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| Full name | Тернопільський професійнийфутбольний клуб «Нива» Тернопольский профессиональный футбольный клуб «Нива» | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Zhovto-Zeleni(The Yellow-Greens),TuryThe Aurochs,TernopolianyTernopilers | ||
| Founded | 23 July 1978; 46 years ago (1978-07-23) | ||
| Ground | Roman Shukhevych Ternopil city stadium Ternopil | ||
| Capacity | 15,150 | ||
| Chairman | Oleksandr Stadnyk | ||
| Head coach | Yuriy Virt | ||
| League | Ukrainian First League | ||
| 2023–24 | Ukrainian First League, 13th of 20 | ||
| Website | http://fcnyva.com/ | ||
FC Nyva Ternopil (Ukrainian:Футбольний клуб Нива Тернопіль;Russian:Футбольный клуб Нива Тернополь) is a Ukrainianfootball club from the city ofTernopil, the administrative center ofTernopil Oblast. As of the 2020–21 season, it played in theUkrainian First League, the second tier of Ukrainian football, following promotion from the2019–20 Ukrainian Second League. Originally the club was formed asNyva Pidhaitsi in the small townPidhaitsi in 1978, then moved to a district centreBerezhany changing its name toNyva Berezhany in 1982, and finally moved toTernopil becomingNyva Ternopil in 1985. In 2016 the club withdrew from the professional competitions and was reestablished asPFC Nyva Ternopil.
Their home ground is the small stadium of former bird farm in village of Velyki Hayi nearTernopil, but all the major home league and cup matches they have played before in 15,150 seatCentral City Stadium named after Roman Shukhevych, which belongs to Community of the City of Ternopil.
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In the 1950s inSoviet Union, the strongest team inTernopil wasDynamo. Taking part in competitions of collectives of physical culture,Dynamo several times got their way to the finals, but they were unsuccessful.
In 1958, a new team had been created –FC Avanhard Ternopil. The first success came in 1965 when they finished second in zonal tournament. Three years later,Avanhard won the champion title in theClass B.[1] The team began to perform in theSecond Group (Class A) and was renamed toBudivelnyk. The results were as follows:
1971 – 14th place; 1972 – 15; 1973 -20; 1974 – 19.
Two consecutive years of failure led to the fact that the team was disbanded.
The new club was created in 1978 at the collective farm "Shlyakh do komunizmu" (Road to the Communism) inPidhaitsi byIvan Potupa, the head of farm's council.Nyva played its first official match on 23 July 1978 in regional cup competition. On 16 October 1982 the team wins physical culture collectives' championship ofUkrainian SSR and moves to the biggest city in the district –Berezhany. This success gives the right to the first team fromTernopil region after 1974 to partycipate in theSoviet Second League. Three years later the team moves toTernopil. In their first year inSoviet Second League 13th place was achieved. The next yearNyva finished on the same place. In 1985, they were 7th, 1986 – 4, 1987 – 2, 1988 – 12, 1989 – 3,1990 – 4,1991 – 4.
From1992,Nyva Ternopil played in theUkrainian Premier League, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 (of 11) Ukrainian teams from the1991 Soviet Second League, Zone West.Leonid Koltun was the head coach at that time and he created a colony ofKazakh players[2]–Konstantin Pavlyuchenko,Anton Shokh,Evgeny Yarovenko,Sergey Timofeev andFanas Salimov. Together with players from new formed states from formerSoviet republics askyrgyzTagir Fasakhov,MoldovanIurie Scala,RussianSergei Polstianov andUkrainiansYuriy Chystov,Ihor Pokydko,Petro Buts,Ihor Tsiselskyi,Yuriy Kulish,Valeriy Horoshynskyi,Vitaliy Rudnytskyi andMykhailo Demyanchuk the team finished 4th in the Group B of1992 Vyshcha Liha belowDynamo Kyiv,Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk andMetalist Kharkiv respectively. Thenext season started with bad results which caused the head coach replacement[3] –Dynamo Kyiv andUSSR national football team legendLeonid Buryak started to manage the club. He avoided relegation in the last weeks andNyva finished in 14th place,[4] but reached the quarter-finals of1992-93 Ukrainian Cup, defeating amateursLokomotyv Rivne in Round of 32 (0–0, 2–1),1992 bronze medalistsDnipro Dnipropetrovsk in Round of 16 (3–0, 0–2) and lost only by conceding an away goal to1992 cup holdersMetalist Kharkiv in Quarter-finals (0–1, 2–1).
