2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League

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Official logo[1]
Season 2019–20
Champions Shakhtar Donetsk
13th Ukrainian title
Relegated Karpaty Lviv
Champions League Shakhtar Donetsk
Dynamo Kyiv
Europa League Zorya Luhansk
Desna Chernihiv
Kolos Kovalivka
Matches played 184
Goals scored 511 (2.78 per match)
Top goalscorer 20 – Júnior Moraes (Shakhtar)
Biggest home win 6 – Shakhtar 6–0 Kolos (Round 11)
Biggest away win 5 – Vorskla 0–5 Dynamo (Round 8), Olimpik 0–5 Zorya (Round 9)
Highest scoring 8 – Karpaty 2–6 Desna (Round 17)
Longest winning run 11 – Shakhtar (Round 1–11)
Longest unbeaten run 19 – Shakhtar (Round 1–19)
Longest winless run 17 – Karpaty (Round 8–23, 28)
Longest losing run 7 – Olimpik (Round 16–22)
Kolos (Round 21–27)
Highest attendance 41,203 – Dynamo 1–2 Shakhtar (Round 3)
Lowest attendance 0 – Dynamo 2–1 Vorskla (Round 19)[2]
Total attendance 552941
Average attendance 4221
All statistics correct as of 19 July 2020.
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Official logo of Premier Liha in August 2019 was changed

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.[3][4] The same day there took place the game for the Ukrainian Super Cup.[3] 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 would involve the best team(s) of the relegation group.[5] The assembly also agreed to implement the Video assistant referee (VAR) position in 2020.[6] 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.[7] For promotional purpose, the Ukrainian Premier League introduced an own copy of virtual fantasy league on the Real Manager game platform.[8][9]

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.[10]

Competition prolongation caused by the emergency break introduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic made the season the longest in history, lasting 1 year and 1 day in total.[11] The season also has set a record as a highest-scoring season in the history of the competition, with an average of 2.78 goals scored per game.[12]

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).[13]

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.[14] 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.[15] The decision was approved on 27 May 2020 by the UAF Executive Committee.[16] 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.[17] Next day the Ministry of Health Care updated some of its restricting recommendations in regards to coordination of competitions among professional clubs.[18]

On 22 July 2020 Ministry of Healthcare granted the permission to allow spectators on the Europa League play-off matches in a test mode, with up to 25% of stadium capacity open for attending.[19]

The term of the UPL president expired on 5 April 2020.[20] 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.[21][22] On 4 May 2020 the league's executive director Yevhen Dykyi announced that there were registered three candidates for elections of the UPL president.[23] On 18 May 2020 the league announced that elections for the league's president were postponed and their date will be announced later.[24][25] Until then as the UPL president is acting the league's executive director Yevhen Dykyi.[26]

Teams

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.

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League is located in Ukraine
Kyiv
Kyiv
Kyiv teams :Dynamo(Kyiv)
Kyiv teams :
Dynamo
(Kyiv)
Donetsk
Donetsk
Donetsk teams :ShakhtarOlimpik
Donetsk teams :
Shakhtar
Olimpik
Lviv
Lviv
Lviv teams :KarpatyFC Lviv
Lviv teams :
Karpaty
FC Lviv
Home venues of teams in the 2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League.
Teams in italics are from a conflict zone of the War in Donbass and are playing their home games in different cities.

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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).[27]

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, after quarantine break clubs from Lviv were forced to conduct all their home matches in the other regions until the Round 30.[28][29]

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
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 Rounds 26, 32 and playoff
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
SC Dnipro-1 used as home ground in Round 30
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[30][31]

Notes:

  • The Round 19 game between Dynamo and Vorskla was played on February 22, 2020 at the Dynamo Stadium imeni Lobanovskoho becoming a historical mark when there first was implemented the system of video assistant referee (VAR).[32][33]
  • Due to critical situation in the city of Lviv with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Lviv city club's do not play at home from Round 24 till Round 30.

Personnel and sponsorship

Team President Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Desna Chernihiv Volodymyr Levin Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Ukraine Denys Favorov United States Nike Parimatch
SC Dnipro-1 Yuriy Bereza Ukraine Dmytro Mykhaylenko Ukraine Serhiy Kravchenko United States Nike
Dynamo Kyiv Ihor Surkis Ukraine Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Ukraine Serhiy Sydorchuk United States New Balance[34]
Karpaty Lviv Oleh Smaliychuk[lower-alpha 1] Ukraine Roman Sanzhar Ukraine Dmytro Klyots Spain Joma Marathonbet
Kolos Kovalivka Andriy Zasukha Ukraine Ruslan Kostyshyn Ukraine Vitaliy Havrysh United States Nike Svitanok
FC Lviv Bohdan Kopytko[36] Georgia (country) Giorgi Tsetsadze Ukraine Serhiy Borzenko United States Nike LIMO
FC Mariupol Tariq Mehmood Chaudhry Ukraine Oleksandr Babych Ukraine Serhiy Yavorskyi United States Nike Favorite Sport
FC Oleksandriya Serhiy Kuzmenko Ukraine Volodymyr Sharan Ukraine Yuriy Pankiv United States Nike AgroVista
Olimpik Donetsk Vladyslav Helzin Ukraine Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) Ukraine Dmytro Hryshko Spain Joma Parimatch
Shakhtar Donetsk Rinat Akhmetov Portugal Luís Castro Ukraine Andriy Pyatov United States Nike Parimatch
Vorskla Poltava Kostyantyn Zhevago Ukraine Yuriy Maksymov Ukraine Volodymyr Chesnakov United States Nike Ferrexpo
Zorya Luhansk Yevhen Heller Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Ukraine Mykyta Kamenyuka United States Nike Favorite Sport

Notes:

  1. Oleh Smaliychuk bought out control package of ownership in stock in the club from Petro Dyminskyi.[35]

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming manager Date of appointment Table
Zorya Luhansk Ukraine Yuriy Vernydub Mutual consent 31 May 2019[37] Pre-season Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk 3 June 2019[38] Pre-season
Vorskla Poltava Ukraine Vitaliy Kosovskyi (caretaker) Change of contract 4 June 2019[39] Ukraine Vitaliy Kosovskyi 4 June 2019[39]
Shakhtar Donetsk Portugal Paulo Fonseca Signed with A.S. Roma 11 June 2019[40] Portugal Luís Castro 12 June 2019[41]
Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi (caretaker) Change of contract 18 June 2019[42] Ukraine Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi 18 June 2019[42]
Olimpik Donetsk Ukraine Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) End of interim term 1 July 2019[43][44] Brazil Júlio César Correia 1 July 2019[44]
Dynamo Kyiv Belarus Alyaksandr Khatskevich Sacked 14 August 2019[45] 3rd Ukraine Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko 15 August 2019[46] 3rd
Olimpik Donetsk Brazil Júlio César Correia Sacked 19 August 2019[47] 12th Ukraine Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) 19 August 2019 12th
Ukraine Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) End of interim 2 September 2019[48] Spain Vicente Gómez 2 September 2019[48]
Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi Sacked 3 September 2019[49] 11th Ukraine Roman Sanzhar 3 September 2019[49] 11th
FC Lviv Ukraine Bohdan Blavatskyi Mutual consent 10 September 2019[50] 10th Ukraine Volodymyr Mazyar 10 September 2019[50] 10th
Ukraine Volodymyr Mazyar Mutual consent 31 October 2019[51] 12th Armenia Yegishe Melikyan 31 October 2019[51] 12th
Vorskla Poltava Ukraine Vitaliy Kosovskyi Change of contract 14 November 2019[52] 12th Ukraine Yuriy Maksymov 15 November 2019[53] 12th
Olimpik Donetsk Spain Vicente Gómez Mutual consent 13 March 2020[54] 11th Ukraine Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) 13 March 2020[55] 11th
FC Lviv Armenia Yegishe Melikyan End of contract 21 June 2020[56] 9th Georgia (country) Giorgi Tsetsadze 22 June 2020[57] 9th

