FC Nyva Vinnytsia

A football team in Vinnytsia existed before the World War II as a local team of Vinnytsia city, which participated in championships among other cities. After the 1936 reorganization of football competition, the team then continued to play in lower tiers.

Following World War II, in 1946 football in Vinnytsia was represented by the Spartak society. In 1947 the team played under Dynamo's colors which for the next several years was regularly winning regional competitions and making finals appearances.

The teams names including "Trud", "Burevisnyk", and City Team.

In 1958 then current club was established as a Soviet team of the local locomotive factory as Lokomotyv Vinnytsia, which was established on the initiative of the director of Southwestern Railway Petro Kryvonos.

After Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Nyva was selected to play in the inaugural Ukrainian Premier League in 1992, due to being one of the top 9 (of 11) Ukrainian teams from the West Division of the Soviet Second League in 1991.

After being relegated in 1992, Nyva spent the 1993 season in the Ukrainian second division in the First League. Nyva was quickly promoted back to the top level next season after winning the competition.

Nyva Vinnytsia's best achievement in the Ukrainian Premier League was 10th-place finish in the 1993–94 season. The club also surprisingly made the 1995–96 Ukrainian Cup finals, only to lose to Dynamo Kyiv. As a result, Nyva took part in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, even progressing to the first round after beating JK Tallinna Sadam on away goals (1:2 loss in Tallinn and 1:0 win in Vinnytsia). However, Swiss side FC Sion beat the Ukrainian side with a 6:0 score on aggregate (2:0 in Sion and 4:0 in Vinnytsia) ending the dream run in Europe.

The club ceased to exist after it was relegated from the First League in 2006 because of financial difficulties. In 2006 it was replaced with FC Bershad from Bershad, Vinnytsia oblast (see FC Nyva Bershad).

In the 2007–08 season the club reentered professional league competition into the Second League as FC Nyva-Svitanok, the new part of its name meaning dawn, or new beginning. Also Svitanok is a name of a city's flower market.

On 8 July 2008, the club changed their name from "FC Nyva-Svitanok Vinnytsia" to "PFC Nyva Vinnytsia".^[1]

The club was again reformed and entered the Vinnytsia Oblast competition for the 2015–16 finishing in fifth place.^[2] The club competed in 2016 in the 2016 Ukrainian Football Amateur League finishing second in their group. The club successfully passed attestation and competed in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League season finishing 7th place.^[3]

At the end of 2020, the club announced about financial hardship, and acting president of the club Vadym Kudiarov complained about lack of interest from local government and public.^[4]

The club plays in one of two stadiums in Vinnytsia, Sports Complex Nyva which has a capacity of 5,000 spectators with the club's training facilities located there, and the Municipal Central Stadium (previously Lokomotyv) which was expanded prior to 1980's Olympics which now has a capacity of 24,000 spectators. The Central Stadium is usually used in "big" matches against famous opponents with all the other matches were played at SC Nyva.

• Ukrainian Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1995–96
• Ukrainian First League
  • Winners (1): 1992–93
• Championship of the Ukrainian SSR
  • Winners (2): 1964, 1984
  • Runners-up (3): 1963, 1981, 1985
• Ukrainian Second League
  • Runners-up (1): 2009–10 (Group A)
• Ukrainian League Cup (among amateurs and lower leagues' clubs)
  • Winners (1): 2009–10

As of 20 March 2024^[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
16	DF	BRA	Guilherme Nascimento
22	DF	UKR	Valeriy Chukhno
23	DF	UKR	Oleksandr Boryachuk
33	DF	UKR	Oleh Nychyporenko
70	MF	UKR	Oleksiy Shvets
77	DF	UKR	Volodymyr Hrachov
—	MF	UKR	Vitaliy Hemeha

Its first and the only European competition participation occurred in 1996–97 season in UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1996–97	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Q	JK Tallinna Sadam	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		1R	FC Sion	0–4	0–2	0–6

Notes

• 1R: First round
• Q: Qualifying round

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	1st "A" (Vyshcha Liha)	8	18	5	4	9	18	33	14	1⁄32 finals			Relegated
1992–93	2nd (Persha Liha)	1	42	24	14	4	73	26	62	1⁄16 finals			Promoted
1993–94	1st (Vyshcha Liha)	10	34	7	6	21	25	51	20	1⁄8 finals
1994–95		14	34	10	7	17	38	51	37	1⁄4 finals
1995–96		15	34	11	7	16	28	36	40	Runners-up
1996–97		16	30	4	6	20	19	48	18	1⁄4 finals	CWC	1st round	Relegated
1997–98	2nd (Persha Liha)	5	42	22	7	13	58	34	73	1⁄8 finals
1998–99		6	38	16	9	13	45	39	57	1⁄64 finals
1999–00		11	34	14	6	14	29	39	48	1⁄8 finals			as FC Vinnytsia
2000–01		10	34	12	8	14	35	41	44	1⁄16 finals			as FC Vinnytsia
2001–02		15	34	10	8	16	35	52	38	1⁄16 finals			as FC Vinnytsia
2002–03		16	34	9	9	16	18	31	36	1⁄32 finals			as FC Vinnytsia
2003–04		8	34	14	10	10	34	24	52	1⁄16 finals
2004–05		5	34	15	8	11	49	38	53	1⁄4 finals			Bankrupt
2005–06	Club Idle
2006	4th (Amatory)	2	6	2	3	1	7	3	9				Stage 1, as FC Nyva-Svitanok
		2	6	3	2	1	14	5	11				Stage 2, as FC Nyva-Svitanok
		4	3	0	0	3	0	2	0				Stage 3, as FC Nyva-Svitanok
2007–08	3rd "A" (Druha Liha)	9	30	10	5	15	23	40	35	Did not enter			as FC Nyva-Svitanok
2008–09		3	32	18	7	7	40	29	61	1⁄16 finals			as PFC Nyva
2009–10		2	20	12	4	4	43	16	40	1⁄32 finals			Promoted[a]
2010–11	2nd (Persha Liha)	10	34	14	8	12	44	42	50	1⁄32 finals
2011–12		13	34	7	11	16	21	39	32	1⁄32 finals[b]			Relegated[c]
2012–15	Club Idle
2015–16	Club reforms and participates in oblast competition
2016	4th (Amatory)	2	6	2	2	2	5	5	8
2016–17	3rd (Druha Liha)	7	32	14	8	10	42	33	50	1⁄16 finals
2017–18	3rd "A" (Druha Liha)	3	27	13	6	8	34	21	45	1⁄32 finals
2018–19		4	27	11	9	7	29	23	42	1⁄16 finals
2019–20		9/11	20	5	5	10	22	28	20	1⁄32 finals
2020–21		6/13	24	10	3	11	38	38	33	1⁄8 finals
2021–22		8/15	17	7	4	6	29	20	25	1⁄32 finals
2022–23	3rd (Druha Liha)	4/10	18	10	5	3	29	16	35	None

• (in Ukrainian) Official website
• (in Ukrainian) Ukrainian Second League official web site Archived 14 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine
• (in English) FC Nyva Vinnytsia on Facebook
• (in Ukrainian) Fan team website
• Sportive-football club Nyva — V (Спортивно-футбольний клуб "Нива – В"). Dity v misti.