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66-551: The league was set up by the newly reorganized Football Federation of Ukraine (a successor of the Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR ) with the falling apart Soviet Union as a second tier, lower than Ukrainian Higher League (Vyshcha Liha) and higher that Ukrainian Transitional League (Perekhidna Liha). The very first round of games that took place for this league was on 14 March 1992. The league itself

132-474: A plenum in the beginning of December where the future of the growth of the national sport would be defined. However, until then the following events took place that contribute to a certain degree of confusion. About the fact that on the world map appeared a new nation the world society realized on 1 December 1991 after the conduction of the All-national referendum . After all that, on 13 December in

198-623: A correct person with another Kharkiv football specialist Ivan Serhiyovych Kosmachov. On 27 December 1934, on resolution of the All-Union Council of Physical Culture (VSFK) of the Soviet Union, there was established Football-Hockey section as the higher public organization in administration of football in the country and had to help the VSFK. During that period there started a struggle between people's commissariats and trade union for

264-700: A department of football and hockey as well as the public Football Section. In Ukraine was created the Ukrainian Committee in affairs of Physical Culture and Sports (UKFK) at the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars and quartered in Kyiv . The committee supervised 15 oblasts committees along with the Committee of Moldavian ASSR quartered in Tiraspol . At the end of February 1937, at

330-456: A foreign player during the 2021–22 war season, Matheus Peixoto (Brazil, playing for Metalist Kharkiv ). No manager has won the league more than two times. With 2 league titles there are Valeriy Zuyev (both Dynamo-2 Kyiv), Oleksandr Ishchenko ( Zirka and Illichivets ), Yuriy Koval (Zirka and Zorya), Oleksandr Sevidov (Hoverla and Illichivets), Volodymyr Sharan (both Oleksandriya). Considered to be as second tier competitions,

396-441: A higher tier, on few occasions when a second club team finished in top two places the third-placed team was admitted to the top division. In 2013 there was set a precedent when a club on its own will has refused to be promoted. In 2017 there was created another precedent when a club that earned promotion was denied it based on administrative decision. With relegation, the league's policy is a bit different, although originally it also

462-567: A legally unreasonable attempt "run ahead of a locomotive". At the same time those neighbors of Ukraine were convinced that rights of former Union federation must be transferred to them. As the result, so it happened, although until the last moment, particularly the FIFA Executive Committee meeting in Stockholm and the congress, Viktor Bannikov tried to stand his ground. During the winter of 1995 new elections took place at

528-440: A mid-season winter break is usually longer than the summer break between competition seasons. Since 1995 the league also follows the same system of points calculation that is adopted throughout the whole European continent, 3 points for win, one for draw, and none for loss. During its history the number of members in the league has fluctuated. In its first years before 1999 the league consisted of 20 or more participants. Later there

594-686: A relegation mini tournament that took place in July 1998 in Kyiv and Boryspil . It involved three group winners of the Second League and Bukovyna that placed 18th place in the First League. The tournament identified clubs which would qualify for the 1998–99 Ukrainian First League . The next year the league featured its first promotion play-off. see Ukrainian Premier League#Relegation play-offs Notes: Top-20. All figures are correct through

660-450: A season. Since the 2009–10 season the First League has started to broadcast selected matches over the internet in order to increase its popularity. The most successful clubs in the league are FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv , FC Hoverla Uzhhorod , and FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi . All of those teams were either disbanded or went through some sort of reorganizations. In 2016 Dynamo Kyiv withdrew its second team from professional competitions, while FC Hoverla

726-438: A team's withdrawal from the league and often were not scheduled until after the season had concluded. Since 2011 relegation play-offs have become a well established tradition. Since the turn of the millennium the frequency of withdrawals in the First League has increased among the competing clubs. In order to fight this, the league has been applying a stricter approach to every club's financial situation to avoid withdrawals during

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792-482: A third team gets a chance of promotion, but there were also seasons when only one team would get promoted. Only twice three teams were promoted to the top division, both times happening due to the top tier expansion. The league's winner and usually the second placed runner-up get accepted to the Premier League. However, due to the rule that a second team of the club cannot be promoted when its senior team plays in