The season in1993–94 Vyshcha Liha was one of the most successful in the club's history.Leonid Buryak gathered very good players:Oleh Mochulyak, who scored 14 goals in a league,[5]Ukrainian internationalsAndriy Vasylytchuk,Dmytro Tyapushkin,Serhiy Lezhentsev, the most capped team playerIhor Biskup,Mykhailo Demyanchuk,Vitaliy Rudnytskyi,Valentyn Hrehul,Ihor Sushko,Volodymyr Lobas,Dmytro Tutychenko,Matviy Nykolaychuk,Vitaliy Shumskyi,Ivan Korponay,Russia national football team playerVladislav Ternavskiy and youngRussianAndrei Gashkin.[6] Participation indomestic cup wasn't successful as last year – afterNyva Ternopil defeatedPrykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk in West Ukrainian derby matches in Round of 32 (1–1, 4–1), in the next round they lost to the future cup runner-upTavriya Simferopol (0–0, 0–3). At the end of the seasonLeonid Buryak left the team for his hometown'sChornomorets Odesa and took the best goalscorerOleh Mochulyak and talented wingerAndrei Gashkin with him.Dmytro Tyapushkin andVladislav Ternavskiy went toSpartak Moscow, whileSerhiy Lezhentsev found his place inDynamo Kyiv.
Valeriy Dushkov became new head coach for the1994–95 Vyshcha Liha,[7] but because of bad results he was replaced byIhor Yavorskyi, one of the best players in club's history and who will become the most successful head coach ofNyva Ternopil. The team finished 12th in a table,[8] but reached cup Quarter-finals again.Yavir Krasnopillya (2L) were beaten in 1/16 (0–0, 4–0), thenNyva came back with a brilliant 4–0 home win afterKryvbas Kryvyi Rih defeated them heavy in the first match inKryvyi Rih with a 3–0 score, but in Quarter-finals future cup winnerShakhtar Donetsk won 2–0 in a second leg match after 1–1 inTernopil and went through to Semi-finals.
Current player and new playing managerIhor Yavorskyi started to build a new team in thenext season. Young talented midfielderSerhiy Shyshchenko was loaned fromShakhtar Donetsk, another young playersAndriy Parkhomenko,Oleg Yashchuk and twoGeorgian twins –Avtandil Kapanadze andTariel Kapanadze came to create a good collective with players who already were in a team in the last seasons – Biskup, Demyanchuk, Romanchuk,[9] but only 13th place in the end of the season[10] and Quarter-final again in acup. Format had been changed and now teams played only one match.Nyva Ternopil started from Round of 32 again and defeated second leagueFC Khutrovyk Tysmenytsia by the only goal ofMykhailo Demyanchuk, then home win 3–1 against league competitorsVolyn Lutsk and finally away defeat inVinnytsia in the very tough match with team with a same name –Nyva Vinnytsia (0–1), which will get to the finals and lose there toDynamo Kyiv.Oleg Yashchuk scored 10 goals in a league.[11] Also he scored a hat-trick againstShakhtar Donetsk,[12][13] which inspired Belgian scouts fromR.S.C. Anderlecht. As a result, young starlet was transferred to Belgian giants during the season.[14]
New players came before the beginning of 1996–97 season, nowIhor Yavorskyi began to bring experienced players to the squad. Ukrainian veteranBohdan Samardak (33) came fromBukovyna Chernivtsi,Kyrgyz former international of Ukrainian descentOleg Kazmirchuk (28) was signed as a free agent after a spell atFC Naftokhimik Kremenchuk last season, formerLithuania national football team defender/midfielderIgoris Pankratjevas (32) was transferred fromPodillya Khmelnytskyi. Also the team players such asIhor Biskup turned already 36 andVitaliy Rudnytskyi – 32,[15] so the most aged team in1996–97 Vyshcha Liha finished in the midtable in 9th place,[16] which was the best result of the time underIhor Yavorskyi as a head coach.
