From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Chernihiv's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Chernihiv has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Dec 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
It needed Denys Bezborodko to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Bukovyna, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Uneasy
Match30 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Chernihiv
Position 15 and 13 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market30 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Chernihiv have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Chernihiv's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Chernihiv has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
585% of the income goes out in wages at Chernihiv
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.
Squad30 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.
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Uneasy
Market23 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Chernihiv
4 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Podillia defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
Market16 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chernihiv may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑2 to Inhulets, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Crisis
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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
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Steady
Match2 Nov 2026
Chernihiv sink to position 14
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad2 Nov 2026
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
585% of the income goes out in wages at Chernihiv
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.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The award goes to Valentyn Halonskyi, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Match31 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Metalurh Zaporizhzhia defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Denys Bezborodko’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Chernihiv.
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Crisis
Market19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Metalist, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmytro Fatieiev, and the manager let it.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Chernihiv, another week without a signature from Pavlo Shushko.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 44 days on the sidelines for Vladyslav Shapoval, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
992% of the income goes out in wages at Chernihiv
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Probiy made Chernihiv work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valentyn Halonskyi, and the manager let it.
Market5 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Chernihiv, another week without a signature from Valentyn Halonskyi.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dmytro Fatieiev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Chernihiv
10 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.
Match28 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for Chernihiv
Position 16 and 3 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad28 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Chornomorets left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Brian Palacios and Chernihiv agree another 3 years.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikita Tepliakov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Chernihiv's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Chernihiv has to find a result from somewhere.
Market21 Sep 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 Chernihiv can pretend not to have heard.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anatolii Romanchenko, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Chernihiv, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Denys Bezborodko keeps the shirt for now, at Chernihiv's convenience rather than his own.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Chernihiv
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Chernihiv are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Sep 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nyva left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Chernihiv
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Chernihiv are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
There were 6 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.
Market7 Sep 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 Chernihiv can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 720% of everything Chernihiv 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.
Squad7 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.
Match5 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
At 17 years old, Yaroslav Buravtsov became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Market7 Sep 2026
Chernihiv have made Daniil Volskyi available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Match26 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Chernihiv
1‑1 against Kolos, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad31 Aug 2026
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Chernihiv
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia paid $17.0K and Chernihiv took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Chernihiv have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Feniks leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Chernihiv, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market24 Aug 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 Chernihiv can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Chernihiv's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Chernihiv has to find a result from somewhere.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Yehor Kartushov has come up in conversations Chernihiv were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dmytro Fatieiev
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Bukovyna left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Chernihiv, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
51 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match15 Aug 2026
Prykarpattia left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yehor Kartushov, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Match8 Aug 2026
Podillia left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valentyn Halonskyi, and the manager let it.
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
Valentyn Halonskyi is 20, and Chernihiv 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.” Maksym Shumylo has his answer from Chernihiv; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dmytro Fatieiev and Chernihiv agree another 2 years.
Squad3 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.
Market3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Denys Bezborodko’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Vyacheslav Koidan has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Chernihiv.
Match1 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for Chernihiv?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Inhulets? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.