First stage

First stage table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation[lower-alpha 1]
1 Shakhtar Donetsk 22 19 2 1 59 14 +45 59 Qualification to Championship round
2 Dynamo Kyiv 22 14 3 5 44 17 +27 45
3 Zorya Luhansk 22 13 4 5 39 18 +21 43
4 Desna Chernihiv 22 13 3 6 36 15 +21 42
5 FC Oleksandriya 22 11 4 7 30 23 +7 37
6 Kolos Kovalivka 22 8 2 12 25 39 −14 26
7 SC Dnipro-1 22 7 4 11 26 34 −8 25[lower-alpha 2] Qualification to Relegation round
8 FC Mariupol 22 6 7 9 21 35 −14 25[lower-alpha 2]
9 FC Lviv 22 5 5 12 16 35 −19 20[lower-alpha 3]
10 Vorskla Poltava 22 6 2 14 15 38 −23 20[lower-alpha 3]
11 Olimpik Donetsk 22 5 3 14 17 37 −20 18
12 Karpaty Lviv 22 2 7 13 17 40 −23 13
Source: Ukrainian Premier League, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head bigger amount of goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Bigger amount of goals scored; 7) Draw or "golden match" if tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).[58]
Notes:
  1. Teams play each other twice (22 matches), before the league split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last 10 matches.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Dnipro-1 is ahead of Mariupol on head-to-head goal difference: Dnipro-1 3, Mariupol 1
  3. 3.0 3.1 Lviv is ahead of Vorskla on head-to-head goal difference: Lviv 4, Vorskla 3

First stage results

Teams play each other twice on a home and away basis, before the league split into two groups – the top six and the bottom six.

Home \ Away DES DNI DYN KAR KOL LVI MAR OLK OLD SHA VOR ZOR
Desna Chernihiv 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–2 4–0 2–0 1–0 0–1 2–0 1–0
SC Dnipro-1 0–1 3–1 2–0 2–1 2–3 3–0 1–2 2–0 0–2 1–0 1–4
Dynamo Kyiv 1–2 2–0 1–1 2–0 4–0 3–0 1–0 1–1 1–2 2–1 1–2
Karpaty Lviv 2–6 1–1 0–2 1–2 0–0 1–1 0–4 1–2 0–3 2–1 0–1
Kolos Kovalivka 2–0 4–0 0–4 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 1–2 3–4 0–3 1–3
FC Lviv 1–4 0–2 0–3 0–0 3–2 0–1 1–1 0–1 0–2 2–0 0–0
FC Mariupol 0–4 1–0 0–1 2–2 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 1–1 3–0 1–2
FC Oleksandriya 0–3 2–0 1–3 2–1 1–2 2–0 3–1 2–1 1–3 3–0 1–0
Olimpik Donetsk 1–2 3–2 1–3 1–3 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–0 0–4 2–0 0–5
Shakhtar Donetsk 1–0 4–1 1–0 3–0 6–0 4–1 5–1 0–0 3–0 4–0 4–3
Vorskla Poltava 0–1 1–1 0–5 2–1 1–0 3–2 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 0–1
Zorya Luhansk 2–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–0 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–0 1–2 4–0

Notes:

First stage positions by round

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Championship round

Championship round table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Shakhtar Donetsk (C) 32 26 4 2 80 26 +54 82 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Dynamo Kyiv 32 18 5 9 65 35 +30 59 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3 Zorya Luhansk 32 17 7 8 50 29 +21 58 Qualification to Europa League group stage[lower-alpha 1]
4 Desna Chernihiv 32 17 5 10 59 33 +26 56 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round[lower-alpha 2]
5 FC Oleksandriya 32 14 7 11 49 47 +2 49 Playoff for qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
6 Kolos Kovalivka (O) 32 10 2 20 33 59 −26 32
Source: Ukrainian Premier League, UEFA, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head bigger amount of goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Bigger amount of goals scored; 7) Draw or "golden match" if tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).[58]
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner.
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Championship round results

Home \ Away DES DYN KOL OLK SHA ZOR
Desna Chernihiv 3–2 5-1 1-3 2-4 1–2
Dynamo Kyiv 1–1 2–1 5–1 2–3 3-1
Kolos Kovalivka 0–2 2–0 2–1 0–1 0–2
FC Oleksandriya 1-5 2-2 4–2 2–2 1–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 3–2 3–1 2–0 3-2 0-0
Zorya Luhansk 1–1 1–3 1–0 2–2 1–0
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Championship round positions by round

