SC Tavriya Simferopol

Tavriya Simferopol

Full name	Sports Club Tavriya Simferopol
Nickname(s)	Krymchyany (Crimeans)
Founded	1958
Dissolved	2014
Ground	RSC Lokomotiv
Capacity	19,978
Chairman	Serhiy Kunitsyn
2013–14	Ukrainian Premier League, 15th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

SC Tavriya Simferopol was a Ukrainian football club from Simferopol. Tavriya was a member of the Ukrainian Premier League since its founding, and won the very first Ukrainian Premier League, making them one of three teams that have ever held this title.

After the 2014 Crimean Conflict, the club was forced to cease its existence as Ukrainian club. Some of its staff and players decided to join the Russian Football Union under the new name FC TSK Simferopol.^[1]

In June 2015 the Football Federation of Ukraine announced it would re-establish the club and its new home would be Kherson.^[2]

History

The club was founded in 1958, under the name Avanhard Simferopol and was based on the former Crimean champion 'Burevestnik Simferopo'. Sometime in 1963 Avanhard changed its name to Tavriya. Tavriya played their first game in the USSR Championship against the Yaroslav based club Khimik. Overall, Tavriya played 132 clubs from 113 cities. They played their last match of the Soviet competition against FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg.

Ukraine

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Premier League was formed. Tavria was one of its founders and eventually became the very first Ukrainian champion in 1992, under the Simferopol born manager Anatoliy Zayaev, defeating FC Dynamo Kyiv, Ukraine's most successful club in the final, held in Lviv. Yuriy Hudymenko became the league's top scorer. More players from that era were Oleksandr Holovko, 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 1992–93 UEFA Champions League, Tavryia were knocked out in the first round by Swiss club FC Sion. The Russian Sport-Express posted an article (№3 (43), 25 January 2000, page 9) stating that the Ukrainian champions Tavria were threatened by the Football Federation of Ukraine 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 Ukrainian Cup came in 2010, where they defeated FC Metalurh Donetsk in the final to win the competition. They had previously reached the final in 1994, where they lost to FC Chornomorets Odessa in a penalty shootout.

Russia

After the annexation of Crimea by Russia, Tavriya asked permission from UEFA and FIFA to shift to the Russian league next season.^[3] The club applied for a Russian license and changed its name to FC TSK Simferopol.^[1] The club currently plays in the Crimean Premier League.

Re-establishment in Ukraine

On 18 June 2015 the Football Federation of Ukraine executive committee voted in favor of re-establishing the club now to be located in Kherson (the largest Ukrainian city bordering Crimea).^[2] Serhiy Kunitsyn, Tavriya's former president and also a former Prime Minister of Crimea, was put in charge of the project.^[2]

European record

Champions League:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1992–93	Qualifying		Shelbourne	2–1	0–0	2–1
	1st		Sion	1–3	1–4	2–7

Europa League:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2010–11	Play-off		Bayer Leverkusen	1–3	0–3	1–6

Intertoto Cup:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2008	2nd		Tiraspol	3–1	0–0	3–1
	3rd		Stade Rennais	1–0	0–1	1–1 (9-10 p)

Honours

RSC Lokomotiv

• Ukrainian Premier League: 1992
• Ukrainian Cup: 2010
• Soviet First League: 1980
• Championship of the Ukrainian SSR: 1973, 1985, 1987
• Cup of the Ukrainian SSR: 1974

Football kits and sponsors

Years[4]	Football kit	Shirt sponsor
1998–1999	adidas	Aerosvit
2000–2005	adidas	–
2005–2006	adidas/umbro	CS[5]
2006–2007	umbro
2007–2009	adidas	Кліринговий Дім[6]
2009–2013	umbro
2012–2014	puma	TITAN

