FC Skala Stryi (2004)

This article is about a club that was established in 2004 as FC Morshyn. For an article on the original club, see FC Skala Stryi (1911).

FC Skala Stryi was a Ukrainian football professional team from Stryi in Lviv oblast. It used to play at Medyk Stadium in Morshyn that previously belonged to former FC Medyk Morshyn. On 9 July 2018 the Professional Football League of Ukraine confirmed that the club withdrew from competition.^[1]

Skala Stryi

Full name	FC Skala Stryi
Founded	2004 (crest year 1911)[a]
Ground	Medyk Stadium, Morshyn Sokil Stadium, Stryi
Capacity	812 6,000
Chairman	Mykola Kmit
Manager	Piotr Lament
League	Ukrainian Second League
2016–17	First League, 17th (relegated)

Medyk Stadium in Morshyn

Sokil Stadium in Stryi

It is the fourth reincarnation of Ukrainian sports club that existed in Austria-Hungary (Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) in 1911.

History

Beside Mykola Kmit, the initiative to create the club came also from the member of the Board of directors of IDS Group, Vsevolod Bilas, and the president of the Georgian FC Gagra, Beso Chikhradze.

In 2004-2009 the club was competing in the Ukrainian Youth Football League as a youth football club FC Morshyn. At same time another club FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi represented the neighboring city of Stryi in the Ukrainian First League. In 2006 Hazovyk-Skala was reorganized as FC Lviv and moved to Lviv. In 2009 FC Morshyn entered the professional ranks with their first game played as a friendly against FC Lviv.^[2] During the 2009–10 winter break it renamed itself to FC Skala Morshyn, while playing in Stryi.^[3]

On 10 February 2011 the club was renamed again to FC Skala Stryi due to the fact that it was playing in Stryi.^[4]

On 19 June 2018, the club's president Mykola Kmyt announced that his club will withdraw from competition if the club will not find new owners.^[5] Several days before the club's general director Luis Esmi commented information about withdrawal of Skala Stryi.^[6] He explained that the club requested clarification from the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) on situation about fixed matches and information regarding punishment for the guilty. The federation was accusing the club in match fixing. Esmi confirmed that the club released all its players. He also stated that the club will certainly withdraw if the federation would establish that our players were involved in match fixing and will think whether or not participate if other clubs were involved but no one would get punished.

On 14 June 2018, the club expressed its intentions to merge its football academy with the academy of FC Volyn Lutsk.^[7]

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Other		Notes
FC Morshyn
2009	4th "1"	4	8	1	1	6	12	23	4
Skala Morshyn
2009–10	3rd "A"	11	20	1	3	16	11	40	6	1/32 finals	PFL LC	Group Stage
Skala Stryi
2010–11	3rd "A"	7	22	10	5	7	26	19	35	1/32 finals			moved to Stryi
2011–12	3rd "A"	9	26	8	4	14	26	36	28	1/32 finals
2012–13	3rd "A"	5	20	9	6	5	19	15	33	1/64 finals
	3rd "1"	5	30	10	7	13	25	41	37				Stage 2[8]
2013–14	3rd	18	35	8	3	24	22	57	27	1/32 finals
2014–15	3rd	5	27	11	5	11	29	34	38	1/32 finals
2015–16	3rd	5	26	13	7	6	41	23	46	1/32 finals			Promoted[9]
2016–17	2nd	17	34	5	5	24	25	58	20	1/32 finals			Relegated
2017–18	3rd	4	27	12	4	11	29	29	40	Withdrew			Withdrew

Managers

• 2009–2010: Oleksandr Tomakh
• 2011–2013: Volodymyr Reva
• 2013–2014: Volodymyr Knysh
• 2014–2017: Vasyl Malyk
• 2017–2018: Roman Hnativ

Former players

• Nazar Kmit – made over 100 league appearances

Former emblems

• 
  Emblem 2010–12
• 
  Skala Morshyn banner at the Medyk Stadium
• 
  Emblem before 2010

See also

• FC Gagra
• FC Medyk Morshyn
• FC Avanhard Zhydachiv
• FC Skala Stryi

Notes

1. traditional foundation year of FC Skala Stryi