NK Veres Rivne

NK Veres Rivne
Full name Narodnyy Klub (Peoples' Club) Veres Rivne
Founded 1957
Ground Avanhard Stadium (until 2016)
Izotop Stadium, Varash (2016–17, since 2018)
Arena Lviv (2017–18)
Kolos Stadium, Mlyniv (since 2018)
President Oleksiy Khakhlyov
Manager Oleh Shandruk
League Ukrainian Second League
2017–18 UPL, 6th
Website Club website

NK Veres Rivne is a Ukrainian football club based in Rivne.

The team ran into financial difficulties after the winter break of the 2010–11 season and was removed from the Ukrainian Second League.[1] Between 1992–1995, Veres Rivne took part in the Ukrainian Premier League, and achieved their best result of 12th place in 1993–94. In that season they also reached the semi-finals of Ukrainian Cup. Their home stadium until 2017 was Avanhard Stadium. The uniform includes home red shirt with black shorts, and away all black.

History

Soviet times

Team was founded in 1957 as Kolhospnyk (collective farm worker).The team debuted in the 1958 season in the Class B Third Zone and Placed 14th of the 16 teams the participated. In all the team played 13 seasons in Class B. The best results came in the 1968 and 1969 seasons where the team placed 7th. In 1966, it changed its name to Horyn after the river that flows in Volhynia.

After the reorganization of the Championship of USSR in 1971 Horyn started playing Second League of the Ukrainian Zone and played there until the fall of the Soviet Union. In 1972, the club became part of all Ukrainian Avanhard voluntary sports society and changed its name to Avanhard. In the first season in the Second League of the Ukrainian Zone Avanhard placed 26th. Starting in the late 1970s Avangard started progressing and in 1981 under the management of two famous Dynamo Kyiv players Viktor Matvienko and Volodymyr Troshkin Avanhard got 3rd place. Nine years later under the management of Viktor Pokora Avanhard placed 3rd again.

Three seasons in Vyshcha Liha

During the fall of the Soviet Union it changed its name again to Veres (heather) and was placed in the 1992 Ukrainian First League. In the same season, Veres placed first and was promoted to the Vyshcha Liha. In the first season in Vyshcha Liha Veres placed last but wasn't relegated because the league was expanded. The next season was the most successful season in the clubs history, the team was 4th after the end of the first half of the season beating teams like FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, FC Metalist Kharkiv, FC Shakhtar Donetsk and knocking FC Dynamo Kyiv out of the Ukrainian Cup and reaching the semi-final. But after the start of the second half, Veres only could manage to finish 12th. After that Veres started its downfall and in the 1994–95 season was relegated.

Liquidation in 2011

Only after two season in the Ukrainian First League, Veres got relegated to the Ukrainian Second League and stayed there until their bankruptcy in 2011 and liquidation of a professional club after 54 years.

Revival in 2015

Limo

In 2015, it was reinstated with the help of chairman of the regional football federation. It is the first club in Ukraine to have club membership and as of May 21 has over 3,500 members. In the 2015–16 Ukrainian Second League season Veres finished in second place and was promoted to the Ukrainian First League. After the end of the 2015–16 Ukrainian Second League season the club was reorganized and the FC VERES-RIVNE LLC was founded by the Public Union "Rivne Football Club Veres Rivne" and Lviv Refrigerating Company "Limo" with the letter becoming the majority holder with 61% stake. The Veres-Rivne company was founded to manage the club. "Limo" will cover the budget costs which will be approximately 15 million hryvnia for the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League season. The goal for the season was set to achieve the promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League.

2017: Desna vs Veres promotion scandal

On 1 June 2017, it was announced that second-placed club FC Desna Chernihiv was denied a license to play in the top division. The argument was that the club was not able to provide guarantees for an adequate financing of infrastructure.[2] The license was received by NK Veres Rivne, the third-placed team during the last season in the second-tier division.[3]

Both clubs FC Desna Chernihiv and NK Veres Rivne did not play at their home stadiums in the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League. The first one played in Kyiv at the Obolon Arena, while the other one played in Varash, at the Izotop Stadium of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant. The administration of Desna released a letter of protest before a meeting of FFU representatives.[4] In protest, the Desna administration announced that the club would not play its final game of the season against FC Illichivets Mariupol, but later relented.[5] Nonetheless, during the game, players of both teams expressed their protest on the field in a special way: when the whistle was blown the players, instead of starting play, were demonstratively standing around yet kicking a ball.[6]

