FC Nyva Vinnytsia

This article is about the football club that used to be called FC Vinnytsia between 1999–2003. For the club established in 2010, see FC Vinnytsia.

Nyva Vinnytsia

Full name	FC Nyva Vinnytsia
Founded	1958
Ground	Central City Stadium, Vinnytsia
Capacity	24,000
Chairman	Artur Zahorulko
Head coach	Yuriy Yaroshenko
League	Ukrainian Second League
2022–23	Ukrainian Second League, 4th of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

FC Nyva Vinnytsia is a Ukrainian professional football club based in the city of Vinnytsia. The name "Nyva" translates to "grain field". The club was originally created in 1958 in the Soviet Union and folded in 2005 and 2012, but was reformed again in 2015 as Nyva-V and renamed back to Nyva in 2018.

History

Previous clubs

A football team in Vinnytsia existed before the World War II as a local team of Vinnytsia city, which participated in championships among other cities. After the 1936 reorganization of football competition, the team then continued to play in lower tiers.

Following World War II, in 1946 football in Vinnytsia was represented by the Spartak society. In 1947 the team played under Dynamo's colors which for the next several years was regularly winning regional competitions and making finals appearances.

The teams names including "Trud", "Burevisnyk", and City Team.

Lokomotyv → Nyva

In 1958 then current club was established as a Soviet team of the local locomotive factory as Lokomotyv Vinnytsia, which was established on the initiative of the director of Southwestern Railway Petro Kryvonos.

After Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Nyva was selected to play in the inaugural Ukrainian Premier League in 1992, due to being one of the top 9 (of 11) Ukrainian teams from the West Division of the Soviet Second League in 1991.

After being relegated in 1992, Nyva spent the 1993 season in the Ukrainian second division in the First League. Nyva was quickly promoted back to the top level next season after winning the competition.

Nyva Vinnytsia's best achievement in the Ukrainian Premier League was 10th place finish in the 1993–94 season. The club also surprisingly made the 1995–96 Ukrainian Cup finals, only to lose to Dynamo Kyiv. As a result, Nyva took part in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, even progressing to the first round after beating JK Tallinna Sadam on away goals (1:2 loss in Tallinn and 1:0 win in Vinnytsia). However, Swiss side FC Sion beat the Ukrainian side with a 6:0 score on aggregate (2:0 in Sion and 4:0 in Vinnytsia) ending the dream run in Europe.

The club ceased to exist after it was relegated from the First League in 2006 because of financial difficulties. In 2006 it was replaced with FC Bershad from Bershad, Vinnytsia oblast (see FC Nyva Bershad).

Reformation 2007

Sports Complex Nyva

Central City Stadium

In the 2007–08 season the club reentered professional league competition into the Second League as FC Nyva-Svitanok, the new part of its name meaning dawn, or new beginning. Also Svitanok is a name of a city's flower market.

On 8 July 2008, the club changed their name from "FC Nyva-Svitanok Vinnytsia" to "PFC Nyva Vinnytsia". ^[1]

Reformation 2015

The club was again reformed and entered the Vinnytsia Oblast competition for the 2015–16 finishing in fifth place. ^[2] The club competed in 2016 in the 2016 Ukrainian Football Amateur League finishing second in their group. The club successfully passed attestation and competed in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League season finishing 7th place. ^[3]

At the end of 2020, the club announced about financial hardship, and acting president of the club Vadym Kudiarov complained about lack of interest from local government and public. ^[4]

Stadiums

The club plays in one of two stadiums in Vinnytsia, Sports Complex Nyva which has a capacity of 5,000 spectators with the club's training facilities located there, and the Municipal Central Stadium (previously Lokomotyv) which was expanded prior to 1980's Olympics which now has a capacity of 24,000 spectators. The Central Stadium is usually used in "big" matches against famous opponents with all the other matches were played at SC Nyva.

