FC Karpaty Lviv

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FC Karpaty Lviv

Full name

FC Karpaty Lviv
(Ukrainian: ФК Карпати Львів)

Founded

1963

Ground

Ukraina Stadium

Capacity

28,051

Chairman

Petro Dyminsky

Head Coach

Oleksandr Ischenko

League

Ukrainian Premier League

2005–06

Persha Liha, 2nd (promoted)





Home colours





Away colours

FC Karpaty Lviv (Ukrainian: ФК Карпати Львів) is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Lviv. Named after the Carpathian Mountains, they are one of perennial mid-table clubs in Ukraine.

On August 17, 1969, Karpaty became the first (and the only) club in the USSR football history which won the USSR Cup, while playing in the Soviet First League. In the cup match, Karpaty played FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, one of the best Soviet clubs in the mid 60th. Karpaty were trailing 0:1 after the first half, but were able to run away with the Cup after an improved 2nd half, with the final score of 2:1.

In 1970-1977 and 1980, Karpaty played in the Soviet Top League. Karpaty's biggest achievement was 4th place in 1976. Karpaty placed 4th twice that year since the season was split into 2 separate championships (spring and fall). Karpaty were primed for a silver that season, but an unexpected loss in the last game at home to Zenit Leningrad pushed Karpaty back to the 4th place.

While playing in the Soviet First League in 1979, Karpaty were close to repeating their 1969 achievement, when they met Dynamo Moscow in the USSR Cup semifinal. The match which was played in Moscow, went into overtime with a 1:1 score. Dynamo finally prevailed, scoring on a penalty in overtime.

In 1981, Karpaty were merged with another Lviv team, SKA Lviv. The new team, SKA Karpaty, continued playing in the Soviet First League, almost achieving promotion in 1986 when CSKA Moscow was promoted ahead of Karpaty only on the goal difference.

Since Ukraine gained its independence, Karpaty have taken 3rd place once in the Ukrainian Premier League and has twice lost to Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian Cup final.

In the 2005-06 season, the club was successful in taking second place in the Persha Liha, which allowed them to participate in the Vyscha Liha next season. It also had a successful run that year in the Ukrainian Cup, defeating Vyscha Liha clubs such FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Chornomorets Odessa and FC Vorskla Poltava. Karpaty, which participated in the first thirteen seasons of the Vyscha Liha, was relegated to the Persha Liha following the 2003-04 season.

FC Karpaty play their home games at Ukraina Stadium, which has been one of the venues for Ukraine national football team matches, the most recent being a 2-0 Ukraine win over Georgia on October 13, 2004 for 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying.

1 Honors
2 Squad
- 2.1 Out on loan
3 Famous players
4 Former coaches
5 External links

[edit] Honors

USSR Cup: 1

1969

Runner-Up

Ukrainian Cup: 2

1993, 1999

[edit] Squad

Squad is given according to the club's official website [1], as of August 1, 2006.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Maciej Nalepa
2	DF	Volodymyr Fedoriv
3	DF	Oleh Tymchyshyn
4	DF	Andriy Raspopov
5	DF	Mykola Lapko
6	MF	Volodymyr Bobylev
7	MF	Samson Godwin
8	MF	Evhen Shmakov
9	FW	Batista
10	FW	Maxym Feschuk
12	FW	Alexandru Golban
13	FW	Ruslan Platon

No.	Position	Player
14	MF	Serhiy Pshenychnykh
15	DF	Taras Petrivskiy
16	MF	Igor Khudobyak
17	MF	Aliaxei Suchkov
19	MF	Vasil Kobin
20	MF	Oleh Zhenyukh
21	FW	Lucky Idahor
22	GK	Andriy Tlumak
23	DF	Mykola Ischenko
24	DF	Andriy Protsik
33	DF	Igor Chuchman
37	GK	Yuri Martyschuk