Explanation To Organization
- National
The first three levels of the football League system in Ukraine are the professional level competitions, the rest are the amateur and sometimes inconsistent. The first four levels are the national type competitions and divided among three independent football organizations:
- Premier League of Ukraine regulates Ukraine Premier League and its Reserve League;
- Professional Football League of Ukraine regulates the First League and the Second League;
- Association of Amateur Football in Ukraine regulates the National Amateur Championship and Cup.
There is also national youth competition that is consisted of the youth teams from all of the professional clubs as well as some of the amateurs and schools of Olympic Reserve. The competitions are divided among several age group of participants between ages of 14 and 17. Each professional club is obliged to be represented with at least one team in those competitions.
- Regional
The regional competition primarily organized by the football organizations of their respective regions. The regional organizations form the FFU Council of Regions that provides a some degree of uniformity between the competitions of different regions and answers to the Executive Committee of FFU. There are 27 members of the council including representatives from the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol. Similar to the national each regional organization also have a leagues system, but usually do not exceed two levels. There are also cup competitions of each region. The regional youth competitions are organized consequently with the senior competitions and each round of those takes place usually a day prior. Each regional football association has the right upon conclusion of a season recommends the best club or clubs of their choice to the Ukrainian Football Amateur Association.
- Student
There also is the Student Football League. This league is less famous and is completely apart of the league system. The players of the league represent Ukraine in Universiadas as a national team. There were some discussions to spread similar type of competition through Europe. The student national team sometime is composed of professional level players and can be considered as type of a B-team.
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