Coaches

Valentin Bubukin (1970–72) Vadim Ivanov (1979) Anatoliy Polosin (1980–81) Igor Volchok (1982) Anatoliy Kon'kov (1983–84)[7] Gennady Logofet (1984) Anatoliy Kon'kov (1985) Anatoliy Polosin (1986) Vyacheslav Solovyov (1987–88) Mykola Pavlov (1989–90) Anatoliy Zayaev (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) Anatoliy Zayaev (May 1995 – June 95) Ivan Balan (July 1996 – Aug 96) Serhiy Shevchenko (Aug 1996 – Dec 96) Mykola Pavlov (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 (Jan 1999 – May 99) Anatoly Korobochka (16 June 1999 – 31 Dec 1999) Volodymyr Muntyan (1 Jan 2000 – 30 June 2000)

Oleksandr Ischenko (1 July 2000 – 10 June 2001) Anatoliy Zayaev (June 2001) Valeriy Petrov (10 June 2001 – 10 June 2002) Anatoliy Zayaev (10 June 2002 – Sept 20, 2004) Mykola Pavlov (2004) Oleh Fedorchuk (Sept 20, 2004–31 Dec 2005) Mykhaylo Fomenko (1 Jan 2006 – Sept 29, 2008) Serhiy Puchkov[8] (Sept 29, 2008 – Sept 22, 2010) Valeriy Petrov (caretaker) (Sept 22, 2010–8 May 2011) Oleksandr Shudryk (caretaker) (May 2011 – June 11) Semen Altman (6 June 2011 – 1 June 2012) Oleh Luzhnyi (6 June 2012 – 15 June 2013) Giannis Christopoulos (17 June 2013 – 25 Dec 2013) Nikolai Kostov (4 Jan 2014 – 17 May 2014)

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
Avangard / Avanhard
1958	2nd	15	30	5	7	18	21	43	17	Zone 2, 1/8 finals			Zone 2
1959	2nd	12	28	6	9	13	20	38	21	Zone 4 1/2 finals			Zone 4
1960	2nd	11	36	12	8	16	42	55	32				Zone 2
1961	2nd	5	36	14	11	11	43	38	39	1/32 finals			Zone 2
		9	2	1	1	0	4	2	3				Places 9–10
1962	2nd	2	24	12	7	5	34	17	31	Ukraine 1/16 finals			Zone 3
		3	10	3	4	3	12	14	10				Places 1–6
Tavriya
1963	3rd	15	38	13	11	14	39	41	37	Zone 2 1/2 finals			Zone 2
		30	2	1	0	1	1	6	2				Places 29–30
1964	3rd	1	30	16	10	4	43	20	42	Zone 3 1/2 finals			Zone 3
		5	10	2	1	7	8	15	5				Places 1–6
1965	3rd	1	32	16	8	8	42	24	40	Zone 3 final			Zone 3
		4	10	3	4	3	10	11	10				Places 1–6
1966	2nd	12	34	10	11	13	29	33	31	1/128 finals
1967	2nd	17	38	10	10	18	44	57	30	1/16 finals
1968	2nd	6	40	20	10	10	51	33	50	1/128 finals
1969	2nd	8	42	14	16	12	60	49	44	1/64 finals
1970	3rd	2	42	21	15	6	70	36	57	1/16 finals
1971	3rd	5	50	24	11	15	79	50	59				Championship of Ukraine
1972	3rd	3	46	25	7	14	62	32	57				Championship of Ukraine
1973	3rd	1	44	26	6	12	75	36	58				Champion of Ukraine
		2	6	4	0	2	13	6	8				interzonal tournament
1974	2nd	6	38	18	6	14	74	55	42	1/16 finals
1975	2nd	7	38	17	8	13	58	46	42	1/16 finals
1976	2nd	4	38	17	12	9	59	32	46	1/8 finals
1977	2nd	3	38	21	7	10	57	34	49	1/32 finals
1978	2nd	8	38	14	12	12	48	38	40	1/32 finals
1979	2nd	18	46	16	11	19	50	56	43	Group stage
1980	2nd	1	46	28	9	9	82	42	65	1/8 finals
1981	1st	17	34	8	7	19	27	54	23	Group stage
1982	2nd	13	42	17	7	18	58	50	41	1/4 finals
1983	2nd	7	42	16	12	14	78	67	44	1/16 finals
1984	2nd	21	42	12	11	19	43	58	35	1/16 finals
1985	3rd	1	26	17	5	4	49	19	39	1/64 finals
		1	14	7	7	0	32	21	21				Champion of Ukraine
		2	6	3	1	2	11	7	7				interzonal tournament
1986	3rd	1	26	14	10	2	68	23	38	1/64 finals
		2	14	8	5	1	34	23	21				Championship of Ukraine runner up
1987	3rd	1	52	34	12	6	125	48	80	1/2 finals			Champion of Ukraine
		1	4	2	1	1	15	7	5				interzonal tournament
1988	2nd	14	42	13	14	15	34	43	38	1/64 finals
1989	2nd	6	42	18	12	12	61	50	48	1/64 finals
1990	2nd	9	38	11	16	11	40	38	38	1/64 finals
1991	2nd	6	42	19	10	13	64	56	48	1/16 finals
1992	No competition									1/64 finals

