FC Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi

FC Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «Епіцентр» Кам'янець-Подільський) is a professional Ukrainian football club from the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi. The club's name "Epitsentr" is after the Ukrainian brand of home improvement wholesale stores Epitsentr K. Beside association football, the Dunaivtsi club also fields its professional futsal team Verest.

The team is currently playing Ukrainian First League after being promoted in 2022. The same year the Epitsentr officially moved from Dunaivtsi to Kamianets-Podilskyi. The club was formed back in 1960 as Kolhospnyk Dunaivtsi, part of the Kolos sports society.

History

The team was founded in 1960 as a football team of the local Kolhospnyk sports society that represented republican level agrarian trade unions. Right before dissolution of the Soviet Union, the team was adopted the local textile factory, hence the name Tekstylnyk.

In 2019 the club gained a new sponsor of the Ukrainian national brand Epitsentr that owns a network of home improvement retail stores. Epitsentr retail stores started out by a family who is a Khmelnytskyi Oblast native. The coaching staff was headed by Badlo brothers who replaced another coaching team of Ihnatyev brothers which managed the club ever since the club competed under the INAPiK brand. The club's name INAPiK has derived from a local construction company INAP.

Epitsentr received professional status and debuted in the Ukrainian Second League in the 2020–21 season. Following the first season at professional level, the club finished among the leaders of its regional group placing 4th.

For the 2021–22 season, to the club was invited for Ukrainian international football Oleh Naduda who became the club's new head coach (manager). Due to the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022, the season's spring half was scratched. As the Russian military operation "Kyiv in 3 days" failed and the Russian troops were forced to retreat from north and northeastern portions of Ukraine, the football competition were partially reinstated. The club relocated from smaller Dunaivtsi to the more recognizable Kamianets, a historical center of Podillia. Naduda yielded its post to Serhiy Nahornyak who is also a former Ukrainian international footballer. For the new 2022–23 season, Epitsentr was promoted to the second tier Ukrainian First League representing a neighboring city of Kamianets.

Former names

1960–1991 Kolhospnyk Dunaivtsi
1991–1992 Tekstylnyk Dunaivtsi
1992–1993 Ternava Dunaivtsi
1993–2006 Nyva-Tekstylnyk (Kolos-Tekstylnyk)
2007–2008 INAPiK Dunaivtsi
2009–2013 Verest-INAPiK Dunaivtsi
2014–2018 Dunaivtsi
2019–2022 Epitsentr Dunaivtsi
2022– Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi

Current squad

As of 3 September 2024 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

League and cup history

Notes:

During its term in the First League (2nd tier) when the club was admitted to Promotion Group, its result with clubs of its first stage group were grandfathered and added.