FC Mynai

FC Mynai (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб Минай) is a Ukrainian professional football club from Mynai, a suburb of Uzhhorod in Zakarpattia Oblast.

Mynai

Full name	FC Mynai
Nickname(s)	The Wolf
Founded	2015; 10 years ago (2015)
Ground	Avanhard Stadium, Uzhhorod[1] Mynai Arena, Mynai
Capacity	12,000
Owner	Valeriy Peresolyak (president)[2]
Head coach	vacant
League	Ukrainian First League
2024–25	12th
Website	https://fcminaj.com
Home colours Away colours

History

The Coat of Arms of Mynai features a fox which is also the club's symbol

The club was founded in 2015 by former customs officials in one of the Uzhhorod suburbs Mynai and played at the city and since 2016 – at the regional level.

The club was admitted to the Professional Football League of Ukraine after passing attestation for the 2018–19 Ukrainian Second League season.^[3] In their first professional season, Mynai managed to win Group A of the Second League, which earned them promotion to the Ukrainian First League. However, they lost the Ukrainian Second League Championship Game to Group B winners FC Kremin Kremenchuk.

In the 2019-20 Ukrainian First League season, they finished first, earning them promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League.^[1] Since the start of the 2020–21 season they play their home matches in the Avanhard Stadium in Uzhhorod.^[1] They continued to play in the Ukrainian Premier League, despite finishing last in the 2020–2021 season. Instead Olimpik Donetsk (they had finished 13th in the Premier League) were relegated back to the Persha Liha (Second Ukrainian League).^[4] In the 2023–24 season the club did relegate after four seasons in the top flight (finishing second to last).^[5] In July 2024 FC Mynai was extremely close to returning straight away to the Ukrainian Premier League.^[6] The club took part in a Mini-Tournament play-offs that was created for an open spot in the competition due to the disappearing of SC Dnipro-1.^[6] It made it to the final of this tournament, but lost to FC Livyi Bereh Kyiv.^[6]

Current squad

As of 2 July 2025^[7][8]

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 Maksym Rosul 3 DF  UKR Nazar Havryliuk 5 MF  UKR Dmytro Prikhna 7 FW  UKR Yehor Hunichev 8 MF  UKR Ivan Matyushenko 9 MF  UKR Anton Demchenko 10 FW  UKR Pavlo Tyshchuk 11 FW  UKR Yevheniy Ryazantsev 13 DF  UKR Pavlo Zakhidnyi 17 MF  UKR Nazariy Vorobchak 19 MF  UKR Maksym Maksymets

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  UKR Oleksiy Malaki 23 MF  UKR Artem Dolbnev 25 MF  UKR Vitaliy Rozhko 27 FW  UKR Demid Bulhatov 29 DF  UKR Bohdan Tokar 30 GK  UKR Dmytro Yakubets 35 DF  UKR Daniel Banyk 71 MF  UKR Kostyantyn Omelyanenko 99 MF  UKR Arsentiy Doroshenko — MF  UKR Ivan Stankovych

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

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

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Mynai.

Ukraine Oleh Dopilka Vasyl Kobin Yuriy Kolomoyets Denys Kozhanov Artem Milevskyi Serhiy Myakushko Ihor Oshchypko Yevhen Seleznyov Anton Shynder

Europe Rustam Akhmedzade Anatoliy Nuriyev Andriy Popovych Mihail Ghecev

Africa Siaka Bagayoko Tercious Malepe Shemmy Mayembe

Honours

• Ukrainian First League
  • Winners (1): 2019–20
• Ukrainian Second League
  • Winners of group A (1): 2019
• Ukrainian Football Amateur League
  • Winners of group 1 (1): 2018
• Zakarpattia Oblast championship
  • Winners (1): 2017
  • 3rd place (1): 2016
• Zakarpattia Cup
  • Winners (2): 2017, 2018^[9]
• Zakarpattia Supercup
  • Winners (1): 2017

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Other		Notes
2017–18	4th	1/9	16	11	4	1	34	9	37		PL	QF	Admitted
2018–19	3rd	1/10	27	15	4	8	41	26	49	1⁄8 finals			Promoted
2019–20	2nd	1/16	30	19	5	6	51	27	62	1⁄2 finals			Promoted
2020–21	1st	14/14	26	4	6	16	16	47	18	1⁄8 finals			Readmitted
2021–22	1st	15/16	18	1	7	10	12	30	10	1⁄16 finals			Avoided relegation
2022–23	1st	8/16	30	9	9	12	25	30	36	—
2023–24	1st	15 /16	30	5	10	15	27	50	25	1⁄8 finals
2024–25	2nd	12 /18	24	8	6	10	26	30	30	1⁄16 finals			Withdrew

List of coaches

• 2015: Viacheslav Pinkovskyi
• 2016: Mykola Hibaliuk
• 2016: Mykhailo Ivanytsia
• 2017: Mykola Hibaliuk
• 2018–2019: Ihor Kharkovshchenko
• 2019: Kirill Kurenko
• 2019–2021: Vasyl Kobin
• 2021: Mykola Tsymbal
• 2021: Vasyl Kobin
• 2021: Ihor Leonov
• 2022–2023: Volodymyr Sharan

Staff

Administration[10]	Coaching[11] (senior team)	Coaching (U-21/U-19 team)
President – Valeriy Peresolyak Vice-president – Yevhen Plavaiko Sporting director – Mykhaylo Kopolovets Administrator – Serhiy Rushchak Head coach – Assistant coach – Vadym Chernyshenko Assistant coach – Ihor Luchkevych Assistant coach – Oleksiy Antonovych GK coach – Andriy Novak Head coach U21 – Head coach U19 – Oleksiy Polyanskyi