Ukraine

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	1st "A"	1	18	11	6	1	30	9	28	1/16 finals			[9]
1992–93	1st	10	30	11	4	15	30	39	26	1/8 finals	ECL	1st round
1993–94	1st	8	34	12	10	12	41	34	34	Runner-up
1994–95	1st	5	34	17	8	9	61	37	59	1/2 finals
1995–96	1st	12	34	12	8	14	46	46	44	1/4 finals
1996–97	1st	6	30	13	5	12	36	46	44	1/16 finals
1997–98	1st	14	30	8	9	13	35	41	33	1/8 finals
1998–99	1st	9	30	10	7	13	33	39	37	1/4 finals
1999–00	1st	13	30	7	8	15	32	51	29	1/8 finals
2000–01	1st	7	26	8	9	9	24	31	33	1/8 finals
2001–02	1st	7	26	8	6	12	27	36	30	1/8 finals
2002–03	1st	9	30	9	7	14	36	50	34	1/16 finals
2003–04	1st	12	30	7	11	12	26	40	32	1/4 finals
2004–05	1st	7	30	11	9	10	34	28	42	1/4 finals
2005–06	1st	7	30	11	6	13	29	31	39	1/8 finals
2006–07	1st	5	30	12	6	12	32	30	42	1/2 finals
2007–08	1st	5	30	13	8	9	38	40	47	1/4 finals
2008–09	1st	8	30	10	7	13	41	45	37	1/4 finals	IC	3rd round
2009–10	1st	6	30	12	9	9	38	38	45	Winner
2010–11	1st	7	30	10	9	11	44	46	39	1/16 finals	EL	Play-off Round
2011–12	1st	6	30	12	9	9	43	36	45	1/16 finals
2012–13	1st	11	30	10	5	15	27	46	32	1/4 finals			3 points deducted[10]
2013–14	1st	15	28	2	4	22	15	46	10	1/16 finals			Expelled[1]

References

1. "Таврия" и "Севастополь" прекратили свое существование [Tavriya and Sevastopol terminated their existence] (in Russian). Sport Express in Ukraine. 3 June 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
2. Ukraine trying to revive Crimean champion football club, USA Today (19 June 2015)
3. "Crimean clubs Tavriya Simferopol, Sevastopol weighing switch to Russian league". thenational.ae. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
4. Jerseys of Ukrainian clubs
5. CS website
6. Clearing House website
7. Football.ua about coaches 1994–1997
8. UA-Football.com says with the reference to the official club's web-site.
9. Tavriya were crowned champions after they defeated Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 in a championship playoff game that was played in L'viv on 21 June 1992.
10. 3 points deducted for non compliance with contractual agreements with player agents. З "Таврії" зняли три очки [Three points deducted from Tavria]. Football Federation of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). ua-football.com. 27 May 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2013.

External links

• Official website
• All coaches of Tavriya