On September 27th and 28th, matches of the second qualifying round of Ukraine's amputee football championship were held in Lviv. The Ukrainian Football Association officially launched this championship in August of this year.

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 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.

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 YouTube channel of the UAF.

*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 the lower limb, while the goalkeeper — upper limb. Outfield players move on prosthetic blades without prostheses, 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 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.

In Ukraine, there live over 100,000 people 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 functional impairments of one limb 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 sports equipment. The UAF also develops the competitive component: conducting cups and initiating championships. Official partners of «League of Strength» include 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 spurred the creation of 20 teams that are dynamically developing, promoting amputee football across Ukraine. In total, over 500 players have been involved in these teams, actively training, improving their skills, and participating in competitions.

In January 2025, the first tournament, the Winter Cup of «League of Strength», was held with five teams. 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 took place — the Spring Cup of «League of Strength», with eight teams participating.

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