The “PrivatBank Cup” tournament, which took place in Dnipropetrovsk this year, was an ATP Challenger held from November 15 to 21 on the courts of the “Megaron” tennis club.

Donetsk "Shakhtar" in the rescheduled match of the 14th round in Odesa defeated Lutsk "Volyn" with a score of 3:1 and regained the lead in the Ukrainian championship. The Miners had territorial and playing advantage throughout the match, although "Volyn" also had every chance to score more than one goal.

Dnipropetrovsk's "Dnipro" in its last match of the group stage of the UEFA Cup was defeated away by Spanish "Zaragoza" with a score of 2:1. However, this loss did not prevent the Dnipropetrovsk team from remaining in first place in Group C.

In the new rating list of the Institute of International Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), Kyiv's "Dynamo" and Dnipropetrovsk's "Dnipro" are in 52nd position. Incidentally, for the Dnipro team, this is the highest place in the IFFHS rating during their time in the list of the world's best teams.

Ukrainian Vasyl Ivanchuk became the winner of the European Rapid Chess Championship, which ended on Monday, November 29, in the capital of Armenia. Vasyl Ivanchuk scored 9 points out of 11 possible. In 11 rounds, the Lviv grandmaster achieved seven victories and drew four times.

The match of the 14th round "Volyn" - "Shakhtar", which was supposed to take place last Sunday in Lutsk, has been postponed to December 2. By decision of the PFL Bureau, the game will be held in Odesa.

Famous Ukrainian professional boxers, the Klitschko brothers, are launching an international television campaign featuring world stars of sports, cinema, and music in support of Viktor Yushchenko, the country's presidential candidate.

Today FIFA, based on voting by the world's leading football coaches, reduced the list of candidates from 35 players to three.

According to the post-match protocol, Donetsk "Shakhtar" crushed "Milan" with a score of 12:7. European observers do not recognize the results of the match because the referee allowed the Donetsk team to increase the number of players on the field to thirty men who played with five detached balls!

Kyiv "Dynamo," after the "Volyn" - "Shakhtar" match was postponed, moved into the lead in Ukraine by defeating Kharkiv's "Metalist" in Kyiv with a score of 3:0. Already in the first half, Kleber's long-range shot from about 24 meters hit the corner of the goal - 1:0.