The next season was the last for young head coach.[17]Zhovto-zeleni repeated the success they had underBuryak as a head coach in 1994. Almost until the last match they held 6th place but lost it toMetalurh Donetsk which played only first year inVyshcha Liha.[18] Quarter-finals already became a tradition for the team fromTernopil, as they reached this round for the fourth time in 7 competitions since start in 1992. The1997–98 Ukrainian Cup was real metallurgical competition forNyva as they played only with teams calledMetalurh: Round of 32 –Metalurh Nikopol (1–1, 4–1), Round of 16 –Metalurh Zaporizhia (1–2, 3–1), QF –Metalurh Donetsk (2–1, 0–1). The new promoted team fromDonetsk became a real threat for that year.Ihor Yavorskyi resigned after the 29th match in league, so the last match of the season was played underLeonid Ishchuk as a head coach.Avtandil Kapanadze became top goalscorer 15 times finding the net.[19] Such players like goalkeepersYuriy Chumak andYuriy Nikitenko, field playersAndriy Kyrlyk,Ihor Biskup,Oleh Mishenin,Mykola Lapa,Vitaliy Kut,Vitaliy Pervak,Tariel Kapanadze,Yuriy Fokin,Mykola Zakotyuk,Bohdan Samardak,Serhiy Turyanskyi andAndriy Shpak also played a huge role[20] in the last successful season inVyshcha Liha in the 20th century.
Inspired by good results of Kapanadze brothers, team president of that time –Avtandil Mdinaradze, who isGeorgian too began to sign players of same nationality. As a result, five new players fromGeorgia includingGiorgi Davitnidze,Avtandil Gvianidze,Shalva Khujadze,Kakhaber Dgebuadze andAleksandr Kaidarashvili became new players in 1997.[21] Together with two Kapanadze brothers andAvtandil Sikharulidze who came last year new head coachIhor Yurchenko registered 8 Georgian players for1998–99 Vyshcha Liha. Two wins at the start of the season[22][23] but only 13th place on the finish.[24]
Financial problems began to be a main problem for the 1999–2000 season.Ihor Yurchenko left andValeriy Bohuslavskyi was called to make things better. But now the team fromTernopil was an outsider and everyone sawZhovto-Zeleni in the relegation zone in the end of season. Talented Georgians couldn't play well every match because the lack of discipline.Shalva Khujadze andGiorgi Davitnidze went back home and signed toFC Lokomotivi Tbilisi andFC Kolkheti-1913 Poti respectively and they were changed by their countrymenShota Chomakhidze fromFC Lokomotivi Tbilisi andKonstantin Metreveli.Muslim Agaýew andYuri Magdiýew became firstTurkmen legioners.[25] Squad consisted of a lot of new names, because lack of money caused the departure of best players of the last years. Thirty-three years old goalkeeperHennadiy Losev played 22 matches in1999–2000 Vyshcha Liha, Ukrainian playersPavlo Filipenko,Oleksandr Boytsan,Mykola Lapa,Dmytro Mazur,Serhiy Kryvyi[26] and all the foreign players played most matches of the club and struggled to avoid the relegation. Positive result came in the last match of the season.Nyva Ternopil had to play inLviv inHalychyna Derby withKarpaty Lviv. Team fromTernopil won 1–0 with an own goal scored byKarpaty defender.[27]Nyva finished in 12th place out of 16 teams and stayed inVyshcha Liha for one season more.[28]1999-2000 Ukrainian Cup was lost in Round of 16 toKarpaty Lviv with 1–2 score in overtime.
