Ukrainian Premier League

Highest division of ukrainian annual football championship

Football league
The Ukrainian Premier League ( ukrainian : “ Українська Прем’єр-ліга ”, Ukrayinska Premier Liha ) or UPL is the highest division of ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( ukrainian : Вища ліга, Top League ) it was formed in 1991 as contribution of the 1992 [ 1 ] ukrainian football championship upon discontinuance of the 1991 Soviet football championship and included the Ukraine-based clubs that competed previously in the Soviet clear three tiers competitions a well as better club of the ukrainian republican competitions. The initial season of the league featured six early soviet Top League clubs among which were Dynamo, Shakhtar, Chornomorets, Dnipro, Metalist, Metalurh deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as four more clubs that previously besides competed at the circus tent league.

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In 1996 along with the early master football leagues of Ukraine, the Top League became a penis of the Professional Football League of Ukraine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2008 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] it was withdrawn from Professional Football League of Ukraine and reformed into a separate self governed entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine, formally changing its list to the stream one. Its membership was 12th highest in Europe as rated by UEFA as of 2021. As a leading club of the Soviet Top League, Dynamo Kyiv continues to be the league ‘s “ flagship cabaret ”, while in the last 10 seasons the league is dominated by Shakhtar Donetsk 8 to 2. Three of ukrainian clubs reached european club competitions finals including Dynamo ( as Soviet cabaret ), Shakhtar and Dnipro. Among ukrainian fans the most democratic ukrainian clubs are Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk. [ 5 ] other popular clubs include Karpaty Lviv, Metalist Kharkiv, Chornomorets Odesa and Dnipro. [ 5 ]

General overview and format [edit ]

The 2020–21 season is the league ‘s thirteenth after the restructure of professional cabaret football in 2008 and the 30th season since establishing of professional club ‘s contest independent from the Soviet Union. As of 2021, Dynamo Kyiv is the reigning ukrainian Premier League champion. To summarise, Tavriya Simferopol won the first championship, while all the subsequent titles have gone to either Dynamo Kyiv or Shakhtar Donetsk. entirely 2 teams, Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk have participated in all previous 29 ukrainian Top League competitions. The cardinal have of the league is a game between the lapp Dynamo and Shakhtar which is developed into the Klasychne ( Classic ). On 15 April 2008 the new Premier-Liha ( Premier League ) was formed. The new sports constitution consists of 12 football club organizations that take operate of the league ‘s operations under the statues of Football Federation of Ukraine, UEFA, and FIFA. With the new reorganization the format of the League was preserved, while the changes that were made were entirely administrative. Competitions continued to be conducted in a double round robin format among 16 clubs. There were couple seasons when the 14-clubs league ‘s composition was experimented. Since the 2014 russian aggression, the league was reduced to 12 members, while its format besides has changed. The season is hush being played in a double cycle robin in the first half of a season, after which the league splits in half into two groups of six teams. Both the top six and the bed six play another a double round of golf robin tournament with the clubs of own group. For 2019-20 there was besides introduced mail season play-off for qualification for the European baseball club competitions. The teams that reach the top ranks of the rival mesa at the end of each season as always gain the chance to represent Ukraine internationally in several esteemed tournaments ( continental club tournaments ). besides at the conclusion of the season, the bottom clubs ( normally two ) are relegated to the First League ( contribution of the lower Professional Football League ) and replaced by the crown club from that league. All the participants of the Premier League enter the National Cup competition and figure it at the turn of 32 ( 1/16th of the final ) or Round of 16 phase. besides the winner of the League at the beginning of every following season plays against the winner of the National Cup for the ukrainian Super Cup ( under administration of the Premier Liha ). Beside Super Cup crippled and championship among senior teams of the league ‘s clubs, the league besides conducts competitions among junior teams including under 21 and under 19. The champion of the under 19 championship qualifies for the UEFA Youth League .

emblem [edit ]

