# FC Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv

Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv (Ukrainian: "Легенда-ШВСМ" Чернігів) was a Ukrainian professional women's football club from Chernihiv, Ukraine. In 2018, it merged with Yednist Plysky as Yednist-ShVSM Plysky.
ShVSM abbreviation stands for School of Higher Sports Mastery (Ukrainian: Школа Вищої Спортивної Майстерності).

## History
### Origin during the Soviet Time

Initially, the team was named as SK Polissia Chernihiv. In October 1987, Mychailo Yushchenko decided to establish a women's football team at the "Polissia" gymnasium, which gave its name to SK Polissia team. The creation of the team supported the local Cheksil "Worsted and Cloth Factory Combine". Thats why the team used also the name Lehenda-Cheksil. The club was formed by the factory workers, as well as pupils from the city's schools № 11 and 14, vocational school № 13 and students from the Chernihiv Pedagogical Institute (Chernihiv Pedagogical University). At the beginning of April 1988, the team played its first match, in which it tied 2:2 with students of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.

### From SK Polissya Chernihiv to Lehenda Chernihiv

In the first days of June 1988, the club was renamed into Lehenda Chernihiv, taking part in amateur championships.
The first significant success of the "Lehenda" was the 3rd place of the Ukrainian Trade Unions Sports Association championship in November 1989. At the same time, the female football players made their debut in the USSR championship among Trade Union sports associations and placed 16th among 30 teams. In 1990 and 1991, there was the official Soviet women's football championship where Lehenda competed in the Higher League (top tier). In 1990 they placed 7th in their group and in 1991 6th.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, there took place the first league championship of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Women's League. The Lehenda football players won their first medals, the bronze medals. In 1997 the Lehenda's tenth anniversary was marked with its first "silver" of the national competitions. On the basis of the Chernihiv team, there was established the Ukraine youth team. In 1998-1999, "Lehenda" was finishing second yielding the championship title to "Donchanka" Donetsk.

### Champion of Ukrainian Women's League and Women's Cup

In 2000, they won their first Ukrainian Women's League title and in 2001 playing under the name Lehenda-Cheksil Chernihiv they won the Women's Cup. In 2002 they won the double, the Ukrainian Women's League and the Women's Cup and also in 2005 and 2009 they won the double in 2007 they won the Italy Women's Cup. At the European level, they came second in the group again, this time behind the Swedish club Malmö FF. The association founded a youth academy for girls between the ages of nine and 15 in order to encourage young talent. In 2009 they won again both the Ukrainian Women's League and the Women's Cup and in 2010 they won the Ukrainian Women's League. The offensive rock "Legend" has a different kind of "golden take". The team was also in UEFA Women's Champions League in the season 2011–12.

### Recent time

In May 2020 Lehenda defeated Yatran-Basis from Uman in a difficult match, in the 2nd round of the Ukrainian Football Championship among women's teams at the Stadium Tekstylnyk. In the season 2017-18, the team arrived 3 in the Ukrainian Women's League behind Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv and Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv. After this season the team withdrew. In 2018 due to poor financing, Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv was merged with the recently formed Yednist Plysky women's club, therefore Ivan Bubys who previously was coaching Desna Chernihiv invited Kulyk to coach at the Skala Stryi youth academy as its under-15 boys team coach.

## Stadium and facilities

The matches are initially played at the Tekstylschyk Stadium in Lokomotiv Stadium and in Khimik Sport Complex. Afterwards, the team played also in the new modern Chernihiv Arena in Chernihiv, which belongs to FC Chernihiv.

## Notable players

* Liudmyla Shmatko
* Lyudmyla Pekur
* Olha Boychenko
* Olha Ovdiychuk
* Iryna Zvarych
* Alla Lyshafay
* Vera Djatel
* Daryna Apanashchenko
* Natia Pantsulaia
* Tetyana Kozyrenko
* Kateryna Samson
* Olena Khodyreva
* Yulia Kornievets

### Former players

* Daryna Apanaschenko
* Vera Dyatel
* Alla Lyshafay
* Lyudmyla Pekur
* Svetlana Petko
* Iryna Zvarych
* Oksana Yakovyshyn
* Tetyana Fedosova
* Tetyana Chorna
* Nadiya Baranova
* Anastasia Ilyina
* Masha Vintonyak
* Lyudmyla Lemeshko
* Yulia Vashchenko

## Managers

| Manager | started | ended |
| Mykhailo Yushchenko | 1987 | 1996 |
| Mykola Lytvyn | 1996 | 1997 |
| Mykhailo Yushchenko | 1998 | 1998 |
| Anatoliy Piskovets | 1998 | 1999 |
| Serhiy Umen | 1999 | 2002 |
| Mykola Lytvyn | 2002 | 2005 |
| Serhiy Umen | 2004 | 2006 |
| Anatoliy Piskovets | 2006 | 2007 |
| Volodymyr Zhylin | 2007 | 2007 |
| Valery Tretyakov | 2007 | 2007 |
| Serhiy Sapronov | 2008 | 2012 |
| Yuriy Hruznov | 2012 | 2012 |
| Volodymyr Kulyk | 2012 | 2013 |
| Serhiy Sapronov | 2014 | 2014 |
| Yuriy Hruznov | 2014 | 2014 |
| Volodymyr Kulyk | 2015 | 2018 |

## Honours

Ukrainian Women's League
* Winners (6): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2010
* Runners-up (10): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015
* Third place (6):: 1992, 2007, 2014, 2016, 2017–18
Women's Cup
* Winners (4): 2001, 2002, 2005, 2009
* Runners-up (14): 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017–18
Winter Championship
* Winners (1): 2013
* Runners-up (2): 2008, 2018
Italy Women's Cup:
* Winners (1): 2006
* Third place (1):: 2005

## European history

| Season | Competition | Stage | Result | Opponent |
| 2001-02 | UEFA Women's Cup | Group Stage | 0-1 | Toulouse FC |
| | | | 1-1 | Ayr United |
| | | | 3-2 | ZNK Osijek |
| 2003-04 | UEFA Women's Cup | Group Stage | 4-0 | Maccabi Holon |
| | | | 2-0 | United Jakobstad |
| | | | 0-3 | Malmö FF |
| 2006-07 | UEFA Women's Cup | Qualifying Stage | 4-0 | AEK Kokkinochovion |
| | | | 5-0 | PAOK Thessaloniki |
| | | | 3-0 | Maccabi Holon |
| | | Group Stage | 0-2 | Umeå IK |
| | | | 1-2 | Kolbotn Fotball |
| | | | 0-5 | RCD Espanyol |
| 2010-11 | Champions League | Round of 32 | 1-3 0-4 | Rossiyanka |
| 2011-12 | Champions League | Qualifying Stage | 2-0 | Swansea City |
| | | | 8-0 | Progrès Niedercorn |
| | | | 1-2 | Apollon Limassol |

## Performance statistics
### CCCP (1990–1991)

Виступи в Soviet championship: