Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, 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 Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv.
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.
Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, or Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin, is a former Ukrainian and Soviet football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Blokhin was a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet Union.
Viktor Savelyevich Onopko is a Ukrainian-Russian football coach and a former footballer. He is the assistant manager of both FC Rostov in the Russian Premier League, as well as the Russia national team.
The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup is a defunct annual regional association football tournament, recognized by FIFA.
The USSR Super Cup, also known as the Season's Cup, was an unofficial exhibition game not sanctioned by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union and that featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League and USSR Cup in a one- or two-legged playoff for the trophy.
Oleh Volodymyrovych Kuznetsov is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional player. He won domestic honours in the Soviet Union with Dynamo Kyiv, in Scotland with Rangers, in Israel with Maccabi Haifa and in Ukraine with CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv. Kuznetsov won 58 caps for the USSR national team between 1986 and 1991, playing in the final of UEFA Euro 1988 then was also selected for its successors, the CIS and Ukraine.
The Commonwealth of Independent States national football team was a transitional national team of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union in 1992. It was accepted that the team would represent the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Oleh Petrovych Bazylevych was a Ukrainian footballer, football (soccer) coach, and sport administrator. He holds titles of the Master of Sports of the USSR, Merited Coach of the Soviet Union, and Merited Coach of Ukraine.
Imperial Sport Club Dina Moscow is a futsal club based in Moscow, playing their home games in Troitsk.
Ukraine v Hungary was the first international game for the Ukraine national football team to be recognised by FIFA. The game took place in the city of Uzhhorod close to the border with Hungary in the spring of 1992 and saw Hungary win 3–1.
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.
Vladimir Maksimovich Salkov was a Russian-Ukrainian football manager and defender. He was a Merited Coach of Ukraine (1975) and a Merited Coach of the USSR (1989). He is considered to be one of the most legendary players and managers in the history of Shakhtar Donetsk.
Konstantin Viktorovich Yeryomenko, often transliterated as Eremenko was a Russian futsal player who was named the greatest futsal player of the 20th century.
Ivan Ordets is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club VfL Bochum on loan from Dynamo Moscow. He is a former Ukraine national team player.
Sergey Sytin is a Ukrainian futsal player. He plays as a forward for the Moscow club Dina Moscow and played for the Ukrainian national futsal team.
Andrey Yuryevich Yudin is a former Russian futsal player and current head coach of Dina Moscow. He was also a part of the CIS futsal team.
Olexiy Mykolayovych Popov is a Ukrainian professional futsal coach and former player. He was a member of the Ukrainian national futsal team.
Volodymyr Mykolayovych Havrylov is a Soviet and Ukrainian footballer. He played as a goalkeeper, later became a coach. Master of Sports of the USSR.
The 1992 CIS Top League was a scheduled but eventually canceled season in the Soviet Top League, an attempt to preserve All-Union competitions. The competition was canceled following the joint letter from all five Muscovite clubs that expressed their disagreement with the competition arrangements.
