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Ukrainian Premier League 2019–20 | ||
Season information | ||
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Dates | 28 July 2019 – 19 July 2020 (winter break: 15 Dec 2019 – 22 Feb 2020) (emergency: 18 March 2020 – 30 May 2020) | |
Continental cup qualifiers | ||
Champions League | ||
Europa League | ||
Season statistics | ||
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The 2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 29th top-level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 12th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League.
The tournament has been set to start on 28 July 2019. The same day there took place the game for the Ukrainian Super Cup. The UPL General Assembly also adopted a post season play-off mini-tournament for the last fifth berth of Ukraine in the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League competition which will involve the best team(s) of the relegation group. The assembly also agreed to implement the Video assistant referee (VAR) position in 2020. With the ongoing competition, on 7 August 2019 the league adopted new name FavBet Liha after its main sponsor as well as its new logo. For promotional purpose, the Ukrainian Premier League introduced an own copy of virtual fantasy league on the Real Manager game platform.
The defending champion was the 12-times winner Shakhtar Donetsk. On 20 June 2020, Shakhtar won the league again by beating Oleksandriya in the Round 27 home game gaining its 13th title record five rounds before the finish.
Summary[]
For next 2020–21 season, Ukrainian Premier League will expand to 14 teams. The lowest ranked team from Ukrainian Premier League will get relegated to Ukrainian First League. However, the top three teams from Ukrainian First League will gain promotion to Ukrainian Premier League next season.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine and based on resolutions of the Cabinet of Ukraine and the UAF Executive Committee, on 11 March 2020 the UPL adopted a decision to conduct games of the league's championship as well as under-21 and under-19 championships without spectators until 3 April 2020 (the first two rounds of the season's second stage).
On 17 March 2020, the Ukrainian Association of Football adopted its decision to pause all football competitions in the country since 18 March 2020 for unspecified period of time (until adaptation of its next decision to resume all football events) due to the coronavirus pandemic. On 14 May 2020 in the House of Football took place a working conference between leaders of UAF and UPL with representatives of the UPL club where it was decided not to renew competitions among U-21 and U-19 teams. The decision was approved on 27 May 2020 by the UAF Executive Committee. On 26 May 2020 the Ministry of Healthcare granted its permission to conduct games of the Favbet Liha and the Ukrainian Cup without spectators starting 30 May 2020 and the UAF Executive Committee supported the decision to renew the Championship and the Ukrainian Cup from 30 May 2020. Next day the Ministry of Health Care updated some of its restricting recommendations in regards to coordination of competitions among professional clubs.
The term of the UPL president expired on 5 April 2020. Due to pandemic situation worldwide, the election of the League's president was postponed to 27 April 2020. The current president Thomas Grimm stated that he will not run for the post as the members of the league are not interested to work together. On 4 May 2020 the league's executive director Yevhen Dykyi announced that there were registered three candidates for elections of the UPL president. On 18 May 2020 the league announced that elections for the league's president were postponed and their date will be announced later. Until then as the UPL president is acting the league's executive director Yevhen Dykyi.
Teams[]
Promoted teams[]
- SC Dnipro-1 – the champion of the 2018–19 Ukrainian First League (debut)
- Kolos Kovalivka – 2nd place of the 2018–19 Ukrainian First League, play-off winners (debut)
Other issues[]
- Olimpik Donetsk's participation in the season was under question because both of its youth teams (U-21 and U-19) were expelled from the Ukrainian Premier League due to match fixing, and are banned from competitions until the end of 2019–20 season.
Stadiums[]
Three 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).
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, after quarantine break clubs from Lviv are forced to conduct all their home matches in the other regions.
The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds (clubs in bold indicate that the respective stadium was their main home ground during the season):
Rank | Stadium | Place | Club | Capacity | Notes |
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1 | NSC Olimpiyskiy | Kyiv | Dynamo Kyiv | 70,050 | |
Shakhtar Donetsk | used as home ground following COVID-19 quarantine | ||||
Kolos Kovalivka | used as home ground in Round 26 | ||||
2 | OSC Metalist | Kharkiv | Shakhtar Donetsk | 40,003 | used as home ground before COVID-19 pandemic |
3 | Arena Lviv | Lviv | FC Lviv | 34,915 | used as home ground in Rounds 2 and 4 |
4 | Dnipro-Arena | Dnipro | SC Dnipro-1 | 31,003 | |
FC Lviv | used as home ground in Round 25 | ||||
5 | Ukraina Stadium | Lviv | Karpaty Lviv | 28,051 | |
FC Lviv | |||||
6 | Vorskla Stadium | Poltava | Vorskla Poltava | 24,795 | |
7 | Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium | Kyiv | Olimpik Donetsk | 16,873 | used as home ground during the season |
Dynamo Kyiv | used as home ground in Round 19 | ||||
8 | Ternopilsky Misky Stadion | Ternopil | FC Lviv | 15,150 | used as home ground in Round 29 |
9 | Volodymyr Boiko Stadium | Mariupol | FC Mariupol | 12,680 | |
10 | Avanhard Stadium | Lutsk | Karpaty Lviv | 12,080 | used as home ground in Round 28 |
11 | Chernihiv Stadium | Chernihiv | Desna Chernihiv | 12,060 | |
12 | Slavutych-Arena | Zaporizhia | Zorya Luhansk | 12,000 | used as home ground during the season |
13 | CSC Nika Stadium | Oleksandriya | FC Oleksandriya | 7,000 | |
14 | Obolon Arena | Kyiv | Kolos Kovalivka | 5,100 | used as home ground during the season |
Personnel and sponsorship[]
Team | President | Head coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
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Desna Chernihiv | Volodymyr Levin | Oleksandr Ryabokon | Denys Favorov | Nike | Parimatch |
SC Dnipro-1 | Yuriy Bereza | Dmytro Mykhaylenko | Serhiy Kravchenko | Nike | — |
Dynamo Kyiv | Ihor Surkis | Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko | Serhiy Sydorchuk | New Balance | — |
Karpaty Lviv | Oleh Smaliychuk | Roman Sanzhar | Dmytro Klyots | Joma | Marathonbet |
Kolos Kovalivka | Andriy Zasukha | Ruslan Kostyshyn | Vitaliy Havrysh | Nike | Svitanok |
FC Lviv | Bohdan Kopytko | Giorgi Tsetsadze | Serhiy Borzenko | Nike | LIMO |
FC Mariupol | Tarik Makhmud Chaudri | Oleksandr Babych | Serhiy Yavorskyi | Nike | Favorite Sport |
FC Oleksandriya | Serhiy Kuzmenko | Volodymyr Sharan | Yuriy Pankiv | Nike | AgroVista |
Olimpik Donetsk | Vladyslav Helzin | Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) | Dmytro Hryshko | Joma | Parimatch |
Shakhtar Donetsk | Rinat Akhmetov | Luís Castro | Andriy Pyatov | Nike | Parimatch |
Vorskla Poltava | Kostyantyn Zhevago | Yuriy Maksymov | Volodymyr Chesnakov | Nike | Ferrexpo |
Zorya Luhansk | Yevhen Heller | Viktor Skrypnyk | Mykyta Kamenyuka | Nike | Favorite Sport |
Managerial changes[]
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | Table |
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Zorya Luhansk | Yuriy Vernydub | Mutual consent | 31 May 2019 | Pre-season | Viktor Skrypnyk | 3 June 2019 | Pre-season |
Vorskla Poltava | Vitaliy Kosovskyi (caretaker) | Change of contract | 4 June 2019 | Vitaliy Kosovskyi | 4 June 2019 | ||
Shakhtar Donetsk | Paulo Fonseca | Signed with A.S. Roma | 11 June 2019 | Luís Castro | 12 June 2019 | ||
Karpaty Lviv | Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi (caretaker) | Change of contract | 18 June 2019 | Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi | 18 June 2019 | ||
Olimpik Donetsk | Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) | End of interim term | 1 July 2019 | Júlio César Correia | 1 July 2019 | ||
Dynamo Kyiv | Alyaksandr Khatskevich | Sacked | 14 August 2019 | 3rd | Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko | 15 August 2019 | 3rd |
Olimpik Donetsk | Júlio César Correia | Sacked | 19 August 2019 | 12th | Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) | 19 August 2019 | 12th |
Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) | End of interim | 2 September 2019 | Vicente Gómez | 2 September 2019 | |||
Karpaty Lviv | Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi | Sacked | 3 September 2019 | 11th | Roman Sanzhar | 3 September 2019 | 11th |
FC Lviv | Bohdan Blavatskyi | Mutual consent | 10 September 2019 | 10th | Volodymyr Mazyar | 10 September 2019 | 10th |
Volodymyr Mazyar | Mutual consent | 31 October 2019 | 12th | Yegishe Melikyan | 31 October 2019 | 12th | |
Vorskla Poltava | Vitaliy Kosovskyi | Change of contract | 14 November 2019 | 12th | Yuriy Maksymov | 15 November 2019 | 12th |
Olimpik Donetsk | Vicente Gómez | Mutual consent | 13 March 2020 | 11th | Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) | 13 March 2020 | 11th |
FC Lviv | Yegishe Melikyan | End of contract | 21 June 2020 | 9th | Giorgi Tsetsadze | 22 June 2020 | 9th |
First stage[]
First stage table[]
Pos |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Notes |
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1 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to Championship round | |||||
2 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
3 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
4 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
5 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
6 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
7 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to Relegation round | |||||
8 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
9 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
10 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
11 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
12 | [[{{{tan}}}|{{{t}}}]] | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: Ukrainian Premier League, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament
Championship round[]
Championship round table[]
Template:2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League Championship round table
Relegation round[]
Relegation round table[]
Template:2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League Relegation round table
Play-offs for qualification to the UEFA Europa League[]
Teams that placed 5th and 6th in the Championship group with the teams placed 7th and 8th in the Relegation group will play the one-leg play-off for one more berth in the Europa League second qualifying round. Winners of the pairs will contest in one-leg game the last berth to the UEFA Europa League. If the winners of the 2019–20 Ukrainian Cup Dynamo Kyiv hadn't already clinched the berth to the European competitions by the league performance, the play-off would have been set among teams placed 4th, 5th and 6th in the Championship group and 7th in the Relegation group in the same way.
