2019–20 in Ukrainian football

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The 2019–20 season was the 29th season of competitive association football in Ukraine since dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Season2019–20

Premier LeagueShakhtar Donetsk

First LeagueFC Mynai

Second LeagueNyva Ternopil (Group A)
VPK-Ahro (Group B)

Quick facts Season, Men's football ...

Football in Ukraine
Men's football
Season	2019–20
Premier League	Shakhtar Donetsk
First League	FC Mynai
Second League	Nyva Ternopil (Group A) VPK-Ahro (Group B)
Amateur League	Viktoriya Mykolaivka
Cup	Dynamo Kyiv
Amateur Cup	Olimpiya Savyntsi
Super Cup	Dynamo Kyiv
Women's football
Vyshcha Liha	Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv
Persha Liha	Karpaty Lviv (Group A) Spartak-Orion (Group B)
Women's Cup	Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv
← 2018–19 2020–21 →

National teams

Ukraine national football team

Results and fixtures

7 September 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying Group B	Lithuania	0–3	Ukraine	Vilnius, Lithuania
18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)		[Report (UAF)] [Report (LFF)]	Zinchenko 7' Marlos 27' Malinovskyi 62'	Stadium: LFF Stadium Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

10 September 2019 Friendly	Ukraine	2–2	Nigeria	Dnipro, Ukraine
20:30	Zinchenko 78' Yaremchuk 79'	[Report (UAF)] [Report ()]	Aribo 4' Osimhen 34' (pen.)	Stadium: Dnipro-Arena Referee: Paolo Valeri (Italy)

11 October 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying Group B	Ukraine	2–0	Lithuania	Kharkiv, Ukraine
20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)	Malinovskyi 29', 58'	[Report (UAF)] [Report (LFF)]		Stadium: Metalist Stadium Referee: Harald Lechner (Austria)

14 October 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying Group B	Ukraine	2–1	Portugal	Kyiv, Ukraine
20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)	Yaremchuk 6' Yarmolenko 27'	[Report (UAF)] [Report (FPF)]	Ronaldo 72' (pen.)	Stadium: NSK Olimpiyskiy Attendance: 65,883 Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)

14 November 2019 Friendly	Ukraine	1–0	Estonia	Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
19:00 (UTC+2)	Bezus 92+2'	[Report (UAF)] [Report ()]		Stadium: Slavutych-Arena Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (Spain)

17 November 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying Group B	Serbia	2–2	Ukraine	Belgrade, Serbia
15:00 (16:00 UTC+3)	Tadić 9' (pen.) Mitrović 56'	[Report (UAF)] [Report (FSS)]	Yaremchuk 33' Besyedin 90+3'	Stadium: Red Star Stadium Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)

27 March 2020 Friendly	France	postponed	Ukraine	Paris, France
		Report		Stadium: Stade de France

31 March 2020 Friendly	Poland	postponed	Ukraine	Chorzów, Poland
		Report		Stadium: Silesian Stadium

26 May 2020 Friendly	Ukraine	postponed	Cyprus	Kharkiv, Ukraine
		Report		Stadium: Metalist Stadium

2 June 2020 Friendly	Ukraine	postponed	Northern Ireland	Kyiv, Ukraine
		Report		Stadium: NSK Olimpiyskiy

7 June 2020 Friendly	Ukraine	postponed	Israel	Lviv, Ukraine
		Report		Stadium: Arena Lviv

2020 UEFA Euro

Ukraine U-21 national football team

2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

Group 8

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	10	8	2	0	21	9	+12	26	Final tournament	—	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	5–1
2	Romania	10	6	2	2	22	7	+15	20	Final tournament	1–1	—	3–0	4–1	3–0	4–1
3	Ukraine	10	5	1	4	17	11	+6	16		2–3	1–0	—	0–2	3–0	4–0
4	Finland	10	4	1	5	14	15	−1	13		0–1	1–3	0–2	—	1–1	4–0
5	Northern Ireland	10	2	3	5	7	13	−6	9		0–1	0–0	1–0	2–3	—	0–0
6	Malta	10	0	1	9	4	30	−26	1		1–3	0–3	1–4	0–1	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

Ukraine women's national football team

Results and fixtures

Friendlies

2021 UEFA Women's Euro qualifying

Group I

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	8	8	0	0	46	1	+45	24	Final tournament	—	8–0	3–0	6–0	10–0
2	Ukraine	8	5	0	3	16	21	−5	15	Play-offs	0–8	—	1–0	4–0	2–1
3	Republic of Ireland	8	4	1	3	11	10	+1	13		1–3	3–2	—	1–0	2–0
4	Greece	8	2	1	5	6	21	−15	7		0–5	0–4	1–1	—	1–0
5	Montenegro	8	0	0	8	2	28	−26	0		0–3	1–3	0–3	0–4	—

