FC Lokomotyv Poltava

Lokomotyv Poltava
Founded30 July 1912
Dissolved1996
GroundLokomotyv Stadium

Football Club Lokomotyv Poltava (Ukrainian: ФК Локомотив Полтава); was a Ukrainian Soviet football team based in Poltava, Ukraine. It is the Poltava Oblast club with the most titles[1] with nine championships and eleven cup wins.[2]

History

The football club was formed in Poltava in 1912 under the name Podilska Poltava. "Podilska" is an adjective form of Podil, which means a lower neighborhood (community). In 1920, it was renamed, and the club was one of four teams that organized Poltava football league. The new name was Podil Poltava. Two years later, it was renamed to Yuzhraion Poltava (Southern district). Four years later, it was again renamed to Zalizhnychnyk (Zheldor) Poltava (Railroad worker). In 1931 club was renamed Lokomotyv and began representing the steam locomotive repair plant.[3] 1953 was the best year for the club. In 1994, the club was dissolved.[4] A newspaper published by the factory gives the date as 1996.[5]

Name change

  • Podilska Poltava (1912–1920)
  • Podil Poltava (1920–1922)
  • Yuzhraion Poltava (1922–1926)
  • Zalizhnychnyk (Zheldor) Poltava (1926–1930)
  • Lokomotyv Poltava (1931–1994)

Honours

Cup of the Ukrainian SSR

Runners-up (1): 1953[6]

Poltava Oblast Championship

Winners (9): 1949,[7] 1950,[8] 1953,[9] 1954,[10] 1957,[11] 1958,[12] 1960,[13] 1961,[14] 1980[15]
Runners-up (7): 1956,[16] 1972,[17] 1976,[18] 1977,[19] 1972,[20] 1983,[21] 1986[21]
Third place (5): 1938,[22] 1939,[4] 1940,[4] 1979,[23] 1993[2]

Poltava Oblast Cup

Winners (11): 1950,[24] 1951,[25] 1952,[26] 1953,[27] 1954,[10] 1957,[28] 1958,[29] 1959,[30] 1971,[31] 1973,[32] 1980,[15] 1982[1]
Runners-up (8): 1960,[33] 1961,[34] 1969,[35] 1970,[35] 1976,[36] 1979,[37] 1985[38]

Poltava Championship

Winners (9): 1936,[39] 1937 Fall,[39] 1949,[40] 1953,[41] 1954,[41] 1956 (reserves),[42] 1957,[41] 1960,[41] 1961[41]
Runners-up (1): 1956[42]

Poltava Cup

Winners (11): 1939,[43] 1952,[44] 1957,[45] 1958,[46] 1959,[30] 1971,[41] 1974,[41] 1980,[15] 1981,[47] 1982[1]
Runners-up (3): 1953,[48] 1955,[49] 1961[39]

References

  1. ^ a b c Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 388.
  2. ^ a b Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 189.
  3. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 171.
  4. ^ a b c Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 172.
  5. ^ Klymenko, Nataliia, ed. (28 September 2012). ""Локомотив" відсвяткував столітній ювілей" [Lokomotyv celebrated its centenary]. Robitnyche Slovo (in Ukrainian). No. 1 (4343).
  6. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 133.
  7. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 107.
  8. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 115.
  9. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 128.
  10. ^ a b Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 135.
  11. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 147.
  12. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 148.
  13. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 152.
  14. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 154.
  15. ^ a b c Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 176.
  16. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 143.
  17. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 165.
  18. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 372.
  19. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 376.
  20. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 173.
  21. ^ a b Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 180.
  22. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 74.
  23. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 174.
  24. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 116.
  25. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 121.
  26. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 126.
  27. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 130.
  28. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 298.
  29. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 149.
  30. ^ a b Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 151.
  31. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 360.
  32. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 364.
  33. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 315.
  34. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 323.
  35. ^ a b Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 462.
  36. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 373.
  37. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 380.
  38. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 394.
  39. ^ a b c Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 538.
  40. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 109.
  41. ^ a b c d e f g Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 539.
  42. ^ a b Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 294.
  43. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 75.
  44. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 127.
  45. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 299.
  46. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 150.
  47. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 386.
  48. ^ Lomov & Stadnychenko 2009, p. 134.
  49. ^ Lomov & Kryvorotko 2010, p. 287.

Sources

  • Lomov, Anatolii; Stadnychenko, Oleksandr (2009), 100 Років Полтавському Футболу [100 Years of Poltava Football] (in Ukrainian), Poltava: Poltava, ISBN 978-966-97035-0-7
  • Lomov, Anatolii; Kryvorotko, Serhii (2010), Энциклопеди Полтавского Футбола (1909-2010) [Encyclopedia of Poltava Football (1909-2010)] (in Russian), Poltava: OOO "ASMI", ISBN 978-966-182-118-6