First round[]
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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FC Oleksandriya | 1 | 8th placed team |
Kolos Kovalivka | 2 | 7th placed team |
Second round[]
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Higher-ranked pair winner | 1 | Lower-ranked pair winner |
Season statistics[]
Top goalscorers[]
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Top assistants[]
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Clean sheets[]
- As of 2020 76
Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets |
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1 | Andriy Pyatov | Shakhtar Donetsk | 11 |
Yevhen Past | Desna Chernihiv | ||
3 | Mykyta Shevchenko | Zorya Luhansk | 8 |
Heorhiy Bushchan | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
Yuriy Pankiv | FC Oleksandriya |
Hat-tricks (pokers)[]
Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
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Júnior Moraes | Shakhtar Donetsk | FC Lviv | 22 November 2019 | |
Vladyslav Supriaha | SC Dnipro-1 | Dynamo Kyiv | 28 February 2020 |
(number) Player scored (number) goals if more than 3
Awards[]
Monthly awards[]
Month | Player of the Month | Coach of the Month | ||
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Player | Club | Coach | Club | |
August 2019 | Nazariy Rusyn | Zorya Luhansk | Viktor Skrypnyk | Zorya Luhansk |
September 2019 | Bohdan Mykhaylichenko | Zorya Luhansk | Oleksandr Ryabokon | Desna Chernihiv |
October 2019 | Bohdan Lyednyev | Zorya Luhansk | Viktor Skrypnyk | Zorya Luhansk |
November 2019 | Yehor Nazaryna | Karpaty Lviv | Vicente Gómez | Olimpik Donetsk |
December 2019 | Bohdan Mykhaylichenko | Zorya Luhansk | Viktor Skrypnyk | Zorya Luhansk |
February 2020 | Vladyslav Supriaha | SC Dnipro-1 | Yuriy Maksymov | Vorskla Poltava |
March 2020 | Bohdan Mykhaylichenko | Zorya Luhansk | Oleksandr Ryabokon | Desna Chernihiv |
June 2020 | Vitaliy Buyalskyi | Dynamo Kyiv | Oleksandr Ryabokon | Desna Chernihiv |
See also[]
- 2019–20 Ukrainian First League
- 2019–20 Ukrainian Second League
- 2019–20 Ukrainian Cup
External links[]
- Official website of the Ukrainian Premier League
- News, stats, updates. campeones.ua.
Ukrainian Premier League 2023–24 |
Chornomorets Odesa · Dnipro-1 · Dynamo Kyiv · Kolos Kovalivka · Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih · LNZ Cherkasy · Metalist 1925 Kharkiv · Mynai · Obolon Kyiv · Oleksandriya · Polissia Zhytomyr · Rukh Lviv · Shakhtar Donetsk · Veres Rivne · Vorskla Poltava · Zorya Luhansk |
Current Ukrainian Premier League managers 2020–21 |
Castro (Shakhtar) · Fedyk (Rukh) · Jovićević (Dnipro-1) · Klymovskyi (Olimpik) · Kobin (Mynai) · Kostyshyn (Kolos) · Lavrynenko (Inhulets) · Lucescu (Dynamo) · Maksymov (Vorskla) · O. Markevych (Mariupol) · Ryabokon (Desna) · Sharan (Oleksandriya) · Skrypnyk (Zorya) · Shumskyi (Lviv) |
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