List of Ukrainian football champions
| Founded | 1921 (as the Football champion of the UkrSSR) |
|---|---|
| Country |
 Ukraine
|
| Confederation | UEFA |
| Level on pyramid | Ukrainian football league system |
| Current champions |
FC Shakhtar Donetsk (2016–17) |
| Most championships | FC Dynamo Kyiv (26 titles) |
The Ukrainian football champions (Ukrainian: Чемпіон України з футболу) are currently identified at the annual football competition of the Ukrainian Premier League which is a top league football competition in the country since 2008. The history of the title could be traced to 1921 in varying forms of competition. While Shakhtar Donetsk are the current champions, Dynamo Kyiv has won a record 26 championship titles.
The first national (or rather republican) Ukrainian football championship took place in 1921, just before the official establishment of the Soviet Union. The competition was known as the football championship of cities. It has developed out of a similar tournament that previously took place in the Russian Empire (1912). The detailed information about football competitions in 1920s and early 1930s is scarce. Remarkable is the fact that the dominant team (or teams) of that period was from Kharkiv which until 1934 was the capital of the Soviet pseudo state,Ukrainian SSR. During that time main cities of Ukraine were conducting own annual competitions among which were Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa, at the same time in the east Ukraine existed a separate regional competition of Donets basin (Donbas). Winners of those regional competitions qualified for the football championship of cities, hence the name of the tournament.
Football in the West Ukraine has developed as part of the Central European football competitions that later sprang out of the dissolution of Austria-Hungary. Interrupted by the World War I, later it was completely abolished after the Polish occupation of Ukraine at the end of Polish-Ukrainian War. After Polish occupation Ukrainian clubs of West Ukraine that at first were conducting own competitions eventually joined the Polish Football Association among which are Ukraina Lwow, USC Skala Stryi and several others.
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