FC Obolon Kyiv

FC Obolon Kyiv (Ukrainian: Оболонь) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv (Obolonskyi District). Its home colors are green shirts and white shorts; while its away uniforms are white shirts and green shorts. Its main sponsor was the brewery Obolon in 1999-2013. Since 2013, the club is owned by the factory.

The club was reformed in 2013 due to administrative issues and hence the team withdrew from the Professional Football League of Ukraine during the 2012–13 Ukrainian First League season in February 2013. The club restarted from amateur competitions. Between 2013 and 2020, the team was known as Obolon-Brovar Kyiv.

History

Names

• 1992: FC Zmina
• 1993: FC Zmina-Obolon (after its location in Obolonskyi District)
• 1995: FC Obolon
• 1997: FC Obolon-PPO
• 1999: FC Obolon JSC (brewery became officially the club's sponsor)
• 2001: FC Obolon (after its sponsor Obolon)
• 2013: FC Obolon-Brovar (forced to reorganized and renamed)
• 2020: FC Obolon

Obolon (original)

The football club was created in 1992 by a collective of enthusiasts based on the specialized sports school of Olympic Reserve Zmina in Kyiv. The team changed its name to Zmina-Obolon in 1993 because it was located in the historical neighborhood in Kyiv. The same year as Zmina-Obolon, the club participated in the national amateur competitions KFK at first placing third and next year winning a group competitions. After its promotion to professionals, the name portion Zmina was dropped leaving only with Obolon in 1995, and later changed to Obolon PPO in 1997. It adopted its current name on 23 April 2001. In 1995, it received professional status and entered the Ukrainian Second League for the 1995–96 season.

After finishing 3rd in the Ukrainian First League 2001–02 season, Obolon was promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League when that competition expand