FC Volyn Lutsk

Volyn Lutsk

Full name	Football Club Volyn Lutsk
Nickname(s)	The Crusaders
Founded	1960 (1960)
Ground	"Avanhard" Stadium (Capacity: 12,080)
Chairman	Vasyl Stolyar
Manager	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2010–11	11th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

FC Volyn Lutsk (Ukrainian: ФК "Волинь" Луцьк) is a professional Ukrainian football team in the Ukrainian Premier League.

History

The Lutsk club was formed in 1960 initially as Avanhard, after the Soviet sports society, but before the start of competitions the name was changed to Volyn. Right from its establishment the club entered the Soviet professional competitions at the third division. In 1968 the club was changed its sponsor to the Lutsk Machinebuilding Factory and its name to Torpedo. However in 1971 the club became insolvent. In 1977 the club was reanimated once again as Torpedo and entered the competitions of the Soviet third division where it continued to participate to the fall of the Soviet regime. On January 30, 1989 in place of Torpedo there was established a professional football club Volyn. The club took part in the Ukrainian Premier League from its first championship in 1992. They were later sent down to Persha Liha after the 1995–96 season. They later resurfaced into the Ukrainian Premier League in the 2002–03 season, but they were relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League after taking 15th place in the 2005–06 season. The team was promoted back to the Ukrainian Premier League for the 2010–11 season.

Their home stadium is Avanhard Stadium.

Colours are (Home) light red shirt, deep red shorts; (Away) white shirt with light red collar and upper sleeve, white shorts.

Team names

Year	Name
1960–67	Volyn
1968–71	Torpedo
1972–76	SC Lutsk
1977–88	Torpedo
1989-01	Volyn
2001–02	SC Volyn-1
2002–	Volyn

Rivalry

Volyn's biggest rival today is Karpaty Lviv. The match between is called the Halytsko-Volynske derby. The stadiums in Lutsk and Lviv are nearly full for matches between the two teams. This derbys are the main football events in western Ukraine.

Squad

Squad is given according to the club's Official website Official website, updated as of February 28, 2012.

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Vsevolod Romanenko 2 DF Leandro 3 DF Serhiy Siminin (Captain) 4 DF Bohdan Karkovskyi 5 MF Ramon 6 DF Vanče Šikov 7 FW Schumacher 8 MF Ihor Skoba 9 MF Oleh Herasymyuk 10 MF Vyacheslav Sharpar (on loan from Metalist) 11 FW Dušan Savić 13 MF Goeber 14 DF Ján Maslo 15 DF Oleh Shandruk 16 GK Denys Shelikhov 17 FW Yevhen Pavlov

No. Position Player 19 FW Oleksiy Babyr 20 FW Maicon 21 MF Yaroslav Kinash 22 DF Oleksandr Romanchuk 24 DF Silviu Izvoranu 29 DF Oleksandr Nasonov 31 MF Yevhen Pichkur 32 DF Dmitri Smirnov 35 MF Saša Stević 36 DF Roman Hodovanyi 42 GK Vitaliy Nedilko 55 MF Mykola Nakonechnyi 88 DF Anton Kravchenko 89 MF Vyacheslav Akimov 90 MF Serhiy Pylypchuk 99 FW Oleksandr Pyschur

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Volyn Lutsk.

Tarlan Akhmedov Samir Aliyev Kamal Quliyev Branislav Krunić Taavi Rähn Raimonds Laizāns Armands Zeiberliņš Miodrag Džudović Chidi Alozi Harrison Omoko

Seweryn Gancarczyk Radosław Cierzniak Sorin Paraschiv Papa Gueye Marko Dević Aleksandar Trišović Semen Altman Yuriy Dudnyk Yevhen Khacheridi Serhiy Kovalets Valeriy Kriventsov

Oleh Luzhny Roman Maksymyuk Myron Markevych Serhiy Nahornyak Oleksandr Pyschur Vasyl Sachko Dmytro Topchiyev Anatoliy Tymoshchuk Vladyslav Vashchuk

Former head coaches

Borys Nyemets (1960) Mykola Havrylyuk (1960) Yevhen Horbunov (1961) Volodymyr Yeremeyev (1962–64) Dmytro Alimov (1965) Yuriy Holovey (1965–68) Borys Voloschuk (1968–69)

Yuriy Avanesov (1970–71) Mykhaylo Rybak (1972–73) Ernest Kesler (1973–76) Volodymyr Baysarovych (1977–78) Yevhen Pyestov (1979) Vyacheslav Pershyn (1980–83) Myron Markevych (1984–87, 1991–92)

Roman Pokora (1992–94) Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi (1996) Anatoliy Radenko (1996–97) Yuriy Shulyatytskyi (1998–99) Oleksiy Yeschenko (1997, 1999–00) Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi (1988–90, 1994–96, 2001–)

Honors

• Ukrainian First League
  • Winners (1): 2001–02

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	1st "B"	5	18	8	2	8	24	21	18	1/32 finals
1992–93	1st	11	30	10	6	14	37	54	26	1/4 finals
1993–94	1st	11	34	10	12	12	27	30	32	1/4 finals
1994–95	1st	15	34	11	3	20	29	58	36	1/16 finals
1995–96	1st	17	34	9	7	18	34	58	34	1/8 finals			Relegated
1996–97	2nd	4	46	26	5	15	62	47	57	1/8 finals
1997–98	2nd	9	42	19	8	15	56	45	65	1/16 finals
1998–99	2nd	14	38	16	3	19	36	43	51	1/64 finals
1999-00	2nd	10	34	13	9	12	42	41	48	1/16 finals
2000–01	2nd	9	34	13	5	16	41	38	44	1/16 finals
2001–02	2nd	1	34	25	3	6	56	24	78	1/16 finals			Promoted
2002–03	1st	6	30	12	5	13	37	44	41	1/2 finals
2003–04	1st	13	30	7	8	15	25	44	29	1/8 finals
2004–05	1st	8	30	11	7	12	35	37	40	1/4 finals
2005–06	1st	15	30	9	6	15	31	45	33	1/16 finals			Relegated
2006–07	2nd	12	36	13	7	16	40	48	46	1/16 finals
2007–08	2nd	9	38	16	8	14	61	55	53	1/32 finals			–3
2008–09	2nd	5	32	15	5	12	48	46	50	1/32 finals
2009–10	2nd	2	34	22	8	4	71	30	74	1/2 finals			Promoted
2010–11	1st	11	30	9	7	14	27	49	34	1/8 finals
2011–12	1st									1/4 finals

External links

• Official website
• (Ukrainian) FC Volyn website
• (English) FC Volyn Lutsk profile at UEFA.com
• (English) Volyn Lutsk profile at Official website of the Ukrainian Premier League
• (English) Ukrainian Soccer Team Volyn
• (English) Volyn Lutsk at transfermarkt