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(Top) 1 History 1.1 Kolos Poltava 1.2 Vorskla Poltava 2 Stadium 3 Supporters & Rivalries 4 Reserve teams 5 Honours 6 Kit manufacturers and sponsors 7 European record 8 Players 8.1 Current squad 8.2 Other players under contract 8.3 Out on loan 9 Coaches and administration 10 Head coaches 11 League and Cup history 11.1 Soviet Union 11.2 Ukraine 12 In European competitions 13 References 14 External links

FC Vorskla Poltava

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Vorskla Poltava

Full name

Футбольний клуб «Во́рскла» Полта́ва
Football Club Vorskla Poltava

Nickname(s)

Zeleno-Bili (Green-Whites)

Founded

1955; 69 years ago

Ground

Butovsky Vorskla Stadium

Capacity

24,795^[1]

Owner

Ferrexpo (Eduard Shalayev)^[2]

Chairman

Roman Cherniak (president)
Oleh Lysak (vice-president)^[2]
Hennadiy Muzyka (vice-president)

Manager

Serhiy Dolhanskyi (interim)

League

Ukrainian Premier League

2023–24

Ukrainian Premier League, 9th of 16

Website

Club website

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Current season

FC Vorskla Poltava (Ukrainian: ФК «Во́рскла» Полта́ва [ˈwɔrsklɐ polˈtɑwɐ]) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Poltava that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, the top flight of Ukrainian football.

History[edit]

Kolos Poltava[edit]

The club draws its history from 1955 when in the city of Poltava was established a football club Kolhospnyk within the republican trade union sports society Kolos. The same year it entered the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR where already played one of the older clubs from Poltava, FC Lokomotyv Poltava.

In 1957 the club obtained its professional status and was included in the competitions of the Soviet third division (then "Class B"). However, in 1982 the club went into bankruptcy and was dissolved. In 1983 many players moved to play for an amateur football team Kooperator from Poltava that represented the Poltava Institute of Cooperation. During its history for a short period of time from 1968 to 1972, Kolos was also carrying names Silbud and Budivelnyk.

Vorskla Poltava[edit]

In 1984, the club was reanimated based on the Kolos academy (sports school) as Vorskla after the river Vorskla, which flows through Poltava. In 1986, Vorskla entered the Soviet professional ranks of the third division where it participated until the collapse of the Soviet system.

Upon establishing of the Ukrainian football competitions in 1992 the club was admitted to the Ukrainian First League (the second tier of Ukrainian football) which it won in 1996. At that time Vorskla was sponsored by "Poltavagasprom".^[3] The team debuted in the Ukrainian Premier League in the 1996–97 season, taking that season the 3rd place. Vorskla have remained in the Premier League since, and participated twice in the UEFA Cup. In 2009, Vorskla met Shakhtar Donetsk in the 2009 Ukrainian Cup Final. Mykola Pavlov's men won the match 1–0 after Vasyl Sachko's goal in the 49th minute.

In 2003–2005, the club was named Vorskla-Naftogaz due to sponsorship reasons.

As a Domestic Cup winner, Vorskla participated in the annual opening game of the season Ukrainian Super Cup meeting the champions Dynamo Kyiv. After a 0–0 draw at full-time, Vorskla lost the cup to Dynamo on penalties.

The first team plays its home matches at Butovsky Memorial Vorskla Stadium which is named after one of the founders of the modern Olympic games and the International Olympic Committee in 1894.

One of the biggest successes of Vorskla in European competition was their qualification to the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League group phase.

On 26 July 2014, the club's president Oleh Babayev was shot dead, while police has opened a criminal cases under Article “premeditated murder".^[4]^[5]

In the 2017–18 season, the club finished third in the top division for the first time since the 1996–97 season.

Stadium[edit]

Vorskla plays its games at Oleksiy Butovskyi Vorskla Stadium (Ukrainian: Стадіон «Ворскла» імені Олексія Бутовського). Vorskla has been playing there since 1955. The stadium underwent significant reconstruction between 1968 and 1975 and 1995 and 2000.

Supporters & Rivalries[edit]

Development of fan movement in Poltava started in 1985. Then on the stadium began to appear first green-white scarves and fan chants. In the 1990s, fans began to actively go abroad. In particular Vorskla fans were present at the legendary match between Ukraine and Russia October 9, 1999 in Moscow. European competition games with FC Daugava from Latvia and Anderlecht^[6] from Brussels in 1997 allowed fans try their hand on the European stage.

