The Lviv Association of Football (LAF) (formerly Lviv Oblast Football Federation (LOFF)) is a football governing body in the region of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. The federation is a member of the Regional Council of FFU and the collective member of the FFU itself.
The Ukrainian sports movement arose in West Ukraine / East Galicia just before the World War I on initiative of professor Ivan Bobersky around 1906. [1] After the war in the recovered Poland, those competitions were conducted under auspices of the Ukrainian Sports Union (Ukrajinskyj Sojuz Sportowyj). However those competitions were not popular and many leading Ukrainian football clubs such as Ukraina Lwow eventually joined the official Polish competitions.
The well organized and publicized Ukrainian football competitions in the region started during World War II as Soviet football competitions in 1940 when the West Ukraine was occupied by the Soviet Red Army (RKKA). All of the original football clubs were dissolved and in their place were created generic Soviet clubs ("proletarian" background) such as Dynamo, Spartak, DO (Dom Ofitserov), and others. During the Nazi occupation in 1941-1944, there was conducted the championship of Halychyna among Ukrainian squads in 1942-44.
After the war, the Soviet football championship of Lviv Oblast within the Soviet Ukraine was reinstated. With fall of the Soviet Union in 1989-91, the competitions phased over as part of independent Ukraine.
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In 1945–1958 there was conducted separate football championship in Drohobych Oblast which later was merged with Lviv Oblast.
The competitions were conducted during the occupation by the Nazi Germany within the General Government in 1942-1944 under auspices of the Ukrainian Central Committee from Kraków. The competitions were officially known as the Professor Volodymyr Kubiyovych Cup. [3]
Note: the list includes clubs that played at republican competitions before 1959 and the amateur or KFK competitions after 1964..
The first meeting between two Lviv city teams of Lviv Association of Football took place in 1949 between Spartak and ODO (SKA). During the Soviet period those teams met only twice and all in one season. Later however more lasting derby existed between SKA and Karpaty that also played at tier 2.
The Soviet Lviv derby started in 1949 when as part of the Soviet Vtoraya Gruppa (second tier) in its Ukrainian Zone met Spartak Lviv and DO Lviv both games were won by Spartak 2:1 and 3:1 (home and away respectfully).
It was the first face off of two Lviv teams after the earlier Polish Lwow derby between Pogon and Czarni that existed since establishment of Ekstraklasa in 1927–1933 (seven seasons). Until the establishment of Karpaty in 1960s, it was the only meeting between Soviet teams of masters from Lviv. In 1950 due to reorganization of the Soviet football competitions Spartak Lviv was merged with the local Dynamo Lviv, while SKA (or DO) competed at republican level.
In 1960s the Lviv derby was revived as part of the Soviet Class A Vtoraya Gruppa (second tier) between now SKA Lviv and Karpaty Lviv (sponsored by Lviv Electronic Factory "Elektron"). The derby lasted only for four seasons SKA – Karpaty 1:0 0:1 (1966), 1:2 0:0 (1967), 1:5 1:4 (1968), 1:1 1:2 (1969). That was it for the Soviet period of Lviv city football derbies.
In 1981 both teams were merged as SKA-Karpaty which existed until 1989 and was dissolved. After that in Lviv were reinstated FC Karpaty, while players the Army team which was abandoned were transferred to Drohobych where there was reviving Naftovyk Drohobych, but instead was established FC Halychyna Drohobych.
1992 Ukrainian First League was the first Ukrainian First League season with the record number of teams participating in the league at 28 divided into groups. The season started on March 14 and finished July 5, 1992.
Like the championship, the first edition of the Cup had a tight schedule as the Football Federation of Ukraine was given just several months in order to switch to the European seasonal format with the minimum required matches played.
The 1993–94 Ukrainian Cup was the third annual edition of Ukraine's football knockout competition, known as the Ukrainian Cup.
Association of the Polish Culture of the Lviv Land is a Polish minority association, active in Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It was founded on December 3, 1989, in Lviv and its first director was Professor Leszek Mazepa. It engages in educational, cultural and economic activities of the Polish minority of the surrounding Lviv area.
SKA Lviv was a Soviet multi-sports club founded in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR. The club was created as part of sport section of the Carpathian Military District in 1949 and existed until 1989.
FC Halychyna Drohobych is an amateur football club from Drohobych, Ukraine. The club was created in place of SKA Karpaty Lviv and amateur club Avanhard Drohobych on December 2, 1989 as SFC Drohobych.
The 2001–02 Ukrainian Second League was the 11th season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine.
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The 1962 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was the 32nd season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Ukrainian Class B. It was the thirteenth in the Soviet Class B.
The 1961 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was the 31st season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Ukrainian Class B. It was the twelfth in the Soviet Class B.
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