From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market25 Oct 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match23 Oct 2027
4 matches without a win for Prykarpattia
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Prykarpattia are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match23 Oct 2027
0-1 to Metalist, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Prykarpattia now.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Yurii Radulskyi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market18 Oct 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Jonathan Reyes: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Prykarpattia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market6 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.
Match4 Sep 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Yurii Radulskyi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
98% of the income goes out in wages at Prykarpattia
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match4 Sep 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Vorskla will be the happier side with the point.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad30 Aug 2027
A one-man rearguard from Artem Somka
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match25 Aug 2027
A 3-2 win over Kryvbas, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market30 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match28 Aug 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match28 Aug 2027
A 2-0 win over Probiy, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Prykarpattia now.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Artem Somka
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market23 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market23 Aug 2027
The name of Vladyslav Chushenko has come up in conversations Prykarpattia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Jonathan Reyes
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market23 Aug 2027
Serhii Shvets is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Prykarpattia has been clear about where Serhii Shvets stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match21 Aug 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Chernihiv came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market23 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Prykarpattia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market9 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Serhii Shvets and Prykarpattia agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maksym Stadnik commits to Prykarpattia for another 3 years.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market19 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Prykarpattia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Myroslav Trofymiuk and Prykarpattia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Prykarpattia now.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Prykarpattia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market29 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
Maksym Protsiv: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Prykarpattia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 99 days on the sidelines for Vasyl Tsiutsiura, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market21 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match2 Nov 2026
12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Prykarpattia's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Prykarpattia has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 383% of everything Prykarpattia earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Yevhen Opanasenko is 36, with 7 appearances behind him, and Prykarpattia will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
Match31 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Feniks defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market12 Oct 2026
Jan Majsterek hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Prykarpattia's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Prykarpattia has to find a result from somewhere.
Match10 Oct 2026
1-2 to Podillia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Santiago Pérez commits to Prykarpattia for another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jan Majsterek knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Prykarpattia, and both men came out saying it was fine.