Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship

Competitions in Soviet Ukraine

Created in 1964, the championship originally consisted of 5 to 6 groups based on geographic principle. Each group consisted of about 8-10 teams and later grew to around 16. Each group winners were advancing to finals which were conducted at predesignated location with a single game round robin tournament. Since 1973 the winner of that final tournament was granted an opportunity to advance to the Soviet Second League.

Competitions in independent Ukraine

The Soviet format stayed until 1997, when there was created the Association of Amateur Football of Ukraine (AAFU).

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, amateur competitions were shifted to the fall/spring calendar. The group winners, however instead of continuing to the final pool as before, were actually promoted to intermediate level, so called "Transitional League" which existed for just several years as a semi-professional tournament.

In 1996 and 1997 there took place a reorganization of all competitions under auspices of the Football Federation of Ukraine. Clubs that were competing at professional level, in 1996 organized the Professional Football League of Ukraine. The national amateur competitions were reorganized as AAFU. In 1997 the competition format also changed and there was reintroduced the final pool to identified the national winner of the amateur competition. The new format basically consisted of two stages with a final tournament chosen in the preselected city as previously in the Soviet competition. The size of groups was reduced as the number of teams decreased. In 1999, the competition calendar changed back to spring-fall competition so called all-summer event from the "european" fall/spring calendar.

In 2000 the league competitions changed again introducing extra stage (third) to avoid sudden withdrawals and eliminate financially suffering teams. In 2005 it was decided to eliminate the final game while still continue with the final tournament. In 2008 another change followed, which reduced the format back to two stages, however that did not solve the problem to increase the number of teams in the competition.

In 2010 there was an idea to incorporate the Amateur Association into the PFL as the Third League, eliminating the national amateur competition. The 2010 season also saw a record low number of participants in the competition, a pattern that might eliminate the association naturally in any case, due to poor management.

Notable clubs

There are former amateur and KFK teams that eventually made it to the Ukrainian Premier League.

FC Mariupol (former Lokomotyv Zhdanov), Stal Kamianske (former Metalurh Dniprodzerzhynsk), Nyva Ternopil (former Nyva Berezhany), Torpedo Zaporizhia, Naftovyk Okhtyrka, Vorskla Poltava, Kremin Kremenchuk, Stal Alchevsk (former Stal Komunarsk)

Association of Amateur Football of Ukraine (AAFU)

Already in 1996 there was revived Ukrainian football cup competitions among amateur teams. In 1997 number of groups in championship were cut to four instead of original six. In 1998 there appeared AAFU that took over administration of the competitions. In 1999 the competition's calendar has shifted back to spring/fall. In 2000 teams started to join the professional football without finishing amateur competitions. In 2005 number of teams decreased even more. In 2010 number of participating teams reached its all-time minimum of 14 teams. In 2016 the competition's calendar shifted again to fall/spring season to synchronize it with professional competitions.

FFU Amateur Football League

Decrease in number of participants trifold in 1995 and introduction of final tournament instead of simple single final group in 1996.

Season	Zone	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Top scorer	Number of teams
1996–97		Elektron Romny	Cementnyk-Khorda Mykolaiv	Naftovyk Dolyna	7 — Hennadiy Strilyanyi (Lokomotyv / Elektron)	33
1995–96	1	Pokuttia Kolomyia	Mebilnyk Chernivtsi	Karpaty Rakhiv	Andriy Chachkin (Zoria Khorostkiv) – 7	4
	2	Zoria Khorostkiv	ENKO Lutsk	Sokil Radyvyliv		5
	3	Paperovyk Malyn	Lokomotyv Smila	Budivelnyk Brovary		4
	4	Fakel Varva	Elektron Romny	Avanhard Merefa		4
	5	Avanhard Kramatorsk	Shakhtar Rovenky	Budivelnyk Kryvyi Rih		4
	6	Portovyk Kerch	Kolos Osokorivka	Blaho Blahoyeve		5
1994–95	1	Khimik Kalush	Yalynka Velykyi Bychkiv	Pokuttia Kolomyia	Vasyl Lomaka (Shakhtar Sverdlovsk) – 30	13
	2	Haray Zhovkva	Zoria Khorostkiv	Probiy Horodenka		13
	3	Obolon-Zmina Kyiv	Dynamo-3 Kyiv	Ahroservis Bakhmach		16
	4	Sportinvest Kryvyi Rih	Avanhard Merefa	Silur Khartsyzk		16
	5	Dynamo Slovyansk	Shakhtar Sverdlovsk	Metalurh Kupyansk		16
	6	Portovyk Illichivsk	Olimpia FC AES Yuzhnoukrainsk	Mercury Pervomaysk		17
1993–94	1	LAZ Lviv	Lada Chernivtsi	Pokuttia Kolomyia	Oleksandr Dovhalets (Advis Khmelnytskyi) – 27	14
	2	Advis Khmelnytskyi	Keramik Baranivka	Obolon-Zmina Kyiv		12
	3	Transimpeks Vyshneve	Sula Lubny	Ahroservis Bakhmach		15
	4	Avanhard Rovenky	Vahbud Kremenchuk	Krystal Torez		15
	5	Metalurh Novomoskovsk	Shakhtar Horlivka	Shakhtar Sverdlovsk		14
	6	Tavriya Novotroitsk	Dnistrovets Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky	Blaho Blahoyeve		17

