# 2024–25 FC Kremin Kremenchuk season

The 2024–25 season is Kremin's 22nd year in existence since clubs revival in 2003 and 6th consecutive season in the second flight of Ukrainian football. The club was relegated in the previous season, however they were brought back into the league due to other clubs withdrawing. In addition to the domestic league, Kremin participates in this season's editions of the Ukrainian Cup. The season covers the period from 20 June 2024 to 1 July 2025.

## Season summary
### Pre-season

Having finished eighteenth in the Ukrainian First League the previous season, Kremin was relegated to Second League. With relegation the second team Kremin-2 ceased to exist. A number of players left the club: Orest Panchyshyn, Davronbek Azizov, Danylo Sydorenko, Artem Tovkach, Andrii Savitskyi, Andrii Hloba, Simon Galoyan. Loaned players Arsenii Korkodym and Artem Umanets returned to their parent clubs. On 13 June Kremin was assigned to group B of the Ukrainian Second League. The opening matches are planned for 5 August. Kremin announced that preseason training would begin on 20 June on Kremin Arena. Players began individual training on 10 June. Preseason is split into three stages. From 10 to 18, 20–30 June, the last stage is from 1–19 July. On 19 June defender Yurii Dudnyk moved to Bukovyna Chernivtsi after two years with the club. Goalkeeping coach Yuriy Chumak left Kremin to work at newly promoted, Ukrainian Premier League club Inhulets Petrove. On 20 June the team had its first preseason training at the Kremin–Arena. Twenty players from the team and recently dissolved Kremin-2 took part in training. Oleksii Zhdanovych and injured Yakiv Barinov were missing in training. Club announced that seven players and two coaches left the club. They included Korkodym, Azizov, Sydorenko, Dudnyk, Panchyshyn, Hloba and Umanets, coaches Chumak and Ruslan Umanets. Same day Nyva Ternopil announced Umanets as an assistant coach. Umantes was an assistant in nineteen matches while Chumak was in ten matches.
On 30 June Kremin won their first match of pre-season against Hirnyk-Sport 2–1, thanks to first-half goals from Kuts who converted a 3 penalty on third minute, Rokotyanskyi doubled the lead on fortieth minute. Three minutes after the start of second half Richmond pulled one back for Hirnyk-Sport. Five days later they won their second against Metalurh Zaporizhzhia. Molko won the game for Kremin with the lone goal in sixty-second minute.

### October

On 3 October Kremin was scheduled to host Metalurh Zaporizhzhia in Mashynobudivnyk Stadium in Karlivka. Due to extended air raid alert in Poltava Oblast the math never started. This was the second time during the season that a match was postponed due to air raid.

## Management team

Ihor Klymovskyi remained as a manager for the new season.
| Position | Name | Year appointed | Last club/team |
| Manager | Ihor Klymovskyi | 2023 | DYuSSh Zmina Bila Tserkva |
| Assistant Coach | Yaroslav Zdyrko | 2024 | Kremin-2 |
| Goalkeeping Coach | | 2024 | |

## Pre-season and friendlies

On 14 June three friendly matches against Hirnyk-Sport, SC Poltava and Oleksandriia-2 were announced. On 20 June Kremin released amended schedule with more opponents. SC Poltava was replaced by Metalurh Zaporizhzhia. Premier league club Vorskla and its newly recreated second team Vorskla-2 were added.
Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures
    Results list Kremin's goal tally first.
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Kremin scorers | Referee |
| 30 June 2024 – 12:00 | Hirnyk-Sport | Away | 2–1 | Kuts 3' (pen.), Rokotyanskyi 40' | |
| 5 July 2024 – 12:00 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | Away | 1–0 | Molko 62' | Mykyta Bohatyr |
| 13 July 2024 – 11:00 | Oleksandriia-2 | Away | 1–2 | Unnamed Trial Player 73' | |
| 15 July 2024 – 12:10 | Inhulets Petrove | Away | 0–0 | | |
| 24 July 2024 – 10:00 | FC Budivelnyk | Home | 1–0 | Kuts 87' (pen.) | Pavlo Plieshko |
| 26 July 2024 – 11:30 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | Away | 1–0 | Palamarchuk 17' | Mykyta Bohatyr |
| 20 October 2024 – 16:00 | FC Budivelnyk | Home | 8–0 | Kuts 5' (pen.), 31', Palamarchuk 17', Sabiiev 64', Rokotianskyi 68', Stetsiuk 71', Klepko 76', Dykhtiaruk 86' | |

## Competitions
### Overall record

Start date of the league season was moved up one day to 4 August and Preliminary rounds of the Cup moved up two days to 28 July.
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| First League | 9 August 2024 | TBD | Matchday 1 | TBD | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 32 | −23 | 012.50 |
| Ukrainian Cup | 4 August 2024 | 4 August 2024 | First preliminary round | First preliminary round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 34 | −25 | 011.76 |
Last updated: 9 January 2025 Source: Competitions

### First League
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 9 January 2025. Source: ua-football.com

#### League table

Kremin played first sixteen matches in Group B. After finishing last in the group, they played second part of the season in relegation group.

