FC Karpaty Lviv

Football Club Karpaty Lviv (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «Карпати» Львів [kɐr'pɑtɪ lʲviw]) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv.

History

Early years (1963–68)

The team of Karpaty was founded on January 18, 1963. In 1962 Selmash Lvov won the championship and cup of the Lvov Region and, thus, obtained the rights to participate in the Soviet Class B championship (Soviet First League). However in 1963 the Football Federation of USSR conducted another reorganization in football national tournaments creating the Second Group of Class A and Class B became the third tier where a berth was reserved for a team from Lviv. At that time the best city team was SKA Lvov, players of which did not stay there for long leaving it at the end of their military service, while the best would be drafted to CSKA Moscow. In light of that the city administration decided to create independent from military a civilian team.

In December 1962 in the building of Regional Council of trade unions (prospekt Shevchenka) the head of the council and the regional federation Hlib Klymov gathered coaches of Selmash Yuri Zubach (former player of Ukraina Lwow) and Vasyl Solomonko as well as the director of city plant "Lvovselmash" (today - "Lvivsilmash") Ivan Kalynychenko to discuss the new name for a club. The name Silmash was recognized as inadequate for participation on such level. Among variants were Spartak, Dynamo, Halychyna, while at the end they agreed upon the regional toponym (Carpathians) Karpaty which would the best to represent the region.

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.

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.