Full name FC Real Pharma Odesa Chairman Mykola Likhovydov Location Odessa, Ukraine Founded 2000 | Ground
capacity 4,800 2015–16 7th League Ukrainian Second League | |
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FC Real Pharma Odesa is a professional Ukrainian football club from the city of Odesa. The "Pharma" portion of the name comes from pharmecuetical influences that are associated with the club's ownership as evident on the logo which is in English rather than Ukrainian.
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The team is currently playing Ukrainian Second League after competing in the Ukrainian Amateur championship. The club was formed in 2000.
History
The team was founded in 2000. Initially the team was named in 2000 as "Limed Pokrovskoe". For the next season it was renamed "Real Pokrovskoe-Lily" (2001–2002) and then shortened just to "Real Pokrovskoe" in 2003. The team was renamed to Real-Pharm in 2005. In March 2011 the team was representing Odesa in the Ukrainian Amateur championship. Later that month the team registered as a professional football club "Real Pharm" from the city of Yuzhne.
The club were champions of Odesa in 2006.
"Real Pharm" debut in the Ukrainian Second League in the 2011–12 season.
In 2013 the club moved their operations from Yuzhne to Ovidiopol and prior to the 2013–14 Ukrainian Second League season renamed the team to Real Pharma Ovidiopol.
The club moved their operations to Odesa prior to the start of the 2015–16 season.