Ukraina Lwów

The club was founded in 1911 based on the Ukrainian Sports Club (USK, which existed since 1904) on the initiative of professor Ivan Bobersky, who had previously been a teacher of physical education in a Ukrainian junior high school in Przemyśl. During their first three years of existence, Ukraina mostly played against other ethnic Ukrainian sides from Galicia, but in 1914, with the outbreak of World War I, the club ceased its activities. Ukraina returned in 1921 and in 1928 became a member of the Polish Football Association. The team played in Lwów A-Class, which was equivalent of today's second level of football games (see: Lower Level Football Leagues in Interwar Poland). In the 1930s, Ukraina was one of the strongest football teams in southeastern Poland, its top player, Oleksandr Skotsen' went to France after World War II to play for OGC Nice (see: List of foreign Ligue 1 players). Altogether, Ukraina played twelve seasons in the Lwów A-Class, three times achieving second position (1937, 1938 and 1939). Overall, Ukraina gained 199 points over 182 games (with two points for a victory and one for a tie), with goal difference 433:351. Ukraina played its last known game on August 27, 1939. On that day, using the field of the friendly side of Pogoń Lwów, the Ukrainians beat Kazimierz Gorski's team, Worker's Lwow 4–0. Ukraina Lwów also had an ice hockey department, which in February 1938 became a sensational vice-champion of the Lwów region. After World War II ST Ukraine was…