September 27-28 in Lviv at the "Skif" stadium will take place the second round-robin stage of the Ukrainian amputee football championship, which the Ukrainian Football Association officially launched in August.

Participants

"MSK Dnipro" (Cherkasy), "Pokrova AMP" (Lviv), "Shakhtar Stalevi" (Donetsk), "Burivyj" (Kyiv region), "Crusaders" (Lutsk), "Vinnytsia AMP" (Vinnytsia), "Neslamni" (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 supported by the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, and the Agency for Mass Sport of Ukraine.

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

Matches of the championship will be broadcast on the YouTube channel of the UAF.

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

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*Amputee football is a sport for people with amputations or congenital limb deficiencies. The game follows these basic rules. On the field, there are 7 players (6 outfield and one goalkeeper). Outfield players must have an amputation or deficiency of their lower limbs, while the goalkeeper must have an upper limb amputation. Outfield players move on prosthetic blades without artificial legs, while goalkeepers play without blades. The game consists of two halves of 25 minutes each with a 10-minute break in between. The pitch is smaller than standard football fields (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.

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*«League of the Strong» — 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: attracting 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: holding cups and initiating championships. Official partners of «The League of the Strong» are Mastercard and Oschadbank.

Over the 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 has led to the creation of 20 teams that are dynamically developing and contributing to the popularization of amputee football across Ukraine. In total, over 500 players have been involved in training, skill development, and competitions.

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

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

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*Foundation of the UAF — is a charitable foundation established by the Ukrainian Football Association to implement 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 overcoming the consequences of war, using the unifying power of football for positive changes in society.