2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League
 Official logo[1] | |
| Season | 2020–21 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 22 August 2020 – 15 May 2021[2] (winter break 13 December 2020 – 13 February 2021) |
← 2019–20 2021–22 → | |
The 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League season will be the 30th top-level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 13th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. The defending champion is the 13-times winner Shakhtar Donetsk.
Teams
This season, as it was announced earlier the Ukrainian Premier League has been expanded to 14 teams, which will include 11 teams from the previous season and the top three teams from the 2019–20 Ukrainian First League.[3] The league is expected to expend further to 16 teams next season as part of the league's expansion plan.
Promoted teams
- FC Mynai – the champion of the 2019–20 Ukrainian First League (debut)
- Rukh Lviv – runner-up of the 2019–20 Ukrainian First League (debut)
- Inhulets Petrove – third place of the 2019–20 Ukrainian First League (debut)
Location map
The following displays the location of teams.
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Kyiv
Donetsk
Lviv
Home venues of teams in the 2020–21 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.
Teams in italics are from a conflict zone of the War in Donbass and are playing their home games in different cities.
Stadiums
Three of the qualified to the date teams play their matches outside of home towns. The minimum threshold for the stadium's capacity in the UPL is 5,000 (Article 10, paragraph 7.2).[4]
The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:
| Rank | Stadium | Place | Club | Capacity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NSC Olimpiyskiy | Kyiv | Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk |
70,050 | used as home ground during the season[5] |
| 2 | Dnipro-Arena | Dnipro | SC Dnipro-1 | 31,003 | |
| 3 | Ukraina Stadium | Lviv | FC Lviv | 28,051 | |
| 4 | Vorskla Stadium | Poltava | Vorskla Poltava | 24,795 | |
| 5 | Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium | Kyiv | Olimpik Donetsk | 16,873 | used as home ground during the season |
| 6 | Zirka Stadium | Kropyvnytskyi | Inhulets Petrove | 14,628 | used as home ground during the season[6] |
| 7 | Volodymyr Boiko Stadium | Mariupol | FC Mariupol | 12,680 | due to turf restoration, all first half Mariupol will play away[7] |
| 8 | Chernihiv Stadium | Chernihiv | Desna Chernihiv | 12,060 | |
| 9 | Slavutych-Arena | Zaporizhia | Zorya Luhansk | 12,000 | used as home ground during the season |
| 10 | CSC Nika Stadium | Oleksandriya | FC Oleksandriya | 7,000 | |
| 11 | Kolos Stadium | Kovalivka | Kolos Kovalivka | 5,000[8] | under construction, planned[9][10] |
Personnel and sponsorship
Managerial changes
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | Table |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamo Kyiv |  Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko
|
Mutual agreement[12] | 20 July 2020[13] | Pre-season |  Mircea Lucescu
|
23 July 2020[14] | Pre-season |
| Olimpik Donetsk | Ihor Klymovskyi (interim)
|
Made permanent | 20 July 2020[15] | Ihor Klymovskyi
|
20 July 2020[15] | ||
| FC Mariupol | Oleksandr Babych
|
End of contract | 30 July 2020[16] | Ostap Markevych
|
3 August 2020[17] |
League table
Standings
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Desna Chernihiv | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | SC Dnipro-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Dynamo Kyiv | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to Europa Conference League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Inhulets Petrove | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to Europa Conference League second qualifying round |
| 5 | Kolos Kovalivka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | FC Lviv | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | FC Mariupol | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | FC Mynai | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | FC Oleksandriya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 | Olimpik Donetsk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | Rukh Lviv | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 12 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 13 | Vorskla Poltava | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 | Zorya Luhansk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First match(es) will be played: 22 August 2020. Source: [citation needed]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head bigger amount of goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Bigger amount of goals scored; 7) Draw or "golden match" if tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head bigger amount of goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Bigger amount of goals scored; 7) Draw or "golden match" if tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).
Results
Teams play each other twice on a home and away basis.
Positions by round
Source: [citation needed]
References
- ^ Official Logo. Ukrainian Premier League website.
- ^ UAF Executive committee approved plan-calendar of the 2020/21 season (Виконком УАФ затвердив план-календар сезону 2020/21 років). Ukrainian Premier League. 12 August 2020
- ^ There was approved the first half season calendar of the 2020–21 FavBet Liha (Затверджено календар першого кола Favbet Ліги 2020/21 років). Ukrainian Premier League. 10 August 2020
- ^ Locations where completion is conducted (Місця проведення змагань). 2018–19 Ukrainian Premier League regulations.
- ^ Shakhtar and Dynamo will be sharing Olimpiyskiy NSC the next season (Шахтер и Динамо будут делить НСК Олимпийский в следующем сезоне). Sport Arena. 11 August 2020
- ^ Artur Malkin. There took place a session of the UAF Committee in certification of clubs to play in the 2020–21 seasons of the Premier or First leagues (Відбулося засідання Комітету з атестування УАФ щодо участі клубів у Прем’єр-лізі та першій лізі сезону-2020/2021 ). Footboom. 13 August 2020
- ^ Vsevolod Mazur. Mariupol all its games of the first half of the 2020–21 FavBet Liha will play away (Мариуполь все матчи первого круга Favbet Лиги 2020/21 проведет на выезде). Sport Arena. 10 August 2020
- ^ Stadium reconstruction continues! (Реконструкція стадіону триває!). FC Kolos Kovalivka.
- ^ Kolos will play of their own stadium in the next UPL season (Колос будет выступать на своем стадионе в следующем сезоне УПЛ). Football.ua. 27 January 2020.
- ^ "Kolos" will play its games of the Europe League at its stadium («Колос» будет играть матчи Лиги Европы на своем стадионе). Xsport. 1 August 2020
- ^ Sukhkenko, M. How Kopytko took over Veres and transformed it into Lviv (Як Копитко захопив Верес и перетворив його на Львів). Sport Arena. 23 May 2018
- ^ "Олексій Михайличенко повернеться на посаду спортивного директора" [Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko will return to the position of Sports director] (in Ukrainian). Dynamo Kyiv. 30 July 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ "New coaching staff to prepare Dynamo for the new season". Dynamo Kyiv. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
- ^ "Mircea Lucescu – FC Dynamo Kyiv head coach". FC Dynamo Kyiv. 23 July 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ a b ""Олимпик" утвердил Климовского главным тренером, без приставки и.о." [Olimpik approved Klymovskyi as a head coach without prefix interim] (in Russian). Footboom. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
- ^ "Александр Бабич и его штаб завершили работу в ФК Мариуполь" [Oleksandr Babych and his stuff finished their work in FC Mariupol] (in Russian). FC Mariupol. 30 July 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ^ "Остап Маркевич — главный тренер ФК Мариуполь" [Ostap Markevych is a head coach of FC Mariupol] (in Russian). FC Mariupol. 3 August 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.