KARPATY — is Ukrainian Premier League football club from Lviv. The only club in USSR Cup History that won the trophy not playing in the Higher league (1969). it has participated twice in Ukrainian Cup final: in 1993 and in 1999. The bronze medalist of the Ukrainian Championship: 1997/98..
OFFICIAL DATE of Karpaty foundation is January 18, 1963. In 1962 Lviv team Silmash, having won championship and Cup of Lviv region, was allowed to participate in class B competition. But in 1963 USSR Football Federation held the regular reorganization of Soviet football – the 2nd group of class A was created (the transitional league between B and A), where a place for the Lviv team was foresighted. Before that there was only the military team SKA Lviv in the city. Consequently the city government decided to create a new, civil, trade union team.
According to the veterans’ recounts the name Karpaty for the team was suggested by the contemporary head of Lviv trade unions and ex-head of regional football federation, Hlib Vasylyovych Klimov. At that time all collectives were connected to work unions or sport associations, thus the team became a part of Avanhard association and got the TV plant Elektron backing. Only two Silmash players were taken to the newly created team: Ihor Kulchytskyy and Yosyp Fales, but it overtook green and white stripes of Silmash. The team was strengthened with Lviv SKA players and hired footballers. Lviv fans got to see the team for the first time on the 14th of April 1963, when Karpaty defeated Zenit 1-0 at the Dynamo stadium (the very place where State Tax Administration building is currently located). The only goal was scored by the team leader Oleksandr Filyayev.
Karpaty made its official debut on the 21th of April 1963 against Lokomotiv Homel. The premier Karpaty match was held on Sunday under favourable weather conditions at the Lviv SKA stadium and attended by 17 thousand of fans, because works at newly built Dryzhba stadium were not completed at the time. The boom around the team and the first match was incredible and tickets for the match with Belarusians were sold out in a day.
Karpaty-63 was headed by the newly arrived specialists: head coach Oleh Zhukov, team director Yevhen Horyanskyy and starting from August - Mykola Kuznetzov, and Ernrst Yust as head coach. In 1963 players mastered new Brazilian system 4-2-4. So during the first game Karpaty starting eleven consisted of: Yuriy Susla – Stanislav Berehovskyy, Volodymyr Valionta, Dyula Bakanchosh, Vitaliy Kylakovskyy – Viktor Aslanyan, Oleksandr Koltsov – Viktor Ivanyuk, Borys Rassyhin, Olexandr Filyayev, Anatoliy Kroshchenko. The players wore green and white shirts vertically striped, white shorts and green-white gaiters.
At the 26th minute of the game Karpaty’s attack, being performed by Filyayev, Ivanyuk, Koltsov, ended up with a goal scored by Anatoliy Kroshchenko, who became the author of the winning goal. After the break Homel team has earned a couple of corner kicks in succession but failed to score. Its first season the team has finished at the 7th place out of 18 clubs.
In mid 60-s Lviv team was predominantly finishing championships in the top ten of the 2nd group of class B. For the higher achievements it lacked performance stability. The most prominent players were defender Volodymyr Valionta, midfielder Ihor Kylychytskyy, forwards Anatoliy Kroshchenko and Valentyn Husyev. In 1965 the team has narrowly avoided relegation because of the USSR championship weedy regulations. Having taken a decent ninth place among 32 teams, Karpaty, after the transitional matches had to fight against the leading team of class B – SKA Lviv. But according the regulations, there could be just one representative of a city. SKA Lviv – the first team in class B, older and more experienced club, won 2-0, 3-0. But at the last moment the soviet football authorities changed its regulations once again, and both teams entered the 2nd group of class A. After the 1965 season the team was deprived of a few players, who were a tough act to follow.
The 1966 championship was marked by the team resurgence, there were many young players, who later will become famous by the victory in 1969 USSR Cup and entering the Higher league. These were Rostyslav Potochnyack and Volodymyr Danulyuk. The fact that young players were inexperienced badly influenced the results – in 1966 and in 1967 Green and Whites ended up on 14th and 7th places accordingly. The two seasons were marked by staff changes. Head coach Yevhen Lemeshko consistently and strongly held the team on course to making a lineup younger. As time passed the team was performing better. At the beginning of the 1967 season victories were difficult to gain, in the 2nd half of the championship Karpaty was among leaders but dropped to the 7th place due to failures in the last two matches. On the 22nd of August Volodymyr Danulyuk scored his first goal in the game against Trud in Voronezh. During the 60-s and the 70-s, the player will become the best forward and his record of 88 goals has not been overtaken yet.
