2024 PFL open tournament

2024 PFL open tournament
Season2024–25
Dates2 November 2024 – 2 December 2024
WinnerSkala 1911 Stryi
Top goalscorerDanylo Kolesnyk (Kolos-2)
6 goals

The 2024 PFL open tournament is a friendly competition which was introduced by the Professional Football League of Ukraine in the 2024–25 season. It is the third of a kind competition to which teams were invited on voluntary basis for extra playtime. The last time similar tournament was carried out in the spring of 2023.

On 28 October 2024 with finishing of the Round 12 in the Second League, the third-tier competitions took a winter break until the mid of April of 2025. Next day on 29 October 2024, the PFL administration announced that it will conduct a short tournament in November from 2nd to 30th of November. The tournament was initiated by the Second League clubs. Beside 8 clubs that volunteered to participate, they were also joined by an amateur side from Cherkasy (see Teams section). About a week later on 9 November 2024, the competition was joined by one more team bringing the total number of participants to 10.[1]

The tournament is set to have a group stage and a small play-off stage. The 9 teams were split in two groups by geographic principle where they competed in single round-robin tournament. The winner of each group is expected to contest the tournament title, while runners up would determine the third-place winner. Each team is expected to play around 3-5 games.

Teams

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

Location of teams in the 2024 PFL open tournament
 — Group A            — Group B

Stadiums

Group A
Team Pop. place Stadium Tier
Skala 1911 Stryi, Lviv Oblast Sokil III
Revera 1908 Ivano-Frankivsk Urahan Sports Complex III
Kulykiv-Bilka Kulykiv, Lviv Oblast Arena Kulykiv III
Vilkhivtsi Vilkhivtsi, Zakarpattia Oblast Arena-Park III
Sambir-Nyva-2 Sambir, Lviv Oblast imeni Brovarskoho III
Group B
Team Pop. place Stadium Tier
Karbon Heronymivka, Cherkasy Oblast LNZ training field AM
Kolos-2 Bucha, Kyiv Oblast Yuvileinyi III
Metalist 1925-2[a] Boryspil, Kyiv Oblast Kolos III
Vorskla-2 Poltava Ltava III
Oleksandriya-2 Oleksandriya, Kirovohrad Oblast Olimp III

Notes:

  1. ^ Metalist 1925-2 joined the competition a week later on 9 November 2024.[1]

Group A

Group A league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation SKL KUL NV2 REV VLX
1 Skala 1911 Stryi (Q) 4 3 1 0 11 2 +9 10 Qualification to the title play-off 4–0 5–2
2 Kulykiv-Bilka (Q) 4 2 1 1 7 8 −1 7 Qualification to the third place play-off 2–2 3–1
3 Sambir-Nyva-2 Ternopil 4 1 1 2 5 8 −3 4[a] 0–2 3–2
4 Revera 1908 Ivano-Frankivsk 4 1 1 2 4 6 −2 4[a] 0–0 1–0
5 Vilkhivtsi 4 1 0 3 5 8 −3 3 1–2 2–0
Source: pfl.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Wins; 3) Better goal difference; 4) Most goals scored; 5) If any two or more teams has same number of points advantage receive that team that in games with all its opponents that earned same number of points for tiebreak are applied following criteria – 5.1) Points; 5.2) Wins; 5.3) Better goal difference; 5.4) Most goals scored; 6) In event if all criteria for rule 5 are equal, placing for teams is determined according to general criteria for all teams 1, 2, 3, 4; 7) Draw of lots.[2]
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head points: Sambir-Nyva-2 3; Revera 1908 0
Notes