Honors

• Ukrainian Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1995–96
• Ukrainian First League
  • Winners (1): 1992–93
• Championship of the Ukrainian SSR
  • Winners (2): 1964, 1984
  • Runners-up (3): 1963, 1981, 1985
• Ukrainian Second League
  • Runners-up (1): 2009–10 (Group A)
• Ukrainian League Cup (among amateurs and lower leagues' clubs)
  • Winners (1): 2009–10

Current squad

As of 20 March 2024 ^{[5] [6]}

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   UKR Yehor Popovych 3 DF   UKR Borys Lototskyi 5 MF   UKR Oleksandr Kalitov 9 MF   UKR Oleksandr Kilyk (on loan from Dnipro-1) 10 FW   UKR Artur Zahorulko 11 MF   UKR Vadym Strashkevych 13 DF   UKR Oleksandr Yevtikhov

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF   BRA Guilherme Nascimento 22 DF   UKR Valeriy Chukhno 23 DF   UKR Oleksandr Boryachuk 33 DF   UKR Oleh Nychyporenko 70 MF   UKR Oleksiy Shvets 77 DF   UKR Volodymyr Hrachov — MF   UKR Vitaliy Hemeha

European record

Its first and the only European competition participation occurred in 1996–97 season in UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1996–97	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Q	JK Tallinna Sadam	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		1R	FC Sion	0–4	0–2	0–6

Notes

• 1R: First round
• Q: Qualifying round

League and Cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	1st "A" (Vyshcha Liha)	8	18	5	4	9	18	33	14	1⁄32 finals			Relegated
1992–93	2nd (Persha Liha)	1	42	24	14	4	73	26	62	1⁄16 finals			Promoted
1993–94	1st (Vyshcha Liha)	10	34	7	6	21	25	51	20	1⁄8 finals
1994–95		14	34	10	7	17	38	51	37	1⁄4 finals
1995–96		15	34	11	7	16	28	36	40	Runners-up
1996–97		16	30	4	6	20	19	48	18	1⁄4 finals	CWC	1st round	Relegated
1997–98	2nd (Persha Liha)	5	42	22	7	13	58	34	73	1⁄8 finals
1998–99		6	38	16	9	13	45	39	57	1⁄64 finals
1999–00		11	34	14	6	14	29	39	48	1⁄8 finals			as FC Vinnytsia
2000–01		10	34	12	8	14	35	41	44	1⁄16 finals			as FC Vinnytsia
2001–02		15	34	10	8	16	35	52	38	1⁄16 finals			as FC Vinnytsia
2002–03		16	34	9	9	16	18	31	36	1⁄32 finals			as FC Vinnytsia
2003–04		8	34	14	10	10	34	24	52	1⁄16 finals
2004–05		5	34	15	8	11	49	38	53	1⁄4 finals			Bankrupt
2005–06	Club Idle
2006	4th (Amatory)	2	6	2	3	1	7	3	9				Stage 1, as FC Nyva-Svitanok
		2	6	3	2	1	14	5	11				Stage 2, as FC Nyva-Svitanok
		4	3	0	0	3	0	2	0				Stage 3, as FC Nyva-Svitanok
2007–08	3rd "A" (Druha Liha)	9	30	10	5	15	23	40	35	Did not enter			as FC Nyva-Svitanok
2008–09		3	32	18	7	7	40	29	61	1⁄16 finals			as PFC Nyva
2009–10		2	20	12	4	4	43	16	40	1⁄32 finals			Promoted [lower-alpha 1]
2010–11	2nd (Persha Liha)	10	34	14	8	12	44	42	50	1⁄32 finals
2011–12		13	34	7	11	16	21	39	32	1⁄32 finals [lower-alpha 2]			Relegated [lower-alpha 3]
2012–15	Club Idle
2015–16	Club reforms and participates in oblast competition
2016	4th (Amatory)	2	6	2	2	2	5	5	8
2016–17	3rd (Druha Liha)	7	32	14	8	10	42	33	50	1⁄16 finals
2017–18	3rd "A" (Druha Liha)	3	27	13	6	8	34	21	45	1⁄32 finals
2018–19		4	27	11	9	7	29	23	42	1⁄16 finals
2019–20		9/11	20	5	5	10	22	28	20	1⁄32 finals
2020–21		6/13	24	10	3	11	38	38	33	1⁄8 finals
2021–22		8/15	17	7	4	6	29	20	25	1⁄32 finals
2022–23	3rd (Druha Liha)	4/10	18	10	5	3	29	16	35	None

