FC Mynai () is a Ukrainian professional football club from Mynai, a suburb of Uzhhorod in Zakarpattia Oblast. In July 2025 the club announced it had withdrawn from playing professional football for the time being while claiming "we will do everything in our power to return."
History
The club was founded in 2015 by former customs officials in one of the Uzhhorod suburbs Mynai and played at the city and since 2016 – at the regional level.
The club was admitted to the Professional Football League of Ukraine after passing attestation for the 2018–19 Ukrainian Second League season. In their first professional season, Mynai managed to win Group A of the Second League, which earned them promotion to the Ukrainian First League. However, they lost the Ukrainian Second League Championship Game to Group B winners FC Kremin Kremenchuk.
In the 2019-20 Ukrainian First League season, they finished first, earning them promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League. Since the start of the 2020–21 season they play their home matches in the Avanhard Stadium in Uzhhorod. They continued to play in the Ukrainian Premier League, despite finishing last in the 2020–2021 season. Instead Olimpik Donetsk (they had finished 13th in the Premier League) were relegated back to the Persha Liha (Second Ukrainian League). In the 2023–24 season the club did relegate after four seasons in the top flight (finishing second to last). In July 2024 FC Mynai was extremely close to returning straight away to the Ukrainian Premier League. The club took part in a Mini-Tournament play-offs that was created for an open spot in the competition due to the disappearing of SC Dnipro-1. It made it to the final of this tournament, but lost to FC Livyi Bereh Kyiv.
On 22 July 2025 the club announced that it had withdrawn from the 2025–26 Ukrainian First League and was "forced to interrupt our history." The club stated it was intending to return to professional football claiming "we will do everything in our power to return."
Current squad As of 11 September 2025Official Website
Other players under contract
Out on loan
Notable players Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Mynai.
Ukraine Oleh Dopilka Vasyl Kobin Yuriy Kolomoyets Denys Kozhanov Artem Milevskyi Serhiy Myakushko Ihor Oshchypko Yevhen Seleznyov Anton Shynder
Europe Rustam Akhmedzade Anatoliy Nuriyev Andriy Popovych Mihail Ghecev
Africa Siaka Bagayoko Tercious Malepe Shemmy Mayembe
Honours Ukrainian First League Winners (1): 2019–20 Ukrainian Second League Winners of group A (1): 2019 Ukrainian Football Amateur League Winners of group 1 (1): 2018 Zakarpattia Oblast championship Winners (1): 2017 3rd place (1): 2016 Zakarpattia Cup Winners (2): 2017, 2018 Zakarpattia Supercup Winners (1): 2017
League and cup history
{|class="wikitable" ! Season ! Div. ! Pos. ! Pl. ! W ! D ! L ! GS ! GA ! P !Domestic Cup !colspan=2|Other !Notes |- | align="center" |2017–18 | align="center" |4th | align="center" bgcolor=gold|1 | align="center" |16 | align="center" |11 | align="center" |4 | align="center" |1 | align="center" |34 | align="center" |9 | align="center" |37 | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" |QF | align="center" bgcolor=lightgreen|Admitted |-bgcolor=PowderBlue | align="center" |2018–19 | align="center" |3rd | align="center" bgcolor=gold|1 | align="center" |27 | align="center" |15 | align="center" |4 | align="center" |8 | align="center" |41 | align="center" |26 | align="center" |49 | align="center" | finals | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" bgcolor=lightgreen|Promoted |-bgcolor=LightCyan | align="center" |2019–20 | align="center" |2nd | align="center" bgcolor=gold|1 | align="center" |30 | align="center" |19 | align="center" |5 | align="center" |6 | align="center" |51 | align="center" |27 | align="center" |62 | align="center" bgcolor=tan| finals | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" bgcolor=lightgreen|Promoted |- | align="center" |2020–21 | align="center" |1st | align="center" |14 | align="center" |26 | align="center" |4 | align="center" |6 | align="center" |16 | align="center" |16 | align="center" |47 | align="center" |18 | align="center" | finals | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" |Readmitted |- | align="center" |2021–22 | align="center" |1st | align="center" |15 | align="center" |18 | align="center" |1 | align="center" |7 | align="center" |10 | align="center" |12 | align="center" |30 | align="center" |10 | align="center" | finals | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" |Avoided relegation |- | align="center" |2022–23 | align="center" |1st | align="center" |8 | align="center" |30 | align="center" |9 | align="center" |9 | align="center" |12 | align="center" |25 | align="center" |30 | align="center" |36 | align="center" |— | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" | |- | align="center" |2023–24 | align="center" |1st | align="center" |15 | align="center" |30 | align="center" |5 | align="center" |10 | align="center" |15 | align="center" |27 | align="center" |50 | align="center" |25 | align="center" | finals | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" | |-bgcolor=LightCyan | align="center" |2024–25 | align="center" |2nd | align="center" |12 | align="center" |24 | align="center" |8 | align="center" |6 | align="center" |10 | align="center" |26 | align="center" |30 | align="center" |30 | align="center" | finals | align="center" | | align="center" | | align="center" bgcolor=grey|Withdrew
List of coaches 2015: Viacheslav Pinkovskyi 2016: Mykola Hibaliuk 2016: Mykhailo Ivanytsia 2017: Mykola Hibaliuk 2018–2019: Ihor Kharkovshchenko 2019: Kirill Kurenko 2019–2021: Vasyl Kobin 2021: Mykola Tsymbal 2021: Vasyl Kobin 2021: Ihor Leonov 2022–2023: Volodymyr Sharan
Staff Administration Coaching (senior team) Coaching (U-21/U-19 team) President – Valeriy Peresolyak Vice-president – Yevhen Plavaiko Sporting director – Mykhaylo Kopolovets Administrator – Serhiy Rushchak Head coach – Assistant coach – Vadym Chernyshenko Assistant coach – Ihor Luchkevych Assistant coach – Oleksiy Antonovych GK coach – Andriy Novak Head coach U21 – Head coach U19 – Oleksiy Polyanskyi
References
External links Official website Club's profile at AAFU Kachailo, M. Successors of Hoverla. How lives the team of Kopolovets? (Нащадки Говерли…Чим живе команда Кополовця?). UA-Football. 4 May 2018