On the 12th of August 1968 Karpaty has recoreded the biggest league victory of all time, Nyeman lost with the score 0:8. During the 1968 season Karpaty scored 80 goals in 40 matches and received the Ukrainian Start magazine award for the best goal difference (+46). That was the only time in history that a non-higher league team got the prize. Having outrunned Kyiv and Odesa SKA, Karpaty won their group and earned the right to compete with another group winners for Higher league promotion. The competitors in the final group were Uralmash, Irtysh, Sudnobudivnyk. The matches were held in Sochi in one round. During the first game, against Sunobudivnyk, Karpaty kept the ball, but allowed one goal at the end of the game. They crushed Irtysh 4:0. So before deciding game against Uralmash, Lviv team had one point less than Russians, that is why only victory could take the Green and Whites to the highest division. The game ended in 1:1 draw, the Russians have scored a goal from the offside, which wasn’t noticed by the linesman Khyarms. So the Sverdlovsk team got promoted. The next USSR Cup final will be refereed by the same linesman, who admitted that his pretentious attitude towards Ukrainians in Sochi was a consequence of orders from above. Uralmash had to be in the Higher league.
Karpaty reached a stage when great chemistry between young players allowed the club to become one of the 2nd division top sides. In 1968 season there were only two Karpaty players older than 28. The rest was aged 20-25. As it turned out later the best was still to follow.
1969 USSR Cup The 1969 appeared to be transitional year again – the first league was about to be formed, with three teams from each group entering it. Ernest Yust became the new head coach. They failed to get to the top three: all the efforts were saved for the Cup run.
In home matches Karpaty got the wins over Odesa SKA, Ararat Yerevan, Chornomorets Odesa, and Trud Voronezh awaited for them in the quarterfinal. In contrast to the first three games Karpaty had to play away in Voronezh, since the local team surprisingly ousted Spartak Moscow in previous round. Difficult 1:0 victory brought Karpaty to the semifinal against Sudnobudivnyk Mykolayiv. 50 thousand of fans were waiting for revenge – a year before Sudnobudivnyk defeated Green and Whites in final group stage. Due to this points loss Karpaty was denied the promotion to the Higher league. This time Karpaty has won 2:0. Lviv city authorities booked the train which got hundreds of fans (predominantly workers of local plants Silmash, Elektron, etc.) to Moscow.
So Green and Whites came out on Moscow Luzhnyky Stadium pitch to face Higher league favorite SKA (Rostov). Before the match the captain of the team shook hands with all referees except Khyarms, the same linesman whose mistake in the game against Uralmash left Karpaty outside Higher league.
Karpaty allowed a goal on the 29th minute. They diddn’t manage to level the score in the first half. But thousands of fans from Halychyna encouraged their heroes. So in the 2nd half Lyhachov and Bulhakov scored a goal each. At the end of the game Russians scored from the offside again and this time the referee pointed to the center circle. Only later did he notice Khyarms, who clearly recorded offside. So Ukrainians held on to the victory.
Karpaty, having won USSR Cup, represented the country in the Cup Winners Cup in 1970/71. On the first stage, the team played against Romanian Steaua.
Steaua was coached by Stefan Kovacs at the time, the one who became famous during his time in Ajax. Karpaty had a good chance to win the home game but did not use their chances and instead allowed the goal. The team’s good play didn’t go unnoticed by the specialists, who admitted that lack of experience of playing on the highest level had done its work. The draw 3:3 in Bucharest brought Romanians to the Round of Last 16.
Karpaty in the Higher league (1970/77)
Even though only three teams from each group could be promoted to the newly created First league, an exception was made for the USSR Cup winner, and Karpaty entered the league in 1970. Green and Whites won the championship, having overtaken Kayrat Alma-Ata, Dnipro and Lokomotiv Moscow and to earn a spell in Higher league.
Ernest Yust managed to create a group which became famous for their team play and succeeded in staying in Higher league.
The first Karpaty match in the highest division was held on the 8th of April 1971 in Yerevan against Ararat. 
Hosts opened the scoring but Ihor Kulchytskyy got the draw from a penalty kick. The best penalty taker of the Lions converted all 7 penalty kicks he’s taken that season and became the team’s top striker. The club finished its first season in the highest division up in 10th place out of 16 teams, but got as much points as Torpedo (28),
which ended up in 7th position.
The same season the biggest crowd in Druzhba stadium history (51, 000) gathered for the gameon June 27, 1971. Karpaty played host to the eventual champion Dynamo Kyiv. Karpaty won 3:1, and the game is still considered to be one of the best in the club history. Over the next few years Dynamo has raised its game and Karpaty only managed few draws against Dynamo. 
Despite finishing in the respectfull 10th position among 16 teams Ernest Yust was fired before the next season start in February of 1972. The regional committee of the party having checked the work of the team’s manager, 
sacked Karl Miklyosh and coach Anatoliy Polin for the weak political education within the team. There were a lot of rumours about the club management in 70-s. Karpaty was the only team speaking predominantly Ukrainian, which obviously kept the communist party leaders unhappy.
Transfer policy of the club did not do any better. Before the start of the season three of the team’s forwards had left: Yanosh Habovda, Volodymyr Bulhakov, Roman Khyzhak. 
Only Edward Kozynkevych – USSR National Team plyaer, who will later win silver at the European Championship of 1972, joined the club. In 1972 Karpaty reached Cup semifinal to make way only to Spartak Moscow.
In 1973 another league innovation followed. After each tie game the penalties were taken to determine which team gets a point. Eventually this rule allowed Karpaty to avoid relagation.
That is why Yust was brought back as head coach in 1974. This time for long. After the first half of the season the team was near the end of the table, but victories over Torpedo, Zenit, Dynamo 
at the finishing straight allowed to move up as high as 11th position.
The next year the club finally distanced itself from relegation showing some good form along the way, especially in the game versus reigning champion Dynamo Kyiv, which ended in 2:2 tie. For the first time Karpaty had positive goal difference, as team strikers Danylyuk and Khyzhak were among the best in the league. 
As a result – 6th position in the Higher league, club’s best achievement in Soviet highest division so far.
1976 season was divided by the soviet football authorities into two separate championships (spring and autumn). In spring Karpaty was particularly sharp, earning as much points as Dynamo Tbilisi. The Georgians have claimed the bronze only on goal difference, leaving Lviv club on 4th place.
In autumn the Green and Whites did their best to get higher positions. Torpedo Moscow guarantied itself a title on the penultimate matchday of the season, but silver medals were up for grabs. Karpaty had really good shot at silver, with one point advantage over main rivals and playing the decisive game at home stadium against Zenit. Everybody was certain of success, they even started to produce badges with “Karpaty – Silver medalist” inscription. But … 
Russians scored two quick goals, and when defender Fedir Chorba got a chance to get one back, he missed crucial penalty. That discouraged the players and they’ve let the third one in. Karpaty was disposed outside the medals zone due to this failure, not only loosing silver, but also giving up bronze (on goal difference) ironically yet again to Dynamo Tbilisi. The team has never had such a chance again.
The failure influenced badly the attitude of the city council toward the club and that was the reason behind unsuccessful start to 1977 campaign. Ernest Yust was under pressure to make team’s lineup younger, which stirred the team stability. Karpaty finished second from last and was relegated. But there appeared to be a lot of young players who defined the style of the game during years to come: Andriy Bal, Oleh Rodin, Yaroslav Dumanskyy, Yuriy Susloparov. They were already USSR Junior Team players by the time.
In the first league the Green and Whites were among the leaders and before the last matchday had one point lead over Dynamo Minsk in battle for third place that guaranteed Higher league promotion. The last match of the season played in Minsk was marked by controversial refereeing: on the 10th minute penalty on vistors’ net was given and their best forward Stepan Yurchyshyn ejected. So Dynamo won the game as well as promotion race by one point from Karpaty.
In the middle of the 1978 season Ernest Yust made the decision to leave the team. He was with the club since its foundation, that is why he decided to leave behind the psychological burden and change his working environment.
1979 became the year of Stepan Yurchyshyn. The striker set the First league record, having scored 42 goals in 42 matches. Thanks to that he was invited to USSR National team, where he was the only player from the lower league. Karpaty scored 89 goals that year, took the first position and distanced itself from the closest chaser by 8 points..
Only for a year did Karpaty return to the Higher league. Yurchyshyn’s injury, constant arguments among starting players, change of the coach, the record number of players, who participated in the championship – 25, prevented the team from staying in the highest division. The failure has lead the head coach, Ishtvan Sekech, who managed to take the team to the top just a year before, to a dismissal.
In 1981 season Karpaty took only 11th place in the First league. Before the season leaders of the team Andriy Bal, Yuriy Susloparov and Yaroslav Dumanskyy had left for Dynamo Kyiv. Bal and Susloparov were set to play for USSR National team at 1982 World Cup in Spain. The 1969 USSR Cup holder Lev Brovarskyy retired in 1981, leavening no players on the lineup from that golden team. His record of 412 matches in Karpaty uniform still stands. There were rumours about two Lviv teams - Karpaty and SKA merger all over the city: the main idea was to create strong and competitive team.
During the first days of January of 1982 management of both clubs referring to financial difficulties and sporting failures agreed a merger. The trade union team Karpaty was dissolved and its place in the First league was taken by newly-formed SKA Karpaty. The club was now under local military authorities supervision. The footballers set to play for the new club were former SKA and Karpaty players joined by few newly arrived. Russian specialist M. Samarin became the head coach of the team. This unjustified step left the team outside high-league game for a long time.
At first the team played quite good. In 1984-1985 seasons under the guidance of former Green and Whites player Volodymyr Bulhakov, it finished 3rd in the First league, but the new club lacked in popularity among fans. Traditional green colour was forbidden in the stadium and even prosecuted. If for the matches of Karpaty in the Higher league around 20-25 thousand fans regularly gathered, for the first season of SKA Karpaty only 5-6 thousand of onlookers turned up. The changes in lineup became more frequent, the players only stayed in the team for the duration of their military service. In 1987 the club finished a season in 5th position, and in 7th a year later.
In 1989 it ended up in last, 22nd. SKA failed to win the first 16 matches and lost 18 out of 21 of away games. During the match against Kotayk at the Druzhba stadium held on the 11th of July 1989 an absolute anti record was set. Just 54 fans attended the game.
That year civil team Karpaty was revived, and started its way from the Second league. Approximately 8-10 thousand viewers gathered for its matches.
1989 - Karpaty revival
The first significant steps towards re-establishment of the team were taken on the 28th of July 1987, when I. Salo’s scathing article “Football … out of the game” was published in the Lviv newspaper “Lenin’s Youth” demanding the team to be split in two separate ones as was the case in 1960-s and return to Lviv its past glory and traditions. The article was written in 1983 but due to the censorship it appeared in paper only in four years. In November- December of 1988 all-Ukrainian action was held, “Me, Mother, Father – for the Karpaty” which gathered over 70 thousand signatures all over USSR.
At the end of 1988 Lviv delegation went to Kyiv to meet Republican Federation of Football officials, negotiations with the State Sports Committee in Moscow were also held. Since the place in the first league belonged to SKA Karpaty, the renewed civil club had to start from the lowest Second league. That satisfied both parties and on the 5th of January a certificate about Karpaty’s renewal was signed.
A lot of Karpaty players returned to the club, willing to play for the native city team: Stepan Yurchyshyn, Serhiy Kvasnykov, Victor Rafalchuk, Hryhoriy Batych, Bohdan Bandura, and others.
In the early going it became apparent that Green and Whites exceeded the level of Second league opponents.In 1989 and in 1990 the club ended up winning bronze medals and in 1991, in last USSR Championship held, it has taken the gold.
Independent Ukraine championships
After the country has gained independence, Karpaty was allowed to participate in Higher league starting from inaugural season in 1992. During 1997/98 season Karpaty took the 3rd place, which still stands as the best result of the club. Besides that the team managed to get to the Ukrainian Cup final twice: in 1992/93 and in 1998/99. The results were achieved under head coach Myron Markevych guidance, who joined the club in 1992 and remained until 1999.
Karpaty confirmed its reputation of a Cup team, becoming the finalist of the Ukrainian Cup in 1992/93 and getting the right to play in the Cup Winners’ Cup The next season the team was very close to repeating that success. In the semifinal it was up against Chornomorets Odesa: home game ended up in a 0-0 draw. And in Odesa the Green and Whites were hanging on to acceptable 1-1 tie. But on the very last minute Karpaty conceded a goal which eliminated the team from the tournament.
