# 2024 PFL open tournament

The 2024 PFL open tournament was a friendly competition which was introduced by the Professional Football League of Ukraine in the 2024–25 season. It was the third of a kind competition to which teams were invited on voluntary basis for extra playtime. The last time similar tournament was carried out in the spring of 2023.
On 28 October 2024 with finishing of the Round 12 in the Second League, the third-tier competitions took a winter break until the mid of April of 2025. Next day on 29 October 2024, the PFL administration announced that it would conduct a short tournament in November from 2nd to 30th of November. The tournament was initiated by the Second League clubs. Beside 8 clubs that volunteered to participate, they were also joined by an amateur side from Cherkasy (see Teams section). About a week later on 9 November 2024, the competition was joined by one more team bringing the total number of participants to 10.
The tournament had a group stage and a small play-off stage. The 9 teams were split in two groups by geographic principle where they competed in single round-robin tournament. The winner of each group contestes the tournament title, while runners up determined the third-place winner. Each team played three, four, or five matches.

## Teams
### Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

### Stadiums
#### Group A

| Team | Pop. place | Stadium | Tier |
| Skala 1911 | Stryi, Lviv Oblast | Sokil | III |
| Revera 1908 | Ivano-Frankivsk | Urahan Sports Complex | III |
| Kulykiv-Bilka | Kulykiv, Lviv Oblast | Arena Kulykiv | III |
| Vilkhivtsi | Vilkhivtsi, Zakarpattia Oblast | Arena-Park | III |
| Sambir-Nyva-2 | Sambir, Lviv Oblast | imeni Brovarskoho | III |

#### Group B

| Team | Pop. place | Stadium | Tier |
| Karbon | Heronymivka, Cherkasy Oblast | LNZ training field | AM |
| Kolos-2 | Bucha, Kyiv Oblast | Yuvileinyi | III |
| Metalist 1925-2 | Boryspil, Kyiv Oblast | Kolos | III |
| Vorskla-2 | Poltava | Ltava | III |
| Oleksandriya-2 | Oleksandriya, Kirovohrad Oblast | Olimp | III |
Notes:
* ↑ Metalist 1925-2 joined the competition a week later on 9 November 2024.

## Group A
### Group A league table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation | SKL | KUL | NV2 | REV | VLX |
| 1 | Skala 1911 Stryi (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 10 | Qualification to the title play-off | | 4–0 | | | 5–2 |
| 2 | Kulykiv-Bilka (Q) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 7 | Qualification to the third place play-off | | | 2–2 | 3–1 | |
| 3 | Sambir-Nyva-2 Ternopil | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 4 | | 0–2 | | | 3–2 | |
| 4 | Revera 1908 Ivano-Frankivsk | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 4 | | 0–0 | | | | 1–0 |
| 5 | Vilkhivtsi | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 3 | | | 1–2 | 2–0 | | |
* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Sambir-Nyva-2 3; Revera 1908 0

#### Notes
## Group B
### Group B league table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation | OL2 | KK2 | VP2 | MX2 | KRB |
| 1 | Oleksandriya-2 (Q) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 12 | Qualification to the title play-off | | | 5–1 | 3–2 | |
| 2 | Kolos-2 Kovalivka (Q) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 | Qualification to the third place play-off | 0–2 | | | | 3–0 |
| 3 | Vorskla-2 Poltava | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | | | 1–1 | | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| 4 | Metalist 1925-2 Kharkiv | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 3 | | | 0–1 | | | |
| 5 | Karbon Cherkasy | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 13 | −8 | 0 | | 1–3 | | | 4–5 | |
* ↑ The match took place at an indoor facility Knyazha Arena in Shchaslyve on 24 November 2024. It ended after 65 minutes of playtime due to loss of power (possibly air siren). The final result was 1:0. Later it became known that result was changed to the technical victor for Kolos-2.

#### Notes
## Play-offs

The winner of each group contested the title, while there also was the third place match; both matches were played at the stadium Livyi Bereh.
| League's title (2 December) | League's title (2 December) | League's title (2 December) |
| A1 | Skala 1911 Stryi | 3 |
| B1 | Oleksandriya-2 | 1 |
| Third place (30 November) | Third place (30 November) | Third place (30 November) |
| A2 | Kulykiv-Bilka | 2 |
| B2 | Kolos-2 Kovalivka | 3 |

### Final details

Skala 1911 Stryi: :
| GK | 31 | Kyrylo Arkhypchuk |
| DF | 9 | Vadym Merdyeyev | 45' |
| DF | 20 | Roman Nykolyshyn |
| DF | 18 | Denys Harkavenko |
| DF | 26 | Ivan Tkachyk | 83' |
| MF | 6 | Andriy Ralyuchenko (c) |
| MF | 98 | Andriy Fesenko | 88' |
| MF | 11 | Ruslan Malskyi | 85' |
| MF | 15 | Maksym Matsiyevskyi | 62' |
| FW | 14 | Nazar Hrytsak | 61' | 62' |
| FW | 77 | Artur Fedor | 80' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 1 | Danylo Veklych |
| DF | 2 | Oleksandr Rudenko | 83' |
| MF | 17 | Andriy Petryk | 85' |
| MF | 8 | Roman Lisovyk | 62' |
| FW | 21 | Ivan Zhumiha | 62' |
| FW | 94 | Yaroslav Kravchenko | 80' |
| DF | 26 | Illya Tsurkan |
| DF | 5 | Illya Kozubenko |
| MF | 99 | Denys Zavhorodniy |
| Manager: ||||
| Roman Hnativ (acting) ||||
Oleksandriya-2: :
| GK | 1 | Viktor Dolhyi |
| DF | 24 | Danylo Romanenko |
| DF | 5 | Danylo Harazha |
| DF | 4 | Yuriy Matviiv |
| DF | 53 | Dmytro Hrazhdan | 75' |
| MF | 73 | Nazar Prokopenko | 75' |
| MF | 20 | Simon Haloyan | 33' |
| MF | 14 | Maksym Radchenko (c) | 90+1' |
| MF | 15 | Mateus Amaral | 66' |
| FW | 17 | Yaroslav Bazayev |
| FW | 25 | Oleksandr Zhadan | 66' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 31 | Yehor Taran |
| DF | 7 | Myron Hrebenyuk | 75' |
| MF | 11 | Nazar Kayda | 75' |
| MF | 8 | Serhiy Lebedyev | 66' |
| FW | 23 | Artem Petryk | 66' |
| MF | 38 | Yevheniy Prokopenko |
| MF | 10 | Denys Kubenko |
| MF | 21 | Illya Ukhan |
| MF | 9 | Maksym Astafyev |
| MF | 18 | Dmytro Bezkleynyi |
| Manager: ||||
| Viktor Bytsiura ||||