2014–15 FC Karpaty Lviv season

The 2014–15 FC Karpaty Lviv season was the 52nd season in club history.

Karpaty Lviv

2014–15 season
Chairman	Petro Dyminsky
Manager	Igor Jovićević (interim)
Stadium	Ukraina Stadium, Lviv
Premier League	13th
Ukrainian Cup	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Gregor Balažic (4) All: Gregor Balažic (4)
Highest home attendance	11,800 vs Dynamo 24 May 2014
Lowest home attendance	2,100 vs Hoverla 30 November 2014

Review and events

On 15 June 2014 FC Karpaty gathered at club's base for medical inspection after vacations and were introduced a new manager, Igor Jovićević, few days later.[1] On 1 July 2014 Karpaty went for two and half week long pre-season training camp in Slovenia with seven friendly matches scheduled.[2]

On contrary to the previous season club decided to use their own young players rather than experienced loanees, thus losing all attacking potential before the start of season, including such crucial players as Oleksandr Hladkyi, Sergei Zenjov and Mladen Bartulović who together scored 26 out of the 32 Karpaty goals in 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League.

Competitions

Pre-season

2 July 2014 Friendly match	Žilina	1 – 2	Karpaty Lviv	Žilina, Slovakia
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Lupčo  38'	Report	Serhiychuk  21', 30'	Stadium: Štadión pod Dubňom Attendance: 500

5 July 2014 Friendly match	Dinamo Zagreb	2 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Murska Sobota, Slovenia
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Čop  39' Brozović  73'	Report		Stadium: Fazanerija Attendance: 50

7 July 2014 Friendly match	Slavia Sofia	0 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Hočko Pohorje, Slovenia
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report		Referee: Marko Lačkovič (Slovenia)

10 July 2014 Friendly match	Maribor	1 – 2	Karpaty Lviv	Maribor, Slovenia
19:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Šuler  66'	Report	Holodyuk  55' Puchkovskyi  77'	Stadium: Ljudski vrt Attendance: 400 Referee: Bojan Tkalčič (Slovenia)

12 July 2014 Friendly match	Lokomotiva Zagreb	1 – 1	Karpaty Lviv	Hočko Pohorje, Slovenia
11:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Pajač  66' (pen.)	Report	Bokhashvili  53' (pen.)

13 July 2014 Friendly match	Khazar Lankaran	2 – 1	Karpaty Lviv	Bučkovci, Slovenia
17:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Nildo  47' Thiego  82'	Report	Holodyuk  32'	Referee: Darian Kovačič (Slovenia)

16 July 2014 Friendly match	Jūrmala	0 – 2	Karpaty Lviv	Slovenia
16:30 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Marusych  74', 77'

Winter break

23 January 2015 Friendly match	Split	1 – 1	Karpaty Lviv	Belek, Turkey
16:00 EET (UTC+2)	Bilić  15'	Report	Mance  35'

26 January 2015 Friendly match	Górnik Zabrze	0 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Manavgat, Turkey
17:00 EET (UTC+2)		Report

31 January 2015 Friendly match	Admira Wacker Mödling	0 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Manavgat, Turkey
17:00 EET (UTC+2)		Report

9 February 2015 Friendly match	OFK Belgrade	2 – 2	Karpaty Lviv	Manavgat, Turkey
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Mrdaković  5' Zdjelar  59'	Report	Ksyonz  15' Holodyuk  55'	Stadium: Pitch of Starlight Hotel

12 February 2015 Friendly match	Oțelul Galați	2 – 3	Karpaty Lviv	Manavgat, Turkey
11:30 EET (UTC+2)	Hamroun  20' Sanaa  25'	Report	Hutsulyak  5' Mance  43' Ksyonz  90'	Stadium: Pitch of Starlight Hotel

12 February 2015 Friendly match	Levski Sofia	3 – 3	Karpaty Lviv	Belek, Turkey
17:10 EET (UTC+2)	Ninu  35' Domovchiyski  70' Abdi  90'	Report	Hitchenko  40' Shved  45', 90+1'	Attendance: 0

16 February 2015 Friendly match	Bansko	0 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Manavgat, Turkey
11:00 EET (UTC+2)		Report

16 February 2015 Friendly match	Akzhayik Uralsk	1 – 2	Karpaty Lviv	Manavgat, Turkey
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Serikzhanov  85'	Report	Holodyuk  28' Mance  45'

24 February 2015 Friendly match	Karpaty Lviv	2 – 0	Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	Lviv
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Hitchenko  63' Hutsulyak  73'	Report		Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Referee: Andriy Hrysyo

Mid-season

22 March 2015 Friendly match	Karpaty Lviv	2 – 1	Rukh Vynnyky	Lviv
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Serhiychuk Savoshko	Report	Makar	Stadium: SKA Stadium

