Matchday. "Metalist 1925" - "Ruh"
August 30, 2025. Zhytomyr, "Central City Stadium". 4th round of the Ukrainian Premier League. The match starts at 18:00
Referee - Dmytro Kubriak (Odesa)
Assistant referees - Denys Serdiuk (Poltava) and Taras Klymenko (Khmelnytskyi region)
Fourth official - Oleh Kohut (Ternopil)
VAR referee - Oleh Derevinskyi (Khmelnytskyi)
VAR assistant - Viktor Matyash (Donetsk)
VAR observer - Yuriy Moseychuk (Chernivtsi)
UAF arbitration observer - Yevhen Aranovskyi (Khmelnytskyi)
Live broadcast of the match on the TV channel UPL.TV
Preview: In the fourth round of the UPL, "Metalist 1925" will face "Ruh" - a club with which they have a long history of encounters. Today will be their 11th match. "Metalist 1925" has already played over twenty matches against "Obolon", but two of them were in this season.
After three rounds of the Premier League, "Metalist 1925" is in 8th place with 4 points. "Ruh" has one point less and is in 12th place, just above the relegation zone. The team from Kharkiv finally secured their first win of the season in the last round, defeating last year's silver medalist, "Oleksandriya", away with a significant scoreline. Then there was a break for the Cup, where "Metalist 1925" defeated "Obolon" 2-0, a team they couldn't beat in the first round of the UPL.
"Ruh" earned their only points in the championship in the opening round by beating newcomers "Poltava", but in the following matches, they lost to the teams from the capital: "Dynamo" and "Obolon". However, "Ruh" managed to get back on the winning track in the Ukrainian Cup, securing a hard-fought victory against amateur team "Kormila".
Looking back at the history of matches between the two teams - half of them ended in a draw. "Metalist 1925" won twice and "Ruh" won three times. The only victory of the Kharkiv team over "Ruh" in the UPL was historic, as it was the debut match of "Metalist 1925" in the elite league, played in front of their fans. "Ruh" could only respond to goals from Krys'kiv and Batiushyn with a goal from Kuzik.
Interestingly, the Lviv team was then led by their current head coach - Ivan Fedik.
Since then, since the summer of 2021, "Metalist 1925" has not been able to beat "Ruh" - it's already 5 matches in a row. Perhaps it's time to get back on the winning track?
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Ukrainian Premier League. Round 4
August 29
"Poltava" - "Zorya" - 1:4
"Kudrivka" - "Karpaty" - 2:2
August 30
13:00 "Kryvbas" - "Obolon"
15:30 "Karpaty" - "Epicenter"
18:00 "Metalist 1925" - "Ruh"
August 31
13.00 "LNZ" - "Veres"
15.30 "Dynamo" - "Polissya"
18.00 "Shakhtar" - "Oleksandriya"
Ruh" (Lviv). Profile
Established - 2003
Club colors - black and yellow
Home stadium - "Arena Lviv" (capacity: 34,915 spectators)
President - Yulia Dumanska
Head coach - Ivan Fedik
Official website - fcrukh.com
Historical background:
History: FC "Ruh" was founded in 2003 in Vynnyky, where initially a youth football school operated. In 2010, the team made its debut in the Lviv region championship, and with the arrival of president Hryhoriy Kozlovskyi, began to rise in the football hierarchy of Ukraine. In 2016, the club obtained professional status and immediately won the silver medals of the Second League.After three seasons in the First League, "Ruh" earned the right to compete in the UPL by winning silver in the 2019/2020 season. In subsequent seasons, the team established itself in the elite division, holding positions in the middle of the standings.
Achievements: Champion of the Premier League of Lviv region - 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015
Silver medalist of the Ukrainian Amateur Championship - 2013 and 2015
Winner of the Ukrainian Amateur Championship - 2014
Silver medalist of the Second League of the PFL - 2016/2017
Silver medalist of the First League of the PFL - 2019/2020
Geography: "Ruh" is a club representing the city of Lviv with roots in Vynnyky nearby. The team gradually gains the support of fans not only in Galicia but throughout Ukraine, maintaining its own unique atmosphere and focusing on young footballers.
Head coach: "Ruh" is led by 38-year-old specialist Ivan Fedik. A native of Lviv, he did not have a professional football career but worked in the youth academy from a young age, where he was invited by the then coach of Lviv's "Karpaty," Oleg Kononov. Later, Fedik was an assistant to Kononov at "Sevastopol" and Russian "Krasnodar," and was also part of the coaching staff under Leonid Kuchuk at "Stal," "Rostov," and "Rus" itself. In June 2020, after Yuri Bakalov's resignation, he was appointed head coach of the Lviv club. He left the position in 2021, but this year he was reappointed as the head coach of "Ruh."
Transfermarkt: According to estimates from a well-known portal, the current squad of "Ruh" is valued at 9 million euros, which is almost 7 million less than the estimated value of the squad of "Metalist 1925." The team includes six foreign players, two of whom are Brazilians, as well as representatives from Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Gambia, and Uganda. The representative from Uganda, Ibrahim Juma, is a player of their national team. Several players are members of youth and junior national teams. According to "Transfermarkt" estimates, the most valuable player of "Ruh" is central defender Vitaliy Kholod, valued at 900 thousand euros. Left-back Vitaliy Romana is valued at 800 thousand euros, and several other players have an estimated transfer value of 700 thousand euros.