Bohuslavskyi started to prepare team for the next season. Financial crisis hadn't been solved so the club couldn't hold their best players and sign new ones of high quality.Matviy Nykolaychuk came back to his old club after he left in 1995 forChornomorets Odesa.Nyva Ternopil earned 6 points in the first 8 weeks of2000-2001 Vyshcha Liha andValeriy Bohuslavskyi had been sacked by club bosses after record scoring lose to current title holdersDynamo Kyiv 3–7.[29] New old head coachIhor Yavorskyi had been appointed in September 2000 after 2 years of departure. Players played remaining 5 matches of the first half of a season and earned 3 more points in theHalychyna Derby 5–2 win againstKarpaty Lviv, where team veteransAvtandil Kapanadze scored twice andMatviy Nykolaychuk one time found the net.[30] The winter break was the hardest time in club's history. Players didn't get their salaries and most of them left for more successful teams. Two new Georgian 19 years old youngstersTengiz Ugrekhelidze andIrakli Shengelia signed contracts and many young players from the farm clubFC Ternopil-Nyva-2 had been called to play for the main team for the second half of the season. In addition threeBulgarian players – defenderStanimir Stalev, midfielderVasil Kolev fromBotev Plovdiv and forwardYulian Neychev fromPFC Svetkavitsa had been signed to helpNyva Ternopil to stay inVyshcha Liha for the next season.[31] Starting with two defeats in second half[32][33]Yavorskyi resigned and new appointed head coach became club's legendIhor Biskup, who started a season as a player and played in 4 matches in league.Zhovto-Zeleni lost in all remaining matches of the season, finished in the last 14th place and relegated to2002–03 Ukrainian First League.[34] As a result of bad financial situation 37 players played in the last season and 3 head coaches managed the club.[35]
All foreign players left after relegation except 38 year oldTariel Kapanadze andStanimir Stalev. The squad consisted of young and experienced players. Head coachIhor Biskup, who almost turned 41, renewed his football career because the lack of players for the first team and became the oldest player ever played forNyva. He started to build the team from young players fromTernopil, like 17 years oldTaras Duray, 18 years oldVasyl Rybak, 19 years oldOleksandr Zhdakha, 20 years old goalkeeperRoman Hurin,Anatoliy Ptashnyk,Taras Litynskyi and experiencedPavlo Syrotin,Serhiy Laktionov,Stanislav Kozakov,Viktor Bohatyr, who couldn't struggle against relegation and dropped down to2002-03 Ukrainian Second League from the bottom of2001-02 Ukrainian First League.[36]
Since the 2002–03 season, the club was taking part in theDruha Liha A and results were as follows:
2002–03 – 8th place,[37]2003–04 – 6,[38]2004–05 – 15,[39]2005–06 – 4.[40]
The most notable players of that time wereRoman Hurin,Serhiy Shymanskyi, who also managed the club in 2005,Ivan Papazov,Serhiy Sernetskyi,Andriy Hrinchenko,Oleksandr Zhdakha,Taras Duray,Denys Adleyba,Kostyantyn Lemishko,Andriy Nikanovych and veteranLyubomyr Vovchuk.
| Years[41][42] | Football kit | Shirt sponsor |
|---|---|---|
| 1993–1994 | Pony | |
| 1994-1995 | Pony | |
| 1997–2000 | Adidas | |
| 2004-2005 | ||
| 2005–2007 | Lotto | Ternopil'ski Oholoshennya |
| 2007–2011 | Adidas | Rodyna |
| 2011–2012 | ||
| 2012–2015 | Joma | |
| 2015 | Sektor K | ZIK |
| 2016- | Rodyna |
Since moving toTernopil for long period Nyva played its games at the main city sports facility, the City Stadium (Miskyi stadion).
In 2015–2016, the club played some of its games at Village Stadium (Silskyi stadion) in the neighboring village Velykyi Hai.
In 2017, the club moved away from Ternopil into a small city ofVyshnivets to the north ofTernopil Oblast.
In 2024 Nyva created another "Nyva-2" team in cooperation withFC Sambir.[43]
Its first reserve team Nyva created in 2000 which was based on a team of the local pedagogical school.
