Today starts the 14th football championship of Ukraine. This year again only two western Ukrainian teams are playing in the top division. The management of Lutsk's "Volyn," which only miraculously escaped relegation to the first league last season, recently published its plans for the next season.\nIt seems that the head coach of the Lutsk team, Vitaliy Kvartsyany, has still not decided what tasks he will set for his charges. Most likely, "Volyn" will operate on the principle of – first we'll get into a fight, and then we'll see. There are several reasons for this.\nFirst of all, it concerns the failures of scouting work in the off-season. The club lacked both time and funds to complete its roster and fill weak spots with personnel. This refers to the footballers who left the club in the summer. Perhaps the biggest loss is central defender Tarlan Akhmedov. The Azerbaijani did not come to Lutsk from his homeland, citing an injury. Now the coaches are urgently looking for a replacement for him. It is not excluded that the Lutsk club will again be reinforced with legionnaires. Besides Poles, Belarusians, a Russian, an Estonian and a Serb, the arrival of Bosnian midfielders Branislav Krunić, Zdravko Šaraba and Marko Popović is expected. Things are also bad with playmakers. The talented Azerbaijani Kamal Guliyev went off to seek a better fate at home, and the still USSR champion Serhiy Kovalyets decided to hang up his boots. Kvartsyany will evidently strengthen this playing line only at the last moment. The arrival of a player who performed last year at the Austrian club "Admira-Wacker" is expected. The coach does not name the surname, evidently because lately the Lutsk team, forgive the pun, has not been lucky with buying talents. "Volyn" could not pay out a tidy sum for the Karpaty players Kabanov and Khoma. At the last moment, the transfers of Chernov from "Arsenal," Shevelyukhin from "Dynamo" and the young talent from "Rava-Ruska" Karakevych fell through. In the city people are saying that it is none other than some evil forces standing in the way of buying new players and in this way wanting to drive "Volyn" into the first league.\nAnother headache for Kvartsyany is the incompletely reconstructed "Avanhard" stadium and the reserve team tournament, which will be held in Ukraine for the first time. Local authorities still do not pay proper attention to the main sports arena of the region, therefore, apart from installing plastic seats, erecting the central stand and repairing the premises under the stands, the club could not manage anything more. And "Volyn's" reserves will play in Kovel, since in Lutsk no other stadium fully suited to the requirements of the top league could be found. The club was preparing the "Pidshypnyk" field for the reserves, but there was not enough time to equip places for fans.\nBe that as it may, "Volyn" performed not badly in friendly matches. During the Crimean training camp, the team won three times and lost twice, scoring 10 goals and conceding seven. The calendar also adds optimism: the Lutsk team begins the first round with two home matches against "Tavriya" and "Illichivets." And a good start is already half the battle.