2025–26 FC Chernihiv season

Chernihiv
2025–26 season
ChairmanYuriy Synytsya
ManagerValeriy Chornyi
StadiumChernihiv Arena
Yunist Stadium
Ukrainian First LeaguePreseason
Ukrainian CupPreseason

During the 2025–26 season, FC Chernihiv competed in the Ukrainian First League.[1]

Season summary

In June 2025, following the promotion, the management's club extended the contracts of Maksym Shumylo,[2] Anatoliy Romanchenko[3] On 27 June Artur Bybik and the goalkeeper Maksym Tatarenko signed a new contract extension.[4]

Players

Squad information

As of 6 June 2025[5]
Squad no. Name Nationality Position Date of birth (age)
Goalkeepers
1 Oleksandr Shyray GK (1992-02-21)21 February 1992 (aged 33)
22 Oleksandr Roshchynskyi GK (2000-11-30)30 November 2000 (aged 24)
35 Maksym Tatarenko (Captain) GK (1999-05-07)7 May 1999 (aged 26)
99 Denys Herasymenko GK (2005-10-07)7 October 2005 (aged 19)
Defenders
2 Eduard Halstyan DF (1998-10-01)1 October 1998 (aged 26)
3 Maksym Shumylo DF (2002-08-31)31 August 2002 (aged 22)
20 Dmytro Fatyeyev DF (1994-06-21)21 June 1994 (aged 31)
23 Oleksiy Zenchenko DF (1996-10-17)17 October 1996 (aged 28)
38 Pavlo Shushko DF (2000-05-07)7 May 2000 (aged 25)
Midfielders
6 Yehor Shalfeyev MF (1998-10-03)3 October 1998 (aged 26)
7 Dmytro Myronenko MF (1996-03-07)7 March 1996 (aged 29)
8 Andriy Makarenko MF (1996-12-13)13 December 1996 (aged 28)
10 Vyacheslav Koydan MF (1994-07-05)5 July 1994 (aged 31)
12 Yehor Kartushov MF (1991-01-05)5 January 1991 (aged 34)
13 Dzhilindo Bezgubchenko MF (2003-02-07)7 February 2003 (aged 22)
14 Dmytro Sakhno MF (2003-02-07)7 February 2003 (aged 22)
19 Nikita Posmashnyi MF (2003-06-10)10 June 2003 (aged 22)
21 Vladyslav Shkolnyi MF (1999-03-14)14 March 1999 (aged 26)
30 Artur Bybik MF (2001-07-26)26 July 2001 (aged 23)
31 Vitaliy Mentey MF (1992-08-05)5 August 1992 (aged 32)
55 Anatoliy Romanchenko MF (2001-05-19)19 May 2001 (aged 24)
97 Maksym Serdyuk MF (2002-05-21)21 May 2002 (aged 23)
Forwards
9 Dmytro Kulyk FW (2001-01-26)26 January 2001 (aged 24)
11 Pavlo Fedosov FW (1996-08-14)14 August 1996 (aged 28)
17 Andriy Novikov FW (1999-04-20)20 April 1999 (aged 26)
77 Daniil Volskyi FW (2004-07-07)7 July 2004 (aged 21)

Management team

Position Name Year appointed Last club/team
Manager Valeriy Chornyi 2021 Avanhard Koriukivka
Assistant Coach Andriy Polyanytsya 2022 SDYuShOR Desna Chernihiv
Goalkeeping Coach Artem Padun 2020 SDYuShOR Desna Chernihiv

Transfers

Out

Date Pos. Player Age Moving from Type Fee Source
Summer
30 June 2025 MF Maksym Serdyuk 22 Livyi Bereh Kyiv Loan Return Free

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss

5 July 2025 Friendly Livyi Bereh Kyiv 1–1 Chernihiv Kiev
EET (UTC+02:00) Riznyk 41' Report Novikov 3'

Competitions

Overall

Competition Record
Pld W D L GF GA GD Win %
First League 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 !
Cup 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 !
Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 !

Last updated: 4 July 2025
Source: Competitions

First League

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 Ahrobiznes Volochysk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Promotion to Ukrainian Premier League
2 Bukovyna Chernivtsi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Chernihiv-ShVSM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to promotion play-offs
4 Chornomorets Odesa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Feniks-Mariupol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Inhulets Petrove 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Livyi Bereh Kyiv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Metalist Kharkiv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Mynai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Nyva Ternopil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Podillya Khmelnytskyi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Probiy Horodenka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to relegation play-off
14 UCSA Tarasivka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Viktoriya Sumy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to Ukrainian Second League
16 Vorskla Poltava 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 2 August 2025. Source: PFL.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference in all games; 6) Goals scored in all games (Note: calculation by criteria indicated in rules 2, 3, 4 is conducted with consideration of all teams that have an equal number of tournament points at the moment of calculation and not only among those which after preliminary criteria have appeared more successful).[6]

The relegation–promotion play-off games are expected to be scheduled to take place between the 13th and 14th placed teams with the third and fourth placed teams of the Second League.

