2025–26 Ukrainian Premier League

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VBet Liha (UPL) 2025–26
Season information
Dates	1 August 2025 – 29 May 2026 15 December 2025 – 20 February 2026 (winter break)
Season statistics
Matches played	127
Goals scored	330
Average	(2.6 per match)
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The 2025–26 Ukrainian Premier League season, referred to as the VBET Ukrainian Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is the 35th top-level football club competition since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 18th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League (UPL).

The season has started on 1 August 2025 and will end on 29 May 2026. The UPL clubs decided not to hold the season opening match Ukrainian Super Cup due to the ongoing Russian military aggression against Ukraine.

Dynamo Kyiv are the defending champions, having won their 17th Premier-Liha title and their 30th overall domestic title in the previous season.

Teams

This season, the Ukrainian Premier League remained at 16 teams.

Promoted teams

• Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi – first-placed team of the 2024–25 Ukrainian First League (debut)
• SC Poltava – second-placed team of the 2024–25 Ukrainian First League (debut)
• Metalist 1925 Kharkiv – third-placed team of the 2024–25 Ukrainian First League, winner in relegation play-off (returning after one-year absence)
• FC Kudrivka – fourth-placed team of the 2024–25 Ukrainian First League, winner in relegation play-off (debut)

Relegated teams

• Inhulets Petrove – relegated after one season in the top flight
• Chornomorets Odesa – relegated after three seasons in the top flight
• Vorskla Poltava – relegated after twenty-nine seasons in the top flight, lost in relegation play-off
• Livyi Bereh Kyiv – relegated after one season in the top flight, lost in relegation play-off

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	Shakhtar Donetsk	34,725	used as home ground during the season
			Rukh Lviv
2	Ukraina Stadium	Lviv	Karpaty Lviv	28,051
			Rukh Lviv		used as home ground in 3 matches
3	Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium	Kyiv	Dynamo Kyiv	16,873
			Zorya Luhansk		used as home ground during the season
4	Shukhevych Miskyi Stadium	Ternopil	Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi	15,150	used as home ground during the season
5	Berezkin Zirka Stadium	Kropyvnytskyi	SC Poltava	13,305	used as home ground during the season
6	Cherkasy Arena	Cherkasy	LNZ Cherkasy	10,321
7	Avanhard Stadium	Rivne	Veres Rivne	7,122
8	CSC Nika Stadium	Oleksandriya	FC Oleksandriya	7,000
9	Tsentralnyi Stadion	Zhytomyr	Polissya Zhytomyr	5,928
			Metalist 1925 Kharkiv		used as home ground during the season
10	Obolon Arena	Kyiv	Obolon Kyiv	5,103
			FC Kudrivka		used as home ground during the season
11	Kolos Stadium	Kovalivka	Kolos Kovalivka	5,050
12	Arena Livyi Bereh	Zolocha hromada	Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi	4,700	used as home ground in 1 matches
13	Hirnyk Stadium	Kryvyi Rih	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	3,219

