2025–26 FC Karpaty Lviv season

Karpaty Lviv
2025–26 season
President	Stepan Yurchyshyn
Manager	Vladyslav Lupashko
Stadium	Ukraina Stadium, Lviv
Premier League	13th
Ukrainian Cup	Round of 64
Top goalscorer	League: Ihor Krasnopir (2); All: Ihor Krasnopir (2)
Highest home attendance	6,500 vs Shakhtar; 10 August 2025
Lowest home attendance	6,490 vs Polissya; 3 August 2025

The 2025–26 season is 29th season in the top Ukrainian football league for FC Karpaty Lviv overall and their second since reorganization in 2021. Karpaty will participate in Premier League and Ukrainian Cup.

Season events

On 24 June Karpaty gathered at club's base in Bartativ for the first pre-season training camp, which continued until 5 July.

On 7 July Karpaty departed for two-week training camp in Austria. Five friendly fixtures were planned, but match against Hertha Berlin on 18 July was cancelled due to excessive number of injuries in German team.^[1]

Players

Squad information

As of 14 August 2025

Squad no.	Name	Position	Date of birth (age)
Goalkeepers
1	Nazar Domchak	GK	(2007-04-06) 6 April 2007
30	Andriy Klishchuk	GK	(1992-07-03) 3 July 1992
80	Roman Mysak	GK	(1991-09-09) 9 September 1991
Defenders
3	Volodymyr Adamyuk	DF	(1991-07-17) 17 July 1991
4	Vladislav Baboglo	DF	(1998-11-14) 14 November 1998
5	Andriy Buleza	DF	(2004-01-25) 25 January 2004
6	Diego Palacios	DF	(1999-07-12) 12 July 1999
11	Denys Miroshnichenko	DF	(1994-10-11) 11 October 1994
28	Pavlo Polehenko	DF	(1995-01-06) 6 January 1995
39	Vitaliy Katrych	DF	(2005-02-17) 17 February 2005
47	Jean Pedroso	DF	(2004-01-28) 28 January 2004
55	Tymur Stetskov	DF	(1998-01-27) 27 January 1998
77	Oleksiy Sych	DF	(2001-04-01) 1 April 2001
Midfielders
7	Paulo Vitor	MF	(1999-06-24) 24 June 1999
8	Ambrosiy Chachua	MF	(1994-04-02) 2 April 1994
9	Fabiano	MF	(2006-04-15) 15 April 2006
14	Illya Kvasnytsya	MF	(2003-03-20) 20 March 2003
17	Oleh Fedor	MF	(2004-07-23) 23 July 2004
18	Vladyslav Klymenko	MF	(1994-06-19) 19 June 1994
19	Yaroslav Karabin	MF	(2002-11-19) 19 November 2002
21	Patricio Tanda	MF	(2002-04-05) 5 April 2002
23	Pablo Álvarez	MF	(1997-04-23) 23 April 1997
26	Yan Kostenko	MF	(2003-07-04) 4 July 2003
33	Artur Shakh	MF	(2005-05-11) 11 May 2005
37	Bruninho	MF	(2000-04-27) 27 April 2000
Forwards
10	Igor Neves	FW	(1999-03-13) 13 March 1999
95	Ihor Krasnopir	FW	(2002-12-01) 1 December 2002
Away on loan
35	Oleksandr Kemkin	GK	(2002-08-05) 5 August 2002
43	Stênio	MF	(2003-04-05) 5 April 2003
Players who left during the season

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Player	Age	Moving from	Type	Fee	Source
Summer
14 June 2025	DF	Jean Pedroso	21	Coritiba	Transfer	€900,000	^[2]^[3]
18 June 2025	MF	Bruninho	25	Atlético Mineiro	Transfer	€800,000	^[4]
30 June 2025	FW	Vadym Sydun	20	Nyva Ternopil	End of loan
1 July 2025	GK	Andriy Klishchuk	32	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Transfer	Free	^[5]
1 July 2025	MF	Yaroslav Karabin	22	Rukh Lviv	Transfer	€600,000	^[6]
23 July 2025	GK	Roman Mysak	33	Kolos Kovalivka	Transfer	Free	^[7]
24 July 2025	MF	Paulo Vitor	26	Portimonense	Loan		^[8]
14 August 2025	DF	Diego Palacios	26	Corinthians	Loan		^[9]
Winter

