At the Skif Stadium in Lviv on 13–14 June, the third round of the Ukrainian Amputee Football Championship Super League (football for people with limb amputations) is taking place. Eight teams from different cities across Ukraine are competing.
In the opening match, the Lviv side Pokrova AMP beat Ivano-Frankivsk’s Bartka 2:0. In the first half, the visitors from Ivano-Frankivsk put up strong resistance, but after the break the Lviv team scored twice and secured a confident victory.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, who was watching the matches, noted that amputee football has its own particular character and that here play people with a tremendous hunger to win.
Pokrova AMP player Oleksandr Hovorukha said that the team followed the coach’s instructions, although they struggled for a long time to break the deadlock. After the first goal, the Lviv side scored again and claimed the win. The footballer has been playing amputee football for almost two years, has experience of competing at international tournaments and pointed out that the level of competition abroad is higher.
«We have already played in the Polish championship for two seasons. The opponents there are a bit stronger, because the Polish league has been running longer and they compete on the international stage. But we also train, and at the end of October we are going to represent Ukraine in the Champions League. We’ll see; we’re hoping for the best possible result,» said Oleksandr Hovorukha.
Over the course of the Lviv round of the Super League, 12 matches will be played — each team will play three games. In addition to Pokrova AMP and Bartka, the championship features Vikings (Ternopil), Metalist 1925 Nezlamni (Kharkiv), MSK Dnipro (Cherkasy), Shakhtar Stalevi (Donetsk), Khrestonostsi (Lutsk) and Kolos Burevii from Kyiv region.
The Pokrova AMP club was founded in Lviv in the autumn of 2023 by the Salesian Fathers of St John Bosco of the UGCC as an amputee football team for people with an amputation or impaired function of one of their limbs. The squad comprises almost fifty players, around 80% of whom are service personnel and veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian war with amputations.
Pokrova AMP are the outright champions of Ukraine for 2025 and holders of the Ukrainian Cup; it is the country’s first amputee football team and the core of the national side. In October 2026, the Lviv club will represent Ukraine in the Champions League in Italy.