From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match13 Feb 2027
16 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match13 Feb 2027
1‑4 to Veres, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Kudrivka — 7.81
1 for Denys Nahnoinyi, marked 7.81, 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Oleksandr Bieliaiev 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Rukh paid $64.0K and Kudrivka took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rosario Central have kept their man, and Kudrivka go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match13 Feb 2027
No clean sheets in sight for Kudrivka
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Kudrivka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valerii Rohozynskyi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Kudrivka
15 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Kudrivka can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
4 matches without a goal for Kudrivka
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market8 Feb 2027
Metalist pay $600.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Yevhen Smyrnyi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Kudrivka asked and Egnatia Rrogozhinë said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Kudrivka
Dmytro Semenov 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Match30 Jan 2027
14 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
The mood at Kudrivka has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match30 Jan 2027
Chastening afternoon for Kudrivka
A 0‑5 beating by Shakhtar was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Kudrivka
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yevhen Smyrnyi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match30 Jan 2027
3 matches without a goal for Kudrivka
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olimpia have kept their man, and Kudrivka go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Crisis
Match23 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Kudrivka
13 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.
Match25 Jan 2027
Kudrivka sink to position 15
12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Kudrivka
Denys Nahnoinyi 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
0‑2 to Oleksandriya, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Kudrivka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valerii Rohozynskyi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denys Nahnoinyi, and the manager let it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
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 0‑2 Kostiantyn Zinchenko left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. 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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Uneasy
Match16 Jan 2027
12 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yevhen Smyrnyi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Kudrivka
Denys Nahnoinyi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Yevhen Smyrnyi
“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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The team sheet said everything about Yevhenii Pasich
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Yevhenii Pasich.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Kostiantyn Zinchenko chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Match16 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Epicentr will be the happier side with the point.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
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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Crisis
Squad11 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 16 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match9 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Kudrivka's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kudrivka has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Oleksandr Shvets has agreed terms with Feniks for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Kudrivka
Oleksandr Bieliaiev 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
1‑3 to Dynamo Kyiv, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Yevhen Smyrnyi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“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 dugout11 Jan 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Yevhen Smyrnyi will call it something else in private.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Uneasy
The terraces4 Jan 2027
The mood at Kudrivka has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match2 Jan 2027
10 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Kudrivka
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Kudrivka
Oleksandr Bieliaiev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match2 Jan 2027
Kudrivka cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Valerii Rohozynskyi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
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Crisis
Match26 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Kudrivka's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kudrivka has to find a result from somewhere.
Match28 Dec 2026
Kudrivka are in real trouble now
Position 15, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Dec 2026
Kudrivka are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match26 Dec 2026
0‑2 to Polissia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Maksym Melnychuk falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Kyrylo Siheiev
“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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Kudrivka
8 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
0‑2 to Kryvbas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maksym Melnychuk is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout21 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Kudrivka
Bohdan Vekliak and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kostiantyn Zinchenko after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Artem Macheliuk has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kudrivka 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.
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Crisis
Match12 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Kudrivka
7 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Valerii Rohozynskyi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
A six-pointer for Kudrivka
Kryvbas next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kostiantyn Zinchenko after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Kudrivka told Artem Liehostaiev something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout14 Dec 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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Crisis
The terraces7 Dec 2026
The mood at Kudrivka has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match5 Dec 2026
Nowhere to hide for Kudrivka
0‑3 against Zorya, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Kudrivka's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kudrivka has to find a result from somewhere.
Match5 Dec 2026
4 matches without a goal for Kudrivka
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Denys Nahnoinyi 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Anton Yashkov
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maksym Melnychuk is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Kudrivka 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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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Crisis
Match30 Nov 2026
Kudrivka sink to position 15
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Kudrivka's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kudrivka has to find a result from somewhere.
Match28 Nov 2026
Kudrivka cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Kudrivka
Maksym Melnychuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrii Stefanyshyn is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Yevhen Smyrnyi
“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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Kudrivka come up short against LNZ
LNZ left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Kudrivka told Yevhen Smyrnyi something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Kudrivka
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Oleksandr Bieliaiev 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Kudrivka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valerii Rohozynskyi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Yevhen Smyrnyi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Match14 Nov 2026
Nowhere to hide for Kudrivka
0‑3 against Kolos, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Kudrivka
Oleksandr Bieliaiev 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 dugout16 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Kudrivka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maksym Melnychuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout16 Nov 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 0‑3 Kostiantyn Zinchenko left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Kudrivka will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Valerii Rohozynskyi
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Kudrivka
Oleksandr Bieliaiev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match7 Nov 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Anton Yashkov
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match9 Nov 2026
Kudrivka at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 15, 10 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout9 Nov 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 1‑3 Kostiantyn Zinchenko left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. 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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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for Kudrivka
A 2‑6 beating by Veres was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match2 Nov 2026
Kudrivka sink to position 15
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.26 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad2 Nov 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match31 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Kudrivka and Veres, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrii Stefanyshyn is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings2 Nov 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valerii Rohozynskyi, and the manager let it.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Kudrivka 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
At last: Kudrivka win one
11 matches without a win, and then this, against Poltava. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Poltava, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Kudrivka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valerii Rohozynskyi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad26 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Kyrylo Siheiev
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Kudrivka
Bohdan Vekliak and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
12 new faces, and Kudrivka 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.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
There were 10 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Kudrivka
0‑3 against Shakhtar, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Mykola Oharkov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrii Stefanyshyn is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match17 Oct 2026
Kudrivka are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Kudrivka 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.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.66 for the rest of it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Yevhen Smyrnyi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Kostiantyn Zinchenko to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Kudrivka lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Serhii Sten, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Valerii Rohozynskyi is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
9 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Oct 2026
Kudrivka are in real trouble now
Position 14, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Up for the corner, and Denys Nahnoinyi delivers — 7.44
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Denys Nahnoinyi scored, was marked 7.44, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yevhen Smyrnyi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
Kudrivka caught on 96 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Epicentr scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 7.95. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Kudrivka
0‑6 against Dynamo Kyiv, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match26 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Kudrivka and Dynamo Kyiv in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kudrivka
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑6, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Kudrivka lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Kudrivka
7 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 ratings21 Sep 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
No thanks: Diego Otoya rejects the move
Kudrivka had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sporting Cristal, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Kudrivka
Yevhenii Pasich 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Kudrivka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrii Stefanyshyn was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match19 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Kudrivka against Obolon
0‑1 to Obolon, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrii Stefanyshyn, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Kudrivka will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
1‑6 to Polissia, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Kudrivka
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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 8 in, 0 out at Kudrivka
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Kudrivka had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at O'Higgins, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match12 Sep 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Kudrivka and Polissia in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gimnasia y Esgrima have kept their man, and Kudrivka go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valerii Rohozynskyi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Beaten 6 times: a bad day for Anton Yashkov
4 saves does not settle the argument about whose fault it was, and the argument will run all week. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines whoever caused them.
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Uneasy
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Denys Nahnoinyi delivers — 7.64
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Denys Nahnoinyi scored, was marked 7.64, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kudrivka have done the hard part with O'Higgins, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Cerro Porteno is saying, and nobody at Kudrivka is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout7 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
Kudrivka caught on 91 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Kryvbas scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Kudrivka
Bohdan Vekliak 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A loan move for Diego Otoya is in the works
Kudrivka have made the call to Sporting Cristal. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match26 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Kudrivka
0‑2 against Chornomorets, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with Cerro Porteno 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a goal for Kudrivka
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Progreso have kept their man, and Kudrivka go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dmytro Semenov 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Karpaty, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmytro Semenov, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Aldosivi keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Kudrivka
Dmytro Semenov 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 dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artem Liehostaiev, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Kudrivka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valerii Rohozynskyi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Juventude have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Valledupar have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑3 to LNZ, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Elías Bacre
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kudrivka have done the hard part with Aldosivi, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Kudrivka
Yevhenii Pasich and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout17 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Kudrivka 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 dugout17 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Gustavo Perez is in the works
Kudrivka have made the call to Universitario Popayan. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Serhii Sten
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Kaya Makosso pops up at the right end — 7.71
7.71, 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Legia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for Kudrivka, 3‑1 the final word against Rukh in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kudrivka asked and Shakhtar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yevhenii Pasich 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Serhiy Dovbyk has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Taras Shevchenko has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kaya Makosso and Kudrivka agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Kudrivka asked and Alianza Lima said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Valerii Rohozynskyi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kudrivka, another week without a signature from Kaya Makosso.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kudrivka
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Rafał Adamski is in the works
Kudrivka have made the call to Legia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.