Football Club Kulykiv-Bilka () or FC Kulykiv-Bilka is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kulykiv, Lviv Raion. They currently play in the Ukrainian First League from 2026–27, the second tier of Ukrainian football after promotion from the Second League in 2025–26.
History The club was founded as FC Kulykiv in June 2008. In 2011, FC Kulykiv saw its first major success in amateur football, winning the Lviv Oblast Championship and the Lviv Oblast Super Cup and reaching the final of the Lviv Oblast Cup.ФК КУЛИКІВ (ЛЬВІВСЬКА ОБЛАСТЬ) Асоціація аматорського футболу України (ААФУ) In 2019, the club came under the ownership of Myron Ostapchuk, who became the club president and restarted the club's participation in the Lviv Oblast Premier League.Mykola Vantukh. . Facebook. 21 December 2019
In 2023, a nearby amateur football club FC Yunist Verkhnia Bilka (founded in 1970), winner of Lviv Oblast Championship in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, as well as the Lviv Oblast Cup in 2017 and 2022, decided to merge together with FC Kulykiv. The president of FC Kulykiv, Myron Ostapchak, became the president of the newly merged FC Kulykiv-Bilka, and the president of FC Yunist, Oleksandr Rolko, became the Vice-President.Artur Valerko. «Двоє президентів потиснули руки, і Куликів-Юність стартував у чемпіонаті України», – наставник лідерів ААФУ Костик UkrFootball In 2023, the club won the Lviv Oblast Championship. In the 2023-24 season, the club achieved first place in Group 1 of the Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship with 19 wins and one draw, but lost on away goals in the quarter-finals of the league playoffs to Probiy. Nevertheless, the club still decided to become professional and successfully applied to participate in 2024–25 Ukrainian Second League. In their first professional season, the team achieved a very respectable result, finishing 4th in Group A, only two points behind 3rd place and narrowly missing the playoffs for promotion.
In the 2025–26 season, Kulykiv-Bilka secured promotion to the Ukrainian First League for the first time in their history, after finishing in first place in Group A of the Ukrainian Second League. They also won the 2025–26 Ukrainian Second League after beating the Group B winners FC Lokomotyv Kyiv 2-1 in the league final on May 31, 2026.
League history Ukraine {|class="wikitable" ! Season ! Div. ! Pos. ! Pl. ! W ! D ! L ! GS ! GA ! P !Domestic Cup !colspan=2|Europe !Notes |- |-bgcolor=PowderBlue | align="center" |2024–25 |align=center|3rd Group A(Second League) | align="center" |4/10 | align="center" |18 | align="center" |9 | align="center" |4 | align="center" |5 | align="center" |27 | align="center" |17 | align="center" |31 | align="center" |- | align="center" |- | align="center" |- | align="center" |- |-bgcolor=PowderBlue | align="center" |2025–26 | align=center|3rd Group A(Second League) | style="text-align:center; background:gold;"|1/11 | align="center" |30 | align="center" |21 | align="center" |5 | align="center" |4 | align="center" |58 | align="center" |18 | align="center" |68 | align="center" |Round of 64 (1/32) | align="center" |- | align="center" |- | style="text-align:center;" bgcolor=lightgreen|Promoted to Ukrainian First League Title play-off: FC Lokomotyv Kyiv 2:1 |- style="background:LightCyan;" | align="center" |2026–27 |align=center|2nd(First League) | align="center" |4/16 | align="center" |10 | align="center" |5 | align="center" |2 | align="center" |3 | align="center" |20 | align="center" |11 | align="center" |17 | align="center" |Round of 32 (1/16) | align="center" |- | align="center" |- | align="center" |TBD
Players Current squad https://pfl.ua/team/view/1568/36 – Professional Football League website
Staff and management Administration CoachingPresident – Myron Ostapchak Vice-President - Oleksandr Rolko Director - Volodymyr Dutkevych Sporting Director – Vasyl Kardash Executive Director – Mykhailo Savka Head of Football Development - Anthony Balseca Head Coach – Serhii Atlasiuk Coach – Oleksii Zorin Goalkeeping Coach – Andrii Zhezlo Fitness Coach - Vasyl Bilyi
Administration history President 2008–2019: Yurii Potareiko 2019–Present: Myron Ostapchak
Honours Ukrainian Second League Winner(s) (1): 2025–26 Lviv Oblast Championship Winner(s) (2): 2011, 2023 Lviv Oblast Cup Runner(s)-up (1): 2011 Lviv Oblast Super Cup Winner(s) (1): 2011
References
External links
FC Kulykiv-Bilka at PFL FC Kulykiv-Bilka at FFL Youtube channel