FC SKChF Sevastopol

SKChF Sevastopol

Full name	Football Club SKChF Sevastopol
Founded	2014
Ground	Sevastopol Sports Complex
Capacity	5,864
Chairman	David Tetruashvili
Manager	Oleg Leschinskiy
League	Crimean Premier League

FC SKChF Sevastopol (Russian: ФК "СКЧФ Севастополь") is a Crimean football team based in Sevastopol.

History

It was founded in 2014, following the Russian annexation of Crimea. Ukrainian Premier League club FC Sevastopol was liquidated and a new team was organized instead, registered according to the laws of Russia. It then was licensed to participate in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League in the 2014–15 season. As Ukraine considers Crimea Ukrainian territory, Football Federation of Ukraine lodged a complaint with UEFA about Crimean clubs' participation in Russian competitions. On 22 August 2014, UEFA decided "that any football matches played by Crimean clubs organised under the auspices of the Russian Football Union will not be recognised by UEFA until further notice".^[1]

On 4 December 2014, UEFA banned Crimean clubs from participating in Russian professional competitions,^[2] and announced that a new local Crimean Premier League will be set up in the future that UEFA will manage directly.^[3]

It has the same name as the historical team SKCF Sevastopol which participated in the Soviet Union football competitions. "SKChF" stands for "Sportivny Klub Chernomorskogo Flota" (Russian: Спортивный Клуб Черноморского Флота; "Sport Club of the Black Sea Fleet").

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 4 DF Aleksandr Chelyadnik 5 DF Andrey Stepanov 7 MF Stanislav Gudzikevich 10 MF Oleksandr Zhabokrytskyy 13 FW Yevhen Prokopenko 14 MF Ivan Shishkin 17 MF Sergei Ferenchak 18 GK Sergei Naumenko 19 FW Kirill Meilakh 20 MF Andrei Kiva 22 DF Viktor Uzbek 23 DF Ivan Lyapusov 25 MF Vitali Mironenko

No. Position Player 26 MF Vladislav Gevlich 28 FW Aleksandr Danishevsky 33 MF Matvei Guyganov 37 MF Andrei Panych 39 MF Artem Kultyshev 55 DF Yevhen Bredun 71 GK Dmitri Schendrygin 89 FW Yuriy Pleshakov 93 GK Valentin Manyakin - MF Aleksandr Levinskiy - DF Leonid Zagrebelniy - MF Serhiy Ferenchak

References

1. UEFA Emergency Panel decision on Crimean clubs, UEFA (22 August 2014)
2. "Crimea clubs banned from playing in Russian league by Uefa". BBC. 4 December 2014.
3. "UEFA to set up new soccer league in Crimea". Associated Press. 6 March 2015.

External links

• (Russian) Official site