MFC Mykolaiv

MFС Mykolaiv (Municipal Football Club "Mykolaiv", Ukrainian: Муніципальний футбольний клуб "Миколаїв") is a Ukrainian football club based in Mykolaiv.

MFK Mykolaiv

Full name	MFC Mykolaiv
Nickname(s)	Shipbuilders
Founded	1920; 104 years ago (1920)
Ground	Tsentralnyi Stadion
Capacity	15,600[1]
Chairman	Mykola Marchenko
Head Coach	Eduard Pavlov
League	Ukrainian Second League
2020–21	Ukrainian First League, 4th of 16 (relegated)
Website	https://mfc.mk.ua/
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Former club crest

It is one of the oldest football clubs that exists in Ukraine. Originally was established as a football team of the Black Sea Shipyard, since dissolution of the Soviet Union and cutting of the shipyard's budget which was based mostly on military contacts, it is sponsored mostly by the city of Mykolaiv.

Description

Names

• 1920–1922: Naval Factory
• 1922–1926: Marti-Badin Factory
• 1926–1926: Metalisty Mykolaiv
• 1927–1928: Raikom Metalistiv
• 1929–1935: Marti Factory
• 1936–1940: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
• 1941–1944: Nazi Germany occupation of Ukraine
• 1944–1949: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
• 1951–1952: Mykolaiv City
• 1953–1959: Avanhard Mykolaiv
• 1960–1965: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
• 1966–1966: Budivelnyk Mykolaiv
• 1967–1991: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
• 1992–1994: Evis Mykolaiv
• 1994–2002: SC Mykolaiv
• 2002–present: MFC Mykolaiv

History

The club was founded in 1920 under the name Sudostroitel (Sudnobudivnyk) Mykolaiv. It is the oldest continuously playing club in the country that competes on the professional level.

Throughout the Soviet times and until the 1990s, it mostly played under the name of Sudnobudivnyk meaning Shipbuilder associated with the Black Sea Shipyard.

MFC Mykolaiv took part in the first Ukrainian Premier League season in 1992 under the name FC Evis Mykolaiv, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 (of 11) Ukrainian teams from the West Division of the Soviet Second League 1991. The club is one of the holders of the unfortunate distinction as being the team to be demoted three times from the Ukrainian Premier League.

MFС Mykolaiv's best achievement in the Ukrainian Premier League was 13th place (in 1994–95). From 1994, the club was known as SC Mykolaiv, FC Mykolaiv since 2000, and MFC Mykolaiv since 2006.

MFC Mykolaiv became insolvent and ceased to exist after the City Administration of Mykolaiv informed the PFL that the team would not be competing in the 2008/09 Persha Liha season. The team then requested re-admittance to the PFL, but it was too late as the calendar was already set up. The PFL allowed the club to compete in the Druha Liha, but only in the next season. The administration of the Dynamo Kyiv extended its helping hand by withdrawing its junior team Dynamo-3 Kyiv from the Second League and, thus, for Mykolaiv to be placed instead of it.

MFC Mykolaiv reached 1st place in Druha Liha group A in 2010–11 season and was promoted to Persha Liha.

Colours are blue and white hooped shirts, white shorts.

Honors

• Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (top tier)
  • Runners-up (1): 1927
• Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (2nd tier)
  • Winners (1): 1936
• Class B (2nd tier) (Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR)
  • Runners-up (1): 1960
• Soviet Second League (Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR)
  • Winners (1): 1974
  • Runners-up (2): 1971, 1990 (lower)
• Ukrainian Persha Liha
  • Winners (1): 1997-98
  • Runners-up (1): 1993-94
• Ukrainian Druha Liha
  • Winners (2): 2005/06 (Group B), 2010-11 (Group A)

League and cup history

Soviet competitions

Ukrainian competitions

  Tier 1.

  Tier 2.

  Tier 3.

