2018–19 Ukrainian Premier League

The 2018–19 Ukrainian Premier League season will be the 28th top level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the eleventh since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League.

The tournament is planning to start on 21 July 2018 with the competition set to end on 25 May 2019. The league has scheduled to take its winter intermission after Round 18 on 8 December 2018 and resume its competition of the Championship with Round 19 on 16 February 2019.

The defending champion is the 11-times winner FC Shakhtar Donetsk.

Promoted teams

 * Arsenal-CSKA Kyiv – the champion of the 2017–18 Ukrainian First League (returning as a phoenix club of previous Arsenal Kyiv after five seasons absence)
 * FC Poltava – 2nd place of the 2017–18 Ukrainian First League, play-off winners (debut)
 * Desna Chernihiv – 3rd place of the 2017–18 Ukrainian First League, play-off winners (debut)

Merged teams
On completion of the 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League season, Veres Rivne, who had moved their operations to Lviv during the season announced the merging with FC Lviv who competed in the 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League and retain their name. This is the first time of such "swap" that has occurred with a team from the Ukrainian Premier League.
 * FC Lviv – a team swap after merging with NK Veres Rivne (returning as a phoenix club of previous FC Lviv after nine seasons absence).

Renamed teams

 * Arsenal Kyiv announced that since the 2017–18 season it will be called FC Arsenal-CSKA Kyiv.

Stadiums
Three teams play their matches outside of home towns. The minimum threshold for the stadium's capacity in the UPL is 5,000.

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds: