1992 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha

Season	1992
Champions	SC Tavriya Simferopol
Relegated	Nyva V., Evis, Temp, Naftovyk, Prykarpattia, SKA Odessa
Champions League	Tavriya Simferopol
Cup Winners' Cup	Chornomorets Odessa
UEFA Cup	Dynamo Kyiv
Matches played	182
Goals scored	403 (2.21 per match)
Top goalscorer	(12) Yuriy Hudymenko (Tavriya)
Biggest home win	Tavriya 6–0 Temp Chornomorets 6–0 Nyva V.
Biggest away win	Evis 1–6 Shakhtar
Highest scoring	Dnipro 4–3 SKA Odessa Evis 1–6 Shakhtar
Highest attendance	20,000 Volyn – Dynamo 20,000 Nyva T. – Dynamo
Lowest attendance	280 Dynamo – Nyva T.
← 1991 1992–93 →

1992 Vyshcha Liha was the first football championship organized in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and officially recognized by the UEFA. The last Soviet season finished in fall of 1991 and all Soviet competitions results were awarded to Russia. In order to compete in the European competitions, Ukraine had to come with its own league and cup winner that would be recognized by the UEFA.

The Football Federation of Ukraine when organizing the competition decided to shift its calendar to synchronize it with one common in Europe "fall-spring" and organized a short championship.

Note, that while Ukrainian championships were taken place in the Soviet Union since 1920s, they are not yet officially recognized neither by Football Federation of Ukraine nor the rest international community.

Further information: Championship of the Ukrainian SSR

Calendar

The championship started on March 6, about a month later after the qualification rounds of another national tournament, the first edition of Ukrainian Cup. The first half of the season was scheduled to finish on April 19 with the second one to resume on April 25 (6 days intermission). The last round was to be played on June 17.

Considering such a schedule and the fact that the Ukrainian Cup competition was on the way simultaneously, the Ukrainian clubs had to forfeit their scheduled games in the Soviet Cup competition. In addition to that Dynamo Kyiv also participated in the Champions League competition which ended for Dynamo only on April 15. Each team this season had at least two games scheduled every week on average. Considering other official games FC Torpedo Zaporizhia and FC Dynamo Kyiv has played the record of 26 games from February 18 through June 21 and the most among the other clubs in the League.

Bukovyna

Chornomorets

SKA Odesa

Dnipro

Dynamo

Evis

Karpaty

Kremin

Metalist

Metalurh.

Naftovyk

Nyva T.

Nyva V.

Prykarpattya

Tavriya

Temp

Torpedo

Shakhtar

Volyn

Zorya-MALS

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Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1992

Qualified teams

Team	League and position in 1991		Coach	Replaced coach
Chornomorets Odessa	Soviet Top League	4	Viktor Prokopenko
Dynamo Kyiv		5	Anatoliy Puzach
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk		9	Mykola Pavlov	Yevhen Kucherevsky
Shakhtar Donetsk		12	Valery Yaremchenko
Metalurh Zaporizhia		13	Ihor Nadein
Metalist Kharkiv		15	Leonid Tkachenko
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Soviet First League	5	Yukhym Shkolnykov
Tavriya Simferopol		6	Ishtvan Sekech
Karpaty Lviv	Soviet Second League, West	1	Stepan Yurchyshyn
Zorya-MALS Luhansk		2	Anatoliy Kuksov
Nyva Ternopil		4	Leonid Koltun
Nyva Vinnytsia		5	Valery Petrov	Vyacheslav Hrozny
Torpedo Zaporizhia		7	Yevhen Lemeshko
Volyn Lutsk		8	Myron Markevych
SC Odessa		10	Serhiy Marusyn
Kremin Kremenchuk		13	Volodymyr Lozynskyi
Evis Mykolaiv		15	Ivan Balan
Naftovyk Okhtyrka	Soviet Second League B, Zone 1 Championship of the Ukrainian SSR	1	Valery Dushkov
Prykarpattya		2	Yuriy Shuliatytskyi	Ivan Krasnetskyi
Temp Shepetivka	Cup of the Ukrainian SSR	1	Ishtvan Sekech

Note:

• FC Temp Shepetivka placed only 9th in the 1991 Soviet Lower Second League.
• FC Halychyna Drohobych and FC Vorskla Poltava that competed in the Soviet Second League were placed in the Persha Liha (Ukrainian Second Division) as such that were relegated.