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Relegation round

Relegation round table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
7 SC Dnipro-1 32 15 4 13 42 42 0 49 Playoff for qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
8 FC Mariupol 32 12 9 11 40 46 −6 45
9 Olimpik Donetsk 32 10 6 16 32 47 −15 36
10 Vorskla Poltava 32 9 7 16 23 48 −25 34
11 FC Lviv 32 5 9 18 25 57 −32 24
12 Karpaty Lviv[lower-alpha 1] 32 2 9 21 19 48 −29 15 Expelled from the league
Source: Ukrainian Premier League, UEFA, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head bigger amount of goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Bigger amount of goals scored; 7) Draw or "golden match" if tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).[58]
Notes:
  1. Karpaty Lviv was expelled from the league for failing to appear to two games.[59]

Relegation round results

Home \ Away DN1 KAR LVI MAR OLD VOR
SC Dnipro-1 +/-[lower-alpha 1] 3-2 2–0 3–1 3–0
Karpaty Lviv -/+[lower-alpha 1] 1–1 0–3[lower-alpha 1] -/+[lower-alpha 1] -/+[lower-alpha 1]
FC Lviv 1–2 1–1 0–2 1–5 2–2
FC Mariupol 2–1 3–0[lower-alpha 1] 3–0 1-4 1–1
Olimpik Donetsk 0–2 +/-[lower-alpha 1] 2–0 2–2 1–1
Vorskla Poltava 2–0 +/-[lower-alpha 1] 1–1 1–2 0–0
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Notes:

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 The UPL administration decided not to conduct the game Karpaty – Mariupol on 31 May 2020 as in the Lviv's team camp were found positive test results on COVID-19.[60] FC Mariupol that was already on the way to the game was forced to turn around.[61] On 2 June 2020 FC Karpaty Lviv released its official statement announcing that the club goes on 2 weeks self-isolation due to mass spread of the illness among players.[62] The upcoming games with SC Dnipro-1 and Vorskla Poltava will not take place as previously scheduled.[63] On 26 June 2020 were announced new rescheduled dates for the Karpaty's games against Mariupol and Dnipro-1.[64] On 30 June 2020 the Ukrainian Premier League filed a document to the UAF Control and Disciplinary Committee informing that FC Karpaty Lviv were not able to show up for the game in Mariupol on 1 July 2020.[65] The Mariupol–Karpaty game scheduled on 4 July will not take place.[66] As it was the second failure to appear to the match for FC Karpaty Lviv, according to regulations the club was expelled from the championship by the UAF Control-Disciplinary Committee on 9 July 2020.[67] The club was counted two technical defeats for two matches against FC Mariupol as 3:0 and 0:3. For all other remaining games that were due to play the club was counted -:+. [68]

Relegation round positions by round

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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 played the one-leg play-off for one more berth in the Europa League second qualifying round.[69] Winners of the semi-final pairs contested in one-leg final game the last berth to the UEFA Europa League.[70] 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.

Kolos Kovalivka won the play-off on 29 July 2020 after defeating FC Mariupol 1–0 after the extra time in the final.

Semi-finals
25 July 2020
Final
29 July 2020
           
6th Kolos Kovalivka 4
7th SC Dnipro-1 1
6th Kolos Kovalivka (a.e.t.) 1
8th FC Mariupol 0
5th FC Oleksandriya 1
8th FC Mariupol 2

Semi-finals

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Kolos Kovalivka 4–1 SC Dnipro-1
FC Oleksandriya 1–2 FC Mariupol


25 July 2020
17:00[71] UTC+3
Kolos Kovalivka 4–1 SC Dnipro-1
Orikhovskyi Goal 22'
Antyukh Goal 24'50'
Morozko Goal 87'
Report Supriaha Goal 48'
Olimpiyskiy NSC, Kyiv
Attendance: 2,915[lower-alpha 1]
Referee: Kateryna Monzul, Kharkiv

Final

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Kolos Kovalivka 1–0 (a.e.t.) FC Mariupol


Season statistics

Clean sheets

As of 16 July 2020[75]

Rank Player Club Clean
sheets
1 Ukraine Yevhen Past Desna Chernihiv 11
Ukraine Andriy Pyatov Shakhtar Donetsk
3 Ukraine Mykyta Shevchenko Zorya Luhansk 8
Ukraine Heorhiy Bushchan Dynamo Kyiv
Ukraine Yuriy Pankiv FC Oleksandriya

