FC Rava Rava-Ruska


Rava Rava-Ruska is a former football team based in Rava Ruska, Lviv Oblast in Ukraine near the border with Poland.

History

Rava-Ruska performed well in the amateurs in 2002, winning the Memorial Ernest Yusta Cup in 2003 and entered the professional league in 2003/04 in the Druha Liha. They immediately proved their intent finishing 3rd. The next season they captured the Druha Liha A championships but were not promoted due their facilities and financial standings being not at the level of acceptance by the PFL. The club played one more season in the professional leagues and then after the 2005/2006 season the club's administration elected to leave the PFL.
In 2007 there was created a new club Lokomotyv Rava-Ruska that competes in regional competitions of Lviv Oblast and also performed in some national amateur competitions reaching the semi-finals of the Amateur Cup in 2007. After 2009 the club ceased to exist again. In 2011 Karpaty Lviv opened its sports academy partially reviving a football life in a border town. It is named as the Children-Youth Sports School of Olympic Reserve of FC Karpaty Lviv.

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