Old emblem New emblem Season ‘s emblem in 2016
with Pari-Match as presenter Season ‘s emblem of FavBet as patron Season ‘s emblem of VBet as patron The previous emblem depicts a football that is wrapped around by the blue-yellow stripe ( the national colors of Ukraine ) on the bluing backdrop. Across the top and around the ball there are 16 stars that represent the league ‘s participants ( although in 2014 the league was shortened up to 14 teams the emblem was not changed ). On the bottom the handwriting says “ Premier-League – Union of Professional Football Clubs of Ukraine ”. As with the honest-to-god emblem, the new emblem besides contains 16 stars. For the 2016–17 temper, the presenter ‘s name was added .
At least since 2006, the league was placing its sponsors ‘ names for its seasons ‘ titles. The first sponsor became Russian-Ukrainian production association of alcoholic beverages “ Soyuz-Viktan ” for the 2006–07 ukrainian championship. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] While the condense was signed for five years and formally presented by the presidents of the Football Federation of Ukraine and the Professional Football League of Ukraine as a style patronize Soyuz-Viktan was expected to stay for couple of seasons, but already in 2007 there was announced a new entitle patronize “ Biola ” from Dnipro. [ 9 ] [ 6 ] [ 10 ] Previously “ Soyuz-Viktan ” was sponsoring the russian ice field hockey team and its Hockey Super League, in 2006 it besides became patronize of newly established Channel One Cup. [ 11 ] Back in 2002, Mirror Weekly published an article that leaders of “ Soyuz-Viktan ” were convicted in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea to 15 years captivity. [ 12 ] Reputation of “ Soyuz-Viktan ” was questioned on several occasions. [ 13 ] soon after administration of Premier-Liha, in 2008 there was signed a condense with a modern presenter Epitsentr K ( network of home plate improvement stores ). [ 6 ] [ 14 ] The sum of the shrink was announced as $ 3.6 million, [ 15 ] while barely three months before there were speculations that newfangled presenter would pay no less than $ 5 million. [ 16 ] In 2013 the abridge expired. The new contract was established in 2015 with a bookmaking company Pari-Match, which lasted for couple of seasons. [ 14 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ]

Season ‘s format and regulations [edit ]

Season regulations is one of the two most significant documents ( other being the competition calendar ) that are adopted by the Premier League prior to each season. Premier League directly organizes and conducts competitions among member clubs. Competitions are conducted on principle of “ Fair play ” and according to competitions calendar which is approved by the Premier League General Assembly and the FFU Executive Committee 30 days before begin of competitions. Until 2019 [ citation needed ] all ad, commercial rights and rights on television and radio receiver broadcast of games of backing and cup belong to the club that hosts them ( the Super Cup of Ukraine and the “ amber game ” ). All ad, commercial rights and rights on television receiver and radio broadcast of the game of Super Cup and the “ gold bet on ”. Before 2014 Premier League was besides administering some rounds of the ukrainian Cup ( Round of 8, Quarterfinals, and Semifinals ). The earlier rounds were administered by the Professional League and the final by the Federation. Since 2014 the constitution of ukrainian Cup competitions in full belongs entirely to the Federation. There are presently 12 club members of the league. All participants get approved by the Premier League General Assembly. Each club fields each team for senior competitions, and competitions for under 21 and under 19 teams ( three teams ). A club is required to have a stadium ( registered with FFU ) and an education and train facility ( or center ). A baseball club is besides obligated to finance its own youth sports mental hospital and a complex scientific-methodical group american samoa well as to own and finance a number of youth teams. A Premier League clubhouse needs to ensure participation of at least four youth teams ( ages groups between 14 and 17 ) in the Youth Football League of Ukraine. A club can not field more than one team for a certain competition. All club ‘s staff members ( coaches, physicians, massage specialists ) have to be contracted and be UEFA licensed. All coaches should have A-diploma, while promontory coaches – PRO-diploma. football players are listed in “ A ” and “ B ” rosters. “ A ” roll contains no more than 25 players, while “ B ” roll has unlimited number of players no older than 21 who have professional contracts or agreements for sports training. The 25-players “ A ” roll includes the number of slots allotted for players developed by the cabaret. During breaks in competitions in summer and winter there are two periods for registering players. Beside the chief championship among senior teams, the Premier League besides organizes youth backing which was adopted from the previous Vyshcha Liha championship of doubles ( reserves ). Since 2012 there was added another competition for junior teams, so the original youth backing was renamed into the Championship of U-21 teams and the new competition was named as the Championship of U-19 teams. Unlike the championship of U-21 teams, in the Championship of U-19 teams beside all of the Premier League clubs ‘ junior teams, there besides compete teams of some lower leagues ‘ clubs. The league ‘s championship among senior teams is conducted by manner of the round robin system in two cycles “ fall-spring ” with one game at home and another at opposition ‘s field with each player. A rival calendar is formed after a draw that is conducted based on the Premier League club rankings. The calendar of the second cycle repeats the first, while hosting teams are switched. There should be no less than two calendar days between official games of a golf club. All games take place between 12:00 and 22:00 local fourth dimension. any game delay is allowed alone in emergencies and on decision of the Premier League Administration ( Dyrektsiya ). Game forfeitures are controlled by technical win/loss nominations and fines, followed by extra sanctions of the FFU Control-Disciplinary Committee, and possible elimination from the league .