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	President	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Dynamo Kyiv	Ihor Surkis	Ihor Kostyuk	Vitaliy Buyalskyi	New Balance	GG.BET
Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi	Ivan Chernonoh	Serhiy Nahornyak	Andriy Bezhenar	Bavovna	Епіцентр
Karpaty Lviv	Volodymyr Matkivskyi	TBA	Denys Miroshnichenko	Nike	Lvivske
Kolos Kovalivka	Andriy Zasukha	Ruslan Kostyshyn	Valeriy Bondarenko	Nike	Svitanok
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Kostyantyn Karamanits	Patrick van Leeuwen	Maksym Zaderaka	SKIDAN	Rudomain
FC Kudrivka	Roman Solodarenko	Vitaliy Kostyshyn (interim, de-jure) Vasyl Baranov (de-facto)	Anton Yashkov	Kelme	betking
LNZ Cherkasy	Viktor Kravchenko	Vitaliy Ponomaryov	Nazariy Muravskyi	Macron	FavBet
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	Bohdan Boyko	Mladen Bartulović	Ivan Kalyuzhnyi	Puma	Whitebit
Obolon Kyiv	Oleksandr Slobodian	Oleksandr Antonenko (interim)	Oleh Slobodyan	Jako	FavBet & Obolon
Oleksandriya	Serhiy Kuzmenko	Kyrylo Nesterenko	Kyrylo Kovalets	Nike	AgroVista
Polissya Zhytomyr	Hennadiy Butkevych	Ruslan Rotan	Ruslan Babenko	Nike	BGV Group
SC Poltava	Serhiy Ivashchenko	Pavlo Matviychenko (interim)	Vladyslav Danylenko	ARTY	КВП, Poltava Brewery, Insortex
Rukh Lviv	Hryhoriy Kozlovskyi	Ivan Fedyk	Marko Sapuha	Kappa	Emily Resort, Favbet, Auroom, Onur Group
Shakhtar Donetsk	Rinat Akhmetov	Arda Turan	Mykola Matviyenko	Puma	FavBet
Veres Rivne	Ivan Nadieyin	Oleh Shandruk	Ihor Kharatin	Buntar	betking
Zorya Luhansk	Yevhen Heller	Viktor Skrypnyk	Pylyp Budkivskyi	Puma	Without sponsor

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Shakhtar Donetsk	Marino Pušić	Sacked	24 May 2025	Pre-season	Arda Turan	27 May 2025
LNZ Cherkasy	Roman Hryhorchuk	Mutual consent	26 May 2025		Vitaliy Ponomaryov	5 June 2025
FC Oleksandriya	Ruslan Rotan	End of contract	29 May 2025		Kyrylo Nesterenko	17 June 2025
Polissya Zhytomyr	Oleksandr Maksymov (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	29 May 2025		Ruslan Rotan	29 May 2025
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Yuriy Vernydub	End of contract	31 May 2025		Patrick van Leeuwen	9 June 2025
Rukh Lviv	Vitaliy Ponomaryov	Mutual consent	4 June 2025		Ivan Fedyk	11 June 2025
Obolon Kyiv	Serhiy Shyshchenko	Mutual consent	4 June 2025		Oleksandr Antonenko (interim)	4 June 2025
Zorya Luhansk	Mladen Bartulović (interim)	End of interim spell & contract	16 June 2025		Viktor Skrypnyk	16 June 2025
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	Oleksandr Chyzhov (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	20 June 2025		Mladen Bartulović	20 June 2025
SC Poltava	Volodymyr Sysenko	Change of role	29 July 2025		Pavlo Matviychenko (interim)	29 July 2025
FC Kudrivka	Vasyl Baranov	Juridical	5 August 2025	1st	Vitaliy Kostyshyn (interim)	5 August 2025
Dynamo Kyiv	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi	Sacked	27 November 2025	7th	Ihor Kostyuk (caretaker)	27 November 2025
	Ihor Kostyuk (caretaker)	Permanent basis	17 December 2025	4th	Ihor Kostyuk	17 December 2025
Karpaty Lviv	Vladyslav Lupashko	Mutual consent	31 December 2025	9th	TBA	TBA

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	LNZ Cherkasy	16	11	2	3	20	8	+12	35	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	16	10	5	1	42	12	+30	35	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
3	Polissya Zhytomyr	16	9	3	4	26	11	+15	30
4	Dynamo Kyiv	16	7	5	4	35	21	+14	26
5	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	16	7	5	4	28	24	+4	26
6	Kolos Kovalivka	16	6	7	3	17	13	+4	25
7	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	15	6	6	3	18	12	+6	24
8	Zorya Luhansk	16	6	5	5	19	18	+1	23
9	Karpaty Lviv	16	4	7	5	20	21	−1	19
10	Rukh Lviv	16	6	1	9	15	23	−8	19
11	Veres Rivne	15	4	6	5	13	17	−4	18
12	Obolon Kyiv	16	4	5	7	12	27	−15	17
13	Kudrivka	16	4	3	9	19	30	−11	15	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
14	Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi	16	4	2	10	18	27	−9	14
15	Oleksandriya	16	2	5	9	14	28	−14	11	Relegation to Ukrainian First League
16	Poltava	16	2	3	11	14	38	−24	9