Clubs' name changes

• Zorya-MALS Luhansk before the season carried name Zorya Luhansk. Name extension was provided for sponsorship reasons.
• Evis Mykolaiv before the season carried name Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv.
• SC Odessa changed its name from SKA Odessa on May 5, 1992, due to restructuring of the Odessa Military District and Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Stadiums

Rank	Stadium	Club	Capacity	Highest Attendance		Notes
1	Republican Stadium	Dynamo Kyiv	100,000	5,000	Round 8 (Zorya-MALS)
2	Metalist Stadium	Metalist Kharkiv	38,633	7,000	Round 15 (Dnipro)
3	Black Sea Shipping Central Stadium	Chornomorets	34,362	9,500	Round 15 (Tavriya)
4	Shakhtar Stadium	Shakhtar Donetsk	31,718	4,300	Round 20 (Tavriya)
5	Ukraina Stadium	Karpaty Lviv	28,051	13,000	Round 3 (Tavriya)
		Tavriya Simferopol		36,000	Final (Dynamo)
6	Central City Stadium	Evis Mykolaiv	25,175	15,000	Round 4 (Chornomorets)
7	Meteor Stadium	Dnipro	24,381	6,000	Round 13 (Dynamo)
8	Lokomotyv Stadium	Nyva Vinnytsia	24,000	10,000	Round 17 (Shakhtar)
9	Avanhard Stadium	Zorya-MALS	22,320	17,200	Round 14 (Dynamo)
10	Lokomotiv Stadium	Tavriya Simferopol	19,978	3,500	Round 17 (Karpaty)
11	Dynamo Stadium	Dynamo Kyiv	16,873	2,500	Round 17 (SC Odessa)	as home ground in Round 12 and 17
12	AutoZAZ Stadium	Torpedo Zaporizhia	15,000	5,000	Round 10 (Chornomorets)
13	City Stadium	Nyva Ternopil	12,750	20,000	Round 10 (Dynamo)
14	Bukovyna Stadium	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	12,000	14,000	Round 6 (Dynamo)
15	Metalurh Central Stadium	Metalurh Zaporizhia	11,983	8,000	Round 1 (Shakhtar)
		Dnipro		3,000	Playoff (Shakhtar)
16	Dnipro Stadium	Kremin Kremenchuk	11,300	13,000	Round 14 (Chornomorets)
17	Avanhard Stadium	Volyn Lutsk	10,792	20,000	Round 9 (Dynamo)
18	Elektron Stadium	Prykarpattya		15,000	Round 5 (Dynamo)
19	Naftovyk Stadium	Naftovyk Okhtyrka	5,256	4,500	Round 16 (Dnipro)
20	SKA Stadium	SC Odessa		6,000	Round 4 (Dynamo)
21	Temp Stadium	Temp Shepetivka		10,000	Round 8 (Shakhtar)

Managerial changes

Managerial changes approximated

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Yevhen Kucherevskyi		March 10, 1992	1st	Mykola Pavlov	March 10, 1992	1st
FC Nyva Vinnytsia	Vyacheslav Hrozny		March 28, 1992	10th	Valery Petrov	March 28, 1992	10th
FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	Ivan Krasnetskyi		April 1992	9th	Yuriy Shuliatytskyi	April 1992	9th

First stage

Qualified Teams

• Before 17th Round, Chornomorets Odessa qualified for the QR 1992-93 CWC after winning the Ukrainian Cup.
• After 17th Round, Dynamo Kyiv qualified for European football for the 1992–93 season and the 1992 Championship playoff.
• After 20th Round, Tavriya Simferopol qualified for European football for the 1992–93 season and the 1992 Championship playoff.
• After 20th Round, Shakhtar Donetsk and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk qualified for the 1992 3rd place playoff.

Group B final standings

Note:

• In bold are the participants of the 1992 Ukrainian Cup Final.

Second stage

Main article: 1992 Vyshcha Liha final

Championship playoff

1992-06-21

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SC Tavriya Simferopol	1 – 0	FC Dynamo Kyiv
Shevchenko 75'	Report

Ukraina Stadium, Lviv

Attendance: 36,000

Referee: Pianykh (Donetsk), (FIFA)

Third place playoff

June 20, 1992

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	3 – 2	Shakhtar Donetsk
Tyshchenko 19' Konovalov 38', 74'	Report	Bielichenko 51' Atelkin 80'

Metalurh Stadium, Zaporizhia

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Tukhovsky (Simferopol)

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals (Pen.)
1	Yuriy Hudymenko	Tavriya Simferopol	12
2	Timerlan Huseinov	Zorya-MALS Luhansk	11
3	Serhiy Rebrov	Shakhtar Donetsk	10
	Ivan Hetsko	Chornomorets Odessa	10 (6)
5	Oleksandr Zayats	Torpedo Zaporizhzhya	9 (3)
6	Serhiy Shevchenko	Tavriya Simferopol	8 (2)
7	Yuriy Hrytsyna	Dynamo Kyiv	7
	Ivan Korponay	Kremin Kremenchuk	7
	Serhiy Husyev	Chornomorets Odessa	7 (1)
	Oleh Salenko	Dynamo Kyiv	7 (3)

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Ivan Hetsko	Chornomorets Odessa	Nyva Vinnytsia	6–0	4 April 1992
Pavlo Shkapenko	Metalurh Zaporizhia	Nyva Vinnytsia	4–1	28 April 1992
Serhiy Rebrov	Shakhtar Donetsk	Evis Mykolaiv	1–6	3 June 1992
Yuriy Hudymenko*	Tavriya Simferopol	Temp Shepetivka	6–0	9 June 1992
Yuriy Hrytsyna	Dynamo Kyiv	Naftovyk Okhtyrka	1–3	17 June 1992

Notes:

• (*) Asterisk identifies players who scored four goals (poker).

Goalkeepers

Only considered players that participated in at least in five games (25+ percent) of the season.

#	Goalkeeper	Team	GP	Record	GA	GAA
1	Oleh Kolesov	Tavriya Simferopol	19	12-6-1	9	0.47
2	Aleksandr Zhydkov	Nyva Vinnytsia	6	3-2-1	3	0.50
3	Oleh Suslov	Chornomorets Odessa	11	6-4-1	6	0.55
4	Dmytro Shutkov	Shakhtar Donetsk	19	10-6-3	13	0.68
5	Valdemaras Martinkėnas	Dynamo Kyiv	10	5-4-1	7	0.70

#	Goalkeeper	Team	GP	Wins
1	Oleh Kolesov	Tavriya Simferopol	19	12
2	Valeriy Horodov	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	19	11
3	Dmytro Shutkov	Shakhtar Donetsk	19	10
4	Ihor Kutepov	Dynamo Kyiv	9	8
	Oleksandr Pomazun	Metalist Kharkiv	17	8
	Mykhailo Burch	Volyn Lutsk	17	8

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. SC Tavria Simferopol

Goalkeepers: Oleh Kolesov (19 / -9), Dmitriy Gulenkov (1). Defenders: Mykola Turchynenko (19), Oleksandr Holovko (18), Ihor Volkov (17 / 1), Vidmantas Vyšniauskas (15), Yuriy Getikov (14), Sefer Alibayev (9), Serhiy Voronezhsky (7), Dmitriy Smirnov (5). Midfielders: Andriy Oparin (19 / 1), Vladislav Novikov (18 / 1), Yuriy Mikhailus (2), Oleksandr Kundenok (2), Serhiy Yesin (1). Forwards: Sergei Gladyshev (19 / 6), Yuriy Hudymenko (18 / 12), Serhiy Shevchenko (18 / 8), Sergey Andreev (15 / 2), Toliat Sheykhametov (7), Marat Mulashev (2). Manager: Anatoliy Zayayev. Transferred out during the season: Marat Mulashev (to Rubin Kazan), Oleksandr Kundenok (to Polissya Zhytomyr).

2. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Valdemaras Martinkėnas (10 / -7), Ihor Kutepov (9 / -7). Defenders: Andriy Annenkov (17), Serhiy Zayets (15 / 1), Anatoliy Bezsmertny (14), Oleh Luzhny (13 / 2), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (9), Akhrik Tsveyba (9), Gintaras Kvitkauskas (6), Ervand Sukiasian (5 / 2), Andriy Aleksanenkov (2). Midfielders: Volodymyr Sharan (19 / 2), Yuriy Moroz (19), Stepan Betsa (14 / 1), Pavlo Yakovenko (12 / 1), Oleh Volotek (11 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (12 / 1). Forwards: Oleh Salenko (16 / 7), Yuriy Hritsyna (13 / 7), Oleh Matveyev (10 / 1), Valeriy Yesipov (6), Viktor Leonenko (5 / 3). Manager: Anatoliy Puzach. Transferred out during the season: ?.

3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Valeriy Horodov (19 / -17), Mykola Medin. Defenders: Serhiy Diriavka (17), Volodymyr Horily (17), Volodymyr Bahmut (14 / 3), Serhiy Bezhenar (9 / 2), Serhiy Mamchur (9), Andriy Yudin (8). Midfielders: Andriy Polunin (17 / 2), Oleksandr Zakharov (17 / 2), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (16), Oleksiy Sasko (16), Yuriy Maksymov (14 / 3), Vadym Tyshchenko (13 / 2), Dmytro Mykhailenko (1), Oleksandr Omelchuk (1). Forwards: Valentyn Moskvin (19 / 3), Serhiy Konovalov (14 / 5), Serhiy Dumenko (7 / 4), Oleksandr Palianytsia (7 / 1), Vladimir Lebed (7 / 1), Oleksandr Tiehayev (2). Manager: Yevhen Kucherevsky (until March 15 (3 games)), Mykola Pavlov (since March 15 (15 games)). Transferred out during the season: Vladimir Lebed (to Krystal Kherson).

Note: Players in italic are whose playing position is uncertain.

See also

• Ukrainian First League 1992
• 1992 Ukrainian Transitional League
• Ukrainian Cup 1992

External links

• Season information on the Ukrainian Football from Dmytro Troshchiy
• Season information on RSSSF
• Season information on the Ukrainian Football from Aleksei Kobyzev