On Tuesday, a meeting of the PFL Council was held in Kyiv at the building of the State Committee for Sports. The first item on the agenda was the approval of the calendar plan for the second round of the current season. According to PFL President Ravil Safiullin, on Tuesday, November 9, the League received confirmation from 13 representatives of the elite who expressed their agreement with the draft calendar.
The PFL did not receive assessments from three clubs - "Dynamo", "Dnipro" and "Chornomorets". Why "Chornomorets" did not do so remained unclear. The representative of "Dnipro", due to difficult weather conditions in Dnipropetrovsk, was unable to fly to the capital and was not present at the Council. However, the president of Kyiv's "Dynamo", Ihor Surkis, at the meeting expressed his categorical disagreement with the proposed option.
"I got the impression that the developers of this project do not believe that Ukrainian teams will be able to perform successfully at the playoff stage of the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. We did not raise this issue earlier because it was difficult to predict our prospects in the group stage of the Champions League before the matches with 'Real'. Now, when we have real chances of reaching the playoffs of either the Champions League or the UEFA Cup, as the club president I cannot agree with the proposed version of the calendar," said Ihor Surkis.
It should be noted that the draft calendar for the first round of the Ukrainian championship was adopted by all clubs without particular problems. True, already during the first round the calendar was repeatedly criticized by Dynamo's head coach Yozhef Sabo, who was even fined by the PFL for his attacks against this organization.
As a result, the PFL Council decided that after Kyiv's "Dynamo" provides its own draft calendar within a week, it will be sent to the clubs, and after discussion of both options, one of them will be approved in mid-December, reports the newspaper "Komanda".