PFC Sumy

PFC Sumy was a professional Ukrainian football team based in the city of Sumy, which last played in the Persha Liha. In April 2019 the Ukrainian Football Federation deprived the club of its professional status.[1]

PFC Sumy
Full nameProfessional Football Club Sumy
Founded2008
Dissolved2019
GroundYuvileiny Stadium, Sumy
Capacity25,830
Head coachOleh Lutkov
LeagueUkrainian First League
2017–18First League, 12th

The club was the second football project in the city, established in 2008 based on the local Krasnopillya football school. The club's emblem is based on Krasnopillya's as well. The original professional club was established in 1982 as Yavir, renamed as Yavir-Sumy when it relocated to the city in 1998. In 1999, the club was renamed Spartak Sumy. It then got promoted to the Ukrainian First League and played there until the end of the 2006–07 season, after which it folded. The Krasnopillya football school then re-opened the current club.

Since 2009, FC Sumy played in FC Spartak Sumy's former stadium, the Yuvileiny Stadium. The stadium was completed in 2001, and seats 25,830 spectators. It did cost the investors over 50 million euros to construct, making it the most expensive and largest stadium that any Ukrainian Second League club uses.

Brief history

FC Yavir Krasnopillia

FC Sumy's predecessor, FC Yavir Krasnopillia, was established back in 1982 at the Krasnopillia Forestry and competed at regional competitions of Sumy Oblast. In 1991 the club entered the republican amateur competitions. After dissolution of the Soviet Union, the club was admitted to the Ukrainian Transitional League. Yavir Krasnopillia became a champion of the 1994–95 Ukrainian Second League and was promoted to the First League.

After the main team of the Sumy Oblast, FC Ahrotekhservis Sumy, was relegated out of the Second League in 1996, there were talks to revive football in Sumy. On the initiative of the regional government in 1998 Yavir was transferred to the regional center and renamed as Yavir-Sumy. Later it was transformed into FC Spartak Sumy. With that the main city stadium, formerly Spartak Stadium was finally finished and renamed as Yuvileinyi Stadium.

In 2000 Yavir Krasnopillia was revived in its home town and restarted its participation in regional competitions, while Spartak Sumy competed in the First League. In 2002 Yavir again was admitted to the Second League. In 2006 Spartak Sumy went bankrupt and was dissolved. Again there surfaced talks about bringing big football back to Sumy. In 2008 the new Yavir was again moved to Sumy.

FC Sumy

The city of Sumy for quite some time used to have its own football teams during the Soviet period, such as Spartak, Frunzenets, and others which eventually were disbanded. The "FC Sumy" football project was another attempt to reestablish the football tradition in the city.

FC Sumy played in the vastly superior Yuvileiny Stadium which can hold 25,830 spectators.

In the fall of 2008 they changed their name once again to FC Sumy. They play in the yellow and green colors of their former stadium Kolos, which can accommodate up to 3,000 spectators. After the 2009–10 Ukrainian Second League season the club again found itself in financial distress and failed attestation, which was followed by their license being withdrawn by the PFL.[2] On 16 June 2010 it was announced that the club is being sponsored by the Russian billionaire Konstantin Grigorishin (through "Sumy Engineering").[3] In July 2010 FC Sumy were readmitted to the Ukrainian Second League – please refer to 2010–11 Ukrainian Second League for details.

In June 2017 it was announced that "Sumy Engineering" transferred its corporate rights on the club to the Romny-based company "Ahrobiznes TSK".[4] Ahrobiznes TSK has its own football club since 2014 that was playing at amateur and regional levels.[5]

In April 2018 the local news media announced a sudden death of director of Romny Ahrobiznes and a member of regional council.[6][7] On 15 June 2018 FC Ahrobiznes TSK Romny announced that it is dissolved due to financial difficulties.[8]

On 13 August 2018 head coach of PFC Sumy Zolotnytskyi announced that the club has salary debts to players and is forced to get relocated to Okhtyrka.[9] which team recently was dissolved. In October PFC Sumy acknowledged that it has problems with financing, in addition earlier this month it was accused in match-fixing.[10]

On 9 January 2019 there appeared information that the club might not finish the 2018–19 Ukrainian First League.[11] On 11 April 2019 the Ukrainian Football Federation indeed did deprived the club of its professional status.[1] This was done due to match fixing by players of the club who were also banned from playing professional football (they were Serhiy Harashchenkov, Taras Duray and Ehor Luhovyi) in addition to president of the club Rostyslav Kozar.[1]

PFC Sumy received new ownership during winter break of the 2018–19 season in the face of Serhiy Vashchenko who earlier that season was supposed to become the owner of Kobra Kharkiv.[12][13][14][15][16] The new head coach was announced also former head coach of Kobra, Oleksandr Oliynyk.[13][17] According to the former club's director Anatoliy Boiko, on 1 December 2018 PFC Sumy did not have any players on contract.[13] On 11 April 2019, the FFU Control and Disciplinary Committee adopted its decision to strip the club of professional status and exclude the club from any competitions that it is participating currently or in the future.[18] However the club has a right to file an appeal. Additional separate sanctions will be also applied against the club's playing and administrative personnel. On 14 April 2019, the chairman of the FFU committee of ethics and fair play Francesco Baranka noted that PFC Sumy has earned some 10 million euros in match fixing.[19] More to it, Ukrainian coach Oleksandr Sevidov who held post of head coach consultant in PFC Sumy and previously managed FC Illichivets Mariupol received a lifetime disqualification.[20]

