Sports Club Tavriya () was a Ukrainian football club from

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. Tavriya was a member of the

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from its founding and won the first

making them one of three teams that have ever held this title. After the

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in 2014, the club was forced to cease its existence after 56 years, while in occupied

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a new club composed of some of its staff and players joined the

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under the new name FC TSK Simferopol. In June 2015, the

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and the Tavriya's president announced it would re-establish the club and its new home would be

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.Ukraine trying to revive Crimean champion football club
,

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(19 June 2015) On 29 August 2016, club was added to Group 2 of the

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. The revamped club is based in Beryslav,

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.Tavriya added to Ukraininan Amateur League
Prior to the start of the

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the club merged with FC Tavriya Novotroitske, this fusion continued to play under the original name of SC Tavriya Simferopol (in the 2020–21 Ukrainian Second League season).Tavria united with amateur team from Novotroitske (Таврия объединилась с аматорской командой из Новотроицкого)
. Sport Arena. 22 August 2020 At the start of the

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in 2022, they were based in

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. On 28 March 2022, Tavriya ceased club activities following the occupation of

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History

The club was formed in 1958, under the name Avanhard Simferopol and was based on the former Crimean champion 'Burevestnik Simferopol'. In previous season Burevestnik played in the 1957 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and placed only 5th among 6 teams in its group. Nonetheless, Simferopol was granted to present its own football team at the all-Union football competitions next season. The newly formed football team was one of 32 football teams that were admitted to the All-Union football competitions in Class B in 1958 and one out of 8 from Ukraine. Tavriya played their first game in the 1958 Soviet Class B against the Yaroslav based club Khimik. Sometime in 1963, Avanhard changed its name to Tavriya. The team was a member of the bigger Soviet Lokomotiv sports society for railway workers. In 1967 for Tavriya in Simferopol was built a new stadium. Overall, Tavriya played 132 clubs from 113 cities. They played their last match of the Soviet competition against FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg. After the fall of the

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, the

was formed. Tavria was one of its founders and eventually became the very first Ukrainian champion in

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, under the

born manager

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, defeating

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, Ukraine's most successful club in the final, held in

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. Yuriy Hudymenko became the league's top scorer. More players from that era were

Oleksandr Holovko Oleksandr Borysovych Holovko (; born 6 January 1972) is a Ukrainian association football, football manager and former player who manages FC Dinaz Vyshhorod, Dinaz Vyshhorod. A centre-back, Holovko used to be a regular starter for the Ukraine na ...

, a defender who also played many years for Ukraine national team, and captain Serhiy Yakovych Shevchenko, who scored the championship goal against Dynamo Kyiv. Having earned the right to participate in

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, Tavryia were knocked out in the first round by Swiss club

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. The Russian

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posted an article (No.3 (43), 25 January 2000, page 9) stating that the Ukrainian champions Tavria were threatened by the

to compete at the CIS Cup in 1993. Tavria was one of the five clubs to have until 2014 participated in every season of the Ukrainian Premier League. Their best performance in the

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came in

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, where they defeated

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in the final to win the competition. They had previously reached the final in

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, where they lost to

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in a

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Russian annexation of Crimea

After the annexation of Crimea by Russia, Tavriya asked permission from UEFA and FIFA to shift to the Russian league next season. The club applied for a Russian license and changed its name to FC TSK Simferopol. The club currently plays in the Crimean Premier League.

Re-establishment

On 18 June 2015, the

executive committee voted in favor of re-establishing the club now to be located in

(the largest Ukrainian city bordering Crimea). Serhiy Kunitsyn, Tavriya's former president and also a former

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, was put in charge of the project. In August 2016, the revamped version of the club applied to play in the

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,

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However, Tavriya was included to group 2 of

on 29 August. Re-established club based in the city of Beryslav in

. In November 2016, the club applied for

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attestation in order to achieve professional status in the next season. After finishing the 2016–17 season in the Amateur League, Tavriya was included into PFL and promoted to

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in June 2017. The club was included to group B of

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. Prior to the start of the

the club merged with FC Tavriya Novotroitske, but continued to play under its original name. On 28 March 2022 Tavriya ceased club activities after

