FC Skala Stryi (1911)

Starting from around 1910 there started to appear number of football teams in the city of Stryi: Pogon (Polish), Hakoah (Jewish), Sich (Ukrainian). Sich that was created in 1911 was the predecessor of Skala. The president of Sich became well known Ukrainian composer Ostap Nyzhankivsky. Due to the fact that name Sich can be very politically offensive towards Polish nationals, the name was changed to Skala in 1912 as USC Skala. As a word Skala is an obsolete form of another word Skelia and it is also used in the Russian language. However soon after 1912 the club disappeared. Some players joined the SSC Pogon Stryj, others discontinued to play football. During the World War I there was no sport life in Stryi. During the Ukrainian-Polish War, Poles killed Ostap Nyzhankivsky in 1919.

In 1922 the football team Skala Stryi was revived as a section of the Gymnastic Association Sokil. Sokil was a member of the Ukrainian Sports Union which however refused to cooperate with the Polish authorities therefore the Ukrainian teams were banned from the Polish competitions. In 1925 Skala Stryi became an independent organization and a member of the Ukrainian Sports Union. Starting from 1928 the Ukrainian football clubs started to join the Lviv District Football Union. The first team that joined the union was the Sports Association Ukraine. In 1931 Skala also followed that example. In 1933 however the club left the Lviv District Football Union and returned to the Ukrainian Sports Union. In 1936 Skala once again joined the Polish Football Federation. There was created the new Stanislawow District Football Union and all clubs from Stryi were initially transferred to it. However due to difficult transportation communications with the rest of the Stanislawow Voivodeship, the city clubs petitioned to stay with the Lviv District Football Union.

The football club Skala was revived in 1989 with some support from public and the Stryi city sports committee headed by Vasyl Kokhanchyk as well as part of the drive for the Ukrainian national revival (so called "National Revival Wave").[1] The first president became Volodymyr Buriy who was assisted by Mykola Zelinsky (associated with FC Medyk Morshyn).[2] In the beginning the newly created club entered its team into the Lviv Oblast Second League (2nd tier).[1]

In 1991, FC Karpaty Kamianka-Buzka moved to Stryi before the independent championship started in Ukraine and changed its name to FC Skala Stryi. That club had participated in the Ukrainian championship since 1992 starting in the Persha Liha Group A. They continued to compete at that level until the end of the 1996/97 season when the club dissolved.

Later in 2001 the city of Stryi received a new team that relocated from Komarno, FC Hazovyk Komarno. The club was reorganized once again when its main football team relocated to Stryi.[3] It was renamed as Hazovyk-Khurtovyna adding a name of the former Ukrainian club that existed in Komarno prior to the Soviet invasion of Halychyna in 1939. In 2004 this team under the name of FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi won the Druha Liha Group A championship and was promoted to the Ukrainian First League. Then the team became financially distressed after the 2005/06 season and was bought by the Ukrainian insurance company "Kniazha". They moved again and now to Lviv changing its name to FC Lviv.

Soviet Union as Karpaty Kamyanka-Buzka

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1991	4th "I"	16	50	15	15	20	48	55	45				Renamed in Skala Relocated to Stryi

Ukraine

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	2nd "B"	6	26	11	9	6	39	24	31	1/8 finals
1992–93	2nd	11	42	15	11	16	49	58	41	1/64 finals
1993–94	2nd	16	38	11	17	20	36	48	29	1/16 finals
1994–95	2nd	19	42	12	9	21	31	65	45	1/64 finals
1995–96	2nd	22	42	2	3	37	21	108	9	1/64 finals			Relegated Skala dissolved

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
-2001	Refer to FC Hazovyk Komarno
2001–02	3rd "A"	10	36	12	11	13	31	38	47	2nd Round			as Hazovyk-Skala Stryi
2002–03	3rd "A"	9	28	8	9	11	15	23	33	1/32 finals
2003–04	3rd "A"	1	30	18	11	1	46	15	65	1/16 finals			Promoted
2004–05	2nd	12	34	12	7	15	34	39	43	1/32 finals
2005–06	2nd	6	34	14	10	10	35	33	52	1/8 finals			Club moved to Lviv Renamed FC Lviv
2006–	Refer to FC Lviv