In 1992–1995 he was a deputy director of the Lviv branch of Social Adaptation of Youth Fund under the auspices of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

[14] The combatant who fired the RPG is unknown, and Sadovyi was not home at the time of the explosion,[14] which damaged the roof, beams, and windows.

[18] In the summer of 2016, the Lviv Gribovitsky landfill was closed on court-order, after a fire erupted on-site and claimed the lives of four.

[20] In November 2016, Sadovyi launched a new tram route that connected the central part of the city with the Sykhiv district.

[24] However, in June 2017, due to the severity of the problem – more than 9,000 tons of garbage had accumulated in and around the city – the issue was handed-over to the Lviv Regional State Administration for two years.

[3] On 21 November 2019, the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine announced they suspected Sadovyi of abuse of power.

[31] According to the prosecutors, the plot was also sold at a lower cost than it should have been and without an auction, causing $3.86 million in monetary damages to the Riasne-Ruske village and the state.

A World Health Organization (WHO) team visiting Lviv in March 2020 were refused permission to establish a western Ukraine laboratory as Sadovyi and his staff wished to control data and information flow, contrary to WHO standards.

[37] On his five-day visit to Taiwan, Sadovyi thanked the Taiwanese government for its new US$5 million donation to renovate a rehabilitation center in Lviv.

[46] In 2019, Andriy Sadovyi was accused of selling the city community’s land to the investment company STR at an undervalued price for the construction of an industrial park in 2015.

The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) claims that this deal caused damage to the state and citizens in the amount of over 93.5 million hryvnias.

[48] In 2021, one of the scandals that affected Andriy Sadovyi’s reputation was the international music festival Alfa Jazz Fest.

The scandal arose due to the festival’s general sponsor, the company with Russian capital, «Alfa-Bank».

[49] In 2023, Lviv City Council member, Oleksiy Reznik, and the editorial team of the Lviv information agency "Vholos, " filed a request with the State Bureau of Investigations demanding the opening of a criminal investigation regarding Mayor Andriy Sadovyi′s bonuses to his deputies.

He is a founder and the head of a board of the social organization Lviv Development Institute, head of the Management Council of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptyts’kyi Art and Culture Fund of Greek Church of Ukraine (2000–2002), member of Ukrainian-Polish Cooperation Capital.