30 March 2015 Friendly match	Žalgiris Vilnius	0 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Vilnius, Lithuania
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report		Stadium: LFF Stadium

Premier League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
10	Metalurh Donetsk[lower-alpha 1]	26	6	10	10	27	38	−11	22	Club folded after the season
11	Chornomorets Odesa	25	3	11	11	15	31	−16	20
12	Hoverla Uzhhorod	26	3	10	13	22	47	−25	19
13	Karpaty Lviv[lower-alpha 2]	26	5	9	12	22	31	−9	15
14	Illichivets Mariupol (R)	26	3	5	18	25	55	−30	14	Relegation to Ukrainian First League

Source: Ukrainian Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) head-to-head goals scored; 7) fair play rating
(R) Relegated.
Notes:

1. Metalurh Donetsk were deducted a total of 6 points on decision of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee (9 September 2014).[3]
   After the season completed the president of FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk announced that the club will be merged with FC Metalurh Donetsk and replace them in the Premier League for the 2015–16 season. (14 June 2015)[4][5]
2. Karpaty Lviv were deducted a total of 9 points. Initially three points were deducted[6] and then additional 6 points for non compliance with contractual agreements with player agents (regarding Martin Bogatinov).[7]

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
26	5	9	12	22	31	−9	24	4	2	7	13	15	−2	1	7	5	9	16	−7

Matches

27 July 2014 1	Hoverla Uzhhorod	2 – 2	Karpaty Lviv	Uzhhorod
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Shatskikh  15' Tudose  78'	Report	Puchkovskyi  61' Balažic  74'	Stadium: Avanhard Stadium Attendance: 2,750 Referee: Yuriy Moseychuk

3 August 2014 2	Karpaty Lviv	0 – 1	Metalurh Donetsk	Lviv
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Lazić  19'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 7,800 Referee: Serhiy Berezka

10 August 2014 3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	4 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Dnipropetrovsk
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Bruno Gama  47' Shakhov  65', 75' Kalinić  83'	Report		Stadium: Dnipro Arena Attendance: 12,668 Referee: Serhiy Lysenchuk

17 August 2014 4	Volyn Lutsk	0 – 2	Karpaty Lviv	Lutsk
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Kozhanov  39' Balažic  56'	Stadium: Avanhard Stadium Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Oleksandr Ivanov

31 August 2014 5	Karpaty Lviv	1 – 2	Metalurh Zaporizhya	Lviv
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Hitchenko  30'	Report	Tatarkov  90' Lyopa  90+2'	Stadium: Arena Lviv Attendance: 8,237 Referee: Kostyantyn Trukhanov

14 September 2014 6	Vorskla Poltava	2 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Poltava
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Dedechko  80' Kovpak  88'	Report		Stadium: Butovskyi Vorskla Stadium Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Dmytro Kutakov

21 September 2014 7	Karpaty Lviv	3 – 3	Metalist Kharkiv	Lviv
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Holodyuk  26' Kozhanov  35' Balažic  90+4'	Report	Bolbat  17' Xavier  23' (pen.) Jajá  54'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 6,400 Referee: Yaroslav Kozyk

4 October 2014 8	Olimpik Donetsk	1 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Kyiv
14:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Doroshenko  65'	Report		Stadium: Bannikov Stadium Attendance: 850 Referee: Anatoliy Abdula

19 October 2014 9	Karpaty Lviv	1 – 0	Illichivets Mariupol	Lviv
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Balažic  90+3'	Report		Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 6,400 Referee: Vitaliy Romanov

2 November 2014 11	Karpaty Lviv	1 – 2	Zorya Luhansk	Lviv
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Serhiychuk  31'	Report	Vernydub  13' Khomchenovskyi  83'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 4,400 Referee: Yaroslav Kozyk

9 November 2014 12	Dynamo Kyiv	0 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Kyiv
19:30 EET (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,369 Referee: Yuriy Moseychuk

21 November 2014 13	Karpaty Lviv	0 – 2	Shakhtar Donetsk	Lviv
19:00 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Teixeira  10' Luiz Adriano  22'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 8,900 Referee: Viktor Shvetsov

30 November 2014 14	Karpaty Lviv	1 – 0	Hoverla Uzhhorod	Lviv
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Kostevych  74'	Report		Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 2,100 Referee: Anatoliy Abdula

7 December 2014 10	Chornomorets Odesa	0 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Odesa
17:00 EET (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: Chornomorets Stadium Attendance: 7,060 Referee: Vitaliy Romanov

