Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbas, the club was forced to move to Lviv, and had played matches in Lviv (2014–2016) and in Kharkiv (2017–2020) whilst having its office headquarters and training facilities in Kyiv. In May 2020, Shakhtar started to play home matches at NSC Olimpiyskyi in Kyiv. For the 2023–24 season, Shakhtar will now play home matches once again at Arena Lviv.
Football Club Dynamo Kyiv is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was officially formed only in 1989 and currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League, and has never been relegated to a lower division. The club has secured brand rights from the Ukrainian Dynamo society and has no direct relations to the sports society since 1989. Their home is the 70,050 capacity Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex.
The Ukrainian Premier League or UPL as a sports competition is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. Originally known as the Vyshcha Liha it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 Ukrainian football championship upon discontinuation of the 1991 Soviet football championship and included the Ukraine-based clubs that competed previously in the Soviet top three tiers competitions as well as better clubs of the Ukrainian republican competitions. The initial season of the league featured six former Soviet Top League clubs among which were Dynamo, Shakhtar, Chornomorets, Dnipro, Metalist, Metalurh as well as four more clubs that previously also competed at the top league.
FC Vorskla Poltava is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Poltava that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, the top flight of Ukrainian football.
FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv 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.
Yevhen Oleksandrovych Seleznyov is a former Ukrainian professional footballer.
Football is the most popular sport in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Association of Football is the national governing body and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the game of football in the country. It was organised in 1991 to replace the Soviet republican-level Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR, created earlier in the 1920s as part of the Soviet system of physical culture councils. The Ukrainian Association of Football is a non-governmental organization and is a member of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.
FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk was a Ukrainian football team based in Donetsk, Ukraine. The team competed in the Ukrainian Second Division, and was considered the 3rd squad team or junior team from the FC Shakhtar Donetsk franchise.
The 2009–10 Ukrainian Premier League season was the nineteenth since its establishment and second since its reorganization. Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions, having won their 13th league title. A total of 16 teams participated in the league, 14 of which participated in the 2008–09 season, and two of which were promoted from the Ukrainian First League.
Valeriy Kryventsov is a retired Ukrainian professional footballer, who is a manager of Bukovyna Chernivtsi.
The 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 23rd since its establishment.
FC Shakhtar Shakhtarsk is a Ukrainian amateur football club from Shakhtarsk, Ukraine. In 1996, the main squad was transformed to FC Metalurh Donetsk and moved to Donetsk. After that the club continued to play at amateur level.
Andriy Oleksandrovych Totovytskyi is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Kolos Kovalivka, on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk.
The Dynamo Kyiv junior squads and Academy includes several junior teams of FC Dynamo Kyiv youth system. Besides some reserve teams that competed in lower leagues, the club also has junior teams that participate in competitions under-21 and under-19 of the Ukrainian Premier League. In additions to that the club also has its own football academy (school) that exists since 1957.
FC Rukh Lviv is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv. The club competes in the Ukrainian Premier League following the promotion as runners-up of 2019–20 Ukrainian First League.
Mykola Oleksandrovych Matviyenko is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left back for Shakhtar Donetsk and the Ukraine national team.
The 2016–17 Ukrainian Cup is the 26th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition. The decision on a schedule of competitions for clubs from the First and Second League in composition will be confirmed by the Central Council of the Professional Football League of Ukraine and the competition will start on 20 July 2016.
The 2017–18 Shakhtar Donetsk season is the club's 27th season.
Vorskla Poltava, formerly known as Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv is Ukrainian professional women's football team of FC Vorskla from Poltava, Ukraine. In 2021 it became grandfathered into FC Vorskla Poltava as its women football department. The Ukrainian Association of Football licensing center indicates that it is a separate club. The team plays at the Ukrainian Women's League top tier, Vyshcha Liha.
Heorhiy Viktorovych Sudakov is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk and the Ukraine national team.
