PFC Sumy

FC Sumy

Full name	FC Sumy
Founded	1982 (as Yavir Krasnopillya) 1998 (as Yavir-Sumy) 2008 (as FC Sumy)
Ground	Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy
Capacity	25,830
Chairman	Kontantyn Hryhoryshin
Head Coach	Ihor Zakharyak
League	Persha Liha
2013–14	11th
Home colours Away colours

FC Sumy is a professional Ukrainian football team based in the city of Sumy. The current club is the second football project in the city, established in 2008 based on the local Krasnopillya football school. The club's emblem is based on Krasnopillya's as well. The original professional club was established in 1982 as Yavir, renamed as Yarir-Sumy when it relocated to the city in 1998. In 1999, the club was renamed Spartak Sumy. It then got promoted to the Ukrainian First League and played there until the end of the 2006–07 season, after which it folded. The Krasnopillya football school then re-opened the current club.

Since 2009, FC Sumy has played in FC Spartak Sumy's former stadium, the Yuvileiny Stadium. The stadium was completed in 2001, and seats 25,830 spectators. It cost the investors over 50 million euros to construct, making it the most expensive and largest stadium that any Ukrainian Second League club uses.

Brief history

FC Yavir

Yavir was established on January 12, 1982 at the village forestry Krasnopillya. The team started playing in the regional championship and after couple of years became the regional champion. The following year it won the regional cup.

When Ukraine became independent the club entered the Ukrainian Second League in 1992. In the first national championship of Ukraine Yavir Krasnopillya became involved in the professional leagues, first in the Ukrainian Second League, then in the 1992. In the 1995–96 season, Yavir entered the league and in the next 4 seasons became quite a strong mid-table team. After winning the championship in 1994 the club was promoted to the Ukrainian First League where they performed reasonably well. In 1995, Yavir Krasnopillya won the second league title.

In the winter of 1998 a business consortium bought out the club and moved it to Sumy renaming the club Yavir-Sumy. This meant that another club split away from FC Yavir Krasnopilya, and later that club became FC Spartak Sumy.

At that time the established local teams in Sumy – FC Frunzenets Sumy and FC Avtomobilist Sumy suddenly folded and disappeared altogether. As a result of this, the regional leaders decided to revive football in Sumy. With this purpose in 1998, Yavir was transferred to the regional center and renamed Yavir-Sumy. As such, the club lasted half the season, then transformed into FC Sumy, and once more into Spartak Sumy. From 2003, the team was called Spartak-Horobyna Sumy.

In the 2006–07 season they played in the Ukrainian First League. However the club was withdrawn from the league (and subsequently folded) after missing two Ukrainian First League matches due to financial difficulties.

FC Sumy

This club reformed in Krasnopilya as an amateur outfit that quickly impressed in the Sumy oblast by becoming runners up of the Oblast Cup in 2002. The club then embarked on a return to professional competition in 2003. In the fall of 2008 they changed their name once again to FC Sumy. They play in the yellow and green colors of their former stadium Kolos, which can accommodate up to 3,000 spectators. FC Sumy now play in the vastly superior Yuvileiny Stadium which can hold 25,830 spectators.

After the 2009–10 Ukrainian Second League season the club again found itself in financial distress and failed attestation, which was followed by their license being withdrawn by the PFL. ^[1] In July 2010 FC Sumy were readmitted to the Ukrainian Second League – please refer to 2010–11 Ukrainian Second League for details.

Please, note that the city of Sumy for quite some time used to have its own football teams during the Soviet period such as Spartak, Frunzenets, and others which eventually were disbanded. The "FC Sumy" football project is another attempt to reestablish the football tradition in the city.

