Starting next season, the number of teams in the First League will be increased to 20 teams. This decision was made on Tuesday by the Central Council of the Professional Football League. This season, not three teams will "move" from the first to the second division, as was planned earlier, but two.

17-year-old Ukrainian tennis player Viktoriia Kutuzova became the winner of the ITF tournament with a prize fund of $50,000 that ended in French Deauville. In the final, the Ukrainian defeated Bulgarian tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova, seeded No. 2 at the tournament, in two sets: 6:4, 7:6(2).

Twice after headers by Dynamo forwards the ball could have ended up in the visitors' net again. However, after Shatskykh's shot the ball went past the post, and Kleber's falling shot was parried by Tlumak. In the 30th minute the Metalurh goalkeeper had to enter the game once again after Kleber's long-range shot.

In the Spanish city of Bilbao, from November 20 to 23, the second match between humans and computers will take place.

On Wednesday, the last national football teams that will take part in the World Cup, which will be held next year in Germany, were determined. Previously, 27 national teams had already secured the right to participate in the tournament.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko signed the order "On Assigning State Scholarships to Champions and Prize Winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games." Among the state scholarship recipients is also Andriy Roztoka from Volyn.

Ukrainian tennis player Olena Antipina became a finalist at the ITF tournament with a prize fund of $25,000, the Tevlin Challenger in Toronto, Canada, in singles.

Ukraine's youth national team lost the first playoff match for the 2006 European Championship. In Mariupol, the Ukrainian youth team lost 2:3 to the Belgian team. The main destroyer of the Ukrainian team was Kevin Vandenberg, who scored a hat-trick against Andriy Pyatov's goal.