• Eighty teams entered the competition. • 3 professional clubs did not enter (Second League: Hazovyk Komarne, Medita Shakhtarsk; Top League: Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) • 14 out of 18 teams of the Transitional League did not enter • 7 regions did not provide their representatives (AR Crimea, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Kyiv City, Kirovohrad, Rivne, Zaporizhzhia)
Distribution First qualifying round entrants • 19 regional representatives • 4 Third League (Dynamo Saky, FC Lviv, Nyva Karapyshi, Torpedo Melitopol) • 20 Second League in whole (Azovets Mariupol, Bazhanovets Makiivka, Chaika Sevastopol, Chornomorets-2 Odesa, Dnister Zalishchyky, Druzhba Berdiansk, Dynamo Luhansk, Halychyna Drohobych, Meliorator Kakhovka, Metalurh Kostiantynivka, Naftokhimik Kremenchuk, Nyva-Borysfen Boryspil, Ros Bila Tserkva, Shakhtar Pavlohrad, Tavria Kherson, Tytan Armiansk, Vahonobudivnyk Stakhanov, Voikovets Kerch, Yavir Krasnopillia, Zirka Kirovohrad) • 20 First League in whole (Artania Ochakiv, Avtomobilist Sumy, Desna Chernihiv, Dnipro Cherkasy, Dynamo-2 Kyiv, Evis Mykolaiv, Khimik Severodonetsk, Khimik Zhytomyr, Krystal Chortkiv, Metalurh Nikopol, Naftovyk Okhtyrka, SC Odesa, Podillia Khmelnytskyi, Polihraftekhnika Oleksandria, Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk, Pryladyst Mukacheve, Skala Stryi, Stal Alchevsk, Vorskla Poltava, Zakarpattia Uzhhorod) • 1 Top League (Veres Rivne) – last season a
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