Avanhard Stadium was the home ground of FC Stroitel Pripyat. It was named, like several other grounds, after the Ukrainian Sports Society Trade Union.
The club, whose name Stroitel means “builder”, was founded in the middle of the 1970s and was mainly composed of players from the village of Chistohalivka, 4 km south of Pripyat.
It started to take part in tournaments in 1981, and played in the KFK competition of Ukrainian SSR, the 2nd level of the Soviet Amateur Football League and the 5th level of the Soviet Union football league system.
When the city of Pripyat was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, the new city of Slavutych was founded at the end of the same year to replace it. The football club was moved there, changing its name to FC Stroitel Slavutych in 1987.
Its activities ceased after the end of 1988 season.
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