September 27-28 in Lviv at the «Skiif» stadium will take place the second round of the Ukrainian amputee football championship, which the Ukrainian Football Association officially launched in August.

After the matches of the first round, the tournament table looks like this.

Graph by UAF

Participants

«MSK Dnipro» (Cherkasy), «Pokrova AMP» (Lviv), «Shakhtar Stalevi» (Donetsk), «Burivyj» (Kyiv region), «Crusaders» (Lutsk), «Vinnytsia AMP» (Vinnytsia), «Neslomni» (Kharkiv), «Titans» (Zhytomyr), FC «Bartka» (Ivano-Frankivsk), «Vikings» (Ternopil).

The championship will run until December 2025. Matches will take place in Kyiv, the Kyiv region, Lviv, Cherkasy and Ivano-Frankivsk.

The tournament is implemented with the support of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, and the Agency for Mass Sport of Ukraine.

Official partners of the Ukrainian amputee football championship include Mastercard and Oschadbank. Project partners also include match broadcaster MEGOGO, Ukrzaliznytsia, «Lvivske», adidas, and the Canada-Ukraine Foundation.

Championship matches are broadcast on the YouTube channel of UAF.

Come to Lviv's «Skiif» stadium on September 27-28 to support the athletes and feel the true power of spirit!

Graph by UAF

*Amputee football — is a sport for people with amputations or congenital limb deficiencies. The game follows these main rules. There are 7 players on the field (6 outfield and goalkeeper). Outfield players must have an amputation or lower limb deficiency, while the goalkeeper must have an upper limb deficiency. Outfield players move around the pitch using crutches without prosthetics, while goalkeepers play without crutches. The game consists of two halves of 25 minutes each with a 10-minute break in between. The playing area is smaller than a standard football field (60x40 m). Adapted rules of football are used with an emphasis on player safety. There are women's, men's and mixed teams. This dynamic and exciting sport promotes inclusion and inspires with its spirit of struggle and teamwork.

Over 100,000 people in Ukraine live with amputated limbs. For many of them, amputee football opens the way to physical and psychological recovery, returning to an active life and joining a community of like-minded individuals.

*«League of Strength» — is a social project by the Ukrainian Football Association that helps people with amputations or limb deficiencies to return to an active life and find inspiration through sports. The project covers a wide range of tasks: recruiting new players, creating teams in cities, organizing training sessions, preparing professionals (coaches and managers), as well as equipping teams with full-fledged sporting equipment. UAF also develops the competitive component: hosting cups and initiating championships. Official partners of «League of Strength» include Mastercard and Oschadbank.

In a year, amputee football centers were established in 18 cities across Ukraine: Boryspil, Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Lutsk, Lviv, Odesa, Rivne, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi and Chernihiv. The project spurred the creation of 20 teams that are dynamically developing and contributing to the popularization of amputee football throughout Ukraine. In total, over 500 players have been recruited who actively train, develop their skills, and participate in competitions.

In January 2025, the first tournament, the Winter Cup «League of Strength», took place with five teams participating. In March, the «League of Strength» team played an historic match against the Red Flamingos in Belgium and won 1-0. And already in May, the second tournament — the Spring Cup «League of Strength»— took place with eight teams participating.

Less than a year after its establishment, «League of Strength» became a laureate in the prestigious UEFA FootbALL Awards 2025 in the category of «National Association».

*UAF Foundation — is a charitable foundation established by the Ukrainian Football Association that implements social projects and fundraising aimed at developing football in Ukraine. The main areas of activity of the foundation include adaptive football, mass children's football, women's football, social support, and restoring sports infrastructure. The foundation also initiates projects related to combating war consequences, using the unifying power of football for positive changes in society.