Source: UEFA

3 September 2019 (2019-09-03)	Ukraine	0–8	Germany	Arena Lviv, Lviv
16:00 (17:00 EEST)		Report	Däbritz 5', 80', 88' Magull 29' Rauch 32' Oberdorf 54' Huth 85' Maier 90+2'	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)

5 October 2019 (2019-10-05)	Germany	v	Ukraine	New Tivoli, Aachen
14:00		Report

8 October 2019 (2019-10-08)	Republic of Ireland	v	Ukraine	Tallaght Stadium, Dublin
(IST)		Report

10 April 2020 (2020-04-10)	Montenegro	v	Ukraine
		Report

14 April 2020 (2020-04-14)	Ukraine	v	Greece
(EEST)		Report

5 June 2020 (2020-06-05)	Ukraine	v	Republic of Ireland
(EEST)		Report

9 June 2020 (2020-06-09)	Greece	v	Ukraine
(EEST)		Report

UEFA competitions

UEFA Champions League

Qualifying phase and play-off round

Third qualifying round

More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Club Brugge	4–3	Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	3–3

Group C

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MCI	ATA	SHK	DZG
1	Manchester City	6	4	2	0	16	4	+12	14	Advance to knockout phase	—	5–1	1–1	2–0
2	Atalanta	6	2	1	3	8	12	−4	7	Advance to knockout phase	1–1	—	1–2	2–0
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	3	2	8	13	−5	6	Transfer to Europa League	0–3	0–3	—	2–2
4	Dinamo Zagreb	6	1	2	3	10	13	−3	5		1–4	4–0	3–3	—

Source: UEFA

UEFA Europa League

Second qualifying round

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Budućnost Podgorica	1–4	Zorya Luhansk	1–3	0–1

Third qualifying round

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mariupol	0–4	AZ	0–0	0–4
CSKA Sofia	1–2	Zorya Luhansk	1–1	0–1

Play-off round

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Espanyol	5–3	Zorya Luhansk	3–1	2–2

Group stage

Group B

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MAL	KOB	DKV	LUG
1	Malmö FF	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11	Advance to knockout phase	—	1–1	4–3	2–1
2	Copenhagen	6	2	3	1	5	4	+1	9	Advance to knockout phase	0–1	—	1–1	1–0
3	Dynamo Kyiv	6	1	4	1	7	7	0	7		1–0	1–1	—	1–1
4	Lugano	6	0	3	3	2	5	−3	3		0–0	0–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group I

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	GNT	WLF	STE	OLE
1	Gent	6	3	3	0	11	7	+4	12	Advance to knockout phase	—	2–2	3–2	2–1
2	VfL Wolfsburg	6	3	2	1	9	7	+2	11	Advance to knockout phase	1–3	—	1–0	3–1
3	Saint-Étienne	6	0	4	2	6	8	−2	4		0–0	1–1	—	1–1
4	Oleksandriya	6	0	3	3	6	10	−4	3		1–1	0–1	2–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Knockout phase

Round of 32

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Shakhtar Donetsk	5–4	Benfica	2–1	3–3

Round of 16

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
VfL Wolfsburg	1–5	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–2	0–3

Quarter-finals

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Team 1	Score	Team 2
Shakhtar Donetsk	4–1	Basel

Semi-finals

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Team 1	Score	Team 2
Inter Milan	5–0	Shakhtar Donetsk

UEFA Youth League

UEFA Champions League Path

Group C

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	ATA	DZG	MCI	SHK
1	Atalanta	6	4	1	1	10	5	+5	13	Round of 16	—	2–0	1–0	2–2
2	Dinamo Zagreb	6	3	2	1	6	5	+1	11	Play-offs	1–0	—	1–0	1–0
3	Manchester City	6	2	1	3	11	8	+3	7		1–3	2–2	—	5–0
4	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	0	2	4	5	14	−9	2		1–2	1–1	1–3	—

Source: UEFA

Domestic Champions Path

First round

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dynamo Kyiv	10–2	Shkëndija	8–0	2–2

Second round

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dynamo Kyiv	5–2	PAOK	3–0	2–2

Play-offs

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Team 1	Score	Team 2
Dynamo Kyiv	0–0 (3–4 p)	Dinamo Zagreb

UEFA Women's Champions League

Qualifying round

Group 4

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MIN	KHA	SPL	BET
1	FC Minsk	3	3	0	16	1	+15	9	Knockout phase	—	—	2–1	12–0
2	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv (H)	3	2	1	9	4	+5	6		0–2	—	—	6–0
3	Split	3	1	2	10	7	+3	3		—	2–3	—	—
4	Bettembourg	3	0	3	2	25	−23	0		—	—	2–7	—

Source: UEFA^{[dead link]}
(H) Hosts

Men's club football

More information League, Promoted to league ...

League		Promoted to league	Relegated from league
Premier League		Dnipro-1 Kolos Kovalivka	Chornomorets Odesa ~~Arsenal–Kyiv~~
PFL League One		Mynai Kremin Kremenchuk Cherkashchyna Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	~~Sumy~~ ~~Zirka Kropyvnytskyi~~ ~~Kobra Kharkiv~~
PFL League Two	Groups
	A	Uzhhorod Dinaz Vyshhorod Obolon-Brovar-2	none
	B	Alians LD VPK-Ahro Avanhard-2 Chornomorets-2	~~Myr Hornostayivka~~

Note: For all scratched clubs, see section Clubs removed for more details

Premier League

First stage table

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^[a]
1	Shakhtar Donetsk	22	19	2	1	59	14	+45	59	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	22	14	3	5	44	17	+27	45
3	Zorya Luhansk	22	13	4	5	39	18	+21	43
4	Desna Chernihiv	22	13	3	6	36	15	+21	42
5	FC Oleksandriya	22	11	4	7	30	23	+7	37
6	Kolos Kovalivka	22	8	2	12	25	39	−14	26
7	SC Dnipro-1	22	7	4	11	26	34	−8	25^[b]	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	FC Mariupol	22	6	7	9	21	35	−14	25^[b]
9	FC Lviv	22	5	5	12	16	35	−19	20^[c]
10	Vorskla Poltava	22	6	2	14	15	38	−23	20^[c]
11	Olimpik Donetsk	22	5	3	14	17	37	−20	18
12	Karpaty Lviv	22	2	7	13	17	40	−23	13

Source: Ukrainian Premier League, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head higher number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Higher number of goals scored; 7) Draw or "golden match" if tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).^[1]
Notes:

[a]
Teams play each other twice (22 matches), before the league split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last 10 matches.
[b]
Dnipro-1 is ahead of Mariupol on head-to-head goal difference: Dnipro-1 3, Mariupol 1
[c]
Lviv is ahead of Vorskla on head-to-head goal difference: Lviv 4, Vorskla 3

Championship round table

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shakhtar Donetsk (C)	32	26	4	2	80	26	+54	82	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Dynamo Kyiv	32	18	5	9	65	35	+30	59	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Zorya Luhansk	32	17	7	8	50	29	+21	58	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
4	Desna Chernihiv	32	17	5	10	59	33	+26	56	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
5	FC Oleksandriya	32	14	7	11	49	47	+2	49	Qualification for the playoff for Europa League second qualifying round
6	Kolos Kovalivka (O)	32	10	2	20	33	59	−26	32

Source: Ukrainian Premier League, UEFA, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head higher number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Higher number of goals scored; 7) Draw or "golden match" if tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).^[1]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners

Relegation round table

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	SC Dnipro-1	32	15	4	13	42	42	0	49	Qualification for the playoff for Europa League second qualifying round
8	FC Mariupol	32	12	9	11	40	46	−6	45
9	Olimpik Donetsk	32	10	6	16	32	47	−15	36
10	Vorskla Poltava	32	9	7	16	23	48	−25	34
11	FC Lviv	32	5	9	18	25	57	−32	24
12	Karpaty Lviv^[a]	32	2	9	21	19	48	−29	15	Expelled from the league

[a]
Karpaty Lviv was expelled from the league for failing to appear to two games.^[2]

Play-offs for qualification to the UEFA Europa League

Teams that placed 5th and 6th in the Championship group with the teams placed 7th and 8th in the Relegation group played the one-leg play-off for one more berth in the Europa League second qualifying round.^[3] Winners of the semi-final pairs contested in one-leg final game the last berth to the UEFA Europa League.^[4] If the winners of the 2019–20 Ukrainian Cup Dynamo Kyiv hadn't already clinched the berth to the European competitions by the league performance, the play-off would have been set among teams placed 4th, 5th and 6th in the Championship group and 7th in the Relegation group in the same way.