The largest fan club is known as the Crew of Golden Eagle.^[7]

Vorskla maintains friendly relations with Shakhtar Donetsk^[8] and Chornomorets Odesa fans. Strained relations with: Metalist Kharkiv,^[9] Karpaty Lviv, Dynamo Kyiv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Zorya Luhansk and Obolon Kyiv. Now all fans have declared a truce because of the war in Eastern Ukraine.

Reserve teams[edit]

The reserve team of Vorskla, Vorskla Poltava Reserves (Ukrainian: ФК『Ворскла』Полтава дубль) are playing in the Ukrainian Premier Reserve League.

There also was FC Vorskla-2 Poltava.

Honours[edit]

Ukrainian Premier League
- Third place (2): 1996–97, 2017–18
Ukrainian Cup
- Winner (1): 2008–09
- Runners-up (1): 2019–20, 2023–24
Ukrainian Persha Liha
- Winner (1): 1995–96
Football championship of the Ukrainian SSR (part of the Soviet Second League)
- Runners-up (1): 1988
Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
- Winner (1): 1956
Ukrainian KFK competitions (amateur competitions)
- Winners (1): 1986

Kit manufacturers and sponsors[edit]

Years^[10]	Football kit	Shirt sponsor
2000–01	Lotto/Adidas	–
2001–03	Adidas	–
2002–04	Puma	НАФТОГАЗ України
2004–05	Puma/Lotto	НАФТОГАЗ України
2005–06	Adidas/Puma	FERROEXPO Poltava Mining
2006–07	Adidas	FERROEXPO Poltava Mining
2006–07		FERROEXPO
2007–14		FERROEXPO
2019-	Nike	FERRODXPO

European record[edit]

Its first European competition participation occurred in 1997–98 season in UEFA Cup. Vorskla played its first game at this level away at Daugava StadiuminRiga on July 23, 1997, against the Latvian club Daugava Rīga.

Vorskla did not achieve any noticeable feats yet managed to qualify on couple of occasions to the Europe League group stage.

Its home games the club plays at Vorskla Stadium.

Players[edit]

Current squad[edit]

As of 10 July 2024^[11]^[12]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	DF	UKR	Ihor Perduta (captain)
5	DF	BRA	Lucas Ramires
6	MF	UKR	Oleksandr Sklyar
7	GK	UKR	Pavlo Isenko
8	MF	MKD	Ennur Totre
9	MF	UKR	Viktor Korniyenko (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
10	FW	MNE	Demir Škrijelj
15	MF	UKR	Artem Kulakovskyi
16	FW	ALB	Taulant Seferi
18	DF	UKR	Yevhen Pavlyuk
21	DF	ALB	Silvio Vokrri
22	FW	UKR	Mykola Kovtalyuk
24	MF	UKR	Anton Hlushchenko (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk U19)
27	DF	UKR	Illya Krupskyi
29	DF	UKR	Andriy Batsula
30	MF	UKR	Ivan Nesterenko


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
33	FW	UKR	Serhiy Myakushko
35	DF	UKR	Danylo Izotov
37	MF	UKR	Danylo Tuzenko
38	MF	UKR	Artem Chelyadin
40	MF	UKR	Dmytro Chernysh
43	FW	UKR	Vladyslav Ostrovskyi
44	MF	UKR	Danylo Khrypchuk
50	DF	MLI	Ibrahim Kane
57	FW	UKR	Taras Halas
58	MF	UKR	Mykyta Odentsov
61	GK	UKR	Oleksandr Domoleha
65	MF	ESP	Amilcar Codjovi
92	DF	FRA	Sambou Sissoko
96	GK	UKR	Danylo Yermolov
—	FW	UKR	Denys Ndukve
—	DF	SVN	Luka Guček

Other players under contract[edit]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	ENG	Rodel Richards

Out on loan[edit]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player

Coaches and administration[edit]

Administration^[13]	Coaching^[14] (main team)	Coaching^[14] (U-19 team)
Honorary president – Kostyantyn Zhevaho President – Roman Chernyak Vice-president – Oleh Lysak Vice-president – Hennadiy Muzyka Adviser – Hennadiy Slyusaryev Sportive director – Oleksandr Funderat	Head coach – Viktor Skrypnyk Assistant coach – Viktor Ulyanytskyi Assistant coach – Serhiy Revut Goalies coach – Serhiy Dolhanskyi	Senior coach – Vitaliy Kosovskyi Assistant coach – Oleksandr Polyakov Assistant coach – Pavlo Rebenok Goalies coach – Oleh Morhun

Head coaches[edit]

