Ukrainian Premier League
Founded | 1991 |
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Country | Ukraine |
Confederation | UEFA |
Number of teams | 16 |
Level on pyramid | 1 |
Relegation to | Ukrainian First League |
Domestic cup(s) | Ukrainian Cup |
International cup(s) | Champions League Europa League |
Current champions | Dynamo Kyiv (2008–09) |
Most championships | Dynamo Kyiv (13 titles) |
Website | http://www.fpl.ua/ |
Current: EpiCentre Ukrainian Championship 2009–10 |
The Ukrainian Premier League (Ukrainian: "Прем'єр-Ліга", Premier-Liga) is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. The league was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga.
Overview
2007-08 was the league's 17th season. Up until now the league was subsidized by the government and from the economical point of view was not a profitable organization. To fix that issue the League tried to attract few sponsors since 2007 season: Soyuz-Viktan(2007) and Biola[a](2008). On April 17, 2008 the new Premier-League[1] was formed. The main sponsor of the League became the national network of the construction supermarkets EpiCentre. The new organization is a completely independent entity and consists of 16 football club organizations under the guidance of the Football Federation of Ukraine. [2]
The format of the League will stay the same. The changes that were made are exclusively administrative. The teams that reach the top of the competition table at the end of a season, will gain a chance to represent Ukraine internationally in several prestigious tournaments. Also at the end of the season, the bottom two clubs are relegated to the Persha Liha and replaced by the two top clubs from that league.
As of 2008, FC Shakhtar Donetsk is the reigning Ukrainian Premier League champion. SC Tavriya Simferopol won the first championship, and all subsequent titles have gone to either Dynamo or FC Shakhtar Donetsk. Only 5 teams, Dynamo, Shakhtar, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Tavria, and Metalurh Zaporizhia have participated in all 16 Ukrainian Vyscha Liha competitions.
The league cooperates with the Professional Football League (PFL) of Ukraine which governs the lower divisions. The PFL is an association that represents 67 Ukrainian professional football clubs, which are represented by 78 teams (a few clubs have more than one team, which play in different divisions)[3]. The professional league was organized in 1996 and until 2008 was responsible for the competitions at the Top division as well. Before that, Vyscha Liha was governed solely and directly by the Football Federation of Ukraine.
Template:Fnb Biola is the general sposor of Dnipro.
History
The first decade (1992-2000)
The independent championship has taken place hastily at the start of the spring of 1992 after creation of the Ukrainian Vyscha Liha. The League was created out of the six teams that took part in the Soviet Top League, two teams - the Soviet First League, and nine out of eleven out of the Soviet Second League. The other two of that eleven were placed in the Ukrainian Persha Liha as they were to be relegated no matter what. Also the two best teams of the Soviet Second League B of the Ukrainian Zone were placed in the Vyscha Liha along with the winner of the 1991 Ukrainian Cup holder that placed ninth in the same group. The 20 participants were split in two groups with winners playing for the champion title and runners-up for the third place. Three teams from each group were to be relegated. As was expected, the five favorites, Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, Chornomorets Odessa, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, and Metalist Kharkiv placed at the top of each group. In the championship play-off game in Lviv, a sensation took place as the Tavriya Simferopol beat Dynamo Kyiv 1-0. The Creamians earned the first Ukrainian title (thus far the only), loosing only once to FC Temp Shepetivka.
After being stunned in the first championship by the tragedy in Lviv, Dynamo Kyiv was anxious to earn its first title on the second go. In the second championship that had a regular League format of 16 teams, the main rival of Kyivians was Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk which won the first half of the season. By the end of the season both teams were going shoulder to shoulder and at the end they finished with the same amount of earned points. The champion title was awarded to Dynamo Kyiv as they had better goal difference. Neither the Golden match or the fact that Dnipro had better head-to-head record was considered.
The next seven years were known as the total hegemony of Dynamo Kyiv. During this period the Soviet stereotypes has changed as some of the best teams were going into a crisis. After the 1993-94 season suddenly Metalist Kharkiv was relegated to the Persha Liha. In the 1995-96 season Shakhtar Donetsk had its the worst year in the club's history, placing the tenth. Chornomorets Odessa relegated twice during that first decade after which Leonid Buriak was let go. Also couple of newly created teams have emerged such as Arsenal Kyiv and Metalurh Donetsk and, in addition, FC Vorskla Poltava has astonished everyone placing the third in the first club's season at the Top Level in 1997.
The decade of Kyiv–Donetsk stand-off (2001–2010). The Ukrainian derby
The next decade was marked by fierce competition between Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk. Since 2000, Donetsk club proved to be the real challengers to Kiev's dominance. In 2000 Shakhtar earned their first qualification to the Champions League earning its place in the Group stage. Nonetheless, Dynamo is still considered to be the benchmark of excellence in the country and the primary feeder to the Ukrainian national football team. 2002 became the real cornerstone in the miners history when they earned their first national title under the management of the newly appointed Italian specialist, Nevio Scala, who managed to bring the Donetsk club to its next Ukrainian Cup title as well. Since that time the issue of foreign players became particularly acute and brought a series of court cases (see Players section). The FFU and PFL worked together to solve that issue, coming with the plan to force the transitional limitation of the foreign players over the time.
The clubs such as Dnipro and Chornomorets recent contenders for the title had to put up a fierce competition against the newly established contenders Metalurh from Donetsk and Metalist from Kharkiv to qualify for the European competitions. Especially brightly recommended itself FC Metalist Kharkiv which in the late 2000s consistently was placing right behind Dynamo and Shakhtar. The remarkable was their participation in their 2009 European season when they had to contest against Dynamo Kyiv to earn their advancement to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup 2009. Later that UEFA Cup edition was won for the first time by the Shakhtar Donetsk, the first club of the independent Ukraine.
On the political side of the League it split since the moment it was created in regards of its president. The dispute went as far as even canceling the XIII round of 2009-2010 season and moving it to the spring half, while having the XIV round still playing in the fall. The representatives of five clubs: Arsenal, Dynamo, Dnipro, Kryvbas, and Metalist have been boycotting most of the League meetings and not complying with its financial obligations. They justify their actions because of what they see to be as the illegal elections of the League's president. The representatives of the above mentioned clubs do not recognize Danilov as the president and believe that the elections should have been won by Vadym Rabynovych.
Calendar
Clubs play each other twice (once at home and once away) to make up the 30-match season. The league begins in mid-July and ends in mid-June. After 15 rounds of fixtures, there is a winter break that lasts for three months (from early December to early March). Thus, the winter break is significantly longer than the interval between seasons. Such organization accounts for climatic conditions and matches that of most European leagues in terms of the beginning and the end of the season.
The first season of the League in 1992 was exceptional as it lasted for only half a year. This was because the last Soviet league season ended in autumn of 1991, and the Football Federation of Ukraine decided to shift the calendar from “spring-fall” to “fall-spring” football seasons. In the premiere season, 20 clubs were divided into two 10-team groups. In both groups, each club played each other twice, and the championship was decided by a play-off match between the group winners, in which Tavriya surprised the pre-season favorite Dynamo.
After the first season, in each of the following seasons each team played each other team in the League twice. The number of participating teams fluctuated between 14 and 18, stabilizing for the last five seasons at 16.
As of the 2005-06 season, the golden match rule was introduced. According to the rule, if the first two teams obtain the same number of points, the championship is to be decided by an additional "golden" match between the two teams. In fact, in that season Dynamo and Shakhtar had earned the same number of points and Shakhtar won the championship by winning the golden match (2:1 after extra time).
Players
Prior to 2000, only a handful foreign players represented Ukrainian clubs, and even those players were mostly from countries that were once a part of the Soviet Union. However, in 2000-01, the number of foreign players participating in the Vyscha Liha had tallied more than 30 players and by 2003-04 season, the figure had increased to 37% of the league's players.[4] Only 2 players from Ukraine's domestic leagues competed in the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan, while at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, the Vyscha Liha was the 6th-most represented league with 25 players in the competition, including 17 of the 23 players in Ukraine's squad.
As a result of this increase in foreign-born players, clubs in the Vyscha Liha are allowed to field no more than seven foreigners at one time from this season and this limit is expected to be lowered to six foreigners. In addition, clubs are subject to a $15,000 fine upon acquiring a foreign player. One of the biggest proponents of the foreigner limit was the ex-national team coach Oleg Blokhin (2003-2007), who threatened to quit the national team if the limit was not made stricter.[5]
The clubs mainly affected by this rule include the few clubs that participate annually in European competitions. They argue that the foreigner limit is detrimental to the development of Ukrainian football in general. However, as a result of this limit, these clubs have had to increase their efforts finding and training Ukrainian talent that is good enough to represent these teams.
The foreigner limit itself has also been recently contested by several cases, but primarily by one filed by a Georgian national Georgi Demetradze, who argued that the limit impeded on his working rights and is illegal under the Ukrainian constitution. The courts however argued that no case exists, such that players are not guaranteed first-team football, and subsequently the limit is not considered a violation of trade.[6]
Presidents
- Vitaliy Danylov May 27, 2008 - July 1, 2009 (temporary acting president)
- Vitaliy Danylov July 1, 2009 - present
Directors
- General director: Maksym Bondarev
- Sport director: Serhiy Mokhnyk
- Commercial director: Vadym Halahan
Sponsors
The following list is of the official sponsors of the League, unless otherwise noted.
Previous
- Chernihivske 2008 - 2009
- MorskiE (TV sposor) 2008 - 2009
Current
- Umbro (technical partner) 2008 - present
- Sport-Express (in Ukraine) (media partner) 2008 - present
- Dalnie ostrova 2009 - present
- Futbol (official TV sposor) 2009 - 2011[7]
- Obolon 2009 - present
- Inter + (TV partner) 2008 - present (for international broadcasting)
- football.ua (Internet sposor) 2009 - present (part of the Ukrainian media holding)
Ukrainian Premier League 2009–10
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Map shows the locations of Ukrainian Premier League 2009–10 teams.
In the 2009–10 season, the Ukrainian Premier League consisted of the following teams:
FC Kharkiv and FC Lviv, the two least successful teams in the league in 2008-09, were relegated to the Ukrainian First League. Zakarpattia Uzhhorod and Obolon Kyiv were promoted to take their place.
Broadcasting
Free-to-air live matches from the Ukrainian Premier League will be broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays on satellite channel Inter+ (Sirius 5E).[8]
UEFA Ranking
Club Seeding
UEFA Club Ranking for club seeding in 2009–10 European football season.
Current Ranking |
Movement | Last Season Ranking |
Teams | Coefficient |
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15 | (16) | Shakhtar Donetsk | 69.710 | |
40 | (41) | Dynamo Kyiv | 41.710 | |
73 | (87) | Metalist Kharkiv | 25.210 | |
112 | (87) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 14.710 | |
134 | (147) | Metalurh Donetsk | 11.210 | |
157 | (New) | Vorskla Poltava | 9.210 | |
159 | (152) | Metalurh Zaporizhzhya | 8.630 |
Note: Since 1999 country index (coefficient) indicates the lowest possible value for any team of that country to qualify for ranking. Currently it's no less than 7.350 for Ukraine.
Teams in italics have either been eliminated or will not be participating in the 2009–10 European football season.
Last Updated: October 22, 2009.[9]
Country Ranking
UEFA Country Ranking for league participation in 2009-10 European football season
Current Ranking |
Movement | Last Season Ranking |
League | Coefficient |
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4 | (4) | German League | 50.707 | |
5 | (5) | French League | 42.906 | |
6 | (6) | Russian League | 39.625 | |
7 | (7) | Ukrainian League | 37.550 | |
8 | (9) | Romanian League | 37.158 | |
9 | (8) | Dutch League | 30.713 | |
10 | (10) | Portuguese League | 30.629 |
Last Updated: September 26, 2009.[10]
Champions and top goalscorers
Note: the Rank column shows the ranking of the league amongst members of UEFA.