Updated to match(es) played on 14 December 2025. 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	DYN	EPC	KAR	KOL	KRY	KDR	LNZ	M25	OBL	OLK	PZH	POL	RUX	SHA	VER	ZOR
Dynamo Kyiv					4–0		0–1	1–1		2–2	4–1	1–2		a	3–0
Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi	1–4				4–5			0–0	1–2					0–1	2–3	1–2
Karpaty Lviv	3–3	1–3			1–0			1–2			0–2	1–1	0–0	3–3
Kolos Kovalivka	2–1	1–0	1–1		2–1					1–1			0–2	0–0	0–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih				1–1		3–1		2–0	2–1	3–0		2–2			2–2
Kudrivka	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–3				1–1	1–0	3–1		3–1
LNZ Cherkasy		1–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0			3–0				1–0		0–2	2–0
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv				1–0			0–1		0–0				2–0	1–1	ppd	1–3
Obolon Kyiv	2–2		0–2	0–0				1–3		1–0	0–4			0–6	1–1
Oleksandriya		0–1	0–2			1–1	4–1	1–4			0–3	1–0	0–1
Polissia Zhytomyr		0–0	3–2	0–1		2–0	0–2	0–0				4–0		0–0		2–0
Poltava		0–3		2–2			0–2	0–2	1–2				1–2		1–0	1–4
Rukh Lviv	1–5				1–2	4–2			1–2		1–0	2–1		0–4
Shakhtar Donetsk	3–1	5–0			2–2	4–0	1–4			2–0		7–1				1–0
Veres Rivne	0–1		0–0			2–0				1–1	1–4		1–0	0–2		0–0
Zorya Luhansk	1–1		1–0	1–3	2–3	2–1	0–0		0–0	2–2			1–0

Updated to match(es) played on 14 December 2025. 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.

