The UPL has announced that the 18th round of the championship will be declared the Memorial Tour in honor of the members of the football fan community who died in the war.
"We would like to emphasize once again that we are all members of one big Ukrainian football family, and a family is never left in trouble.
The Ukrainian Premier League, together with the Tribune of Heroes Foundation, is initiating an all-Ukrainian humanitarian campaign to support the families of fallen soldiers who were members of the fan movement of Ukrainian clubs in civilian life.
The football family, every fan and football player, every club employee, every football journalist do not forget and honor the memory of their best sons who gave their lives for the freedom and independence of our country.
Our football family is always there to comfort and ease the pain of loss to the families of the fallen Heroes.
That is why the UPL is launching a new tradition - the "Tour of Remembrance", which will include a large-scale fundraising, ceremonies to honor the fallen Heroes and visits to matches by the families of the fallen soldiers. The first "Tour of Remembrance" will be the 18th round of the Ukrainian Championship.
All matches will start with a minute of silence in honor of more than 160 football fans who returned from the war "on the shield". Every fan during the match and every football club will be able to join the "Tour of Memory" as part of fundraising for the families of the fallen fans.
We hope that our humanitarian initiative will become a respectful tradition not only in the UPL, and that subsequently the "Memory Tours" will be held in many European championships," the statement said.
