2015–16 FFU Regions' Cup

2015–16 FFU Regions' Cup
Tournament details
CountryUkraine
Dates20 September 2015 – 30 August 2016
Teams25
Defending championsnone
Final positions
ChampionsKirovohrad Oblast (1st title)
Runner-upLviv Oblast
Third placeChernihiv Oblast
Fourth placeSumy Oblast
2017 UEFA Regions' CupKirovohrad Oblast (Inhulets)
Tournament statistics
Matches played42
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2015–16 FFU Regions' Cup (Ukrainian: Кубок регіонів ФФУ, Kubok rehioniv FFU) was the first season of the Football Federation of Ukraine new competition at regional level. The competition is conducted among football teams of Oblasts (regions) composed of players who compete at oblast championships (regional competitions). The season kicked off on 20 September 2015 and all 25 participants were split into four divisions (Western, Central, Southern, and Eastern).[1]

The winner of the competition was intended to represent Ukraine at the 2017 UEFA Regions' Cup.[2] Before introduction of this competition, Ukraine was represented at the UEFA Regions' Cup usually by the winner of its amateur league (on some occasion the winner of amateur cup competition). The 2015–16 FFU Regions' Cup winner Kirovohrad Oblast consisted majorly out players of Inhulets-3 Petrove which as AF Pyatykhatska competed at the 2015 UEFA Regions' Cup.

Team allocation

Distribution

Qualification round
(18 teams)
  • 18 entrants
Main event
(16 teams)
  • 7 entrants
  • 9 winners from the Qualification round

Round and draw dates

Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Preliminary Qualifying 3 September 2015[3] 20 September 2015 27 September 2015
Main event Round of 16 4 October 2015 11 October 2015
Quarter-finals TBA TBD TBD
Semi-finals TBA TBD TBD
Final TBA TBD

Competition schedule

Qualification round

Western Division

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast 2–2 (a) Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 1–0[4] 1–2
Rivne Oblast Rivne Oblast 1–0 Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast 1–0 0–0
Volyn Oblast Volyn Oblast 0–4 Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast 0–2 0–2

Central Division

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast 2–2 (4–5 p) Chernihiv Oblast Chernihiv Oblast 1–1[5] 1–1
Khmelnytskyi Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast 1–1 (1–4 p) Vinnytsia Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast 1–0 0–1

Southern Division

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Mykolaiv Oblast Mykolaiv Oblast 2–6[A] Odesa Oblast Odesa Oblast 0–2[6] 2–4
Kirovohrad Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast 10–2 Kherson Oblast Kherson Oblast 7–0[7] 3–2

Eastern Division

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Donetsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast 5–1 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 2–0 3–1
Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast 4–4 (a) Luhansk Oblast Luhansk Oblast 0–3 4–1
Notes
  1. ^
    The team of Odesa Oblast was taken out of the competition for trespassing paragraph 1 of Article 33 of the Regulations and was replaced with the team of Mykolaiv Oblast.[8]

Round of 16

All games were scheduled to be played on 4 and 11 October.

Western Division

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Rivne Oblast Rivne Oblast 2–4 Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast 2–0 0–4
Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast Zakarpattia Oblast Zakarpattia Oblast 1–2[B] [B]

Central Division

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Kyiv City Kyiv 2–5 Vinnytsia Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast 0–2 2–3
Chernihiv Oblast Chernihiv Oblast 6–3 Zhytomyr Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast 5–0 1–3

Southern Division

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Zaporizhia Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast 6–3[C] Mykolaiv Oblast Mykolaiv Oblast 5–0 1–3[9]
Kirovohrad Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast [D] Cherkasy Oblast Cherkasy Oblast 3–0

Eastern Division

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Kharkiv Oblast Kharkiv Oblast 3–2 Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast 3–0 0–2
Donetsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast 0–3 Sumy Oblast Sumy Oblast 0–0 0–3
Notes
  1. ^
    Game postponed to 9 October.[8]
  2. ^
    Game will be played on 1 November 2015.[10]
  3. ^
    Games will be played on 11 and 18 October.[8] Legs were reversed.[10]
  4. ^
    Games will be played on 14 and 21 October.[8]

Quarter-finals

Games are scheduled to be played on 13 and 20 April 2016.[11][12]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast 4–3 Zakarpattia Oblast Zakarpattia Oblast 2–1 2–2
Chernihiv Oblast Chernihiv Oblast 3–2 Vinnytsia Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast 1–0 2–2
Zaporizhia Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast 1–5 Kirovohrad Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast 1–1 0–4
Sumy Oblast Sumy Oblast w/o Kharkiv Oblast Kharkiv Oblast 0–1 [E]
Notes
  1. ^
    The team of Kharkiv Oblast was excluded from competitions for breaching regulations.[13]