Second League teams Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score First League teams 1st leg 2nd leg
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First Semi-final

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Second Semi-final

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Results summary

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
0 0 0 0 0 0  0 0 0 0 0 0 0  0 0 0 0 0 0  0

Last updated: 4 July 2025.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

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Ground
Result
Position
Updated to match(es) played on 4 July 2025. Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

2 August 2025 (2025-08-02) 1 Probiy Horodenka x–x FC Chernihiv Horodenka
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Probiy Arena
10 August 2025 (2025-08-10) 2 FC Chernihiv x–x Viktoriya Sumy Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
16 August 2025 (2025-08-16) 3 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk x–x FC Chernihiv Ivano-Frankivsk
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: MCS Rukh
30 August 2025 (2025-08-30) 4 Feniks-Mariupol x–x FC Chernihiv Lviv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Skif Stadium
6 September 2025 (2025-09-06) 5 FC Chernihiv x–x Livyi Bereh Kyiv Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
13 September 2025 (2025-09-13) 6 Bukovyna Chernivtsi x–x FC Chernihiv Chernivtsi
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Bukovyna Stadium
20 September 2025 (2025-09-20) 7 FC Chernihiv x–x Metalist Kharkiv Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
28 September 2025 (2025-09-28) 8 Nyva Ternopil x–x FC Chernihiv Ternopil
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Miskyi imeni Shukhevycha
4 October 2025 (2025-10-04) 9 FC Chernihiv x–x Podillya Khmelnytskyi Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
8 October 2025 (2025-10-08) 10 Vorskla Poltava x–x FC Chernihiv Poltava
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Vorskla Stadium
12 October 2025 (2025-10-12) 11 FC Chernihiv x–x UCSA Tarasivka Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
18 October 2025 (2025-10-18) 12 Chornomorets Odesa x–x FC Chernihiv Odesa
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chornomorets Stadium
25 October 2025 (2025-10-25) 13 FC Chernihiv x–x Mynai Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
2 November 2025 (2025-11-02) 14 Inhulets Petrove x–x FC Chernihiv Petrove
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Inhulets Stadium
8 November 2025 (2025-11-08) 15 FC Chernihiv x–x Ahrobiznes Volochysk Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
15 November 2025 (2025-11-15) 16 FC Chernihiv x–x Probiy Horodenka Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
22 November 2025 (2025-11-22) 17 Viktoriya Sumy x–x FC Chernihiv Sumy
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Yuvileiny Stadium
29 November 2025 (2025-11-29) 18 FC Chernihiv x–x Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
21 March 2026 (2026-03-21) 19 FC Chernihiv x–x Feniks-Mariupol Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
28 March 2026 (2026-03-28) 20 Livyi Bereh Kyiv x–x FC Chernihiv Kyiv Oblast
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Arena Livyi Bereh
4 April 2026 (2026-04-04) 21 FC Chernihiv x–x Bukovyna Chernivtsi Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
8 April 2026 (2026-04-08) 22 Metalist Kharkiv x–x FC Chernihiv Uzhhorod
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Avanhard Stadium
12 April 2026 (2026-04-12) 23 FC Chernihiv x–x Nyva Ternopil Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
18 April 2026 (2026-04-18) 24 Podillya Khmelnytskyi x–x FC Chernihiv Podillia
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Sport Complex Podillia
25 April 2026 (2026-04-25) 25 FC Chernihiv x–x Vorskla Poltava Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
2 May 2026 (2026-05-02) 26 UCSA Tarasivka x–x FC Chernihiv Kyiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Bannikov Stadium
9 May 2026 (2026-05-09) 27 FC Chernihiv x–x Chornomorets Odesa Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
16 May 2026 (2026-05-16) 28 Mynai x–x FC Chernihiv Mynai
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Mynai Arena
23 May 2026 (2026-05-23) 29 FC Chernihiv x–x Inhulets Petrove Chernihiv
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Chernihiv Arena
30 May 2026 (2026-05-30) 30 Ahrobiznes Volochysk x–x FC Chernihiv Volochysk
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00) Stadium: Yunist Stadium

Ukrainian Cup

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No. Pos Nat Player Total Ukrainian Second League Cup Play-offs
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Goalkeepers
1 GK  UKR Oleksandr Shyray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 GK  UKR Oleksandr Roshchynskyi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
35 GK  UKR Maksym Tatarenko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
99 GK  UKR Denys Herasymenko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Defenders
2 DF  UKR Eduard Halstyan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 DF  UKR Maksym Shumylo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 DF  UKR Dmytro Fatyeyev 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 DF  UKR Oleksiy Zenchenko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
38 DF  UKR Pavlo Shushko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Midfielders
6 MF  UKR Yehor Shalfeyev 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 MF  UKR Dmytro Myronenko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 MF  UKR Artur Bybik 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 MF  UKR Vyacheslav Koydan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 MF  UKR Yehor Kartushov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 MF  UKR Dzhilindo Bezghubchenko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 MF  UKR Dmytro Sakhno 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 MF  UKR Vitaly Mentey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 MF  UKR Nikita Posmashnyi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 MF  UKR Vladyslav Shkolnyi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33 MF  UKR Andriy Porokhnya 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
55 MF  UKR Anatoliy Romanchenko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
97 MF  UKR Maksym Serdyuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Forwards
9 FW  UKR Dmytro Kulyk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 FW  UKR Pavlo Fedosov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 FW  UKR Andriy Novikov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
77 FW  UKR Daniil Volskyi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Players transferred out during the season

Source: Competitions

Last updated: 12 June 2025

Goalscorers

Clean sheets

Disciplinary record

References

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