competition calendar [edit ]

Clubs play each early twice ( once at family and once away ) in the 26-match temper. The league begins in mid-july and ends in mid-june. After 13 rounds of fixtures, there is a winter break that lasts for three months ( from early December to early March ). therefore, the winter fracture is importantly longer than the interval between seasons. This agenda accounts for climatic conditions and matches that of most european leagues in terms of the get down and the end of the season. The first temper of the League in 1992 was an exception, as it lasted only half a class. This was because the concluding soviet league season ended in the fall of 1991, and the Football Federation of Ukraine decided to shift the calendar from “ spring-fall ” to “ fall-spring ” football seasons. In the inaugural season, 20 clubs were divided into two 10-team groups. In both groups, each baseball club played each other twice, and the championship was decided by a play-off meet between the group winners, in which Tavriya Simferopol surprised the pre-season darling Dynamo Kyiv. After the foremost temper, in each of the follow seasons each team played each other team in the League twice. The act of participating teams fluctuated between 14 and 18, stabilizing since 2002–03 season at 16. As of the 2005–06 season, the golden equal rule was introduced. According to the dominion, if the first two teams obtain the lapp numeral of points, the championship is to be decided by an extra “ golden ” equal between the two teams. In fact, in that season Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk had earned the like count of points and Shakhtar won the backing by winning the aureate match ( 2–1 after extra time ) .

history [edit ]

creation [edit ]