Kostyantyn Skrypchenko (1955–April 55)
Anatoliy Zubrytskyi (April 1955–Dec 56)
Andriy Zhyhan (Jan 1957–April 57)
Yosyp Lifshyts (April 1957–Dec 58)
Oleksandr Zahretskyi (Jan 1959–June 59)
Hennadiy Duhanov (July 1959–July 60)
Viktor Zhyltsov (Aug 1960–July 64)
K. Skrypchenko (interim) (July 1964–Aug 64)
Hryhoriy Balaba (Aug 1964–July 65)
Kostyantyn Skrypchenko (July 1965–Oct 65)
Viktor Zhyltsov (Jan 1966–Dec 66)
Volodymyr Aksyonov (Jan 1967–Oct 67)
Oleksandr Alpatov (Dec 1968–Aug 70)
Yuriy Voynov (Sept 1970–July 72)
Oleksandr Alpatov (July 1972–July 73)
Viktor Nosov (July 1973–Nov 74)
Anatoliy Vitkov (Dec 1974–May 76)
Vasyl Salkov (May 1976–Dec 76)

Stanislav Basyuk (Jan 1977–May 80)
Volodymyr Aksyonov (May 1980–May 82)
Hennadiy Putivskyi (May 1982–Nov 82)
Viktor Pozhechevskyi (Feb 1984–Jan 90)
Hennadiy Lysenchuk (Jan 1990–Aug 90)
Viktor Pozhechevskyi (Aug 1990–Nov 90)
Vladimir Khodus (Jan 1991–Aug 91)
Leonid Koltun (Feb 1992)
Serhiy Dotsenko (March 1992–July 92)
Volodymyr Bryukhtiy (July 1992–July 93)
Viktor Maslov (July 1993–Nov 93)
Viktor Pozhechevskyi (Jan 1994–June 98)
Oleksandr Dovbiy (June 1998–Aug 98)
Serhiy Sobetskyi and Ivan Shariy
(interim) (Aug 1998–Oct 98)
Anatoliy Konkov (Oct 1998–Aug 00)
Serhiy Morozov (Aug 2000–June 1)
Andriy Bal (July 1, 2001 – Aug 18, 2003)

Oleh Morhun (interim) (Aug 2003)
Oleg Dolmatov (Aug 2003–Oct 03)
Oleh Morhun (interim) (Oct 2003–Dec 03)
Volodymyr Lozynskyi (Dec 2003–July 4)
V. Muntyan (July 1, 2004 – June 16, 2005)
Viktor Nosov (June 17, 2005 – June 30, 2007)
A. Momot (interim) (July 6, 2007 – Dec 27, 2007)
Mykola Pavlov (Dec 27, 2007 – May 29, 2012)
V. Yevtushenko (June 6, 2012 – Aug 15, 2012)
S. Svystun (interim) (Aug 15, 2012 – Dec 15, 2012)
Serhiy Svystun (Dec 15, 2012 – June 10, 2013)
Anatoliy Momot (interim) (July 4, 2013 – June 2014)
Vasyl Sachko (June 2014 – March 27, 2019)
Vitaliy Kosovskyi (March 27, 2019 – Nov 14, 2019)
Yuriy Maksymov (Nov 15, 2019 – May 31, 2022)
Viktor Skrypnyk (July 1, 2022 – present)

League and Cup history[edit]

Soviet Union[edit]

Kolos

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Notes
1955	4th (Ukrainian championship)	3	14	8	2	4	25	13	18	qualified for final group
1955	4th (Ukrainian championship)	8	7	0	2	5	15	24	2
1956	4th (Ukrainian championship)	2	14	8	4	2	23	11	20
1957	2nd (Klass B)	12	34	12	4	18	43	57	28

Vorskla

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Notes
club reorganized Vorskla based on the Kolos academy
1984	4th (KFK (Ukraine))	1	16	11	3	2	33	13	25		qualified for final group
1984
1985		1	14	11	2	1	37	10	24		qualified for final group
1985		3	5	3	1	1	8	3	7
1986		1	16	13	1	2	45	13	27		qualified for final group
1986		1	5	4	1	0	11	1	9		Promoted
1987	3rd (Vtoraya Liga)	9	52	22	14	16	74	59	58		Ukrainian Championship
1988		2	50	30	8	12	70	42	68		Ukrainian Championship
1989		8	52	24	10	18	62	55	58		Ukrainian Championship
1990		12	42	15	11	16	47	51	41	1⁄16 finals	Zone West
1991		19	42	10	11	21	39	60	31	1⁄32 finals	Zone West
1992	no competition									1⁄64 finals

Ukraine[edit]

