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| Full name | Football Club Rukh Lviv | ||
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| Founded | 2003 | ||
| Ground | Arena Lviv | ||
| Capacity | 34,915 | ||
| President | Yuliya Dumanska (100%)[1] Hryhoriy Kozlovskyi (honorary president)[1] | ||
| General Director | [1] | ||
| Head coach | Vitaliy Ponomaryov | ||
| League | Ukrainian Premier League | ||
| 2023–24 | Ukrainian Premier League, 6th of 16 | ||
| Website | fcruhlviv | ||
FC Rukh Lviv (Ukrainian:ФК «Рух» Львів) is aUkrainian professionalfootball club based inLviv. The club competes in theUkrainian Premier League following the promotion as runners-up of2019–20 Ukrainian First League.
In 2003 under the initiativeMyron Markevych, who was born inVynnyky, and at the time was head coach ofFC Karpaty Lviv established football club calledFC Rukh Vynnyky. When asked whyRukh, Markevych replied that Movement (ukr. romanized: Rukh) is life. In June 2003, a children's football school Myron Markevych "Rukh" under directorship Yuriy Hdanskyi and trainers Roman Hdanskyi, Ihor Didyk, Markiyan Shkraba, Oleh Lehan was formed.[2]
In 2009, the Rukh adult soccer team with PresidentHryhoriy Kozlovskyy and head trainer Roman Hdanskyi was formed.[2] Since the team was located in Vynnyky which is a satellite town of the city ofLviv, so at a time teams participated separately inLviv Oblast League Championship and in Lviv the teams participated in the championship of the city.[2]The club holds matches at the stadium named afterBohdan Markevych (1925–2002, Myron Markevych's father), who was one of the main sponsors of the football club and the Youth Academy, who worked for many years as a junior's coach.[2]
In 2014, the team won theNational amateur football championship.
During the 2015 season, the club made sensations by signing formerDynamo Kyiv internationalsOleksandr Aliyev andMaksim Shatskikh.[3]
The club has been admitted to thePFL and took second place in the2016–17 Ukrainian Second League.[4]
On 26 June 2017, the club presented a new emblem in golden and black colors.[5]
Updated as of 23 February 2025[6][7][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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Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed inbold represented their countries while playing for Rukh Lviv.
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| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Cup | Other | Notes | |
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| 2013 | 4th | 1 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 23 | AC | 1⁄2 finals | ||
| 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 10 | Runners up[10] | |||||
| 2014 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 16 | |||||
| 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | Champions | |||||
| 2015 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 13 | AC | 1⁄4 finals | |||
| 1 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 26 | ||||||
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 9 | Runners up[11] | |||||
| 2016–17 | 3rd | 2/17 | 32 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 68 | 24 | 74 | 1⁄32 finals | Promoted | ||
| 2017–18 | 2nd | 7/18 | 34 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 36 | 30 | 51 | 1⁄32 finals | |||
| 2018–19 | 11/15 | 28 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 1⁄32 finals | ||||
| 2019–20 | 2/16 | 30 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 51 | 21 | 61 | 1⁄16 finals | Promoted | |||
| 2020–21 | 1st | 10/14 | 26 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 39 | 28 | 1⁄16 finals | |||
| 2021–22 was terminated | 11/16 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 18 | 1⁄8 finals | began on 24.02.2022Russian invasion of Ukraine | |||
| 2022–23 | 11/16 | 30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 31 | 37 | 32 | — | ||||
| 2023–24 | 6/16 | 30 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 44 | 31 | 49 | 1⁄8 finals | ||||
| 2024–25 | 6/16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 1⁄4 finals | ||||
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In 2023 Rukh created its second team and was admitted by theProfessional Football League of Ukraine to play at the2023–24 Ukrainian Second League.
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Cup | Other | Manager | |
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| 2023–24 | 3rd | 9/14 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 29 | 36 | 34 | Volodymyr Bezubyak | |||
| 2024–25 | 3rd | x/10 | Ivan Fedyk | ||||||||||
In 2020 Rukh created its reserve teams including under-21 and under-19. In 2022 the Rukh under-19 team has qualified for the UEFA Youth League.
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Cup | Other | Notes | |
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| 2020–21 | U-19 | 4 | 26 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 49 | 25 | 46 | ||||
| 2021–22 | U-19 | 1 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 49 | 11 | 47 | canceled competition | |||
| 2022–23 | U-19 | 1 | 30 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 91 | 17 | 82 | ||||
| 2023–24 | U-19 | 8 | 30 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 52 | 46 | 43 | ||||
| 2024–25 | U-19 | ||||||||||||
In 2020 Rukh created its reserve teams including under-21 and under-19. Following the 2020–21 season, the competition among under-21 teams was discontinued and both squads were merged.
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Cup | Other | Notes | |
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| 2020–21 | U-21 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 60 | 30 | 52 | ||||
. 26 June 2017.