858-585: A training center for national team in suburb of Kyiv, Horenychi . On 19 February 2020 Andriy Pavelko was forced to sign his letter of resignation as a chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee. In October 2022, owner of FC Rukh Lviv , Hryhoriy Kozlovskyi, accused the UAF president in the collapse of Ukrainian football. On 29 November 2022 both the UAF president Andriy Pavelko and general secretary Yuriy Zapisotskyi were placed in jail on

924-768: Is headquartered in the national capital, Kyiv near the Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex at the House of Football . The organization was established in 1991. Between 1932 and 1991 with the Football Federation of the Soviet Union there existed its direct predecessor, Football Federation of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR). The Soviet federation of Ukraine also conducted own championship, cup competitions, competitions among amateur teams (collectives of physical culture), as well as had own national team which participated exclusively in Soviet competitions such as

990-733: Is lower than the Vyshcha Liha (Higher League) (currently known as the Ukrainian Premier League ) and is the second division of the Ukrainian professional football league system. The First League was incorporated into the PFL organisation that combined all the football leagues of non-amateur clubs (Top, First, and Second). On 26 May 1996 the Constituent Conference of non-amateur clubs took place which created

1056-726: Is registered in the British Virgin Islands and, according to the publication, is controlled by Hryhorii Surkis, who had been chairing the FFU from 2000 till 2012, and who's been a member of the UEFA executive committee for more than 10 years until February 2019). In March 2018 at the FFU Executive Committee the FFU first vice-president Oleksandr Bandurko was accused of wasting 2 million euros back in 2003 when he along with Hryhoriy Surkis announced construction of

1122-792: Is that every single one of them can delegate up to three its representatives to the Congress and announce its own candidates on the position of the president. The list of recent congress meetings. Congresses take place every year. Each FFU collective member sends three delegates. On 18 December 2014, in Kyiv took place the UAF Congress which expressed its vote of no confidence to president Anatoliy Konkov with "aye" 36 out of 47 collective members including 20 regional associations. The general director of FC Hoverla Uzhhorod , Ivan Shits, commented that some "collective members" are organizations of unknown origin. Following another congress in 2015,

1188-495: The 1992 Ukrainian Cup which became the first football tournament among professional teams since Ukraine revived its independence. The first round of the 1992 Higher League was scheduled on 6–7 March 1992. On 29 April 1992 the FFU scheduled its first international friendly with the Hungary national football team . The head coach of the national team was originally planned to appoint Valeriy Lobanovskyi , who at that time headed

1254-489: The 1992 Ukrainian First League . In 2004, when there was created a separate competition for reserve teams of the Ukrainian Premier League , the team was preserved and continued to compete at a professional level in regular league competitions until 2016. The team participated regularly in the Ukrainian First League , since it cannot be promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League , being a reserve team from

1320-530: The 1994 FIFA World Cup and hold an additional tournament between national teams of former Soviet republics for the place in already formed during a draw the Group 5. The proposal was supported by Georgia and Armenia, but from Russians it caused an extremely negative reaction. For example, the RFU general secretary Vladimir Radionov accused the Ukrainian federation in scheming and regarded the idea of such tournament as

1386-560: The 2022–23 season. Club status is current of the 2023–24 season: Among notable players of the league are its top scorers. The title of the league's top scorer earned on multiple occasions the following players, Serhiy Chuichenko (4 times, Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya ), Oleh Hrytsai (2 times, FC Cherkasy ), Oleksandr Aliyev (2 times, Dynamo-2 Kyiv ), Matviy Bobal (2 times, Ihroservis Simferopol ), Oleksandr Akymenko (2 times, Stal A. / Inhulets ), Stanislav Kulish (2 times, Stal D. / Dnipro-1 ). Once among top scorers became

