uaPersha Liha

Oleksandriya — relegated after losing the 2025/26 play-off, following eleven seasons in the UPL.

Poltava — relegated from the UPL after a single season among the elite.

Kharkiv — bearer of the famous Metalist name; a different club from the renamed FC Kharkiv (formerly Metalist 1925).

Ivano-Frankivsk — a club from the Prykarpattia region, playing under the name Prykarpattia-Blaho since 2026.

Kyiv — the city's oldest professional club (1919), promoted as winners of Group B of the Druha Liha.

Petrove — club from the Kirovohrad region that reached the 2019 Ukrainian Cup final as a second-division side.

Volochysk — an agribusiness club from the Khmelnytskyi region, a Persha Liha fixture.

Sumy — a club founded in 2015 that turned professional in 2021 and quickly rose to the Persha Liha.

Club representing Mariupol, playing away from its home city due to the war.

Chernihiv — a club nicknamed the "tigers" with its own youth academy.

Tarasivka — the club of the Ukrainian Christian Sports Academy in the Kyiv region.

Ternopil — a traditional club from western Ukraine, a top-division side in the 1990s.

The reserve team of Polissya Zhytomyr — the link leads to the parent club's website; newly promoted from the Druha Liha.

The reserve team of Kolos Kovalivka — the link leads to the parent club's website; newly promoted from the Druha Liha.

Kulykiv — winners of Group A of the Druha Liha in 2025/26, making their debut in the second tier.

Horodenka — a small-town club from the Ivano-Frankivsk region, a solid fixture of the Persha Liha.