FC Hoverla Uzhhorod

Football Club Hoverla Uzhhorod (Ukrainian: Футбольний Клуб "Говерла" Ужгород [ɦoˈwɛrlɐ ˈuʒɦorod]) was a Ukrainian professional football club based in Uzhhorod. Following the end of the 2015–16 season it was expelled from the Ukrainian Premier League because of debts to (current and former) players.^[2] It then ceased to exist.^[3]

Hoverla Uzhhorod

Full name	Football Club Hoverla Uzhhorod
Founded	1925; 100 years ago (1925)[1]
Dissolved	2016; 9 years ago (2016)
Ground	Avanhard Stadium
Capacity	12,000
President	Ivan Shufrych
Head coach	Vyacheslav Hroznyi
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2015–16	13th
Website	fcgoverla.uz.ua (archived)
Home colours Away colours

1950 Champion of Ukraine – the Zakarpattia Regional Council team (Spartak society)

History

See also: SC Rusj Uzhorod

The club was inaugurated in 1946 as Spartak Uzhhorod. However some of its emblems point to a predecessor, SC Rus, founded in 1925, although direct links between the two franchises can barely be traced. In 1961, Spartak was renamed Verhovyna, and in 1971 Hoverla. In 1982, it was renamed Zakarpattia, then Verhovyna again in 1997 for two years.

Zakarpattia started the 2001–02 season in the Ukrainian Premier League, but a last-place finish saw the club demoted to the Ukrainian First League. They returned in 2004–05 and 2007–08 but each time with the same result: relegation from the Premier League after a single season.

Before the start of the 2011–12 Ukrainian First League season the club renamed itself FC Hoverla-Zakarpattia Uzhhorod.^[4]

The team renamed themselves Hoverla prior to the start of the 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League season.^[5] Following the season the club was supposed to be relegated according to the season's regulations, yet conveniently both runners-up PFC Oleksandriya and FC Stal Alchevsk refused to get promoted, while the Football Federation of Ukraine refused other teams to get promoted.

On 8 June 2016, (after the end of the 2015–16 season) the club did not get a licence to continue to play in the league due to debts to (current and former) players and was thus de facto expelled from the Ukrainian Premier League.^[2] It then ceased to exist.^[3]

Name changes

• 1946 – Spartak
• 1961 – Verkhovyna
• 1971 – Hoverla
• / 1982 – Zakarpattia
• 1997 – Verkhovyna
• 1999 – Zakarpattia
• 2011 – Hoverla-Zakarpattia
• 2012 – Hoverla

Football kits and sponsors

Years[6]	Football kit	Shirt sponsor
2001–02	lotto/adidas	–
2004–06	lotto
2007–08
2009–10
2012–14	adidas

Honors

• Ukrainian First League
  • Winners (3): 2003–04, 2008–09, 2011–12
  • Runners-up (2): 2001–02, 2006–07
• Ukrainian Second League
  • Winners (1): 1998–99 (Group A)

In Soviet Union

• Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR
  • Winners (3): 1946, 1950, 1953
  • Runners-up (1): 1972
• Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
  • Winners (1): 1950

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	2nd "B"	5	26	13	5	8	28	25	31	1/32 finals
1992–93	2nd	16	42	13	10	19	45	56	36	1/64 finals
1993–94	2nd	14	38	12	8	18	33	53	32	1/32 finals
1994–95	2nd	17	38	12	10	20	40	62	46	1/16 finals
1995–96	2nd	17	42	14	8	20	49	67	50	1/32 finals
1996–97	2nd	15	46	17	7	22	56	78	58	1/32 finals 1st Stage			as Verhovyna
1997–98	2nd	20	42	7	11	24	42	79	32	1/32 finals			Relegated as Verhovyna
1998–99	3rd "A"	1	28	20	6	2	48	14	66	1/64 finals			Promoted
1999–00	2nd	13	34	14	6	14	36	49	48	1/16 finals
2000–01	2nd	2	34	19	7	8	50	38	64	1/8 finals			Promoted
2001–02	1st	14	26	5	6	15	23	49	21	1/4 finals			Relegated
2002–03	2nd	7	34	14	9	11	27	26	51	1/16 finals
2003–04	2nd	1	34	22	4	8	49	27	70	1/16 finals			Promoted
2004–05	1st	12	30	7	10	13	21	30	31	1/32 finals
2005–06	1st	16	30	3	6	21	17	53	15	1/16 finals			Relegated
2006–07	2nd	2	36	25	5	6	50	22	80	1/16 finals			Promoted
2007–08	1st	16	30	3	9	18	17	54	18	1/16 finals			Relegated
2008–09	2nd	1	32	21	6	5	55	28	69	1/8 finals			Promoted
2009–10	1st	16	30	5	4	21	18	44	19	1/16 finals			Relegated
2010–11	2nd	6	34	16	8	10	51	40	56	1/32 finals
2011–12	2nd	1	34	27	3	4	67	16	84	1/16 finals			Promoted
2012–13	1st	15	30	5	7	18	29	57	22	1/8 finals
2013–14	1st	12	28	7	5	16	26	39	26	1/16 finals
2014–15	1st	12	26	3	10	13	22	47	19	1/8 finals
2015–16	1st	13	26	3	7	16	13	45	7	1/16 finals			−9

In their last season the club was deducted nine points due to not complying with decisions of the FFU Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC).^[7]

Managers

USSR Bertalon Veyg (1946–47) Fedir Kuruts & Bertalon Veig (1948–49) Vasyl Radyk & Ferents Kuruts (1950–51) Vasyl Radyk (1952) Bertalon Veyg & Vasyl Radyk (1953) Karoy Sabo & Ferenc Kuruc (1954–55) Mykhaylo Mykhalyna (1956–59) Mykhaylo Mykhalyna & Ernest Yust (1960–61) Mykhaylo Mykhalyna (1963–68) Vasyl Revachko & Zoltan Dyerfi (1969–70) Vasyl Turyanchyk (1971) Dezyderiy Tovt & Ivan Pazho (1972–73) Mykhaylo Mykhalyna (1975) Ishtvan Shandor (197x–78) Ernest Kesler (1979–8?) Ishtvan Shandor (1984–87) Ivan Pazho (1987–88) Ivan Krasnetskyi (1989–90)

Ukraine Stepan Voytko (1990–92) Yuriy Chirkov (1992–93) Ivan Shanhin (1993–94) Ernest Kesler (1994) Ivan Ledney (1994) Yuriy Chirkov (1995) Matviy Bobal (1995–96) Oleksandr Holokolosov (1997) Stepan Voytko (1997) Ivan Shanhin (1997–98) Valentyn Khodukin (1998) Viktor Ryashko (1998–2000) Yuriy Kalitvintsev (1 July 2001 – 30 June 2002) Viktor Ryashko (2002–22 Aug 2005) Petro Kushlyk (Sept 7, 2005 – Sept 28, 2007) Volodymyr Sharan (Sept 28, 2007–21 April 2008) Mykhaylo Ivanytsya (21 April 2008 – 30 June 2009) Igor Gamula (1 July 2009 – 5 April 2011) Oleksandr Sevidov (7 April 2011 – 26 May 2013) Vyacheslav Hroznyi (18 June 2013 – May 2016)

Famous players

• David Odonkor

See also

• FC Uzhhorod