This weekend will see the start of the Ukrainian championship among UPL clubs for the 2025/26 season. The matches of the 1st round of the championship will take place over four days—from Friday to Monday.

August 1, Friday
“Koloss” — “Kryvbas” (15:30, Kovalivka, “Koloss” stadium)
“Rukh” — “Poltava” (18:00, Lviv, “Ukraine” stadium)
August 2, Saturday
“Veres” — “DYNAMO” (15:30, Rivne, “Avangard” stadium)
“Zorya” — LNZ (18:00, Kyiv, “Dynamo” stadium named after Valery Lobanovsky)
August 3, Sunday
“Kudrivka” — “Oleksandriya” (13:00, Kyiv, “Obolon Arena” stadium)
“Epicenter” — “Shakhtar” (15:30, Ternopil, Ternopil stadium named after Roman Shukhevych)
“Karpaty” — “Polesie” (18:00, Lviv, “Ukraine” stadium)
August 4, Monday
“Metalist 1925” — “Obolon” (18:00, Zhytomyr, Central City Stadium “Polesie”).
