Football Club Alians is a Ukrainian football club based in Lypova Dolyna, Sumy Oblast, in north-eastern Ukraine, founded in 2016. The club is competing in the Ukrainian First League following promotion from the 2019–20 Ukrainian Second League. Alians's home field is Yuvileiny Stadium in Sumy.
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| Full name | Football Club Alians | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Alliance | ||
| Founded | 2016 | ||
| Ground | Alians-Arena, Bairak[1] Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy | ||
| Capacity | 520[2] 25,830 | ||
| President | Serhiy Demchenko | ||
| League | none | ||
| 2021–22 | Ukrainian First League, 3rd of 16 (withdrew) | ||
| Website | http://fc-alliance.com.ua/ | ||
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History
editAlians Lypova Dolyna was founded in 2016. The team played its first match on May 21 of the same year within the framework of the Sumy Oblast Championship against Lebedynets from Lebedyn. According to the results of the 2016 season, Alians won gold medals in the championship, ahead of Yavir and Trostianets. Since 2017, the team participated in the highest league of the championship of Sumy Oblast. Alians finished the first draw in third place, and a year later became the champion.
In 2018, Alians was admitted into the Amateur Championship of Ukraine. In its group, the team took third place, skipping ahead of Victoria and LNZ Cherkasy, and in the quarterfinals of the playoffs lost to the future champion VPK Ahro.
In 2019, the club won the Hennady Svirsky Cup and the Super Cup of Sumy Oblast, and in the summer season Alians received the status of a professional club and began playing in the Ukrainian Second League. In the early completed draw of the 2019/20 season, the team took third place in Group B and in the play-offs with Metalurh Zaporizhzhia won addmitance to play in the Ukrainian First League of the 2020/21 season. In its first draw of the Ukrainian Cup, Alliance lost in the quarterfinals to premier league club FC Mariupol with a score of 2:4.[3]
Honors
edit- Sumy Oblast Championship
- Winners (1): 2018
League and cup history
editSeason Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Other Notes 2018–19 4th "B" 3/12 22 14 4 4 54 22 46 Promoted 2019–20 3rd "B" 3/11 22 17 2 3 54 12 53 1⁄4 finals Promoted as play-off winner 2020–21 2nd 6/16 30 14 9 7 46 31 51 1⁄32 finals 2021–22 2nd 3/16 19 10 3 6 33 24 33 1⁄16 finals Merged with Viktoriya Mykolaivka
Head coaches
edit- 2018–2022 Yuriy Yaroshenko
- 2022 Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi (came in winter break as part of the upcoming merger and didn't play any competitive games)
References
edit- ^ Альянс (Липова Долина, Сумська обл.) [Alians (Lypova Dolyna, Sumy Obl.)] (in Ukrainian). 2019. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019.
- ^ Artur Valerko. They will play at "Yuvileiny", develop own training field and arena (Гратимуть на «Ювілейному», розвивають власну базу й арени. Альянс – єдиний професіональний клуб Сумщини). Sport Arena. 12 July 2019
- ^ "Історія ФК "Альянс" (Липова Долина) | Офіційний сайт ФК "Альянс" (Липова Долина)". Archived from the original on 11 May 2021.
External links
edit- Official website
(in Ukrainian)
