FC Inhulets Petrove

Football Club Ingulets Petrove (Ukrainian: Інгулець Петрове) is a professional Ukrainian football club from the town of Petrove, Kirovohrad Oblast that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League following the promotion from 2019–20 Ukrainian First League. The club colours are yellow and red.

Ingulets Petrove

Full name	Football Club Ingulets Petrove
Founded	2013; 12 years ago (2013)
Ground	Inhulets Stadium
Capacity	1,720
Chairman	Oleksandr Povoroznyuk
Head coach	Vasyl Kobin
League	Ukrainian First League
2024–25	Ukrainian Premier League, 15th of 16 (relegated)
Website	https://ingulets.club/
Home colours Away colours

History

The club was founded in the spring of 2013^[1] under the name FC Ahrofirma Pyatykhatska Volodymyrivka^[2] because the team sponsorship was one of the largest agricultural enterprises of Kirovohrad region. The president of the club was also the enterprise's president – Oleksandr Povorozniuk who previously was a president of FC Desna Chernihiv. In their first season Ahrofirma Piatykhatska was runner up in the Kirovohrad Oblast Cup.^[3] In 2013–2014, the club competed in both Kirovohrad Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast regional football competitions.^[1]

Club President Oleksandr Povorozniuk initiated a children's football teams in every village of the Petrove Raion.^[3]

The club in 2014 competed in the Ukrainian Football Amateur League and were beaten finalists in the championship game.

In February 2015, the club was renamed to Ingulets. The club again competed in the 2015 Amateur Championship but during the season the club entered the professional ranks and joined the PFL entering into the Ukrainian Second League. Ingulets Petrove continued its participation among amateurs with its second team, FC Inhulets-2 Petrove.^[4]

In their first season, the club were promoted to the Ukrainian First League.^[5]

In 2015 Ingulets competed at the 2015 UEFA Regions' Cup as "AF Pyatykhatska" representing Ukraine.

In 2019, the club reached one of its greatest achievements, arriving at the final of its national cup. The game ended with a 4–0 defeat by Shakhtar Donetsk.

At the end of the 2019-20 season, Ingulets was promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League for the first time in their history.

Gallery

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  2015–17 emblem
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  Povorozniuk Stadium in Volodymyrivka (original stadium)

Honours and distinctions

Domestic competitions Ukrainian First League Winners (1): 2023–24 Ukrainian Cup Runners–up (1): 2018–19 Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship Runners–up (1): 2014 Ukrainian Amateur Cup Winners (1): 2014 Kirovohrad Oblast Championship Winners (1): 2014 Runners–up (1): 2013

Individual Player & Coach awards Best Player of Ukrainian First League Nika Sichinava 2019–20

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Other		Notes
AF Piatykhatska Volodymyrivka
2014	4th (Amateur Championship)	1	6	4	1	1	27	8	13	Amateur Cup Winners
		1	3	2	1	0	5	2	7				Runners up[a]
Inhulets Petrove
2015	4th (Amateur Championship)	1	6	4	0	2	9	4	12	[b]	RC	Group stage
		2	10	6	0	4	16	8	18				joined Druha Liha; replaced with FC Inhulets-2 Petrove
2015–16	3rd (Second League)	3/14	26	14	8	4	37	16	50	1⁄16 finals			Promoted
2016–17	2nd (First League)	13/18	34	10	8	16	33	45	38	1⁄32 finals
2017–18		4/18	34	21	6	7	46	20	69	1⁄16 finals
2018–19		7/15	28	11	9	8	35	32	42	Final
2019–20		3/16	30	17	9	4	47	22	60	1⁄4 finals			Promoted
2020–21	1st (Premier League)	12/14	26	5	11	10	24	39	26	1⁄16 finals
2021–22		14/16	17	3	4	10	13	28	13	1⁄32 finals			All football competitions were suspended or abandoned on April 26 due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
2022–23		14/16	30	8	7	15	22	34	31	None			Relegated via play-offs

