FC Ternopil is a Ukrainian amateur football club based in Ternopil, Ukraine. The club was originally created as a second team of FC Nyva Ternopil. After its reformation and return to professional level, the club competed in the Ukrainian Second League.
In 2000 at the initiative of Ternopil Mayor Anatoliy Kucherenko, the Ternopil Pedagogical Lyceum (college) of the Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University established a team Nyva Ternopil-2, which became a farm club of Nyva Ternopil.[1] The club participated in the Ukrainian Second League during the 2000–01 and 2001–02 seasons.[2] However, after the winter beak in 2002 the club changed their name to FC Ternopil. At the end of the 2001–02 season the main club was relegated from the Ukrainian First League and FC Ternopil lost its professional license.
In 2003, the team called Burevisnyk was formed and began competing in the top league of Ternopil obslast, representing Ternopil Pedagogical University.
On May 16, 2007 the team ceased its affiliation with Nyva Ternopil and formed a single club – Ternopil-Burevisnyk. In the same year the team won their first trophy – as champions of Ternopil oblast.
The club continued to perform successfully in the Ternopil Oblast league as well as winning the Ternopil Oblast Cup and Super Cup in 2010 and 2011.[3]
The club also represented Ukraine in the European University games and were champions in 2009.[4]
In June 2012 the club applied for a professional license with the PFL and was granted entry to the Ukrainian Second League for the 2012–13 season.[2]
After two seasons the club was promoted to the Ukrainian First League after finishing 3rd in 2014.[5]
In the 2015–16 season the club finished in 15th and were to be relegated but the Professional Football League of Ukraine decided to expand the competition for the next season to 18 teams and the club was left in the First League.[6]
In 2018 the Ternopil sports school financed by the municipal government and under the same logo as the city's club entered national amateur football competitions. The head coach of the team Andiry Yablonskyi in interview stated that the new team is not a direct descendant of the former city's club.[7] Many players were taken from another city's team Ternopil-Pedlitsei[7] that competes at regional level.[8]
^After the winter break the club was renamed from Nyva Ternopil-2 to FC Ternopil. It was forced to withdraw after the season since the main team Nyva Ternopil relegated to the same level.
^Withdrew in the beginning of the season and its league results were annulled.
^Інтерв'ю з Василем Івегешем [Interview with Vasyl Ivehesh] (in Ukrainian). Nyva Ternopil Official website. 5 October 2007. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
^ abНовачки другої ліги: знайомтеся! [Rookies in Second League: Introduction!] (in Ukrainian). ukrfootball.com.ua. 24 June 2012. Archived from the original on 22 December 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
^Competition held in two stages. Points from Stage One carried over
^The Control Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of Ukraine deducted three points and fined the club for match fixing during the 2014–15 season. (2 September 2015) Апеляція Миколаєва, Ниви і Тернополя щодо зняття очок відхилена [Mykolaiv, Ternopil, Nyva points deducted appeal rejected]. ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 22 March 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