Kolos Kovalivka won the play-off on 29 July 2020 after defeating FC Mariupol 1–0 after the extra time in the final.

Semi-finals 25 July 2020			Final 29 July 2020

6th	Kolos Kovalivka	4

7th	SC Dnipro-1	1
			6th	Kolos Kovalivka (a.e.t.)	1

			8th	FC Mariupol	0
5th	FC Oleksandriya	1

8th	FC Mariupol	2

Semi-finals

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Team 1	Score	Team 2
Kolos Kovalivka	4–1	SC Dnipro-1
FC Oleksandriya	1–2	FC Mariupol

25 July 2020

17:00^[5] UTC+3

More information Kolos Kovalivka, 4–1 ...

Kolos Kovalivka	4–1	SC Dnipro-1
Orikhovskyi 22' Antyukh 24', 50' Morozko 87'	Report	Supriaha 48'

Olimpiyskiy NSC, Kyiv

Attendance: 2,915^[a]

Referee: Kateryna Monzul, Kharkiv

25 July 2020

19:30^[5] UTC+3

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FC Oleksandriya	1–2	FC Mariupol
Bezborodko 35'	Report	Polehenko 28' Kashchuk 83'

CSC Nika, Oleksandriya

Attendance: 1,070^[a]

Referee: Anatoliy Abdula, Kharkiv

Final

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Team 1	Score	Team 2
Kolos Kovalivka	1–0 (a.e.t.)	FC Mariupol

29 July 2020

19:30 UTC+3

More information Kolos Kovalivka, 1–0 (a.e.t.) ...

Kolos Kovalivka	1–0 (a.e.t.)	FC Mariupol
Antyukh 95'	Report

Olimpiyskiy NSC, Kyiv

Attendance: 5,073^[a]

Referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi, Kyiv

PFL League 1 (First League)

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Mynai (C, P)	30	19	5	6	51	28	+23	62	Promotion to Ukrainian Premier League^[7]
2	Rukh Lviv (P)	30	18	7	5	51	21	+30	61
3	Inhulets Petrove (P)	30	17	9	4	47	22	+25	60^[b]
4	Ahrobiznes Volochysk	30	19	3	8	52	30	+22	60^[b]
5	Volyn Lutsk	30	17	6	7	57	36	+21	57
6	Obolon-Brovar Kyiv	30	14	9	7	40	31	+9	51^[c]
7	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	30	15	6	9	44	34	+10	51^[c]
8	Avanhard Kramatorsk	30	13	6	11	37	40	−3	45
9	Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni	30	12	3	15	42	48	−6	39^[d]
10	Chornomorets Odesa	30	10	9	11	40	37	+3	39^[d]
11	Mykolaiv	30	8	10	12	45	45	0	34
12	Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	30	9	3	18	44	51	−7	30
13	Kremin Kremenchuk	30	7	6	17	35	57	−22	27
14	Balkany Zorya^[e] (R)	30	5	10	15	27	51	−24	25	Relegation to Ukrainian Second League
15	Metalurh Zaporizhya (Q, R)	30	6	4	20	28	58	−30	22	Qualification to relegation play-offs^[8]^[9]
16	Cherkashchyna Cherkasy (Q, R)	30	1	4	25	23	74	−51	7	Qualification to relegation play-offs^[8]^[9]

Updated to match(es) played on 13 August 2020. Source: PFL Official Website
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored.^[10]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated
Notes:

[a]
Played with attendance restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.^[6]
[b]
Head-to-head goal difference: Inhulets +1, Ahrobiznes -1
[c]
Head-to-head goal difference: Obolon-Brovar +2, Metalist 1925 -2
[d]
Head-to-head goal difference: Hirnyk-Sport +1, Chornomorets -1
[e]
FC Balkany were relegated on own initiative.

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Veres Rivne	3–1	Cherkashchyna Cherkasy	2–0	1–1
Metalurh Zaporizhya	0–3	Alians Lypova Dolyna	0–2	0–1

First match-up

16 August 2020

UTC+3

More information Veres Rivne, 2–0 ...

Veres Rivne	2–0	Cherkashchyna Cherkasy
Petko 56' Yaremenko 90+4'	Report

Kolos Stadium, Mlyniv, Rivne Oblast

Referee: Dmytro Kutakov (Kyiv Oblast)

20 August 2020

UTC+3

More information Cherkashchyna Cherkasy, 1–1 ...

Cherkashchyna Cherkasy	1–1	Veres Rivne
Zakharevych 49'	Report	Makhnyev 18' (pen.)

