Karpaty Lviv
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| Full name | Football Club Karpaty Lviv |
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| Nickname(s) | The Lions, Zeleno-Bili (The Green-Whites) |
| Founded | 18 January 1963 |
| Ground | Arena Lviv |
| Capacity | 34,915 |
| President | Petro Dyminskyi |
| Head coach | Oleg Dulub |
| League | Ukrainian Premier League |
| 2015–16 | 7th |
| Website | www |
Football Club Karpaty Lviv (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «Карпати» Львів [kɐr'pɑtɪ lʲviw]) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv.
Karpaty is one of the three surviving Ukrainian football team created in the Soviet Union that did not participate in the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR along with Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk.
The team of Karpaty was founded on January 18, 1963. In 1962 Selmash Lvov won the championship and cup of the Lvov Region and, thus, obtained the rights to participate in the Soviet Class B championship (Soviet First League). However, in 1963 the Football Federation of USSR conducted another reorganization in football national tournaments creating the Second Group of Class A and Class B became the third tier where a berth was reserved for a team from Lviv. At that time the best city team was SKA Lvov, players of which did not stay there for long leaving it at the end of their military service, while the best would be drafted to CSKA Moscow. In light of that the city administration decided to create independent from military a civilian team.
In December 1962 in the building of Regional Council of trade unions (prospekt Shevchenka) the head of the council and the regional federation Hlib Klymov gathered coaches of Silmash Yuri Zubach (former player of Ukraina Lwów) and Vasyl Solomonko as well as the director of city plant "Lvivsilmash" Ivan Kalynychenko to discuss the new name for a club. The name Silmash was recognized as inadequate for participation on such level. Among variants were Spartak, Dynamo, Halychyna, while at the end they agreed upon the regional toponym (Carpathians) Karpaty which would the best to represent the region.
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