Desna Chernihiv

Desna Chernihiv is a Ukrainian football club based in Chernihiv, founded in 1960 as "Avanhard" as part of the republican Avanhard sports society and renamed Desna in 1961. The club played its home matches in Chernihiv and reached the 1/8 finals of the USSR Cup in 1965, its highest achievement of the Soviet era.

Its infrastructure was destroyed during the Siege of Chernihiv in 2022, after which the club withdrew from professional competition and now plays amateur-level matches. Notable figures from the club's history include goalkeeper Viktor Bannikov and forward Andriy Yarmolenko.