##### Group B table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 5 | Viktoriya Sumy (Q) | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 12 | +11 | 23 | Qualified to the Relegation group |
| 6 | Mariupol (Q) | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 23 | −6 | 18 | Qualified to the Relegation group |
| 7 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia (Q) | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 22 | −7 | 17 | Qualified to the Relegation group |
| 8 | Dinaz Vyshhorod (Q) | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 28 | −16 | 13 | Qualified to the Relegation group |
| 9 | Kremin Kremenchuk (Q) | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 32 | −23 | 9 | Qualified to the Relegation group |

##### Relegation Group table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 14 | Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 18 | −4 | 13 | Qualification to relegation play-off |
| 15 | Dinaz Vyshhorod | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 28 | −16 | 13 | Qualification to relegation play-off |
| 16 | Kremin Kremenchuk | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 32 | −23 | 9 | Relegation to Ukrainian Second League |
| 17 | Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 19 | −10 | 8 | Relegation to Ukrainian Second League |
| - | Khust | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrawn and record annulled |

#### Matches
##### Group B

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures
The league fixtures were announced on 31 July 2024.
    Results list Kremin's goal tally first.
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Kremin scorers | Referee | Attendance | Position |
| 9 August 2024 – 14:00 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | Away | 0–1 | | Anatolii Ukhov | 0 | 7th |
| 17 August 2024 – 13:00 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | Home | 1–1 | Zlatiev 65' | Yehor Kievlich | 0 | 7th |
| 7 September 2024 – 13:00 | Kudrivka | Away | 1–2 | Trofymiuk 18' | Serhii Podryhulia | 0 | 9th |
| 11 September 2024 – 12:30 | UCSA Tarasivka | Away | 0–5 | | Yaroslav Leskiv | 79 | 9th |
| 16 September 2024 – 14:30 | Poltava | Away | 2–4 | Molko 60', Dykhtiaruk 74' | Veronika Vasylchenko | 0 | 9th |
| 20 September 2024 – 14:00 | Dinaz Vyshhorod | Away | 1–0 | Trofymiuk 7' | Serhii Truba | 0 | 8th |
| 27 September 2024 – 14:00 | Mariupol | Away | 0–3 | Molko 59' | Anatolii Ukhov | 0 | 9th |
| 9 October 2024 – 15:00 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | Away | 0–4 | | Liudmyla Telbukh | 289 | 9th |
| 14 October 2024 – 13:00 | Viktoriia Sumy | Home | 0–3 | | Veronika Vasylchenko | 0 | 9th |
| 25 October 2024 – 13:00 | Kudrivka | Home | 0–3 | | Maksym Skrypnyk | 0 | 9th |
| 30 October 2024 – 12:00 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | Home | 0–1 | | Yehor Kievlich | 0 | 9th |
| 4 November 2024 – 12:30 | UCSA Tarasivka | Home | 0–1 | | Mykyta Bohatyr | 0 | 9th |
| 8 November 2024 – 12:00 | Poltava | Home | 0–0 | | Oleksandr Tytov | 0 | 9th |
| 13 November 2024 – 12:00 | Viktoriya Sumy | Away | 1–1 | Trofymiuk 18' | Kristina Kozoroh | 0 | 9th |
| 17 November 2024 – 12:00 | Dinaz Vyshhorod | Home | 0–3 | | Anatolii Ukhov | 0 | 9th |
| 27 November 2024 – 12:00 | Mariupol | Home | 3–0 | | Liudmyla Telbukh | | 9th |
* ↑ The match that originally ended 2–1 was changed to technical result by UAF Control and Disciplinary Committee on 3 October 2024 due to an ineligible player for Kremin.
* ↑ On 27 November 2024 the postponed game between FC Kremin and FSC Mariupol was canceled due to financial hardship of the Mariupol team. The decision for the game result was determined by the UAF Control and Disciplinary Committee on 3 December 2024.

##### Relegation Group

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures
The league fixtures for relegation group were announced on 5 December 2024.
    Results list Kremin's goal tally first.
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Result |
| 30 March 2025 – 12:00 | Nyva Ternopil | Home | – |
| 6 April 2025 – 12:00 | Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | Away | – |
| 12 April 2025 – 12:00 | Mynai | Home | – |
| 19 April 2025 – 12:00 | Podillia Khmelnytskyi | Away | – |
| 3 May 2025 – 12:00 | Nyva Ternopil | Away | – |
| 10 May 2025 – 12:00 | Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | Home | – |
| 17 May 2025 – 12:00 | Mynai | Away | – |
| 24 May 2025 – 12:00 | Podillia Khmelnytskyi | Home | – |

