FC Nyva Vinnytsia
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PFC Nyva Vinnytsia is a professional Ukrainian
football club based in the city of Vinnytsia
. It currently participates in the Ukrainian First League
. The name "Nyva" literally means "harvest".
, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 (of 11) Ukrainian teams from the West Division of the Soviet Second League
in 1991.
It had a little break in the '93 season when it joined the company of the second division teams in the First League
. Nyva was quickly promoted back to the elite
next season after gaining the top seat.
Nyva Vinnytsia's best achievement in the Ukrainian Premier League
was 10th place (1993/94
). The club also surprisingly made the Ukrainian Cup
finals in 1996, only to lose to Dynamo Kyiv. As a result, Nyva took part in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
, even progressing to the First round after beating Tallinna Sadam
on away goals (1:2 loss in Tallinn
and 1:0 win in Vinnytsia
). However, Swiss side FC Sion
beat the Ukrainian side with a 6:0 score on aggregate. (2:0 in Sion
and 4:0 in Vinnytsia
)
The club ceased to exist after it relegated from the First League
in 2006 and because of financial difficulties. In 2006 it carried name FC Bershad of its farm-team and was based in little town Bershad
, Vinnytsia oblast
.
For the 2008–09 season the club reentered professional league competition into the Second League
as FC Nyva-Svitanok, the new part of its name meaning dawn, or new beginning.
On 8 July 2008 the club changed their name from "FC Nyva-Svitanok Vinnytsia" to "PFC Nyva Vinnytsia".
: the Khimik Arena that is a communal property with a capacity of 5,000 spectators and club's training facilities located there, and the Municipal Central Stadium (former Lokomotyv) that was expanded prior to 1980's Olympics with capacity of 24,000 spectators.
The Central Stadium usually being used in "big" matches versus famous opponents, all the other matches are played in the Khimik Stadium.
Winner
Runner-Up
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
football club based in the city of Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Bug, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast.-Names:...
. It currently participates in the Ukrainian First League
Ukrainian First League
The Persha Liha or Ukrainian First League is a football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup...
. The name "Nyva" literally means "harvest".
History
From 1992–98, Nyva Vinnytsia played in the Ukrainian Premier LeagueUkrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...
, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 (of 11) Ukrainian teams from the West Division of the Soviet Second League
Soviet Second League
The Soviet Second League was the third highest division of Soviet football, below the Soviet First League. The division lasted from the inception of Soviet league football in 1936 to the dissolution of USSR in 1991.-Overview:...
in 1991.
It had a little break in the '93 season when it joined the company of the second division teams in the First League
Ukrainian First League
The Persha Liha or Ukrainian First League is a football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup...
. Nyva was quickly promoted back to the elite
Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...
next season after gaining the top seat.
Nyva Vinnytsia's best achievement in the Ukrainian Premier League
Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...
was 10th place (1993/94
Ukrainian Premier League 1993-94
Ukrainian Premier League 1993–94 was the third season of the Ukrainian Premier League.Last season the league champions Dynamo received a fierce competition from the Pavlov led Dnipro out of Dnipropetrovsk. The third season was promising to be even more exiting...
). The club also surprisingly made the Ukrainian Cup
Ukrainian Cup
The Ukrainian Cup is a national knockout cup competition in Ukrainian football, run by the Football Federation of Ukraine. The winner of the competition is awarded a qualification to the UEFA Cup , under special circumstances the finalist also may enter...
finals in 1996, only to lose to Dynamo Kyiv. As a result, Nyva took part in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but...
, even progressing to the First round after beating Tallinna Sadam
Tallinna Sadam
Tallinna Sadam is a now defunct Estonian football club. The club won Estonian cup in 1996 and 1997 and were Estonian Meistriliiga runners up in 1997–1998 and 1998 seasons...
on away goals (1:2 loss in Tallinn
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...
and 1:0 win in Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Bug, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast.-Names:...
). However, Swiss side FC Sion
FC Sion
FC Sion is a Swiss football team from the city of Sion. The club was founded in 1909, and play their home games at the Stade Tourbillon. They have won the Swiss Super League twice, and the Swiss Cup in each of their twelve appearances in the final, the most recent being in 2011.The first team also...
beat the Ukrainian side with a 6:0 score on aggregate. (2:0 in Sion
Sion, Switzerland
Sion is the capital of the Swiss canton of Valais. it had a population of .Landmarks include the Basilique de Valère and Château de Tourbillon. Sion has an airfield for civilian and military use, which, because of its location in a valley, causes a reasonable amount of noise pollution. FC Sion...
and 4:0 in Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Bug, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast.-Names:...
)
The club ceased to exist after it relegated from the First League
Ukrainian First League
The Persha Liha or Ukrainian First League is a football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup...
in 2006 and because of financial difficulties. In 2006 it carried name FC Bershad of its farm-team and was based in little town Bershad
Bershad
Bershad , is a small city in the Vinnytsia Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Bershadsky Raion .The population is around 13,300 ....