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and subsequent temporary occupation of

Team names

*''First club (1958–2014):'' **1958–1962: Avanhard Simferopol **1963–2014: SC Tavriya Simferopol *''Second club (2016–2022):'' **2016–2022: SC Tavriya Simferopol

European record

Champions League:

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Honours

RSC Lokomotiv *

(1st Tier) : Gold medal icon

2009–10 :

1993–94 *

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(2nd Tier) : Gold medal icon

1980 *

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(Soviet Lower Tier) : Gold medal icon

1973, 1985, 1987 : Silver medal icon

1986 *

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1974 :

1975

Football kits and sponsors

Players

Current squad

Coaches

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(1970–72) * Vadim Ivanov (1979) * Anatoli Polosin (1980–81) * Igor Volchok (1982) * Anatoliy Kon'kov (1983–84) * Gennady Logofet (1984) * Anatoliy Kon'kov (1985) * Anatoli Polosin (1986) * Vyacheslav Solovyov (1987–88) *

Mykola Pavlov Mykola Petrovych Pavlov () ( born 20 June 1954) is a Ukrainian former football defender and manager. He is Merited Master of Sports of the USSR (1983) and Merited Coach of Ukraine. Education * Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Physical Culture * ...

(1989–90) *

(1991 – May 93) * Oleksandr Radosavlyevych (1993–94) * Pavlo Kostin (June 1994 – Sept 94) * Andriy Cheremysin (Oct 1994 – Dec 94) * Vitaliy Shalychev (Jan 1995 – April 95) * Ruvyn Aronov ''(caretaker)'' (1995) * Valeriy Shvedyuk ''(caretaker)'' (1995) *

(May 1995 – June 95) * Ivan Balan (July 1996 – Aug 96) * Serhiy Shevchenko (Aug 1996 – Dec 96) *

(Jan 1997 – April 97) * Valeriy Shvedyuk (1997) * Ivan Balan ''(caretaker)'' (May 1997 – June 97) * Ivan Balan (July 1997 – June 98) * Viktor Hrachov (July 1998 – Dec 98) * Valeriy Petrov ''(caretaker)'' (Jan 1999 – May 99) * Anatoly Korobochka (16 June 1999 – 31 December 1999) * Volodymyr Muntyan (1 Jan 2000 – 30 June 2000) * Oleksandr Ischenko (1 July 2000 – 10 June 2001) *

(June 2001) * Valeriy Petrov ''(caretaker)'' (10 June 2001 – 10 June 2002) *

(10 June 2002 – 20 September 2004) *

(2004) * Oleh Fedorchuk (20 September 2004 – 31 Dec 2005) * Mykhaylo Fomenko (1 Jan 2006 – 29 September 2008) *

Serhiy Puchkov Serhiy Valentynovych Puchkov (; born 17 April 1962) is a Ukrainian former football player and manager who played as a midfielder. Career Puchkov is a former head-coach of FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia in the Ukrainian Premier ...

(29 September 2008 – 22 September 2010) * Valeriy Petrov ''(caretaker)'' (22 September 2010 – 8 May 2011) * Oleksandr Shudryk ''(caretaker)'' (May 2011 – 11 June) *

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(6 June 2011 – 1 June 2012) *

Oleh Luzhnyi Oleh Romanovych Luzhnyi (; born 5 August 1968) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Club career Luzhnyi is a product of the Karpaty sports school (coached by Yuriy Hdanskyi and Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi) an ...

(6 June 2012 – 15 June 2013) * Giannis Christopoulos (17 June 2013 – 25 December 2013) * Nikolai Kostov (4 Jan 2014 – 17 May 2014) * ''none'' during the Russian annexation of Crimea (2014–2016) * Serhiy Shevchenko (August 2016 – December 2020) * Oleh Fedorchuk (January 2021 – 21 April 2021) * Yuriy Chumak ''(caretaker)'' (26 April 2021 – 10 June 2021) *

(10 June 2021 – 14 September 2021) * Yuriy Chumak ''(caretaker)'' (14 September 2021 – 28 March 2022)

League and cup history

Soviet Union

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Ukraine

Notes

References

External links

*
All coaches of Tavriya
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