Before 1992, ukrainian domestic football league competitions were conducted among ukrainian teams that competed in one of groups within the soviet one-third tier dwell of around 20 teams. Beside that championship another over 20 teams competed in two amphetamine tiers where they played along with other teams across the Soviet Union. besides, at the lapp time there were conducted competitions among KFK ( amateur teams ) at lower level. With the Soviet Union tumbling down ( as one authoritative once called it, “ the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century ” ), [ 26 ] in late 1991 there originate discussion about creation of freestanding competition which would include all better ukrainian clubs. Following the fail 1991 August coup d’etat, the ukrainian fantan declared a submit independence and appointed a date of referendum to confirm the decision. Despite the fail coup d’etat and declaration of independence by number of Soviet union republics, the Football Federation of the Soviet Union continued with planning of the 1992 football season. [ 26 ] In September 1991 in Soviet magazine “ Futbol ” appeared some comments from question coaches of ukrainian clubs playing in the Soviet First League ( Tavriya and Bukovyna ). [ 26 ] The Tavriya head passenger car Anatoliy Zayaev said that the club is powerfully against engagement in ukrainian backing and intend to continue to play in soviet backing. [ 26 ] The Bukovyna question passenger car Yukhym Shkolnykov said that the cabaret does not have any wishes to return to the ukrainian group as planned by the republican confederation and no one should let politics transverse football. [ 26 ] In October 1991 some Moscow press took a big interview from FC Dnipro head passenger car Yevhen Kucherevsky titled “ How to live on ? ” His directly language had started with a give voice “ Dnipro is decidedly for the soviet championship ”. [ 26 ] Next Yevhen Mefodiyich told about possible isolation of ukrainian football, because if Ukraine would not be recognized by the World, there is nothing to think about membership in FIFA or UEFA. [ 26 ] After that recalling some kind of World Basket League, Kucherevsky discussed the topic that “ people are unite, but we … ” [ 26 ] When questioned “ what is the mood among coaches of other ukrainian teams ”, he hard answered “ Almost all are for the connect championship and against separate ukrainian ”. [ 26 ] In particular, Kucherevsky mentioned his talks with head coach of Shakhtar Valeriy Yaremchenko. [ 26 ] More to it, according to Kucherevsky, majority of the Dnipro ‘s fans judging by their letters and telephone calls besides consider that conduct of ukrainian championship not in time. [ 26 ] Ended his interview Kucherevsky with a give voice that “ he wants to hope that the position when they have to play in a divide backing will never come ”. [ 26 ] The coach even allowed the think that Ukraine could be recognized as an independent state, but proposes an idea of the “ soviet receptive championship ”, referring to … the subject with NHL. [ 26 ] In cosmopolitan Kucherevsky was speaking of truthful situation. [ 26 ] Among all ukrainian teams of the Soviet Top League, only Dynamo was distinctly and hard for its own independent championship. other clubs took place from “ strongly against ” to “ possibly for, but ”. [ 26 ] For example, Metalurh Zaporizhya that was playing its beginning season at such level was for the soviet championship. [ 26 ] so far, Metalist that was struggling to stay in, took a catchy side : “ If we are would relegate to the First Union League, we will be for ukrainian backing, if we would stay at the top, we will be for soviet backing ”. [ 26 ] In September 1991 there took place a session of the Football Federation of the ukrainian SSR Executive Committee ( ispolkom ), which started with raising of blue-and-yellow pin that was given by a member of fantan Vyacheslav Chornovil. [ 27 ] On proposition of Viktor Bannikov who at time was heading the football confederation, the struggle for independent backing had to take place under national colors. [ 27 ] The administrator committee decided that blue-and-yellow flags had to flown over all stadiums where were playing ukrainian teams. [ 27 ] Some members of the administrator committee have spoken about the mugwump ukrainian championship, but did not rush with a decision. [ 27 ] For that it was decided to wait until the Federation ‘s plenum on 13–14 December 1991. [ 27 ]
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the inaugural independent championship took identify hurriedly at the startle of leap 1992 after the initiation of the ukrainian Higher League ( ukrainian : Вища Ліга, Vyshcha Liha ). The League was created out of the six teams that took separate in the soviet Top League, two teams from the Soviet First League, and nine out of the football team ukrainian teams from the soviet Second League. The early two of that eleven were placed in the ukrainian First League as they were to be relegated anyhow. The two best teams of the soviet Second League B of the Ukrainian Zone were besides placed in the Higher League along with the winner of the 1991 ukrainian Cup which finished ninth in the same group ( soviet Second League B ). The 20 participants were split into two groups with the winners playing for the championship title and the runner-up play for third topographic point. Three teams from each group were to be relegated. As expected, the five favorites, Dynamo Kyiv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Shakhtar Donetsk, Chornomorets Odesa, and Metalist Kharkiv finished at the top of each group. In the championship play-off game in Lviv, a sensation took plaza as Tavriya Simferopol beat Dynamo Kyiv 1–0. The Crimeans earned the first ukrainian deed ( therefore far their only one ), losing only once to Temp Shepetivka. After being stunned in the first backing by the tragedy in Lviv, Dynamo Kyiv were anxious to earn their first title at the second opportunity. In the irregular ukrainian championship, which had a regular League format of 16 teams, the independent rivals of the Kyivians were Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, who were top after the first half of the season. By the end of the season both teams were neck and neck and at the goal they finished with the lapp issue of points. The championship title was awarded to Dynamo Kyiv as they had a better goal difference. Neither the Golden match, nor the fact that Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk had a better neck and neck record was considered. The future seven years were known as the entire domination of Dynamo Kyiv. During this period ‘the main soviet protagonists ‘ had changed as some of the best teams were facing a crisis. After the 1993–94 season Metalist Kharkiv were amazingly relegated to the First League. In the 1995–96 season Shakhtar Donetsk had the worst year in the clubhouse ‘s history, coming tenth. Chornomorets Odesa were relegated twice during that first decade after which coach Leonid Buryak was sacked. A few newly created teams have since emerged such as Arsenal Kyiv and Metalurh Donetsk, a well as Vorskla Poltava, who amazingly came third gear in the club ‘s first temper at the Top Level in the 1997 .

Dynamo–Shakhtar competition and Premier League ( 2000–2010 ) [edit ]