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1452-587: The 2024–25 season. Two teams were spared from relegation from previous season due to other teams' withdrawal. In addition to the each team's name, its home city and stadium is shown. The following displays the location of teams. Group A teams marked in red. Group B teams marked in green. The league conducts its competition in a regular double round-robin format where each team plays with every other one twice. The league conducts its competitions from fall to spring, however due to climate conditions in Ukraine,

1518-974: The Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR . The first governing body was created in summer of 1918 in Kharkiv as All-Ukrainian Football Union by its constituent assembly. The chairman of the Union became V. Agiton, while a secreatary-treasurer – B. Shifrin. After the Bolshevik's occupation, in 1932 there was created the All-Ukrainian Football Section in Kharkiv and was part of the Ukrainian Council of Physical Culture that administered all types of sports. The first elected president

1584-554: The UAE national football team . Viktor Bannikov did not fail to inform that to the shores of Persian Gulf was sent an invitation on the address of the Maître of domestic coaching corps, and Lobanovskyi gave a prior agreement. But he will be ready to lead the Ukraine national football team only at the end of the term of current contract, to which at that tie remained about a month. Thereby the first coach of national team had to be picked from

1650-657: The Ukrainian Football Championship was a tier-structured republican level competition two levels below the 2 tiers All-Union Football League. Following the World War II , Dynamo Kyiv continued to field its second squad in the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR , but under name Dynamo Kyiv for at least four seasons yet, to differentiate it from the team of masters, it was referred to as Dynamo-klubnaya. In 1965, there

1716-827: The 2nd conference and against Bannikov ran former goalkeeper Hennadiy Lysenchuk , but he lost. At the XXII Congress in Zaporizhzhia , the Football Federation of Ukraine was renamed into the Ukrainian Association of Football. For that decision voted 79 Congress delegates. The association announced the suspension of the Ukrainian Premier League on 24 February 2022, the day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine . The main decisions of all-national importance are discussed at

1782-584: The FFU first president Viktor Bannikov noted, "The relate to the powers of our federation on implementing of all transferring rights and participation of national and club teams in international competitions. Questions about such powers were placed before the relevant authorities during my stay in Zürich in mid February. On 24 February we sent a request to the FIFA asking for an answer. The returning fax did not make us wait long." On 16 February 1992 there kicked off

1848-464: The First League are promoted to the Premier League, while the two lowest teams from the Premier League are demoted to the First League. Because each club is only allowed to be represented with a single squad per each league, the second squad's promotion often is voided, thus, allowing the promotion of the third placed club during a season. One of the most successful second squads is of Dynamo Kyiv ( FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv ). The following teams are competing in

1914-604: The Internal Ministry of Ukraine filing a claim that Hryhorii Surkis, former president of the Football Federation of Ukraine, has committed a criminal offence stealing hundreds of millions Euro. According to "Der Spiegel", starting from 1999 (that is for almost 15 years) the UEFA has been transferring the money (in general €380 million) allocated for the Football Federation (now Ukrainian Association of Football) to Newport management Ltd. – an offshore entity. This company

1980-557: The International federation. The relevant documents were already reviewed in the FIFA headquarters and approved with minor remarks on some four points. Sometime later arrived a personal invitation for Viktor Bannikov to participate in extraordinary session of the UEFA Executive Committee along with the committee on conducting continental tournaments. It was about granting our country a possibility already in

2046-705: The Ministry of Healthcare as the Main Administration of Physical Culture and Sports, but the next year was reinstated once again. Due to such rapid changes, almost none of union republic were able adopt them therefore no changes ever took place at republican level. In 1954, the Football Section became a founding member of the Union of European Football Associations . Within the Goskomsport,

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2112-675: The Pavelko's powers as a president of UAF. Unlike the previous court order that was adopted earlier in February and later was appealed, the new one was adopted to be executed immediately. Later the suspension for Pavelko was extended by the Shevchenko District Court of Lviv City. On 9 October 2023, the Zaporizhia Oblast Association of Football requested removal of Anatoliy Demyanenko from

2178-620: The Soviet Football Union and declares of canceling its membership. 13 December is the day when the Football Federation of Ukraine was established. Some time at the end of February 1992 the Agence France-Presse spread information that the FIFA without waiting for its congress granted a status of provisional members to national federations of Ukraine, Georgia, Slovenia, and Croatia. According to its commentary, that

2244-595: The Ukrainian Committee in affairs of Physical Culture and Sports was established the Football-Hockey Section which in mass media was better known as Football Section. The head of the section was appointed Samuyil Izepilyovych Khavchyn. With the Nazi Germany invasion of the Soviet Union, all Soviet government institutions were evacuated or liquidated. The Football-Hockey Section was reinstated in 1944 and headed by Stepan Dmytrovych Romanenko. In 1946

2310-496: The Ukrainian second tier (Persha Liha), the team dominated the league competition and won three titles. Later its performance declined, and the club concentrated its effort on its junior squads competing in parallel competitions for the youth. The team existed as early as 1938 when it first played at the top tier of the Ukrainian Football Championship placing 8th among 12 teams. Before the World War II

2376-528: The VKFK was renamed into the Goskomsport (State Committee in affairs of Physical Culture and Sports) and a similar analogy took place in the Ukrainian SSR . In 1946 there took place a huge event when the Football-Hockey Section of Goskomsport of the Soviet Union was finally admitted to FIFA . In 1947 the Football Section separated from the Football-Hockey Section. In 1953 the Goskomsport was transferred to

2442-682: The big hall of the State Committee of Physical Culture and Sport (also later known as Ministry in affairs of the Youth, Sport, and Tourism) the Council of federations in one voice accepted the following declaration: In accordance with the All-national referendum of 1 December 1991 Ukraine has become an independent state. The Football Federation of Ukraine – sovereign, independent, public organization that does not belong to any federation of foreign states. The Federation takes full jurisdiction over

2508-491: The construction of a factory of artificial coverings for football fields. Between 2018 and 2020, there were opened 12 criminal proceedings against Pavelko, but none were finalized. Coincidently Pavelko's lawyer is "kindred" (godparenting) with Artem Sytnyk (former National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine director). On 13 March 2023, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv City extended suspension of

2574-495: The country. All official meetings of various football government institutions take place at the "Building of Football" (Budynok futbolu) in Kyiv . All structural and organizational issues are executed by the Executive Committee (Vykonkom). The executive committee consists of about 30 people and includes the presidential cabinet of federation. To assist the executive committee there exists a presidium which organizes

2640-476: The football department was renamed into the Football Administration. In 1955 to the presidium of Football Section from the Ukrainian SSR was admitted Mykola Balakin. On 6 March 1991 due to the efforts of Viktor Maksymovych Bannikov was established and legally reformed the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) as part of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union (FFSU). However, it fully

2706-834: The game of football including irregular competitions of beach football, mini-football, street football and others. Its main features include football competitions including the Ukrainian Professional League , the Ukrainian Cup , the Amatory , the competitions among the youth (under-18), and also the Ukraine national football team . It also sets the regulations to the Premier League and the Professional Football League . It

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2772-527: The general director of FC Shakhtar Donetsk Serhiy Palkin called it "a fake" explaining that among collective members is a random traveling agency that has as many delegates to the congress as the Ukrainian Premier League . After German weekly news magazine " Der Spiegel " published its investigation titled "How did the UEFA payments get to the British Virgin Islands?" the UAF addressed the State Bureau of Investigations, Prosecutor General's Office and

2838-425: The league (1992-2017) recorded at Yuvileiny Stadium (Sumy). The most attended seasons were in the beginning of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s. Football Federation of Ukraine The Ukrainian Football Association ( Ukrainian : Українська асоціація футболу , romanized :  Ukrayins'ka Asotsiatsiya Futbolu ; UAF ) is the governing body of football in Ukraine . Before 2019, it

