The Association of Amateur Football of Ukraine ( uk, Асоціація аматорського футболу України, AAFU) is a sports organization that administers national competitions of

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

among amateur and children teams. AAFU is a collective member of the

Football Federation of Ukraine The Ukrainian Association of Football (UAF) ( uk, Українська асоціяція футболу, Ukrayins'ka Asotsiyatsiya Futbolu) is the governing body of football in Ukraine. Before 2019 it was known as the Football Federation of Ukra ...

. It was established 2 March 1998 and under the association agreement between the

and the Association, it is authorized to organize the All-Ukrainian National Football Championship and Cup tournaments amongst amateur football teams. The football championship is considered the fourth level of national competition and is the premier competitions for amateur clubs (professionally non-licensed). Current head (formerly presidential post) of the AAFU is Oleksandr Kadenko.

Amateur Championship

The competitions has taken place since 1964. Previously the competitions were administered directly by one of the

committees'. Since 1998 the championship is being organized by the Ukrainian Amateur Football Association.

The AAFU teams at the UEFA Regions' Cup

In 1999–2015, AAFU used to provide a team for

UEFA Regions' Cup The UEFA Regions' Cup is a football competition for amateur teams in Europe, run by UEFA. It was held for the first time in 1999 and has been played biennially since. The 2019 champions are the Lower Silesia team from Poland. The competition was ...

. It was usually a champion of the championship, but there were some exclusions to the rule. The teams did not represent any region in Ukraine, but rather represented Ukrainian amateur football in general. Teams that represented Ukraine at the Regions Cup: *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

– Ukrainian national amateur team, Kyiv *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

– Dnister Ovidiopol *

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– Pivdenstal Yenakiive *

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

– KZEZO Kakhovka as Kakhovka-Kzeso (the Russian-like spelling) *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

– Ivan Odesa *

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

– Bastion Illichivsk, was in fact Bastion-2 Illichivsk as the first team was playing at professional level *

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– Yednist-2 Plysky, the first team

FC Yednist Plysky FC Yednist Plysky was a Ukrainian professional football team from the village of Plysky in Nizhyn Raion of Chernihiv Oblast. The club continues to play in the Chernihiv Oblast football competition. Club history The club was founded in 2001 an ...

at that time played at professional level *

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

– Nove Zhyttia - Putrivka, a united team of both finalists that represent two different regionsKadenko: Amateur tournaments raise their level and authority (Каденко: "Аматорские турниры повышают свой уровень и авторитет")
Football.ua. 25 September 2012 *

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

– AF-Pyatykhatska Volodymyrivka In 2016,

introduced a new separate tournament called FFU Regions' Cup among Ukrainian regions and not related to AAFU. First season, 2015–16 FFU Regions' Cup, was won by the team of Kirovohrad Oblast based on

FC Inhulets-2 Petrove FC Inhulets-2 Petrove was the reserve team of professional Ukrainian football club Inhulets Petrove from the town of Petrove, Kirovohrad Oblast. History The first appearance of the club was in 2013 when they competed in the Kirovohrad oblast Pre ...

, but to the

2017 UEFA Regions' Cup The 2017 UEFA Regions' Cup was the 10th edition of the UEFA Regions' Cup, a football competition for amateur teams in Europe organized by UEFA. Zagreb, which lost to Leinster/Munster (Eastern Region) in the previous edition's final, defeated Muns ...

was sent a team "Ingulee, Kirovograd Region" (in reality represented by

FC Inhulets-3 Petrove FC Inhulets-2 Petrove was the reserve team of professional Ukrainian football club Inhulets Petrove from the town of Petrove, Kirovohrad Oblast. History The first appearance of the club was in 2013 when they competed in the Kirovohrad oblast Pre ...

Amateur Cup

The Cup is organized between the Cup holders of the regional tournaments. Every play-off round consists of two legs including the final. The winner of the tournament is qualified for the

Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup ( uk, Кубок України) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003� ...

Leather Ball Club

All-Ukrainian competitions in association football for a prize of the Leather Ball Club in three age groups (among under-11, under-12, and under-13) for young footballers. The main competition is known as the Coca-Cola Cup. The organizational committee is headed by former Soviet footballer from Ukraine

Andriy Biba Andriy Andriyovych (or Andrei Andreyevich) Biba (russian: Андрей Андреевич Биба; uk, Андрій Андрійович Біба; born 10 August 1937) is a retired Ukrainian football player and coach. Career Biba's first tea ...

. The winner of competitions qualify for the

Danone Nations Cup The Danone Nations Cup is a football tournament for children between the ages of 10 and 12 (U12s category); it is organized every year since 2000 on the initiative of Groupe Danone.Fedir Shpyh Fedir Ivanovych Shpyh ( uk, Федір Іванович Шпиг; born 30 January 1956 - 31 March 2020) was a Ukrainian banker, football functionary, and politician. Biography Shpyh started his career as designer-technician at the Leninska Ku ...

* 2020 — present Oleksandr Kadenko (acting)

References

External links

Official site
{{Football in Ukraine

Amateur An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, autodidacticism, self-taught, user-generated, do it yourself, DI ...