FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih

The club was founded as a "team of masters" of Kryvyi Rih city in 1959. The club was claiming its heritage to the football team of Felix Dzerzhynskiy Quarry (Ukrainian: команда рудника імені Дзержинського) that competed at the republican level in 1956 and 1957. In 1960, the team of masters of Kryvyi Rih city was admitted to the republican sport society Avanhard and adopted the name of the society, Avanhard Kryvyi Rih. After a couple of years it changed to Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih, before obtaining current its name in 1966. Over the years in the Soviet competitions Kryvbas became a record holder for Ukrainian championship wins tying it at four along with SKA Kiev.

Kryvbas debuted in the Ukrainian Premier League in the 1992–1993 season. They have been in the top league since their debut in the second season. Their best finish was in third place in the 1998–99 and 1999–2000 seasons which made them the only club out of a provincial city that managed to place among the top three best. At the end of the UPL 2012–2013 season the team finished in 7th place, however, due to financial difficulties the club declared itself bankrupt in June 2013. In 2013-14 local authorities created the Sport Club Kryvbas that included teams of several sports including football. FC Kryvbas played several friendlies in the spring of 2014. Due to the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, the project was suspended for undefined period. In the summer of 2015 there was created a public organization "Kryvbas maye…

Soviet Union

Ukraine

Championship of the Ukrainian SSR Winners (4): 1971, 1975, 1976, 1981 Ukrainian First League Winners (1): 1992 Ukrainian Cup Runners-up: 2000

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