2904-1146: The league has number of big stadiums with capacity of 20,000+, among which the most notable are Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv , Dnipro-Arena in Dnipro , Ukraina Stadium in Lviv , Yuvileiny Stadium in Sumy and Shakhtar Stadium in Donetsk . Just before the Euro 2012 , the First League clubs also played at the RSC Olimpiyskiy also located in Donetsk . Among smaller stadiums (10,000 – 20,000) are Central Stadium in Mykolaiv , Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv , Avanhard Stadium in Lutsk , Chernihiv Stadium in Chernihiv and Central Stadium in Cherkasy . Most attended games in

2970-408: The meetings of the Congress of Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) . Congress also elects the president and vice-presidents (presidential cabinet) of federation and confirms several football government bodies such as presidium, executive committee, appellation committee, and others. The congress is more of a legislative body of government and sets goals and directions for the development of football in

3036-481: The meetings of the Vykonkom. The presidium composed of 16 people, among which are all the members of the presidential cabinet as well. The federation also has two judicial bodies of government: the control disciplinary committee (KDK) and the appellation committee. Those are small committees and are confirmed by the congress of Football Federation of Ukraine. Aside of the above-mentioned organizations there are numerous other committees and directorates that supplement in

3102-417: The members of coaching council that included Anatoliy Puzach (Dynamo), Yevhen Kucherevskyi (Dnipro), Yevhen Lemeshko (Torpedo), Yukhym Shkolnykov (Bukovyna), Viktor Prokopenko (Chornomorets), and somewhat later they were joined by Valeriy Yaremcheko (Shakhtar). As mentioned by Yevhen Kotelnykov (vice-president at that time), the Ukrainian diaspora played a key role in helping the federation and

3168-447: The national team in particular from very beginning. It was diaspora that made possible for the national to play games in the United States . In 1992 the FFU delegation received an invitation to participate in the 48th FIFA Congress that was scheduled to take place in Zürich in the beginning of July. At that forum in particular was to be reviewed an issue of accepting Ukraine and some other newly created countries as permanent members of

3234-441: The next season to present one team in each of Eurocups subject to the terms presented by the European Union , creation of own league, availability of appropriate infrastructure to hold games of such levels, ensuring security while they are being held. In his turn the FFU president offered the International federation not to grant Russia a right automatically inherit the place of CIS national football team in qualification cycle of

3300-402: The office of UAF first vice-president and appointment of acting UAF general secretary. Soon thereafter two more regional football organizations (Zakarpattia Oblast and Kirovohrad Oblast) supported the request. The Ukrainian Association of Football posted couple of explanatory articles about its offshore company and its factory in Kramatarosk. FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv

3366-400: The order of the Pecherska District Courty of Kyiv City. Their bond was set to 9,880 thousands hryvnias . On 17 February 2023 the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv City granted the request for removal from office the UAF president Andriy Pavelko . Earlier on 29 November 2022, Mr.Pavelko has been issued arrest by the court in connection with the disappearance of a million euros on a scheme with

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3432-507: The organization of football events in Ukraine. Among the most important are the Committee of professional football, the Committee of national teams, the Committee of referees, the Expert Commission, the Council of a strategic development of professional football, and many others. There are also collective members of federation that include various public organizations such as regional federation, student associations, independent leagues, travel agencies, others. The importance of collective members

3498-404: The professional clubs (its members). According to the newspaper Halychyna ( Ivano-Frankivsk ) the annual budget of league's clubs varied between ₴6 million to ₴30 million in 2010. The League officially became the top league of the Professional Football League (PFL) from 15 April 2008 when the Ukrainian Premier League reorganized itself into a self-governed entity. Usually the top two teams from

3564-400: The professional league, and confirmed its statute as well as its administration. Most of the clubs that had previously participated in the Ukrainian football league competitions were reorganized as professional, a process that actually started in the late 1980s. On 17 July the professional league signed an agreement with several other national football organizations to organize competitions among

3630-428: The protection the rights of players, coaches, and the football specialists. The Football Federation is responsible to uphold the international norms and human rights without concern of a nationality or a religious beliefs. The Football Federation confirms its adherence to goals and principals of FIFA and UEFA statues affirms their execution. The Football Federation of Ukraine has executed all its obligations to

3696-478: The right to lead the physical culture movement. Trade unions started actively create volunteer sports societies (the first were "Spartak" and "Lokomotiv"). However, already in 1936 took place big changes when the VSKF that existed at the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union was liquidated and instead at the Council of People's Commissariats ( Sovnarkom ) was created the All-Union Committee in affairs of Physical Culture and Sports (VKFK) which also contained

3762-411: Was a Kharkiv football referee Oleksandr Yakovych Levitin who published a book "Game rules of football in questions and answers" ( Ukrainian : "Правила гри у футбол у питаннях і відповідях" ). In 1934 after the capital of the Ukrainian SSR was transferred from Kharkiv to Kyiv , there was moved the Council of Physical Culture along with its football section. Levitin was replaced for not being not really

3828-434: Was an idea to decrease the number of members in all leagues in order to improve the quality of competition. Until 2013 the number of participants was reduced to 18 except for couple of seasons in 2006–2008. Recently since 2013 the number was reduced further to 16 where it remains since. Traditionally two better teams out of First League are being swapped for two worse teams out of Premier (Higher) League. On more rare occasions

3894-414: Was created the second team of FC Dynamo Kyiv and replaced FC Temp Kyiv (that represented the Kyiv Aircraft Factory ). It only competed for one season in the Ukrainian Class B football competitions of the Soviet Union . In 1992, Dynamo-2 Kyiv was revived based on its double (reserve team, Dynamo-d Kyiv) which played in competition for reserves teams of the Soviet Top League . The new team was admitted to

3960-458: Was known as the Football Federation of Ukraine ( FFU ; Ukrainian : Федерація Футболу України , romanized :  Federatsiya Futbolu Ukrayiny ). As a subject of the International Olympic Movement , UAF is a member of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine . UAF is also member of international football organizations such as UEFA and FIFA . The Ukrainian Football Association governs all sport events and organizations associated with

4026-470: Was made in order for the associations of those four countries in advance build their relations with football unions of other countries, and their footballers participate in friendlies of national team levels. Soon at address of the Football Federation of Ukraine arrived relevant official documents not only from FIFA, but from UEFA that were signed by general secretaries of those organizations, Sepp Blatter and Gerhard Aigner . In his interview in that regard

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4092-485: Was organised just a few months before that and consisted mostly of all the Ukrainian clubs that previously competed in the one of groups of the Soviet Lower Second League (4th tier, see Ukrainian Soviet competitions ). To the league were also added some Soviet Top League reserve squads of the Soviet Top League reserve squads competition and the three best performers of the Ukrainian football championship among amateurs, KFK (Fitness clubs). The Persha Liha (First League)

4158-487: Was refused in attestation. Previously in 2008 FC Zirka that went through reorganization was re-established based on a local youth football club FC Olimpik Kropyvnytskyi and in 2016 won its third championship in the league. Promoted teams are indicated in bold . Post-season play-offs are not common feature of the First League competition. Over the years there were several instances when clubs contested promotion or relegation berths. The first post-season feature consisted of

4224-416: Was still controlled and subordinated to the Moscow's main governing body. On 24 August 1991 the Ukrainian parliament ( Verkhovna Rada ) by its Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine expressed its intent of casting away from Soviet Union and creation of a sovereign state – Ukraine. After these events the executive committee of Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR made the decision to have

4290-419: Was the second football team of the Ukrainian football club Dynamo Kyiv based in Kyiv , Ukraine . The team was first created in 1938, and the club ceased its recent operations again after the 2015–16 season. During the Soviet period, participation of the second squad was sporadic and mostly at republican level, the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR . During the first couple of decades of

4356-436: Was two for two. In 1996 the Second League (lower tier) was converted into a de facto regional league with two (three) regional groups. The league has also decreased its number of participants from originally 22-24 to only 16-18. There were also number of withdrawals which triggered sometime additional number in rotation. The relegation or promotion play-offs were previously usually organized under unforeseen circumstances such as

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