In the 1992/93, 1993/94 seasons Karpaty took 6th, 5th positions respectively. The next Championship it ended up on 8th position. Roman Hirnyk became the club president at the time, who did not get on well with the head coach, so Markevych had to leave..
Markevych’s assistant Volodymyr Zhuravchak took over the job. But the quality of the play did not get any better.The 1995/96 season was marked by club’s biggest defeat in Ukrainian league. Kremin – Karpaty – 6:1. They managed to lure Markevych back, who returned the team to 5th in 1997 and Karpaty earned the bronze the year after. That has remained as the greatest success ever since. The goalkeeper was experienced Bohdan Strontsitskyy, Yuriy Benyo, Oleksandr Chyzhevskyy, Volodymyr Yezerskyy played defense, Yevhen Nazarov, Serhiy Kovalets, Serhiy Mizin were the midfielders and the team striker Oleksandr Palyanytsya ended the season as top goal scorer. In 1998/99 Karpaty also got to the Cup final but odds were against Lviv team in a matchup versus Dynamo Kyiv, guided by Valeriy Lobanovskyy. The result – 0-3 defeat didn’t stop Green and Whites from entering European competition for the third time in their history. 
The summer of 1999 was marked by a partial stadium reconstruction as wooden benches were replaced by the plastic seats. Lviv was getting ready for UEFA Cup. That is why the first matches of Ukrainian Championship were held at SKA Stadium, where the team did not play since 1960-s. The temporary return was a success as on the 1st of August Chornomorets Odesa suffered humiliating 5-0 defeat.
The Lions’ achievements of 1990-s did not require either great budget or expenditures. But things changed at the beginning of 2000. As the result the players were leaving the team, since they got a chance to be paid more by other clubs. Karpaty invited foreign players, sometimes even trying too much. In 2001/02 season from 37 players on a roster, 9 were foreigners. That was the greatest number of foreign players in the club history. The team performance has dropped dramatically which led to a number of coaching changes. Myron Markevych got unprecedented third spell with the team in 2001 and even a fourth one three years later, but on that occasion was unable to save the club from relegation.
After the relegation a queue of strong and ambitious players (Serhiy Mizin, Serhiy Danylovskyy, Taras Kabanov, Serhiy Kovalchuk and some others) had left the team.
In 2005/06 season Karpaty achieved a unique (as for the First league team) success by getting to the Cup semifinal and defeating three Higher league clubs on its way. All three goals in home wins over Chornomorets, Shahtar, Vorskla were scored by the Brazilian player William Rocha Batista – the best addition to the team over the past few years. And the victory over Shakhtar, the reigning champion, was the most surprising. The hosts withstood the number of visitors’ attacks and scored in the 2nd half. Shakhtar’s management was impressed by goalkeeper’s play, and acquired Bohdan Shust as soon as opportunity presented itself. Karpaty finished 2nd in the table and returned to the Higher league.
The 2006/07 season turned out to be successful, with Karpaty finishing up in 8th place. Batista became club’s top scorer with 10 goals. The team struggled over the next season suffering from sophomore syndrome. Soon, couple of key players had departed (Paspopov, Tymchyshyn, Tlumak, Suchkov and aforementioned Batista). The gaps were filled by local youth. Karpaty lacked stability which made 3-7 and 0-4 defeats to Dynamo and Chernomorets possible. 10th place at the season end became logic result of this lackluster performance.
In 2008 for the first time two Lviv teams participated in the Higher league of Ukraine. Previously, in 2006 FC Lviv eliminated Karpaty in a Cup match, but the revenge was due on the 15th of November 2008. Karpaty scored 4 goals to win 4:2, coming back from 2-goal deficit.
Finally, Oleh Kononov managed to choose some players who could help the team. Even though during 2008/09 season winter break some key players left the club (Volodymyr Fedoriv, Samson Godwin, Maksym Feshchuk) it didn’t affect team play. Some excellent results were achieved during spring part of the season – 3-0 over both Chornomorets and Kryvbas, and 5-1 away routing of Illichivets, that happened to be the biggest road victory in Karpaty history.
The next derby between Lviv and Karpaty was played on the 26th of March 2009. The draw could rescue FC Lviv from being relegated to the First league, but they failed to earn a point – 2-1.
In August of 2009 the club celebrated it 1969 USSR Cup win anniversary. Since the judicial process between Russian Football Federation and Spartak Moscow for the right to own the Cup is going on, in 2007 the management of Karpaty decided to create the exact copy of the trophy – some parts of it were produced by jewelry masters from Lviv, Kyiv and Ternopil, and the cut glass was brought from Slovakia. So the new precise copy of the Cup was created.
