# 1996–97 Ukrainian Amateur Cup

The 1996–97 Ukrainian Amateur Cup was the inaugural annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition for amateur football teams. The competition started on 29 September 1996 and concluded on 8 June 1997.
This was the first season since similar competition for teams of physical culture (KFK) that was conducted in the Soviet Ukraine in 1957 – 1989.

## Participated clubs

In bold are clubs that are active at the same season AAFU championship (parallel round-robin competition).

### Notes
## Competition schedule
### First qualification round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Kolos Luzhany | –/+ | Vyzhybu Berehove | 1:1 | –/+ |
| Zvyahel-93 Novohrad-Volynskyi | 1–4 | Interkas Kyiv | 0–0 | 1–4 |
| Advis-Khutrovyk Khmelnytskyi | –/+ | Nyva Terebovlia | 0–0 | –/+ |
| Slovyanets Konotop | 2–2 (a) | Krystal Parkhomivka | 2–2 | 0–0 |
| Refryzherator Fastiv | 1–2 | Domobudivnyk Chernihiv | 0–1 | 1–1 |
Notes:
* Byes: Druzhba-Elevator Mahdalynivka, Probiy Horodenka, Dynamo Manevychi, Hidroliznyk Olshanske, Monolit Illichivsk, Silur-Trubnyk Khartsyzk, Burevisnyk-Elbrus Kirovohrad

### Second qualification round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Vyzhybu Berehove | 1–2 | FC Probiy Horodenka | 1–0 | 0–2 |
| FC Interkas Kyiv | 5–2 | FC Dynamo Manevychi | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| FC Hidroliznyk Olshanske | 4–1 | FC Monolit Illichivsk | 1–1 | 3–0 |
| FC Nyva Terebovlia | 6–4 | FC Budivelnyk Pustomyty | 4–3 | 2–1 |
| FC Silur-Trubnyk Khartsyzk | 4–2 | FC Burevisnyk-Elbrus Kirovohrad | 1–0 | 3–2 |
| Druzhba-Elevator Mahdalynivka | bye | | | |
| Domobudivnyk Chernihiv | bye | | | |
| Krystal Parkhomivka | bye | | | |
Notes:

### Quarterfinals (1/4)

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Interkas Kyiv | 3–2 | FC Probiy Horodenka | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv | 2–1 | FC Nyva Terebovlya | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| FC Druzhba-Elevator Mahdalynivka | 2–1 | FC Hidrolyznyk Olshanske | 2–0 | 0–1 |
| FC Krystal Parkhomivka | (a) 2–2 | FC Silur-Dynamo Khartsyzk | 0–1 | 2–1 |

### Semifinals (1/2)

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Krystal Parkhomivka | (a) 2–2 | FC Druzhba-Elevator Mahdalynivka | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| FC Interkas Kyiv | 1–3 | FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv | 0–0 | 1–3 |

### Final

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv | 3–1 | FC Krystal Parkhomivka | 1–1 | 2–0 |
Winner of the 1996–97 Ukrainian Football Cup among amateur teams :
* Domobudivnyk Chernihiv (Chernihiv Oblast) 1st time |

## Final standings

| R | Team | O | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts. |
| 1 | Domobudivnyk | Chernihiv | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 16 |
| 2 | Krystal | Kharkiv | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 9 |
| Eliminated in the semi-finals |||||||||||
| 3 | Druzhba-Elevator | Dnipropetrovsk | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6 |
| 4 | Interkas | Kyiv | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 15 |
| Eliminated in the quarter-finals |||||||||||
| 5 | Silur-Dynamo | Donetsk | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 9 |
| 6 | Hidroliznyk | Mykolaiv | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 |
| 7 | Probiy | Ivano-Frankivsk | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | +0 | 4 |
| 8 | Nyva | Ternopil | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 11 |
| Eliminated in the second preliminary round |||||||||||
| 9 | Vyzhybu | Zakarpattia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 7 |
| 10 | Monolit | Odesa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 1 |
| 11 | Budivelnyk | Lviv | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Burevisnyk-Elbrus | Kirovohrad | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 0 |
| 13 | Dynamo | Volyn | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 0 |
| Eliminated in the first preliminary round |||||||||||
| 14 | Slovianets | Sumy | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 2 |
| 15 | Refryzherator | Kyiv | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 16 | Zviahel-93 | Zhytomyr | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 1 |
| withdrew |||||||||||
| 17 | Advis-Khutrovyk | Khmelnytskyi | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0 | 1 |
| 18 | Kolos | Chernivtsi | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | +0 | 1 |