Previous names of the club

Emblem
Yavir_Krasnopilya

1999 – Sep 2008 – Futbol'nyi Klub "Yavir" Krasnopillya (Ukrainian: Футбольний Клуб «Явір» Краснопілля) (Football Club Yavir Krasnopillya)
Sep 2008 – Jun 2010 – Futbol'nyi Klub "Sumy" (Ukrainian: Футбольний Клуб «Суми») (Football Club Sumy)
Jul 2010–Present – Profesiynyi Futbol'nyi Klub "Sumy" (Ukrainian: Професійний Футбольний Клуб «Суми») (Professional Football Club Sumy)

Stadium

Current

Yuvileiny Stadium

Former

Kolos Stadium (3,000)

Current squad

As of 1 October 2015

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

No. Position Player 2 DF Oleksandr Medvedyev 3 DF Oleksandr Holikov 4 DF Oleh Kotelyukh (captain) 5 DF Oleksandr Tomenko 6 DF Ihor Radchenko 7 FW Artem Merkushov 9 FW Faryd Suleyman 10 MF Oleksiy Fatyanov 11 FW Oleksandr Lebedenko 14 MF Ivan Brikner

No. Position Player 16 MF Dmytro Bohachov 19 MF Dmytro Sydorenko 20 MF Dmytro Oliynyk 21 MF Ivan Hrebenyuk 22 MF Oleksandr Ihnatenko 23 GK Oleksandr Lytvynenko 24 DF Artur Zapadnya 25 MF Oleksiy Pinchuk 75 GK Yaroslav Vazhynskyi 77 FW Oleksandr Yermachenko

Honors

• Ukrainian Druha Liha: 1

1994–95 Champions

2011–12 Champions

League and cup history

FC Yavir Krasnopillya (1992–1999)

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	3rd "A"	3	16	8	4	4	21	19	20	Did not enter
1992–93	3rd	3	34	17	7	10	42	27	41	1/16 finals
1993–94	3rd	5	42	22	10	10	63	35	54	1/32 finals
1994–95	3rd	1	42	29	6	7	71	30	93	1/16 finals			Promoted
1995–96	2nd	13	42	17	9	16	53	43	60	1/8 finals
1996–97	2nd	13	46	18	7	21	61	61	61	1/16 finals
1997–98	2nd	10	42	19	5	18	52	48	62	1/16 finals
1998–99	2nd	13	38	15	7	16	36	42	52	1/32 finals			Name change: FC Yavir-Sumy[2]
1999	The further results of the preceding team refer to Yavir-Sumy.

FC Yavir Krasnopillya (2002–2008)

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
2002	Amateur Level[3]
2002–03	3rd "C"	10	28	8	8	12	27	41	32	1/8 finals
2003–04	3rd "C"	10	30	10	7	13	20	28	37	1/32 finals
2004–05	3rd "C"	10	28	8	5	15	24	40	29	1/32 finals
2005–06	3rd "C"	6	24	11	5	8	25	26	38	1/32 finals
2006–07	3rd "B"	13	28	6	7	15	18	30	25	1/16 finals
2007–08	3rd "B"	13	34	10	7	17	36	62	37	Did not enter

FC Sumy (2009–)

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
2008–09	3rd "B"	17	34	6	10	18	27	60	22	1/64 finals			–6[4] – Name change[5]
2009–10	3rd "B"	8	26	10	6	10	32	34	36	1/32 finals			Withdraw[1]
2010–11	3rd "A"	2	22	14	3	5	38	13	45	1/64 finals
2011–12	3rd "A"	1	26	21	3	2	51	13	66	1/8 finals			Promoted[6]
2012–13	2nd	9	34	14	8	12	32	35	50	1/32 finals
2013–14	2nd	11	30	11	6	13	29	39	39	1/32 finals
2014–15	2nd	8	30	12	7	11	35	41	43	1/16 finals
2015–16	2nd									1/16 finals

See also

• FC Spartak Sumy
• FC Avtomobilist Sumy
• FC Frunzenets Sumy

References

1. Club failed attestation for the 2010–11 season and license was withdrawn. "Состоялось заседание Центрального Совета ПФЛ (Meeting of the Professional Football League)" (in Russian). ua.football. 2010-06-21. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
2. During the winter break the team moved to Sumy and was renamed as Yavir-Sumy
3. Club reforms in Krasnopillya and competes in the Sumy Oblast competition
4. Deducted three (3) points for non-payment of participation fees and additional three (3) points for non-payment of participation fees for the second half of the season. The decision was officially declared by the Disciplinary Committee of the PFL on 28 May 2009
   "Professional Football League – 2009 Official Meetings Minutes No. 15 (Deduction of 6 points for FC Sumy)". PFL (in Ukrainian). 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
5. (Ukrainian) PFL -Official source of change of name to FC Sumy
6. Defeated FC Poltava in Championship game 2–1

External links

• Official website