Matches affected by air raid alerts

Round 1
Zorya vs LNZ. The match had been interrupted in the 17th minute for 36 minutes.
Round 2
Poltava vs Veres. The match had been interrupted in the 80th minute for 38 minutes.
Kryvbas vs Metalist 1925. The match had been interrupted in the 24th minute for 38 minutes.
Round 3
Rukh vs Obolon. The match had been interrupted in the 67th minute for 15 minutes.
Kolos vs Karpaty. The match had been interrupted in the 33nd minute for 17 minutes.
Zorya vs Kryvbas. The match had been interrupted in the 63th minute for 17 minutes.
Round 4
Kryvbas vs Obolon. The match was delayed for 20 minutes.
Round 5
Obolon vs Dynamo. The match was delayed for 15 minutes.
Kryvbas vs Polissya. The match was delayed for 30 minutes and then had been interrupted in 2nd minute for 8 minutes.
Round 6
Obolon vs Karpaty. The match had been interrupted in 26th minute for 49 minutes.
Round 8
Kolos vs Rukh. The match was delayed for 60 minutes.
Oleksandriya vs Karpaty. The match had been interrupted in the 9th minute for 41 minutes.
Obolon vs Veres. The match was delayed for 45 minutes.
Round 10
Poltava vs Kolos. The match was delayed for 15 minutes.
Round 11
Kryvbas vs Poltava. The match was delayed for 60 minutes.
LNZ vs Karpaty. The match had been interrupted a few times: in the 26th minute for 39 minutes; in the 49th minite for 31 minutes; in the 90+4th minute for 22 minutes.
Round 12
Oleksandriya vs Polissya. The match was delayed for 20 minutes.
Round 14
Obolon vs Kolos. The match had been interrupted in 44th minute for 45 minutes.
Round 16
Oleksandriya vs Kudrivka. The match was delayed for 27 minutes.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers As of 14 December 2025 (2025-12-14) Rank Scorer Team Goals Pen. 1 Pylyp Budkivskyi Zorya Luhansk 7 (0) Baboucarr Faal Rukh Lviv 7 (0) Mykola Hayduchyk Polissya Zhytomyr 7 (0) Yuriy Klymchuk Kolos Kovalivka 7 (0) Prosper Obah LNZ Cherkasy / Shakhtar Donetsk 7 (1) Yehor Tverdokhlib Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih / LNZ Cherkasy 7 (3) 7 Kauã Elias Shakhtar Donetsk 6 (0) Andriy Storchous Kudrivka 6 (1) 9 Gleiker Mendoza Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 5 (0) Carlos Paraco Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 5 (0) Maksym Zaderaka Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 5 (0) Bruninho Karpaty Lviv 5 (1) Vitaliy Buyalskyi Dynamo Kyiv 5 (1) Pedrinho Shakhtar Donetsk 5 (2) Joaquinete Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi 5 (4) First goal of the season: Mykyta Burda – Kolos vs Kryvbas (1 August 2025) Own goals: Yevhen Misyura – for Rukh vs SC Poltava (1 August 2025) Anton Yashkov – for FC Oleksandriya vs FC Kudrivka (3 August 2025) Vitaliy Kholod – for Dynamo vs Rukh (8 August 2025) Stepan Hryhorashchuk – for Kolos vs Epitsentr (30 August 2025) Andriy Lomnytskyi – for Karpaty vs Obolon (22 September 2025) Vladyslav Moroz – for Kudrivka vs Epitsentr (26 September 2025) Miguel Campos – for Karpaty vs Oleksandriya (4 October 2025) Valeriy Dubko – for Veres vs Obolon (4 October 2025) Oleksandr Kemkin – for Kudrivka vs Kryvbas (5 October 2025) Vladyslav Kabayev – for Shakhtar vs Dynamo (2 November 2025) Vadym Pidlepych – for Shakhtar vs Poltava (9 November 2025) Bohdan Mykhaylichenko – for Karpaty vs Polissya (13 December 2025) Clean sheets As of 14 December 2025 (2025-12-14) Rank Player Club Clean sheets 1 Oleksiy Palamarchuk LNZ Cherkasy 9 Dmytro Riznyk Shakhtar Donetsk Yevhen Volynets Polissya Zhytomyr 4 Valentyn Horokh Veres Rivne 6 Danylo Varakuta Metalist 1925 Kharkiv 6 Oleh Bilyk Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi 5 Oleksandr Saputin Zorya Luhansk

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month		Coach of the Month
	Player	Club	Coach	Club
August 2025	Andriy Storchous	Kudrivka	Vasyl Baranov	Kudrivka
September 2025	Bruninho	Karpaty Lviv	Mladen Bartulović	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
October 2025	Prosper Obah	LNZ Cherkasy	Vitaliy Ponomaryov	LNZ Cherkasy
November 2025 December 2025	Oleksiy Hutsulyak	Polissya Zhytomyr
February 2026 March 2026
April 2026
May 2026

Round awards

The list includes winners of the Round by the Ukrainian Premier League as well as the Ukrainian internet publisher "SportArena".

