Ukraine

The Ukrainian Professional Football League (UPFL) has decided to cut the number of teams in the premier division from 16 to 14 by the 2000/01 season.

Ukrainian first division side Torpedo Zaporizhya have withdrawn from the countries domestic cup competition after filing for bankruptcy.

Two Ukrainian premier division soccer matches scheduled for today have been postponed as the country mourns the victims of a mining accident.
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European athletics chiefs have agreed to stage a new indoor European Cup in 2001, an athletics source said recently.

England?s win over Germany on Saturday is a major boost for the World Cup?s multi-million pound licensing programme, according to Copyright Promotions Licensing Group (CPLG), the agency responsible for generating revenue from next year?s soccer tournament.

The National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England, has been selected as the venue for the Davis Cup Euro/African Zone 1 second round tie between Great Britain and Portugal on 6-8 April.

Welsh soccer chiefs may call in soccer’s world governing body FIFA over a row with Ukrainian embassy officials who have refused to grant striker John Hartson a visa ahead of next Wednesday's World Cup qualifier in the former Soviet Union.