A meeting of the UAF Certification Committee on the participation of clubs in the Premier League and the first league of the 2020/2021 season took place

13.08.2020 20:35

Today was the last meeting of the Committee for Attestation of the Ukrainian Football Association before the beginning of the next season, which considered the issues of attestation of football clubs. First of all, they concerned candidates for promotion to the Premier League and the First League. 

After a meeting of committee members and review of additional documents provided by the clubs, seven candidates for the Premier League, who submitted documents ("Ingulets" (Petrove), "Minai" (Minai), "Volyn" (Lutsk), "Rukh" ( Lviv), Obolon-Brovar (Kyiv), Metalist 1925 (Kharkiv) and Chornomorets (Odessa)) are named as meeting the criteria for certification in the top division. In particular, FC Ingulets (Petrove) only today presented its cooperation agreement with a school located in Kropyvnytskyi. There, at the stadium of the local "Stars", the team will hold its matches.

The list does not include FC Agrobusiness (Volochysk), which applied only to play in the first league.

According to the decision of the PFL Council, the first league in the 2020/2021 season has been expanded to 18 participants. Clubs that took the first two places in their groups of the second league are promoted in the class directly - "Niva" (Ternopil), "Polissya" (Zhytomyr), "VPK-Agro" (Shevchenkivka) and "Crystal" (Kherson). All clubs are named as meeting the required certification criteria.

Also meet the criteria of the first league and the third following the season clubs of the second league - "Veres" (Rivne) and "Alliance" (Lypova Dolina), which belongs to playoffs On August 16 and 20, play with the 16th and 15th teams of the first league, respectively.