FC LNZ Cherkasy

LNZ Cherkasy

Full name	Football Club LNZ Cherkasy
Founded	2006; 20 years ago (2006) as FC Shpola-LNZ-Lebedyn Shpola
Ground	Cherkasy Arena
Capacity	10,321
Owner	Viktor Kravchenko
General Director	Vasyl Kayuk
Head coach	Vitaliy Ponomaryov
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2024–25	Ukrainian Premier League, 12th of 16
Website	fc-lnz.com
Home colours Away colours

Football Club LNZ Cherkasy (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «ЛНЗ» Черкаси) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Cherkasy. They currently play in Ukrainian Premier League, the top tier of Ukrainian football. 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] The club's president became Andriy Poltavets in 2006.^[3]

In 2021, FC LNZ-Lebedyn announce official relocate from Lebedyn to Cherkasy and change name to LNZ Cherkasy.

In 2022–23, LNZ Cherkasy secure promotion to Ukrainian Premier League for the first time in their history from next season after defeat against Inhulets Petrove 2–1 and won aggregate 3–2.

Names

• 2006–2013: FC Shpola-LNZ-Lebedyn Shpola
• 2013–2021: FC LNZ-Lebedyn Lebedyn
• 2021–present: FC LNZ Cherkasy

Honours

• Ukrainian Amateur Cup
  • Winners (2): 2017–18,^[1][4] 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 3 September 2025^[5][6]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  UKR Dmytro Ledviy 3 DF  UKR Ivan Yermachkov 4 DF  ALB Ajdi Dajko 5 MF  GEO Shota Nonikashvili 6 MF  UKR Vyacheslav Tankovskyi 7 FW  CPV Eynel Soares 9 FW  UKR Artur Avahimyan 10 MF  KOS Muharrem Jashari 11 MF  UKR Hennadiy Pasich 12 GK  UKR Oleksiy Palamarchuk 14 DF  UKR Oleksandr Drambayev 16 MF  UKR Artur Ryabov 17 DF  UKR Denys Kuzyk

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF  UKR Oleksandr Kapliyenko 19 MF  UKR Yevheniy Pastukh 21 FW  UKR Orest Lepskyi 23 FW  UKR Danylo Kravchuk 24 MF  UKR Marko Podolyak 25 DF  UKR Oleh Horin 27 FW  CRC Jewison Bennette 29 DF  UKR Roman Didyk 33 DF  UKR Illya Putrya 34 DF  UKR Nazariy Muravskyi 72 GK  UKR Kirill Samoylenko 90 FW  GHA Mark Assinor — MF  NGA Adam Yakubu

Other players under contract

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

No. Pos. Nation Player

No. Pos. Nation Player

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  KOS Hajdin Salihu (at Polonia Warsaw until 30 June 2026) — MF  UKR Yaroslav Kysil (at Kudrivka until 30 June 2026)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  CMR Mollo Bessala (at Sheriff Tiraspol until 30 June 2026)

Coaches and administration

Office administration[7]	Coaching (senior team)[8]	Office assistants [8]	Coaching (U-19 team)[9]
President – Viktor Kravchenko Vice-president – Dmytro Kravchenko General director – Vasyl Kayuk Technical director – Oleksandr Chaban Operational director – Bohdan Zhalo Chief scout – Oleksiy Snizhko Marketing and media director – Anton Kravchenko Commercial director – Denys Karaban	Head coach – Vitaliy Ponomaryov Assistant manager – Hennadiy Shchekotylin Assistant manager – Ivan Shuga Goalkeeping coach – Andriy Rad Fitness coach – Vitaliy Romanyuk Fitness coach – Andriy Burdiyan Analysts – Maryan Shevchuk Analysts – Taras Dmytryk	Security officer – Ruslan Lysenko Administrator – Andriy Kalinich Administrator – Oleksandr Khlyubko Administrator – Oleksandr Parfyonov Administrator – Dmytro Sydorenko Chief doctor – Leonid Maslyuk Rehabilitation doctor – Roman Mishchenko Masseur – Andriy Makhno Masseur – Ruslan Poturnak Masseur – Oleksandr Pytel Masseur – Oleksandr Sokolovskyi Rehabilitation specialist – Artur Pohorilyi SMM officer, photographer – Oleksandr Kononenko Videographer – Serhiy Presnyakov	Head coach – Mykhaylo Dyachuk-Stavytskyi Assistant manager – Serhiy Politylo Assistant manager – Andriy Hlushchenko Goalkeeping coach – Vadym Bozhenko Administrator – Yevhen Trymbachov Analysts – Vladyslav Kravchenko Masseur – Illia Karbovskyi

