Sport Club Poltava (Ukrainian: Спортивний клуб «Полтава») is a professional Ukrainian football club from the city of Poltava. The team is currently playing Ukrainian Second League after competing in the Ukrainian Amateur championship.

SC Poltava
Full nameSport Club Poltava
Founded2011
GroundLokomotyv Stadium, Poltava
ChairmanSerhiy Ivashchenko
ManagerVolodymyr Sysenko
LeagueUkrainian Second League
2020–21Ukrainian Amateur League, Group 3, 5th of 12 (promoted)
WebsiteClub website
FC Poltava training base in Kopyly
Lokomotyv Stadium during the game between Arsenal Kharkiv and FC Poltava

History edit

The team was founded in 2011 by two football enthusiasts, a football veteran of FC Vorskla Poltava Volodymyr Sysenko and a local journalist Stanislav Maizus. The first team was formed based on students out of schools of the Poltava's Levada neighborhood.[1] Before 2014, the club playing in regional competitions of Poltava Oblast remained in a shadow of another more successful club FC Poltava which at that time competed at the Ukrainian Second League. During that period SC Poltava played its home games at the FC Poltava training base in Kopyly. In 2014 SC Poltava became a champion of Poltava Oblast, but ceased its existence for several seasons due to lack of funding. The 2014 championship title for SC Poltava became the first title for Poltava-based teams at competitions in Poltava Oblast in 19 years (Velta Poltava, 1995).[1] In 2014 for SC Poltava played several professional footballers who retired or were recovering from injuries included Yuriy Fomenko, Ruslan Solyanyk, others.[1]

In 2019, five years later, Sysenko and Maizus managed to invite Serhiy Ivashchenko who became the club's president providing necessary funding and SC Poltava was revived. Serhiy Ivashchenko owns a construction company "Kombinat vyrobnychykh pidpryiemstv" (Complex of manufacturing enterprises).[2] By that time FC Poltava already withdrew from all of competitions after a scandal with the stadium in 2018. In 2019–20 SC Poltava entered the AAFU cup competitions and in 2020–21 debuted at the AAFU championship. The club placed 5th within its group in its first national football season. Later SC Poltava was admitted to the Professional Football League of Ukraine and entered the 2021–22 Ukrainian Second League competitions.

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Players edit

Current squad edit

As of 1 March 2024[3][4]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   UKR Ihor Vartsaba
3 DF   UKR Illya Khodulya
5 DF   UKR Vadym Pidlepych
7 MF   UKR Maksym Horzhuy
8 FW   UKR Volodymyr Odaryuk
9 FW   UKR Dmytro Shcherbak
10 MF   UKR Yevhen Streltsov
11 FW   UKR Artem Perebora
12 DF   UKR Andriy Savenkov
13 GK   UKR Maksym Telnov
14 MF   UKR Maksym Marusych
15 MF   UKR Vladyslav Danylenko
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 DF   UKR Mykola Buzhyn
21 FW   UKR Bohdan Shmyhelskyi
24 MF   UKR Svyatoslav Shapovalov
27 DF   UKR Vladyslav Klymenko
31 GK   UKR Bohdan Vasetskyi
39 DF   UKR Yevhen Opanasenko
44 MF   UKR Dmytro Plakhtyr
55 DF   UKR Oleksandr Pos
70 MF   UKR Dmytro Kopytov
77 MF   UKR Yehor Kovalenko
88 FW   UKR Oleksandr Vivdych
95 DF   UKR Ihor Kotsyumaka

League and cup history edit

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Notes
2020–21 4th 5 22 14 4 4 51 20 46 Promoted
2021–22 3rd Promoted
2022–23 2nd

Non-playing personnel edit

Presidents edit

Managers edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e Аматорські імена. СК Полтава. UA-Football. 18 December 2014
  2. ^ ІВАЩЕНКО Сергій Васильович. poltava.to
  3. ^ https://scpoltava.com/osnovnij-sklad/
  4. ^ "Професіональна футбольна ліга України".

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