On 2 June 2017, upon conclusion of its conference the UPL administration announced about the final composition of the league and calendar for the upcoming season.[7] The conference confirmed the admission of Veres to the league and the only club that voted against was FC Dynamo Kyiv, while six votes were for decision and three (including FC Zorya Luhansk) abstained.[8] On 2 June 2017, the Desna fans were picketing the House of Football in Kyiv after they arrived on four buses from Chernihiv.[9]

On 7 June 2017, sports media UA-Football requested from Football Federation of Ukraine and FC Desna Chernihiv to publish related documents to have better understanding over the situation and come to some kind of closure on the subject.[10]

Number of football experts negatively commented on the situation,[11][12][13][14] while the PFC Sumy head coach Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi stated that tomorrow these sports functionaries in such way will make Veres the national champions.[15] The former PFL president Svyatoslav Syrota said that the FFU vice-president is lying about Desna problems.[16] President of FC Inhulets Petrove, Oleksandr Porovoznyuk, called on other clubs to withdraw their teams from the league in support for FC Desna Chernihiv.[17] President of FC Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni Petro Kaplun stated that it makes him laugh when the president of Veres Oleksiy Khakhlev asks to follow the regulations. He points out that last season Veres was admitted to the Second League with complete disregard to the season's regulations. Kaplun also called on the FFU authorities to pay attention to what owners of professional clubs have to say as they have a right to express their vote of confindance for the FFU leadership.[18]

Sixth place in the Premier League

In June 2017, Veres was overtaken by Lviv businessman Bohdan Kopytko[19][20] that supposedly has ties or suspected in such with criminal world and is known under a nickname "Kopyto".[21] Kopytko also owns Lviv refrigerating company "Limo" and became an honorary president of NK Veres Rivne. On 27 March 2018, Kopytko became the president of Veres after Oleksiy Khakhlyov resigned.[22] Khakhlyov claimed that he left his position because of possible conflict of interests between his job in club and in Football Federation of Ukraine and Football Federation of Rivne Oblast.[23]

On 17 January 2018, NK Veres-Rivne has officially reregistered as a Lviv-based club.[24] On 19 February 2018, the Rivne city council announced that it will stop sponsoring the club as it relocated to Lviv.[25] On 13 March 2018, Veres became a provisional member of the Lviv Oblast Football Federation.[26]

Finally, NK Veres Rivne took 6th place in the 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League after a controversial situation before the match of Round 31 with FC Shakhtar Donetsk in Kharkiv.[27]

2018 merging with FC Lviv

On 21 May 2018, there appeared a news that in Lviv a type of "castling" (swap) is intending to take place between NK Veres Rivne and FC Lviv after which FC Lviv will advance straight to the Premier League, while NK Veres will join the lower league instead of Lviv city team.[28][29] One of the reasons why Veres may merge with a Lviv team is due to the fact that renovations at the club's home field Avanhard Stadium in Rivne were suspended by the local authorities and has not yet started.[30]

On 21 May 2018, the official website of the club published a letter signed by Kopytko that was confirming the intention of the club's administration to merge the club into FC Lviv.[31][32][33][34]

After the last game of the 2017–18 season with FC Mariupol, the club's fans were attacked by security group of Bohdan Kopytko including the general director of the club Andriy Pankiv.[35]

Following the club's decision to merge with FC Lviv, some players announced that they will resign from the club.[36] According to FootballHub, the following players has already left the club among which are Yevhen Morozenko, Stanislav Kulish, Denys Kozhanov, Dmytro Fastov, Pavlo Lukyanchuk, Mykyta Kamenyuka, as well as sports director Anatoliy Sorokin, and some other staff members.[37] According to Mykola Nesenyuk, the new NK Veres Rivne has nothing in common with Veres of the past.[38]

In the next season, the new NK Veres Rivne plays in the 2018–19 Ukrainian Second League with Oleksiy Khakhlyov as president and the home stadium in Rivne Oblast.[39]

