Panchyshyn set to referee Shakhtar vs Kudrivka as UPL opening round officials named

The Ukrainian Association of Football has confirmed the officials for matchday 1 of the 2025/26 Ukrainian Premier League. VAR will be used at every match of the Ukrainian championship. Friday, July 31 - 18:00: Zorya vs Kolos, referee Roman Blavatskyi (Lviv), VAR Klym Zabroda (Kyiv). Saturday, August 1 - 13:00: Kryvbas vs Karpaty, referee Oleksandr Afanasyev (Kharkiv), VAR Oleksandr Omelchenko (Sloviansk). 15:30: FC Kharkiv vs Veres, referee Mykhailo Raida (Zakarpattia region), VAR Mykola Balakin (Kyiv region). Sunday, August 2 - 13:00: Chornomorets vs Polissia, referee Andrii Kovalenko (Poltava), VAR Viktor Kopievskyi (Kropyvnytskyi). 15:30: Epitsentr vs Obolon, referee Oleh Kohut (Ternopil), VAR Volodymyr Novokhatnii (Cherkasy). 15:30: Bukovyna vs LNZ, referee Maksym Kozyriatskyi (Zaporizhzhia), VAR Oleksii Derevynskyi (Khmelnytskyi). Monday, August 3 - 18:00: Shakhtar vs Kudrivka, referee Dmytro Panchyshyn (Kharkiv), VAR Denys Shurman (Kharkiv). The opening-round match between Dynamo Kyiv and Livyi Bereh has been postponed to December 2.