Arsenal Arena, Shchaslyve, Kyiv Oblast

Attendance: 0

Referee: Viktor Kopievskyi (Kropyvnytskyi)

Veres Rivne won 3–1 on aggregate and was promoted to the 2020–21 Ukrainian First League

Second match-up

16 August 2020

UTC+3

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Metalurh Zaporizhya	0–2	Alians Lypova Dolyna
	Report	Zahynaylov 14' Sharai 60'

Slavutych-Arena, Zaporizhya

Referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi (Kyiv)

20 August 2020

UTC+3

More information Alians Lypova Dolyna, 1–0 ...

Alians Lypova Dolyna	1–0	Metalurh Zaporizhya
Osadchyi 90+4'	Report

Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy

Attendance: 0

Referee: Mykola Balakin (Kyiv Oblast)

Alians Lypova Dolyna won 3–0 on aggregate and was promoted to the 2020–21 Ukrainian First League

PFL League 2 (Second League)

Group A

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Nyva Ternopil (P)	20	12	5	3	27	12	+15	41	Promotion to Ukrainian First League^[11]
2	Polissya Zhytomyr (P)	20	11	6	3	28	11	+17	39	Promotion to Ukrainian First League^[11]
3	Veres Rivne (Q, P)	20	11	3	6	34	23	+11	36	Qualification to promotion play-offs^[11]
4	Dinaz Vyshhorod	20	9	4	7	27	24	+3	31
5	FC Kalush	20	8	5	7	26	20	+6	29^[a]
6	Podillya Khmelnytskyi	20	8	5	7	23	25	−2	29^[a]
7	Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka	20	7	5	8	25	21	+4	26
8	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	20	6	2	12	25	36	−11	20^[b]
9	Nyva Vinnytsia	20	5	5	10	22	28	−6	20^[b]
10	FC Uzhhorod	20	5	4	11	19	36	−17	19
11	Obolon-Brovar-2 Bucha	20	4	4	12	18	38	−20	16	Relegation to Amateurs (canceled)^[11]

Updated to match(es) played on 24 November 2019. Source: PFL Official Website
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored.^[12]
(P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:

[a]
Kalush: 3 pts, +2 gd; Podillia: 3 pts, -2 gd
[b]
Bukovyna: 4 pts; Nyva V.: 1 pts

Group B

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka (P)	20	15	3	2	47	15	+32	48	Promotion to Ukrainian First League^[11]
2	Krystal Kherson (P)	20	15	2	3	47	17	+30	47^[a]	Promotion to Ukrainian First League^[11]
3	Alians Lypova Dolyna (Q, P)	20	15	2	3	51	12	+39	47^[a]	Qualification to promotion play-offs^[11]
4	Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih	20	10	3	7	33	22	+11	33
5	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	20	6	7	7	25	26	−1	25
6	FC Nikopol	20	6	6	8	22	24	−2	24
7	MFC Mykolaiv-2	20	5	8	7	18	32	−14	23	Promotion restrictions
8	Tavriya Simferopol	20	5	2	13	12	32	−20	17
9	Real Pharma Odesa	20	4	4	12	10	38	−28	16
10	Avanhard-2 Kramatorsk	20	3	5	12	15	37	−22	14	Withdrawn after the season
11	Chornomorets-2 Odesa	20	3	4	13	17	42	−25	13	Withdrawn after the season

[a]
Krystal: 3 pts +1 gd; Alians: 3 pts, -1 gd

Championship game

More information FC Nyva Ternopil, Cancelled ...

FC Nyva Ternopil	Cancelled	FC VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka

Cup competitions

Ukrainian Cup

Main bracket

Round of 32
25 September - 2 October

Round of 16
30 October 2019

Quarter-finals
11–12 March 2020

Semi-finals
17–24 June 2020

Final
8 July 2020

25 September 2019

FC Mynai

30 October 2019

Volyn Lutsk

FC Mynai

25 September 2019

FC Lviv

Bukovyna Chernivtsi

11 March

FC Lviv

FC Mynai (p)

1 (6)

25 September 2019

Inhulets Petrove

1 (5)

Ahrobiznes Volochysk

30 October 2019

SC Dnipro-1

Inhulets Petrove

25 September 2019

SC Dnipro-1

Inhulets Petrove (p)

0 (7)

17 June

Karpaty Lviv

0 (6)

FC Mynai

Dynamo Kyiv

30 October 2019

Dynamo Kyiv (a.e.t.)