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	2nd (Persha Liha)	8	26	12	5	9	33	25	29	1/16 finals			Group B
1992–93		4	42	21	9	12	57	46	51	1/32 finals
1993–94		8	38	15	7	16	30	52	37	1/16 finals
1994–95		11	42	17	8	17	49	48	59	1/8 finals
1995–96		1	42	32	7	3	92	37	103	1/32 finals			Promoted
1996–97	1st (Vyshcha Liha)	3	30	17	7	6	50	26	58	1/4 finals
1997–98		5	30	15	4	11	41	46	49	1/4 finals	UC	2nd qual round
1998–99		10	30	10	5	15	36	43	35	1/4 finals
1999–00		4	30	14	7	9	50	34	49	1/8 finals
2000–01		12	26	6	5	15	16	29	23	1/16 finals	UC	1st round
2001–02		11	26	6	7	13	19	33	25	1/16 finals
2002–03		11	30	8	8	14	26	41	32	1/4 finals
2003–04		14	30	6	9	15	26	49	27	1/8 finals
2004–05		14	30	8	6	16	18	35	30	1/16 finals
2005–06		10	30	9	10	11	28	34	37	1/4 finals
2006–07		13	30	7	10	13	23	28	31	1/16 finals
2007–08		8	30	9	9	12	28	30	36	1/4 finals
2008–09	1st (Premier Liha)	5	30	14	7	9	32	26	49	Winners
2009–10		10	30	6	13	11	29	32	31	1/16 finals	EL	Play-off Round
2010–11		6	30	10	9	11	37	32	39	1/8 finals
2011–12		8	30	9	10	11	38	43	37	1/8 finals	EL	Group stage
2012–13		12	30	8	7	15	31	36	31	1/8 finals
2013–14		8	28	10	10	8	36	38	40	1/8 finals
2014–15		5	26	11	9	6	35	22	42	1/8 finals
2015–16		5	26	11	9	6	32	26	42	1/4 finals	EL	3rd qual. round
2016–17^[15]		7	32	11	9	12	32	32	42	1/4 finals	EL	3rd qual. round
2017–18		3	32	14	7	11	37	35	49	1/4 finals
2018–19		7	32	12	6	14	31	43	42	1/4 finals	EL	Group stage
2019–20		10	32	9	7	16	23	48	34	Runners-up
2020–21		5	30	11	8	7	37	30	41	1⁄8 finals
2021–22		5	18	9	6	3	30	18	33	1⁄4 finals*	ECL	2nd qual. round

In European competitions[edit]

References[edit]

^ 2011/12 UEFA Europa League group stage statistics handbook Archived 3 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine UEFA

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^ Ozirnyi, O. In anticipation of Sevastopol: the best newcomers of the elite (В ожидании Севастополя: лучшие новички элиты) Archived 17 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Football.ua. 14 July 2013

^ "Mayor of central Ukrainian city shot dead". uk.reuters.com. Reuters. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

^ Mayor of central Ukrainian city shot dead Archived 20 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Reuters (26 July 2014)
Former Azerbaijani Deputy of Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, mayor of Kremenchuk Oleh Babayev murdered Archived 2014-07-30 at the Wayback Machine, Azerbaijan Press Agency (26 July 2014)
У Кременчуці застрелили мера Archived 28 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine (Ukrainian)

^ Artemio2014 (11 April 2010). "Vorskla Poltava - Anderlecht 0:2, 1997/1998 qualifiers". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2018 – via YouTube.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

^ Crew of Golden Eagle official site Archived 2014-12-18 at the Wayback Machine

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^ Competition was played in two phases. Official final league standings are cumulative from both phases. Vorskla competed in the Relegation Group in Phase II.
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v t e FC Vorskla Poltava
General	Vorskla-2 Vorskla U-19 Vorskla (women) History Managers Records
Stadiums	Oleksiy Butovskyi Vorskla Stadium
Matches	In European football 1956 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR Final 2009 Ukrainian Cup Final 2009 Ukrainian Super Cup 2020 Ukrainian Cup Final 2024 Ukrainian Cup final
Categories	Players Vorskla-2 Players Managers Seasons
Seasons	...2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21

v t e FC Vorskla Poltava – current squad
Yermolov Domoleha Izotov Santana Kane Cunha 4 Perduta 5 Ramires 6 Sklyar 7 Isenko 9 Korniyenko 11 Stepanyuk 15 Kulakovskyi 17 Chesnakov 18 Pavlyuk 25 Yakubu 29 Batsula 38 Chelyadin 40 Chernysh 44 Khrypchuk 80 Yurchenko 92 Sissoko 95 Felipe Rodrigues Manager: Skrypnyk