Notes:

1. Lost the league final to FC Rukh Vynnyky
2. was fielding its second team FC Inhulets-2 Petrove

Players

Current squad

As of 11 April 2025^[6][7]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  UKR Stanislav-Nuri Malysh 3 DF  UKR Oleksandr Dykhtyaruk 4 DF  UKR Vitaliy Dubiley 6 MF  UKR Ivan Losenko (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) 7 MF  UKR Vitaliy Farasyeyenko 8 MF  UKR Oleksandr Pyatov 9 MF  UKR Oleh Pushkaryov (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) 11 MF  UKR Vladyslav Chaban 12 GK  UKR Oleksiy Palamarchuk 13 MF  UKR Oleh Osypenko 14 FW  UKR Andriy Melenchuk 16 MF  UKR Daniil Chornyi 17 DF  UKR Vitaliy Katrych 18 MF  UKR Valeriy Sad

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW  UKR Radion Lisnyak 20 MF  UKR Roman Volokhatyi 21 DF  UKR Artem Benedyuk 36 GK  UKR Anton Zhylkin 42 MF  UKR Illya Hadzhuk 44 DF  UKR Oleksandr Zhovtenko 55 FW  UKR Mykyta Dzen 59 MF  UKR Bohdan Mohylnyi 77 GK  UKR Bohdan Smetanka 87 MF  UKR Maksym Skorokhod 88 FW  UKR Kristian Svystun 94 FW  UKR Artem Sitalo 97 FW  UKR Nazar Popov (on loan from Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) 99 FW  UKR Serhiy Kyslenko

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player

No. Pos. Nation Player

Europe competitions

Further information: FC Inhulets-2 Petrove

In 2015, "Ingulets" competed at the 2015 UEFA Regions' Cup as "AF Pyatykhatska" representing Ukraine. Entering the competition at the intermediate group stage (total 3 stages) and playing in Moldova, the team was not able to qualify for final tournament in the Republic of Ireland.

Games of AF Pyatykhatska in UEFA competitions
Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2015	UEFA Regions' Cup	Group 5	Catalonia	—	0–4	3rd
			Eastern Region	—	0–4
			Telenești	—	5–0

For the 2017 UEFA Regions' Cup where Ukraine was represented by a team of Kirovohrad Oblast (Kirovograd Region according to the UEFA), which was composed out of the Ingulets' reserve team, UEFA admitted the team under the name of "Ingulee, Kirovograd Region". Entering the competition again at the intermediate group stage which was played in Malta, the team was able to qualify for the final tournament in Turkey.

Games of Ingulee in UEFA competitions
Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2017	UEFA Regions' Cup	Group 1	Ligue Paris Ile-de-France	—	2–1	1st
			East West Central Scotland	—	3–0
			Gozo	—	3–1
		Group A	Istanbul	—	0–3	4th
			Lisboa	—	3–3
			Zagreb	—	1–4

List of managers

• 2013 Valeriy Len^[1]
• 2013–2015 Ruslan Pereverziy^[2][1]
• 2015 Viktor Bohatyr
• 2015–2016 Eduard Khavrov
• 2016 Dmytro Kolodyn
• 2016–2022 Serhiy Lavrynenko
• 2022 Mladen Bartulović (interim)
• 2022– Serhiy Kovalets

Administrative and coaching staff

Administration[8]	Coaching[9] (senior team)	Coaching (U-21/U-19 team)
President – Oleksandr Povoroznyuk First Vice-president – Mykola Zhurylo Vice-president – Vitaliy Kozlovskyi Chief of team – Yuriy Mansurov	Head coach – Vasyl Kobin Assistant coach – Oleksandr Stakhiv Assistant coach – Vyacheslav Kotlyar Assistant coach – Volodymyr Popov Goalkeeping coach – Yuriy Chumak Head of soccer school – Volodymyr Rukosuyev	Head coach U21 – Head coach U19 – Mykhaylo Lutsyshyn

See also

• FC Inhulets-2 Petrove