Shakhtar Donetsk

11 March

Dynamo Kyiv (a.e.t.)

FC Oleksandriya

30 October 2019

FC Oleksandriya (p)

1 (5)

25 September 2019

Zorya Luhansk

1 (4)

Dinaz Vyshhorod (a.e.t.)

8 July

FC Oleksandriya

Dynamo Kyiv

1 (8)

25 September 2019

Vorskla Poltava

1 (7)

Alians Lypova Dolyna

30 October 2019

Balkany Zorya

Alians Lypova Dolyna

25 September 2019

Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni

Obolon-Brovar Kyiv (a.e.t.)

11 March

Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni

Alians Lypova Dolyna

25 September 2019

FC Mariupol

Kremin Kremenchuk

30 October 2019

Olimpik Donetsk

FC Mariupol

2 October 2019

Olimpik Donetsk

Rukh Lviv

24 June

FC Mariupol

FC Mariupol

1 (2)

25 September 2019

Vorskla Poltava

1 (3)

MFC Mykolaiv

30 October 2019

Chornomorets Odesa

MFC Mykolaiv

Desna Chernihiv

12 March

Desna Chernihiv

Vorskla Poltava

30 October 2019

Kolos Kovalivka

Vorskla Poltava

Final

8 July 2020

21:30

More information Dynamo Kyiv, 1–1 (a.e.t.) ...

Dynamo Kyiv	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Vorskla Poltava
Verbič 28'	Report	Stepanyuk 11'
Penalties
Verbič Tsyhankov Kędziora de Pena Andriyevskyi Sydorchuk Shaparenko Mykolenko Shabanov	8–7	Puclin Kane Luizão Opanasenko Ndiaye Chesnakov Perduta Sapay Bayenko

OSC Metalist, Kharkiv

Attendance: 0^{[note 1]}

Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Kharkiv)

Super Cup

28 July 2019

21:00 EEST

More information Dynamo Kyiv, 2–1 ...

Dynamo Kyiv	2–1	Shakhtar Donetsk
Burda 80' Harmash 83'	Report	Patrick 45+2'

Chornomorets Stadium, Odesa

Attendance: 27,400

Referee: Vitaliy Romanov^[13] (Dnipro)^[14]

Women's club football

More information League, Promoted to league ...

League		Promoted to league	Relegated from league
Higher League		Mariupilchanka Mariupol EMS Podillia Vinnytsia	~~Zlahoda-Dnipro-1~~ ~~WFC Lviv~~

Note: For all scratched clubs, see section Clubs removed for more details

Higher League

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv^[a] (C)	18	17	0	1	100	5	+95	51	Qualification to Champions League
2	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	18	15	2	1	67	5	+62	47
3	Voskhod Stara Maiachka^[a]	18	11	2	5	44	28	+16	35
4	Iatran Berestivets	18	7	4	7	19	34	−15	25	Withdrew after the season
5	Iednist-ShVSM Plysky	18	8	0	10	32	17	+15	24	Withdrew, later relegated^[15]
6	Pantery Uman	18	6	3	9	21	57	−36	21
7	Mariupilchanka	18	5	1	12	15	82	−67	16
8	Ladomyr Volodymyr-Volynskyi	18	4	2	12	19	33	−14	14	Withdrew, later returned^[16]
9	EMS Podillia Vinnytsia	18	2	4	12	15	30	−15	10	Withdrew, later returned^[16]
10	Rodyna Kostopil	18	0	2	16	4	45	−41	2	Withdrew, later relegated^[17]

Source: PFL.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored.^[18]
(C) Champions
Notes:

[a]
Participant of the 2019–20 Ukrainian Women's Cup final.

Managerial changes

This is a list of managerial changes among Ukrainian professional football clubs (top two leagues):

More information Team, Outgoing manager ...

