The format of competitions was preserved as in the Soviet competitions where there was six independent groups split by regional principal.
A record of 91 teams participated in competitions.
For the next season the Third League was discontinued and teams were promoted to Second League which was expanded and contained couple of independent groups designed by geographic principle.
In addition to the group winners to the professional competitions were admitted FC Skhid Slavutych which replaced bankrupted Transimpeks during the current season, Olimpiya FC AES Yuzhnoukrainsk was merged with Artania under the same name Olimpiya FC AES Yuzhnoukrainsk, FC Dynamo Odesa replaced Chornomorets-2, Kosmos Pavlohrad was merged with FC Shakhtar Pavlohrad.
Promotion was also granted to three more teams FC Hirnyk Komsomolsk, FC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk, and FC Prometei Dniprodzerzhynsk.