Hat-tricks

Player For Against Result Date
Ukraine Júnior Moraes Shakhtar Donetsk FC Lviv
4–1
22 November 2019[76]
Ukraine Vladyslav Supriaha SC Dnipro-1 Dynamo Kyiv
3–1
28 February 2020[77]
Iran Shahab Zahedi Olimpik Donetsk FC Lviv
5–1
16 July 2020[78]


  Away win
  Home win
  Draw

Attendance

The ranking is sorted by average attendance, while "Pos" column indicates position of each team in tournament standings.

Pos Team Total High Low Average Change
2 {{fb team Dynamo Kyiv |oc=}} 141,468 41,203 5,085 14,147 -0.93158172000527−6.8%4
1 {{fb team Shakhtar Donetsk |oc=}} 73,503 21,907 2,372 6,682 -0.89451137884873−10.5%1
7 {{fb team Dnipro-1 |oc=}} 51,556 9,982 1,937 4,687 0.58398107468739+58.3%3
10 {{fb team Vorskla Poltava |oc=}} 43,194 11,399 1,117 3,927 0.70442708333333+70.4%
4 {{fb team Desna Chernihiv |oc=}} 43,125 5,500 2,081 3,920 0.19951040391677+19.9%
8 {{fb team Mariupol |oc=}} 43,035 8,425 689 3,912 0.23251417769376+23.2%
12 {{fb team Karpaty Lviv |oc=}} 38,979 12,135 754 3,544 -0.8826899128269−11.7%
6 {{fb team Kolos Kovalivka |oc=}} 30,830 4,892 1,276 2,803 1.2881632653061+128.8%2,3
3 {{fb team Zorya Luhansk |oc=}} 30,449 6,352 1,515 2,768 -0.73480222989116−26.5%1
11 {{fb team Lviv |oc=}} 24,904 7,103 540 2,264 -0.84667165295438−15.3%
5 {{fb team Oleksandriya |oc=}} 18,780 4,004 911 1,707 -0.7932156133829−20.6%
9 {{fb team Olimpik Donetsk |oc=}} 13,118 4,500 254 1,193 0.23883696780893+23.8%1
League total 552,941 41,203 254 4,221 +0.9%

Source: UA-Football, Footboom
Notes:
1: Team plays its matches outside of home city.
2: Team plays its matches outside of home city due to stadium reconstruction.
3: Team played last season in the First League.
4: Dynamo Kyiv played 1 additional match behind closed doors.
5: All matches starting from the round 23 to the end of second stage were played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
6: The figures do not take into account three games of the Europa League play-offs, which were held with attendance restrictions due to health measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Awards

Monthly awards

Month Player of the Month Coach of the Month Ref.
Player Club Coach Club
August 2019 Ukraine Nazariy Rusyn Zorya Luhansk Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Zorya Luhansk [79]
September 2019 Ukraine Bohdan Mykhaylichenko Zorya Luhansk Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [80]
October 2019 Ukraine Bohdan Lyednyev Zorya Luhansk Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Zorya Luhansk [81]
November 2019 Ukraine Yehor Nazaryna Karpaty Lviv Spain Vicente Gómez Olimpik Donetsk [82]
December 2019 Ukraine Bohdan Mykhaylichenko Zorya Luhansk Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Zorya Luhansk [83]
February 2020 Ukraine Vladyslav Supriaha SC Dnipro-1 Ukraine Yuriy Maksymov Vorskla Poltava [84]
March 2020 Ukraine Bohdan Mykhaylichenko Zorya Luhansk Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [85]
June 2020 Ukraine Vitaliy Buyalskyi Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [86]
July 2020 Slovenia Benjamin Verbič Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Ruslan Kostyshyn Kolos Kovalivka [87]