Out

Date	Pos.	Player	Age	Moving to	Type	Fee	Source
Summer
21 June 2025	DF	Taras Sakiv	27	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Transfer	Free	^[10]
30 June 2025	MF	Oleh Ocheretko	22	Shakhtar Donetsk	End of loan		^[11]
30 June 2025	MF	Orest Kuzyk	30	Released
30 June 2025	GK	Oleksandr Ilyushchenkov	35	Released
1 July 2025	MF	Yevhen Pidlepenets	26	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Transfer	Free	^[12]
5 July 2025	GK	Oleksandr Kemkin	22	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Loan		^[13]
7 July 2025	FW	Vadym Sydun	20	Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi	Transfer	Free	^[14]
15 July 2025	MF	Maksym Chekh	26	Obolon Kyiv	Transfer	Free	^[15]^[16]
21 July 2025	GK	Yakiv Kinareykin	21	Villarreal B	Transfer	€700,000	^[17]
28 July 2025	DF	Bohdan Veklyak	25	FC Kudrivka	Transfer	Free	^[18]
Winter

Pre-season and friendlies

1 July 2025 Friendly	Karpaty Lviv	1–0	FC Kulykiv-Bilka	Bartativ
11:30 EEST (UTC+03:00)	Bruninho 51'	Report		Stadium: FC Karpaty Training Center

5 July 2025 Friendly	Karpaty Lviv	2–3	Ahrobiznes Volochysk	Bartativ
15:00 EEST (UTC+03:00)	Neves 20' Kostenko 52'	Report	Tolochko 28' Voytikhovskyi 43' Len 78' (pen.)	Stadium: FC Karpaty Training Center

13 July 2025 Friendly	Wolfsberger AC	3–3	Karpaty Lviv	Maria Alm, Austria
17:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Emeka 39' Pink 42', 56' (pen.)	Report	Krasnopir 18' (pen.) Bruninho 47' (pen.) Shakh 86'	Stadium: Rudi Hasenauer Sportplatz

17 July 2025 Friendly	Karpaty Lviv	1–2	Győri ETO	Söchau, Austria
17:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bruninho 10'	Report	Bumba 15' Vitális 86'	Stadium: Kräuterdorfstadion

21 July 2025 Friendly	Karpaty Lviv	1–1	Sharjah FC	Söchau, Austria
17:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Krasnopir 88'	Report	Luanzinho 64'	Stadium: Kräuterdorfstadion

25 July 2025 Friendly	Karpaty Lviv	1–2	Leicester City	Friedberg, Austria
11:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Karabin 48'	Report	Daka 50' (pen.), 73'	Stadium: Sportzentrum Friedberg Referee: Lena Hirtl

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Record
Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Premier League	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	000.00
Cup	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Total	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	000.00

Last updated: 16 August 2025
Source: Competitions

Premier League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
11	Poltava	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3^[a]
12	Rukh Lviv	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4	3^[a]
13	Karpaty Lviv	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	2	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
14	Veres Rivne	3	0	0	3	0	4	−4	0	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
15	Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0	Relegation to Ukrainian First League

Updated to match(es) played on 18 August 2025. Source: upl.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw or "Golden match" if two teams tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).^[19]
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Ranked on head-to-head points (goal difference): Rukh Lviv 3 (+1), Kudrivka 0 (0), Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 0 (0), Polissya Zhytomyr 0 (0), SC Poltava 0 (-1).

Teams that placed 13th and 14th in the 2025–26 Ukrainian Premier League play two-leg play-off with the third and fourth teams of the 2025–26 Ukrainian First League.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
TBD	x–x	TBD
TBD	x–x	TBD

First Semi-final

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Second Semi-final

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Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	2	0	1	1	3	5	−2	0	1	0	1	1	0

Last updated: 16 August 2025.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4
Ground	H	H	A	A
Result	L	D	D
Position	16	12	13

Updated to match(es) played on 16 August 2025. Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

3 August 2025 (2025-08-03) 1	Karpaty Lviv	0–2	Polissya Zhytomyr	Lviv
18:00 EEST (UTC+03:00)	Álvarez 68' Bruninho 78' Baboglo 87'	Report	Lyednyev 13' Hayduchyk 29' Nazarenko 38' (pen.) Talles 68' Filippov 89'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 6,490 Referee: Dmytro Panchyshyn

10 August 2025 (2025-08-10) 2	Karpaty Lviv	3–3	Shakhtar Donetsk	Lviv
18:00 EEST (UTC+03:00)	Neves 18' Krasnopir 64', 90+1' Bruninho 77' Miroshnichenko 90+8'	Report	Newerton 9' Elias 23' Azarovi 28' Konoplya 45' Alisson 82'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Mykola Balakin

16 August 2025 (2025-08-16) 3	Kolos Kovalivka	1–1	Karpaty Lviv	Kovalivka
15:30 EEST (UTC+03:00)	Klymchuk 20' Rrapaj 35' Alefirenko 55'	Report	Chachua 43' Krasnopir 67' Álvarez 77' Miroshnichenko 81' Pedroso 81' Baboglo 87'	Stadium: Kolos Stadium Attendance: 1,287 Referee: Oleh Kohut

29 August 2025 (2025-08-29) 4	FC Kudrivka	–	Karpaty Lviv	Kyiv
18:00 EEST (UTC+03:00)				Stadium: Obolon Arena

13 September 2025 (2025-09-13) 5	Karpaty Lviv	–	SC Poltava	Lviv
EEST (UTC+03:00)				Stadium: Ukraina Stadium

Ukrainian Cup

23 August 2025 (2025-08-23) Round of 64	Penuel Kryvyi Rih	–	Karpaty Lviv	Volodymyrivka, Oleksandriia Raion
EEST (UTC+03:00)				Stadium: Oleksandr Povorozniuk Stadium

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	UKR	Nazar Domchak	2	0	2	0	0	0
30	GK	UKR	Andriy Klishchuk	1	0	1	0	0	0
Defenders
4	DF	MDA	Vladislav Baboglo	3	0	3	0	0	0
11	DF	UKR	Denys Miroshnichenko	3	0	3	0	0	0
28	DF	UKR	Pavlo Polehenko	3	0	3	0	0	0
47	DF	BRA	Jean Pedroso	3	0	3	0	0	0
Midfielders
7	MF	BRA	Paulo Vitor	3	0	1+2	0	0	0
8	MF	UKR	Ambrosiy Chachua	3	0	3	0	0	0
14	MF	UKR	Illya Kvasnytsya	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
17	MF	UKR	Oleh Fedor	2	0	0+2	0	0	0
18	MF	UKR	Vladyslav Klymenko	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
19	MF	UKR	Yaroslav Karabin	3	0	1+2	0	0	0
21	MF	ARG	Patricio Tanda	2	0	1+1	0	0	0
23	MF	ESP	Pablo Álvarez	3	0	3	0	0	0
26	MF	UKR	Yan Kostenko	3	0	3	0	0	0
33	MF	UKR	Artur Shakh	3	0	2+1	0	0	0
37	MF	BRA	Bruninho	2	1	1+1	1	0	0
Forwards
10	FW	BRA	Igor Neves	3	1	2+1	1	0	0
95	FW	UKR	Ihor Krasnopir	3	2	1+2	2	0	0

Source: Competitions

Last updated: 16 August 2025

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Name	Premier League	Total
1	95	FW	Ihor Krasnopir	2	2
2	10	FW	Igor Neves	1	1
	37	MF	Bruninho	1	1
			Total	4	4

Last updated: 16 August 2025

Clean sheets

Disciplinary record

No.	Pos	Nat	Player
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Premier League			Cup			Total
4	DF		Vladislav Baboglo	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
8	MF		Ambrosiy Chachua	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
11	DF		Denys Miroshnichenko	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
23	MF		Pablo Álvarez	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
37	MF		Bruninho	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
47	DF		Jean Pedroso	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
95	FW		Ihor Krasnopir	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
			Total	10	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0

Last updated: 16 August 2025

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Official website

[table_hth_RUX0.22936738851916-19] Ranked on head-to-head points (goal difference): Rukh Lviv 3 (+1), Kudrivka 0 (0), Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 0 (0), Polissya Zhytomyr 0 (0), SC Poltava 0 (-1).

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