FC Skala Stryi was a Ukrainian

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professional team from

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. It used to play at Medyk Stadium in

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that previously belonged to former

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. On 9 July 2018 the

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confirmed that the club withdrew from competition. It is the fourth reincarnation of Ukrainian sports club that existed in

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) in 1911.

History

Beside

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, the initiative to create the club came also from the member of the Board of directors of IDS Group, Vsevolod Bilas, and the president of the Georgian

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, Beso Chikhradze. In 2004-2009 the club was competing in the

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as a youth football club FC Morshyn. At same time another club

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represented the neighboring city of

in the

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. In 2006 Hazovyk-Skala was reorganized as FC Lviv and moved to

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. In 2009 FC Morshyn entered the professional ranks with their first game played as a friendly against

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.ФК «Львів» розгромив команду губернатора (FC Lviv thrashed governor's team)
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.ПФЛ Центральна Рада ПОСТАНОВА № 5 (PFL Committee Minutes from Meeting No. 5, February 17, 2010)
On 10 February 2011 the club was renamed again to FC Skala Stryi due to the fact that it was playing in

. On 19 June 2018, the club's president Mykola Kmyt announced that his club will withdraw from competition if the club will not find new owners. Several days before the club's general director Luis Esmi commented information about withdrawal of Skala Stryi. He explained that the club requested clarification from the

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(FFU) on situation about fixed matches and information regarding punishment for the guilty. The federation was accusing the club in match fixing. Esmi confirmed that the club released all its players. He also stated that the club will certainly withdraw if the federation would establish that our players were involved in match fixing and will think whether or not participate if other clubs were involved but no one would get punished. On 14 June 2018, the club expressed its intentions to merge its football academy with the academy of

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.Волынь и Скала объединят свои детские школы
. sportarena.com. 14 June 2018

League and cup history

Managers

* 2009–2010: Oleksandr Tomakh * 2011–2013: Volodymyr Reva * 2013–2014: Volodymyr Knysh * 2014–2017:

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* 2017–2018: Roman Hnativ

Former players

* Nazar Kmit – made over 100 league appearances

Former emblems

File:Skala Morshyn.png, Emblem 2010–12 File:Morshyn Medyk Stadium 3.jpg, Skala Morshyn banner at the Medyk Stadium File:Morshyn.png, Emblem before 2010

Notes

References

External links

* Mykhailo Oliinyk.
Anatoliy Petryk: I hope that my son also will be professional footballer (Анатолій Петрик: «Сподіваюся, що мій син теж буде професійним футболістом»)
'. Fortuna newspaper. 29 December 2011 {{DEFAULTSORT:Skala Stryi (2004) Football clubs in Stryi 2004 establishments in Ukraine Association football clubs established in 2004 Sports team and club relocations