Inhulets U20

31 Aug 2026
Monday
Process
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The Inhulets Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Vasyl Hakman

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Inhulets have done the hard part with Bukovyna, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Vitalii Dubilei 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 Inhulets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Zois Karargyris

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Maksym Lopyrionok

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maksym Lopyrionok, and the manager let it.

Match

Inhulets come up short against Metalist

Metalist left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Costly mistake from Oleksandr Domoleha

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Oleksandr Domoleha knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

The dugout

Ruslan Zinchenko: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Transfer targets

Inhulets ask about Teodor Ivanov

A loan enquiry to CSKA Sofia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

No place for Miroslav Babyak in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Inhulets are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

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The Inhulets Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A move Miroslav Babyak would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Miroslav Babyak is living that version at Inhulets, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Tempers go at Inhulets

Vitalii Dubilei 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.

Transfer targets

Inhulets rebuffed over Illia Karavashchenko

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

Match

Vorskla take the points off Inhulets

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Miroslav Babyak signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Miroslav Babyak and Inhulets agree another 4 years.

The dugout

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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Ruslan Zinchenko to a room that had heard them before.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Beno Selan is in the works

Inhulets have made the call to Cracovia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

A long bet from Inhulets on Vitalii Diachenko

He is 20, and nobody at Inhulets signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Inhulets buy the years ahead of Miroslav Babyak

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

2 Edition

The Inhulets Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Inhulets — 7.96

1 for Andrii Melenchuk, marked 7.96, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

A falling-out at Inhulets

Vitalii Dubilei and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Inhulets rebuffed over Talles Brener

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

Market

Inhulets promote Andriy Dovbyk from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andriy Dovbyk 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.

Market

One of our own: Bohdan Tsygankov joins the Inhulets first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bohdan Tsygankov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Yaroslav Boyko joins the Inhulets first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yaroslav Boyko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Valentyn Mykhailychenko joins the Inhulets first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valentyn Mykhailychenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

No place for Maksym Lopyrionok in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Inhulets are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Artem Somka is in the works

Inhulets have made the call to Dynamo Kyiv. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

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The Inhulets Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Dmytro Panchenko keeps Inhulets in it on his own

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.

Player ratings

Artem Benediuk pops up at the right end — 7.86

7.86, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Stanislav-Nuri Malysh stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Stanislav-Nuri Malysh and Inhulets agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Inhulets

Vitalii Dubilei 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Artem Benediuk

At 22 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

Artem Benediuk sends Inhulets past Chernihiv

It finished 2‑0, and it was Artem Benediuk’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Inhulets.

Player ratings

Bohdan Mohylnyi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

Market

49 months and counting on Vitalii Dubilei

Still no offer on the table, and Vitalii Dubilei’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Oleksandr Domoleha is in the works

Inhulets have made the call to Livyi Bereh. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief