The Ukrainian Association of Football is a non-governmental organization and is a member of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.

The Ukraine national senior team has qualified for the FIFA World Cup once, in 2006, where they reached the quarter-finals led by the former Soviet football star player Oleh Blokhin.

The Ukraine second junior team won the 2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship and made it to the finals of the FIFA U-20 World Cup.

The Ukraine student team won two football tournaments at the Summer Universiade and made it to the finals of another one.

Several amateur level tournaments are played nationally as well as in every region (oblast); for more information, please see Ukrainian football league system.

There is a national competition conducted by all professional clubs of Ukraine and some better sports schools or football academies.

Parallel to that there is an independent Student League which encompasses teams of various universities and institutions of higher education.

The regional amateur football competitions also provide training opportunities for the young soccer stars.

In Imperial Austria on the other hand at around that time started regional competitions at "crownland" level as well as a domestic cup.

Following the war, political situation has changed in Central Europe as the major European empires fell and were fragmented into many smaller national states.

After failing to secure its independence in 1917–1920, Ukraine was torn apart by the Soviet Russia and former Russian province, the restored Poland.

Later, however, some Ukrainian based clubs joined the "Piłka Nożna" (Polish football) competitions among which was Ukraina Lwów.

Some former Polish players from the dissolved clubs joined the new Soviet counterparts, while others moved out of the country, were deported or pursued other goals.

Czechoslovakia that was previously partitioned by its neighbors had its Carpathian Ruthenia occupied by Hungary and teams from the region joined the Hungarian competitions.

Following defeat of the Nazi Germany and its allies, the Soviet Union resumed its domestic competitions including in the newly annexed Carpathian Ruthenia.

With the transformation of the council's (All-Ukrainian Council of Physical Culture) football section into the Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR in 1959, the Ukrainian championship was integrated into the Soviet championship of Master teams in the Class B starting from 1960, which eventually was transformed into the Soviet Second League.

Ukrainian football teams like Ukraina Lwów also existed at that time, but they competed on the amateur level.

In 1939 there was a tournament among seven teams of that region (Kárpátalja), the winner of which would earn the right to participate on the professional level in the Hungarian competitions.

In 1980 the representation of Ukraine was reduced back to five clubs with the classic four: Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, Chornomorets Odesa, and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

Since 1982, those four were joined by Metalist Kharkiv and stayed at the top level to its dissolution in 1991, coincidentally all five of them represent the five metropoleis of Ukraine with over a million in population.

Notes: The independent championship was hastily organized at the start of the spring of 1992 after creation of the Ukrainian Premier League.

As was expected, the five favorites, Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, Chornomorets Odesa, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, and Metalist Kharkiv placed at the top of each group.

In the championship play-off game in Lviv, a sensation took place as the Tavriya Simferopol beat Dynamo Kyiv 1–0.

In the second championship that had a regular League format of 16 teams, the main rival of the Kyivans was Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk which won the first half of the season.

Also couple of newly created teams have emerged, Arsenal Kyiv and Metalurh Donetsk and, in addition, FC Vorskla Poltava has astonished everyone placing the third in the first club's season at the Top Level in 1997.

Nonetheless, Dynamo is still considered the standard of excellence in the country and the primary feeder to the Ukraine national football team.

The FFU and PFL worked together to solve that issue, coming with the plan to force the transitional limitation of the foreign players over the time.

Most remarkable was their participation in the 2009 European season when they had to compete against Dynamo Kyiv to advance to the Quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup 2009.

Later the UEFA Cup edition was won for the first time by the Shakhtar Donetsk, the first club of the independent Ukraine.

The professional football in Ukraine has developed its traditions within the Soviet Union republican and All-Union competitions.