Marked for Ivan Pitsan
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Prykarpattia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match31 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 184% 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
Maksym Kulish and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Match31 Oct 2026
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 88. Feniks had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Maksym Kulish
7.71, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Prykarpattia had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
There were 9 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Bukovyna, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Maksym Kulish 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.
The dugout26 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Artem Lunyov to a room that had heard them before.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maksym Protsiv was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Feniks in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Ruslan Buriak has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Prykarpattia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Steady
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑5 by Chornomorets, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Maksym Kulish was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Prykarpattia 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.
The dugout19 Oct 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 0‑5 Artem Lunyov left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Prykarpattia will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.
The dugout19 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 4 saves does not settle it either way.
Market19 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Ivan Pitsan
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ivan Pitsan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Prykarpattia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match3 Oct 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Prykarpattia have 3 straight wins of it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 231% 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Maksym Kulish and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Inhulets, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Rostyslav Taranukha was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad5 Oct 2026
100 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Prykarpattia are still strangers to each other
9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A brace, and Rostyslav Taranukha takes the afternoon — 9.08
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rostyslav Taranukha provided it, and the 9.08 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets28 Sep 2026
Prykarpattia asked and Austria Wien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Ahrobiznes, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Maksym Kulish 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ruslan Buriak gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ruslan Buriak is on it.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Prykarpattia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Ivan Pitsan
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ivan Pitsan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Prykarpattia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Prykarpattia asked and Dynamo Kyiv said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Metalist, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Maksym Kulish and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad7 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and Prykarpattia are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Prykarpattia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Viktoria Plzen is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ivan Pitsan has agreed terms with Kolos for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Maksym Kulish returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Maksym Kulish is a Prykarpattia player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Maksym Kulish 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Rostyslav Taranukha. 2‑0 against Victoriia Sumy, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stanislav Haiduchok has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viktor Shevchenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.