The adjacent ten was marked by ferocious rival between Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk. Since 2000, Shakhtar Donetsk has proved to be the real challengers to Kyiv ‘s dominance. In 2000 Shakhtar earned their first qualification to the Champions League earning a place in the Group stage. Nonetheless, Dynamo Kyiv is distillery considered to be the benchmark of excellence in the state and the primary bird feeder to the ukrainian national football team. 2002 became the real cornerstone in the miners history when they earned their first national style under the management of the newly appointed italian specialist, Nevio Scala, who managed to secure the ukrainian Cup title vitamin a well. Since that clock the issue of foreign players has become peculiarly acute and brought a series of court cases. The FFU and PFL worked together to solve that issue, coming up with a plan to force the transitional limitation of alien players over time. The clubs such as Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Chornomorets Odesa, who were holocene contenders for the championship, had to put up a boisterous fight against the newly established contenders Metalurh Donetsk and Metalist Kharkiv to qualify for the european competitions. Metalist Kharkiv shine brilliantly in the late 2000s ( decade ) by systematically finishing good behind Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk in third base place. Their most noteworthy feat was their engagement in the 2009 European season when they had to face Dynamo Kyiv to earn a locate in the quarter-finals of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, but lost on the aside goals rule. That same 2008–09 UEFA Cup competition was won for the first time by Shakhtar Donetsk, the inaugural club of autonomous Ukraine to win the claim. It was besides the last UEFA cup title before it changed its name to the Europa league. In the 2008–09 temper the league earned the highest UEFA league coefficient in Europe for that season .
Areal duel between players of Shakhtar and Metalist in September 2009 including Fernandinho and Marko Devic On 15 November 2007 club ‘ presidents of the Vyshcha Liha adopted a decision to create the Premier League ( Premier Liha ). [ 28 ] At the same meet session there was created a supervisory board that consisted of Ravil Safiullin ( Professional Football League ), Vitaliy Danilov ( FC Kharkiv ), Petro Dyminskyi ( FC Karpaty ), and Vadym Rabinovych ( FC Arsenal ). [ 28 ] During the following three months that torso curated a process on creation of the Premier League ‘s rule and legislative act angstrom well as a procedure of launching the championship starting from the 2008–09 temper. [ 28 ] On 15 April 2008 at one of the meetings among the presidents of clubs there was signed a protocol about establishing the Association of Professional Football Clubs of Ukraine “ Premier-Liha ” [ 28 ] as an autonomous entity, parting away from the PFL. The Premier League has been split since the moment it was created in regards to its president. The dispute went ampere army for the liberation of rwanda as even canceling the 13th round of 2009–10 season and moving it to the spring half, while having the 14th round still playing in the fall. The representatives of five clubs : Arsenal Kyiv, Dynamo Kyiv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, and Metalist Kharkiv have been boycotting most of the League meetings, not complying with its fiscal obligations and giving the broadcasting rights to TV-channels other than the League official supplier. They justified their actions due to what they deem to be the illegal election of the Premier League president of the united states. The representatives of the above-mentioned clubs did not recognize the election in 2008 of Vitaliy Danilov as the president and believed that the elections should have been won by Vadim Rabinovich. To resolve this dispute Vitaliy Danilov instigated the re-election of the Premier League president in September 2009, and on 1 December 2009 won the election again with 11 clubs voting for his campaigning, 3 were against, 1 abstained, and 1 was absent. This clock most cabaret presidents of the Premier League of Ukraine acknowledged Vitaliy Danilov legality. In the subsequent elections on 9 December 2011 Vitaliy Danilov was challenged by Andriy Kurhanskyi ( through the proposal of Karpaty Lviv ). The other available candidates, Miletiy Balchos ( president of the united states of the Professional Football League of Ukraine ) and Yuriy Kindzerskyi, were not picked by any members of the Premier League. Vitaliy Danilov managed to retain his seat with nine votes for him .

adult Four and two-round league ( 2011–present ) [edit ]

Results of the ‘Big Four’ during the late 2000s–early 2010s
Season	DNI	DYN	MET	SHA
2005–06	6	2	5	1
2006–07	4	1	3	2
2007–08	4	2	3	1
2008–09	6	1	3	2
2009–10	4	2	3	1
2010–11	4	2	3	1
2011–12	4	2	3	1
2012–13	4	3	2	1
2013–14	2	4	3	1
2014–15	3	1	6	2
Top four	8	10	8	10
Finishes out of 10
League champions Champions League UEFA Cup / Europa League group stage UEFA Cup / Europa League qualification UEFA Intertoto Cup

