Vorskla

"Vorskla" - Ukrainian football club from the city of Poltava. Founded January 5, 1955, it made his debut in the Premier League in 1996, bronze medalist of 1997, winner of the Cup of Ukraine in 2009, a member of the UEFA Cup and Intertoto Cup. Also in 1956, "Vorskla" won the USSR Cup.

Since gaining independence, Ukraine began to conduct their own national championship. According to the end of 1991 "Vorskla" went to the first league, where it spent five seasons. "Vorskla" won first place and went into the elite, where it immediately won the "bronze" and participated in the prestigious European Cup tournament. During the season 1996/97 "Vorskla" in its field beat Kiev "Dynamo" with a score of 4: 3. No one else scored Kievans 4 goals in one match in the championship of Ukraine.

The last 12 seasons of "Vorskla" holds in the Premier League. Team  took the start of the European Cup campaigns three times over the year (2 times - in the UEFA Cup, 1 - in the Intertoto).

May 13, 2009, winning in the semifinals of the Cup of Ukraine Kharkov "Metalist", "Vorskla" for the first time in the history of Ukraine came in the Cup finals and won the right to represent Ukraine in the next draw of the Europa League season. May 31, 2009 "Vorskla" beat the Donetsk "Shakhtar" with a score of 1: 0 and became the fourth owner of the Cup of Ukraine. In "Vorskla" Europa League qualifying cycle he met with Lisbon "Benfica". In the first "Vorskla" I lost the match 4: 0, and the house won with a score of 2: 1. As a result of Ukraine's Cup 2010-2011 "Vorskla", taking the 6th place in the standings, won the right to participate in the Europa League 2011-2012, which passed three rounds of qualifying, won the right to play in the group stage of the Europa League. On the qualification stages were played with Northern Irish "Glentoran" Irish "Sligo", as well as one of the best clubs in Romania Bucharest "Dynamo".