2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League

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VBet Liha (UPL) 2024–25
Season information
Dates	10 August 2024 – TBA
Season statistics
← 2023–24	2025–26 →

The 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League season, referred to as the VBet Liha for sponsorship reasons, is the 34th top-level football club competition since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 17th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League.

Teams

This season the Ukrainian Premier League remained at 16 teams.

Promoted teams

• Inhulets Petrove – first-placed team of the 2023–24 Ukrainian First League (returning after a season)
• Karpaty Lviv – second-placed team of the 2023–24 Ukrainian First League (returning, last competed in 2019–20, for the first time since its reorganization in 2020)

Relegated teams

• FC Mynai – relegated after four seasons in the top flight.
• Metalist 1925 Kharkiv – relegated after three seasons in the top flight

Stadiums

The minimum threshold for the stadium's capacity in the UPL is 4,500 (Article 10, paragraph 8.3).

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Rank	Stadium	Place	Club	Capacity	Notes
1	Arena Lviv	Lviv	Rukh Lviv	34,915
			Shakhtar Donetsk		used as home ground during the season
2	Chornomorets Stadium	Odesa	Chornomorets Odesa	34,164
3	Dnipro-Arena	Dnipro	Dnipro-1	31,003
4	Ukraina Stadium	Lviv	Karpaty Lviv	27,925
5	Butovsky Vorskla Stadium	Poltava	Vorskla Poltava	24,795
6	Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium	Kyiv	Dynamo Kyiv	16,873
7	Avanhard Stadium	Uzhhorod	Dnipro-1	12,000
8	Tsentralnyi Stadion	Cherkasy	LNZ Cherkasy	10,321
9	CSC Nika Stadium	Oleksandriya	FC Oleksandriya	7,000
10	Tsentralnyi Stadion	Zhytomyr	Polissya Zhytomyr	5,928
11	Obolon Arena	Kyiv	Obolon Kyiv	5,100
12	Kolos Stadium	Kovalivka	Kolos Kovalivka	5,050
13	Livyi Bereh Arena	Zolochivska hromada	Zorya Luhansk	4,700	used as home ground during the season
14	Avanhard Stadium	Rivne	Veres Rivne	4,650
15	Hirnyk Stadium	Kryvyi Rih	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	2,500

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	President	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Chornomorets Odesa	Leonid Klimov	Roman Hryhorchuk	Illya Putrya	Kelme	Vbet
Dnipro-1	Maksym Bereza	Yuriy Maksymov	Oleksandr Svatok	Nike	Windrose
Dynamo Kyiv	Ihor Surkis	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi	Vitaliy Buyalskyi	New Balance	A-Bank
Inhulets Petrove	Oleksandr Povoroznyuk	Vladyslav Lupashko		Macron	etg.ua
Karpaty Lviv	Stepan Yurchyshyn	Myron Markevych		Nike	Львівське
Kolos Kovalivka	Andriy Zasukha	Yaroslav Vyshnyak	Vadym Milko	Nike	ATTP
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Kostyantyn Karamanits	Yuriy Vernydub	Dmytro Khomchenovskyi	Joma	Rudomain
LNZ Cherkasy	Andriy Poltavets	Oleg Dulub	Oleh Tarasenko	Macron	Vbet
Obolon Kyiv	Oleksandr Slobodian	Valeriy Ivashchenko	Nazariy Fedorivskyi	Jako	FavBet
Oleksandriya	Serhiy Kuzmenko	Ruslan Rotan	Vladyslav Kalitvintsev	Nike	AhroVista
Polissya Zhytomyr	Volodymyr Zahurskyi	Serhiy Shyshchenko (caretaker)	Vladyslav Ohirya	Nike	BGV Group
Rukh Lviv	Hryhoriy Kozlovskyi	Vitaliy Ponomaryov	Marko Sapuha	Macron	Emily Resort
Shakhtar Donetsk	Rinat Akhmetov	Marino Pušić	Taras Stepanenko	Puma	FavBet
Veres Rivne	Ivan Nadieyin	Oleh Shandruk	Bohdan Kohut	Kelme	Vbet
Vorskla Poltava	Kostyantyn Zhevago	Serhiy Dolhanskyi (caretaker)	Volodymyr Chesnakov	Nike	Ferrexpo
Zorya Luhansk	Yevhen Heller	Yuriy Koval (caretaker)	Vyacheslav Churko	Puma	—

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Inhulets Petrove	Vladyslav Lupashko	Mutual agreement	5 June 2024	Pre-season	Vasyl Kobin	15 June 2024
LNZ Cherkasy	Oleg Dulub	End of the contract	10 June 2024		Andrés Carrasco	11 June 2024

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shakhtar Donetsk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for the Champions League league stage
2	Dynamo Kyiv	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
4	Dnipro-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
5	Polissya Zhytomyr	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Rukh Lviv	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	LNZ Cherkasy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Oleksandriya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Vorskla Poltava	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	Zorya Luhansk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Kolos Kovalivka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Chornomorets Odesa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Veres Rivne	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for the Ukrainian Premier League play-off
14	Obolon Kyiv	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Inhulets Petrove	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to Ukrainian First League
16	Karpaty Lviv	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: upl.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw or "Golden match" if two teams tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).

Results

Teams play each other twice on a home and away basis.

Home \ Away	CHO	DN1	DYN	INH	KAR	KOL	KRY	LNZ	OBL	OLK	PZH	RUX	SHA	VER	VOR	ZOR
Chornomorets Odesa
Dnipro-1
Dynamo Kyiv													a
Inhulets Petrove
Karpaty Lviv
Kolos Kovalivka
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
LNZ Cherkasy
Obolon Kyiv
Oleksandriya
Polissia Zhytomyr
Rukh Lviv
Shakhtar Donetsk			a
Veres Rivne
Vorskla Poltava
Zorya Luhansk

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: UPL calendar
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Relegation play-offs

Teams that placed 13th and 14th in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League play two-leg play-off with the third and fourth teams of the 2024–25 Ukrainian First League.

External links

• Official website of the Ukrainian Premier League
• The season's calendar planner. Ukrainian Premier League. (pdf format)

Current Ukrainian Premier League managers 2024–25

Hryhorchuk (Chornomorets Odesa) · Maksymov (Dnipro-1) · Shovkovskyi (Dynamo Kyiv) · Pozdeyev (Kolos Kovalivka) · Vernydub (Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) · Dulub (LNZ Cherkasy) · Skrypnyk (Metalist 1925 Kharkiv) · Ljubenović (Mynai) · Ivashchenko (Obolon Kyiv) · Rotan (Oleksandriya) · Shyshchenko (Polissya Zhytomyr) · Ponomaryov (Rukh Lviv) · Pušić (Shakhtar Donetsk) · Shandruk (Veres Rivne) · Dolhanskyi (Vorskla Poltava) · Koval (Zorya Luhansk)

2024–25 in Ukrainian football
Domestic leagues
Premier League · First League · Second League · Amateur League
Domestic cups
Ukrainian Cup (Final)
National teams
Senior:
2023-24                                                        2025-26