Starting from 2010 and to 2014 season, FC Shakhtar led by romanian coach Mircea Lucescu obtained five national league titles in a row, making Lucescu the most successful coach in the history of the league with 9 titles. At the same time, in the beginning of 2010s the alleged “Big Four” of clubs finally formed, consisting from Shakhtar, Dynamo, Metalist and Dnipro. [ 29 ] These four clubs consecutively took all the top 4 places for five seasons from 2009–10 to 2013–14 and displayed the biggest fiscal abilities in the league. [ 30 ] In 2012–13, Metalist Kharkiv finished second and qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time, the accomplishment which was repeated by Dnipro in the next season. In the lapp 2013–14 temper Dynamo Kyiv for the beginning time since ukrainian independence placed a low as fourth in league ‘s season rank, which led to dismissal of early national team coach and the caption of soviet football Oleh Blokhin as the club ‘s coach. In european football, raw club achievements were set in these years for Shakhtar in 2010–11 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals and for Metalist in 2011–12 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals .
Because of the russian aggression against Ukraine and subsequent clean of the league from the clubs that became financially treacherous ( Metalist, Hoverla, Metalurh Donetsk, Dnipro ), the number of teams participating in the league was cut from 16 in the 2013–14 season to 14 in the pursue two seasons. [ 31 ] Both of the seasons were won by Dynamo Kyiv with Serhiy Rebrov as director. With the good continuation of the military conflict in the eastern oblasts ( regions ) of Ukraine since 2014 and its economic impact, the league was forced to change its format again and started to be contested by 12 teams after being cut from 14 after the 2015–16 season, introducing the two stages of the contest : after the standard two rounds of games the league would split into two 6-team groups according to their positions. Under the raw format, Shakhtar Donetsk under the coach Paulo Fonseca managed to win three league titles in a row from 2016–17 to 2018–19, runner-up in all the three seasons being Dynamo Kyiv. In 2019–20 season, Shakhtar set the record of the earliest championship succeed in the history, win 5 rounds remaining. [ 32 ] In 2019, the decision was adopted to expand the league to 14 teams from the 2020–21 and to 16 teams from the 2021–22 season. [ 33 ]

Officials [edit ]

Presidents [edit ]

Vitaliy Danilov, 27 May 2008 – 29 February 2016 (until 1 July 2009 – temporary acting, as president of FC Kharkiv, reelected on 1 July 2009 and 9 December 2011)[34]
Volodymyr Heninson, 29 February 2016 – 6 April 2018[35]
Thomas Grimm, 6 April 2018 – 5 April 2020[36]
- (executive director, acting) Yevhen Dykyi[37]
TBA, (elections postponed; previously to dates 27 April 2020, 25 May 2020)

Directors [edit ]

General director: Oleksandr Yefremov[38]
Executive director: Yevhen Dykyi
Sport director: Petro Ivanov
Development director: Vadym Halahan

Competitions [edit ]

Clubs [edit ]

A total of 43 clubs have played in the Premier League up to 2019–20 temper, 20 of which were the founding members of the inaugural address 1992 temper and 23 other were promoted in the late seasons .

current clubs [edit ]

The keep up teams are competing in the 2021–22 season. notice, in digression shown the actual home cities and stadiums .
a : team played in every ukrainian top flight season

Maps

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Broadcasting [edit ]

Free-to-air be matches from the ukrainian Premier League will be broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays on satellite channel 2+2 ( Sirius 5E ). This is a number of television broadcasters which provide coverage of the ukrainian Premier League, which is ukrainian football ‘s top level of contest .

International broadcasters [edit ]

The main international broadcaster of the league in west Europe and some countries of Africa is the french Ma Chaîne Sport providing coverage for such countries like France, and satellite communities in Andorra, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia. Another broadcaster Sport Klub provides coverage in all countries of erstwhile Yugoslavia including Bosnia/Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. National broadcasters of some other counties include 12 television ( Armenia ), CBC Sport ( Azerbaijan ), Polsat Futbol ( Poland ), Futbol ( Russia ), and Dolce Sport ( Romania ) .

UEFA ranking and european competitions [edit ]

ukrainian clubs being depart of the Soviet Union competed in european competitions since 1960s when the Soviet clubs started to participate in continental competitions. In fact the very first gear soviet club that took part in european competitions was ukrainian club, FC Dynamo Kyiv, that took in the 1965–66 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, the follow ukrainian clubs participated in european competitions : FC Dynamo Kyiv ( 1965 ), FC Karpaty Lviv ( 1970 ), FC Zorya Luhansk ( 1973 ), FC Chornomorets Odessa ( 1975 ), FC Shakhtar Donetsk ( 1977 ), FC Dnipro ( 1984 ), and FC Metalist Kharkiv ( 1988 ). At least five clubs participated in top continental competitions the european Cup and the UEFA Champions League among which are FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Dnipro, FC Metalist Kharkiv, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, and SC Tavriya Simferopol. Two teams ( Dynamo and Shakhtar ) were able to obtain trophies of european competitions including two Cup Winners ‘ Cup, one UEFA Supercup, and one UEFA Cup. One more team ( Dnipro ) came merely short to join their company misplace in the 2015 UEFA Europa League Final .

