Buzka in 1991. He ...

References

External links

* Zaremba, R.
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FC Lviv FC Lviv ( uk, ФК «Львів», pl, FK Lwów) is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Lviv, that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League. While the first president of FC Lviv Oleksandr Didenko insisted that FC Lviv of ...

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