FC Mynai

Mynai

Full name	FC Mynai
Nickname(s)	The Wolf
Founded	2015 (2015)
Ground	Avanhard Stadium, Uzhhorod Mynai Arena, Mynai
Capacity	12,000
Owner	Valeriy Peresolyak (president)
Head coach	Željko Ljubenović
League	Ukrainian First League
2023–24	Ukrainian Premier League, 15th of 16 (relegated)
Website	https://fcminaj.com
Home colours Away colours

FC Mynai (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб Минай) is a Ukrainian professional football club from Mynai, a suburb of Uzhhorod in Zakarpattia Oblast.

History

The Coat of Arms of Mynai features a fox which is also the club's symbol

The club was founded in 2015 by former customs officials in one of the Uzhhorod suburbs Mynai and played at the city and since 2016 – at the regional level.

The club was admitted to the Professional Football League of Ukraine after passing attestation for the 2018–19 Ukrainian Second League season. In their first professional season, Mynai managed to win Group A of the Second League, which earned them promotion to the Ukrainian First League. However, they lost the Ukrainian Second League Championship Game to Group B winners FC Kremin Kremenchuk.

In the 2019-20 Ukrainian First League season, they finished first, earning them promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League. Since the start of the 2020–21 season they play their home matches in the Avanhard Stadium in Uzhhorod. They continued to play in the Ukrainian Premier League, despite finishing last in the 2020–2021 season. Instead Olimpik Donetsk (they had finished 13th in the Premier League) were relegated back to the Persha Liha (Second Ukrainian League). In the 2023–24 season the club did relegate after four seasons in the top flight (finishing second to last). In July 2024 FC Mynai was extremely close to returning straight away to the Ukrainian Premier League. The club took part in a Mini-Tournament play-offs that was created for an open spot in the competition due to the disappearing of SC Dnipro-1. It made it to the final of this tournament, but lost to FC Livyi Bereh Kyiv.

Current squad

As of 28 September 2024

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	UKR	Maksym Rosul
2	DF	UKR	Taras Dmytruk
3	DF	UKR	Kyrylo Prokopchuk
4	DF	UKR	Bohdan Chuyev
5	MF	UKR	Dmytro Prikhna
7	FW	UKR	Yehor Hunichev
8	MF	UKR	Ivan Matyushenko
9	FW	UKR	Mykhaylo Plokhotnyuk
10	FW	UKR	Pavlo Tyshchuk
11	FW	UKR	Yevheniy Ryazantsev
16	MF	UKR	Yehor Shalfeyev
17	MF	UKR	Nazariy Vorobchak

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	MF	UKR	Maksym Maksymets
21	DF	UKR	Vladyslav Dvorovenko
24	MF	UKR	Ivan Golovkin (on loan from Zorya Luhansk)
25	MF	UKR	Vitaliy Rozhko
29	FW	UKR	Artur Remenyak
33	DF	UKR	Vladyslav Yeremenko
34	DF	UKR	Danyil Khondak
77	FW	UKR	Oleh Vyshnevskyi
88	DF	AZE	Dmitri Naghiyev
91	MF	UKR	Yaroslav Ryazantsev
97	MF	UKR	Illya Hulko (on loan from Zorya Luhansk)
99	GK	UKR	Denys Barchenko

Other players under contract

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player

Out on loan

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player

Honours

• Ukrainian First League
  • Winners (1): 2019–20
• Ukrainian Second League
  • Winners of group A (1): 2019
• Ukrainian Football Amateur League
  • Winners of group 1 (1): 2018
• Zakarpattia Oblast championship
  • Winners (1): 2017
  • 3rd place (1): 2016
• Zakarpattia Cup
  • Winners (2): 2017, 2018
• Zakarpattia Supercup
  • Winners (1): 2017

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Other		Notes
2017–18	4th	1/9	16	11	4	1	34	9	37		PL	QF	Admitted
2018–19	3rd	1/10	27	15	4	8	41	26	49	1⁄8 finals			Promoted
2019–20	2nd	1/16	30	19	5	6	51	27	62	1⁄2 finals			Promoted
2020–21	1st	14/14	26	4	6	16	16	47	18	1⁄8 finals			Readmitted
2021–22	1st	15/16	18	1	7	10	12	30	10	1⁄16 finals			Avoided relegation
2022–23	1st	8/16	30	9	9	12	25	30	36	—
2023–24	1st	15 /16

List of coaches

• 2015: Viacheslav Pinkovskyi
• 2016: Mykola Hibaliuk
• 2016: Mykhailo Ivanytsia
• 2017: Mykola Hibaliuk
• 2018–2019: Ihor Kharkovshchenko
• 2019: Kirill Kurenko
• 2019–2021: Vasyl Kobin
• 2021: Mykola Tsymbal
• 2021: Vasyl Kobin
• 2021: Ihor Leonov
• 2022–2023: Volodymyr Sharan

Staff

Administration	Coaching (senior team)	Coaching (U-21/U-19 team)
President – Valeriy Peresolyak Vice-president – Yevhen Plavaiko Sporting director – Mykhaylo Kopolovets Administrator – Serhiy Rushchak Head coach – Assistant coach – Vadym Chernyshenko Assistant coach – Ihor Luchkevych Assistant coach – Oleksiy Antonovych GK coach – Andriy Novak Head coach U21 – Head coach U19 – Oleksiy Polyanskyi

External links

• Official website
• Club's profile at AAFU
• Kachailo, M. Successors of Hoverla. How lives the team of Kopolovets? (Нащадки Говерли…Чим живе команда Кополовця?). UA-Football. 4 May 2018