Ukrainian Amateur Cup

The Ukrainian Amateur Cup (Кубок України з футболу серед аматорських команд) or AAFU Cup (Кубок ААФУ) is a national cup competition in Ukraine for amateur clubs. The nationwide competition among amateur teams in cup format (Olympic system) was revived in the 1996–97 season and since 2008 the winner receives the right to progress to the Ukrainian Cup which serves professional clubs.

Format
The Cup is intended to be organised between the Cup holders of the regional tournaments, but in reality it is an optional invitational tournament among teams that are delegated by selected regions (oblasts of Ukraine and autonomous republic of Crimea). Regions are not obligated to present their teams or fill their competition berths, there is no limitation on amount of teams from each region. All teams are applying for the competition once the AAFU provides its "registration window" and, if approved by the AAFU, then compete for the competition's trophy.

Traditionally, every play-off (match up) round consists of two legs including the final. The winner of the competition qualifies for the Ukrainian Cup. Most of seasons consist of at least four rounds usually starting with the Round of 16.

Origins of the competition
Originally the competitions were stemmed out of the Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR which was integrated into the Soviet Cup competitions in late 1930s as its qualification stage (first time in 1938). Soon after the World War II the top Ukrainian clubs stopped to participate in the Ukrainian Cup as it has become only a qualification stage of the main tournament.

The 1955 Soviet Cup was the last competition, to which winners of the republican level cup competition were qualifying. Starting from the 1957 all "collectives of physical culture" (KFK, a Soviet terminology for lower grade clubs) were competition in the newly established Soviet Amateur Cup without being able to qualify for the Soviet Cup at all. In this way the Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR was degraded to a regional competition, the best teams of which would qualify for the Soviet Amateur Cup. In 1970s beside the regular Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, there was established additional (parallel) tournament for the non-amateur Ukrainian teams. Until 1981 all matchups were conducting in a single leg format including the final. Starting from 1981 there was introduced the two-leg format (home and away) which was also included for the final matches. This format was first tested out in the Cup competition for the non-amateur Ukrainian teams in 1974 and 1975 seasons. In 1990s the Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR was conducting among the non-amateur Ukrainian teams, while there is no record of the KFK level competitions.

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the first edition of the current competition was organised by the Ukrainian Football Federation for 1996–97. The first Ukrainian Amateur Cup final was played in the spring of 1997 with Domobudivnyk Chernihiv which defeated Krystal Parkhomivka 3–1 on aggregate (results for the two-leg play-off were 1–1 and 2–0).

From the 1997–98 season the competition has been managed by the Ukrainian Football Amateur Association acting on behalf of the Ukrainian Football Federation. An autumn-spring competition period was used until 1998–99 and since then a spring-autumn system has been adopted over the calendar year.

Finals
The club in bold is the winner. Notes:
 * In 1992 there was conducted the Football Cup of the Ukrainian regions (oblasts) (Кубок областей України).

Stadiums
List of stadiums with the biggest number of hosted finals
 * 3 – Yednist Stadium, Plysky, Chernihiv Oblast
 * 2 – Avanhard Stadium, Lutsk
 * 2 – Kolos Stadium, Parkhomivka, Kharkiv Oblast
 * 2 – Metalurh Stadium, Yenakieve, Donetsk Oblast
 * 2 – Nad Buhom Stadium, Kamianka-Buzka, Lviv Oblast
 * 2 – Yuvileinyi Stadium, Bucha, Kyiv Oblast
 * 2 – Kozak Arena, Petropavlivska-Borshchahivka, Kyiv Oblast
 * 2 – Kuziv Stadium, Demnia, Lviv Oblast
 * 2 – Viktoriya Stadium, Mykolaivka, Sumy Oblast
 * 2 – LNZ Arena, Lebedyn, Cherkasy Oblast

Cup for amateur clubs (Ukrainian SSR)
Ukrainian Cup (prize of the "Radyanska Ukrayina" newspaper)

Participated teams by regions
Underlined are current teams in the region with the most seasons played.

Teams with most seasons

 * 19 – ODEK Orzhiv (Riven Oblast)
 * 11 – Yednist Plysky (Chernihiv Oblast)
 * 8 – Olimpiya Savyntsi (Poltava Oblast)
 * 7 – Mayak Sarny (Rivne Oblast)
 * 7 – Kolos Khlibodarivka/Askania-Nova (Kherson Oblast)
 * 6 – FC Mykolaiv (Lviv Oblast)
 * 6 – Zbruch Volochysk (Khmelnytskyi Oblast)