Note: in bold are the winners that also won the Ukrainian Cup, in italic are the other champions of the Cup competition.
Performance by club
Club | Winners | Runners-Up | 3rd Position | Seasons Won |
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Dynamo Kyiv | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2006-07, 2008-09 |
Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | 10 | 0 | 2001-02, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2007-08 |
Tavriya Simferopol | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1992 |
Chornomorets Odessa | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
Metalist Kharkiv | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Metalurh Donetsk | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Vorskla Poltava | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Karpaty Lviv | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Honored Teams
In European Football teams are especially honored for winning multiple league titles, after 10 league titles a representative star is placed above the teams badge to indicate 10 league titles. Dynamo Kyiv became the first Ukrainian team to achieve this prestigious honor of winning the Soviet league for the 10th time in 1981. Dynamo Kyiv once entered the Ukrainian championship has established to become the same leader as during the Soviet times earning its 20th national title at the top level in 1999. No other club in Ukraine came close to such honor as of yet. Only four other clubs has ever been the national champions: Shakhtar Donetsk (4), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2), and once Zorya Luhansk and Tavriya Simferopol.
The current (as of December 2008) officially-sanctioned the Premier League stars are:
- Dynamo Kyiv (25, received in 1999).
Top scorers
Player | Games | Goals | |
1 | Serhiy Rebrov | 261 | 123 |
2 | Maksim Shatskikh | 214 | 97 |
3 | Oleksandr Haidash | 259 | 95 |
4 | Andriy Vorobei [12] | 265 | 92 |
5 | Serhiy Mizin | 344 | 90 |
6 | Timerlan Huseinov | 215 | 85 |
7 | Oleksandr Kosyrin [12] | 224 | 84 |
8 | Oleh Matveyev | 213 | 81 |
9 | Oleksandr Palyanytsia | 260 | 79 |
9 | Valentyn Poltavets | 322 | 77 |
Data through 2008-09 season[13]. |
Player | Games | Goals | |
1 | Andriy Vorobei | 265 | 92 |
2 | Oleksandr Kosyrin | 224 | 84 |
3 | Serhiy Zakarlyuka | 320 | 70 |
4 | Andriy Shevchenko | 117 | 60 |
5 | Oleksiy Byelik | 162 | 55 |
6 | Vasil Gigiadze | 184 | 54 |
= | Vasyl Sachko | 198 | 54 |
8 | Serhiy Shyschenko | 353 | 53 |
9 | Oleksandr Rykun | 270 | 47 |
10 | Oleksandr Melashchenko | 220 | 46 |
Data through 2008-09 season.[13] |
Ex-Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv striker Serhiy Rebrov holds the record for most UPL goals with 123, despite winning the top single season scorer title only once.
Since the first UPL season in 1992, 17 different players have won or shared the top scorer's title. No player has won the title in consecutive seasons and only two players have won the title more than once, Timerlan Huseinov and Maksim Shatskikh. Serhiy Rebrov and Maksim Shatskikh hold the record for most goals in a season (22) and are the only two players to score at least 20 goals twice. The most prolific single season scorers are Ivan Hetsko and Andriy Vorobei, respectively attaining 0.59 and 0.88 goals per game.
Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk are the only teams to have scored 1,000 goals in the UPL having achieved the feat in the 2006–07 season and 2007-08 season, respectively.
Notable foreign players
In italic are the players that were born in Ukraine, but chose to represent other countries.
Notable foreign coaches
Top 10 managers
Managers in bold are active. † - Managers that have past away. Updated through 2008/2009 season.
