FC Lviv

The club was founded in May 2006. It entered the Persha Liha as a replacement for the bankrupt club FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi, which also represented Lviv Oblast. The new entity was registered on 22 May 2006[1] as a company with limited liability (Ukrainian: Товариство з обмеженою відповідальністю) "Football Club "Lviv". Later in May 2006 the PFL Bureau session adopted a decision to recognize the club as a lawful successor (Ukrainian: правонаступник) of FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi that played in Persha Liha. This fact was also confirmed at a press-conference given at the Football Federation of Lviv Oblast on 26 May 2006.[2] The new president of the new club Yuriy Kindzerskyi informed that his club was not created as a municipal club.[2]

In its debut season FC Lviv reached 11th place and scored 45 goals. At the start of the next season, in the beginning of September 2007, the club moved to the newly built stadium Kniazha Arena in Dobromyl, west of Sambir. This arena was constructed by and named after Ukrainian insurance company Knyazha, who is the club's main sponsor. The previous home ground of the club was SKA Stadium in Lviv which fell out of favor with the FFU, PFL.

In 2007–08 season FC Lviv finished 2nd in the Persha Liha and were promoted to the Premier Liha for the first time in their history, making the club one of the founders of the newly formed Premier League. In 2008–09 FC Lviv, despite a sensational opening 2–0 win against Shakhtar, were relegated to the Persha Liha. The decisive match for them happened in the last round against another Lviv team Karpaty in the Lviv derby when they lost 2–1. The club's first, and only, season in the Premier League was spent at The Ukraina Stadium together with Karpaty under a lease contract.

In 2009, the city of Lviv lent the former land property of LORTA Plant for rent to FC Lviv. Out of 3.0542 ha FC Lviv receives 2.9 ha in rent until the spring of 2019 and the rest for only five years.[3]

In 2016 the professional team of FC Lviv was renewed and its future participation in Druha Liha was announced.[4]

In May 2018, the club was promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League on pretence of merging with NK Veres Rivne and play in the 2018–19 Ukrainian Premier League.

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

No. Position Player 4 DF Andriy Karvatskyi 5 DF Vladyslav Pryimak 7 FW China 9 FW Mykyta Tatarkov 10 MF Alvaro 13 FW Nazariy Nych 14 FW Matheus Iacovelli 17 MF Mykyta Khodakovskyi 18 MF Baiano 19 FW Renan 20 DF Yehor Klymenchuk 21 DF Ihor Honchar 22 DF Anton Bratkov 23 GK Bohdan Sarnavskyi 25 MF Artem Nedolya

No. Position Player 26 MF Maksym Khimchak 27 MF Andriy Busko 30 MF Jonatan Lima 33 DF Serhiy Borzenko (captain) 35 DF Yuriy Kravchuk (on loan from Hirnyk-Sport) 44 DF Cleber 55 MF Dmytro Penteleychuk 77 FW Filipe Pachtmann 90 DF Serhiy Lyulka 93 FW Yaroslav Bohunov 94 GK Herman Penkov 95 DF Joël Bopesu 96 MF Sabino DF Maksym Brama

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

No. Position Player MF Araujo (at FC Mynai) MF Pedro Vitor (at KuPS)

No. Position Player FW Lipe Veloso (at Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino) FW Pernambuco (at Dinamo Tbilisi)

• 2006–2009: Yuriy Kindzerskyi
• 2009–2012: Football Federation of Lviv Oblast (led by Yaroslav Hrysyo)
• 2016–2018: Roman Mykhayliv[7]
• Since 2018: Bohdan Kopytko

Since 2006 till 2012, the main sponsor was Knyazha (insurance company), other sponsors were Dobromyl, Persha Pryvatna Brovarnia (brewery), and the technical sponsor was Lotto.

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Other		Notes
2009–10	3rd "A"	8	20	4	7	9	13	25	19		PFL LG	QF