The Victoriia Sumy Herald
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Victoriia Sumy's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Victoriia Sumy has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Victoriia Sumy
Dmytro Ulianov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match26 Sep 2026
Victoriia Sumy come up short against Chernihiv
Chernihiv left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Appearance number 200 for Andriy Dediaev
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ihor Horbach falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Oleh Lunyov: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Artem Shpyronok
“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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Stanislav Sharay linked with a move away
The name of Stanislav Sharay keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Victoriia Sumy say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Oleksandr Lebedenko
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Artur Novotriasov
- Squad Ihor Horbach has had enough of the bench
- The dugout Ihor Horbach asks for a word with the manager