| Clubname: | Rukh Lviv |
| Fullname: | Football Club Rukh Lviv |
| Founded: | 2003 |
| Ground: | Arena Lviv |
| Capacity: | 34,915 |
| Owntitle: | President |
| Owner: | Yulia Dumanska (100%)[1] Hryhoriy Kozlovskyy (honorary president) |
| Chrtitle: | General Director |
| Chairman: | Ihor Dedyshyn |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Vitaliy Ponomaryov |
| League: | Ukrainian Premier League |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Position: | Ukrainian Premier League, 6th of 16 |
| Website: | http://fcrukh.com/ |
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FC Rukh Lviv (uk|ФК «Рух» Львів) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv. The club competes in the Ukrainian Premier League following the promotion as runners-up of 2019–20 Ukrainian First League.
In 2003 under the initiative Myron Markevych, who was born in Vynnyky, and at the time was head coach of FC Karpaty Lviv established football club called FC Rukh Vynnyky. When asked why Rukh, Markevych replied that Movement (ukr. romanized: Rukh) is life. In June 2003, a children's football school Myron Markevych "Rukh" under directorship Yuriy Hdanskyi and trainers Roman Hdanskyi, Ihor Didyk, Markiyan Shkraba, Oleh Lehan was formed.[2]
In 2009, the Rukh adult soccer team with President Hryhoriy Kozlovskyy and head trainer Roman Hdanskyi was formed.[2] Since the team was located in Vynnyky which is a satellite town of the city of Lviv, so at a time teams participated separately in Lviv Oblast League Championship and in Lviv the teams participated in the championship of the city.[2] The club holds matches at the stadium named after Bohdan Markevych (1925–2002, Myron Markevych's father), who was one of the main sponsors of the football club and the Youth Academy, who worked for many years as a junior's coach.[2]
In 2014, the team won the National amateur football championship.
During the 2015 season, the club made sensations by signing former Dynamo Kyiv internationals Oleksandr Aliyev and Maksim Shatskikh.[3]
The club has been admitted to the PFL and took second place in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League.[4]
On 26 June 2017, the club presented a new emblem in golden and black colors.[5]
Updated as of 15 August 2024[6] [7] [8]
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Rukh Lviv.
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Cup | Other | Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center rowspan=2 | 2013 | align=center rowspan=7 | 4th | 1 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 23 | align=center rowspan=2 | AC | align=center rowspan=2 bgcolor=tan | finals | ||
| 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 10 | align=center bgcolor=silver | Runners up[9] | ||||||||
| align=center rowspan=2 | 2014 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 16 | align=center rowspan=2 | align=center rowspan=2 | align=center rowspan=2 | |||||
| 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | align=center bgcolor=gold | Champions | ||||||||
| align=center rowspan=3 | 2015 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 13 | align=center rowspan=3 | align=center rowspan=3 | AC | align=center rowspan=3 | finals | |||
| 1 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 26 | ||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 9 | align=center bgcolor=silver | Runners up[10] | ||||||||
| 2016 - 17 | 3rd | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2/17 | 32 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 68 | 24 | 74 | finals | align=center bgcolor=lightgreen | Promoted | ||||
| 2017–18 | align=center rowspan=3 | 2nd | 7/18 | 34 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 36 | 30 | 51 | finals | ||||||
| 2018 - 19 | 11/15 | 28 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 35 | 35 | 34 | finals | ||||||||
| 2019 - 20 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2/16 | 30 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 51 | 21 | 61 | finals | align=center bgcolor=lightgreen | Promoted | |||||
| 2020 - 21 | align=center rowspan=5 | 1st | 10/14 | 26 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 39 | 28 | finals | ||||||
| 2021 - 22 was terminated | 11/16 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 18 | finals | began on 24.02.2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | |||||||
| 2022 - 23 | 11/16 | 30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 31 | 37 | 32 | — | ||||||||
| 2023 - 24 | 6/16 | 30 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 44 | 31 | 49 | finals | ||||||||
| 2024 - 25 | 6/16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 11 | finals | ||||||||
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In 2023 Rukh created its second team and was admitted by the Professional Football League of Ukraine to play at the 2023–24 Ukrainian Second League.
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Cup | Other | Manager | ||
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| 2023–24 | 3rd | 9/14 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 29 | 36 | 34 | Volodymyr Bezubyak | ||||
| 2024–25 | 3rd | x/10 | Ivan Fedyk | |||||||||||
In 2020 Rukh created its reserve teams including under-21 and under-19. In 2022 the Rukh under-19 team has qualified for the UEFA Youth League.
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Cup | Other | Notes | ||
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| 2020–21 | U-19 | 4 | 26 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 49 | 25 | 46 | |||||
| 2021–22 | U-19 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 49 | 11 | 47 | canceled competition | |||
| 2022–23 | U-19 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 | 30 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 91 | 17 | 82 | ||||
| 2023–24 | U-19 | 8 | 30 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 52 | 46 | 43 | |||||
| 2024–25 | U-19 | |||||||||||||
In 2020 Rukh created its reserve teams including under-21 and under-19. Following the 2020–21 season, the competition among under-21 teams was discontinued and both squads were merged.
