FC Vorskla-2 Poltava

The FC Vorskla-2 Poltava is a Ukrainian football reserve team of FC Vorskla Poltava based in Poltava, Ukraine. Unlike junior squads (U-21 or U-19) that compete in competitions for junior teams, Vorksla-2 competes in lower-level leagues of the national league pyramid structure.

Brief overview

For the first time the Poltava's club was fielding its second team back in 1959 when the direct predecessor of Vorskla, Kolhospnyk, fielded its team in the 1959 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1984 based on the second team and football academy of Kolos Poltava, there was established FC Vorskla Poltava.

The team has been featured regularly in the Ukrainian Second Division it served as a junior team for the FC Vorskla Poltava franchise in 1997 through 2005.^[1]. Like most tributary teams, the best players are sent up to the senior team, meanwhile developing other players for further call-ups.

In 2024 the team was revived once again to participate in competitions of the Ukrainian Second League.^[2][3]

Notable players

• Andriy Pyatov
• Petro Kondratyuk, all-time leading top scorer
• Oleksandr Bessarab, single season top scorer

Coaches

• 1997–98 Serhiy Sobetskyi
• 1998–01 Ivan Shariy
• 2001–02 Semen Osynovskyi
• 2002–03 Oleh Morhun
• 2003–04 Viktor Nosov
• 2004–05 Oleksandr Omelchuk

References