The club represented a mechanical engineering factory of the Frunze Science and Production Association in Sumy.
The club was founded in 1960 as FC Avanhard Sumy.
That used to be a common name of all newly founded football clubs in Ukraine at that time.
Since 1984 and until 2000 the team plays on the amateur level in the Oblast championship.
The club reenter the Druha Liha in 2000 as FC Frunzrenets-Liha-99 Sumy, but in 2002 it merged FC Sumy which earned the promotion to the First League.