, Vinnytsia oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast is an oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Vinnytsia.-Geography:The area of the region is 26,500 km²; its population is 1.7 million....
.
For the 2008–09 season the club reentered professional league competition into the Second League
Ukrainian Second League
The Ukrainian Second League is a professional football league in Ukraine which is part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine. The league is lower than the Ukrainian First League and the lowest level of professional football competitions in the country. Druha Liha is the third level of...
as FC Nyva-Svitanok, the new part of its name meaning dawn, or new beginning.
On 8 July 2008 the club changed their name from "FC Nyva-Svitanok Vinnytsia" to "PFC Nyva Vinnytsia".
Stadiums
The club plays on one of two stadiums in VinnytsiaVinnytsia
Vinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Bug, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast.-Names:...
: the Khimik Arena that is a communal property with a capacity of 5,000 spectators and club's training facilities located there, and the Municipal Central Stadium (former Lokomotyv) that was expanded prior to 1980's Olympics with capacity of 24,000 spectators.
The Central Stadium usually being used in "big" matches versus famous opponents, all the other matches are played in the Khimik Stadium.
Honors
- First League ChampionshipUkrainian First LeagueThe Persha Liha or Ukrainian First League is a football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup...
: 1
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- 1993
- League Cup2009–10 Ukrainian League CupThe 2009-10 League Cup was the only season of Ukraine's football knockout competition designated for the members of the Ukrainian Second League and amateur clubs. The main purpose of this tournament was to supplement the 2009-2010 playing calendar of the Second League clubs whose number had...
: 1
- League Cup
- 2010
- 1993
Runner-Up
- Ukrainian CupUkrainian CupThe Ukrainian Cup is a national knockout cup competition in Ukrainian football, run by the Football Federation of Ukraine. The winner of the competition is awarded a qualification to the UEFA Cup , under special circumstances the finalist also may enter...
: 1
-
- 1996
Noteworthy Players
- Volodymyr Tsytkin(Goalkeeper)
- Leonid Haydarji (Defender)
- Ruslan Romanchuk (Midfielder)
- Viktor ProkopenkoViktor ProkopenkoViktor Prokopenko was a football player and coach who played in GDR and Ukrainian SSR and later worked as a coach in Soviet Union and the post Soviet countries. He was born in Zhdanov, Soviet Union, which is now known as Mariupol and is part of Ukraine.Prokopenko was the first ever manager of...
- Vitaliy KosovskyVitaliy KosovskyVitaliy Kosovskyi is a former football midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv and a Ukraine international. He is works in the football agency "Soccerworld". He now resides Kyiv.-Dynamo Kyiv:...
- Serhiy PopovSerhiy PopovSerhiy Oleksandrovych Popov is a former footballer from Ukraine. A former Zenit St. Petersburg defender, Popov made a name under Ukrainian soccer giants, Shakhtar Donetsk, helping them in many of their successful finishes in the Ukrainian Premier League...
- Serhiy Nahorniak
- Oleh NadudaOleh NadudaOleh Mykolayovych Naduda is a retired Ukrainian professional footballer and a current coach. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 1994 for FC Spartak Moscow...
- Oleksandr Horshkov
League and Cup history
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Domestic Cup Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup is a national knockout cup competition in Ukrainian football, run by the Football Federation of Ukraine. The winner of the competition is awarded a qualification to the UEFA Cup , under special circumstances the finalist also may enter... |
Europe | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 Ukrainian Premier League 1992 Ukrainian Premier League 1992 was the very first football championship organized in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and disbandment of the Soviet Football Union... |
1st "A" | 8 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 33 | 14 | 1/32 finals | Relegated | ||
| 1992–93 Ukrainian First League 1992-93 Ukrainian First League 1992–93 was the second season of the Ukrainian First League.The league was reorganized from the previous season into a single group of 22 teams of which the best one was Nyva Vinnytsia. The league was joined by six clubs relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League, while no... |
2nd | 1 | 42 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 73 | 26 | 62 | 1/16 finals | Promoted | ||
| 1993–94 Ukrainian Premier League 1993-94 Ukrainian Premier League 1993–94 was the third season of the Ukrainian Premier League.Last season the league champions Dynamo received a fierce competition from the Pavlov led Dnipro out of Dnipropetrovsk. The third season was promising to be even more exiting... |
1st | 10 | 34 | 7 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 51 | 20 | 1/8 finals | |||
| 1994–95 Ukrainian Premier League 1994-95 -Preseason changes:Managers-Final standings:Legend:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 1995 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:Notable Transfers... |
1st | 14 | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 38 | 51 | 37 | 1/4 finals | |||
| 1995–96 Ukrainian Premier League 1995-96 -Preseason changes:Managers-Final standings:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 1996 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:Notable Transfers*Oleksandr Palyanytsia, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk to FC Karpaty Lviv... |
