2001–02 Ukrainian First League
| Season | 2001–02 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Volyn-1 Lutsk |
| Promoted | Volyn-1 Lutsk, Chornomorets Odesa, Obolon Kyiv |
| Relegated | Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol, Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk, Nyva Ternopil |
| Top goalscorer | (17) Vasyl Sachko (Volyn Lutsk) and Viktor Arefyev (Stal Alchevsk) |
← 2000–01 2002–03 → | |
The 2001–02 Ukrainian First League was the eleventh season of the Ukrainian First League which was won by SC Volyn-1 Lutsk. The season started on July 17, 2001, and finished on June 16, 2002.
Promotion and relegation
Promoted teams
Three clubs promoted from the 2000–01 Ukrainian Second League.
- Group A
- FC Polissya Zhytomyr – champion (returning after a season)
- Group B
- FC Obolon Kyiv – champion (returning after a season)
- Group C
- FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka – champion (returning after a season)
Relegated teams
Two clubs were relegated from the 2000-01 Ukrainian Top League:
- FC Stal Alchevsk – 14th place (returning after a season)
- FC Nyva Ternopil – 15th place (debut)
Renamed teams
- FC Lviv merged with Karpaty becoming their farm team and changed its name to FC Karpaty-2 Lviv before the season.
- FC Metalurh Nikopol changed its name to FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol before the season.
- Due to reorganization of FC Arsenal Kyiv, FC CSKA-2 Kyiv changed its name back to FC CSKA Kyiv during winter break.
Teams
In 2001-02 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:
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Final table
P
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Team
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G
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W
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D
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L
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Dif
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Pts
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Misc
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| 1 | Volyn-1 Lutsk (C, P) | 34 | 25 | 3 | 6 | 56:24 | 78 |  Top League – Promoted
|
| 2 | Chornomorets Odessa (P) | 34 | 21 | 4 | 9 | 48:21 | 67 | Top League – Promoted
|
| 3 | Obolon Kyiv (P) | 34 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 49:26 | 62 | (+) new – Top League – Promoted
|
| 4 | Polissia Zhytomyr | 34 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 41:32 | 58 | (+) new – play-off |
| 5 | Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 41:27 | 53 | |
| 6 | Stal Alchevsk | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 42:34 | 50 | (-) new |
| 7 | Naftovyk Okhtyrka | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 35:32 | 49 | (+) new |
| 8 | Dynamo-2 Kyiv | 34 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 42:32 | 47 | |
| 9 | Zirka Kirovohrad | 34 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 29:28 | 46 | |
| 10 | SC Mykolaiv | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 37:44 | 46 | |
| 11 | Shakhtar-2 Donetsk | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 50:46 | 46 | |
| 12 | Karpaty-2 Lviv | 34 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 41:52 | 42 | |
| 13 | Borysfen Boryspil | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 43:45 | 40 | |
| 14 | CSKA Kyiv | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 32:39 | 39 | |
| 15 | Nyva Vinnytsia | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 35:52 | 38 | |
| 16 | Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopil (R) | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 30:41 | 37 |  Second League – Relegated
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| 17 | Dnipro-2 Dniproperivsk (R) | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 29:48 | 31 | Second League – Relegated
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| 18 | Nyva Ternopil (R) | 34 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 20:77 | 13 | (-) new – Second League – Relegated
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- The result of the 25th round match Borysfen Boryspil - FC Polissya Zhytomyr (1:2) was annulled and replaced with such -:-, with no points added to either team.
Legend:
|
- Promoted | |
|
- Relegated |
| Persha Liha 2001-02 Winners |
|---|
| FC Volyn Lutsk First title |
Promotion play-off
| Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya | 1 – 0 | Polissya Zhytomyr |
|---|---|---|
Babych  45+2' Martynenko  30'  78' |
Report |
FC Polissya Zhytomyr failed to obtain a berth in the 2002-03 Top League.
Top scorers
Statistics are taken from here.[1]
| Scorer | Goals (Pen.) | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Vasyl Sachko
|
17 (1) | Volyn-1 Lutsk |
| Viktor Arefyev
|
17 (5) | Stal Alchevsk | |
| 3 | Vyacheslav Tereschenko
|
16 (1) | Obolon Kyiv |
| 4 | Pavlo Parshyn
|
14 (4) | Polissya Zhytomyr |
| 5 | Volodymyr Skrypka
|
13 | SC Mykolaiv |
| 6 | Pavlo Onysko
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12 | Karpaty-2 Lviv |
| 7 | Volodymyr Hashchyn
|
11 (3) | Volyn-1 Lutsk |
| 8 | Kostiantyn Balabanov
|
10 | Chornomorets Odesa |
| Pavlo Zakharov
|
10 (7) | Naftovyk Okhtyrka | |
| 10 | Oleksandr Sobkovych
|
7 (4) | Obolon Kyiv |