Ukrainian Football Amateur Association
The Amateur Football Association of Ukraine (AAFU) was established March 2, 1998. Under the agreement between the Football Federation of Ukraine and the Association, it is authorized to organize the All-Ukrainian National Championship and Cup tournaments amongst amateur football teams. It is the fourth level of the national competition and is the premier competitions for amateur clubs (professionally non-licensed). Current president of the AAFU is Fedir Shpyh.
The predecessors of this organization were the Soviet-type competitions which were headed directly by the Republican Federation (Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR) during the Soviet times, under the name of competitions of KFK and later were referred simply as the Ukrainian Amateur League (since 1992). The best clubs of that competition were replacing less fortunate clubs of the Soviet Second League and the Ukrainian lower leagues.
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