Team names

Year Name
1958–66 Kolhospnyk
1966–72 Horyn
1972–90 Avanhard
1991– Veres

Sponsors

Honors

Players

Current squad

As of 11 October 2018[40][41]

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

No. Position Player
1 Ukraine GK Maksym Babiychuk
2 Ukraine DF Dmytro Haponchuk
3 Ukraine DF Viktor Barabash
4 Ukraine DF Oleksandr Dubina
5 Ukraine DF Volodymyr Skotarenko
7 Ukraine FW Taras Petskiv
8 Ukraine MF Oleksiy Bondarenko
9 Ukraine MF Maksym Borovets
10 Ukraine MF Valeriy Sad
12 Ukraine GK Ihor Fiyalo
14 Ukraine DF Oleksandr Lohinov
No. Position Player
15 Ukraine MF Oleksandr Mosiyuk
16 Ukraine MF Vladyslav Semenchuk
20 Ukraine DF Yuriy Flyak
21 Ukraine MF Ivan Hrebenyuk
23 Ukraine FW Oleh Mayik
24 Ukraine FW Anton Yaremenko
25 Ukraine MF Borys Orlovskyi
28 Ukraine DF Taras Pinchuk
85 Ukraine FW Maksym Salamakha
86 Ukraine DF Yaroslav Rafalskyi
99 Ukraine MF Marat Daudov

Coaches and administration

Administration[42] Coaching[43]
  • President – Oleksiy Khakhlyov
  • Sport director – Orest Bal

Coaches

League and cup history

Soviet Union

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Soviet Cup Other Notes
Avangard / Avanhard Rovno
1985[lower-alpha 1] 3rd
(Second League)		 23 40 13 10 17 37 44 36
1986[lower-alpha 1] 11 40 16 9 15 46 44 41
1987 14 52 19 14 19 50 53 52
1988 14 50 21 8 21 52 56 50
1989 19 52 14 17 21 39 41 45 Relegated
1990 3rd (lower)
(Second Lower League)		 3 36 21 11 4 53 27 53 USSR ​1⁄8 finals
1991 4 50 28 13 9 67 38 69 USSR Finalist

Ukraine

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Ukrainian Cup Other Notes
Veres Rivne
1992 2nd "A"
(First League)		 1 26 14 8 4 38 15 36 1/32 finals Promoted
1992–93 1st
(Top League)		 16 30 9 6 15 29 42 24 1/8 finals
1993–94 12 34 10 12 12 32 36 32 1/2 finals
1994–95 18 34 8 7 19 28 63 31 1/8 finals Relegated
1995–96 2nd
(First League)		 16 42 15 9 18 39 49 54 1/32 finals
1996–97 23 46 9 6 26 36 79 42 1/32 finals 2nd Stage Relegated
1997–98 3rd "A"
(Second League)		 4 34 14 10 10 42 33 52 1/64 finals
1998–99 13 28 6 3 19 13 50 15 1/128 finals [lower-alpha 2]
1999-00 14 30 7 7 16 32 51 28 2nd League Cup 2LC withdrew
2000–01 12 30 7 6 17 26 52 27 2nd League Cup 2LC withdrew
2001–02 6 36 18 10 8 41 23 64 1st round
2002–03 7 28 11 3 14 28 39 36 1/32 finals
2003–04 10 30 9 8 13 32 43 35 1/16 finals
2004–05 11 28 9 6 13 35 38 33 1/32 finals
2005–06 7 28 12 6 10 33 40 42 1/8 finals
2006–07 13 28 5 7 16 24 44 22 1/32 finals
2007–08 14 30 7 8 15 25 44 29 Did not enter
2008–09 13 32 11 6 15 24 32 39 1/64 finals
2009–10 9 20 4 4 12 16 41 16 1/32 finals LC Group stage
2010–11 12 22 0 0 22 4 51 −3 1/64 finals −3[44] – Expelled[1]
2011–15 Club idle
2015–16 3rd
(Second League)		 2 26 16 4 6 41 24 52 1/32 finals Promoted
2016–17 2nd
(First League)		 3 34 20 7 7 62 32 67 1/8 finals Promoted[45]
2017–18[lower-alpha 1] 1st
(Premier League)		 6 32 7 14 11 28 30 35 ​1⁄4 finals Swapped with FC Lviv
2018–19 3rd
(Second League)

