page_title: List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries
section_title: Ukraine
hierarchical_section_title: List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries / Full list by country / Ukraine
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context_page_description: The Union of European Football Associations is the administrative and controlling body for European football. It consists of 55 member associations, each of which is responsible for governing football in their respective countries.
  All widely recognised sovereign states located entirely within Europe are members, with the exceptions of the United Kingdom, Monaco and Vatican City. Eight states partially or entirely outside Europe are also members: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Israel, Cyprus and Turkey. The United Kingdom is divided into the four separate football associations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales; each association has a separate UEFA membership. The Faroe Islands, an autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark, also has its own football association which is a member of UEFA. The football association of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory, was approved as a member by UEFA in 2013. Kosovo was approved as a member in 2016, even though it is claimed by Serbia and is not recognised by several other UEFA member states.
  Each UEFA member has its own football league system, except Liechtenstein.
context_section_description: Country: Ukraine
  Football association: Football Federation of Ukraine
  Top-level league: Ukrainian Premier League (Ukrainian: Прем'єр-ліга)
  UEFA ranking: 10th
  Soccerway profile: here
  As a member of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's league operated as a feeder to the national Soviet leagues, meaning that until 1992 the strongest Ukrainian teams did not take part. The Football Federation of Ukraine was formed shortly after the country achieved independence in 1991, and gained UEFA membership the following year. Since the formation of a national league, Dynamo Kyiv have won 15 titles, Shakhtar Donetsk 12, and Tavriya Simferopol one, as of the most recently completed 2018–19 season.
  Through the 2013–14 season, 16 teams participated in the Premier League. However, during that season's winter break, the Euromaidan protests began, soon followed by Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the still-ongoing war in the country's east. These developments led to the league dropping to 14 teams in 2014–15 and 12 in 2016–17.
  Beginning with the 2016–17 season, the league season is divided into two stages. In the first stage, the teams play one another home and away, after which the league splits into two groups, each playing a home-and-away schedule within the group and with table points carrying over intact. The top six teams play to determine the league champion and European qualifying spots, while the bottom six teams play to avoid relegation, with the bottom two at the end of the second stage dropping to the Ukrainian First League.
  Clubs and locations as of 2019–20 season:
  Source: Ukrainian Premier League, Soccerway
caption: Kyiv city home venues of teams in the League. In italics identified clubs that are not from Kiev.
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