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
Zorya Luhansk	Yuriy Vernydub	Mutual consent	31 May 2019^[19]	Pre-season	Viktor Skrypnyk	3 June 2019^[20]	Pre-season
Vorskla Poltava	Vitaliy Kosovskyi (caretaker)	Change of contract	4 June 2019^[21]		Vitaliy Kosovskyi	4 June 2019^[21]
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	Oleksandr Horyainov	Sacked	4 June 2019^[22]		Andriy Demchenko	19 June 2019^[23]
Shakhtar Donetsk	Paulo Fonseca	Signed with A.S. Roma	11 June 2019^[24]		Luís Castro	12 June 2019^[25]
Metalurh Zaporizhya	Oleh Taran	Resigned	13 June 2019^[26]		Ivan Bohatyr	25 June 2019^[27]
Ahrobiznes Volochysk	Andriy Donets'	End of interim Vice president	15 June 2019^[28]		Ostap Markevych	15 June 2019^[28]
Karpaty Lviv	Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi (caretaker)	Change of contract	18 June 2019^[29]		Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi	18 June 2019^[29]
Mynai	Kirill Kurenko	Mutual consent	18 June 2019^[30]		Vasyl Kobin	19 June 2019^[31]
Olimpik Donetsk	Ihor Klymovskyi (interim)	End of interim term	1 July 2019^[32]^[33]		Júlio César Correia	1 July 2019^[33]
Dynamo Kyiv	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	Sacked	14 August 2019^[34]	3rd	Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko	15 August 2019^[35]	3rd
Olimpik Donetsk	Júlio César Correia	Sacked	19 August 2019^[36]	12th	Ihor Klymovskyi (interim)	19 August 2019	12th
Olimpik Donetsk	Ihor Klymovskyi (interim)	End of interim	2 September 2019^[37]	12th	Vicente Gómez	2 September 2019^[37]	12th
Karpaty Lviv	Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi	Sacked	3 September 2019^[38]	11th	Roman Sanzhar	3 September 2019^[38]	11th
Cherkashchyna	Oleksandr Kyrylyuk	Resigned	5 September 2019^[39]	13th	Vitaliy Kobzar (interim)	5 September 2019^[40]	13th
Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni	Volodymyr Mazyar	Mutual consent, health issues, signed with FC Lviv^[41]^[42]^[43]	9 September 2019^[44]	14th	Roman Pasichnychenko (interim)	15 September 2019^[45]	14th
FC Lviv	Bohdan Blavatskyi	Mutual consent	10 September 2019^[46]	10th	Volodymyr Mazyar	10 September 2019^[46]	10th
Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni	Roman Pasichnychenko (interim)	End of interim	16 September 2019^[47]	12th	Ihor Zhabchenko	16 September 2019^[48]^[49]	12th
Chornomorets Odesa	Angel Chervenkov	Resigned	16 September 2019^[50]	10th	Vitaliy Starovik (interim)	16 September 2019^[50]	10th
Kremin Kremenchuk	Ihor Stolovytskyi	Resigned	17 September 2019^[51]	14th	Volodymyr Prokopynenko (interim)	17 September 2019^[51]	14th
Ahrobiznes Volochysk	Ostap Markevych	Mutual Consent	6 October 2019^[52]	7th	Oleksandr Ivanov (interim)	6 October 2019^[53]	7th
Metalurh Zaporizhya	Ivan Bohatyr	Mutual Consent	7 October 2019^[54]	16th	Oleksiy Hodin (interim)	7 October 2019^[54]	16th
MFC Mykolaiv	Serhiy Shyshchenko	Sacked	12 October 2019^[55]	12th	Yuriy Chaus (interim)	16 October 2019^[56]	12th
Chornomorets Odesa	Vitaliy Starovik (interim)	End of interim	14 October 2019^[57]	11th	Ostap Markevych	14 October 2019^[57]	11th
Cherkashchyna Cherkasy	Vitaliy Kobzar (interim)	End of interim	25 October 2019^[58]	15th	Oleksandr Kyrylyuk	25 October 2019^[58]	15th
FC Lviv	Volodymyr Mazyar	Mutual consent	31 October 2019^[59]	12th	Yegishe Melikyan	31 October 2019^[59]	12th
Vorskla Poltava	Vitaliy Kosovskyi	Change of contract	14 November 2019^[60]	12th	Yuriy Maksymov	15 November 2019^[61]	12th
Ahrobiznes Volochysk	Oleksandr Ivanov (interim)	End of interim	6 December 2019^[62]	6th	Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi	10 December 2019^[63]	15th
MFC Mykolaiv	Yuriy Chaus (interim)	End of interim spell	9 December 2019^[64]	12th	Illya Blyznyuk	13 January 2020^[65]	12th
Rukh Lviv	Leonid Kuchuk	Mutual consent	10 December 2019^[66]	1st	Yuriy Bakalov	14 December 2019^[67]	1st
Obolon-Brovar Kyiv	Serhiy Kovalets	Mutual consent	9 January 2020^[68]	5th	Oleh Mazurenko	13 January 2020^[69]	5th
Kremin Kremenchuk	Volodymyr Prokopynenko (interim)	End of interim	3 February 2020^[70]	13th	Volodymyr Prokopynenko	3 February 2020^[70]	13th
Kremin Kremenchuk	Volodymyr Prokopynenko	Resigned	10 February 2020^[71]	13th	Serhiy Svystun	10 February 2020^[72]	13th
Olimpik Donetsk	Vicente Gómez	Mutual consent	13 March 2020^[73]	11th	Ihor Klymovskyi (interim)	13 March 2020^[74]	11th
Chornomorets Odesa	Ostap Markevych	Mutual Consent	April 2020^[75]	10th	Serhiy Kovalets	13 May 2020^[75]	10th
Rukh Lviv	Yuriy Bakalov	Resigned (health concerns)	15 June 2020^[76]	1st	Ivan Fedyk	16 June 2020^[77]	1st
FC Lviv	Yegishe Melikyan	End of contract	21 June 2020^[78]	9th	Giorgi Tsetsadze	22 June 2020^[79]	9th
Obolon-Brovar Kyiv	Oleh Mazurenko	Took time off	8 July 2020^[80]	7th	Valeriy Ivashchenko (interim)	8 July 2020^[80]	7th

