1959 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR

The 1959 Football Championship of UkrSSR were part of the 1959 Soviet republican football competitions in the Soviet Ukraine. This was the last time such competitions were conducted at this level. The next season competitions were merged with Class B competitions.

Some 80 teams participated this season and were originally split into 10 groups of eight teams each. The first stage lasted from July 5 to October 4. Winners of all qualification groups formed two semifinal groups which were taking place in Kharkiv and Drohobych on October 17-24. Top two team of semifinal groups proceeded to the final group which was taking place in Kyiv on October 28-31. All final group participants were admitted to the 1960 Ukrainian Class B except for SKVO Odesa, a team of which already competed at team of master's at the level. In addition, eight more teams were admitted to the Class B including six teams from qualification groups.

Following this season, there were established such teams of masters in Ukraine such as FC Mariupol, FC Volyn Lutsk, FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi, FC Avanhard Sumy, FC Desna Chernihiv.

There also were some clone teams that competed at republican level as well as the All-Union level, among which are Avanhard Mykolaiv, SKVO Odesa, Avanhard Simferopol, Chervona Zirka Kirovohrad.

Teams

 * Debut: Khimik Makiivka, Avanhard Dniprodzerzhynsk, Komintern Q/A Kryvyi Rih, KremHESbud, Chervona Zirka Kirovohrad, Avanhard Voznesensk, Avanhard Uman, Avanhard Sumy, Kolhospnyk-2 Poltava, Avanhard Malyn, Chervonohvardiyets Odesa
 * Returining: Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka (one season), Shakhtar Rutchenkove (seven seasons), Avanhard Simferopol (one season), Spartak Kharkiv (one season), Avanhard Druzhkivka (19 seasons), Avanhard Pryluky (one season), Vodnyk Izmail (six seasons)
 * Renamed: Ordzhonikidze Factory Chasiv Yar → Avanhard Chasiv Yar, Avanhard Chernihiv → Chernihiv, Avanhard Mohyliv-Podilskyi → Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Vinnytsia → Avanhard Vinnytsia

Group 1
Last season: Budivelnyk Zaporizhia, Avanhard Velykyi Tokmak, Avanhard Kherson

Group 2
Last season: Burevisnyk Melitopol, Mashynobudivnyk Zaporizhia, Mashynobudivnyk Dnipropetrovsk, Shakhtar Rutchenkove, Avanhard Berdiansk

Champions
Avanhard Zhovti Vody: Yuriy Zinchenko (goalie), Anatoliy Kokhanov (goalie), Leonid Trypolskyi, Aleksandr Lunin (RUS), Anatoliy Havryuk, Leontiy Dobrov, Vladimir Tupichev (RUS), Viktor Stryzhak, Hennadiy Kyrylov, Viktor Sukovitsyn (RUS), Boris Fisher (EST), Borys Tiahai, Viktor Frolov, Yuliy Dmitriyev (RUS).

Coach: Matviy Cherkaskyi

Promoted teams

 * Final group (3): Avanhard Zhovti Vody, Torpedo-KhTZ Kharkiv, Naftovyk Drohobych
 * Other participants (6): Dynamo Khmelnytskyi (7th in group 8), Avanhard Chernivtsi (3rd in group 9), Khimik Severodonetsk (2nd in group 4), Avanhard Sumy (2nd in group 7), Avanhard Kramatorsk (8th in group 3), Avanhard Zhdanov (2nd in group 1)
 * Other teams that did not participate (2): Avanhard Chernihiv, Avanhard Lutsk

Other notes

 * FC Shakhtar Rutchenkove (5th in group 2) merged with FC Avanhard Zhdanov
 * SKVO Odessa was fielding in tournament its reserve squad having its master team already in Class B competitions

Ukrainian clubs at the All-Union level
The Ukrainian SSR was presented with 28 teams of masters (exhibition teams) at the All-Union level:


 * Group A: Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Stalino


 * Group B: Avanhard Mykolaiv, Metalurh Dnipropetrovsk, Metalurh Zaporizhia, Spartak Kherson, Khimik Dniprodzerzhynsk // Avanhard Kharkiv, Kolhospnyk Cherkasy, Arsenal Kyiv, Zirka Kirovohrad, Avanhard Zhytomyr, Avanhard Kryvyi Rih, Kolhospnyk Poltava // – // Lokomotyv Vinnytsia, SKVO Odesa, Chornomorets Odesa, SKVO Lviv, Spartak Uzhhorod, Kolhospnyk Rivno, SCCF Sevastopol, Avanhard Simferopol, Spartak Stanislav, Avanhard Ternopil // Trudovi Rezervy Luhansk, Lokomotyv Stalino, Shakhtar Kadiivka, Shakhtar Horlivka