List of football clubs in Ukraine

This is a list of football (soccer) clubs in Ukraine. Below is a list of football clubs in Ukraine.

The list contains all clubs:

Ukraininan competitions (since 1992)

• Ukrainian Championship participants in the Premier League, First, Second and former Third league;
• Ukrainian Cup participants;
• Ukrainian Amateur Championships medalists;
• Ukrainian Amateur Cup finalists;

Soviet competitions (before 1992)

• USSR Championship participants in the Top, First, and former Group D;
• USSR Cup participants.
• Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR participants in the Soviet Second league and Soviet Second lower league;
• Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR finalists;
• Ukrainian Amateur Championships (Soviet period) medalists;
• Ukrainian Amateur Cup (Soviet period) finalists;

It also contains the best clubs that participated in the Championship of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union championship cities in the years 1918-1935, which are now cities on the territory of Ukraine.

The second and third club team was not added to the list.

By league[edit]

Ukrainian period

• Premier Liha (Level 1)
• First Liha (Level 2)
• Druha Liha (Level 3)

Soviet period

• Vysshaya Liga (Level 1, all-Union)
• Pervaya Liga (Level 2, all-Union)
• Vtoraya Liga (Level 3, republican)

Alphabetically[edit]

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Notes: Status

• P - professional club
• A - amateur club
• D - defunct club

List of Ukrainian professional football clubs (teams of masters)[edit]

• 1936 (sp) (9 teams): Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo Kharkiv, Dynamo Odesa, Spartak Kharkiv, Ugolschiki Stalino, Lokomotyv Kyiv, Traktornyi Zavod Kharkiv, Stal Dnipropetrovsk
• 1936 (fl) (1 team): Serp i Molot Kharkiv
• 1937 (1 team): Zavod im. Frunze Kostiantynivka
• 1939 (2 teams): Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv, Dzerzhynets Voroshylovhrad
• 1940 (1 team): Kharchovyk Odesa
• 1946 (3 teams): Spartak Uzhhorod, DO Kyiv, Bilshovyk Zaporizhzhia
• 1947 (5 teams): Lokomotyv Kharkiv, Spartak Lviv, Spartak Kherson, Dzerzhynets Kharkiv, Dynamo Voroshylovhrad
• 1948 (4 teams): Lokomotyv Zaporizhzhia, Avanhard Kramatorsk, Shakhtar Kadiivka, Bilshovyk Mukachevo
• 1949 (3 teams): Spartak Kyiv, Dynamo Chernivtsi, Trudovi Rezervy Voroshylovhrad
• 1953 (2 teams): Metalurh Odesa, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
• 1954 (2 teams): ODO Lviv, DOF Sevastopol
• 1955 (1 team): DOF Odesa
• 1956 (1 team): Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
• 1957 (2 teams): Kolhospnyk Poltava, Khimik Dniprodzerzhynsk
• 1958 (7 teams): Zirka Kirovohrad, Kolhospnyk Cherkasy, Avanhard Simferopol, Lokomotyv Vinnytsia, Kolhospnyk Rivne, Lokomotyv Donetsk, SKVO Odesa
• 1959 (5 teams): Arsenal Kyiv, Avanhard Zhytomyr, Kryvyi Rih, Avanhard Ternopil, Shakhtar Horlivka
• 1960 (9 teams): Avanhard Zhovti Vody, Avanhard Chernivtsi, Volyn Lutsk, Naftovyk Drohobych, Desna Chernihiv, Dynamo Khmelnytskyi, Azovstal Zhdanov, Khimik Severodonetsk, Avanhard Sumy
• 1962 (2 teams): Trubnyk Nikopol, Shakhtar Oleksandria
• 1963 (6 teams): Karpaty Lviv, Dnipro Kremenchuk, Burevisnyk Melitopol, Metalurh Komunarsk, Metalurh Yenakieve, Metalurh Kerch
• 1964 (3 teams): Temp Kyiv, Chaika Balaklava, Dunayets Izmail
• 1965 (4 teams): Dynamo-2 Kyiv, Avtomobilist Odesa, Shakhtar Torez, Shakhtar Krasnyi Luch
• 1966 (3 teams): Avanhard Makiivka, Start Dzerzhynsk, Torpedo Berdiansk
• 1967 (3 teams): Enerhia Nova Kakhovka, Stal Dnipropetrovsk, Sitall Kostiantynivka
• 1968 (9 teams): Shakhtar Chervonohrad, Kolos Yakymivka, Prohres Berdychiv, Podillia Kamianets-Podilskyi, Shakhtar Novovolynsk, Ugolyok Krasnoarmiisk, Avanhard Rovenky, Shakhtar Sverdlovsk, Lokomotyv Dnipropetrovsk
• 1969 (2 teams): Budivelnyk Pervomaisk, Avanhard Antratsyt
• 1970 (1 team): Shakhtar Kirovsk
• 1972 (2 teams): Mayak Kharkiv, Shakhtar Makiivka
• 1976 (1 team): Kolos Nikopol
• 1979 (1 team): Metalurh Dniprodzerzhynsk
• 1981 (1 team): Kolos Mezhyrich
• 1983 (1 team): Nyva Berezhany
• 1984 (1 team): Dynamo Irpin
• 1985 (1 team): Torpedo Zaporizhzhia
• 1986 (1 team): Naftovyk Okhtyrka
• 1991 (4 teams): Avtomobilist Sumy, Mayak Ochakiv, Temp Shepetivka, Karpaty Kamianka-Buzka

List of football clubs admitted to professional by skipping the league's tier[edit]

This list includes association football clubs that were admitted to professional competitions without playing at the Ukrainian national amateur level (formerly KFK competitions). The list includes clubs that were admitted to professional tiers under any circumstances other than following the league's pyramid structure. Almost every year there was at least one club that was promoted without playing at the national amateur competitions with various types of excuses.