1 March 2015 15	Metalurh Donetsk	1 – 1	Karpaty Lviv	Kyiv
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Morozyuk  2'	Report	Plastun  66'	Stadium: Obolon Arena Attendance: 2,200 Referee: Yaroslav Kozyk

8 March 2015 16	Karpaty Lviv	0 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Lviv
19:30 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Kalinić  4'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 5,530 Referee: Anatoliy Abdula

13 March 2015 17	Karpaty Lviv	0 – 2	Volyn Lutsk	Lviv
19:00 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Kobakhidze  24' Bicfalvi  90+2' (pen.)	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 2,350 Referee: Serhiy Berezka

5 April 2015 18	Metalurh Zaporizhya	2 – 1	Karpaty Lviv	Zaporizhya
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Lysytskyi  79' (pen.) Kapliyenko  80'	Report	Strashkevych  35'	Stadium: Slavutych-Arena Attendance: 2,200 Referee: Dmytro Kutakov

13 April 2015 19	Karpaty Lviv	0 – 0	Vorskla Poltava	Lviv
14:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report		Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 3,300 Referee: Oleksandr Holovkov

18 April 2015 20	Metalist Kharkiv	0 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Kharkiv
14:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report		Stadium: Metalist Stadium Attendance: 6,285 Referee: Serhiy Skrypak

26 April 2015 21	Karpaty Lviv	4 – 1	Olimpik Donetsk	Lviv
14:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Khudobyak  20', 72' Shved  38', 69'	Report	Kadymyan  56'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 5,750 Referee: Ivan Bondar

2 May 2015 22	Illichivets Mariupol	1 – 0	Karpaty Lviv	Dnipropetrovsk
14:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Hryn  48'	Report		Stadium: Meteor Stadium Attendance: 220 Referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi

10 May 2015 23	Karpaty Lviv	2 – 0	Chornomorets Odesa	Lviv
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Kostevych  78' Strashkevych  87'	Report		Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 7,820 Referee: Oleksandr Holovkov

16 May 2015 24	Zorya Luhansk	1 – 1	Karpaty Lviv	Zaporizhya
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Ljubenović  34'	Report	Plastun  36'	Stadium: Slavutych-Arena Attendance: 1,100 Referee: Serhiy Berezka

24 May 2015 25	Karpaty Lviv	0 – 1	Dynamo Kyiv	Lviv
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Kravets  58'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 11,800 Referee: Oleksandr Derdo

30 May 2015 26	Shakhtar Donetsk	2 – 2	Karpaty Lviv	Kyiv
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Kryvtsov  33' Teixeira  37'	Report	Karnoza  47' Khudobyak  62'	Stadium: Obolon Arena Attendance: 3,200 Referee: Yuriy Moseychuk

Ukrainian Cup

23 August 2014 Round of 32	Chaika Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion	0 – 4	Karpaty Lviv	Irpin
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Holodyuk  10' Ksyonz  25' Serhiychuk  32' Kostevych  48'	Stadium: University of State Taxation Service Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Volodymyr Milanych

27 September 2014 Round of 16. 1st leg	Karpaty Lviv	0 – 1	Dynamo Kyiv	Lviv
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Teodorczyk  5'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 11,200 Referee: Yuriy Vaks

28 October 2014 Round of 16. 2nd leg	Dynamo Kyiv	1 – 0 (2 – 0 agg.)	Karpaty Lviv	Kyiv
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Husyev  90+1'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 11,310 Referee: Oleksandr Ivanov

Squad information

Squad, appearances and goals

As of 30 May 2015

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		Ukrainian Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
5	DF		Andriy Hitchenko (C)	23	1	21	1	2	0
8	DF		Volodymyr Kostevych	26	3	23	2	3	1
9	MF		Denys Kozhanov	27	2	19+5	2	3	0
10	MF		Artur Karnoza	15	1	5+9	1	1	0
14	FW		Mykhaylo Serhiychuk	24	2	13+8	1	2+1	1
16	MF		Ihor Khudobyak	25	3	17+6	3	0+2	0
17	MF		Oleh Holodyuk	28	2	22+3	1	2+1	1
18	FW		Mykhaylo Kopolovets	7	0	0+7	0	0	0
20	MF		Murtaz Daushvili	20	0	12+5	0	3	0
22	DF		Taras Puchkovskyi	9	1	2+6	1	0+1	0
23	GK		Roman Mysak	23	0	20	0	3	0
26	DF		Artur Novotryasov	7	0	6	0	1	0
27	MF		Vadym Strashkevych	14	2	6+7	2	0+1	0
32	DF		Ihor Plastun	24	2	21	2	3	0
35	FW		Maryan Shved	10	2	8+2	2	0	0
45	FW		Yuriy Zakharkiv	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
48	MF		Dmytro Klyots	10	0	10	0	0	0
70	DF		Ivan Lobay	2	0	2	0	0	0
76	FW		Oleksiy Hutsulyak	7	0	1+6	0	0	0
86	DF		Vasyl Kravets	2	0	0+2	0	0	0
92	MF		Ambrosiy Chachua	22	0	16+4	0	1+1	0
94	DF		Denys Miroshnichenko	29	0	26	0	3	0
Players away from the club on loan:
7	MF		Pavlo Ksyonz	17	1	14	0	3	1
Players featured for Karpaty but left before the end of the season:
4	DF		Gregor Balažic	15	4	12+1	4	2	0
19	MF		Yaroslav Martynyuk	10	0	4+3	0	1+2	0
29	GK		Oleksandr Ilyuschenkov	6	0	6	0	0	0
41	MF		Maksym Marusych	2	0	0+2	0	0	0