Clubs removed

Arsenal–Kyiv withdrew from professional competitions after being relegated from the Premier League.^[81]
PFC Sumy received new ownership during winter break in the face of Serhiy Vashchenko who earlier this season was supposed to become the owner of Kobra Kharkiv.^[82]^[83]^[84]^[85] The new head coach of the Sumy club who had been announced was also former head coach of Kobra, Oleksandr Oliynyk.^{[citation needed]} At the same time according to the former club's director Anatoliy Boiko, on 1 December 2018 PFC Sumy did not have any players on contract. On 11 April 2019, the FFU Control and Disciplinary Committee adopted its decision to strip the club of professional status and exclude the club from any competitions that it is participating currently or in the future.^[86] However the club has a right to file an appeal. Additional separate sanctions were to be also applied against the club's playing and administrative personnel. On 14 April 2019, the chairman of the FFU committee of ethics and fair play Francesco Baranka noted in regards to additional sanctions that PFC Sumy has earned some 10 million euros in match fixing.^[87] More to it, Ukrainian coach Oleksandr Sevidov who held post of head coach consultant in PFC Sumy and previously managed FC Illichivets Mariupol received a lifetime disqualification.^[88]
On 17 February 2019, president of FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi commented on his club's withdrawal from further participation in competitions of the Ukrainian First League.^[89]^[90] The president accused the newly formed NABU and law enforcement authorities in pressure against him. The president of the league expressed his surprise claiming that there seemed no real reason why the club had to withdraw.^[91] On 5 April 2019, the PFL council of leagues adopted its decision to remove FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi from the League as it officially withdrew on 14 March 2019.^[92] On 22 April 2019, the club's vice-president announced that the club will restart from regional competitions with intention to return the club's pro-status in the future.^[93]
Helios Kharkiv, the club reorganized under new management under a new name as FC Kobra Kharkiv.^[94]^[95]^[96] The club merged with another amateur club called the Kobra Football Academy which was playing in the Kharkiv Oblast Football Championship.^[96] On 15 August 2018 the club informed the Professional Football League of Ukraine about withdrawal from professional competitions,^[97] and were later officially expelled from the league.^{[citation needed]}
FC Myr Hornostayivka withdrew from competitions in protest.^[98]
Zlahoda-Dnipro-1 (dissolved)^[99]
WFC Lviv (dissolved)

Notes

[1]
The final was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.

Ukraine national football team

Results and fixtures

2020 UEFA Euro

Ukraine U-21 national football team

2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

Group 8

Ukraine women's national football team

Results and fixtures

Friendlies

2021 UEFA Women's Euro qualifying

Group I

UEFA Champions League

Qualifying phase and play-off round

Third qualifying round

Group C

UEFA Europa League

Second qualifying round

Third qualifying round

Play-off round

Group stage

Group B

Group I

Knockout phase

Round of 32

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

UEFA Youth League

UEFA Champions League Path

Group C

Domestic Champions Path

First round

Second round

Play-offs

UEFA Women's Champions League

Qualifying round

Group 4

Premier League

First stage table

Championship round table

Relegation round table

Play-offs for qualification to the UEFA Europa League

Semi-finals

Final

PFL League 1 (First League)

First match-up

Second match-up

PFL League 2 (Second League)

Group A

Group B

Championship game

Cup competitions

Ukrainian Cup

Main bracket

Final

Super Cup

Higher League

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