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2024 PFL open tournament
Season	2024–25
Dates	2 November 2024 – 2 December 2024
Winner	Skala 1911 Stryi
Top goalscorer	Danylo Kolesnyk (Kolos-2); 6 goals

The 2024 PFL open tournament is a friendly competition which was introduced by the Professional Football League of Ukraine in the 2024–25 season. It is the third of a kind competition to which teams were invited on voluntary basis for extra playtime. The last time similar tournament was carried out in the spring of 2023.

On 28 October 2024 with finishing of the Round 12 in the Second League, the third-tier competitions took a winter break until the mid of April of 2025. Next day on 29 October 2024, the PFL administration announced that it will conduct a short tournament in November from 2nd to 30th of November. The tournament was initiated by the Second League clubs. Beside 8 clubs that volunteered to participate, they were also joined by an amateur side from Cherkasy (see Teams section). About a week later on 9 November 2024, the competition was joined by one more team bringing the total number of participants to 10.^[1]

The tournament is set to have a group stage and a small play-off stage. The 9 teams were split in two groups by geographic principle where they competed in single round-robin tournament. The winner of each group is expected to contest the tournament title, while runners up would determine the third-place winner. Each team is expected to play around 3-5 games.

Teams

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

Metalist 1925-2

Karbon

Location of teams in the 2024 PFL open tournament

— Group A

— Group B

Stadiums

Group A

Team	Pop. place	Stadium	Tier
Skala 1911	Stryi, Lviv Oblast	Sokil	III
Revera 1908	Ivano-Frankivsk	Urahan Sports Complex	III
Kulykiv-Bilka	Kulykiv, Lviv Oblast	Arena Kulykiv	III
Vilkhivtsi	Vilkhivtsi, Zakarpattia Oblast	Arena-Park	III
Sambir-Nyva-2	Sambir, Lviv Oblast	imeni Brovarskoho	III

Group B

Team	Pop. place	Stadium	Tier
Karbon	Heronymivka, Cherkasy Oblast	LNZ training field	AM
Kolos-2	Bucha, Kyiv Oblast	Yuvileinyi	III
Metalist 1925-2^[a]	Boryspil, Kyiv Oblast	Kolos	III
Vorskla-2	Poltava	Ltava	III
Oleksandriya-2	Oleksandriya, Kirovohrad Oblast	Olimp	III

Notes:

^ Metalist 1925-2 joined the competition a week later on 9 November 2024.^[1]

Group A

Group A league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation	SKL	KUL	NV2	REV	VLX
1	Skala 1911 Stryi (Q)	4	3	1	0	11	2	+9	10	Qualification to the title play-off		4–0			5–2
2	Kulykiv-Bilka (Q)	4	2	1	1	7	8	−1	7	Qualification to the third place play-off			2–2	3–1
3	Sambir-Nyva-2 Ternopil	4	1	1	2	5	8	−3	4^[a]		0–2			3–2
4	Revera 1908 Ivano-Frankivsk	4	1	1	2	4	6	−2	4^[a]		0–0				1–0
5	Vilkhivtsi	4	1	0	3	5	8	−3	3			1–2	2–0

Source: pfl.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Wins; 3) Better goal difference; 4) Most goals scored; 5) If any two or more teams has same number of points advantage receive that team that in games with all its opponents that earned same number of points for tiebreak are applied following criteria – 5.1) Points; 5.2) Wins; 5.3) Better goal difference; 5.4) Most goals scored; 6) In event if all criteria for rule 5 are equal, placing for teams is determined according to general criteria for all teams 1, 2, 3, 4; 7) Draw of lots.^[2]
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head points: Sambir-Nyva-2 3; Revera 1908 0

