Names • 1992: FC Zmina • 1993: FC Zmina-Obolon (after a Kyiv neighborhood
Obolon) • 1995: FC Obolon • 1997: FC Obolon-PPO • 1999: FC Obolon JSC (brewery became officially the club's sponsor) • 2001: FC Obolon (after its sponsor Obolon Brewery) • 2013: FC Obolon-Brovar (forced to reorganized and renamed) • 2020: FC Obolon
Obolon (original) The football club was created in 1992 by a collective of enthusiasts based on the specialized sports school of Olympic Reserve
Zmina in
Kyiv. The team changed its name to
Zmina-Obolon in 1993 because it was located in the
historical neighborhood in Kyiv. The same year as Zmina-Obolon, the club participated in the national amateur competitions KFK at first placing third and next year winning a group competitions. After its promotion to professionals, the name portion
Zmina was dropped leaving only with
Obolon in 1995, and later changed to
Obolon PPO in 1997.
Obolon Brovar In December 2012, the president of Obolon,
Oleksandr Slobodian, announced he would create a new team under the moniker
Obolon-Brovar ("Obolon Brewery"). The reorganized club was completely restructured and brought to a complete control of the Obolon factory, unlike its predecessor that was a public organization which was sponsored by the factory. In spring 2013, the team applied to
PFL and was accepted for the
2013–14 Ukrainian Second League season. In early March 2013, it was announced that the former honorary president of Obolon Kyiv, Oleksandr Slobodian would form a new football team called
Obolon Brovar. Legally the team could not keep the old name and had to register a new name. FC Obolon as a public organization with Obolon brewery as its title sponsor was reorganized into a limited liability company of
Obolon brewery and completely owned by the last. During the organization many first team players left, but infrastructure with its academy, staff and stadium were preserved. Learning about a new club, the fans of
Obolon immediately appealed to the new leadership of
Obolon-Brovar with a request to leave the symbols and logos of the old club. Also they asked not to put on the club emblem the year the club was founded. Only the doctors, administrators, massage therapists and reserve team coach
Obolon-2 Kyiv Oleg Mazurenko moved from the former club to the new club. Also some players from Obolon-2 Kyiv and experienced defenders
Andriy Kornyev and Valeriy Ivaschenko, who once played for Obolon Kyiv. All the rest were alumni from the Youth Academy
Zmina-Obolon. Serhiy Soldatov was appointed head coach of the new team, who worked previously in the Youth Academy which was based with the team "Obolon Brovar". For the second season in the second league "Obolon Brovar" took second place and went into the first league. The season of 2015/2016, the "Brewers" finished at a high third place and were close to raising in the Premier League. The season was held mediocre by the team, however, in the Ukrainian Cup reached the 1/8 finals where the penalty kick lost to
MFC Mykolaiv.
Obolon (2020 re-renaming) In August 2020
Obolon-Brovar Kyiv was renamed (again) to
Obolon Kyiv. The club's logo was changed accordingly. The
2022-23 season saw Obolon Kyiv get promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League for the
2023-24 season. They finished 14th in the league but beat
Livyi Bereh Kyiv in the play-offs (1–0 home, 1–1 away). ==Stadium==