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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)
Soviet competitions (before 1992)

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

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

Alphabetically

Notes: Status

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

List of Ukrainian professional football clubs (teams of masters)

  • 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 second teams

The very first second team in Ukraine that entered league competitions was established by the predecessor of MFC Mykolaiv, Sudnobudivnyk (Sudostroitel). Sudnobudivnyk-2 started to play back in 1937. Participation of second teams during the Soviet period was sporadic and rare particularly at republican and the All-Union levels. Some "teams of masters" also used alternative teams known as "klubnaya" teams, particularly Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk.

  • Sudnobudivnyk-2 Mykolaiv (1937, 1939, 1940, 1946–1949, 1977, 1978, 1985, 1996/97, 2017/18 – 2020/21)
  • Dynamo-2 Kyiv (1938, 1939, 1965, 1992–2015/16)
  • Dynamo Kyiv (klubnaya, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1956)
  • Dynamo-3 Kyiv (+ 1992/93 – 1994/95, 1996/97– 2007/08)
  • Lokomotyv-2 Kyiv (1938)
  • Vorskla-2 (Kolhospnyk-2) Poltava (1959, 1997/98 – 2004/05, 2024/25)
  • Shakhtar-2 Donetsk (+ 1992 – 2005/06)
  • Shakhtar Donetsk (klubnaya, 1967, 1984 – 1986)
  • Shakhtar-3 Donetsk (+ 2000/01 – 2014/15)
  • Lokomotyv Kherson (klubnaya, 1965)
  • Chornomorets-2 Odesa (+ 1992 – 1994/95, 1999/2000 – 2003/04, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2019/20)
  • Karpaty-2 Lviv (+ 1997/98 – 2009/10)
  • Karpaty-3 Lviv (+ 2001/02 – 2003/04)
  • Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk (+ 1997/98 – 2003/04, 2010/11, 2011/12)
  • Dnipro-3 Dnipropetrovsk (+ 2000/01, 2001/02)
  • Metalist-2 Kharkiv (+ 1997/98 – 2004/05)
  • Metalist-3 Kharkiv (+ 1999)
  • Zirka-2 Kirovohrad (+ 1997/98 – 1999/2000)
  • Metalurh-2 Donetsk (+ 1997/98, 2001/02 – 2003/04)
  • Desna-2 Chernihiv (+ 2008)
  • Polissya-2 Zhytomyr (+ 2008)
  • Borysfen-2 Shchaslyve (+ 2008)
  • Yednist-2 Plysky (+)
  • Bukovyna-2 Chernivtsi (+)
  • Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih (+)
  • Arsenal-2 Kharkiv (+)
  • CSKA-3 Kyiv (+)
  • Obolon-2 Kyiv (+)
  • Polihraftekhnika-2 Oleksandriya (+)
  • Inhulets-2 Petrove (+)
  • Inhulets-3 Petrove (+)
  • Bastion-2 Illichivsk (+)
  • Kremin-2 Kremenchuk (+ 2019/20)
  • Naftovyk-2 Okhtyrka (+)
  • Metalurh-2 Zaporizhia (+)
  • Borysfen Dnipro (+ 2019/20, 2020/21)

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

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
1992–93 season
1993–94 season
1994–95 season
1995–96 season
1996–97 season
1997–98 season
1998–99 season

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

1999–00 season
2000–01 season
2001–02 season
2002–03 season
2003–04 season
2004–05 season
2005–06 season
2006–07 season

Second League reduced to two groups

  • none
2007–08 season
2008–09 season
2009–10 season
2010–11 season
2011–12 season
2012–13 season
2013–14 season

Second League reduced to a single group

  • none
2014–15 season
  • none (no promotions whatsoever)
2015–16 season
2016–17 season
2017–18 season

Second League returned to two groups

2018–19 season

List of clubs that were merged (split)

List of clubs successors after relocation

List of clubs that were split (revival of original club)

List of clubs that were "swapped"

References