International relations [edit ]

In 2009 The ukrainian Premier League joined the European Professional Football Leagues. [ 39 ] besides in 2009 the league signed a partnership with IMG of which during the beginning calendar month of cooperation sold broadcasting rights for the ukrainian Cup to Poland and Armenia. On its own enterprise the ukrainian Premier League sold broadcasting rights to Romania and Russia arsenic well .

Results by season [edit ]

Higher League ( Vyshcha Liha ) [edit ]

Professional Football League of Ukraine was the governing body of the Top League (Vyshcha Liha) from 1996 to 2008.

Premier League [edit ]

Notes :

performance by cabaret [edit ]

Note: Defunct teams marked in Italics.

Honored teams [edit ]

A example headliner is placed above the team ‘s badge to indicate 10 league titles. [ 43 ] Dynamo Kyiv became the first ukrainian team to achieve the prestigious honor of winning the soviet Top League for the tenth clock in 1981. Dynamo Kyiv after having entered the ukrainian championship has become the same prevailing drawing card as during the Soviet times by earning its twentieth national title at the acme horizontal surface in 1999. The two stars, however, were only added to the club ‘s logo in 2007. [ 44 ] Earning its tenth national title in 2017, Shakhtar Donetsk has not so far adopted a star on its cap. presently ( as of 2020 ) the surveil clubs earned the leading component to be added to their crest .

Prestige trophy [edit ]

From 2016–17 to 2019–20 seasons, the league conducted season rival in two rounds, where after the first double cycle robin tournament the league is split in half into two groups of six teams. then, top six play irregular double turn robin for the claim, while the buttocks six play to determine teams to be relegated ( and Europa League playoff participants in the 2019–20 temper ). The team that won the relegation group receives a consolation-type honorary award, the Prestige trophy. [ 45 ]

Premier League players [edit ]

Ex- Dynamo Kyiv strikers Maksim Shatskikh and Serhiy Rebrov hold the record for most ukrainian Premier League goals with 123, with Shatskikh winning the top single temper scorekeeper championship doubly in 1999–2000 and 2002–03, Rebrov once in 1997–98. Since the first ukrainian Premier League season in 1992, 22 different players have won or shared the top scorekeeper ‘s deed. only five players have won the title more than once, Tymerlan Huseynov, Maksim Shatskikh, Yevhen Seleznyov, Alex Teixeira and Júnior Moraes. Henrikh Mkhitaryan holds the record for most goals in a season ( 25 ), Serhiy Rebrov and Maksim Shatskikh are the lone two players to score at least 20 goals twice. The most prolific all-time scorers are Ivan Hetsko and Viktor Leonenko, respectively attaining 0.59 and 0.57 goals per game .

Premier League managers [edit ]

Former Shakhtar Donetsk and stream Dynamo Kyiv coach Mircea Lucescu is the most successful director in ukrainian Premier League history with 9 championships and the entirely who won it with multiple clubs. The league ‘s record holder for winnings is Mircea Lucescu .
The league ‘s record holder for games in the league is Myron Markevych .

Among early coaches who stayed in the league the longest, there are Roman Sanzhar ( 145 ), Ihor Yavorskyi ( 144 ), Viktor Prokopenko ( 140 ), Nikolay Kostov ( 139 ), Vasyl Sachko ( 137 ), Oleksandr Zavarov ( 134 ), Roman Pokora ( 129 ), Oleksandr Sevidov ( 129 ), and Ivan Balan ( 123 ) .

all-time participants [edit ]

The table lists the place each team took in each of the seasons .

Vyshcha Liha earned run average ( 1992–2008 ) [edit ]

Premier League era ( 2008–present ) [edit ]

Teams marking ( as of 2020–21 ) :

all-time table [edit ]

All figures are decline through the 2020–21 temper. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Promotion/relegation playoff games are not included. Teams in bold presently compete in Premier League. Numbers in bold indicate the record values for each column .

clubs that lost professional condition or were dissolved

tilt of bankrupt clubs and successions [edit ]

There were several instances when the games outside of regular double round-robin tournament and split group seasons were scheduled or required. They were held either for determining the league stead ( golden and third base place matches ), external competitions qualification ( Europa League play-off ) or promotion or relegation ( relegation play-off ) .

