LNZ

Full name	Football Club LNZ Cherkasy
Founded	2006
Ground	Central Stadium
Capacity	10,321
Owner	Andriy Poltavets
Director	Vasyl Hrechanyi
Head coach	Oleg Dulub
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2022–23	Ukrainian First League, 3rd of 16 (promoted via play-offs)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Football Club LNZ Cherkasy ( Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «ЛНЗ» Черкаси) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Cherkasy. The club is owned by LNZ Group. ^[1]

History

The club was created in 2006 by Dmytro Kravchenko. ^[2] The club was based at the time in the city of Shpola and played at its Central Stadium. ^[2]

Names

• 2006–2013 FC Shpola-LNZ-Lebedyn Shpola
• 2013–2021 FC LNZ-Lebedyn Lebedyn
• since 2021 FC LNZ Cherkasy

Honours

• Ukrainian Amateur Cup
  • Winners (2): 2017–18, ^{[1] [3]} 2020–21
• Cherkasy Oblast Championship
  • Winners (4): 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017
  • Runners-up (2): 2007, 2012
• Cherkasy Oblast Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 2009, 2012

Current squad

As of 15 March 2024 ^{[4] [5] [6]}

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 MF   LUX Olivier Thill 5 DF   KOS Hajdin Salihu 7 MF   UKR Serhiy Shestakov 8 MF   ISR Arad Bar 9 FW   UKR Maksym Pryadun 10 MF   UKR Vitaliy Boyko 11 MF   UKR Hennadiy Pasich 14 MF   UKR Denys Dolinskyi 15 MF   KOS Muharrem Jashari 16 MF   UKR Denys Oliynyk 17 DF   UKR Denys Norenkov 18 DF   UKR Oleksandr Kapliyenko 19 FW   UKR Oleksiy Khoblenko 20 FW   CMR Mollo Bessala

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 GK   UKR Yevhen Kucherenko 22 FW   CPV Eynel Soares 23 DF   UKR Oleksandr Nasonov 27 MF   UKR Ivan Tyshchenko 29 FW   BRA Italo Magnata 34 DF   UKR Nazariy Muravskyi 37 MF   UKR Serhiy Rybalka 55 DF   UKR Maksym Kovalyov 70 MF   UKR Vladyslav Naumets 72 GK   UKR Kirill Samoylenko 80 GK   UKR Ivan Dubovyi 90 DF   UKR Oleh Tarasenko ( captain) 94 GK   UKR Herman Penkov 95 DF   UKR Petro Stasyuk

Other players under contract

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

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 28 MF   UKR Serhiy Kopyl (at Viktoriya Summy until 30 June 2024) — FW   UKR Nazariy Nych (at Viktoriya Summy until 30 June 2024)

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Other		Notes
2017–18	Cherkasy Oblast competitions										A/C	Winner
2018–19	4th	1/12	22	18	3	1	67	15	57	Round of 64	A/P	1⁄2 finals
											A/C	1⁄4 finals
2019–20	4th	2/12	22	17	4	1	54	13	55		A/P	1⁄2 finals
											A/C	1⁄4 finals
2020–21	4th	2/11	20	14	3	3	56	11	45		A/P	Winner	Promoted
											A/C	Winner
2021–22	3rd	3/15	17	13	2	2	36	9	41	Round of 16			Promoted
2022–23	2nd	1/8	14	9	3	2	22	6	30	—			to Promotion group
		3/8	14	6	4	4	19	12	22				Won playoffs/Promoted

• A/P – the AAFU league playoffs (post-season elimination)
• A/C – the Ukrainian Amateur Cup

Head coaches

• 2006–2011 ^[7] Petro Slavinskyi
• 2012–2020 Vasyl Hrechanyi
• 2020–2022 Yuriy Bakalov
• 2022-2023 Oleksandr Kovpak
• 2023 Yuriy Dudnyk (caretaker)
• 2023-present Oleg Dulub

See also

• FC Viktoriya Mykolaivka

References

External links

• LNZ-Lebedyn: Quarterfinal perspectives, regional triumph and new stadium for your homeland ("ЛНЗ-Лебедин": чвертьфінальні перспективи, обласний тріумф та новий стадіон для краю). Footboom. 10 March 2018 (interview with Vasyl Hrechanyi)