Lviv Oblast Football Federation

Lviv Oblast Football Federation (LOFF) is a football governing body in the region of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. The federation is a member of the Regional Council of FFU and the collective member of the FFU itself.

History
See also: Lower Level Football Leagues in Interwar Poland and Lwów District League

The Ukrainian sports movement arose in West Ukraine / East Galicia just before the World War I on initiative of professor Ivan Bobersky around 1906.[1] After the war in the recovered Poland, those competitions were conducted under auspices of the Ukrainian Sports Union (Ukrajinskyj Sojuz Sportowyj). However those competitions were not popular and many leading Ukrainian football clubs such as Ukraina Lwow eventually joined the official Polish competitions.

The well organized and publicized Ukrainian football competitions in the region started during World War II as Soviet football competitions in 1940 when the West Ukraine was occupied by the Soviet Red Army (RKKA). All of the original football clubs were dissolved and in their place were created generic Soviet clubs ("proletarian" background) such as Dynamo, Spartak, DO (Dom Ofitserov), and others. During the Nazi occupation in 1941-1944, there was conducted the championship of Halychyna among Ukrainian squads in 1942-44.

After the war, the Soviet football championship of Lviv Oblast within the Soviet Ukraine was reinstated. With fall of the Soviet Union in 1989-91, the competitions phased over as part of independent Ukraine.

Previous champions

Note:

  • In 1993–99 the championship was organized by fall-spring calendar. In 1999 the main competition was shifted back to the summer calendar. Therefore, there are two champions in 1999.
  • In 1992 Tsementnyk became a champion including performance records of first and youth reserve teams, so called "combined record".
  • In 1993–1998 there existed playoffs for "absolute champion" between champions of oblast and city. In the table the "absolute" champion is placed second after the oblast champion.

Winners
  • 4 - 7 clubs (Sokil, SKA, Spartak S., Yavir, Shakhtar Ch., Rava, Rukh, Mykolaiv)
  • 3 - 3 clubs (Dynamo, Khimik N.R., Karpaty K.B.)
  • 2 - 6 clubs (Kolhospnyk, Burevisnyk, Silmash, Khimik Dr., Rochyn, Yunist)
  • 1 - 19 clubs

Football championship of Drohobych Oblast

In 1945–1958 there was conducted separate football championship in Drohobych Oblast which later was merged with Lviv Oblast.

Football championship of Halychyna

The competitions were conducted during the occupation by the Nazi Germany within the General Government in 1942-1944 under auspices of the Ukrainian Central Committee from Krakow. The competitions were officially known as the Professor Volodymyr Kubiyovych Cup.[3]

  • 1942 – Ukraina Lwow
  • 1943 – Skala Stryi
  • 1944 – Vatra Drohobych (season unfinished)

Professional clubs

Non-Lviv city professional clubs

Derbies
Photocopy of 1929 article at "Przegląd Sportowy" (Sports Review)
Main article: List of sports derbies in Ukraine

Lviv football derby at professional level started with creation of the Polish league "Ekstraklasa" in 1927 when three Lviv teams became founding members of the league including one of the first Polish champions Pogoń Lwów. The focal Lviv derby before the World War II was between Pogoń Lwów and Czarni Lwów which lasted from 1927 to 1933 when Czarni were relegated.

  • Pogoń – Czarni (3:0/1:3, 4:0/1:1, 2:0/2:1, 0:0/0:1, 2:1/1:1)
  • Pogoń – Hasmonea (1:2/2:2, 2:0/3:0)

The first meeting between two Lviv city teams at Soviet professional level (tier 2) took place in 1949 between Spartak and ODO (SKA). During the Soviet period those teams met only twice and all in one season. Later however more lasting derby existed between SKA and Karpaty that also played at tier 2.

See also

Notes

    References
    1. Ukrainian physical training (Українське тіловиховання). Lvivski visti (by Zbruc). 10 September 1941
    2. ЗВИТЯЖЦІ ФУТБОЛЬНОГО КРАЮ. Ukrainian Association of Football. 26 January 2010
    3. Competitors of the football region (Звитяжці футбольного краю). Football Federation of Ukraine. 26 January 2010
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