Yunist ShVSM Chernihiv
Ukrainian women's association football club
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Yunist ShVSM Chernihiv (Ukrainian: "Юність-ШВСМ" Чернігів) is a Ukrainian women's football club from Chernihiv, Ukraine established in 2020.[1][2]
| Full name | Women's Football Club Yunist ShVSM Chernihiv | ||
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| Founded | 2020 | ||
| Ground | Yunist Stadium, Chernihiv | ||
| Capacity | 3000 | ||
| Manager | Liudmyla Shmatko | ||
| League | First League Top | ||
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ShVSM abbreviation stands for School of Higher Sports Mastery (Ukrainian: Школа Вищої Спортивної Майстерності).
History
Origin
The team was found as a temporary solution in 2020 in Chernihiv as the Chernihiv Oblast was left without a women's team for the first time since 1992. The new club was formed based on a local sports school Yunist Chernihiv and a women's club Yednist-ShVSM Plysky and since 2020 is playing in the First League, the second tier (amateur level) of the woman football competitions in Ukraine.[3] The club intends to join the FC Desna Chernihiv as its women's section for the 2021–22 season when all women's clubs will be merged with men's club.[1]
Roots from Spartak Chernihiv
In 2021, the new club takes its roots from a women's football team Spartak ShVSM Chernihiv that first entered the 2015 First League competition and in 2016, after receiving a promotion to the top tier of the Ukrainian Women's League for the 2017 season.[4][5] In 2017 the football team moved to Plysky to the already existing FC Yednist Plysky and was adopted as the women's team of Yednist Plysky.[6][7][8] In 2018 Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv spilt, with Lehenda Chernihiv becoming defunct, while ShVSM merging with the Yednist women's team and forming Yednist-ShVSM Plysky.[9][10] The Lehenda's chairman Volodymyr Maherramov became a chairman of Yednist-ShVSM.[10] In June 2020 Yednist-ShVSM Plysky informed the Ukrainian Association of Football that it ends its participations in competitions.[6] Once again, ShVSM split away and formed a new team based on the Yunist sports school in Chernihiv as Yunist-ShVSM Chernihiv.
Recently Time
Recently the team is playing in Ukrainian First league in the season 2021–22.[11]
Stadium & Facilities

The Team plays in Yunist Stadium in Victory Ave, 110 Chernihiv, Ukraine.In 2017, work on the reconstruction of the new stadium began.[12] For the reconstruction of the Yunist Stadium cost 55 million hryvnias in 2019.[13][14]
League and cup history
Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Notes 2017–18 1st 5 18 9 2 7 39 35 29 2018–19 1st 5 18 8 0 10 32 17 24 Withdrew[15]
Managers
- Spartak Chernihiv (2015 – 2017)
- Yednist-ShVSM Plysky (2017 – 2020)
- 2018 Roman Zayev[8]
- 2019 Volodymyr Kulyk[8]
- 2019 Oleksandr Babor[6]
- 2020 Maksym Rakhayev[6]
- 2020–2021 Natalia Hryhorivna
- 2022 Liudmyla Shmatko[16]
See also
External links
- (in Ukrainian) unist.cn.ua (Sports school website)
- womensfootball.com.ua
- Yunist Chernihiv Instagram