FC Viktoriya Sumy

Football Club Viktoriya Sumy (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «Вікторія» Суми) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Sumy. The club competes in the Ukrainian First League, the second division of Ukrainian football. Founded in 2015 as Football Club Viktoriya Mykolaivka, the club merged with FC Alians Lypova Dolyna in 2022 and subsequently relocated from Arena Viktoriya in Mykolaivka to Yuvileiny Stadium in Sumy.

Viktoriya Sumy

Full name	Футбольний клуб «Вікторія» Суми Football Club Viktoriya Sumy
Founded	2015; 10 years ago (2015), as F.C. Viktoriya Mykolaivka 2023; 2 years ago (2023), as F.C. Viktoriya Sumy
Ground	Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy
Capacity	25,830
Owner	LNZ Group
Chairman	Serhiy Bondarenko
Head coach	Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi
League	Ukrainian First League
2024–25	9th
Website	https://fcviktoria.sumy.ua/
Home colours Away colours

History

Viktoriya Stadium in Mykolaivka

Yuvileiny Stadium in Sumy

The club was created in 2015 in town of Zhovtneve (today Mykolaivka).^[1] From its establishment to 2021 the club was coached by Artem Radionov, a footballer out of Sumy, who spent most of his career playing for teams from the city of Sumy as well as the region.

The club returned to professional competitions in 2023 due to the 2022 Russian aggression against Ukraine. During their time away, Viktoriya merged with another club FC Alyans Lypova Dolyna taking over their place in the Ukrainian First League (2nd tier). The merger took place in January 2022^[2] and was postponed during the active phase of the Russian full-scale invasion and partial occupation of Sumy Oblast. In 2023 the club officially moved its administration of Sumy playing at the main stadium.

Honours

• Ukrainian Football Amateur League
  • Winners (2): 2017–18,^[3] 2019–20
  • Runners-up (1): 2018–19
• Ukrainian Amateur Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 2017–18, 2019–20
• Sumy Oblast Championship
  • Runners-up (2): 2015, 2016
• Sumy Oblast Winter Championship
  • Winner (1): 2016
• Sumy Oblast Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 2015

Current squad

As of 5 May 2025^[4]

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 Heorhiy Klimov 4 DF  UKR Valeriy Kurelyekh 5 DF  UKR Yuriy Kravchuk 8 MF  UKR Ruslan Palamar 9 DF  UKR Oleksandr Chernov (on loan from Obolon Kyiv) 10 FW  UKR Danylo Knysh 11 MF  UKR Oleksandr Lebedenko 15 FW  UKR Maksym Yevpak 16 DF  UKR Artur Novotryasov 17 DF  UKR Yevhen Korokhov 18 MF  UKR Maksym Boyko 19 DF  UKR Artem Danylyuk 21 MF  UKR Maksym Pokotylyuk

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 FW  UKR Artem Shpyryonok 25 MF  UKR Stanislav Sharay 27 MF  UKR Denys Dolinskyi 28 DF  UKR Denys Ryabyi 29 MF  UKR Artem Ryabyi 32 GK  UKR Oleksandr Lytvynenko 33 DF  UKR Dmytro Ulyanov 45 DF  UKR Maksym Sasovskyi 70 MF  UKR Maksym Chehlov 71 GK  UKR Mykola Yarosh 77 MF  UKR Serhiy Mashtalir 96 FW  UKR Nazariy Nych

Head coaches

• 2015 – 2021 Artem Radionov
• 2021 – 2022 Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi
• 2022 – 2023 Volodymyr Romanenko (caretaker)
• 2023 – present Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Other		Notes
Viktoriya Mykolaivka
2016–17	4th "2"	4/12	20	8	6	6	21	23	30		AM	1⁄4 finals
2017–18	4th "2"	1/8	14	11	3	0	31	10	36		PL	Winner
											AM	Finalist
2018–19	4th "2"	2/12	22	17	4	1	58	11	55	1⁄32 finals	PL	Finalist
											AM	1⁄16 finals
2019–20	4th "2"	1/12	22	18	3	1	59	12	57		PL	Winner
											AM	Finalist
2020–21	4th "2"	1/11	20	18	1	1	61	21	55	1⁄16 finals	PL	Finalist	Promoted
											AM	1⁄2 finals
2021–22	3rd "2"	10/16	19	8	3	8	22	23	27	1⁄64 finals			Promoted
2022–23	club idle, merger → Viktoriya Sumy
2023–24	2nd "2"									1⁄4 finals
	2nd

See also

• FC LNZ-Lebedyn
• FC Alians Lypova Dolyna