The 2024–25 season was Kremin's 22nd year in existence since clubs revival in 2003 and 6th consecutive season in the second flight of Ukrainian football. The club was relegated in the previous season, however they were brought back into the league due to other clubs withdrawing. In addition to the domestic league, Kremin participated in this season's editions of the Ukrainian Cup. The season covers the period from 20 June 2024 to 1 July 2025.
Season summary Pre-season Having finished eighteenth in the Ukrainian First League the previous season, Kremin was relegated to Second League. With relegation the second team Kremin-2 ceased to exist. A number of players left the club: Orest Panchyshyn, Davronbek Azizov, Danylo Sydorenko, Artem Tovkach, Andrii Savitskyi, Andrii Hloba, Simon Galoyan. Loaned players Arsenii Korkodym and Artem Umanets returned to their parent clubs. On 13 June Kremin was assigned to group B of the Ukrainian Second League. The opening matches are planned for 5 August. Kremin announced that preseason training would begin on 20 June on Kremin Arena. Players began individual training on 10 June. Preseason is split into three stages. From 10 to 18, 20–30 June, the last stage is from 1–19 July. On 19 June defender Yurii Dudnyk moved to Bukovyna Chernivtsi after two years with the club. Goalkeeping coach Yuriy Chumak left Kremin to work at newly promoted, Ukrainian Premier League club Inhulets Petrove. On 20 June the team had its first preseason training at the Kremin–Arena. Twenty players from the team and recently dissolved Kremin-2 took part in training. Oleksii Zhdanovych and injured Yakiv Barinov were missing in training. Club announced that seven players and two coaches left the club. They included Korkodym, Azizov, Sydorenko, Dudnyk, Panchyshyn, Hloba and Umanets, coaches Chumak and Ruslan Umanets. Same day Nyva Ternopil announced Umanets as an assistant coach. Umantes was an assistant in nineteen matches while Chumak was in ten matches.
On 30 June Kremin won their first match of pre-season against Hirnyk-Sport 2–1, thanks to first-half goals from Kuts who converted a 3 penalty on third minute, Rokotyanskyi doubled the lead on fortieth minute. Three minutes after the start of second half Richmond pulled one back for Hirnyk-Sport. Five days later they won their second against Metalurh Zaporizhzhia. Molko won the game for Kremin with the lone goal in sixty-second minute.
October On 3 October Kremin was scheduled to host Metalurh Zaporizhzhia in Mashynobudivnyk Stadium in Karlivka. Due to extended air raid alert in Poltava Oblast the math never started. This was the second time during the season that a match was postponed due to air raid.
December In mid December, the club decided to disband the team and make all their player free-agents. Nine to eleven players had offers from other clubs. They planned to finish the spring part of the season with younger players from the academy and any released players who would not find new clubs. The coaching staff was all retained.
February On February 20, the club returned back to training after the winter break. Twenty-six players were present at first training secession, including thirteen returning players. The club took part in winter cup. Friendly matches were planned against Budivelnyk, Hirnyk-Sport, MFC Kremin-2008, Ahrotekh Tyshkivka, Trostianets and Oleksandriia-2. Five players left the club by mutual consent. Oleksandr Dykhtiaruk joined Inhulets Petrove, Ivan Palamarchuk joined Nyva Ternopil. Stanislav Oksenenko and Ivan Zaichenko both joined LNZ Cherkasy while Myroslav Trofymiuk joined Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk.
May With two matches remaining, Kremin had to travel to Uzhhorod to play Mynai on 17 May. The club announced that due to lack of finances they will not make that trip. The league marked the match as Kremin failure to appear. Kremin sits in last place with six point behind the team in relegation play-off spot. Kremin director Andrii Fil announced that the club has no plans to withdraw from competition and plans to play its last home game against Podillia Khmelnytskyi. This was the first time in forty years that Kremin failed to travel to an away team. During the 1991 season they did not travel to Azerbaijan to face Karabakh Agdam and Dinamo Gandzha due to multiple clubs refusing to travel when First Nagorno-Karabakh War began. On May 27 after his contract expired Ihor Klymovskyi left Kremin.