  Tier 4, extra tier that existed rarely throughout the history

  Tier 5, extra tier that existed in 1937

  Amateurs

Information since Ukrainian Independence

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	1st "A"	9	18	3	4	11	12	29	10	1⁄32 finals			Relegated
1992–93	2nd	7	42	18	11	13	60	39	47	1⁄16 finals
1993–94	2nd	2	38	25	6	7	76	32	56	1⁄16 finals			Promoted
1994–95	1st	13	34	11	5	18	33	59	38	1⁄32 finals
1995–96	1st	16	34	10	8	16	37	53	38	1⁄32 finals			Relegated
1996–97	2nd	7	46	21	12	13	66	37	75	1⁄32 finals
1997–98	2nd	1	42	31	5	6	94	31	98	1⁄16 finals			Promoted
1998–99	1st	16	30	2	6	22	18	67	12	1⁄8 finals			Relegated
1999–00	2nd	6	34	15	7	12	40	38	52	1⁄16 finals
2000–01	2nd	4	34	17	8	9	41	30	59	1⁄16 finals
2001–02	2nd	10	34	12	10	12	37	44	46	4th round
2002–03	2nd	5	34	15	7	12	30	37	52	1⁄16 finals
2003–04	2nd	12	34	11	9	14	31	31	42	1⁄16 finals
2004–05	2nd	17	34	8	7	19	15	40	31	1⁄16 finals			Relegated
2005–06	3rd "A"	1	28	22	3	3	56	11	69	1⁄32 finals			Promoted
2006–07	2nd	13	36	12	10	14	33	40	46	1⁄32 finals
2007–08	2nd	10	38	13	13	12	33	27	52	1⁄16 finals			Relegated[2]
2008–09	3rd "A"	11	32	11	10	11	28	27	43	Did not enter
2009–10	3rd "A"	4	20	11	6	3	30	13	39	1⁄16 finals
2010–11	3rd "A"	1	22	15	3	4	29	12	48	1⁄32 finals			Promoted
2011–12	2nd	16	34	9	4	21	33	51	28	1⁄16 finals			-3[3]
2012–13	2nd	6	34	16	9	9	45	41	54	1⁄32 finals			-3[4]
2013–14	2nd	16[5]	30	9	4	17	34	49	31	1⁄8 finals
2014–15	2nd	14	30	6	6	18	34	67	24	1⁄16 finals
2015–16	2nd	7	30	13	8	9	34	27	44	1⁄8 finals			-3[6]
2016–17	2nd	14	34	11	4	19	35	44	37	1⁄2 finals
2017–18	2nd	10	34	12	8	14	39	50	44	1⁄32 finals
2018–19	2nd	9	28	10	7	11	34	32	37	1⁄16 finals
2019–20	2nd	11	30	8	10	12	45	45	34	1⁄8 finals
2020–21	2nd	4	30	15	8	7	49	23	53	1⁄16 finals

Current squad

As of 15 February 2022^[7][8]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 52 DF  UKR Ihor Lyubashov 56 DF  UKR Oleksandr Chornyi

No. Pos. Nation Player 71 MF  UKR Mykyta Pashchenko 96 GK  UKR Yaroslav Kerbal

Coaching staff

• Head coach – Serhiy Shevchenko
• Assistant coach – Anatoliy Didenko
• GK coach – Vacant

MFC Mykolaiv-2

The club entered their reserve team into the Ukrainian Second League for the 2017–18 season.^[9]

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1996–97	4th	3	8	0	0	8	0	5	0
did not participate
2017–18	3rd	9	33	10	7	16	41	58	37
2018–19	3rd	9	27	5	5	17	22	52	20

Notes and references

1. Stadium at MFC Mykolaiv website
2. Club announced its dissolution on 2 July 2008. PFL proceeded to remove the club from the professional ranks. The club under pressure from local civil sources reapplies and the PFL grants the club reinstatement in the Druha Liha Group A for the 2008–09 season at the expense of FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv who withdrew to allow the League to have 18 teams.
3. The club were deducted 3 points for failure of payments of financial obligations ordered by the PFL. (31 May 2012) ПРОТОКОЛ № 30 (28 вересня 2011 року) [PFL Disciplinary committee decision- Meeting minutes № 30] (PDF) (in Ukrainian). PFL. 31 May 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
4. The club was given one month by the PFL to pay their league dues. The club failed to pay the dues in time and were deducted 3 points. (21 August 2012)ПРОТОКОЛ № 2 (26 липня 2012 року) [PFL Disciplinary committee decision- Meeting minutes № 2] (PDF) (in Ukrainian). PFL. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
5. The club finished last in the competition.
   However, relegation to the Ukrainian Second League was canceled. The Central Council of Professional Football League of Ukraine considered the force majeure circumstances that were created due to war conditions in Kramatorsk as the reason for the cancellation. With the goal to preserve the maximum integrity of the League, considering that a direct threat to the life of footballers, coaching staff, and club's administration, those games, that were to be conducted with participation of Avanhard Kramatorsk to the end of the season, were recognized that they were not going to take place because of those unforeseen events.
   Прийнято Постанову Центральної Ради щодо ситуації у Краматорську [Adopted decision of the Central Council about the situation in Kramatorsk]. Professional Football League of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 21 May 2014. Archived from the original on 22 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
6. The Control Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of Ukraine deducted three points and fined the club for match fixing during the 2014–15 season. (2 September 2015)
   Апеляція Миколаєва, Ниви і Тернополя щодо зняття очок відхилена [Mykolaiv, Ternopil, Nyva points deducted appeal rejected]. ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 22 March 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
7. "Команда — МФК НИКОЛАЕВ | MFC MYKOLAIV".
8. "Професіональна футбольна ліга України".
9. МФК Николаев хочет заявить во Вторую лигу резервный состав [MFC Mykolaiv wants to have its reserve squad applied to the Second League]. Sport Arena (in Ukrainian). 14 June 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.

External links

• Official website (in Russian)