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| Full name | Football Club Livyi Bereh Kyiv | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Leleky (Storks) | |||
| Founded | 2017; 8 years ago (2017) | |||
| Ground | Arena Livyi Bereh | |||
| Capacity | 4,700[1][2] | |||
| Chairman | Mykola Lavrenko | |||
| Head coach | Vitaliy Pervak | |||
| League | Ukrainian Premier League | |||
| 2023–24 | Ukrainian First League, 3rd of 20 (promoted) | |||
| Website | fclb | |||
Football Club Livyi Bereh Kyiv (Ukrainian:Футбольний клуб «Лівий берег» Київ) is a Ukrainian professionalfootball club fromKyiv Oblast. The club is based at the Kyiv'sOsokorky neighborhood located at the left-bank ofDnipro. It hosts its games in the Kyiv's suburb of Hnidyn (Zolochivska rural hromada), just outside of the city limits. In June 2021, the club was admitted to the Second League. In the 2024/25 season the team played in the Ukrainian Premier League for the first time.
The club was created in September 2017 byMykola Lavrenko, a former president of Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya (todayFC Oleksandriya) and retired[3] Ukrainian managerMykola Pavlov. To the club was also brought another Ukrainian managerAnatoliy Buznyk who is known for managing theUkraine national student football team at SummerUniversiades. Buznik in the club serves roles of both manager and sports director.[4]
Livyi Bereh Kyiv made a late entry to national competition of the2020–21 Ukrainian Football Amateur League replacing FC imeni Lva Yashina during winter break.[5] The club made its debut at national level on 24 April 2021 hostingFC Olimpiya Savyntsi and beating it 2:1.[6] The club managed somewhat recover the poor record that it inherited from FC imeni Lva Yashina and finished 6th in its group.
Being accepted to the Ukrainian Second League, the club had listed number of Ukrainian veteran footballers andUniversiade winners, among which wereVitaliy Reva,Oleksandr Akymenko,Artem Starhorodskyi,Andriy Zaporozhan and others.
Its first game at professional level, the club played on 25 July 2021 when it hostedLNZ Cherkasy and beating it 2:1.[7] The club was placing 2nd among 15 teams in its group before the competition was forced to be paused due to the Russian full-scale invasion, and eventually scratched. The club decided to pause its operations and missed the next (2022–23) season. The Professional Football League (PFL) allowed several clubs to miss out competitions due to situation in the country.
In 2023 Livyi Bereh returned joining the PFL Winter Cup which was a short mid-season competition. In summer of 2023, the PFL honored the second place Livyi Bereh placed in 2021–22 and the club was admitted to the First League. It finished the 2023–24 season third and qualified for promotion play-off. Livyi Bereh lost its face off against another Kyiv clubObolon. While preparing for the next 2024–25 season, it was decided to play with 2 squads, one in the First League and other in the Second League.
In July 2024 the club unexpectedly promoted to theUkrainian Premier League.[8] It took part in aMini-Tournament play-offs that was created for an open spot in the competition due to the disappearing ofSC Dnipro-1.[8] It made it to the final of this tournament, where it defeatedFC Mynai.[8]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Anatoliy Buznyk (1 August 2020 – 31 March 2022)Vitaliy Pervak (1 January 2023 – present)On 19 June 2024 the club's website published its interview withPavlo Kikot who managed the club's under-17 team that beside the national youth competition also participated in the Kyiv City Cup.[10] He informed that the club's under-17 team is being reorganized into Livyi Bereh-2 for the2024–25 Ukrainian Second League season to provide immediate reserve for the first team.
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Domestic Cup | Europe | Notes | |
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| 2020–21 | 4th "2" | 6/11 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 30 | 52 | 25 | Admitted to Second League | |||
| 2021–22 | 3rd "A" | 2/15 | 19 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 47 | 14 | 46 | Promoted | |||
| 2022–23 | 2nd | excused from participation | |||||||||||
| 2023–24 | 2nd "B" | 3/20 | 28 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 59 | 21 | 54 | Lost playoff to Obolon Kyiv | |||
| 1/4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | mini-tournament, Promoted | |||||
| 2024–25 | 1st | /16 | |||||||||||
