FC Vorskla-2 Poltava

Vorksla-2 Poltava

Full name	Футбольний клуб Ворскла-2 Полтава Football Club Vorskla-2 Poltava
Founded	1997;28 years ago (1997) 2024;1 year ago (2024)
Ground	Ltava Stadium
Capacity	650
Owner	Eduard Shalayev via Ferrexpo [1]
Administrators	Roman Cherniak (president) Oleh Lysak (vice-president) [1] Hennadiy Muzyka (vice-president)
Manager	Vyacheslav Nivinskyi
League	Ukrainian Second League
Website	http://vorskla.com.ua/
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Vorskla-2 is a Ukrainian football reserve team of FC Vorskla Poltava based in Poltava, Ukraine. Unlike junior squads (U-21 or U-19) that compete in competitions for junior teams, Vorksla-2 competes in lower-level leagues of the national league pyramid structure.

Brief overview

For the first time the Poltava's club was fielding its second team back in 1959 when the direct predecessor of Vorskla, Kolhospnyk, fielded its team in the 1959 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1984, based on the second team and football academy of Kolos Poltava, there was established FC Vorskla Poltava.

The team has been featured regularly in the Ukrainian Second Division it served as a junior team for the FC Vorskla Poltava franchise in 1997 through 2005. ^[2] Like most tributary teams, the best players are sent up to the senior team, meanwhile developing other players for further call-ups.

In 2024, the team was revived once again to participate in competitions of the Ukrainian Second League. ^{[3] [4]}

Players

Current squad

As of 5 May 2025

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF   UKR Valentyn Tkach 16 MF   UKR Nikita Strilyanyi 19 DF   UKR Danylo Izotov 26 FW   UKR Stanislav Prus 31 GK   UKR Ivan Shyryayev 37 MF   UKR Zakhar Karpus 43 FW   UKR Vladyslav Ostrovskyi 47 DF   UKR Nikita Bahinskyi 48 FW   UKR Artem Horobets

No. Pos. Nation Player 50 MF   UKR Nikita Krokhmal 54 MF   UKR Dmytro Kretsul 55 DF   UKR Denys Selin 58 MF   UKR Mykyta Odentsov 61 GK   UKR Oleksandr Domoleha 62 DF   UKR Eduard Romanets 71 GK   UKR Dmytro Yashchenko 86 DF   UKR Oleksandr Kozintsev 99 FW   UKR Artem Serdyuk

Notable players

• Andriy Pyatov
• Petro Kondratyuk, all-time leading top scorer
• Oleksandr Bessarab, single season top scorer

Coaches

• 1997–98 Serhiy Sobetskyi
• 1998–01 Ivan Shariy
• 2001–02 Semen Osynovskyi
• 2002–03 Oleh Morhun
• 2003–04 Viktor Nosov
• 2004–05 Oleksandr Omelchuk
• 2024–25
• 2025–present Vyacheslav Nivinskyi

References

1. Кому официально принадлежат украинские клубы Archived 2 September 2023 at the Wayback Machine . ukrrudprom.com. 12 November 2021
2. Reserves in the Ukrainian championships (ДУБЛЕРИ В ЧЕМПІОНАТАХ КРАЇНИ). Vorskla Poltava.
3. НОВА КОМАНДА В КЛУБНІЙ СТРУКТУРІ. vorskla.com.ua. 13 June 2024
4. На старті сезону 2024/25: склад учасників Першої та Другої ліг. pfl.ua. 13 June 2024