FC Avanhard Rivne
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| Full name | Narodnyy Klub(Peoples Club) Veres Rivne |
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| Founded | 1957 |
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"Avanhard" (temporarily at Izotop Stadium) |
| Capacity | 20,000(4,500 seated) |
| Owner | FC Veres-Rivne LLC |
| Chairman | Oleksiy Khakhlyov |
| Manager | Yuriy Virt |
| League | Ukrainian Premier League |
| 2016–17 | Ukrainian First League, 3rd (promoted) |
| Website | Club website |
NK Veres Rivne is a Ukrainian football club based in Rivne. The team ran into financial difficulties after the winter break of the 2010–11 season and was removed from the PFL (1st league). From 1992–1995, Veres Rivne took part in the Ukrainian Premier League, and achieved their best result of 12th place in 1993–94. In that season they also reached the semifinals of Ukrainian Cup. Their home stadium is "Avanhard".
The uniform includes home Red shirt Black shorts and away all Black.
Team was founded in 1957 as Kolhospnyk (collective farm worker).The team debuted in the 1958 season in the Class B Third Zone and Placed 14th of the 16 teams the participated.In all the team played 13 seasons in Class B. The best results came in the 1968 and 1969 seasons where the team placed 7th. In 1966, it changed its name to Horyn after the river that flows in Volhynia.
After the reorganization of the Championship of USSR in 1971 Horyn started playing Second League of the Ukrainian Zone and played there until the fall of the Soviet Union. In 1972, the club became part of all Ukrainian Avanhard voluntary sports society and changed its name to Avanhard. In the first season in the Second League of the Ukrainian Zone Avanhard placed 26th. Starting in the late 1970s Avangard started progressing and in 1981 under the management of two famous Dynamo Kyiv players Viktor Matvienko and Volodymyr Troshkin Avanhard got 3rd place. Nine years later under the management of Viktor Pokora Avanhard placed 3rd again.
During the fall of the Soviet Union it changed its name again to Veres (heather) and was placed in the Ukrainian First League. In the same season Veres placed first and was promoted to the Vyshcha Liha. In the first season in Vyshcha Liha Veres placed last but wasn't relegated because the league was expanded. The next season was the most successful season in the clubs history the team was 4th after the end of the first have of the season beating teams like FC Dnipro, FC Metalist, FC Shakhtar and knocking FC Dynamo Kyiv out of the Ukrainian Cup and reaching the semi final. But after the start of the second half Veres only could manage to finish 12th. After that Veres started its downfall and in the 1994–95 season were relegated. Only after 2 season in the Ukrainian First League Veres got relegated to the Ukrainian Second League and stayed there until their bankruptcy in 2011.
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