On 1 October 2019 there appeared some information that the club has intentions to resume its participation in football competitions for the 2020–21 season.[21]

On 10 October 2019 the chief editor of magazine "Futbol" Artem Frankov informed the UAF Committee of Appeals cancelled the decision of the UAF Control and Disciplinary Committee in regards to PFC Sumy.[22]

Previous names of the club
Emblem
Yavir_Krasnopilya
  • 1999 – Sep 2008: Futbol'nyi Klub "Yavir" Krasnopillya (Ukrainian: Футбольний Клуб "Явір" Краснопілля) (Football Club Yavir Krasnopillya)
  • Sep 2008 – Jun 2010: Futbol'nyi Klub "Sumy" (Ukrainian: Футбольний Клуб "Суми") (Football Club Sumy)
  • Jul 2010 – present: Profesiynyi Futbol'nyi Klub "Sumy" (Ukrainian: Професійний Футбольний Клуб "Суми") (Professional Football Club Sumy)

Stadium
Current
Former
  • Kolos Stadium (3,000)

Current squad
As of 27 March 2018[23][24]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  UKR Bohdan Druz
4 DF  UKR Mykola Buryachenko
5 DF  FRA Sofiane Draa
6 MF  UKR Mykyta Domashenko
7 MF  UKR Nazar Kurus
8 DF  UKR Oleksiy Bozhyi
10 MF  UKR Mykhaylo Popov
11 MF  UKR Artem Shapovalenko
13 DF  UKR Ivan Tkachuk
15 MF  UKR Yehor Svistyula
16 DF  UKR Vitaliy Radomskyi
17 MF  UKR Veniamin Muzychuk
18 DF  UKR Mykhaylo Matviyenko
20 DF  UKR Oleksandr Yatsyuchenko
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 DF  UKR Artem Hrechykhin
27 MF  UKR Serhiy Ostroverkh
29 DF  UKR Vladyslav Shynkarov
32 MF  UKR Nazar Kurus
33 DF  UKR Denys Kozlov
71 GK  UKR Mykyta Zelenskyi
77 GK  UKR Oleksandr Kolokol
79 FW  UKR Faridun Nazipov
88 MF  UKR Bohdan Malyshev
97 DF  UKR Danylo Yermolayev
98 DF  UKR Vitaliy Shmorhun
99 MF  UKR Oleksandr Bezrodniy
— DF  UKR Andriy Derkach
— MF  UKR Vladyslav Andrusenko

Honors
1994–95 Champions
2011–12 Champions

League and cup history
FC Yavir Krasnopillya (2001–2008)
Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Notes
2001 Amateur Level[25]
2001 4th 5 8 1 1 6 2 25 4
2002 4th 5 8 1 2 5 3 11 5
2002–03 3rd "C" 10 28 8 8 12 27 41 32 ​1⁄8 finals
2003–04 3rd "C" 10 30 10 7 13 20 28 37 ​1⁄32 finals
2004–05 3rd "C" 10 28 8 5 15 24 40 29 ​1⁄32 finals
2005–06 3rd "C" 6 24 11 5 8 25 26 38 ​1⁄32 finals
2006–07 3rd "B" 13 28 6 7 15 18 30 25 ​1⁄16 finals
2007–08 3rd "B" 13 34 10 7 17 36 62 37 Did not enter
FC Sumy (2008–present)
Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Notes
2008–09 3rd "B" 17 34 6 10 18 27 60 22 ​1⁄64 finals –6[26] – Name change[27]
2009–10 3rd "B" 8 26 10 6 10 32 34 36 ​1⁄32 finals [2][28]
2010–11 3rd "A" 2 22 14 3 5 38 13 45 ​1⁄64 finals
2011–12 3rd "A" 1 26 21 3 2 51 13 66 ​1⁄8 finals Promoted[29]
2012–13 2nd 9 34 14 8 12 32 35 50 ​1⁄32 finals
2013–14 2nd 11 30 11 6 13 29 39 39 ​1⁄32 finals
2014–15 2nd 8 30 12 7 11 35 41 43 ​1⁄16 finals
2015–16 2nd 14 30 8 6 16 35 54 30 ​1⁄16 finals
2016–17 2nd 15 34 8 12 14 34 44 36 ​1⁄32 finals Relegation play-off winner[30]
2017–18 2nd 12 33 11 6 16 27 37 39 ​1⁄32 finals
2018–19 2nd ​1⁄16 finals

