Ukrainian Third League

The Ukrainian Third League, until 1994 known as the Transitional League, was part of the Ukrainian semi-professional football clubs competitions. In 1994, it was renamed as Third League and granted the status of professionals, but during a winter break of 1995 it was decided to discontinue it and merge back with the Ukrainian Second League.

History

The League as the fourth tier was created after the reorganization once the first championship was completed in 1993. In 1992, original Transitional League was created, which later was transformed into the Ukrainian Second League. The league was created from the pool of clubs of the third tier that did not perform well in the previous season as well as the best new amateur clubs that had won their respective regional competitions.
Throughout its history the League yielded at least four promotions each year. That in turn fueled the rise of the Ukrainian new football clubs, FC Arsenal Kyiv and FC Metalurh Donetsk. At the end of the 1995 season, the League was incorporated back into the Second League and the teams of both Leagues were then split into two groups.
Each season the league was admitting about 10 new clubs from the KFK competitions.
In 1992–93 Ukrainian Transitional League took place several strange nuances. The third placed team withdrew after being granted promotion, the fourth place which in mid-season was forcefully merged with another entity gave away its promotion in favor of the newly acquired entity, another club which was excluded from competitions due to sportsmanship conduct sanctions was reinstated for the next season, out of the last six team, the third from the bottom of the season's standing table was allowed to stay for the next season.

Third League winners

All-time table

Top-20. All names are shown as at the time of the last participation.

	2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League
	2020–21 Ukrainian First League
	2020–21 Ukrainian Second League
	2020–21 Ukrainian Football Amateur League
	2020 Regional competitions
	Club is defunct

Participated teams by regions

In bold are teams that played at least 10 seasons. In brackets is a number of seasons.

Region	Teams
Crimea	Frunzenets Saky, More Feodosia, Voikovets Kerch, Surozh Sudak
Cherkasy Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast
Chernivtsi Oblast	Lada Chernivtsi
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	Prometei Dniprodzerzhynsk, Sirius Zhovti Vody, Metalurh Novomoskovsk
Donetsk Oblast	Silur Khartsyzk, Shakhtar Horlivka, Antratsyt Kirovske, Prometei Shakhtarsk
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	Khutrovyk Tysmenytsia, Beskyd Nadvirna
Kharkiv Oblast	Olimpik Kharkiv, Oskil Kupiansk
Kherson Oblast	Tavriya Novotroitske
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	Advis Khmelnytskyi
Kyiv City	CSKA (ZSU)
Kyiv Oblast	Nyva(-Borysfen) Myronivka, Systema-Boreks (Hart) Borodianka, Skhid Slavutych
Kirovohrad Oblast
Lviv Oblast	Promin Volia Baranetska, Avanhard Zhydachiv, FC Lviv, Medyk Morshyn, Skify-LAZ Lviv
Luhansk Oblast	Dynamo Luhansk, Avanhard-Industriya Rovenky, FC Shakhtar Stakhanov
Mykolaiv Oblast
Odesa Oblast	Dnistrovets Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Poltava Oblast	Naftokhimik Kremenchuk, Vahonobudivnyk Kremenchuk, Sula Lubny
Rivne Oblast
Sumy Oblast	Elektron Romny
Ternopil Oblast	Lysonia Berezhany, Dnister Zalishchyky
Vinnytsia Oblast
Volyn Oblast
Zakarpattia Oblast	Fetrovyk Khust
Zaporizhzhia Oblast	Torpedo Melitopol, Viktor Zaporizhia
Zhytomyr Oblast	Keramik Baranivka