Rating | Name | Club(s) | Points | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
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1 | Valery Lobanovsky† | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 28 | 5 | 1 | - |
2 | Mircea Lucescu | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | 21 | 3 | 2 | - |
3 | Yozhef Sabo | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 13 | 2 | 1 | - |
4 | Valery Yaremchenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | 12 | - | 4 | - |
5 | Oleksiy Mykhailychenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 10 | 2 | - | - |
6 | Mykola Pavlov | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv |
9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
7 | Anatoliy Demyanenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 8 | 1 | 1 | - |
= | Yuri Semin | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 8 | 1 | 1 | - |
= | Viktor Prokopenko† | FC Chornomorets Odessa FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
8 | - | 2 | 2 |
10 | Leonid Buriak | FC Chornomorets Odessa | 6 | - | 2 | - |
This rating is of the best managers in the League since its foundation in 1991. It is based on the following factors:
1st place - 5 points,
2nd place - 3 points,
3rd place - 1 point.
There are over 20 managers who brought their teams to the top of the League over its history.[15] Other notable coaches are Mykhailo Fomenko (Dynamo) - a gold medal, Anatoliy Zayaev(Tavriya) - a gold medal, Nevio Scala (Shakhtar) - a gold medal, and Myron Markevych (Karpaty \1\, Metalist \3\) - four bronze medals.
Template:Fnb Mykhailychenko became the club manager at the end of the season for only five (5) games. Therefore the silver really belongs to Lobanovsky who lead the first team in 21 games of the 2001-02 season.
Template:Fnb Lucescu became the club manager at the end of the season for only five (5) games. Therefore the silver really belongs to Schuster who lead the first team in 23 games in the 2003-04 season.
All-time participants
The table lists the place each team took in each of the seasons. All figures are correct through the 2008-09 season. For the all-time table click here. Teams marked pink are no longer members of PFL, in green are member of the Premier League.
1992 | 92/93 | 93/94 | 94/95 | 95/96 | 96/97 | 97/98 | 98/99 | 99/00 | 00/01 | 01/02 | 02/03 | 03/04 | 04/05 | 05/06 | 06/07 | 07/08 | 08/09 | 09/10 | |
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Teams | 20 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
Arsenal Kyiv [16] | 4 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 11 | V | ||||
Borysfen Boryspil | 7 | 16 | |||||||||||||||||
Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 10 | 12 | 17 | ||||||||||||||||
Chornomorets Odessa | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 10 | V | |||
Dynamo Kyiv | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | V |
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | V |
Illychivets Mariupol | 14 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 14 | V | |||||||
Karpaty Lviv | 13 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 9 | V | ||
FC Kharkiv | 13 | 12 | 14 | 16 | |||||||||||||||
Kremin Kremenchuk | 14 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 15 | |||||||||||||
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 8 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 12 | V | |
FC Lviv | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
Metalist Kharkiv | 6 | 5 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | V | |||||
Metalurh Donetsk | 7 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 4 | V | ||||||
Metalurh Zaporizhzhya | 11 | 7 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 | V |
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka | 16 | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
Nyva Ternopil | 7 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 14 | |||||||||
Nyva Vinnytsia | 15 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 16 | ||||||||||||||
Obolon Kyiv | 14 | 6 | 15 | V | |||||||||||||||
Oleksandria | 13 | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 17 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 14 | ||||||||||||
SC Mykolaiv | 18 | 13 | 16 | 16 | |||||||||||||||
SCA Odessa | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | V |
Stal Alchevsk | 13 | 11 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||
Tavriya Simferopol | 1 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 8 | V |
Temp Shepetivka | 19 | 9 | 17 | ||||||||||||||||
Torpedo Zaporizhzhya | 8 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 16 | ||||||||||||
Veres Rivne | 16 | 11 | 18 | ||||||||||||||||
Volyn Lutsk | 9 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 15 | ||||||||||
Vorskla Poltava | 3 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 5 | V | |||||
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod | 14 | 12 | 16 | 16 | V | ||||||||||||||
Zirka Kirovohrad | 6 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 16 | |||||||||||||
Zorya Luhansk | 12 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 13 | V |
Stadia
Rank | Stadium | Capacity [17] | Club | Notes |
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1 | NSC Olimpiysky | 83,450 | None at the moment | Currently undergoing renovations in preparation for Euro 2012. Dynamo Kyiv plays its major European matches on this ground, and usually it is the annual venue for the Ukrainian Cup final |
2 | Donbas Arena | 50,000 | Shakhtar Donetsk | |
3 | Metalist Stadium | 42,000 | Metalist Kharkiv | While upgrades are taking place, max capacity is at 22,757 (planned capacity is 42,000+) |
4 | Tsentralnyi-Chornomorets Stadium | 34,362 | Chornomorets Odessa | Currently undergoing renovations in preparation for Euro 2012 |
5 | Shakhtar Stadium | 31,718 | Metalurh Donetsk | Loaned to Metalurh by Shakhtar for the European competitions. |
6 | Dnipro Stadium | 31,003 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | Moved from the old arena. Inauguration's on September 14, 2008. |
7 | Metalurh Stadium | 29,734 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | |
8 | Ukraina Stadium | 27,925 | Karpaty Lviv FC Lviv[18] |
Plans to upgrade to ~40,000 seats in prep for Euro 2012 |
9 | RSK Olimpiyskiy | 26,100 | Shakhtar Donetsk | Moving to new UEFA 5-star 50,000-seat venue in 2009 |
10 | Yuvileiny Stadium (Sumy) | 25,800 | Kharkiv | FC Kharkiv are currently leasing this stadium |
11 | Vorskla Stadium | 24,795 | Vorskla Poltava | |
12 | Stadium Meteor | 24,381 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | Moving to new 31,003-seat arena. Inauguration's on September 14, 2008. |
13 | Avanhard Stadium | 22,288 | Zorya Luhansk | |
14 | Lokomotiv Stadium | 19,978 | Tavriya Simferopol | |
15 | Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium | 16,873 | Dynamo Kyiv Arsenal Kyiv |
Arsenal Kyiv is temporarily playing at this stadium |
16 | Illychivets Stadium | 12,460 | Illychivets Mariupol | |
17 | Slavutych Arena | 11,756 | Metalurh Zaporizhia | |
18 | Metalurh Stadium | 5,094 | Metalurh Donetsk | |
19 | Obolon Stadium | 4,300 | Arsenal Kyiv | Loaned to Arsenal Kyiv by Obolon |
20 | Knyazha Arena | 3,500 | FC Lviv | FC Lviv's home ground in Dobromyl |
21 | Bannikov Stadium | 1,678 | Arsenal Kyiv | Arsenal Kyiv is temporarily playing at this stadium |
League attendance
All attendance figures are correct through 08/09 season.[19]
Season | Att Per Match | Total Att | Highest Att By Team (Att By Team) | Highest Home Att By Team (Att By Team) |
