2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League

Ukrainian Premier League
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Season	2016–17
Champions League	Shakhtar Donetsk; Dynamo Kyiv
Europa League	Zorya Luhansk
Matches played	186
Goals scored	437 (2.35 per match)
Top goalscorer	15 – Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo)
Biggest home win	6 – Oleksandriya 6–0 Volyn (Round 19); Dynamo 6–0 Oleksandriya (Round 28)
Biggest away win	4 – Olimpik 0–4 Dynamo (Round 9); Olimpik 0–4 Shakhtar (Round 25)
Highest scoring	7 – Dynamo 3–4 Shakhtar (Round 18)
Longest winning run	10 – Shakhtar (Round 12–21)
Longest unbeaten run	23 – Shakhtar (Round 1–23)
Longest winless run	12 – Karpaty (Round 2–13); Volyn (Round 13–24)
Longest losing run	7 – Volyn (Round 18–24)
Highest attendance	51,732 – Dynamo–Shakhtar (Round 26)
Lowest attendance	0 – three games
	← 2015–16 2017–18 → All statistics correct as of 24 April 2017 ^ FC Volyn Lutsk was penalized by the Football Federation of Ukraine for its fans and two of its home games were played behind the "closed doors" (without stadium spectators). FC Dnipro was penalized by the Football Federation of Ukraine for its fans and home game against Chornomorets was played behind the "closed doors" (without stadium spectators). ; .

The 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League season is the 26th top level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the ninth since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. The league is scheduled to play its first 18 rounds before the winter break (10 December 2016 – 25 February 2017) finishing its first stage of tournament in March. The second stage is scheduled to start on 1 April 2017 and finish on 31 May 2017.

The league's title sponsor for 2016–17 season as for the previous season is a bookmaker company Pari-Match, the title of which is displayed on the season shield.

With the continuation of the military conflict in the eastern oblasts (regions) of Ukraine since 2014 and the Russian occupation of Crimea (see the map), the league was forced to change its format again and will now be contested by 12 teams after being cut from 14 in the 2015–16 season.

Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions. On 6 May 2017 in Kharkiv, Shakhtar Donetsk secured its 10th championship title with a win over Zorya Luhansk and four more rounds to play in the season.^[3] The 10th title that Shakhtar earned this season would allow the club to place a star on the club's crest to indicate this feat.^[3]

Changes and announcements

On 29 February 2016, the Ukrainian Premier League administration announced that there will be changes to the competition format for the 2016–17 season.^[4] It was confirmed that the championship would be played in two different phases, the first phase will be using a standard double round-robin tournament system and the second phase will be broken into two groups one from 1st to 6th place which will play for the championship and the European spots and the second group made up of teams from 7th place to 12th which will play to avoid relegation. The bottom two teams will be relegated and would be replaced by the champion and the runner-up of the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League. The points gained in the first stage are passed on to the second stage.

The new format was to be presented by the FFU Executive Committee.^[5] On 29 April 2016, the FFU Executive Committee approved the changes to the new UPL format for 2016–17 season.^[6] The fixtures were announced on 7 June 2016.^[7] The competition commenced on 21 July when Shakhtar Donetsk hosted Zirka Kropyvnytskyi in Lviv.^[8] The first eighteen rounds will be played before winter break which will begin after 10 December 2016. The competition is to resume 25 February 2017. The first phase will end on 18 March 2017 after which the league will split according to the first phase final standings with the second phase starting on 1 April 2017. The season will be concluded on 31 May 2017.

On 7 March 2017, the official website of Dynamo announced that the draw for the second stage of 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League on 10 March 2017 at the VIP-lounge of Olympiyskyi NSC at 12:00 LST.^[9] On 10 March 2017 at Olimpiyskyi NSC took place a draw for the second stage of the tournament.^[10]

Teams

Promoted teams

Zirka Kropyvnytskyi – the champion of the 2015–16 Ukrainian First League (returning for the first time since 2003–04 season, 13 seasons absence).

Renamed teams

As part of ongoing decommunization in Ukraine, several populated places in Ukraine changed their names, therefore the league adopted the same changes and applied them to the respective clubs in parenthesis.

FC Dnipro is shown as out of Dnipro.^[11]
FC Stal Kamianske is shown as out of Kamianske.^[12]
FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi is shown as out of Kropyvnytskyi.^[13]

Location map

Olimpik

Shakhtar

Stal

Vorskla

Volyn

Zirka

Zorya

(Sumy)

(Zaporizhia)

(Dnipro)

(Kharkiv)

(Cherkasy)

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Home venues of teams in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League.
Teams in italics are from a conflict zone of the War in Donbass and are playing their home games in different cities.
Stal Kamianske plays its home games also in Dnipro.

Stadiums

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Rank	Stadium	Club	Capacity^[14]	Notes
1	NSC Olimpiyskiy	Dynamo Kyiv	70,050
2	OSC Metalist	Shakhtar Donetsk	40,003	Used as home ground in round 7 and second half of season
3	Arena Lviv	Karpaty Lviv	34,915
		Shakhtar Donetsk		Used as home ground during first half of season
		Olimpik Donetsk		Used as home ground in round 19^[15]^[16]
4	Chornomorets Stadium	Chornomorets Odesa	34,164
5	Dnipro-Arena	Dnipro	31,003
6	Yuvileiny Stadium	Olimpik Donetsk	25,830	Used as home ground during first half of season
7	Vorskla Stadium	Vorskla Poltava	24,795
7	Vorskla Stadium	Olimpik Donetsk	24,795	Used as home ground in round 21^[17]^[18]^[19]
8	Meteor Stadium	Stal Kamianske	24,381	Used as home ground during season^[20]
9	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium	Olimpik Donetsk	16,873	Used as home ground in the second half
10	Zirka Stadium	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	13,667
10	Zirka Stadium	Olimpik Donetsk	13,667	Used as home ground in round 3
11	Avanhard Stadium	Volyn Lutsk	12,080
12	Slavutych-Arena	Zorya Luhansk	11,883	Used as home ground during season
12	Slavutych-Arena	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	11,883	Used as home ground in round 17
13	Tsentralnyi Stadion	Olimpik Donetsk	10,321	Used as home ground in round 17
14	CSC Nika Stadium	FC Oleksandriya	7,000

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	President	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Chornomorets Odesa	Leonid Klimov	Oleksandr Babych	Serhiy Lyulka	Legea	2+2
Dnipro	Ihor Kolomoyskyi	Dmytro Mykhaylenko (caretaker)	Ruslan Rotan	Nike	Biola
Dynamo Kyiv	Ihor Surkis	Serhiy Rebrov	Andriy Yarmolenko	adidas	— (Ostchem on the backside)
Karpaty Lviv	Petro Dyminskyi	Oleg Dulub	Ihor Khudobyak	Joma	Pari-Match
FC Oleksandriya	Serhiy Kuzmenko	Volodymyr Sharan	Andriy Zaporozhan	Nike	UkrAhroKom
Olimpik Donetsk	Vladyslav Helzin	Roman Sanzhar	Dmytro Hryshko	Joma	Altkom
Shakhtar Donetsk	Rinat Akhmetov	Paulo Fonseca	Darijo Srna	Nike	SCM
Stal Kamianske	Vardan Israelian	Leonid Kuchuk	Maksym Kalenchuk	Joma	ISD
Volyn Lutsk	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi	Anatoliy Didenko	Joma	—
Vorskla Poltava	Roman Cherniak	Vasyl Sachko	Volodymyr Chesnakov	adidas	Ferrexpo
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	Maksym Berezkin	Roman Monaryov	Federico Pereyra	Joma	—
Zorya Luhansk	Yevhen Heller	Yuriy Vernydub	Mykyta Kamenyuka	Nike	—

