Footy 9s is an exciting new sport that is coming to Europe!
Footy 9s is played on rectangular fields, allowing the sport to be played on any soccer or rugby field.
There are 3 great formats to choose from – Men’s Footy, Women’s Footy and Touch Footy.
Get Involved
If you are keen to be involved with the development of the sport in Ukraine, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us via info@aflinternational.com.
AUSTRALIA & UKRAINE
One of the first Ukrainian migrants to Australia was Mykhailo Hlyb, who established a sheep farm in the 1860s. Prior to World War I, up to 5,000 Ukrainians migrated to Australia. However, the main body of Ukrainians emigrated to Australia along with other nationalities in the post-World War II wave of refugees from Europe. Currently, the main concentrations of Ukrainians are located in Sydney and Melbourne.
Resident Australian population born in Ukraine (2016 census) – 13,366
Australian residents of Ukrainian descent (2016 census) – 46,186
AFL PLAYERS
Jason Daniltchenko | Alex Ishchenko | Bohdan Jaworskyj | Jake Kolodjashnij | Kade Kolodjashnij | Steven Kolyniuk | Jared Petrenko | Jason Porplyzia | Justin Staritski | Shane Woewodin
Europe’s second largest country, Ukraine is a land of wide, fertile agricultural plains, with large pockets of heavy industry in the east.
Its area of 603,628 km2 makes it roughly as large as France. Ukraine borders Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.
The Ukrainian landscape consists mostly of fertile plains (or steppes) and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dnieper (Dnipro), Seversky Donets, Dniester and the Southern Buh as they flow south into the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. To the southwest, the delta of the Danube forms the border with Romania.
The northern part of the Carpathian Mountains (highest peak Hoverla, 2061 m) reaches into Ukraine in the western part of the country, but most of its area is taken up by the steppe-like region just north of the Black Sea. Ukraine is divided almost in half by the Dnipro river, which traverses Ukraine north to south. It is joined by the Black Sea, which is west of the Crimea and near the mouths of the Bug and the Dnister rivers. The border with Russia is the longest and runs through the Sea of Azov.
