Regional football associations of Ukraine


The Regional football associations in Ukraine are sports organizations in regions of Ukraine with membership in the Ukrainian Association of Football.
In 2000, the Football Federation of Ukraine created the Council of Regions for the development of football in the regions throughout the country. It was dissolved in 2010. Later, it was redesigned as the Assembly of the UAF regions.

Description

There are 24 active members, while the membership of the other 3 associations in occupied territories is suspended due to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of 2025, due to open hostilities by the Russian Federation, only 20 regions carry out their own competitions.
Each region conducts its own championship, while most of them also host the second and third tiers of league competitions. Each region also conducts a regional cup competition as well as some additional regional tournaments. Along with it, each regional association has several smaller regional associations of its own. Note that the Sevastopol City Football Federation cooperates with the Crimean Republican Football Federation and often teams from Sevastopol compete in the championship of the peninsula.
Due to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine, several regions were forced to suspend all sports competition due to war conditions. Following the occupation and annexation of Crimea, the local Republican Crimean Football Federation was taken over by the Russian authorities and, under the UEFA Special Commission mediation, transferred to the Russian Football Union. Later, it was renamed the Crimean Football Union. In 2016 Football Federation of Ukraine revived its own Football Federation of Crimea in Kherson.
Following the occupation of the Eastern Ukraine by the Russian Armed Forces in 2014-2015 under pretense of a separatist movement, football competitions in Luhansk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast were conducted under the auspices of the pro-Russian administration, while in non-occupied territories of the same regions local competitions were resumed in a smaller scale.
Football AssociationYearOfficeMembersCompetitionsLinks
Autonomous Republic of Crimea/Sevastopol1993/1995x15+10/0+18 /
Cherkasy Oblast1991/1997Cherkasy26+71954
Chernihiv Oblast1999Chernihiv15+221947
Chernivtsi Oblast1997Chernivtsi13+121941/1945
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast1993Dnipro34+11
Donetsk Oblast1994Sloviansk39+55suspended
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast1991Ivano-Frankivsk19+13
Kharkiv Oblast1993Kharkiv24+8
Kherson Oblast1996Kherson15+11
Khmelnytskyi Oblast1998Khmelnytskyi26+6no website
Kirovohrad Oblast1995Kropyvnytskyi24+9
Kyiv Oblast/Kyiv1997Kyiv39+6/0+74/
Luhansk Oblast1990Severodonetsk9+9suspended
Lviv Oblast1990Lviv26+15
Mykolaiv Oblast1994Mykolaiv24+6
Odesa Oblast1991Odesa18+12
Poltava Oblast1998Poltava19+6
Rivne OblastRivne20+34
Sumy Oblast1992Sumy16+11
Ternopil Oblast1991Ternopil18+17
Vinnytsia Oblast1992Vinnytsia22+8
Volyn Oblast1997Lutsk20+16
Zakarpattia Oblast1997Mukacheve16+10
Zaporizhzhia Oblast1999Zaporizhzhia10+16
Zhytomyr Oblast1992Zhytomyr13+7