Round	Player			Coach
	Player	Club	Coach	Club
Round 1	Andriy Storchous (SA)	FC Kudrivka	Ruslan Rotan (SA)	Polissya Zhytomyr
	Andriy Storchous (UPL)	FC Kudrivka	Vasyl Baranov (UPL)	FC Kudrivka
Round 2	Gleiker Mendoza (SA)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleksandr Antonenko (SA)	Obolon Kyiv
	Gleiker Mendoza (UPL)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Vladyslav Lupashko (UPL)	Karpaty Lviv
Round 3	Maksym Zaderaka (SA)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Vitaliy Ponomaryov (SA)	LNZ Cherkasy
	Maksym Zaderaka (UPL)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Vitaliy Ponomaryov (UPL)	LNZ Cherkasy
Round 4	Vitaliy Buyalskyi (SA)	Dynamo Kyiv	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (SA)	Dynamo Kyiv
	Yehor Tverdokhlib (UPL)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (UPL)	Dynamo Kyiv
Round 5	Tedi Cara (SA)	FC Oleksandriya	Oleksandr Antonenko (SA)	Obolon Kyiv
	Tedi Cara (UPL)	FC Oleksandriya	Mladen Bartulović (UPL)	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Round 6	Gleiker Mendoza (SA)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Vitaliy Ponomaryov (SA)	LNZ Cherkasy
	Gleiker Mendoza (UPL)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Kyrylo Nesterenko (UPL)	FC Oleksandriya
Round 7	Pedrihno (SA)	Shakhtar Donetsk	Ruslan Rotan (SA)	Polissya Zhytomyr
	Oleksandr Filippov (UPL)	Polissya Zhytomyr	Ruslan Rotan (UPL)	Polissya Zhytomyr
Round 8	Prosper Obah (SA)	LNZ Cherkasy	Vitaliy Ponomaryov (SA)	LNZ Cherkasy
	Gleiker Mendoza (UPL)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Vitaliy Ponomaryov (UPL)	LNZ Cherkasy
Round 9	Mykola Myronyuk (SA)	Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi	Serhiy Nahornyak (SA)	Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi
	Mykola Myronyuk (UPL)	Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi	Serhiy Nahornyak (UPL)	Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi
Round 10	Vladyslav Veleten (SA)	Polissya Zhytomyr	Ruslan Rotan (SA)	Polissya Zhytomyr
	Vladyslav Veleten (UPL)	Polissya Zhytomyr	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (UPL)	Dynamo Kyiv
Round 11	Eren Aydın (SA)	Veres Rivne	Arda Turan (SA)	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Eren Aydın (UPL)	Veres Rivne
	Eguinaldo (UPL)	Shakhtar Donetsk	Arda Turan (UPL)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Round 12	Eduard Sarapiy (SA)	Polissya Zhytomyr	Vitaliy Ponomaryov (SA)	LNZ Cherkasy
	Yevheniy Pastukh (UPL)	LNZ Cherkasy	Vitaliy Ponomaryov (UPL)	LNZ Cherkasy
Round 13	Yuriy Klymchuk (SA)	Kolos Kovalivka	Ruslan Kostyshyn (SA)	Kolos Kovalivka
	Yuriy Klymchuk (UPL)	Kolos Kovalivka	Ruslan Kostyshyn (UPL)	Kolos Kovalivka
Round 14	Valeriy Voskonyan (SA)	SC Poltava	Pavlo Matviychenko (SA)	SC Poltava
	Valeriy Voskonyan (UPL)	SC Poltava	Pavlo Matviychenko (UPL)	SC Poltava
Round 15	Artur Mykytyshyn (SA)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Viktor Skrypnyk (SA)	Zorya Luhansk
Round 16	Oleksiy Hutsulyak (SA)	Polissya Zhytomyr	Ihor Kostyuk (SA)	Dynamo Kyiv
	Oleksiy Hutsulyak (UPL)	Polissya Zhytomyr	Vitaliy Ponomaryov (UPL)	LNZ Cherkasy
winter break
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Round 22
Round 23
Round 24
Round 25
Round 26
Round 27
Round 28
Round 29
Round 30

Relegation play-offs

Teams that placed 13th and 14th in the 2025–26 Ukrainian Premier League play two-leg play-off with the third and fourth teams of the 2025–26 Ukrainian First League.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
TBD	x–x	TBD
TBD	x–x	TBD

First Semi-final

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Second Semi-final

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See also

• 2025–26 Ukrainian Cup
• 2025–26 Ukrainian First League
• 2025–26 Ukrainian Second League
• 2025–26 Ukrainian Football Amateur League

External links

• Official website of the Ukrainian Premier League

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)

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