Since 2014, there is an intention to integrate the amateur competitions in the national football league system, so there would be systematic and well understood promotion and relegation process.
The number of groups was reduced, and their size was increased, yet to the point for the participating teams still be able to compete in their respective regional competitions.
Since the recent reorganization in 2016, the competition format still preserved its 2 phases: The group stage is formed of a pool of teams that play one another in standard double round-robin tournament which spans from fall to spring.
All participating teams may apply to be admitted to Druha Liha (third tier) irrelevant to their placement in a given season of the amateur championship.
Each group winners were advancing to finals which were conducted at predesignated location with a single game round robin tournament.
The group winners, however instead of continuing to the final pool as before, were actually promoted to intermediate level, so called "Transitional League" which existed for just several years as a semi-professional tournament.
The new format basically consisted of two stages with a final tournament chosen in the preselected city as previously in the Soviet competition.
In 2000 the league competitions changed again introducing extra stage (third) to avoid sudden withdrawals and eliminate financially suffering teams.
In 2008 another change followed, which reduced the format back to two stages, however that did not solve the problem to increase the number of teams in the competition.
The 2010 season also saw a record low number of participants in the competition, a pattern that might eliminate the association naturally in any case, due to poor management.
Shakhtar Sverdlovsk (23 seasons), Lokomotyv Znamyanka (22), Metalurh Kupyansk (22), Avanhard Lozova (18), ODEK Orzhiv (18), Shakhtar Oleksandriya (18), Bilshovyk Kyiv (17), Khimik Kalush (17), Naftovyk Dolyna (16), Sokil Lviv (16), Tytan Armyansk (16), Refryzherator Fastiv (15), Sokil Berezhany/Pidhaitsi (15).
The AAFU competitions over time became more of an option rather than a mandatory tier in a football league pyramid hierarchy.