Semi-finals

Games are scheduled to be played on 15 and 22 May 2016.[11]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Chernihiv Oblast Chernihiv Oblast 3–4 Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast 3–2 0–2
Sumy Oblast Sumy Oblast 3–6 Kirovohrad Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast 1–3[14] 2–3

Final

Final was scheduled to be played on 23 August 2016[11] at the Bannikov Stadium (according to the Vynnyky Plyus web portal).[15] On 23 August 2016 the FC Inhulets Petrove official website announced that the final will take place on 30 August 2016 at the Melnyk Central Stadium in Obukhiv at 16:00.[16]

30 August 2016 Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast 0–2 Kirovohrad Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast Kolos Stadium, Boryspil
16:00 LST Report Sinchikov 18'
Korchynsky 37'
Markovets Red card 82'

Bracket

Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Kyiv Oblast 1 1 2(4)
Chernihiv Oblast (p) 1 1 2(5) Chernihiv Oblast 5 1 6
Zhytomyr Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast 0 3 3
bye (no team) Chernihiv Oblast 1 2 3
Kyiv City Vinnytsia Oblast 0 2 2
bye (no team) Kyiv City 0 2 2
Khmelnytskyi Oblast 1 0 1(1) Vinnytsia Oblast 2 3 5
Vinnytsia Oblast (p) 0 1 1(4) Chernihiv Oblast 3 0 3
Rivne Oblast 1 0 1 Lviv Oblast 2 2 4
Ternopil Oblast 0 0 0 Rivne Oblast 2 0 2
Volyn Oblast 0 0 0 Lviv Oblast 0 4 4
Lviv Oblast 2 2 4 Lviv Oblast 2 2 4
Chernivtsi Oblast (away goal rule) 1 1 2 Zakarpattia Oblast 1 2 3
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 0 2 2 Chernivtsi Oblast 1 ? ?
Zakarpattia Oblast Zakarpattia Oblast 2 ? ?
bye (no team) Lviv Oblast 0
Donetsk Oblast 2 3 5 Kirovohrad Oblast 2
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 0 1 1 Donetsk Oblast 0 0 0
Sumy Oblast Sumy Oblast 0 3 3
bye (no team) Sumy Oblast 0 + +
Kharkiv Oblast Kharkiv Oblast 1 – –
bye (no team) Kharkiv Oblast 3 0 3
Poltava Oblast (away goal rule) 0 4 4 Poltava Oblast 0 2 2
Luhansk Oblast 3 1 4 Sumy Oblast 1 2 3
Zaporizhia Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast 3 3 6
bye (no team) Zaporizhia Oblast 5 1 6
Mykolaiv Oblast 0 2 + Mykolaiv Oblast 0 3 3
Odesa Oblast 2 4 – Zaporizhia Oblast 1 0 1
Kirovohrad Oblast 7 3 10 Kirovohrad Oblast 1 4 5
Kherson Oblast 0 2 2 Kirovohrad Oblast 3 ? ?
Cherkasy Oblast Cherkasy Oblast 0 ? ?
bye (no team)

See also

References

  1. ^ FFU Regions' Cup started. UA-Football. 21 September 2015
  2. ^ 2017 UEFA Regions' Cup. Ukraine discovered its two opponents in the group. UA-Football. 3 December 2015
  3. ^ There took place a draw of the FFU Regions' Cup. UA-Football. 3 September 2015
  4. ^ In the FFU Regions' Cup, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast team started with a loss. IFFF website. 20 September 2015
  5. ^ Shkarivka in the epicenter of attention. KOFF website. 21 September 2015
  6. ^ In the FFU Regions' Cup Mykolaiv yield to Odesa 0:2. FFMO website.
  7. ^ Defeat in Petrove. HOFF website. 21 September 2015
  8. ^ a b c d There took place first games of Round of 16 of the FFU Regions' Cup. UA-Football. 5 October 2015
  9. ^ Mykolaiv Oblast team took revenge over the Zaporozhians. FF Mykolaiv Oblast website. 19 October 2015
  10. ^ a b There took place the second leg of Round of 16 of the FFU Regions' Cup. UA-Football. 15 October 2015
  11. ^ a b c There took place a draw of quarter and semifinals of the 2015-16 FFU Regions' Cup. Football Federation of Ukraine website. 17 March 2016
  12. ^ There were chosen locations for quarterfinals of the FFU Regions' Cup. Football Federation of Ukraine. 7 April 2016
  13. ^ Semifinalists were identified. Football Federation of Ukraine. 22 April 2016
  14. ^ FFU Regions' Cup semifinals – Sumy - Kirovohrad 1:3 on YouTube (short video)
  15. ^ Football team of Lviv region gained a ticket in Vynnyky to the Ukrainian Regions' Cup final. Vynnyky Plyus portal. 22 May 2016
  16. ^ The FFU Regions' Cup final will take place in Obukhiv. FC Inhulets Petrove website. 23 August 2016