SC Poltava

SC Poltava

Full name	Sport Club Poltava
Founded	2011
Ground	Lokomotyv Stadium, Poltava
Chairman	Serhiy Ivashchenko
Manager	Volodymyr Sysenko
League	Ukrainian Second League
2020–21	Ukrainian Amateur League, Group 3, 5th of 12 (promoted)
Website	https://scpoltava.com/
Home colours Away colours

Sport Club Poltava (Ukrainian: Спортивний клуб «Полтава») is a professional Ukrainian football club from the city of Poltava. The team is currently playing Ukrainian Second League after competing in the Ukrainian Amateur championship.

The team was founded in 2011 by two football enthusiasts, a football veteran of FC Vorskla Poltava Volodymyr Sysenko and a local journalist Stanislav Maizus. The first team was formed based on students out of schools of the Poltava's Levada neighborhood.^[1] Before 2014, the club playing in regional competitions of Poltava Oblast remained in a shadow of another more successful club FC Poltava which at that time competed at the Ukrainian Second League. During that period SC Poltava played its home games at the FC Poltava training base in Kopyly. In 2014 SC Poltava became a champion of Poltava Oblast, but ceased its existence for several seasons due to lack of funding. The 2014 championship title for SC Poltava became the first title for Poltava-based teams at competitions in Poltava Oblast in 19 years (Velta Poltava, 1995).^[1] In 2014 for SC Poltava played several professional footballers who retired or were recovering from injuries included Yuriy Fomenko, Ruslan Solyanyk, others.^[1]

In 2019, five years later, Sysenko and Maizus managed to invite Serhiy Ivashchenko who became the club's president providing necessary funding and SC Poltava was revived. Serhiy Ivashchenko owns a construction company "Kombinat vyrobnychykh pidpryiemstv" (Complex of manufacturing enterprises).^[2] By that time FC Poltava already withdrew from all of competitions after a scandal with the stadium in 2018. In 2019–20 SC Poltava entered the AAFU cup competitions and in 2020–21 debuted at the AAFU championship. The club placed 5th within its group in its first national football season. Later SC Poltava was admitted to the Professional Football League of Ukraine and entered the 2021–22 Ukrainian Second League competitions.

• Poltava Oblast championship
  • Winner (1): 2014

As of 3 October 2024^[3][4]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  UKR Ihor Vartsaba 3 DF  UKR Illya Khodulya 5 DF  UKR Vadym Pidlepych 7 MF  UKR Denys Halenkov 8 FW  UKR Volodymyr Odaryuk 9 FW  UKR Dmytro Shcherbak 10 MF  UKR Yevhen Streltsov 11 FW  UKR Artem Perebora 12 DF  UKR Andriy Savenkov 13 GK  ARM Valeriy Voskonyan 14 MF  UKR Maksym Marusych 15 MF  UKR Vladyslav Danylenko

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  UKR Mykola Buzhyn 20 DF  UKR Yevhen Misyura 21 FW  UKR Bohdan Shmyhelskyi 24 MF  UKR Svyatoslav Shapovalov 27 MF  UKR Volodymyr Tymenko 30 DF  UKR Denys Chervinskyi 31 GK  UKR Bohdan Vasetskyi 39 DF  UKR Yevhen Opanasenko 44 MF  UKR Dmytro Plakhtyr 88 FW  UKR Oleksandr Vivdych 95 DF  UKR Ihor Kotsyumaka

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
2020–21	4th	5	22	14	4	4	51	20	46				Promoted
2021–22	3rd												Promoted
2022–23	2nd

• 2011–2014 Stanislav Maizus^[1]
• 2019– Serhiy Ivashchenko

• 2011–2014 Volodymyr Sysenko^[1]
• 2019– Volodymyr Sysenko

• Official website
• Profile. AAFU.