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Season was conducted in two stages.
  2. ↑ PFL deducted 6 points for failure to pay all license fees

References

  1. 1 2 Expelled from the PFL due to their financial situation. (April 29, 2011) "ФК "Верес" Рівне знято зі змагань (Veres Rivne expelled from the PFL)" (in Ukrainian). PFL. April 29, 2011. Archived from the original on May 5, 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  2. ↑ Veres passed an attestation and will be playing in the UPL along with a coach Kvartsianyi (Верес получил аттестат и сыграет в УПЛ с тренером Кварцяным). Sport Arena. 1 June 2017
  3. ↑ Desna was not allowed in UPL, out of the First League there will be promoted Veres (Десну не пустили в УПЛ, из Первой лиги выйдет Верес). Football.ua. 1 June 2017
  4. ↑ Desna's administration: if there won't be the Premier Liha, there won't be financing (Руководство Десны: не будет Премьер-лиги — не будет финансирования). Football.ua. 1 June 2017
  5. ↑ The Illichivets-Desna game will take place (Матч Ильичевец - Десна состоится). UA-Football. 2 June 2017
  6. ↑ The Illichivets-Desna game started with a protest of players (Матч Ильичевец - Десна начался с акции протеста футболистов). UA-Football. 4 June 2017
  7. ↑ "УПЛ представила календарь игр первого этапа чемпионата Украины 2017/18". football.ua. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  8. ↑ Rafailov: I would like that UPL was forming based exclusively on a sports principles (Рафаилов: Хотелось бы, чтобы УПЛ формировалась исключительно по спортивному принципу). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
  9. ↑ "500 thousands for a place in the UPL?!" How the Desna fans were picketing FFU and UPL ("500 тисяч за місце в УПЛ?!" Як фанати Десни пікетували ФФУ та УПЛ). Football24.ua. 2 June 2017
  10. ↑ Open letter of the UA-Football site administration to the Football Federation of Ukraine and FC Desna (Открытое письмо редакции сайта UA-Футбол к ФФУ и ФК Десна). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
  11. ↑ Surkis: That what is happening with Desna is a delirium and a shame for our Federation (Суркис: То, что происходит с Десной - это бред и позор нашей Федерации). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
  12. ↑ The lawlessness should not be in place, this a sport and we play for spectators (Khatskevych: (Хацкевич: Беcпредел не должен твориться, это спорт - мы играем для зрителей). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
  13. ↑ Verbytskyi, I. In the realm of gloom, or Why Veres and Desna are the same evil (У царстві мороку, або Чому Верес і Десна – однакове зло). Football 24. 2 June 2017
  14. ↑ Haponenko, O. Veres won over Desna in the final of the Cabinet's Football Cup (Верес обыграл Десну в финале Кубка Кабинетного футбола). Football 24. 2 June 2017
  15. ↑ Bezsmertnyi: Tomorrow they will make this Veres yet a champion (Бессмертный: Завтра они этот Верес еще и чемпионом сделают). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
  16. ↑ Syrota: Bandurko lied about Desna problems on all 5 criteria (Сирота: Бандурко збрехав про проблеми Десни за всіма 5 критеріями). Football24.ua. 4 June 2017
  17. ↑ President of Inhulets calls on all clubs' leaders of the First League to withdraw their teams from competitions (Президент Ингульца призывает всех глав клубов Первой лиги снять команды с соревнований). Football.ua. 7 June 2017
  18. ↑ (Каплун: Во второй лиге Верес оказался не по регламенту, а благодаря ручному голосованию исполкома ФФУ). UA-Football. 12 June 2017
  19. ↑ Producer of ice cream "Limo" became a coowner of the Rivne FC "Veres" (Виробник морозива «Лімо» став співвласником рівненського футбольного клубу «Верес»). Zaxid.net. 9 June 2016
  20. ↑ Lviv businessman Kopytko became a coowner of FC Veres (Львівський бізнесмен Копитко став співзасновником ФК «Верес» ). Tvoe Misto. 29 June 2017
