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| Full name | Football Club Polissya Zhytomyr | |||
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| Founded | 1959 (as Avanhard Zhytomyr) 2016 (as MFC Zhytomyr) | |||
| Ground | Tsentralnyi Stadion, Zhytomyr | |||
| Capacity | 5,928 | |||
| Owner | Hennadiy Butkevych | |||
| General Director | Volodymyr Zahurskyi | |||
| Manager | Imad Ashur | |||
| League | Ukrainian Premier League | |||
| 2023–24 | Ukrainian Premier League, 5th of 16 | |||
| Website | polissyafc.com | |||
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Football Club Polissya Zhytomyr (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «Полісся» Житомир) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Zhytomyr, Polissya. It plays in the Ukrainian Premier League, the top tier of Ukrainian football, following promotion from the 2022–23 Ukrainian First League.
The original Soviet team of masters became defunct after the 2004–05 season and for almost decade the city was without its professional club, although the Polissia football academy as a specialized sports school continued to play at local competitions.