League Two: Team name changes and recent staff news

03.07.2018 13:10

The clear instructions of Tavriya-Simferopol head coach Sergiy Shevchenko helped his team win Novokakhovskaya Energia in a control match. Photo by tavriya.com.ua

Like last season, Ukraine's second-round rivalry will take place in two groups by territorial principle.

During the June PFL Conference, it became known that four teams were deprived of professional status: "Arsenal-Kyivshchyna", "Metallurg", "Dnipro" and "Shipbuilder". It is still difficult to say whether Skala will continue to play in the second league. Although she received such a coveted certificate, the club's management does not hide that it is going to focus only on the participation of local players in the DUFLU championship.

You can also say for sure that the last league will be left by the last two teams, and the participants, who finish in 15th and 16th places, will wait for transitional matches with representatives of the second division. The teams that will close the standings in each group will lose the status of the teams of the masters after the results of the new season.

By the way, the names of some teams have changed. In Vinnytsia, it was decided that from now on her interests will be represented by the Niva sports football club, and in Cherkasy they want Cherkasy-Academy to defend their sports honor.

As for personnel perturbations, Ihor Stolovytskyi, who previously headed Cherkasy Dnipro, became the head coach of Kremen. So it is not surprising that defender Anatoliy Burlin and midfielder Andriy Storchous, who were Stolovytsky's wards in Cherkasy last season, are currently training with Kremen. Interestingly, the previous leader of the team from Kremenchuk, Serhiy Yashchenko, remained in the coaching staff.

As the second league teams started preparing for the new tests only at the end of June, they still can not boast of significant playing practice. The only exception is Ternopil's Niva, which has already managed to hold three sparring matches: lost to Karpaty (0: 2) and drew with FC Lviv's youth team (0: 0) and Bukovyna (1: 1). . The new head coach Vitaliy Shumsky does not hide that he is interested in inviting qualified recruits to each link.

But the Chernivtsi team, following Yevhen Nemtinov, Volodymyr Nike and Vadym Ukrainets, seems to be left by another key performer - Andriy Shishigin. Therefore, the experienced manager Viktor Mhlynets has no choice but to continue to bet on young students of local football. Although in such circumstances, "Bukovina" will be difficult to intervene in the struggle to return to the first division.

Ambitious plans in "Tavria-Simferopol", which is currently holding a training camp in Skadovsk. Sergey Shevchenko's wards at first in a control match conceded to the first league «Nikolaev» - 0: 1, and then were rehabilitated, having won in Nova Kakhovka over «Energy» - 2: 1. We will remind that these two teams in May and in the beginning of June fought fiercely for the third place in group "B". We hope that they will be in sight in the new season сезо