  21. ↑ Kopytko brought to Lviv whole train of the Veres fans from Rivne (Копитко привіз до Львова із Рівного цілий потяг уболівальників «Вереса» ). Forpost. 22 July 2017
  22. ↑ "У «Вересі» зміни" (in Ukrainian). NK Veres Rivne. 23 March 2018.
  23. ↑ "Олексій Хахльов про перестановки у клубі" (in Ukrainian). NK Veres Rivne. 23 March 2018.
  24. ↑ Veres changed the city of registration to Lviv (Верес изменил город регистрации на Львов). UA-Football. 17 January 2018
  25. ↑ The Rivne city council will no longer finance Veres (Горсовет Ровно больше не будет финансировать Верес). Sport Arena. 19 February 2018
  26. ↑ Veres became a provisional member of the Football Federation of Lviv Oblast (Верес стал временным членом Федерации футбола Львовской области). Sport Arena. 13 March 2018
  27. ↑ http://football.ua/ukraine/362190-shakhter-poprosil-komitet-ehtiki-i-chestnojj-igry-razobratsja-s-matchem-protiv-veresa.html
  28. ↑ FC Lviv will play at UPL, while Veres will be in the Second League (ФК Львов будет играть в УПЛ, а Верес — во Второй лиге). Sport Arena. 21 May 2018
  29. ↑ Veres may merge with FC Lviv (Верес может объединиться с ФК Львов). Sport Arena. 21 May 2018
  30. ↑ The court canceled allocation of funds for reconstruction of the Veres's stadium (Суд отменил выделение средств на реконструкцию стадиона Вереса). Sport Arena. 16 May 2018
  31. ↑ Veres was renamed to FC Lviv (Верес переименован в ФК Львов). Sport Arena. 21 May 2018
  32. ↑ Bohdan Yosypovych Kopytko's address to the fans of Rivne football (Звернення Богдана Йосиповича Копитка до уболівальників рівненського футболу). NK Veres Rivne website. 21 May 2018
  33. ↑ Blazhko, Ye. Ukrainian football makes no sense. Veres only confirmed it (Украинский футбол бессмысленный. Верес только подтвердил). Sport Arena. 22 May 2018
  34. ↑ Kapelka, A. "Whatta? Can it even be so?" Reaction of social networks on renaming of Veres to Lviv ("А шо, так можно было?". Реакция соцсетей на переименование "Вереса" во "Львов"). Footboom. 21 May 2018
  35. ↑ The Veres's fans were attacked by people of the club's president Kopytko (На фанатов Вереса напали люди президента клуба Копытко). Sport Arena. 21 May 2018
  36. ↑ The players of Veres wrote a letter of resignation from the club (Игроки Вереса написали заявление на увольнение из клуба). Sport Arena. 21 May 2018
  37. ↑ Prokopov, A. Mass media: number of Veres's players has already left the club (СМИ: ряд игроков "Вереса" уже покинули клуб). Footboom. 21 May 2018
  38. ↑ Babiy, O. "Sometimes for Surkis it does not feel well when I write something". Mykola Nesenyuk tells about his work in Dynamo, talks with Chornovil, and stealing of Veres ("Іноді Суркісу буває непереливки, коли я щось напишу". Микола Несенюк – про роботу в Динамо, розмову із Чорноволом і викрадення Вереса). Football 24. 20 May 2018
  39. ↑ http://veres.club/news/zvernennya-oleksiya-hahlova-do-vbolivalnikiv-
  40. ↑ http://nkveres.club/komanda/
  41. ↑ http://pfl.ua/teams/22-veres
  42. ↑ http://veres.club/nk/kerivni-orhani
  43. ↑ http://veres.club/team/trenerskiy-shtab
  44. ↑ Deducted 3 points by the PFL on February 9, 2011 due to failure of payment of league dues. "ДК ПФЛ позбавив шість клубів по 3 очки (Disciplinary Committee deducts 3 points from 6 clubs)" (in Ukrainian). ua-football.com. March 10, 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
  45. ↑ Club was promoted after the Ukrainian Premier League denied Desna Chernihiv who finished in second place a licence to participate in the league, indicating that the club was not able to guarantee for an adequate financing of their infrastructure.
    (in Ukrainian)"Офіційно: Верес виступатиме в УПЛ замість Десни" [Official: Veres will participate in the UPL instead of Desna]. ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). UA-Football. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
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