MFС Mykolaiv (Municipal Football Club "Mykolaiv", Ukrainian: Муніципальний футбольний клуб "Миколаїв") was a Ukrainian football club based in Mykolaiv.
It is one of the oldest football clubs that exists in Ukraine. Originally was established as a football team of the Black Sea Shipyard, since dissolution of the Soviet Union and cutting of the shipyard's budget which was based mostly on military contacts, it is sponsored mostly by the city of Mykolaiv.
Description
Names
1920–1922: Naval Factory
1922–1926: Marti-Badin Factory
1926–1926: Metalisty Mykolaiv
1927–1928: Raikom Metalistiv
1929–1935: Marti Factory
1936–1940: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
1941–1944: Nazi Germany occupation of Ukraine
1944–1949: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
1951–1952: Mykolaiv City
1953–1959: Avanhard Mykolaiv
1960–1965: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
1966–1966: Budivelnyk Mykolaiv
1967–1991: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
1992–1994: Evis Mykolaiv
1994–2002: SC Mykolaiv
2002–2022: MFC Mykolaiv
History
The club was founded in 1920 under the name Sudostroitel (Sudnobudivnyk) Mykolaiv. It is the oldest continuously playing club in the country that competes on the professional level.
Throughout the Soviet times and until the 1990s, it mostly played under the name of Sudnobudivnyk meaning Shipbuilder associated with the Black Sea Shipyard.
MFC Mykolaiv took part in the first Ukrainian Premier League season in 1992 under the name FC Evis Mykolaiv, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 (of 11) Ukrainian teams from the West Division of the Soviet Second League 1991. The club is one of the holders of the unfortunate distinction as being the team to be demoted three times from the Ukrainian Premier League.
MFС Mykolaiv's best achievement in the Ukrainian Premier League was 13th place (in 1994–95). From 1994, the club was known as SC Mykolaiv, FC Mykolaiv since 2000, and MFC Mykolaiv since 2006.
MFC Mykolaiv became insolvent and ceased to exist after the City Administration of Mykolaiv informed the PFL that the team would not be competing in the 2008/09 Persha Liha season. The team then requested re-admittance to the PFL, but it was too late as the calendar was already set up. The PFL allowed the club to compete in the Druha Liha, but only in the next season. The administration of the Dynamo Kyiv extended its helping hand by withdrawing its junior team Dynamo-3 Kyiv from the Second League and, thus, for Mykolaiv to be placed instead of it.
^Club announced its dissolution on 2 July 2008. PFL proceeded to remove the club from the professional ranks. The club under pressure from local civil sources reapplies and the PFL grants the club reinstatement in the Druha Liha Group A for the 2008–09 season at the expense of FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv who withdrew to allow the League to have 18 teams.
^The club were deducted 3 points for failure of payments of financial obligations ordered by the PFL. (31 May 2012)ПРОТОКОЛ № 30 (28 вересня 2011 року) [PFL Disciplinary committee decision- Meeting minutes № 30] (PDF) (in Ukrainian). PFL. 31 May 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
^The club was given one month by the PFL to pay their league dues. The club failed to pay the dues in time and were deducted 3 points. (21 August 2012)ПРОТОКОЛ № 2 (26 липня 2012 року) [PFL Disciplinary committee decision- Meeting minutes № 2] (PDF) (in Ukrainian). PFL. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
^The club finished last in the competition. However, relegation to the Ukrainian Second League was canceled. The Central Council of Professional Football League of Ukraine considered the force majeure circumstances that were created due to war conditions in Kramatorsk as the reason for the cancellation. With the goal to preserve the maximum integrity of the League, considering that a direct threat to the life of footballers, coaching staff, and club's administration, those games, that were to be conducted with participation of Avanhard Kramatorsk to the end of the season, were recognized that they were not going to take place because of those unforeseen events. Прийнято Постанову Центральної Ради щодо ситуації у Краматорську [Adopted decision of the Central Council about the situation in Kramatorsk]. Professional Football League of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 21 May 2014. Archived from the original on 22 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
^The Control Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of Ukraine deducted three points and fined the club for match fixing during the 2014–15 season. (2 September 2015) Апеляція Миколаєва, Ниви і Тернополя щодо зняття очок відхилена [Mykolaiv, Ternopil, Nyva points deducted appeal rejected]. ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 22 March 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
