FC Alliance Lipova Dolina
Wikipedia - FC Alians Lypova Dolyna
Football Club Alians is a Ukrainian football club based in Lypova Dolyna, Sumy Oblast, in north-eastern Ukraine, founded in 2016. The club is competing in the Ukrainian First League following promotion from the 2019–20 Ukrainian Second League. Alians's home field is Yuvileiny Stadium in Sumy.
History
Alians Lypova Dolyna was founded in 2016. The team played its first match on May 21 of the same year within the framework of the Sumy Oblast Championship against Lebedynets from Lebedyn. According to the results of the 2016 season, Alians won gold medals in the championship, ahead of Yavir and Trostianets. Since 2017, the team participated in the highest league of the championship of Sumy Oblast. Alians finished the first draw in third place, and a year later became the champion.
In 2018, Alians was admitted into the Amateur Championship of Ukraine. In its group, the team took third place, skipping ahead of Victoria and LNZ Cherkasy, and in the quarterfinals of the playoffs lost to the future champion VPK Ahro.
In 2019, the club won the Hennady Svirsky Cup and the Super Cup of Sumy Oblast, and in the summer season Alians received the status of a professional club and began playing in the Ukrainian Second League. In the early completed draw of the 2019/20 season, the team took third place in Group B and in the play-offs with Metalurh Zaporizhzhia won addmitance to play in the Ukrainian First League of the 2020/21 season. In its first draw of the Ukrainian Cup, Alliance lost in the quarterfinals to premier league club FC Mariupol with a score of 2:4.
O clube foi fundado por um grupo de empresários locais, liderados por Viktor Mezentsev. O objetivo inicial era criar um time de futebol que representasse a cidade de Lipova Dolina e participasse de competições regionais. Com o tempo, o clube foi ganhando força e, em 2008, conseguiu se classificar para a terceira divisão do Campeonato Ucraniano de Futebol.
Em 2013, o FC Alliance Lipova Dolina conquistou o título da terceira divisão e foi promovido para a segunda divisão. Desde então, o clube tem se mantido na segunda divisão, com algumas campanhas de destaque.
O FC Alliance Lipova Dolina manda seus jogos no Estádio Yuvileiny, com capacidade para 2.500 espectadores. O clube tem um elenco jovem e talentoso, e espera conseguir o acesso à primeira divisão do Campeonato Ucraniano de Futebol nos próximos anos.