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for LNZ Cherkasy.

Ukraine Ivan Kalyuzhnyi Oleksandr Kovpak Denys Oliynyk Serhiy Rybalka Yevhen Selin

Europe Andriy Popovych Shota Nonikashvili Osama Khalaila Muharrem Jashari Olivier Thill

Africa Béni Makouana North America Jewison Bennette

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	Second Preliminary round (1/32)	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 to Ukrainian Second League
											A/C	Winner
2021–22	3rd	3/15	17	13	2	2	36	9	41	Round of 16 (1/8)	-	-	Promoted to Ukrainian First League
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 Inhulets Petrove 1–1 2–1/ Promoted to Ukrainian Premier League
2023-24	1st	7	30	11	8	11	31	34	41	Fourth preliminary round (1/16)	-	-	-
2024-25		12	30	7	10	13	25	37	31	Round of 16 (1/8)	-	-	-
2025–26		1	16	11	2	3	20	8	35	Quarter-finals (1/4)	-	-	-

• A/P – the AAFU league playoffs (post-season elimination)
• A/C – the Ukrainian Amateur Cup
• 2021–22 season was interrupted and discontinued due to the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine
• 2022–23 Ukrainian Cup competitions never took place due to ongoing hostilities

Managers

• Petro Slavinskyi (2006 – 2011)^[10]
• Vasyl Hrechanyi (2012 – 16 August 2020)
• Yuriy Bakalov (17 August 2020 – 5 September 2022)
• Oleksandr Kovpak (caretaker) (5 September 2022 – 1 December 2022)
• Oleksandr Kovpak (2 December 2022 – 23 August 2023)
• Yuriy Dudnyk (caretaker) (25 August 2023 – 29 August 2023)
• Oleg Dulub (30 August 2023 – 10 June 2024)
• Andrés Carrasco (11 June 2024 – 12 December 2024)
• Roman Hryhorchuk (18 December 2024 – 26 May 2025)
• Vitaliy Ponomaryov (5 June 2025 – present)

See also

• FC Viktoriya Mykolaivka

References

1. Victory: LNZ-Lebedyn won the Ukrainian Amateur Cup (Перемога: «ЛНЗ-Лебедин» здобув Кубок України з аматорського футболу) Archived 2018-06-25 at the Wayback Machine. LNZ Group. 12 June 2018
2. Regional Football Championship. In focus is "Shpola-LNZ-Lebedyn" (Чемпіонат області з футболу. У фокусі "Шпола-ЛНЗ-Лебедин"). Cherkaskyi Sport.
3. Андрій Полтавець залишає пост президента ФК “ЛНЗ”. provce.ck.ua. 3 June 2024
4. Valerko, A. Two goals and ejection, a half time without goalie: LNZ-Lebedyn won the AAFU Cup (Два голи й вилучення, тайм без воротаря: ЛНЗ-Лебедин здобув Кубок ААФУ). Sport Arena. 11 June 2018
5. "Команда".
6. "LNZ".
7. "Керівництво" [Ownership]. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
8. "Основна команда" [Main squad]. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
9. "U-19" [U-19]. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
10. Haptar, M. Petro Slavinskyi leaves "Shpola-LNZ-Lebedyn" (Петро Славінський залишає "Шполу-ЛНЗ-Лебедин"). Cherkaskyi Sport. 18 December 2011

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)