Today, September 27 in Lviv matches of the fourth round of the second qualifying stage of the Ukrainian amputee football championship took place, which the Ukrainian Football Association officially launched in August this year. The competitions will continue tomorrow, September 28.

Participants

"MSK Dnipro" (Cherkasy), "Pokrova AMP" (Lviv), "Shakhtar Stalevi" (Donetsk), "Burievoy" (Kyiv region), "Crusaders" (Lutsk), "Vinnytsia AMP" (Vinnytsia), "Invincible" (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 will be broadcast live on the media service MEGOGO and on the UAF YouTube channel.

*Amputee football — is a sport for people with amputations or congenital limb deficiencies. The game follows these main rules. Seven players are on the field (six outfield and one goalkeeper). Outfield players must have an amputation or lower limb deficiency, while the goalkeeper — 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 field is smaller than a standard football pitch (60x40 m). Adapted football rules 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.

In Ukraine, over 100,000 people 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 of 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 sports equipment. UAF also develops the competitive component: holding 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 the country: Boryspil, Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Lutsk, Lviv, Odesa, Rivne, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi and Chernihiv. The project has spurred the creation of 20 teams that are dynamically developing, contributing to the popularization of amputee football throughout Ukraine. In total, over 500 players have been involved in the teams, actively training, improving their skills, and participating in competitions.

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

Less than a year after its inception, "League of Strength" became a laureate of 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.