1st | 15 | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 28 | 36 | 40 | Runners-up | |||
| 1996–97 Ukrainian Premier League 1996-97 -Preseason changes:Managers-Final standings:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:Notable Transfers*Andrei Fedkov, FC Torpedo Zaporizhia to FC Baltika Kaliningrad... |
1st | 16 | 30 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 19 | 48 | 18 | 1/4 finals | CWC UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1996-97 The season 1996-97 of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was won by FC Barcelona after beating holders Paris Saint-Germain in the final. It was the last of four occasions that the Catalan club won the tournament.-Qualifying round:-First leg:... |
1st round | Relegated |
| 1997–98 Ukrainian First League 1997-98 -Teams:In 1997-98 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:-Final standings:Note:Four teams were relegated... |
2nd | 5 | 42 | 22 | 7 | 13 | 58 | 34 | 73 | 1/8 finals | |||
| 1998–99 Ukrainian First League 1998-99 -Teams:In 1998-99 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:-Standings:-Promotion play-off:FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk - FC Cherkasy 3:1 FC Cherkasy remains in the First League.- Top scorers :... |
2nd | 6 | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 45 | 39 | 57 | 1/64 finals | |||
| 1999-00 Ukrainian First League 1999-00 -Teams:In 1999-00 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:-Standings:- Top scorers :Statistics are taken from here.*Pavlo Parshyn - 17*Oleh Venhlinskyi - 16... |
2nd | 11 | 34 | 14 | 6 | 14 | 29 | 39 | 48 | 1/8 finals | as FK Vinnytsia | ||
| 2000–01 Ukrainian First League 2000-01 -Teams:In 2000-01 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:-Final standings:- Top scorers :Statistics are taken from here.*Serhiy Chuychenko - 20*Serhiy Bohatyriov - 13... |
2nd | 10 | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 35 | 41 | 44 | 1/16 finals | as FK Vinnytsia | ||
| 2001–02 Ukrainian First League 2001-02 -Teams:In 2001-02 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:-Final table:*The result of the 25th round match Borysfen Boryspil - FC Polissya Zhytomyr was annulled and replaced with such -:-, with no points added to either team.-Promotion play-off ::Polihgraftechnika... |
2nd | 15 | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 35 | 52 | 38 | 1/16 finals | as FK Vinnytsia | ||
| 2002–03 Ukrainian First League 2002-03 -Teams:In 2002-03 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:-Final table: Nyva Vinnytsia was not relegated as has folded in the Premier League. Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk was bought out by LUKOIL, the main... |
2nd | 16 | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 18 | 31 | 36 | 1/32 finals | as FK Vinnytsia | ||
| 2003–04 Ukrainian First League 2003-04 -Teams:In 2003-04 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:-Final table:*Krasyliv-Obolon Krasyliv 13th 2003/04, farm club for Premier League club Obolon Kyiv, broke operations and merged with FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi. The club is changing its name to Podillya Khmelnytskyi... |
2nd | 8 | 34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 34 | 24 | 52 | 1/16 finals | |||
| 2004–05 Ukrainian First League 2004-05 -Teams:In 2004-05 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:-Final table:*FC Polissya Zhytomyr became insolvent during the mid season winter break and the UFF awarded technical victories against them in the second half of the season.... |
2nd | 5 | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 49 | 38 | 53 | 1/4 finals | |||
| 2005–06 Ukrainian First League 2005-06 -Teams:In 2005-06 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:-Final table:*Nyva Vinnytsja merged its operations with FC Bershad' and moved to Bershad' and renamed the club prior to the start of the season... |
2nd | 18 | 34 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 14 | 60 | 4 | 1/32 finals | as FK Bershad | ||
| 2006–07 | club participates in amateur competitions | ||||||||||||
| 2007–08 Ukrainian Second League 2007-08 The 2007–2008 Ukrainian Second League is the sixteenth season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. The competitions are divided into two groups – A and B.- Final standings:Note: Each group may hold from 14 to 20 participants... |
3rd "A" | 9 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 40 | 35 | Did not enter | as Nyva-Svitanok | ||
| 2008–09 Ukrainian Second League 2008-09 The 2008–2009 Ukrainian Second League is the seventeenth season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. The competitions are divided into two groups – A and B.-Competition information:... |
3rd "A" | 3 | 32 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 40 | 29 | 61 | 1/16 finals | as PFC Nyva | ||
| 2009–10 | 3rd "A" | 2 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 43 | 16 | 40 | 1/32 finals | Promoted | ||
| 2010–11 2010–11 Ukrainian First League The 2010–11 Ukrainian First League was the 20th since its establishment. Eighteen teams competed in the competition. Two teams were promoted from the Ukrainian Second League 2009–10 and a third team replaced a team that withdrew from the competition.... |
2nd | 10 | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 44 | 42 | 50 | 1/32 finals | |||
| 2011–12 2011–12 Ukrainian First League The 2011–12 Ukrainian First League is the 21st since its establishment. Eighteen teams compete in the competition. Two teams were promoted from the 2010–11 Ukrainian Second League.Two teams were relegated from the 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League... |
2nd | 1/32 finals | |||||||||||