 To the league were included all Ukrainian clubs of the 1991 Soviet Top and First leagues (8 clubs), nine of eleven Ukrainian clubs out the 1991 Soviet Second League (all of them competed in the west zone), the two best teams of the 1991 Soviet Second (lower) League and the winner of the Ukrainian Cup.The FFU president Viktor Bannikov was against to include the Ukrainian Cup winner into the top league.There were opponents of organization of the championship among the most notable was FC Metalurh Zaporizhia.