Victoriia Sumy

Ukrainian First League
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process
5 Edition

The Victoriia Sumy Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The cup run ends for Victoriia Sumy

0‑1 against Metalist, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

The wait goes on for Victoriia Sumy

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.

Market

Artem Riabyi puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Victoriia Sumy, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Victoriia Sumy

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 targets

Door shut on Pierre Mounguengue

Victoriia Sumy asked and Dynamo Kyiv 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Diego Arroyo

At 21 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Artur Novotriasov

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

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Diego Arroyo

7.35, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Victoriia Sumy had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Danylo Knysh

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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The Victoriia Sumy Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Victoriia Sumy's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Victoriia Sumy has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Victoriia Sumy

Dmytro Ulianov 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 ratings

Artem Riabyi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Viktor Korniienko

Victoriia Sumy 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.

Squad

Yevhen Mykhailychenko signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yevhen Mykhailychenko commits to Victoriia Sumy for another 3 years.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Dmytro Ulianov

A mark of 7.14, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

Oleh Lunyov on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Oleh Lunyov after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Match

Victoriia Sumy draw a blank against Feniks

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Feniks defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yevhen Tymchyk

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

In brief

3 Edition

The Victoriia Sumy Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Victoriia Sumy

Beaten 0‑4 by Bukovyna, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Transfer targets

Arsenii Dannikov turns down Victoriia Sumy

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Dmytro Ulianov 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 Victoriia Sumy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Cody David

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the Victoriia Sumy 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 dugout

Oleh Lunyov: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Stanislav Sharay's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Player ratings

Vladyslav Khameliuk runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

A costly moment from Stanislav Sharay

One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Victoriia Sumy, and it is a cruel one.

In brief

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The Victoriia Sumy Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Andrii Buleza is a medical away from Victoriia Sumy

The deal with Karpaty 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.

Transfer targets

Denis Norenkov turns down Victoriia Sumy

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at Victoriia Sumy

Dmytro Ulianov 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 targets

Victoriia Sumy rebuffed over Talles Brener

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

Market

Kyrylo Sirenko steps up from the Victoriia Sumy academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kyrylo Sirenko 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.

Market

One of our own: Yevhen Mykhailychenko joins the Victoriia Sumy first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yevhen Mykhailychenko 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: Yevhen Tymchyk joins the Victoriia Sumy first team

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

Market

Dmytro Mykhailychenko steps up from the Victoriia Sumy academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dmytro Mykhailychenko 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Danylo Knysh

“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.

In brief

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The Victoriia Sumy Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dmytro Ulianov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dmytro Ulianov and Victoriia Sumy agree another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Victoriia Sumy

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Danylo Honcharuk

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

Player ratings

Artem Riabyi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Nobody at Victoriia Sumy has picked up the phone to Dmytro Ulianov

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

The dugout

Maksym Sasovskiy is still paying for one afternoon at Victoriia Sumy

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.

Transfer targets

Victoriia Sumy try to borrow Artem Nyzhnyk

Ahrobiznes 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.

Match

Danylo Knysh rescues a point for Victoriia Sumy

It needed Danylo Knysh to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Podillia, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Oleh Lunyov on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Oleh Lunyov after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief