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The central match of the fifth round of the Ukrainian Premier League in Lviv corresponded to historical statistical achievements: according to official data of the tournament, 11,200 fans watched the game live.
The first outbreak of the beginning of a large-scale invasion, when the match of the domestic championship gathered a five-digit number of fans, to testify about the progress of the return of the proper football atmosphere in the arena of the country.
The wild cheers from the stands became the highlight of the evening, overshadowing the gaming process itself. In this intense atmosphere, the Lviv Carpathians were the first to win the rakhunok, the proteas could not overcome their advantage and surrendered to the Donetsk Shakhtar with a rakhunok 1:2.
Before the Lviv match, the top priority for the elite division of the Ukrainian Championship was the match against Ternopil. The same match between Epicenter and Shakhtar (0:1) gathered 9,850 football fans in the stands, reaching the ten-thousandth mark in a short time.
The number of 11,200 spectators is unprecedented for Premier League matches. Prote the absolute maximum of the average of all Ukrainian tournaments during the period of a large-scale war, the Ukrainian Cup is being eliminated. The cup match between Chernivtsi Bukovina and Dynamo Kiev (0:3) attracted 14,500 fans at the stadium.