FC Karpaty Mukacheve

FC Karpaty Mukacheve
Full name	Football Club Karpaty Mukacheve
Founded	1946
Dissolved	2003
Ground	Avanhard
Capacity	3,000
Home colours	Away colours

FC Karpaty Mukacheve (Ukrainian: ФК «Карпати» Мукачеве) was a Ukrainian football team from Mukacheve, Zakarpattia Oblast. The club was formed in 1946 as FC Bilshovyk.

History

Looking back throughout the history, in the city existed several football clubs that preceded current club. After the World War II in 1945 in Mukacheve were formed three football teams "Spartak" (represented a local tobacco factory), "Bilshovyk" (brewery), and "Dynamo" (law enforcement and border guards).^[1] On 13 May 1945, the local newspaper "Zakarpatska Pravda" was reporting its readers that the local Mukacheve Dynamo had hosted "Spartak-URSO" from Uzhhorod and beat it 10–1.^[1] Sometime a week later the same Dynamo Mukacheve beat Dynamo Berehove at home 5–2.^[1] Soon the chairman of the People's Council of Transcarpathian Ukraine Ivan Turyanytsia received an official invitation to send an athletic team of Zakarpattia of about 150 athletes to the Ukrainian Spartakiad that had been scheduled to take place 23 August to 6 September 1945.^[1]

In 1947 all three football teams were merged into one and named as Bilshovyk Mukacheve.^[2]

In Soviet competitions it participated rarely and with extensive pauses: 1948, 1949, 1968–1970, 1990. Based out of Mukacheve, Zakarpattia took part in the Ukrainian First League from its first championship in 1992. They were later sent down to Druha Liha after the 1996–97 season, and in couple of years folded.

In 1999 and 2000, a team named FC Mukachevo takes part in the regional championship. In 2001 the club takes part in the regional cup. In 2002 FC Mukachevo took part in the Ukrainian Football Cup among amateurs. After a two-year break, in 2003, already as Karpaty, the club started for the last time in the championship of the Transcarpathian region.

Team Names

1946–1951: Bilshovyk
1951: Iskra
1955: Burevisnyk
1962: Tochprylad
1963: Mukachevprylad
1964: Prylad
1965–1966: Pryladyst
1967: Prylad
1968–1970: Karpaty
1971–1993: Pryladyst
1994–1998: Karpaty
1999–2002: FK Mukacheve
2003: Karpaty

Honors

Soviet Union

Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR
Winners (1): 1947^[3] (Bilshovyk)
Ukrainian republican championship among KFK
Winners (1): 1977^[3] (Pryladyst)
Runners-up (1): 1971^[3] (Karpaty)
Zakarpattia Oblast championship
Winners (2): 1962,^[3] 1988^[3]
Runners-up (2): 1966,^[3] 1967^[3]
Zakarpattia Oblast Cup
Winners (2): 1963,^[3] 1964,^[3] 1966^[3]

Ukraine

Ukrainian First League
Runners-up (1): 1992 (group)
Zakarpattia Oblast championship

League and cup history

Soviet Union (Zone "Ukraine", Group 1, or Group 4)

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Notes
1948	2nd "Group B"	1	14	10	2	2	35	16	22		quilified for the Republican finals
1948	Playoff	4	3	0	0	3	1	6	0
1949	2nd	5	34	21	5	8	72	38	47	3rd round	withdrew to regional competition
1968	3rd	14	42	14	11	17	36	47	39	Fifth round (1/256)	four games in the Soviet Cup record +2=1–1 3–2
1969	3rd	3	40	18	15	7	50	23	51	?	qualified for finals in Ivano-Frankivsk
1969	Playoff	4	5	2	1	2	6	5	5	?
1970	4th	5	40	19	13	8	51	36	51		withdrew to regional competition
1991	4th	5	50	24	14	12	67	42	62	?	placed in the Ukrainian First League

Ukraine

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Notes
1992	2nd "Group 1"	2	26	14	5	7	27	15	33	First round (1/32)
1992–93	2nd	20	42	12	11	19	38	53	35	?
1993–94	2nd	15	38	12	7	19	41	57	31
1994–95	2nd	21	42	12	5	25	39	74	41	?	Relegated
1995–96	3rd	5	30	15	7	8	43	24	52	?
1996–97	3rd	5	34	14	9	11	40	32	51	?	Folded