SC Tavriya Simferopol

Tavriya

Full name	Sports Club Tavriya Simferopol
Nickname(s)	Krymchyany (Crimeans)
Founded	1958; 55 years ago (1958)
Ground	RSC Lokomotiv (capacity: 19,978)
Chairman	Serhiy Kunitsyn
Manager	Oleh Luzhny
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2011–12	6th
Home colours Away colours

SC Tavriya Simferopol (Ukrainian: СК «Таврія» Сімферополь, Crimean Tatar: SK «Tavriya» Aqmescit) is a football club from Simferopol, Crimea, which plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. Tavriya is Crimea's most successful football club and is the winner of the very first Ukrainian Premier League, making them one out of 3 teams that have ever held this title.

History [edit]

The club was founded in 1958, under the name 'Avanhard'. Tavriya played their first game in the USSR Championship against the Yaroslav based club Khimik. Overall, Tavriya played 132 clubs from 113 cities. They played their last match of the Soviet competition against FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg.

Post-Soviet [edit]

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian Premier League was formed. Tavria was one of its founders and eventually became the very first Ukrainian champion, defeating in the final, held in Lviv, Dynamo Kyiv, Ukraine's most successful club. Having earned the right to participate in UEFA Champions League, Tavryia were knocked out in the first round by Swiss club FC Sion. The Russian Sport-Express posted an article (№3 (43), 25 January 2000, page 9) stating that the Ukrainian champions Tavria were threatened by the Football Federation of Ukraine to compete at the CIS Cup in 1993.

Tavria is one of the 5 clubs to have so far participated in every season of the Ukrainian premier league. Their best performance in the Ukrainian Cup was reaching winning in 2010, when they have defeated Metalurh Donetsk. They also reached the final in 1994.

Sponsors [edit]

• JSB Bank Clearing House (bank);
• Crimea Titan PJSC (chemical plant);
• Leader (radiostation).

European record [edit]

Europa League:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2010–11	Play-off		Bayer Leverkusen	1–3	0–3	1–6

Champions League:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1992–93	Qualifying		Shelbourne	2–1	0–0	2–1
	1st		Sion	1–3	1–4	2–7

Honours [edit]

• Ukrainian Premier League: 1992

• Ukrainian Cup: 2010
• Runner-up: 1994

Reserve team [edit]

The reserve team of Tavriya, Tavriya Simferopol Reserves (Ukrainian: СК «Таврія» Сімферополь дубль) are playing in the Ukrainian Premier Reserve League.

Current squad [edit]

Squad is compiled according to the club's official website, as of 31 March 2013.^[1]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Damir Kahriman 4 MF Marin Ljubičić 5 DF Volodymyr Yezerskyi (Captain) 6 MF Gustav Svensson 7 FW Yuriy Habovda 8 DF Eduardo (on loan from Villa Rio) 9 MF Stanislav Prychynenko 10 FW Maksym Feschuk 11 DF Dmytro Matviyenko 15 DF Célio 16 MF Marco Né 17 FW Anton Shynder 18 MF Serhiy Nazarenko

No. Position Player 20 DF Anis Boussaïdi 21 MF Vladyslav Pavlenko 23 GK Serhiy Pohorilyi 25 MF Maksym Kalynychenko 27 MF Rubén Gómez 30 DF Oleh Humenyuk 31 GK Serhiy Sitalo 39 DF Semen Datsenko 44 DF Yuriy Putrash 69 DF Rollan Pohoreltsev 90 MF Makhach Gadzhiyev 92 MF Maksym Prykhodnyi 93 DF Serhiy Melnyk

Out on loan [edit]

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

No. Position Player MF Oleksandr Artemenko (on loan to Bukovyna)

No. Position Player FW Serhiy Melnyk (on loan to Krymteplytsya)

Famous players [edit]

Coaches [edit]

League and Cup history [edit]

References [edit]

External links [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: SC Tavriya Simferopol

• Official website
• All coaches of Tavriya