🇺🇦⚽️🦿This weekend in Kyiv, the Ukrainian Football Federation (UAF) organised the Spring Amputee Football Cup ("League of Mighty)The event brought together war veterans, men and women, from all over the country. This year's event was a real success. The standard of play just keeps getting better and better. The matches were intense and competitive, with some superb goals. 

The Super League brought together the clubs of Bureviy (Kyiv region), Shakhtar (Donetsk/Kyiv), Pokrova AMP&AMP-2 (Lviv), and MSC Dnipro (Cherkassy), and la First League ceux de Khrestonosci (Lutsk, l’un des clubs soutenus par notre programme  UAmpFoot), Vinnytsia AMP, and Dnipro-Chest Nezlamni (Dnipro-Kharkiv).

🥇 In the Super League final, Pokrova Lviv, a pioneering club in amputee football in Ukraine, won a brilliant 3-0 victory over Shakhtar Donetsk. 

📺 The match is available in replay : https://www.youtube.com/live/JRjdasWVOtk

🥇 In the First League final, our friends from Lutsk beat Dnipro 3-1 with an impressive performance.

📺 Replay here : https://www.youtube.com/live/G2SgikL9Xto

🤝 A huge thank you to our partners for their support: the French foundation Ouest-France Solidarité, which enabled us to accompany Zhytomyr, and the American foundation Hope For UkraineTwo new clubs will soon be announced!

🦿⚽️ Amputee football is much more than a sport. It is a powerful tool for physical rehabilitation, psychological reconstruction and social reintegration. It enables amputees, mostly but not exclusively injured veterans, to rediscover a sense of purpose, teammates and belonging.

🇺🇦 This Spring Cup has confirmed one essential thing: the momentum is there. Demand is strong, the needs are, unfortunately, real, and the potential is immense. It has become the national showcase for the sport in Ukraine, a key event for its visibility and development.

That's why we're committed to stepping up our efforts: helping to create new clubs, extending the sport to other regions, and enabling every amputee (and every female player) to find a team close to home.

The Cup was broadcast live on the Federation's YouTube channel, to reach as wide an audience as possible. But above all, and this is the very heart of the Cup and the UAmpFoot programme, the event has enabled many amputees to discover this sport and, perhaps one day, to join this great family.

💪 Amputee football in Ukraine is a tight-knit, resilient and inspiring community, and it's only just beginning to grow. Unfortunately, with nearly 100,000 amputees as a result of the war, the need is immense.