FC Lviv
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FC Lviv (Ukrainian: ФК «Львів») was a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Lviv.
This article needs to be updated. (March 2024) |
Full name | Football Club Lviv | |||
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Founded | 2006; 18 years ago (2006) | |||
Dissolved | 2023; 1 year ago (2023) | |||
Ground | Arena Lviv, Lviv | |||
Capacity | 28,051 | |||
President | Bohdan Kopytko | |||
League | none | |||
2022–23 | Ukrainian Premier League, 16th of 16 (relegated) | |||
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Current season |
The history of the club is very controversial and was interrupted on numerous occasions. The first club under such name entered professional competitions back in 1992. In 2001 that club was merged with Karpaty Lviv. The second club appeared in 2006 replacing insolvent Hazovyk-Skala out of Stryi (not far from Lviv) in the second tier. In such manner the new club skipped few tiers of the national football pyramid. That club became bankrupt in 2012. Few years later in 2016 the club was revived based on its football academy. In 2017 the administration of NK Veres Rivne and FC Lviv reached an agreement which led to "castling" swap of their teams in the national football pyramid. In 2023 FC Lviv was relegated, but it suspended its operations due to hardship with an option to renew its professional next season.
While the first president of FC Lviv Oleksandr Didenko insisted that FC Lviv of 1992 has nothing to do with the later clubs, another football functionary Rostyslav Zaremba argued that it is not that simple.[1]