Golden matches [edit ]

League finals for Premier League took position on two occasions. In the inauguration 1992 season, the league was conducted in two groups of 10 teams due to transition to the autumn-spring competition calendar. The teams in each group played a double round-robin tournament, after which the winners of both groups faced each early in the one-match league concluding at inert battlefield. The final was played on 21 June 1992, crowning Tavriya Simferopol as the first champions of freelancer Ukraine after their 1–0 gain over Dynamo Kyiv. Starting from the 2005–06 season, if multiple teams finish tied on points on the top of the postpone, Golden match is required to determine the champion. In the same season, this convention came into effect for the beginning and only to the moment time : Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv both finished with 75 points after the regular season. In the follow final examination bet on, Shakhtar managed to win the title after the 100th-minute goal from Julius Aghahowa which concluded their 2–1 extra-time gain .

third place matches [edit ]

similarly to the league final examination, in the inaugural 1992 temper the one-third place match was played between the runner-up of both 10-team groups that formed the league in the season. In the bet on at inert airfield, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk from Group B defeated Shakhtar Donetsk from Group A 3–2 and won their first base bronze medals in the league .

Europa League play-offs [edit ]

In the 2019–20 season, play-offs for reservation to the UEFA Europa League are played for the first fourth dimension between the 5th and 6th teams from the Championship round and two top teams from the Relegation circle ( 7th and 8th ). The play-off consists of the semi-final and final stages, with ties in both played as single matches on the airfield of the team ranked higher in the season standings .

Relegation play-offs [edit ]

For the first tome, play-off to determine the participant of the adjacent Vyshcha Liha season was held unintentional at the goal of the 1998–99 season. Third-placed team of 1998–99 First League, Torpedo Zaporizhzhia, who was to be promoted, filed for bankruptcy at the end of the season. The league regulations at the time did not specify what actions are needed to be taken in such situation, so PFL made a decision to held a play-off game between the highest-ranked demote team, Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk, and highest-ranked not promoted team, FC Cherkasy at neutral field in Kyiv. The game ended with Prykarpattia defending their league place 3–1. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] In the 2001–02 season, due to league expansion play-off was held between the second-lowest Vyshcha Liha team, Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya, and fourthly First League team, Polissya Zhytomyr. The game on a inert field in Kyiv ended 1–0 in favor of Oleksandriya. [ 62 ] Since 2017–18 season, the play-offs are held in home-and-away format between the 10th and 11th teams from Premier League, and 2nd and 3rd from First League. During this time, 3 teams were promoted by play-offs, and another 1 managed to defend its place. however, in the 2019–20 temper there will be no playoffs because of the league expansion and three teams will promote from First League directly. [ 63 ]

Rivalries and city derbies [edit ]

Klasychne bowler hat [edit ]

The central feature of the league is a competition between Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv which has adopted its identify as Klasychne bowler hat. The competition started ever since the end of 1990s when both teams started systematically to place the top two places from season to temper. The competition became very established when Shakhtar obtained its beginning national title in 2002 .

other championship contenders [edit ]

The surprising succeed of the first season by SC Tavriya Simferopol has never turned the club into a real rival for another deed and the clubhouse was not constantly successful to secure a place among the peak five. In the beginning of 1990s, FC Chornomorets Odessa and the two-time soviet champions FC Dnipro were besides among the chief contenders. The 1972 soviet champions FC Zorya Luhansk until 2013 actually struggled to stay in the top league. Among other contenders there were FC Metalist Kharkiv that were the league ‘s runner-up in 2012–13 and FC Metalurh Donetsk that showed some coherent shape in the early 2000s .

other rivalries [edit ]

There are few smaller regional rivalries such between Karpaty and Volyn, Metalist and Dnipro, Zorya and Shakhtar. Among city derbies, there were no running city derbies in the league for the 2017–18 season. Among the most celebrated previously there were Zaporizhzhia bowler hat between Metalurh and Torpedo, Kyiv derby between Dynamo and Arsenal ( CSKA ), Donetsk derby between Shakhtar and Metalurh. other derbies existed in Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv, West Ukrainian football bowler hat and others .

Stadiums and attendance [edit ]

Ukraine has respective big stadiums with capacitance of 30,000+ spectators and at least two stadiums with capacity of over 50,000 which besides are considered to be by UEFA the elect stadiums. Since the 2014 russian aggression against Ukraine, the access to some stadiums was restricted. many stadiums in Ukraine and their smother infrastructure were renovated in preparation to the Euro 2012 .

UEFA Elite Stadiums [edit ]

other major stadiums [edit ]

Among 30,000+ football stadiums or multi-use stadiums adopted for football are Arena Lviv, Chornomorets Stadium, Dnipro-Arena, Metalist Stadium and others. Other UEFA 4-category stadiums in the league: