Yevhen Pidlepenets

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Bukovyna
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

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The Bukovyna Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Shakhtar come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bukovyna did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Luca Meirelles, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.84

A mark of 7.84 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Yan Morhovskyi asks to leave Bukovyna

“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.

Boardroom

Bukovyna close the window on a squad of their own making

19 in and 6 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Player ratings

Vitalii Dakhnovskyi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Bukovyna rebuffed over Ivan Bendera

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Epicentr have kept their man, and Bukovyna go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Luca Meirelles

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Bukovyna are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Match

Bukovyna see off Vorskla

Three points for Bukovyna, 1‑0 the final word against Vorskla in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

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The Bukovyna Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mykyta Dzen arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Mykyta Dzen has, at Bukovyna, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Yevhen Pidlepenets stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Yevhen Pidlepenets and Bukovyna agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Viacheslav Tankovskyi 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 Bukovyna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Oleh Ilin beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Eyes on Vitalii Koltsov again

The phone has started ringing about Vitalii Koltsov again, and this time the name on the line is Vorskla. Bukovyna are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

Door shut on John Dembe

Bukovyna asked and Sigma Olomouc said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Livyi Bereh snatch it back from Bukovyna

A goal on 90 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Market

Talks stall between Bukovyna and Danylo Kanevtsev

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

Nobody at Bukovyna has picked up the phone to Yevhen Pidlepenets

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief