| Clubname: | Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv |
| Fullname: | Football Club Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv |
| Founded: | 1987 |
| Dissolved: | 2018 |
| Ground: | Lokomotiv stadium, Chernihiv Tekstylschyk stadium, Chernihiv Chernihiv Arena Stadium Cheksil |
| Capacity: | 2 000 |
| Season: | 2010 |
| Position: | 1st |
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Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv (Ukrainian: "Легенда-ШВСМ" Чернігів) is a former Ukrainian professional women's football club from Chernihiv, Ukraine. In 2018, it merged with Yednist Plysky as Yednist-ShVSM Plysky.
ShVSM abbreviation stands for School of Higher Sports Mastery (Ukrainian: Школа Вищої Спортивної Майстерності).
Initially, the team was named as SK Polissia Chernihiv. In October 1987, Mychailo Yushchenko decided to establish a women's football team at the "Polissia" gymnasium, which gave its name to SK Polissia team. The creation of the team supported the local Cheksil "Worsted and Cloth Factory Combine". Thats why the team used also the name Lehenda-Cheksil.[1] [2] The club was formed by the factory workers, as well as pupils from the city's schools № 11 and 14, vocational school № 13 and students from the Chernihiv Pedagogical Institute (Chernihiv Pedagogical University). At the beginning of April 1988, the team played its first match, in which it tied 2:2 with students of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.
In the first days of June 1988, the club was renamed into Lehenda Chernihiv, taking part in amateur championships.The first significant success of the "Lehenda" was the 3rd place of the Ukrainian Trade Unions Sports Association championship in November 1989. At the same time, the female football players made their debut in the USSR championship among Trade Union sports associations and placed 16th among 30 teams. In 1990 and 1991, there was the official Soviet women's football championship where Lehenda competed in the Higher League (top tier). In 1990 they placed 7th in their group[3] The team was also in UEFA Women's Champions League in the season 2011–12.[8] [9]
In May 2020 Lehenda won defeated Yatran-Basis Uman W in a difficult match, in the 2nd round of the Ukrainian Football Championship among women's teams at the Stadium Tekstylnyk.[10] In the season 2017-18, the team arrived 3 in the Ukrainian Women's League behind Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv and Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv.[11]
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, there took place the first league championship of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Women's League. The Lehenda football players won their first medals, the bronze medals. In 1997 the Lehenda's tenth anniversary was marked with its first "silver" of the national competitions. On the basis of the Chernihiv team, there was established the Ukraine youth team. In 1998-1999, "Lehenda" was finishing second yielding the championship title to "Donchanka" Donetsk.
In 2000, they won their first Ukrainian Women's League title and in 2001 playing under the name Lehenda-Cheksil Chernihiv they won the Women's Cup.[4] In 2002 they won the double, the Ukrainian Women's League and the Women's Cup and also in 2005[5] and 2009 they won the double in 2007 they won the Italy Women's Cup. At the European level, they came second in the group again, this time behind the Swedish club Malmö FF. The association founded a youth academy for girls between the ages of nine and 15 in order to encourage young talent.In 2009 they won again both the Ukrainian Women's League and the Women's Cup and in 2010 they won the Ukrainian Women's League. The offensive rock "Legend" has a different kind of "golden take".[6]
.The matches are initially played at the Tekstylschyk Stadium[12] [13] in Lokomotiv Stadium and in Khimik Sport Complex. Afterwards, the team played also in the new modern Chernihiv Arena[14] in Chernihiv, which belongs to FC Chernihiv.
Daryna Apanaschenko Vera Dyatel Alla Lyshafay Lyudmyla Pekur Iryna Zvarych Oksana Yakovyshyn Tetyana Fedosova[15] [16] [17] Tetyana Chorna Nadiya Baranova Anastasia Ilyina[18] Masha Vintonyak[19] Lyudmyla Lemeshko Yulia Vashchenko| Manager | started | ended | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 1996 | ||
| Mykola Lytvyn[20] | 1996 | 1997 | |
| 1998 | 1998 | ||
| 1998 | 1999 | ||
| Serhiy Umen[21] | 1999 | 2002 | |
| 2002 | 2005 | ||
| 2004 | 2006 | ||
| 2006 | 2007 | ||
| Volodymyr Zhylin[22] | 2007 | 2007 | |
| 2007 | 2007 | ||
| Serhiy Sapronov[23] | 2008 | 2012 | |
| Yuriy Hruznov[24] | 2012 | 2012 | |
| Volodymyr Kulyk[25] | 2012 | 2013 | |
| 2014 | 2014 | ||
| Yuriy Hruznov[26] | 2014 | 2014 | |
| 2015 | 2018 |
Winter Championship
| Season | Competition | Stage | Result | Opponent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group Stage | 0-1 |  Toulouse FC | ||
| 1-1 | Ayr United | |||
| 3-2 |  ZNK Osijek | |||
| Group Stage | 4-0 |  Maccabi Holon | ||
| 2-0 |  United Jakobstad | |||
| 0-3 |  Malmö FF | |||
| Qualifying Stage | 4-0 |  AEK Kokkinochovion | ||
| 5-0 |  PAOK Thessaloniki | |||
| 3-0 | Maccabi Holon | |||
| Group Stage | 0-2 | Umeå IK | ||
| 1-2 |  Kolbotn Fotball | |||
| 0-5 |  RCD Espanyol | |||
| Round of 32 | 1-3 0-4 | Rossiyanka | ||
| Qualifying Stage | 2-0 | Swansea City | ||
| 8-0 |  Progrès Niedercorn | |||
| 1-2 | Apollon Limassol | |||
See also: Ukrainian football clubs in European competitions.
Виступи в Soviet championship:
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