page_title: FC Desna Chernihiv
section_title: First Cup Quarterfinal and promotion to Premier League
hierarchical_section_title: FC Desna Chernihiv / History / First Cup Quarterfinal and promotion to Premier League
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Денис Фаворов футболист ФК Десна
context_page_description: FC Desna Chernihiv is a Ukrainian football club based in Chernihiv.
  The original name of the club was "Avanhard" during its first year of existence. Between 1961–70 the club was called Desna. In 1972 it was replaced with SC Chernihiv that played in Chernihiv for the next couple of years. In 1977 Desna was revived now in place of the amateur club "Khimik Cherhihiv" that won regional competitions.
  After the completion of the 2009–10 Ukrainian First League the club failed attestation and the PFL withdrew their license. However, the club was reformed with new management as "Sporting Football Club" Desna Chernihiv and was readmitted in the Ukrainian Second League.
  On 27 May 2018, the team got promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League for the first time in their history.
  The original team colours were blue shirts, blue shorts, blue socks.
context_section_description: In the 2012–13 season Desna won the Ukrainian Second League title and rose in the class. Following the results of the championship of 2013/14 the team took the 5th position in the First League. In the Ukrainian Cup  in the season 2013-14, the team for the first time in history reached the quarter finals, having beaten "Metalurh" Zaporizhya (1:1, in a penalty shootout - 5:4) on its field. In the match 1/4 finals with the "Shakhtar" "Desna" lost with a score of 0:2. The coach Oleksandr Ryabokon was elected best coach of the Ukrainian First League in the season 2016–17.
  In the summer 2016, the club signed the striker Oleksandr Filippov, from FC Avanhard Kramatorsk and in 2016/17 season Desna won the silver medals of the First League and for the first time in history gained the right to compete in the Premier League.
  However, on 1 June 2017, it was announced that Desna was denied in receiving license to play in the top division. The argument was that the club is not able to provide guarantees for an adequate financing of infrastructure. In reality, the problem was not only in half-shady financial irregularities, but also shady ownership of the club. The license was received by NK Veres Rivne, the third-placed team during the last season in the second-tier division.
  Both clubs FC Desna Chernihiv and NK Veres Rivne did not play at their home stadiums in the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League. The first one played in Kiev at the Obolon Arena, while the other one played in Varash, at the Izotop Stadium of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant. The administration of Desna released a letter of protest before a meeting of FFU representative. On 2 June 2017, it was announced about the final composition of the clubs and calendar for the upcoming season. In summer 2017 FC Desna signed Temur Partsvania that in 2009 he won the 2009 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship with Ukraine-19.
  In October 2017 the club's president Aleksei Chebotarev (Oleksiy Chebotaryov) resigned for being wanted by the Ukrainian law enforcement and ran from Ukraine, the club's ownership was passed to Volodymyr Levin Illich. In particular, the former president is in suspicion to be involved in organization of crime groups that were involved in killing and kidnappings during the Euromaidan events in Kiev in fall-winter of 2013–14. Some followers of football were pointing out that the club was proudly demonstrating the club's supervisory board without showing any information about the club's owner (a common issue among most Ukrainian professional clubs), three members out of 14 were also current members of the UAF Executive Committee including Hennadiy Prokopovych and Artem Frankov as well as the president of the Ukrainian PFL Serhiy Makarov.
  According to the results of the 2017/18 season Desna won the bronze medals of the First League and gained the right to compete in the Premier League through the play-offs against Zirka Kropyvnytskyi. The captain Denys Favorov was elected Best Player Ukrainian First League in the season 2017–18. The team got into the Quarterfinals of the Ukrainian Cup in the season 2017-18 against Dynamo Kyiv.
caption: Denys Favorov, the captain of Desna for 4 years, elected Best Player of Ukrainian First League in the season 2017–18
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