FC Frunzenets Sumy

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FC Frunzrenets-Liha-99 Sumy was a footaball club based in a city of Sumy in Ukraine.

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1960 as FC Avanhard Sumy. That used to be a common name of all newly founded football clubs in Ukraine at that time. From 1963 to 1971 the club carried the name of Spartak. In the beginning of the 21st century in Sumy there was a different team under the same name. In 70's the team had a name of Frunzenets. Since the independence of Ukraine and until 1994 the name was Avtomobilist and Avtomobilist-SBTS as a later version. For a single season in 1994-95 the team was simply named as FC Sumy. Before its relegation and loosing its professional license in 1996 the name was changed to Ahrotekhservis. The club reenter the Druha Liha in 2000 as FC Frunzrenets-Liha-99 Sumy, but in 2002 it mearged FC Sumy which earned the promotion to the First League.