FC Stroitel Pripyat


Stroitel Football Club Pripyat, also known as Budivelnyk Football Club Pripyat was a Soviet and Ukrainian football club from Pripyat, Kyiv Oblast. Founded in the 1970s, it competed only at republican level competitions in Ukraine. Before the Chernobyl disaster the team was playing at a small stadium in Pripyat. In 1986, a new home ground, the Avanhard Stadium was built but never used due to the disaster.

History

The team, which name Stroitel means "builder", was founded in the middle of the 1970s with construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station along with the atomgrad Prypiat. Many players of the new club were from the village of Chystohalivka, south of Prypiat. The idea for establishment of the team belonged to Vasiliy Kizima, the director of the Construction Administration of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. At first the team was called as Komanda posyolka Pripyat. In 1981 Kizima invited Anatoliy Shepel to coach the team, and the team obtained its first name "Budivelnyk". The team was owned by the town of Pripyat, while the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had its own football team, which was called Enerhetyk Prypiat. However, the ChNPP employers played for either team.
The team competed in district and regional competitions. In 1981, it entered the KFK competition of Ukrainian SSR. Please note, at Soviet football league system such republican football competitions in 1971–1989 were conditionally at fourth tier just below the USSR Championship Vtoraya Liga, yet republican competitions, particularly football KFK, were administered by all 15 union republics individually. Since 1978 every winner of the Ukrainian football competitions among KFK were gaining promotion and obtaining the status of teams of masters.
The club achieved its best result in 1985 by reaching the second place in its group. The team never qualified for the final stage of the competition. In 1981–1983, for three years in the row, Stroitel was awarded the title of the Kyiv Oblast championship champions.
Stroitel was preparing for a cup semi-final against FC Borodyanka on the day of the Chernobyl disaster, Saturday 26 April 1986. Following the disaster, some players of Budivelnyk participated in the post-disaster clean-up and became known as "Liquidators". When the city of Pripyat was abandoned after the disaster, the new city of Slavutych was founded near Chernihiv at the end of the same year to replace it. The football club was moved there, changing its name to FC Stroitel Slavutych in 1987. Its activities ceased after the end of 1988 season.
Players who also worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant were receiving 25 Soviet rubles per game. According to Volodymyr Semykopov who played forward for Budivelnyk, the team always used formation 4-4-2.

Previous names

  • 1977 AES Prypiat
  • 1978 Enerhiya Prypiat

Infrastructure and equipment

The team used balls manufactured by the Hungarian company "Artek", since the balls from the Soviet manufacturers were of poor quality.
Beside the city central stadium, Avanhard Stadium, that was planned to be officially opened on 1 May 1986, Prypiat had an indoor arena where footballers were practicing and polishing their skills.

Players

Source:
Alexei Alekseevich Dmitirievich
Valeriy Anatoyevich Anyukhin, assistant coach to Rastorguev
Vyacheslav Yurievich Arseniyuk
Sergei Nikolayevich Bezotosny
Vladimir Nikolayevich Besedin
Sergei Vladimirovich Bondarenko
Vladimir Bordachenko
Yuri Borisovich Darchenko
Nikolai Vasilievich Gergel
Alexander Ivanovich Yatsenko
Nikolai Vladimirovich Koistrenko
Valentin Viktorivich Litvin, Team Captain
Nikolai Viktorovich Litvin
Vladimir Ivanovich Panasiuk
Viktor Viktorovich Ponomarev
Vladimir Vladimirovich Schegol
Volodymyr Semykopov
Mykola Skrypchenko
Sergei Slyusar
Anatoly Terendey, goalkeeper, came from Dnipropetrovsk
Vladimir Igorevich Tyutyunov
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Vishnevskiy
Wasilij Zubko
Wiktor Żylin
Stanislav Honcharenko, Player from 1979 - 1981

Head coaches

Honours

Kyiv Oblast Football Championship
  • '''Winners : 1981, 1982, 1983'''