KFK competitions of Ukraine

Competitions shifted to fall–spring system instead of spring-fall (summer) system and missed half of the season. There was no final group of six group winners as in previous season and all group winners were announced as champions.

Season	Zone	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Top scorer	Number of teams
1992–93	1	Beskyd Nadvirna	Khimik Kalush	Lada Chernivtsi	Serhiy Akymenko (Shakhtar Snizhne) – 23	13
	2	Khutrovyk Tysmenytsia	Advis Khmelnytskyi	Lokomotyv Rivne		13
	3	Hart Borodianka	Keramik Baranivka	Dynamo-3 Kyiv		14
	4	Sirius Zhovti Vody	Avanhard Rovenky	Vahbud Kremenchuk		14
	5	Oskil Kupyansk	Shakhtar Sverdlovsk	Shakhtar Snizhne		14
	6	Surozh Sudak	Tavria Novotroitsk	Blaho Blahoyeve		14

KFK competition of Ukrainian SSR

Winners by club

• Statistic as of 2018

Note

• KZEZO stands for Kakhovkan Plant of Electro-Welding Equipment (Kakhovsky Zavod Elektro-Zvariuvalnoho Obladnannia).
• The first team of Yednist-2 also participated in the competition and once placed the third. That team currently competes on the professional level. On the club level at this level of competition Yednist have titles of a winner, a runner, and two of the third place.

Winners by region

• Statistic as of 2018

Region	CoA	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Winning clubs
Luhansk Oblast		7	5	1	Avanhard Rovenky, Shakhtar Sverdlovsk, Shakhtar Stakhanov, Molniya Sieverodonetsk, Shakhtar Luhansk, Shakhtar Kirovsk
Kherson Oblast		6	4	1	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka, KZEZO Kakhovka, Tavriya Novotroitsk, Myr Hornostayivka
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast		6	1	2	Khimik Kalush, Pokuttia Kolomyia, Karpaty Kolomyia, Enerhetyk Burshtyn, Beskyd Nadvirna, Khutrovyk Tysmenytsia
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast		6	1	0	Kolos Nikopol, Sportinvest Kryvyi Rih, Metalurh Novomoskovsk, Sirius Zhovti Vody, Kolos Pavlohrad, Metalurh Dniprodzerzhynsk
Odesa Oblast		6	0	0	Balkany Zoria, Bastion Illichivsk, Ivan Odessa, Dniester Ovidiopol, Portovyk Illichivsk
Lviv Oblast		5	3	3	Rukh Vynnyky, Sokil Lviv, Dynamo Lviv, Haray Zhovkva, LAZ Lviv
Donetsk Oblast		5	0	0	Novator Mariupol, Avanhard Kramatorsk, Dynamo Sloviansk, Shakhtar Makiivka
Chernihiv Oblast		4	2	5	HPZ Varva, Yednist-2 Plysky, Khimik Chernihiv
Sumy Oblast		4	1	0	Elektron Romny, Avtomobilist Sumy, Naftovyk Okhtyrka, Viktoriya Mykolaivka
Ternopil Oblast		3	4	0	Nyva Berezhany, Druzhba Buchach, Zoria Khorostkiv
Poltava Oblast		3	1	1	Kremin Kremenchuk, Vorskla Poltava, Nove Zhyttia Andriyivka
Kyiv Oblast		3	0	1	Transimpeks Vyshneve, Hart Borodianka, Dynamo Irpin
Kharkiv Oblast		2	2	1	Mayak Kharkiv, Oskil Kupyansk
Khmelnytskyi Oblast		2	1	0	Advis Khmelnytskyi, Ahrobiznes Volochysk
AR Crimea		2	0	1	Okean Kerch, Surozh Sudak
Kyiv		2	0	1	Obolon-Zmina Kyiv, SKA Kiev
Sevastopol		2	0	0	Metalist Sevastopol
Cherkasy Oblast		2	0	0	Dnipro Heronymivka
Zaporizhia Oblast		1	1	1	Torpedo Zaporizhia
Zakarpattia Oblast		1	1	0	Karpaty Mukacheve
Rivne Oblast		1	0	5	ODEK Orzhiv
Chernivtsi Oblast		1	0	1	Luzhany
Zhytomyr Oblast		1	0	0	Paperovyk Malyn