Notes

Group B

Group B league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation	OL2	KK2	VP2	MX2	KRB
1	Oleksandriya-2 (Q)	4	4	0	0	13	4	+9	12	Qualification to the title play-off			5–1	3–2
2	Kolos-2 Kovalivka (Q)	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7	Qualification to the third place play-off	0–2				3–0^[a]
3	Vorskla-2 Poltava	4	2	1	1	7	7	0	7			1–1		2–0	2–0
4	Metalist 1925-2 Kharkiv	4	1	0	3	8	11	−3	3			0–1
5	Karbon Cherkasy	4	0	0	4	5	13	−8	0		1–3			4–5

Source: pfl.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Wins; 3) Better goal difference; 4) Most goals scored; 5) If any two or more teams has same number of points advantage receive that team that in games with all its opponents that earned same number of points for tiebreak are applied following criteria – 5.1) Points; 5.2) Wins; 5.3) Better goal difference; 5.4) Most goals scored; 6) In event if all criteria for rule 5 are equal, placing for teams is determined according to general criteria for all teams 1, 2, 3, 4; 7) Draw of lots.^[2]
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:

^ The match took place at an indoor facility Knyazha Arena in Shchaslyve on 24 November 2024. It ended after 65 minutes of playtime due to loss of power (possibly air siren).^[3] The final result was 1:0. Later it became known that result was changed to the technical victor for Kolos-2.

Notes

Play-offs

The winner of each group will be contesting the title, while there also is scheduled the third place game. Both games are selected to be played at the stadium Livyi Bereh.

League's title (2 December)

A1	Skala 1911 Stryi	3

B1	Oleksandriya-2	1


Third place (30 November)


A2	Kulykiv-Bilka	2

B2	Kolos-2 Kovalivka	3

Final details

2024-12-02

12:00 LST

Skala 1911 Stryi	3–1	FC Oleksandriya-2
Fedor 65' Fesenko 78' Zhumiha 90+3'	(Report)	Bazayev 72'

Livyi Bereh (indoor), Zolocha community

Referee: Arten Hordynskyi (Vinnytsia)


Skala 1911 Stryi:
GK	31	Kyrylo Arkhypchuk
DF	9	Vadym Merdeyev	45'
DF	20	Roman Nykolyshyn
DF	18	Denys Harkavenko
DF	26	Ivan Tkachyk	83'
MF	6	Andriy Ralyuchenko (c)
MF	98	Andriy Fesenko	88'
MF	11	Ruslan Malskyi	85'
MF	15	Maksym Matsiyevskyi	62'
FW	14	Nazar Hrytsak	61'	62'
FW	77	Artur Fedor	80'
Substitutes:
GK	1	Danylo Veklych
DF	2	Oleksandr Rudenko	83'
MF	17	Andriy Petryk	85'
MF	8	Roman Lisovyk	62'
FW	21	Ivan Zhumiha	62'
FW	94	Yaroslav Kravchenko	80'
DF	26	Illya Tsurkan
DF	5	Illya Kozubenko
MF	99	Denys Zavhorodniy
Manager:
Roman Hnativ (acting)


Oleksandriya-2:
GK	1	Viktor Dolhyi
DF	24	Danylo Romanenko
DF	5	Danylo Harazha
DF	4	Yuriy Matviiv
DF	53	Dmytro Hrazhdan	75'
MF	73	Nazar Prokopenko	75'
MF	20	Simon Haloyan	33'
MF	14	Maksym Radchenko (c)	90+1'
MF	15	Mateus Amaral	66'
FW	17	Yaroslav Bazayev
FW	25	Oleksandr Zhadan	66'
Substitutes:
GK	31	Yehor Taran
DF	7	Myron Hrebenyuk	75'
MF	11	Nazar Kayda	75'
MF	8	Serhiy Lebedyev	66'
FW	23	Artem Petryk	66'
MF	38	Yevhen Prokopenko
MF	10	Denys Kubenko
MF	21	Illya Ukhan
MF	9	Maksym Astafyev
MF	18	Dmytro Bezkleynyi
Manager:
Viktor Bytsiura