FC Lviv

FC Lviv (Ukrainian: ФК «Львів») is a name of two Ukrainian football teams that used to play in the Ukrainian football competitions. One existed from 1992 through 2001 and later merged with Karpaty Lviv, another that existed from 2006 withdrew from competitions in 2012.

History

FC Lviv (1992–2001)

From 1992 until 2001 there existed a club in Lviv with the same name. As amateurs this team won the Lviv Amateur Cup and were Lvivska Oblast Champions. The club entered the professional ranks in 1993 and progressed from the Ukrainian Third League to the Ukrainian First League until it was taken over by FC Karpaty Lviv in 2001 and renamed and converted to their 2nd squad or Reserve team, FC Karpaty-2 Lviv. This club still holds the record for being the only team from outside the Ukrainian Premier League that has progressed twice to the quarterfinals of the Ukrainian Cup competition.

FC Lviv (2006–2012)

The current FC Lviv is unrelated to the club that played in Lviv from 1992–2001. The current club was founded in May 2006. Tha club entered the Persha Liha as a replacement for the bankrupt club FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi, which also represented Lviv Oblast.

FC Lviv-2

Football Club Lviv-2 (Ukrainian: Футбольний Клуб Львів-2) is the reserve team of FC Lviv.

History

When the main club was promoted in 2008 to the Ukrainian Premier League the club entered the Ukrainian Premier League Reserves competition.

The main club was relegated from the senior competition which automatically relegated reserve team from the reserve competition. To keep the team active the main club entered FC Lviv-2 into the Ukrainian Second League competition.

League and cup history

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Lviv

Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, IPA: [lwiu̯]; Polish: Lwów, IPA: [lvuf];Russian: Львов, Lvov, IPA: [lʲvof]; German: Lemberg, Latin: Leopolis, "the city of the lion"), the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh largest city in the country overall, is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Ruthenia from 1272 before being incorporated into the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in 1339 and turning into the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, then renamed Lemberg in 1772 as the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. Administratively, Lviv serves as the administrative center of Lviv Oblast and has the status of city of oblast significance. Population: 730,272 (2013 est.).

From the Polish recurrence after the First World War in 1918-21 until the German and Soviet conquest and dividing of Second Polish Republic, after the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, the city was known as Lwów and was the centre of the Polish Lwów Voivodeship.