The Chernihiv Courier
Match1 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Chernihiv
A 1‑4 beating by Inhulets was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dmytro Fatieiev signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dmytro Fatieiev and Chernihiv agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Maksym Serdiuk in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chernihiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Maksym Shumylo beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Chernihiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yehor Shalfieiev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Chernihiv dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Chernihiv and Maksym Tatarenko
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Chernihiv, another week without a signature from Maksym Tatarenko.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Denys Bezborodko
Still no offer on the table, and Denys Bezborodko’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑4 Kyrylo Lunyov left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Transfer targets Chernihiv try to borrow Matvii Panchenko
- Squad A long afternoon for Maksym Tatarenko
- Market Eduard Halstian is free to find somewhere else