1992 season

• second teams: FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv, FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk, FC Chornomorets-2 Odesa

1992–93 season

• FC Avanhard Zhydachiv (dissolved in 1996)
• FC Dynamo Luhansk (merged with FC Metalurh Mariupol in 1995)

1993–94 season

• FC Medyk Morshyn (relegated in 1994)
• FC Viktor Zaporizhzhia (dissolved in 2000)
• FC Lviv (1992) (merged with FC Karpaty Lviv in 2001)
• FC Boryspil (dissolved in 2014)

1994–95 season

• none (but with the ongoing season FC Slavutych while playing at amateurs replaced professional FC Transimpeks Vyshneve)

1995–96 season

• FC Ratusha Kamianets-Podilskyi (random team to finish the season for FC Temp Shepetivka)
• FC Metalurh Donetsk (merged with FC Stal Kamianske in 2015, due to the Russian aggression against Ukraine)

1996–97 season

• FC Petrivtsi (dissolved in 2000)
• FC Nyva Bershad

1997–98 season

• FC Berkut Bedevlya (dissolved in 1998)
• FC Fortuna Sharhorod (dissolved in 1999)
• FC SKA-Lotto Odesa (dissolved in 1998)
• FC Hirnyk Pavlohrad (dissolved in 1998)
• FC Borysfen Boryspil (dissolved in 2007)
• second teams: FC Karpaty-2 (later FC Karpaty-3 Lviv), FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk, FC Zirka-2 Kirovohrad, FC Vorskla-2 Poltava, FC Metalurh-2 Donetsk, FC Metalist-2 Kharkiv (by replacing FC Avanhard Merefa)

1998–99 season

• FC VPS Kramatorsk (dissolved in 1999)
• second teams: FC Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih, FC Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia

Note: after this season amateur competitions were transitioned back to the Soviet competition calendar spring–fall

1999–00 season

• FC ADOMS Kremenchuk (dissolved in 2001)
• FC Mashynobudivnyk Druzhkivka (dissolved in 2002)
• second teams: FC Prykarpattia-2 Ivano-Frankivsk, FC Nyva Vinnytsia (second team of FC Vinnytsia), FC Chornomorets-2 Odesa (in place of SC Odesa)

2000–01 season

• FC Krasyliv (dissolved in 2007)
• FC Sokil Zolochiv (dissolved in 2003)
• second teams: Ternopil-Nyva-2, FC Dnipro-3 Dnipropetrovsk, FC Cherkasy-2, FC Metalurh-2 Mariupol, FC Stal-2 Alchevsk, FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk, SSSOR-Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

2001–02 season

• FC Chornohora Ivano-Frankivsk (dissolved in 2006)
• FC Chaika Sevastopol (dissolved in 2002)
• FC Dynamo Simferopol (dissolved in 2009)
• FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia (relegated in 2003)
• second teams: FC Zakarpattia-2 Uzhhorod, FC Borysfen-2 Boryspil, FC Obolon-2 Kyiv, FC Metalurh-2 Donetsk, FC Karpaty-2 Lviv replaced FC Lviv (1992) and at the same time FC Karpaty-3 Lviv replaced FC Karpaty-2 Lviv (also there was admitted FC Kovel-Volyn-2 in place of FC Kovel)

2002–03 season

• PFC Sevastopol (dissolved in 2014, due to the Russian aggression against Ukraine)
• second teams: none (introduction of the Ukrainian junior competitions among professional teams)

2003–04 season

• FC Palmira Odesa (dissolved in 2005)
• second teams: FC Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih, FC Arsenal-2 Kyiv (FC Spartak-2 Kalush replaced promotable FC LUKOR Kalush to avoid relegation of FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk)

2004–05 season

• FC Fakel Ivano-Frankivsk (dissolved in 2012)
• PFC Oleksandriya
• MFC Oleksandriya
• second teams: none (introduction of Ukrainian junior competitions among top league teams)

2005–06 season

• FC Kharkiv (promoted to the top league instead of FC Arsenal Kharkiv)
• FC Knyazha Shchaslyve
• MFC Zhytomyr (FC Polissya Zhytomyr withdrew and its place were created MFC Zhytomyr and OFC Zhytychi Zhytomyr)
• FC Yalos Yalta
• second teams: FC Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih, FC Nyva-2 Vinnytsia, FC Kharkiv-2