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Soviet Cup | Europe | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nyva Pidhaitsi | |||||||||||||
| 1979 | Rep.(2) | 2 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 41 | 17 | 30 | ||||
| 1980 | Rep.(1) | 1 | 22 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 56 | 13 | 37 | Qualified to finals | |||
| Rep.(Finals) | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 7 | |||||
| 1981 | Rep.(1) | 1 | 22 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 58 | 9 | 39 | Qualified to finals | |||
| Rep.(Finals) | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | |||||
| Nyva Berezhany | |||||||||||||
| 1982 | Rep.(2) | 1 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 6 | 24 | Qualified to finals | |||
| Rep.(Finals) | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 10 | Admitted to All-Union competitions | ||||
| 1983 | 3rd(6) | 13 | 50 | 15 | 18 | 17 | 41 | 51 | 48 | ||||
| 1984 | 3rd(6) | 13 | 38 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 52 | 32 | 44 | ||||
| Nyva Ternopil | |||||||||||||
| 1985 | 3rd(6) | 7 | 40 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 44 | 44 | 43 | ||||
| 1986 | 3rd(6) | 4 | 40 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 53 | 38 | 48 | ||||
| 1987 | 3rd(6) | 2 | 52 | 28 | 16 | 8 | 85 | 38 | 72 | ||||
| 1988 | 3rd(6) | 12 | 50 | 19 | 13 | 18 | 66 | 59 | 51 | ||||
| 1989 | 3rd(6) | 3 | 52 | 29 | 12 | 11 | 78 | 45 | 70 | ||||
| 1990 | 3rd(West) | 4 | 42 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 70 | 51 | 55 | ||||
| 1991 | 3rd(West) | 4 | 42 | 25 | 6 | 11 | 56 | 29 | 56 | ||||
| 1992 | No league competitions | ||||||||||||
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Ukrainian Cup | Europe | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1st "B" | 4 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 12 | 21 | R32 | |||
| 1992–93 | 1st | 14 | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 25 | 25 | QF | |||
| 1993–94 | 7 | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 44 | 26 | 36 | R16 | ||||
| 1994–95 | 12 | 34 | 11 | 5 | 18 | 40 | 44 | 38 | R16 | ||||
| 1995–96 | 13 | 34 | 13 | 3 | 18 | 37 | 42 | 42 | QF | ||||
| 1996–97 | 9 | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 33 | 41 | 33 | R16 | ||||
| 1997–98 | 7 | 30 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 37 | 39 | 40 | QF | ||||
| 1998–99 | 13 | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 29 | 41 | 31 | R16 | ||||
| 1999–00 | 12 | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 40 | 57 | 31 | R16 | ||||
| 2000–01 | 14 | 26 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 20 | 65 | 9 | R16 | Relegated | |||
| 2001–02 | 2nd | 18 | 34 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 20 | 77 | 13 | R16 | Relegated | ||
| 2002–03 | 3rd "A" | 8 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 29 | 36 | 35 | R32 | |||
| 2003–04 | 6 | 30 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 30 | 36 | 47 | R32 | ||||
| 2004–05 | 15 | 28 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 47 | 17 | R32 | ||||
| 2005–06 | 4 | 28 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 34 | 18 | 50 | R32 | ||||
| 2006–07 | 4 | 28 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 33 | 15 | 53 | R32 | ||||
| 2007–08 | 2 | 30 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 52 | 15 | 64 | R16 | ||||
| 2008–09 | 1 | 32 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 50 | 26 | 71 | R64 | Promoted | |||
| 2009–10 | 2nd | 18 | 34 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 18 | 72 | 7 | R32 | Relegated −6[44][45] | ||
| 2010–11 | 3rd "A" | 10 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 51 | 14 | R32 | −3[46] | ||
| 2011–12 | 3rd "A" | 12 | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 30 | 41 | 18 | Withdrew[47] | –15[48] | ||
| 2012–13 | 3rd "A" | 2 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 17 | 38 | 1⁄8 finals | |||
| 3rd "1" | 2 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 19 | Promoted[49] | ||||
| 2013–14 | 2nd | 10 | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 33 | 32 | 39 | 1⁄4 finals | |||
| 2014–15 | 2nd | 13 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 25 | 52 | 27 | 1⁄16 finals | |||
| 2015–16 | 2nd | 16 | 30 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 10 | 26 | 7 | 1⁄32 finals | −3[50] –Withdrew[51] | ||
| 2016 | 4th "3" | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| 2016–17 | 4th "1" | 7 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 21 | Admitted to SL | |||
| 2017–18 | 3rd "A" | 7 | 27 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 25 | 29 | 33 | 1⁄32 finals | |||
| 2018–19 | 3rd "A" | 6 | 27 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 29 | 36 | 1⁄64 finals | |||
| 2019–20 | 3rd "A" | 1 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 12 | 41 | 1⁄64 finals | Promoted | ||
| 2020–21 | 2nd | 13 | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 30 | 50 | 31 | 1⁄32 finals | |||
| 2021–22 | 2nd | 5 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 22 | 29 | ||||
| 2022–23 | 2nd | 4 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 20 | Qualified to Championship group | |||
| 7 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 8 | ||||||
| 2023–24 | 2nd | 13 | 28 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 29 | 29 | 36 | ||||
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Deducted 3 points for failure of payment of license fees.(2 October 2009)
Deducted another 3 points were for non payment to players.(9 June 2010)
