YKPAIHIAH Minor leagues

First death to report this season....


Komunalnyk Luhansk 17th in the Persha Liha quietly left the PFL Oct. 17th.

PFL annulled all results.

So typical. Team was just promoted from Druha Liha!!!

WTF!!!

Why win promotion if you are just going to fold if things don't work out in a higher class league? Why not play in Druha Liha and compete and nurture your players. This team was in the amateurs just 2 season ago.

Who is next??? Maybe FC Kharkiv?

 

Its always $$$$$$....

But this team could of done themselves a favour by not pushing so much last season for promotion. They did an injustice by winning a "Championship" only to become "chumps" - losers!

 

In the case of that happening to Surkis - Dynamo would not fold.
Dynamo is bigger than that twerp.

 

Two notables to mention....


Nyva Ternopil were promoted back to Persha Liha when they won the Druha liha hrupa A competition. It took them 7 seasons to regroup and get back to Persha Liha.

In Druha liha hrupa B in the penultimate game of the season between Zirka Kirovohrad and Stal' Dniprodzerzhinsk to basically determine who would garner their own destiny with one game to go - Zirka won the game 2-1 in front of 12,100 fans (The largest crowd in the minor leagues this season).

Next week all they have to do is not lose to Tytan and they will also go back up to Persha Liha. They haven't been in Persha Liha since 2002-03 when they became champions.

 

Yep...

That is what happened. In 2002-03 Zirka were champions of Persha Liha.
Were promoted and came bottom of Vyshcha Liha in 2003-04.
They went bankrupt and asked the PFL to be relegated to Druha Liha.
They lasted two seasons and folded after they could not reorganize their finances.

Then they formed an amateur team and played in the Kirovohrad Oblast competition in 2007 while at the same time Olympik Kirovohrad entered a team in Druha Liha for the 2007-08.

At the begin of this season the two teams did a name switch so that Zirka (which the team name that historically represented Kirovohrad in futbol).

Zirka has improved their performance in the second hald and have a sustained effort to move up in standard. Their stadion is not too shabby as it holds 20,000+.

A team worthy of promotion.

 

I don't think there is no reason about getting excited about the YKPAIHIAH minor leagues....

BUTT

on the weekend the clash between the top 2 teams in Hrupa A - Bukovyna Chernivtsi and Bastion Illchivsk attracted a super crowd of 11,000.

The top attendance in Persha liha is 7,800 for Volyn hosting Sevastapol last week.

 

You can weed thru the Bukovyna forum and maybe find out -

Also check out the pictures of game day.

http://www.forum.fcbukovina.com.ua/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=148&start=200

 

Bukovyna officially promoted to Persha Liha... (Last time they were there was in the 2000-01 season where they finished bottom.)
They join Tytan Armyansk.

Nyva Ternopil officially relegated to Druha liha after one disastrous season.

 

PFC Sevastapol and Volyn Lutsk were officially promoted to the Premier League after today's defeat of FC Lviv by PFC Sevastapol.

It will be PFC Sevastapol's first appearance in the top flight while Volyn returns after a 4 season absence.

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ec_K4dTR4&feature=player_embedded"]Fan violence[/ame] at this weekend's Druha Liha A match between Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka and MFK Mykolajiv.

 

MFK Mykolaiv (Druha Liha A) champions and Olympik Donets'k (Druha Liha B) champions are promoted to Persha Liha for the 2011/12 season.

Second placed teams will have a playoff match to determine who will playoff against the 16th placed team in Persha Liha.

FC Poltava will finish runners up in Druha Liha B and they await their challenger from Druha Liha A. Next weekend is the last game of the season in Druha Liha.

 

I think that some of these "average" towns are starting to wake up and invest in themselves and have something for their citizens...

In this year's amateur competion (4th level) there is a return of Krystal Kherson and Slavutych Cherkassy, teams that have shown signs that they could be returning to the PFL ranks.

The most intersting team in the Amateur competition is "Nove Zhyttja" from Poltavs'ka oblast (*cough* New Life...) a team that has several former international and PL players (such as former DK's Melashchenko). It will be interesting to see who will want to advance to a Druha Liha competition which has been far from competitive in many areas (with teams folding and poorly attended).