2006–07 season

Second League reduced to two groups

• none

2007–08 season

• FC Korosten
• FC Komunalnyk Luhansk
• FC Poltava
• FC Titan Donetsk
• FC Olimpik Kirovohrad
• second teams: none

2008–09 season

• second teams: FC Desna-2 Chernihiv, FC Knyazha-2 Shchaslyve, PFC Sevastopol-2

2009–10 season

• FC Morshyn (later changed to FC Skala Stryi (2004))
• second teams: FC Lviv-2

2010–11 season

• second teams: FC Chornomorets-2 Odesa, FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk

2011–12 season

• second teams: FC Sevastopol-2

2012–13 season

• second teams: FC Poltava-2-Karlivka (later FC Karlivka), FC Obolon-2 Kyiv

2013–14 season

Second League reduced to a single group

• none

2014–15 season

• none (no promotions whatsoever)

2015–16 season

• FC Veres Rivne
• FC Arsenal-Kyiv
• FC Barsa Sumy
• second teams: none

2016–17 season

• second teams: FC Illichivets-2 Mariupol

2017–18 season

Second League returned to two groups

• SC Dnipro-1
• second teams: MFC Mykolaiv-2

2018–19 season

• none, the newly promoted FC Lviv has swapped places with the Premier League club FC Veres Rivne

List of clubs that were merged (split)[edit]

• FC Arsenal Kyiv (originally as FC Boryspil)
  • FC Nyva Myronivka (1993–94)
  • FC CSKA Kyiv (1995–2001)
• FC Mariupol
  • FC Dynamo Luhansk
• FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
  • FC Kalush
• FC Karpaty Lviv
  • FC Lviv (1992)
• FC Temp Shepetivka
  • FC Advis Khmelnytskyi
• FC Poltava
  • FC Karlivka
• FC Ros Bila Tserkva
  • FC Transimpeks Vyshneve
• FC Enerhiya Yuzhnoukrainsk
  • FC Artania Ochakiv
• FC Krasyliv
  • FC Obolon Kyiv
  • FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi
• FC Metalist Kharkiv
  • FC Avanhard Merefa
• FC Stal Kamianske
  • FC Metalurh Donetsk
• FC Volyn Lutsk
  • FC Kovel
• FC Chornomorets Odesa
  • SC Odesa
• FC Borysfen Boryspil
  • FC Systema-Boreks Borodyanka
• FC Oleksandriya
  • FC UkrAhroKom Holovkivka
• FC Slavutych Cherkasy
  • FC Zorya Biloziria

List of clubs successors after relocation[edit]

• FC Boryspil → FC CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv (eventually FC Arsenal Kyiv)
• FC Systema-Boreks Borodyanka → FC Inter Boyarka
• FC Transimpeks Vyshneve → FC Slavutych
• FC Makiyivvuhillya Makiivka → FC Nikopol
• FC Temp Shepetivka → FC Ratusha Kamianets-Podilskyi
• FC Stal Kamianske → FC Feniks Bucha
• FC Hazovyk Komarno → FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi → FC Lviv
• FC Karpaty Kamianka-Buzka → FC Skala Stryi
• FC Morshyn → FC Skala Stryi (2004)
• FC Karpaty Kamianka-Buzka → FC Halychyna Lviv
• FC Yavir Krasnopillia → FC Spartak Sumy
• FC Yavir Krasnopillia → PFC Sumy
• SKA Lviv → FC Halychyna Drohobych
• FC Dnister Ovidiopol → FC Odesa
• FC Avanhard Zhovti Vody → FC Sirius Kryvyi Rih
• FC Petrivtsi → FC Myrhorod

List of clubs that were split (revival of original club)[edit]

• FC CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv → FC CSKA Kyiv → FC Arsenal Kyiv
  • FC Borysfen Boryspil (revival of original)
• FC Zorya Luhansk
  • FC Komunalnyk Luhansk
• FC Nyva Ternopil
  • FC Ternopil
• FC Arsenal Kharkiv
  • FC Kharkiv
• FC Spartak Sumy
  • FC Yavir Krasnopillia (revival of original) → PFC Sumy
• FC Skala Stryi
  • FC Karpaty Kamianka-Buzka (revival of original) → FC Halychyna Lviv
• FC Shakhtar Shakhtarsk
  • FC Metalurh Donetsk
• FC Polissya Zhytomyr
  • MFC Zhytomyr
  • OFC Zhytychi Zhytomyr
• FC Oleksandriya
  • FC UkrAhroKom Holovkivka (revival of original)

List of clubs that were "swapped"[edit]

• FC Zirka Kirovohrad ←→ FC Olimpik Kirovohrad
• FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk ←→ FC Kalush (concealed by merger)
• FC Veres Rivne ←→ FC Lviv

References[edit]

• Ukraine - List of Foundation Dates
• Ukraine 1992 and subsequent years
• Football Federation of Ukraine Official website (in Ukrainian)
• Professional Football League of Ukraine Official website (in Ukrainian)
• AAFU Official website (in Ukrainian)
• UkrSoccerHistory (in Ukrainian)
• Fanat.com.ua (in Russian)
• UA-футбол (in Ukrainian and Russian)