June As a result of winning only three matches, the club was relegated to the Second League. In mid June the club announced that they would not take part in the upcoming 2025–26 season. The club did not end the membership in Professional Football League of Ukraine.
Management team Ihor Klymovskyi remained as a manager for the new season.
Position Name Year appointed Last club/team References Manager Ihor Klymovskyi2023DYuSSh Zmina Bila Tserkva Assistant Coach Yaroslav Zdyrko2024Kremin-2 Goalkeeping Coach Yuriy Chumak2024
Pre-season and friendlies On 14 June three friendly matches against Hirnyk-Sport, SC Poltava and Oleksandriia-2 were announced. On 20 June Kremin released amended schedule with more opponents. SC Poltava was replaced by Metalurh Zaporizhzhia. Premier league club Vorskla and its newly recreated second team Vorskla-2 were added.
Results list Kremin's goal tally first. DateOpponentVenueResultKremin scorersReferee30 June 2024 – 12:00Hirnyk-SportAway2–1Kuts 3' (pen.), Rokotyanskyi 40'5 July 2024 – 12:00Metalurh ZaporizhzhiaAway1–0Molko 62'Mykyta Bohatyr13 July 2024 – 11:00Oleksandriia-2Away1–2Unnamed Trial Player 73'15 July 2024 – 12:10Inhulets PetroveAway0–0Yehor Kievlich24 July 2024 – 10:00FC BudivelnykHome1–0Kuts 87' (pen.)Pavlo Plieshko26 July 2024 – 11:30Metalurh ZaporizhzhiaAway1–0Palamarchuk 17'Mykyta Bohatyr20 October 2024 – 16:00FC BudivelnykHome8–0Kuts 5' (pen.), 31', Palamarchuk 17', Sabiiev 64', Rokotianskyi 68', Stetsiuk 71', Klepko 76', Dykhtiaruk 86'25 February 2025 – 19:30FC BudivelnykHome3–0Rokotianskyi ?', Unnamed Trial Player ?', Unnamed Trial Player ?'2 March 2025 – 10:00Hirnyk-SportHome0–07 March 2025 – 14:00TrostianetsHome1–1Rokotianskyi 45'9 March 2025 – 12:30Ahrotekh TyshkivkaHome1–3Maksymenko 56'15 March 2025 – 12:00Oleksandriia-2Away0–118 March 2025 – 12:00Penuel Kryvyi RihHome4–2Molko 17', Pokas 48', 50', Prokopchuk 46'22 March 2025 – 12:00Oleksandriia-2Away0–026 April 2025 – 12:00RokytaAway1–1Maksymenko 12'
Competitions Overall record Start date of the league season was moved up one day to 4 August and Preliminary rounds of the Cup moved up two days to 28 July.
First League
Results summary
League table Kremin played first sixteen matches in Group B. After finishing last in the group, they played second part of the season in relegation group. Group B table
Relegation Group table
Matches Group B
The league fixtures were announced on 31 July 2024.
Results list Kremin's goal tally first. DateOpponentVenueResultKremin scorersRefereeAttendance9 August 2024 – 14:00Metalurh ZaporizhzhiaAway0–1Anatolii Ukhov07th17 August 2024 – 13:00Metalist 1925 KharkivHome1–1Zlatiev 65'Yehor Kievlich07th7 September 2024 – 13:00KudrivkaAway1–2Trofymiuk 18'Serhii Podryhulia09th11 September 2024 – 12:30UCSA TarasivkaAway0–5Yaroslav Leskiv799th16 September 2024 – 14:30PoltavaAway2–4Molko 60', Dykhtiaruk 74'Veronika Vasylchenko09th20 September 2024 – 14:00Dinaz VyshhorodAway1–0Trofymiuk 7'Serhii Truba08th27 September 2024 – 14:00MariupolAway0–3 Anatolii Ukhov09th9 October 2024 – 15:00Metalist 1925 KharkivAway0–4Liudmyla Telbukh2899th14 October 2024 – 13:00Viktoriia SumyHome0–3Veronika Vasylchenko09th25 October 2024 – 13:00KudrivkaHome0–3Maksym Skrypnyk09th30 October 2024 – 12:00Metalurh ZaporizhzhiaHome0–1Yehor Kievlich09th4 November 2024 – 12:30UCSA TarasivkaHome0–1Mykyta Bohatyr09th8 November 2024 – 12:00PoltavaHome0–0Oleksandr Tytov09th13 November 2024 – 12:00Viktoriya SumyAway1–1Trofymiuk 18'Kristina Kozoroh09th17 November 2024 – 12:00Dinaz VyshhorodHome0–3Anatolii Ukhov09th27 November 2024 – 12:00MariupolHome3–0 Liudmyla Telbukh9th
Relegation Group
The league fixtures for relegation group were announced on 5 December 2024.
