football club karpaty lviv (ukrainian: футбольний клуб 'карпати' львів [kɐrˈpɑtɪ ˈlʲwiu̯]) is a ukrainian professional football club based in lviv.in 1961 silmash lviv won the championship of lviv oblast but lost its promotional play-off against naftovyk drohobych to qualify for the soviet class b championship.in 1962 silmash lviv won the championship and cup of the lviv oblast (see lviv oblast football federation) and won the promotional play-offs against naftovyk, obtaining 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 a civilian team, independent from the soviet military.in december 1962, in the building of regional council of trade unions (at prospekt shevchenka), the head of the council and the regional football federation, hlib klymov, invited coaches of silmash – yuri zubach (former player of ukraina lwów) and vasyl solomonko, as well as the director of the city plant 'lvivsilmash' ivan kalynychenko to discuss a new name for the club.the name silmash was recognized as inadequate for participation on such a level.among the proposed names were spartak, dynamo, halychyna, while at the end they agreed upon the regional toponym karpaty (carpathians).in the soviet times all sport teams were 'tied' to certain industrial unions or sport societies, therefore karpaty joined the republican sport society of trade unions 'avanhard', while the lviv television production plant 'elektron' became its sponsor.out of 'silmash' only two joined karpaty: ihor kulchytskyi and josef fales.karpaty also adopted the same jersey colors of silmash.also the club was reinforced with several players from ska lvov and transfers.the club played its first game on 14 april 1964 against zenit izhevsk at the dynamo stadium (today – the location of the building of the regional tax administration) winning it 1–0.the goal was scored by the club's captain oleksandr filiayev.the first official game was against lokomotiv gomel on 23 april 1963, which karpaty won 1–0 (goal scored by anatoliy kroshchenko).karpaty debuted in group b in 1963 and remained there for four seasons, until in 1968 they were promoted to soviet first league.the road to the cup was no less exciting as the final itself.on the way there the lions were challenged by such soviet heavy-weights as ararat yerevan and chornomorets odesa.the quarterfinal round matched them with trud voronezh that in the prior round had eliminated spartak moscow.after a narrow victory over voronezh, karpaty faced mykolaiv's shipbuilders.the game was perceived by the lvivians as the chance to avenge the previous year's loss to the mykolaivans, which cost them a ticket to the soviet premiership.a score of 2–0 was enough to secure a trip to moscow.in the final, karpaty faced the red army team from rostov-on-don at the lenin stadium.the rostov army-men were one of the best soviet clubs in the mid-1960s and for that game they were considered as the favorites being the representatives of the soviet top league.before the start of the game karpaty's captain ihor kulchytskyi  shook hands in the traditional manner with every match official, except the assistant referee, eugen härms.
fc karpaty lviv | manager | oleh luzhny <tsp> aleksandre guruli | club | fc karpaty lviv
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