SKA Lviv
SKA Lviv
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SKA Lviv |
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SKA Lviv Stadium
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Halychyna Drohobych is a Ukrainian football team. The team is located in Drohobych, Ukraine. It participates in the regional championships in Lviv Oblast.
Brief history
The club was founded in 1949. It began its legacy in the Soviet football competitions and was named ODO, which meant Regional Officers' Club in Russian. There were many similar Army clubs around USSR, with the most prestigious one being in Moscow. Since 1957 all of them changed names to SKVO (Sport Club of Military Region). In 1960 it became SKA (Sport Club of Army) for all Army clubs except the Moscow's one, which became CSKA (the Central Sport Club of the Army). In 1982 the SKA Lviv from the Soviet Second League was united with the other club from Lviv, FC Karpaty Lviv, which participated in the Soviet First League. The new team has taken place of FC Karpaty Lviv and was renamed into SKA Karpaty Lviv. In 1990 the team was liquidated and in its place was formed SFC Drohobych in the Soviet Second League. Soon, after few months, the club was renamed again in FC Halychyna Drohobych. Later, there was another club that entered the Ukrainian Second League called as the SKA-Orbita Lviv, and in 2008 Halychyna Lviv that won the national amateur cup entered the Ukrainian Cup.
FC Karpaty Lviv split from SKA Karpaty in 1989 and entered the Soviet Second League. In 1990 both teams competed in the Buffer League, West Zone.
Notable players
Oleh Luzhny
See also
References
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| Original All-Union |
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| Volunteer All-Union |
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| Volunteer Republican |
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