This season competition consisted of four stages as the previous. Few little changes were added this season's format. First two stages were organized in regional principal and were played in two rounds where each team could play another at its home ground. On the first stage each group winners and their immediate runner-ups were to advance to the next part of the competition. The second stage was split in four groups where first two places were advancing to the semifinals. On the second stage teams that played each other in the previous one kept their result from the first stage. The semifinals and finals, on the other hand, were played in one round and this year were organized in the cities of Severodonetsk and Rubizhne

Rubizhne

Rubizhne is a town in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine. Its population is 61,657 .The town started growing from a train station built in 1904....

. The semifinals, in their turn, were split in two groups where first two teams were advancing to the winners final of four. And as the qualifying stages (the first two) the teams that played in semifinals did not play in the final as their results were kept from that stage.

Note: ZALK stands for the Zaporzhian Aliuminum Plant (Kombinat in Ukrainian).

KZEZO stands for the Kakhovkan Factory (Zavod) of Electro-Welding Equipment (Elektro-Zvariuvalnoho Obladnannia).

Group A

Note: Four games were forfeited.

Group B

Note: Dovira-Nyva Vinnytsia forfeited 6 games.

Group C

Note: Last two games Ikar MAKBO 94 Kirovohrad

FC Olimpik Kirovohrad

FC Olimpik Kirovohrad is a professional football team based in Kirovohrad, Ukraine. Olimpik Kirovohrad entered the profession ranks in 2007 competing in the Druha Liha B. Their games are played at...

 forfeited.

Nizhyn withdrew after this qualification.

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group 1

Note: KLO-CSKA Bucha changed to FC KLO Bucha.

KLO Bucha replaced Fakel Varva

FC Fakel Varva

FC Fakel Varva is a Ukrainian football team based in Varva, Chernihiv Oblast.The team spent a short stint in the Ukrainian Second Division. After several successful seasons the team's administration decided to withdraw out of the professional league back to the amateur competitions. Fakel is also...

 in Semifinals.

Group 2

Group 3

Group 1

Group 2

Final Group