SC Poltava

Not to be confused with FC Poltava.
SC Poltava
Full nameSport Club Poltava
Founded2011 (2011)
GroundMolodizhnyi Stadium, Poltava
Capacity680
ChairmanSerhiy Ivashchenko
ManagerVolodymyr Sysenko
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2024–25Ukrainian First League, 2nd of 18 (promoted)
Websitehttps://scpoltava.com/

Sport Club Poltava (Ukrainian: Спортивний клуб «Полтава») is a professional Ukrainian football club from the city of Poltava. The team is set to playing Ukrainian Premier League, the top tier of Ukrainian football after promotion from Ukrainian First League in 2024–25.

History

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.

In 2024–25, SC Poltava secure promotion to Ukrainian Premier League for the first time in their history from next season.

Honours

Players

Current squad

As of 1 April 2025[3][4]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
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
12 DF  UKR Andriy Savenkov
13 GK  ARM Valeriy Voskonyan
14 MF  UKR Maksym Marusych
15 MF  UKR Vladyslav Danylenko
19 DF  UKR Mykola Buzhyn
No. Pos. Nation Player
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

League and cup history

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
2023–24
2024–25 2 Promoted to PL
2025–26 1st 30

Non-playing personnel

Presidents

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

Managers

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Аматорські імена. СК Полтава. UA-Football. 18 December 2014
  2. ^ ІВАЩЕНКО Сергій Васильович. poltava.to
  3. ^ "Основний склад - СК "Полтава"".
  4. ^ "Професіональна футбольна ліга України".
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