See also

References
  1. [https://m.glavcom.ua/sport/news/ukrajinskiy-futbolniy-klub-pozbavleniy-profesiynogo-statusu-za-uchast-u-dogovirnih-matchah-585260.html Український футбольний клуб позбавлений професійного статусу за участь у договірних матчах (The Ukrainian football club is deprived of professional status for participating in fixed matches), Glavcom (10 April 2019)
  2. Club failed attestation for the 2010–11 season and license was withdrawn. "Состоялось заседание Центрального Совета ПФЛ (Meeting of the Professional Football League)" (in Russian). ua.football. 21 June 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
  3. Oleksiy Komarovskyi. Hordiyenko: Now Sumy will be taken care by Konstantin Grigorishin (ГОРДІЄНКО: "Тепер Суми опікуватиме Костянтин Григоришин"). Ukrayinskyi futbol (sport.ua). 16 June 2010
  4. The PFC Sumy changed its sponsor (У ПФК Суми змінився спонсор). UA-Football. 26 June 2017
  5. Ahrobiznes TSK (Romny, Sumy Oblast) (Агробізнес TSK (Ромни, Сумська обл.)). AAFU.
  6. Suddenly died director of agro-company and a member of the Sumy Oblast council (Раптово помер директор агрофірми – депутат Сумської обласної ради). The Sumy Post. 9 April 2018
  7. Suddenly died a president of the Romny "Ahrobiznes TSK" Hennadiy Svirskyi (Раптово помер президент роменського "Агробізнеса TSK" Геннадій Свірський). Romny.online. 10 April 2018
  8. Valeriy Kholodnyi. Ahrobiznes TSK Romny ceased its existence ("Агробізнес TSK" (Ромни) припинив існування). Footboom. 15 June 2018
  9. PFC Sumy is being based out of Okhtyrka and has debts before players (ПФК Суми базується в Охтирці, перед футболістами є борги). UA-Football. 13 August 2018
  10. PFC Sumy has problems with financing and the team may be withdrawn out of competition during winter (У ПФК Суми проблеми з фінансуванням, команда може взимку знятися з чемпіонату). UA-Football. 19 October 2018
  11. Sumy may be withdrawn from the First League championship (Сумы могут сняться с чемпионата Первой лиги). UA-Football. 9 January 2019
  12. Ex-president of Kobra became a president of PFC Sumy (Экс-президент Кобры стал президентом ПФК Сумы). Sport Arena. 2 February 2019
  13. New leadership of Sumy (Нове керівництво "Сум"?) Archived 11 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Sumy Today. 3 February 2019
  14. Artur Malkin. President of scandalous Kobra Vashchenko had been placed in charge of Sumy (Президент скандальной "Кобры" Ващенко возглавил "Сумы"). Footboom. 3 February 2019
  15. Yevhen Kudlai. PFC Sumy has been placed in charge a conartist with experience (ПФК "Сумы" возглавил мошенник со стажем). Dankor.Sumy. 5 February 2019
  16. Oleh Mahlyovanyi. Serhiy Makarov: We do not like that Vashchenko was placed in charge of Sumy and who before that dissolved Kobra (Helios) (Сергей Макаров: "Нам не нравится, что руководителем "Сум" назначили Ващенко, который до этого развалил "Кобру"). Tribuna. 10 February 2019
  17. 31 year old Oliynyk became a head coach of PFC Sumy. Sport Arena. 3 February 2019
  18. The FFU CDC secretary: number of players and functionaries of Sumy will receive disqualifications from a year to lifetime (Секретарь КДК ФФУ: Ряд игроков и функционеров Сум получат дисквалификации от одного года до пожизненного). UA-Football. 11 April 2019
  19. Baranka: PFC Sumy has earned some 10 million euros in match fixing. Sport Arena. 14 April 2019
  20. Sevidov is receiving a lifetime disqualification due to participation in match fixing. Sport Arena. 14 April 2019
  21. Sumy plan to return to the Ukrainian championship starting in the 2020–21 season (Сумы планируют вернуться в чемпионат Украины с сезона 2020/21). Sport Arena. 1 October 2019
  22. Artur Malkin. Artem Frankov: The Committee of Appeals cancelled the CDC decision on "Sumy" (Артем Франков: "Апелляционный комитет отменил решение КДК по "Сумам"). Footboom. 10 October 2019
  23. http://fc.sumy.ua/category/players/
  24. http://pfl.ua/teams/495-sumy
  25. Club reforms in Krasnopillya and competes in the Sumy Oblast competition
  26. Deducted three (3) points for non-payment of participation fees and additional three (3) points for non-payment of participation fees for the second half of the season. The decision was officially declared by the Disciplinary Committee of the PFL on 28 May 2009
    "Professional Football League – 2009 Official Meetings Minutes No. 15 (Deduction of 6 points for FC Sumy)". PFL (in Ukrainian). 28 May 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
  27. (in Ukrainian) PFL -Official source of change of name to FC Sumy Archived 13 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  28. The PFL Central Council approved groups composition of the 2010–11 Ukrainian Second League (Центральна Рада затвердила склади груп другої ліги сезону 2010–2011 років). PFL. 13 July 2010
  29. Defeated FC Poltava in Championship game 2–1
  30. Defeated Balkany Zorya 3–1 on aggregate
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