Tavriya Simferopol

Tavriya Simferopol
	Tavriya Simferopol
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Basic data
Surname	SK Tavrija Simferopol
Seat	Simferopol
founding	1958
resolution	2014
president	Serhiy Kunitsyn
Website	tavriya.com.ua
First soccer team
Head coach	Nikolai Kostov
Venue	RSC Lokomotiv Stadium
Places	20,000
league	Premjer-Liha
2013/14	15th place
home	Away

The SK SC Tavriya Simferopol ( Ukrainian СК "Таврія" Сімферополь , Russian СК «Таврия» Симферополь ; "Tawrija" means Tauris ) was a Ukrainian football club from Simferopol on the peninsula of Crimea . Tavriya Simferopol was one of the four teams, alongside Dynamo Kiev , Shakhtar Donetsk and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk , which never left the Premjer-Lihahave descended. Today there are two clubs that see themselves in the club's successor: a Russian club that continues to play in Simferopol and a Ukrainian club that currently plays in Kherson .

history

Tawrija Simferopol was founded in 1958 as Awangard Simferopol . In 1963 the association was renamed to its current name. In 1973 Tawrija was one of the climbers from the third class Wtoraja League in the Pervaya League , which could be won in the 1980 season. Thus, the club took part in the 1981 season in the hosting of the Wysschaja Liga , the highest Soviet league, but occupied the penultimate place in the table and took the immediate path to renewed second division. The team from the Crimea remained there until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the associated independence of Ukraine. In 1992 the association was one of the founding members of the newly created Ukrainian Wyschtscha Liha . The team was able to secure the championship in the very first edition when the Ukrainian flagship club Dynamo Kiev was defeated 1-0 in the play-off, which took place in Lviv on neutral ground . Tawrija was never able to build on this performance and has not managed to climb above fifth place in the table since then. The first national cup win was celebrated in 2010 when Metalurh Donetsk was defeated 3-2 after extra time in the Metalist Stadium in the final. In addition, Tawrija was in the final of the Ukrainian Soccer Cup in 1994 and in the semifinals in 1995 and 2007.

Following the referendum on the status of Crimea , Tavrija asked UEFA and FIFA for permission to join the Russian league the following season . Thereupon the association disbanded and applied for a Russian license as the newly founded association Ski Simferopol. At the end of July 2014, the Football Association of the Russian Federation announced that Skif Simferopol would play in the Russian 2nd division in the 2014/15 season . As a result, UEFA banned all football clubs based in the Crimea from all Russian and international competitions. A separate league is to be created here, legally independent of the Russian and Ukrainian football associations. The decision was accepted by Russia, which founded the Crimean football league in 2014. For Tawrija Simferopol this meant the end of the previous professional gaming operations.

Successor clubs

In the meantime there are in fact two clubs that see themselves as successors to Tawrija:

The newly founded Russian club TSK-Tawrija Simferopol has played in the Crimean First Football League since 2014. TSK-Tawrija sees itself as the successor of the previous Tawrija Simferopol, uses an almost identical logo, plays in the same stadium ( RSC Lokomotiv ) and also took over large parts of the fan scene. Several players from the "old" Tawrija, such as Anton Monachow or Rollan Pogorelzew , took on Russian citizenship and competed for the new club.

In the summer of 2015, the Football Association of Ukraine announced that it would re-establish Tavrija Simferopol as a Ukrainian club. The club is based in Beryslav in Kherson Oblast , plays its home games in Kherson and uses the same logo as the original club. For the 2017/18 season, the Ukrainian Tawrija Simferopol competed in the third Ukrainian league .

European Cup balance sheet

In the 1992/93 season Simferopol took part in the UEFA Champions League . In the preliminary round, the team prevailed against Shelbourne FC , but then failed in the first round at FC Sion . 2001 and 2008 Simferopol took part in the UEFA Intertoto Cup , but dropped out in the third round. By winning the Ukrainian Cup, the team qualified for the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League play-off round , in which they were eliminated by Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1992/93	UEFA Champions League	Preliminary round	Ireland Shelbourne FC	2: 1	0: 0 (A)	2: 1 (H)
1992/93	UEFA Champions League	1 round	Switzerland FC Sion	2: 7	1: 4 (A)	1: 3 (H)
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2nd round	Bulgaria Spartak Varna	5: 2	03-0 (A) ¹	2: 2 (H)
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd round	France France	0: 5	0: 1 (H)	0: 4 (A)
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2nd round	Moldova Republic FC Tiraspol	3: 1	0: 0 (A)	3: 1 (H)
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd round	France Rennes stadium	1: 1 (9:10 i. E. )	0: 1 (A)	1: 0 a.d. (H)
2010/11	UEFA Europa League	Play-offs	Germany Bayer 04 Leverkusen	1: 6	0: 3 (A)	1: 3 (H)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 14 games, 4 wins, 3 draws, 7 defeats, 14:23 goals (goal difference −9)

¹The first leg ended 2-0 for Spartak Varna. The game was rated 0: 3 for Tawrija Simferopol because Spartak Varna used an unauthorized player.

Contacts with organized crime

According to the local police, the football club was closely linked to organized crime . It was the Baschmaki gang (German: "Shoes"), which is believed to be involved in 50 murders and kidnappings. In 2007, the former president of the association, Viktor Karasev, was sentenced to seven years in prison for arson and use of illegal weapons.