# 2015–16 FFU Regions' Cup

2015–16 FFU Regions' Cup (Ukrainian: Кубок регіонів ФФУ, Kubok rehioniv FFU) was the first season of the Football Federation of Ukraine new competition at regional level. The competition is conducted among football teams of Oblasts (regions) composed of players who compete at oblast championships (regional competitions). The season kicked off on 20 September 2015 and all 25 participants were split into four divisions (Western, Central, Southern, and Eastern).
The winner of the competition was intended to represent Ukraine at the 2017 UEFA Regions' Cup. Before introduction of this competition, Ukraine was represented at the UEFA Regions' Cup usually by the winner of its amateur league (on some occasion the winner of amateur cup competition). The 2015–16 FFU Regions' Cup winner Kirovohrad Oblast consisted majorly out players of Inhulets-3 Petrove which as AF Pyatykhatska competed at the 2015 UEFA Regions' Cup.

## Team allocation
### Distribution

| Qualification round (18 teams) | Qualification round (18 teams) | 18 entrants | |
| Main event (16 teams) | Main event (16 teams) | 7 entrants | 9 winners from the Qualification round |

### Round and draw dates

| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
| Preliminary | Qualifying | 3 September 2015 | 20 September 2015 | 27 September 2015 |
| Main event | Round of 16 | 3 September 2015 | 4 October 2015 | 11 October 2015 |
| Main event | Quarter-finals | TBA | TBD | TBD |
| Main event | Semi-finals | TBA | TBD | TBD |
| Main event | Final | TBA | 30 August 2016 | 30 August 2016 |

## Competition schedule
### Qualification round
#### Western Division

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Chernivtsi Oblast | 2–2 (a) | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Rivne Oblast | 1–0 | Ternopil Oblast | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| Volyn Oblast | 0–4 | Lviv Oblast | 0–2 | 0–2 |

#### Central Division

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Kyiv Oblast | 2–2 (4–5 p) | Chernihiv Oblast | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 1–1 (1–4 p) | Vinnytsia Oblast | 1–0 | 0–1 |

#### Southern Division

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Mykolaiv Oblast | 2–6 | Odesa Oblast | 0–2 | 2–4 |
| Kirovohrad Oblast | 10–2 | Kherson Oblast | 7–0 | 3–2 |

#### Eastern Division

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Donetsk Oblast | 5–1 | Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | 2–0 | 3–1 |
| Poltava Oblast | 4–4 (a) | Luhansk Oblast | 0–3 | 4–1 |

##### Notes

* ^ The team of Odesa Oblast was taken out of the competition for trespassing paragraph 1 of Article 33 of the Regulations and was replaced with the team of Mykolaiv Oblast.

### Round of 16

Most matches were played on 4 and 11 October.

#### Western Division

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Rivne Oblast | 2–4 | Lviv Oblast | 2–0 | 0–4 |
| Chernivtsi Oblast | | Zakarpattia Oblast | 1–2 | |

#### Central Division

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Kyiv City | 2–5 | Vinnytsia Oblast | 0–2 | 2–3 |
| Chernihiv Oblast | 6–3 | Zhytomyr Oblast | 5–0 | 1–3 |

#### Southern Division

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Zaporizhia Oblast | 6–3 | Mykolaiv Oblast | 5–0 | 1–3 |
| Kirovohrad Oblast | | Cherkasy Oblast | 3–0 | |

#### Eastern Division

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Kharkiv Oblast | 3–2 | Poltava Oblast | 3–0 | 0–2 |
| Donetsk Oblast | 0–3 | Sumy Oblast | 0–0 | 0–3 |

##### Notes

* ^ Match postponed to 9 October.
* ^ Match was played on 1 November 2015.
* ^ Match was played on 11 and 18 October. Legs were reversed.
* ^ Matches were played on 14 and 21 October.

### Quarter-finals

Matches were played on 13 and 20 April 2016.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Lviv Oblast | 4–3 | Zakarpattia Oblast | 2–1 | 2–2 |
| Chernihiv Oblast | 3–2 | Vinnytsia Oblast | 1–0 | 2–2 |
| Zaporizhia Oblast | 1–5 | Kirovohrad Oblast | 1–1 | 0–4 |
| Sumy Oblast | w/o | Kharkiv Oblast | 0–1 | |

#### Notes

* ^ The team of Kharkiv Oblast was excluded from competitions for breaching regulations.

### Semi-finals

Matches were played on 15 and 22 May 2016.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Chernihiv Oblast | 3–4 | Lviv Oblast | 3–2 | 0–2 |
| Sumy Oblast | 3–6 | Kirovohrad Oblast | 1–3 | 2–3 |

### Final

Final was originally scheduled to be played on 23 August 2016 at the Bannikov Stadium (according to the Vynnyky Plyus web portal). On 23 August 2016 the FC Inhulets Petrove official website announced that the final would held on 30 August 2016 at the Melnyk Central Stadium in Obukhiv at 16:00.

## Bracket

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Kyiv Oblast | 1 | 1 | 2(4) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Chernihiv Oblast (p) | 1 | 1 | 2(5) | Chernihiv Oblast | 5 | 1 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Zhytomyr Oblast | | | | Zhytomyr Oblast | 0 | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye (no team) | | | | | | | | Chernihiv Oblast | 1 | 2 | 3 | | | | | | |
| Kyiv City | | | | | | | | Vinnytsia Oblast | 0 | 2 | 2 | | | | | | |
| bye (no team) | | | | Kyiv City | 0 | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 1 | 0 | 1(1) | Vinnytsia Oblast | 2 | 3 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Vinnytsia Oblast (p) | 0 | 1 | 1(4) | | | | | | | | | Chernihiv Oblast | 3 | 0 | 3 | | |
| Rivne Oblast | 1 | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | | | Lviv Oblast | 2 | 2 | 4 | | |
| Ternopil Oblast | 0 | 0 | 0 | Rivne Oblast | 2 | 0 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Volyn Oblast | 0 | 0 | 0 | Lviv Oblast | 0 | 4 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Lviv Oblast | 2 | 2 | 4 | | | | | Lviv Oblast | 2 | 2 | 4 | | | | | | |
| Chernivtsi Oblast (away goal rule) | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | | Zakarpattia Oblast | 1 | 2 | 3 | | | | | | |
| Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 0 | 2 | 2 | Chernivtsi Oblast | 1 | ? | ? | | | | | | | | | | |
| Zakarpattia Oblast | | | | Zakarpattia Oblast | 2 | ? | ? | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye (no team) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lviv Oblast | 0 |
| Donetsk Oblast | 2 | 3 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kirovohrad Oblast | 2 |
| Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | 0 | 1 | 1 | Donetsk Oblast | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Sumy Oblast | | | | Sumy Oblast | 0 | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye (no team) | | | | | | | | Sumy Oblast | 0 | + | + | | | | | | |
| Kharkiv Oblast | | | | | | | | Kharkiv Oblast | 1 | – | – | | | | | | |
| bye (no team) | | | | Kharkiv Oblast | 3 | 0 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Poltava Oblast (away goal rule) | 0 | 4 | 4 | Poltava Oblast | 0 | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Luhansk Oblast | 3 | 1 | 4 | | | | | | | | | Sumy Oblast | 1 | 2 | 3 | | |
| Zaporizhia Oblast | | | | | | | | | | | | Kirovohrad Oblast | 3 | 3 | 6 | | |
| bye (no team) | | | | Zaporizhia Oblast | 5 | 1 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Mykolaiv Oblast | 0 | 2 | + | Mykolaiv Oblast | 0 | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Odesa Oblast | 2 | 4 | – | | | | | Zaporizhia Oblast | 1 | 0 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Kirovohrad Oblast | 7 | 3 | 10 | | | | | Kirovohrad Oblast | 1 | 4 | 5 | | | | | | |
| Kherson Oblast | 0 | 2 | 2 | Kirovohrad Oblast | 3 | ? | ? | | | | | | | | | | |
| Cherkasy Oblast | | | | Cherkasy Oblast | 0 | ? | ? | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye (no team) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |