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From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Prykarpattia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Vasyl Frantsuz 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.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Prykarpattia, and 0 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.
Match2 Jan 2027
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denys Smetana, and the manager let it.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Elias
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Prykarpattia know it.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Prykarpattia will not try tonight.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
16 matches without a win for Prykarpattia
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Prykarpattia are no longer polite ones.
Market9 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Vasyl Frantsuz 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.
Squad9 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Prykarpattia know it.
Match7 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Prykarpattia?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Livyi Bereh? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Vasyl Frantsuz 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Santiago Pérez and Prykarpattia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vasyl Tsiutsiura, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Prykarpattia
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Prykarpattia are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bohdan Biloshevskyi 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Elias is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. UCSA will be the happier side with the point.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ivan Mamrosenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A season on the outside for Elias
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Prykarpattia has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market14 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Andrii Bobynets: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match29 Aug 2026
Vorskla ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Match29 Aug 2026
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Vasyl Frantsuz 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.72, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.53, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bohdan Biloshevskyi and Prykarpattia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vasyl Frantsuz 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Victoriia Sumy, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Denys Smetana is 20, and Prykarpattia have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market10 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Sviatoslav Barasiuk has his answer from Prykarpattia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.