### Ukrainian Cup

Kremin entered the First preliminary round and was drawn against Olympia Savyntsi. Match was scheduled to be played on 3 August.
Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Kremin scorers | Referee |
| 4 August 2024 – 13:00 | Olympia Savyntsi | Away | 0–2 | | Yevhenii Makarenko |

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

    As of 13 November 2024
The plus (+) symbol denotes an appearance as a substitute, hence 2+1 indicates two appearances in the starting XI and one appearance as a substitute. Players with zero appearances were unused substitutes named in at least one matchday squad.
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | First League | First League | Cup | Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 7 | FW | UKR | Myroslav Trofymiuk | 15 | 3 | 14+0 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | UKR | Orest Panchyshyn | 9 | 0 | 6+3 | 0 | - | - |
| 10 | MF | UKR | Andrii Savitskyi | 12 | 0 | 6+6 | 0 | - | - |
| 11 | MF | UKR | Valentyn Maksymenko | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | - | - |
| 13 | MF | UKR | Viktor Bilokon | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | - | - |
| 14 | MF | UKR | Andrii Koloskov | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | UKR | Yakiv Barinov | 5 | 0 | 0+5 | 0 | - | - |
| 17 | MF | UKR | Oleksii Zhdanovych | 12 | 0 | 11+0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | UKR | Nazarii Pasternak | 14 | 0 | 13+0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | UKR | Dmytro Sabiiev | 15 | 0 | 14+0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | UKR | Stanislav Rokotyanskyi | 11 | 0 | 6+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | UKR | Ivan Palamarchuk | 13 | 0 | 12+0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | UKR | Dmytro Prokopchuk | 11 | 0 | 7+4 | 0 | - | - |
| 25 | DF | UKR | Mykhailo Klepko | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | UKR | Dmytro Pokas | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | UKR | Vladyslav Molko | 15 | 2 | 14+0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | UKR | Oleksandr Dykhtiaruk | 14 | 1 | 13+0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | UKR | Ivan Zaichenko | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | GK | UKR | Stanislav Oksenenko | 6 | 0 | 6+0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | FW | UKR | Anatolii Stetsiuk | 4 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 51 | MF | UKR | Zlat Zlatiev | 10 | 1 | 6+3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 55 | FW | UKR | Ivan Kuts | 8 | 0 | 0+7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 57 | DF | UKR | Illia Rudniev | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
| 71 | GK | UKR | Artem Matus | 9 | 0 | 8+0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 72 | DF | UKR | Roman Tylokha | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 79 | DF | UKR | Andrii Borovskyi | 15 | 0 | 14+0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 91 | DF | UKR | Danylo Arkusha | 4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | - | - |
Last updated: 13 November 2024 Source: start.uaf.ua

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | Name | From | Fee |
| 2 August 2024 | MF | Andrii Koloskov | Unattached | Undisclosed |
| 2 August 2024 | DF | Andrii Borovskyi | Unattached | Undisclosed |
| 8 August 2024 | MF | Viktor Bilokon | Unattached | Undisclosed |
| 8 August 2024 | MF | Dmytro Prokopchuk | Unattached | Undisclosed |
| 6 September 2024 | MF | Valentyn Maksymenko | Unattached | Undisclosed |
| 26 September 2024 | DF | Illia Rudniev | Unattached | Undisclosed |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Name | To | Fee |
| 12 June 2024 | MF | Andrii Hloba | Unattached | Released |
| 12 June 2024 | DF | Davronbek Azizov | Unattached | Released |
| 12 June 2024 | DF | Danylo Sydorenko | Unattached | Released |
| 12 June 2024 | MF | Orest Panchyshyn | Unattached | Released |
| 12 June 2024 | GK | Arsenii Korkodym | Veres Rivne | Loan End |
| 12 June 2024 | MF | Artem Umanets | Vorskla Poltava | Loan End |
| June 2024 | DF | Artem Tovkach | Unattached | Released |
| June 2024 | MF | Andrii Savitskyi | Unattached | Released |
| June 2024 | MF | Simon Galoyan | Unattached | Released |
| 19 June 2024 | DF | Yurii Dudnyk | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | Undisclosed |
| 19 July 2024 | DF | Yevhenii Kostiuk | Unattached | Mutual contract termination |
| 19 July 2024 | MF | Michael Obamina | Unattached | Mutual contract termination |
| July 2024 | DF | Nazar Hontar | FC Budivelnyk | Undisclosed |
| July 2024 | MF | Vadym Kurylo | Unattached | Undisclosed |
| July 2024 | DF | Denys Kuriakov | Unattached | Undisclosed |
| July 2024 | MF | Kostiantyn Pihariev | FC Budivelnyk | Undisclosed |
| July 2024 | MF | Volodymyr Bezklynskyi | Unattached | Undisclosed |

### Loan in

| Date from | Date to | Pos. | Name | From | Ref. |
| 6 September 2024 | 31 December 2024 | MF | Orest Panchyshyn | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | |