2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League
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The <entity_0> season is the 27th top level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the tenth since the establishment of the <entity_2>. The tournament started on <entity_4> with the competition set to end on 19 <entity_5>. On 7 <entity_4>, Pari-Match announced that it had ended its cooperation with the <entity_2>. On 26 October 2017, the magazine "Futbol" reported quoting the <entity_1> Executive Committee member Artem Frankov that the <entity_2> at its next earliest session will review a possibility to expand the league back to 16 teams starting since the 2019–20 season. On 8 November 2017, a conference took place involving officials of the <entity_2> as well as the <entity_1> (<entity_1>) where its participants were discussing a reorganization of competition system in professional and amateur football. Another issue relating to the Russian military intervention in <entity_6> became serious when FC Dynamo Kyiv failed to arrive to Mariupol for the away game against FC Mariupol on <entity_3>. About a week later, on 24 <entity_4>, Dynamo received recommendation letter from the Ministry of Interior and the Security Service of <entity_6> where it was urged not to travel to Mariupol for a game. The same day Dynamo published its own letter addressed to the <entity_1> and <entity_2> petitioning to transfer the Round 7 game against Mariupol scheduled on <entity_3> to another city. Two days later, on 26 <entity_4>, almost at the same time both the Minister of Interior (Arsen Avakov) and the President of <entity_2> (Volodymyr Heninson) made public announcements assuring in safety of conducting football games in the littoral city of the Sea of Azov. On 28 February 2018, the <entity_2> has officially updated its standings in correspondence to the earlier decision of the <entity_1> CDC of 11 September 2017. Another <entity_2> player submitted his claim to the <entity_1> CDC against its former club FC Stal Kamianske.
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