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1992 | 5,650 | 1,028,270 | Dynamo Kyiv (8,630) | Nyva Ternopil (11,133) |
1992-93 | 5,835 | 1,400,480 | Dynamo Kyiv (7,682) | Nyva Ternopil (10,725) |
1993-94 | 5,887 | 1,801,520 | Dynamo Kyiv (8,674) | Veres Rivne (11,059) |
1994-95 | 5,557 | 1,694,980 | Dynamo Kyiv (8,009) | SC Mykolaiv (9,600) |
1995-96 | 5,878 | 1,787,050 | Dynamo Kyiv (8,924) | Zirka Kirovohrad (12,324) |
1996-97 | 6,332 | 791,550 | Vorskla Poltava (9,703) | Vorskla Poltava (12,300) |
1997-98 | 5,879 | 1,405,050 | Karpaty Lviv (9,937) | Karpaty Lviv (13,767) |
1998-99 | 7,588 | 1,821,100 | Dynamo Kyiv (12,040) | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (15,960) |
1999-00 | 8,112 | 1,947,000 | Shakhtar Donetsk (13,333) | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (16,233) |
2000-01 | 9,302 | 1,692,950 | Shakhtar Donetsk (20,190) | Shakhtar Donetsk (24,462) |
2001-02 | 9,712 | 1,767,607 | Shakhtar Donetsk (18,688) | Shakhtar Donetsk (25,615) |
2002-03 | 7,415 | 1,779,525 | Shakhtar Donetsk (16,332) | Shakhtar Donetsk (20,833) |
2003-04 | 7,725 | 1,854,060 | Shakhtar Donetsk (14,922) | Shakhtar Donetsk (17,931) |
2004-05 | 7,302 | 1,737,777 | Shakhtar Donetsk (16,555) | Shakhtar Donetsk (19,956) |
2005-06 | 7,919 | 1,908,424 | Shakhtar Donetsk (15,875) | Shakhtar Donetsk (19,358) |
2006-07 | 9,052 | 2,163,490 | Shakhtar Donetsk (16,966) | Shakhtar Donetsk (19,193) |
2007-08 | 8,546 | 2,042,390 | Shakhtar Donetsk (17,372) | Shakhtar Donetsk (20,080) |
2008-09 | 7,574 | 1,817,760 | Shakhtar Donetsk (15,387) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (27,000) |
See also
- Soviet Top League
- Vyscha Liha Records
- Channel One Cup (football)
- Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
- Ukrainian Soviet competitions
- Ekstraklasa
- Polish Football League 1927-1939
- Ukrainian derby
References
- ^ Official website of the Ukrainian Premier League
- ^ Formation of Ukrainian Premier League - Ratified 27 May 2008 Template:Uk icon
- ^ "Professional Football League of Ukraine". PFL. Retrieved May 31, 2007.
- ^ "Foreigners: limit or blasphemy?". Komanda Newspaper. Retrieved May 21, 2007.
- ^ "Foreigner limit is worsened in Ukraine". Terrikon. Retrieved May 21, 2007.
- ^ "Courts back Ukrainian quotas". UEFA. Retrieved May 21, 2007.
- ^ Premier League presents its TV sposor for 2009-2011
- ^ 'Inter+' Starts Live Airing of Ukrainian Premiere League Matches, Inter+ (June 26, 2009)
- ^ "UEFA Team Ranking 2010". Bert Kassies.
- ^ "UEFA Country Ranking 2010". Bert Kassies.
- ^ part of Soviet Union
- ^ a b Currently active on a Premier League team's roster
- ^ a b *Template:Ru icon Ukrainian Football Database Spreadsheet - Copy link location directly to your URL bar to access Players records
- ^ Marko accepted the Ukrainian citizenship in 2008. In this roster he is listed as the Ukrainian.
- ^ Rating of coaches is based on the article from Komanda - May 20, 2008
- ^ FC Arsenal Kyiv was renamed from CSCA Kyiv in 2001, the original FC CSCA Kyiv was recreated in the Ukrainian First Division in place of CSCA-2 Kyiv.
- ^ "Attendance figures for the 17th season of Ukrainian Premier League". UA Football. Retrieved August 3, 2007.
- ^ "FC Lviv relocates to Ukraina". FC Karpaty. Retrieved July 9, 2008.
- ^ "Ukrainian Soccer Net". UkrainianSoccer.Com. Retrieved July 4, 2008.
External links
- Template:Uk icon Ukrainian Football Premier League- official site
- Template:Uk icon Professional football league of Ukraine - official site
- Template:Uk icon/Template:En icon Football Federation of Ukraine - official site
- Template:En icon Ukrainian Soccer Fan Club (ukrainiansoccer.net) - amateur's site
- Template:Uk icon/Template:Ru icon/Template:En icon Ukrainian Football - fans page
- Template:En icon/Template:Uk icon History of Ukrainian Football (ukrsoccerhistory.com) - amateur's site