Group B

Group B league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation OL2 KK2 VP2 MX2 KRB
1 Oleksandriya-2 (Q) 4 4 0 0 13 4 +9 12 Qualification to the title play-off 5–1 3–2
2 Kolos-2 Kovalivka (Q) 4 2 1 1 5 3 +2 7 Qualification to the third place play-off 0–2 3–0[a]
3 Vorskla-2 Poltava 4 2 1 1 7 7 0 7 1–1 2–0 2–0
4 Metalist 1925-2 Kharkiv 4 1 0 3 8 11 −3 3 0–1
5 Karbon Cherkasy 4 0 0 4 5 13 −8 0 1–3 4–5
Source: pfl.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Wins; 3) Better goal difference; 4) Most goals scored; 5) If any two or more teams has same number of points advantage receive that team that in games with all its opponents that earned same number of points for tiebreak are applied following criteria – 5.1) Points; 5.2) Wins; 5.3) Better goal difference; 5.4) Most goals scored; 6) In event if all criteria for rule 5 are equal, placing for teams is determined according to general criteria for all teams 1, 2, 3, 4; 7) Draw of lots.[2]
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:
  1. ^ The match took place at an indoor facility Knyazha Arena in Shchaslyve on 24 November 2024. It ended after 65 minutes of playtime due to loss of power (possibly air siren).[3] The final result was 1:0. Later it became known that result was changed to the technical victor for Kolos-2.
Notes

Play-offs

The winner of each group will be contesting the title, while there also is scheduled the third place game. Both games are selected to be played at the stadium Livyi Bereh.

League's title (2 December)
   
A1 Skala 1911 Stryi 3
B1 Oleksandriya-2 1
Third place (30 November)
A2 Kulykiv-Bilka 2
B2 Kolos-2 Kovalivka 3

Final details

Skala 1911 Stryi3–1FC Oleksandriya-2
(Report)
Livyi Bereh (indoor), Zolocha community
Referee: Arten Hordynskyi (Vinnytsia)
Skala 1911 Stryi:
GK 31 Kyrylo Arkhypchuk
DF 9 Vadym Merdeyev Yellow card 45'
DF 20 Roman Nykolyshyn
DF 18 Denys Harkavenko
DF 26 Ivan Tkachyk downward-facing red arrow 83'
MF 6 Andriy Ralyuchenko (c)
MF 98 Andriy Fesenko Yellow card 88'
MF 11 Ruslan Malskyi downward-facing red arrow 85'
MF 15 Maksym Matsiyevskyi downward-facing red arrow 62'
FW 14 Nazar Hrytsak Yellow card 61' downward-facing red arrow 62'
FW 77 Artur Fedor downward-facing red arrow 80'
Substitutes:
GK 1 Danylo Veklych
DF 2 Oleksandr Rudenko upward-facing green arrow 83'
MF 17 Andriy Petryk upward-facing green arrow 85'
MF 8 Roman Lisovyk upward-facing green arrow 62'
FW 21 Ivan Zhumiha upward-facing green arrow 62'
FW 94 Yaroslav Kravchenko upward-facing green arrow 80'
DF 26 Illya Tsurkan
DF 5 Illya Kozubenko
MF 99 Denys Zavhorodniy
Manager:
Roman Hnativ (acting)
Oleksandriya-2:
GK 1 Viktor Dolhyi
DF 24 Danylo Romanenko
DF 5 Danylo Harazha
DF 4 Yuriy Matviiv
DF 53 Dmytro Hrazhdan downward-facing red arrow 75'
MF 73 Nazar Prokopenko downward-facing red arrow 75'
MF 20 Simon Haloyan Yellow card 33'
MF 14 Maksym Radchenko (c) Yellow card 90+1'
MF 15 Brazil Mateus Amaral downward-facing red arrow 66'
FW 17 Yaroslav Bazayev
FW 25 Oleksandr Zhadan downward-facing red arrow 66'
Substitutes:
GK 31 Yehor Taran
DF 7 Myron Hrebenyuk upward-facing green arrow 75'
MF 11 Nazar Kayda upward-facing green arrow 75'
MF 8 Serhiy Lebedyev upward-facing green arrow 66'
FW 23 Artem Petryk upward-facing green arrow 66'
MF 38 Yevhen Prokopenko
MF 10 Denys Kubenko
MF 21 Illya Ukhan
MF 9 Maksym Astafyev
MF 18 Dmytro Bezkleynyi
Manager:
Viktor Bytsiura

See also

Notes

References