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Match shirt, likely match worn, from FC Poltava's 2017/18 season, the last and greatest of the club's short life: Persha Liha runners-up and a first-ever promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League via the play-offs, followed by dissolution before they ever set foot there. Green and white Joma hoops with sponsor Suchasnyi Dim in gold across the chest. On the back, Ковпак and the number 29: Oleksandr Kovpak, the striker who topped the Ukrainian league's scoring charts in 2008/09 with Tavriya and won caps for Ukraine in 2013, signed in August 2017 for the promotion campaign. The shirt of a club that died the day it won.

Here at Hoopster lives the shirt of the club that died the day it reached the top: Poltava won promotion to Ukraine's elite and dissolved before playing a single minute there.