All who were eager to make shots with the trophy could do so on the 30th of August, two hours before the 6th matchday game between Karpaty and Obolon, which started at 19:00. There was also commemorating of veteran players from 1969 team. All pensioners had free entry to the arena that day thanks to the management’s decision.
Obolon was crushed 5:0.
In 2010 the team started without their top striker – Serhiy Kuznetsov, who moved to play in Russia. He was replaced by Bastista, who eventually became the leading goal scorer of the team. Karpaty players proved their ambitions are not ill-founded by forcing impressive win over Metalist Kharkiv, which brought to Lviv almost one thousand fans headed by the club president.
The victory encouraged them, the team overcame Zorya Luhansk resistance on the snow-covered pitch. The fans were glad and worried in the same time, the situation was reminiscent of the one from the last year, when impressive winning streak was followed by dramatic drop in performance. During the next game versus Arsenal Kyiv Karpaty had to fight not only against their rivals but also against referees. At first they disallowed Kozhanov’s goal, later set a doubtful free kick. Karpaty was rescued by last-minute goal from Tkachuk. The game ended in 3-3 tie.
Lions did not slow down all season. They haven’t lost any of the away games. 
But they had to win games against the leaders to earn a spell in European Cup. They defeated Dnipro (by a goal from Khudobyak), Dynamo (Batista scored the winning goal) and Tavriya (Oschipko). After a draw in Simferopol again against the local Tavriya, Karpaty guaranteed itself Europa league participation. After the match the players were awarded with symbolic medals by the most passionate of their fans. 
The season for Karpaty U-21 proved to be even more succesfull. The team has won gold medals. Roman Tolochko’s boys won the championship in excellent style, leaving Shakhtar behind by 11 points. Moreover, they routed Donetsk team at home, 5-1. That was the first league title for Karpaty U-21.
Obviously their success didn’t go unnoticed by Oleh Kononov. Yaroslav Martynyuk, Yuriy Habovda, Volodymyr Hudyma got their chance to taste a Primer League’s game. And coaches of the National team became increasingly interested in players of the main Karpaty team. Ihor Oshchypko, Artem Fedetskyy, Ihor Khudobyak received the long-awaited invitations. All of them made their debuts in blue and yellow uniform in recent friendly matches. 
Coaches are keeping a close eye on Oleh Holodyyk and Denys Kozhanov, who has became top assistant of the Primer League, ending the season with 14 helpers, to go along with 4 goals. 
The captain, Andriy Tlumak, was sharp and reliable ever since coming home. Samson Godwin reached new level of play at his midfield position. Central defenders Miloshevic and Tubic have raised their game too. Andriy Tkachuk stepped out from a shadow and worked hard in the middle of the field.
ЧA lot of football pundits claim that Karpaty deserved their place in European competition. By the level of the play team is said to be only behind Shakhtar, whose lineup was composed mainly of expensive Brazilians. 
Sports reporters consider head coach Oleh Kononov one of the best in Ukraine. In the respective poll he surrendered the lead only to Shakhtar’s Mircea Lucescu.
In the atmosphere of general excitement, after a short break, the team has started to prepare for its 4th spell in European competition...
Karpaty made its official debut on the 21th of April 1963 against Lokomotiv Homel. The premier Karpaty match was held on Sunday under favourable weather conditions at the Lviv SKA stadium and attended by 17 thousand of fans, because works at newly built Dryzhba stadium were not completed at the time. The boom around the team and the first match was incredible and tickets for the match with Belarusians were sold out in a day.
So Green and Whites came out on Moscow Luzhnyky Stadium pitch to face Higher league favorite SKA (Rostov). Before the match the captain of the team shook hands with all referees except Khyarms, the same linesman whose mistake in the game against Uralmash left Karpaty outside Higher league.
Karpaty allowed a goal on the 29th minute. They diddn’t manage to level the score in the first half. But thousands of fans from Halychyna encouraged their heroes. So in the 2nd half Lyhachov and Bulhakov scored a goal each. At the end of the game Russians scored from the offside again and this time the referee pointed to the center circle. Only later did he notice Khyarms, who clearly recorded offside. So Ukrainians held on to the victory.