Results list Kremin's goal tally first. DateOpponentVenueResultKremin scorersRefereeAttendance31 March 2025 – 12:00Nyva TernopilHome1–2Sydorenko 54'Yehor Kievlich017th6 April 2025 – 12:30Prykarpattia Ivano-FrankivskAway1–2Molko 57'Ihor Sadkovskyi15017th13 April 2025 – 11:00MynaiHome1–0Zhdanovych 36'Veronika Vasylchenko017th19 April 2025 – 12:30Podillia KhmelnytskyiAway1–1Koloskov 37'Vadym Zaprutniak17th3 May 2025 – 16:00Nyva TernopilAway1–3Savitskyi 10'Liudmyla Telbukh 28017th11 May 2025 – 12:00Prykarpattia Ivano-FrankivskHome0–0 Anatolii Ukhov017th17 May 2025MynaiAway0–3Yaroslav Leskiv17th23 May 2025 – 12:00Podillia KhmelnytskyiHome0–2Liudmyla Telbukh17th
Ukrainian Cup
Kremin entered the First preliminary round and was drawn against Olympia Savyntsi. Match was scheduled to be played on 3 August.
DateOpponentVenueResultKremin scorersReferee4 August 2024 – 13:00Olympia SavyntsiAway0–2Yevhenii Makarenko
Statistics Appearances and goals
The plus (+) symbol denotes an appearance as a substitute, hence 2+1 indicates two appearances in the starting XI and one appearance as a substitute. Players with zero appearances were unused substitutes named in at least one matchday squad.
! colspan=10 style=background:#dcdcdc| Players have left the club
Transfers In Date Pos. Name From Fee 2 August 2024 MF Andrii Koloskov Unattached Undisclosed DF Andrii Borovskyi 8 August 2024 MF Viktor Bilokon MF Dmytro Prokopchuk 6 September 2024 MF Valentyn Maksymenko 26 September 2024 DF Illia Rudniev
Out Date Pos. Name To Fee 12 June 2024 MF Andrii Hloba Unattached Released DF Davronbek Azizov DF Danylo Sydorenko MF Orest Panchyshyn GK Arsenii Korkodym Veres Rivne Loan End MF Artem Umanets Vorskla Poltava June 2024 DF Artem Tovkach Unattached Released MF Andrii Savitskyi MF Simon Galoyan 19 June 2024 DF Yurii Dudnyk Bukovyna Chernivtsi Undisclosed 19 July 2024 DF Yevhenii Kostiuk Unattached Mutual contract termination 19 July 2024 MF Michael Obamina Unattached Mutual contract termination July 2024 DF Nazar Hontar FC Budivelnyk Undisclosed July 2024 MF Vadym Kurylo Unattached Undisclosed July 2024 DF Denys Kuriakov Unattached Undisclosed July 2024 MF Kostiantyn Pihariev FC Budivelnyk Undisclosed July 2024 MF Volodymyr Bezklynskyi Unattached Undisclosed
Loan in Date from Date to Pos. Name From 6 September 2024 31 December 2024 MF Orest Panchyshyn Bukovyna Chernivtsi
References