FC Vovchansk

Football club

Vovchansk

Full name

FC Vovchansk

Founded

1992

Ground

Stadion Ahrehatnoho Zavodu, Vovchansk
Stadion Sonyachny, Kharkiv

Chairman

Vitaliy Panov^[1]

Head coach

Andriy Berezovchuk

League

Ukrainian Second League

2020–21

Ukrainian Amateur League, Group 3, 2nd of 12 (promoted)

Website

Club website

Home colours

Away colours

FC Vovchansk (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «Вовчанськ») is a Ukrainian football club from Vovchansk. The club represents a local machine-building and equipment factory. Vovchansk is a Ukrainian adaption and official name of the city where the club is from, while the club calls itself only in Russian manner Volchansk. In June 2021, the club was admitted to the Second League, yet still in March no such plans existed.^[2]

On 21 June 2023 the 31st PFL Conference excluded several clubs that did not compete in the 2022–23 season and did not renew their membership.^[3]

History

The club was created in 1992.^[1] It was not until 1996 when the club made to top flight of the Kharkiv Oblast football championship (regional level).^[4] Its first notable achievement came in 2003 when Vovchansk became the 3rd place runner-up of regional competition.^[4] Yet it was only since 2017 that the club became a real contender for the regional title and started to participate in the national amateur competitions.^[4] In 2019–20 and 2020–21 AAFU championships it placed 2nd in the Group 3 and qualifying for the AAFU main league's title. During the 2020–21 season for some time Vovchansk was a group leader,^[2] but at finish yielded to Motor Zaporizhia of Chantsev. During this time the club's main team was managed by Andriy Berezovchuk who also performed functions of sports director in both Vovchansk and Metal Kharkiv. In 2021 Berezovchuk officially left the post of sports director in Metal^[5] that later transformed into Metalist.

Honours

Ukrainian Amateur Cup
- Runners-up (1): 2018–19
Kharkiv Oblast Championship
- Winner (2): 2018, 2019
- Runners-up (1): 2017
Kharkiv Oblast Cup
- Runners-up (2): 2004, 2017

Current squad

As of 14 October 2022^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
5	MF	UKR	Stanislav Demkiv (on loan from Lviv)
6	MF	UKR	Oleh Shelayev
10	MF	BRA	Luan Borges
14	MF	UKR	Dmytro Batusov
16	MF	UKR	Serhiy Kostyuk
17	FW	UKR	Denys Kuzubov (on loan from Metalist Kharkiv)
19	DF	UKR	Mykyta Teplyakov (on loan from Metalist Kharkiv)
22	MF	UKR	Illya Hlushko


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
26	FW	UKR	Maksym Khimchak (on loan from Lviv)
32	DF	UKR	Serhiy Borzenko (captain)
33	DF	UKR	Yevheniy Radchenko
44	DF	UKR	Daniel Ehbudzhuo (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
77	MF	UKR	Kyrylo Yermoshenko
81	GK	UKR	Denys Dyakov
88	DF	UKR	Denys Chaplanov

Head coaches

2017 – 2019 Andriy Berezovchuk
2019 – 2020 Vitaliy Komarnytskyi^[7]
2020 – present Andriy Berezovchuk (also a sports director in both Vovchansk and Metal Kharkiv (2020–21)^[2])

References

^ ^a ^b Artur Valerko. ФК «Вовчанськ»: 2018-й – найкращий рік в історії!. www.aafu.org.ua. 8 January 2019
^ ^a ^b ^c Artur Valerko. ФК «Вовчанськ»: 1 місце Групи 3 на проміжному етапі. www.aafu.org.ua. 13 March 2021
^ ХХХІ чергова Конференція ПФЛ: підсумували сезон 2022/23, визначили орієнтири нового чемпіонату. pfl.ua. 21 June 2023
^ ^a ^b ^c ФК ВОВЧАНСЬК (ХАРКІВСЬКА ОБЛ.) Archived 2020-02-20 at the Wayback Machine. www.aafu.org.ua.
^ Березовчук пішов з посади спортивного директора Металіста. UA-Football. 25 June 2021
^ "Професіональна футбольна ліга України".
^ Виталий Комарницкий - главный тренер ФК «Волчанск». fc-metalist.com