FC Kudrivka

Football Club Kudrivka (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «Кудрівка») is a Ukrainian football club based in Kudrivka, Chernihiv Oblast. The team set to play in Ukrainian Premier League, the top tier of Ukrainian football after promotion from Ukrainian First League in 2024–25.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Kudrivka

Full name	Football Club Kudrivka
Founded	21 June 1982; 43 years ago (1982)
Ground	Kudrivka Arena Yunist Stadium Chernihiv Arena Stadium Yuvileinyi
Capacity	500
Chairman	Roman Solodarenko
Manager	Vasyl Baranov
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2024–25	Ukrainian First League, 4th of 18 (promoted via play-off)
Website	https://kudrivka.com.ua/
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

History

Pavlo Shchedrakov with Desna Chernihiv, currently playing for FC Kudrivka

The club was established in 1982.^[6] The club won the Chernihiv Oblast Football Cup in 2016, 2019 and in 2021. In the season 2020–21 and 2021–22, the club played in Ukrainian Football Amateur League. In 2022 the club won the Chernihiv Oblast Football Cup.^[7]

In March 2023, the club won the Super Cup of Chernihiv Oblast, against the football club Khvylia. The match was played in Yunist Stadium, Volodymyr Kurbakov, the Deputy Chairman of the National Olympic Committee, awarded Nazar Voloshyn as the top scorer of the competition.^[8][9]

Ukrainian Second League

See also: 2023–24 FC Kudrivka season

In 2023 the club was admitted to the 2023–24 Ukrainian Second League.^[10] The club to reinforce the team signed some players, including Denys Skepskyi,^[11] Yevhen Chepurnenko, Dmytro Kulyk, Volodymyr Zubashivskyi, Oleksandr Rudenko, Myroslav Serdyuk and Mykola Syrash.^[12] On 25 November 2023, the club's president, Roman Solodarenko, announced that the club would relocate to Irpin in 2024.^[13] The club's president bought the Ukrainian First League club Nyva Buzova, and it was merged with FC Kudrivka.^[14]

Ukrainian First League

See also: 2024–25 FC Kudrivka season

The club began to use the Stadium Yuvileinyi primarily for matches in the Ukrainian First League.^[15] The club was included in Group B, finishing first and entering the play-offs for promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League.^[16]

On 1 June 2025, Kudrivka secure promotion to Ukrainian Premier League for the first time in their history from next season after win against FC Vorskla Poltava on aggregate 1–1 and win penalty 3–4.^[17]

Infrastructure

See also: Kudrivka Arena, Yunist Stadium (Chernihiv), and Stadium Yuvileinyi

Stadium

Stadium Yuvileinyi in Bucha

The team play at Kudrivka Arena in Kudrivka built in 2018.^[18] The club used the Yunist Stadium and in 2024 with the relocation to Irpin started using the Stadium Yuvileinyi for the Ukrainian First League matches.^[19]

Training centre

FC Kudrivka train in the Kudrivka Arena and sometimes in the Yunist Stadium in Chernihiv.^[20]

Players

Current squad

As of 7 August 2025^[21] 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 1 GK  UKR Roman Lyopka 5 MF  UKR Andriy Totovytskyi 6 MF  UKR Mykola Vechurko 7 FW  UKR Dmytro Korkishko 8 MF  UKR Andriy Storchous 9 FW  UKR Oleksandr Kozak 10 FW  UKR Oleksiy Lytovchenko 11 FW  UKR Roman Solodarenko 12 GK  UKR Denys Zaychenko 13 DF  UKR Vladyslav Shapoval 14 MF  UKR Kyrylo Matvyeyev 17 DF  UKR Myroslav Serdyuk 19 MF  UKR Artur Dumanyuk 20 FW  UKR Denys Svityukha 21 FW  UKR Denys Bezborodko

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 MF  UKR Bohdan Veklyak 29 MF  UKR Denys Nahnoynyi (on loan from Metalist 1925 Kharkiv) 30 MF  UKR Danylo Tuzenko 33 MF  UKR Yevheniy Morozko 37 GK  UKR Anton Yashkov 39 DF  UKR Artem Machelyuk 44 GK  UKR Illya Karavashchenko 77 FW  UKR Artem Lyehostayev 78 MF  UKR Valeriy Rohozynskyi 90 DF  UKR Ivan Mamrosenko 91 DF  UKR Maksym Melnychuk 99 DF  UKR Roman Hahun — MF  UKR Ivan Losenko (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) — MF  UKR Oleh Pushkaryov (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)

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

Other players under contract

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

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
2020–21	4th Group 2	4	13	3	4	0	37	16	42
2021–22	4th Group 2	2	9	7	2	0	26	4	25				[22]
no participation due to war conditions													Admitted
2023–24	3rd	7	26	10	7	9	33	40	37	1⁄32 finals			merged with Nyva Buzova/Promotion
2024–25	2nd	4	22	10	5	7	25	18	35	1⁄16 finals			Promotion to PL via play-off
2025–26	1st		30

Honours

Domestic competitions

Chernihiv Oblast Football Championship Winners (1): 2022[23] Chernihiv Oblast Football Cup Winners (5): 2016[24] 2019,[25] 2021, 2022, [26] 2025 Chernihiv Oblast Super Cup: Winners (3):2019, 2021,[27] 2022[28] Kyiv Oblast Football Federation Winners (1): 2020 Kyiv Oblast Football Cup Winners (1): 2021

Individual Player & Coach awards Top Scorer of Ukrainian Cup Dmytro Kulyk: 2023–24 (4 goals together with Andriy Shtohrin)[29][30]

Notable players

• Andriy Porokhnya^[31]
• Mykola Syrash
• Dmytro Kulyk^[32]
• Roman Vovk
• Myroslav Serdyuk
• Volodymyr Zubashivskyi^[33]
• Pavlo Shchedrakov
• Serhiy Datsenko^[34]
• Artem Lutchenko^[35]
• Artem Hryshchenko^[36]
• Dmytro Pronevych
• Valentyn Krukovets

Coaches

• Valentyn Krukovets (2020)^[37]
• Oleksandr Babor (2020–2022)^[38][39]
• Serhiy Datsenko (2022–2023)
• Roman Loktionov (2023–2024)^[40]
• Vasyl Baranov (2024)
• Roman Loktionov (2024, merger of Kudrivka-Nyva and Kudrivka)
• Vasyl Baranov (interim, 2024–present)

See also

• Kudrivka Arena
• FC Nyva Buzova