Managers

• Vyacheslav Hroznyi – 1990–92
• Valeriy Petrov – 1992
• Serhiy Morozov – 1995–96
• Oleksandr Ishchenko – 1997–98
• Volodymyr Bezsonov – 2009–11
• Yuriy Solovyenko – 2006
• Ivan Panchyshyn – 2007–08
• Yuriy Solovyenko – 2008
• Bohdan Blavatskyi – 2009
• Oleh Fedorchuk – 2009–11
• Oleh Ostapenko (caretaker) – 2011
• Oleh Shumovytskyi (caretaker) – 2012
• Oleh Ostapenko (caretaker) – 2012
• Volodymyr Reva – 2015–16
• Yuriy Solovyenko – 2016
• Colince Ngaha Poungoue (caretaker) – 2016
• Yuriy Solovyenko (caretaker) – 2016–17
• Volodymyr Horilyi – (11 March 2017 – 18 September 2017)
• Denys Kolchin – 2017–18
• Colince Ngaha Poungoue – 2019
• Oleh Shumovytskyi – 2019–21
• Volodymyr Tsytkin – 2021
• Ihor Leonov (15 January 2022 – present)

Notes

1. Won playoff game 0–2 over FC Kremin Kremenchuk after Desna Chernihiv failed attestation for the next season and withdrew
2. The club informed the PFL that the club was having financial difficulties and would not arrive for the scheduled cup game against Tytan Armyansk . ^[7]
3. The club informed the PFL that they were to withdraw from the league prior to the start of the 2012–13 season due to insufficient funds. ^[8] However, the city and the oblast administration informed the PFL guaranteeing sufficient funds for the next season. The Administration of the PFL presided at a special meeting and accepted the license. The club was relegated to the Ukrainian Second League for the next season. (10 July 2012) ^[9]

References

1. (in Ukrainian) Ukrainian Professional Football League meeting on 8 July 2008 Archived 13 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
2. Турнірна таблиця Чемпіонату області (вища ліга) сезону 2015–2016 рр. (ІІ коло) [Standings in Oblast Premier League Championship for 2015–16 (Second half)] (in Ukrainian). Vinnytsia Oblast Football Federation. 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
3. В Першій лізі можуть стартувати 18 команд [16 teams may compete in the First League]. UA-Football (in Ukrainian). 24 June 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
4. Acting president of Nyva Vinnytsia: We are ready to hand over the club in ownership (В.о президента вінницької "Ниви": "Готові передати клуб у власність"). Footboom. 19 November 2020
5. "Гравці | Футбольний клуб "Нива" Вінниця". 26 March 2021.
6. "Професіональна футбольна ліга України". Archived from the original on 14 November 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
7. "Титан" автоматически вышел в 1\16 финала Кубка Украины [Tytan automatically advance to the 1/16 Round of the Ukrainian Cup] (in Russian). football.ua. 16 August 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
8. Результати жеребкування другої ліги та Кубку України на сезон 2012–2013 років [Resulting draw for the Second League and preliminary rounds of the Ukrainian Cup for 2012–13]. Professional Football League of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 5 July 2012. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
9. Вінницька "Нива" братиме участь у змаганнях [Nyva Vinnytsia will take part in the competition] (in Ukrainian). PFL. 10 July 2012. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.

External links

• (in Ukrainian) Official website
• (in Ukrainian) Ukrainian Second League official web site Archived 14 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine
• (in English) FC Nyva Vinnytsia on Facebook
• (in Ukrainian) Fan team website
• Sportive-football club Nyva — V (Спортивно-футбольний клуб "Нива – В"). Dity v misti.