Goalscorers

As of 30 May 2015

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Premier League	Ukrainian Cup	Total
1	DF		4	Gregor Balažic	4	0	4
2	DF		8	Volodymyr Kostevych	2	1	3
	MF		16	Ihor Khudobyak	3	0	3
4	MF		17	Oleh Holodyuk	1	1	2
	MF		9	Denys Kozhanov	2	0	2
	FW		14	Mykhaylo Serhiychuk	1	1	2
	FW		35	Maryan Shved	2	0	2
	MF		27	Vadym Strashkevych	2	0	2
	DF		32	Ihor Plastun	2	0	2
10	DF		22	Taras Puchkovskyi	1	0	1
	MF		7	Pavlo Ksyonz	0	1	1
	DF		5	Andriy Hitchenko	1	0	1
	MF		10	Artur Karnoza	1	0	1
				TOTALS	22	4	26

Disciplinary record

As of 30 May 2015

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Total		Premier League		Ukrainian Cup
4		DF	Gregor Balažic	4	0	4	0	0	0
5		DF	Andriy Hitchenko	6	0	6	0	0	0
7		MF	Pavlo Ksyonz	2	0	2	0	0	0
8		DF	Volodymyr Kostevych	3	0	3	0	0	0
9		MF	Denys Kozhanov	4	0	4	0	0	0
10		MF	Artur Karnoza	2	0	2	0	0	0
14		FW	Mykhaylo Serhiychuk	4	0	4	0	0	0
16		MF	Ihor Khudobyak	3	0	3	0	0	0
17		MF	Oleh Holodyuk	8	0	7	0	1	0
18		FW	Mykhaylo Kopolovets	2	0	2	0	0	0
19		MF	Yaroslav Martynyuk	4	0	3	0	1	0
20		MF	Murtaz Daushvili	7	1	6	1	1	0
22		DF	Taras Puchkovskyi	1	0	0	0	1	0
23		GK	Roman Mysak	2	0	1	0	1	0
26		DF	Artur Novotryasov	1	0	1	0	0	0
27		MF	Vadym Strashkevych	2	0	2	0	0	0
32		DF	Ihor Plastun	5	1	5	1	0	0
48		MF	Dmytro Klyots	4	0	4	0	0	0
76		FW	Oleksiy Hutsulyak	1	0	1	0	0	0
86		DF	Vasyl Kravets	1	0	1	0	0	0
92		MF	Ambrosiy Chachua	2	0	1	0	1	0
94		DF	Denys Miroshnichenko	3	0	2	0	1	0
			TOTALS	71	2	64	2	7	0

In

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from	Type	Transfer Window	Contract ends	Transfer fee	Sources
—	MF		Artur Karnoza	23	FC Sevastopol	End of contract	Summer	2017	Free	[8]
41	MF		Maksym Marusych	21	Vorskla Poltava	End of contract	Summer	2018	Free	[9]
9	MF		Denys Kozhanov	27	Shakhtar Donetsk	Loan	Summer	2015	—	[10]

Out

No.	Pos.	Nat	Name	Age	Moving to	Type	Transfer Window	Transfer fee	Sources
30	FW		Leonid Kovel	27	FC Minsk	Released	Summer	Free	[11]
15	FW		Armand Ken Ella	21	—	End of contract	Summer	—	[12]
77	FW		Yevhen Bokhashvili	21	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	End of loan	Summer	—	[13]
39	FW		Denys Vasin	25	—	Released	Summer	—
9	FW		Yuriy Habovda	25	—	Released	Summer	—
19	MF		Yaroslav Martynyuk	25	—	Released	Winter	—	[14]
4	DF		Gregor Balažic	26	FK Partizan	—	Transfer	Winter	[15]

Managerial changes

Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
Oleksandr Sevidov	Mutual agreement	16 June	Pre-season	Igor Jovićević (interim)[16]	18 June

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