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Shakhtar Donetsk	Mircea Lucescu	Resigned	21 May 2016^[21]^[22]	Pre-season	Paulo Fonseca	1 June 2016^[23]
Karpaty Lviv	Volodymyr Bezubyak⁽¹⁾	End of contract	8 May 2016^[24]		Valeriy Yaremchenko	6 June 2016^[25]⁽²⁾
Karpaty Lviv	Valeriy Yaremchenko	Resigned	17 June 2016^[26]		Anatoliy Chantsev (caretaker)	17 June 2016^[26]
Dnipro	Myron Markevych	Resigned	30 June 2016^[27]		Dmytro Mykhaylenko (caretaker)	30 June 2016^[28]
Karpaty Lviv	Anatoliy Chantsev (caretaker)	Resigned (state of health)	5 July 2016^[29]		Serhiy Zaytsev (caretaker)	5 July 2016^[29]
Stal Kamianske	Erik van der Meer	Resigned (family circumstances)	10 August 2016^[30]	7th	Joop Gall (caretaker) Joop Gall	10 August 2016 permanent since 28 August 2016^[31]
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	Serhiy Lavrynenko	Mutual consent	19 August 2016	11th	Dario Drudi (caretaker)	19 August 2016
Karpaty Lviv	Serhiy Zaytsev (caretaker)	End as caretaker	7 October 2016^[32]	12th	Oleg Dulub	7 October 2016^[32]
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	Dario Drudi (caretaker)	Mutual consent	15 November 2016^[33]	9th	Viktor Dohadailo (caretaker, until end of 2016) Roman Monaryov (caretaker)⁽³⁾	15 November 2016^[33]
Stal Kamianske	Joop Gall	Mutual consent	11 January 2017^[34]	9th (winter break)	Leonid Kuchuk^[35]	15 January 2017
Chornomorets Odesa	Oleksandr Babych (caretaker)	Received "PRO" license	25 February 2017^[36]	7th (winter break)	Oleksandr Babych	25 February 2017
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	Roman Monaryov (caretaker)	Signed permanent contract	11 May 2017^[37]	9th	Roman Monaryov	11 May 2017^[37]

Notes:

^(1) Volodymyr Bezubyak was a senior coach of Karpaty Lviv instead of a regular position of a head coach. The president Dyminsky came out with a new "know-how" and appointed Luzhny as a manager of all teams including the club's academy, while Bezubyak continued to coach the first team.^[38]
^(2) The Karpaty's official head coach Oleh Luzhny was not confirmed on the position of head coach of Karpaty Lviv for the upcoming season.^[39] He was fired for not achieving the club's goal, but to the press he denied that he was managing anything.^[38]
^(3) Both Viktor Dohadailo and Roman Monaryov were announced as replacements for the resigned Argentinian specialist.^[33] The Premier League posts Dohadailo as the only head coach of the senior team after the coach substitution.^[40] Roman Monaryov became the only head coach since the start of 2017.

First stage

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Júnior Moraes	Dynamo Kyiv	Oleksandriya	5–1	23 July 2016^[50]
Andriy Bohdanov	Olimpik Donetsk	Dnipro	3–0	11 September 2016^[51]
Júnior Moraes	Dynamo Kyiv	Volyn Lutsk	4–1	26 November 2016^[52]
Stanislav Kulish⁽⁴⁾	Oleksandriya	Volyn Lutsk	6–0	25 February 2017^[53]
Kwame Karikari	Stal Kamianske	Oleksandriya	4–1	18 March 2017^[54]

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Dynamo Kyiv				10,032	n/a^†
2	Shakhtar Donetsk				7,351	n/a^†
3	Chornomorets Odesa				5,753	n/a^†
4	Dnipro				4,456	n/a^†
5	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi				3,910	n/a^†
6	Olimpik Donetsk				3,798	n/a^†
7	Karpaty Lviv				3,456	n/a^†
8	Vorskla Poltava				2,933	n/a^†
9	FC Oleksandriya				2,281	n/a^†
10	Volyn Lutsk				2,250	n/a^†
11	Zorya Luhansk				2,210	n/a^†
12	Stal Kamianske				937	n/a^†
	League total	0	0	0	0	n/a^†

Changes and announcements

Teams

Promoted teams

Renamed teams

Location map

Stadiums

Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

First stage

First stage table

First stage results

First stage positions by round

Championship round

Championship round table

Championship round results

Championship round positions by round

Relegation round

Relegation round table

Relegation round results

Relegation round positions by round

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks (pokers)

Awards

Monthly awards

Round awards

Season awards

Scandals

FIFA sanctions

Other scandals

See also

Attendances

Notes

References

External links