MFC Mykolaiv

MFС Mykolaiv (Municipal Football Club "Mykolaiv", Ukrainian: Муніципальний футбольний клуб "Миколаїв") was a Ukrainian football club based in Mykolaiv.

MFK Mykolaiv

Full name	MFC Mykolaiv
Nickname(s)	Shipbuilders
Founded	1920
Dissolved	2022
Ground	Tsentralnyi Stadion
Capacity	15,600[1]
2020–21	Ukrainian First League, 4th of 16 (relegated)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Former club crest

It is one of the oldest football clubs that exists in Ukraine. Originally was established as a football team of the Black Sea Shipyard, since dissolution of the Soviet Union and cutting of the shipyard's budget which was based mostly on military contacts, it is sponsored mostly by the city of Mykolaiv.

Description

Names

• 1920–1922: Naval Factory
• 1922–1926: Marti-Badin Factory
• 1926–1926: Metalisty Mykolaiv
• 1927–1928: Raikom Metalistiv
• 1929–1935: Marti Factory
• 1936–1940: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
• 1941–1944: Nazi Germany occupation of Ukraine
• 1944–1949: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
• 1951–1952: Mykolaiv City
• 1953–1959: Avanhard Mykolaiv
• 1960–1965: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
• 1966–1966: Budivelnyk Mykolaiv
• 1967–1991: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
• 1992–1994: Evis Mykolaiv
• 1994–2002: SC Mykolaiv
• 2002–2022: MFC Mykolaiv

History

The club was founded in 1920 under the name Sudostroitel (Sudnobudivnyk) Mykolaiv. It is the oldest continuously playing club in the country that competes on the professional level.

Throughout the Soviet times and until the 1990s, it mostly played under the name of Sudnobudivnyk meaning Shipbuilder associated with the Black Sea Shipyard.

MFC Mykolaiv took part in the first Ukrainian Premier League season in 1992 under the name FC Evis Mykolaiv, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 (of 11) Ukrainian teams from the West Division of the Soviet Second League 1991. The club is one of the holders of the unfortunate distinction as being the team to be demoted three times from the Ukrainian Premier League.

MFС Mykolaiv's best achievement in the Ukrainian Premier League was 13th place (in 1994–95). From 1994, the club was known as SC Mykolaiv, FC Mykolaiv since 2000, and MFC Mykolaiv since 2006.

MFC Mykolaiv became insolvent and ceased to exist after the City Administration of Mykolaiv informed the PFL that the team would not be competing in the 2008/09 Persha Liha season. The team then requested re-admittance to the PFL, but it was too late as the calendar was already set up. The PFL allowed the club to compete in the Druha Liha, but only in the next season. The administration of the Dynamo Kyiv extended its helping hand by withdrawing its junior team Dynamo-3 Kyiv from the Second League and, thus, for Mykolaiv to be placed instead of it.

MFC Mykolaiv reached 1st place in Druha Liha group A in 2010–11 season and was promoted to Persha Liha.

Colours are blue and white hooped shirts, white shorts.

Honors

• Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (top tier)
  • Runners-up (1): 1927
• Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (2nd tier)
  • Winners (1): 1936
• Class B (2nd tier) (Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR)
  • Runners-up (1): 1960
• Soviet Second League (Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR)
  • Winners (1): 1974
  • Runners-up (2): 1971, 1990 (lower)
• Ukrainian Persha Liha
  • Winners (1): 1997-98
  • Runners-up (1): 1993-94
• Ukrainian Druha Liha
  • Winners (2): 2005/06 (Group B), 2010-11 (Group A)

League and cup history

Soviet competitions

Ukrainian competitions

  Tier 1.

  Tier 2.

  Tier 3.

  Tier 4, extra tier that existed rarely throughout the history

  Tier 5, extra tier that existed in 1937

  Amateurs

Information since Ukrainian Independence

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	1st "A"	9	18	3	4	11	12	29	10	1⁄32 finals			Relegated
1992–93	2nd	7	42	18	11	13	60	39	47	1⁄16 finals
1993–94	2nd	2	38	25	6	7	76	32	56	1⁄16 finals			Promoted
1994–95	1st	13	34	11	5	18	33	59	38	1⁄32 finals
1995–96	1st	16	34	10	8	16	37	53	38	1⁄32 finals			Relegated
1996–97	2nd	7	46	21	12	13	66	37	75	1⁄32 finals
1997–98	2nd	1	42	31	5	6	94	31	98	1⁄16 finals			Promoted
1998–99	1st	16	30	2	6	22	18	67	12	1⁄8 finals			Relegated
1999–00	2nd	6	34	15	7	12	40	38	52	1⁄16 finals
2000–01	2nd	4	34	17	8	9	41	30	59	1⁄16 finals
2001–02	2nd	10	34	12	10	12	37	44	46	4th round
2002–03	2nd	5	34	15	7	12	30	37	52	1⁄16 finals
2003–04	2nd	12	34	11	9	14	31	31	42	1⁄16 finals
2004–05	2nd	17	34	8	7	19	15	40	31	1⁄16 finals			Relegated
2005–06	3rd "A"	1	28	22	3	3	56	11	69	1⁄32 finals			Promoted
2006–07	2nd	13	36	12	10	14	33	40	46	1⁄32 finals
2007–08	2nd	10	38	13	13	12	33	27	52	1⁄16 finals			Relegated[2]
2008–09	3rd "A"	11	32	11	10	11	28	27	43	Did not enter
2009–10	3rd "A"	4	20	11	6	3	30	13	39	1⁄16 finals
2010–11	3rd "A"	1	22	15	3	4	29	12	48	1⁄32 finals			Promoted
2011–12	2nd	16	34	9	4	21	33	51	28	1⁄16 finals			-3[3]
2012–13	2nd	6	34	16	9	9	45	41	54	1⁄32 finals			-3[4]
2013–14	2nd	16[5]	30	9	4	17	34	49	31	1⁄8 finals
2014–15	2nd	14	30	6	6	18	34	67	24	1⁄16 finals
2015–16	2nd	7	30	13	8	9	34	27	44	1⁄8 finals			-3[6]
2016–17	2nd	14	34	11	4	19	35	44	37	1⁄2 finals
2017–18	2nd	10	34	12	8	14	39	50	44	1⁄32 finals
2018–19	2nd	9	28	10	7	11	34	32	37	1⁄16 finals
2019–20	2nd	11	30	8	10	12	45	45	34	1⁄8 finals
2020–21	2nd	4	30	15	8	7	49	23	53	1⁄16 finals

MFC Mykolaiv-2

The club entered their reserve team into the Ukrainian Second League for the 2017–18 season.^[7]

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1996–97	4th	3	8	0	0	8	0	5	0
did not participate
2017–18	3rd	9	33	10	7	16	41	58	37
2018–19	3rd	9	27	5	5	17	22	52	20