Round awards

Round Player[88] Coach[88]
Player Club Reference Coach Club Reference
Round 1 Brazil Taison Shakhtar Donetsk [89] Ukraine Ruslan Kostyshyn Kolos Kovalivka [90]
Round 2 Ukraine Vitaliy Buyalskyi Dynamo Kyiv [91] Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [92]
Round 3 Ukraine Nazariy Rusyn Zorya Luhansk [93] Portugal Luís Castro Shakhtar Donetsk [94]
Round 4 Ukraine Kyrylo Kovalets FC Oleksandriya [95] Ukraine Volodymyr Sharan FC Oleksandriya [96]
Round 5 Ukraine Ihor Perduta Vorskla Poltava [97] Ukraine Bohdan Blavatskyi FC Lviv [98]
Round 6 Ukraine Bohdan Mykhaylichenko Zorya Luhansk [99] Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Zorya Luhansk [100]
Round 7 Ukraine Vladyslav Kalitvintsev Desna Chernihiv [101] Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [102]
Round 8 Uruguay Carlos de Pena Dynamo Kyiv [103] Ukraine Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Dynamo Kyiv [104]
Round 9 Ukraine Oleksandr Filippov Desna Chernihiv [105] Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [106]
Round 10 Ukraine Artem Besyedin Dynamo Kyiv [107] Ukraine Volodymyr Sharan FC Oleksandriya [108]
Round 11 Ukraine Vitalii Mykolenko Dynamo Kyiv [109] Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Zorya Luhansk [110]
Round 12 Ukraine Bohdan Lyednyev Zorya Luhansk [111] Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [112]
Round 13 Ukraine Kyrylo Kovalets FC Oleksandriya [113] Spain Vicente Gómez Olimpik Donetsk [114]
Round 14 Ukraine Yehor Nazaryna Karpaty Lviv [115] Portugal Luís Castro Shakhtar Donetsk [116]
Round 15 Ukraine Júnior Moraes Shakhtar Donetsk [117] Ukraine Ruslan Kostyshyn Kolos Kovalivka [118]
Round 16 Ukraine Artem Besyedin Dynamo Kyiv [119] Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [120]
Round 17 Ukraine Bohdan Mykhaylichenko Zorya Luhansk [121] Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Zorya Luhansk [122]
Round 18 Ukraine Júnior Moraes Shakhtar Donetsk [123] Armenia Yegishe Melikyan FC Lviv [124]
winter break
Round 19 Ukraine Yevhen Smyrnyi Kolos Kovalivka [125] Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Zorya Luhansk [126]
Round 20 Ukraine Vladyslav Supriaha SC Dnipro-1 [127] Ukraine Dmytro Mykhaylenko SC Dnipro-1 [128]
Round 21 Ukraine Maksym Tretyakov FC Oleksandriya [129] Ukraine Volodymyr Sharan FC Oleksandriya [130]
Round 22 Ukraine Vadym Milko Kolos Kovalivka [131] Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [132]
Round 23 Ukraine Bohdan Mykhaylichenko Zorya Luhansk [133] Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Zorya Luhansk [134]
Round 24 Ukraine Marlos Shakhtar Donetsk [135] Portugal Luís Castro Shakhtar Donetsk [136]
Round 25 Ukraine Vitalii Mykolenko Dynamo Kyiv [137] Ukraine Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Dynamo Kyiv [138]
Round 26 Ukraine Oleksandr Filippov Desna Chernihiv [139] Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [140]
Round 27 Brazil Tetê Shakhtar Donetsk [141] Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Zorya Luhansk [142]
Round 28 Ukraine Andriy Hitchenko Desna Chernihiv [143] Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [144]
Round 29 Ukraine Denys Favorov Desna Chernihiv [145] Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon Desna Chernihiv [146]
Round 30 Ukraine Vladyslav Kocherhin Zorya Luhansk [147] Ukraine Viktor Skrypnyk Zorya Luhansk [148]
Round 31 Ukraine Viktor Tsyhankov Dynamo Kyiv [149] Ukraine Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Dynamo Kyiv [150]
Round 32 Ukraine Dmytro Khomchenovskyi Zorya Luhansk [151] Ukraine Ruslan Kostyshyn Kolos Kovalivka [152]

Season awards

The laureates of the 2019–20 UPL season were:[153][154][155]

Number of teams by region

See also

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Played with attendance restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.[72]

References

  1. Official Logo. Ukrainian Premier League website.
  2. "Dynamo" won a dispute with UAF for the right to attend by spectators the UPL game against "Vorskla" ("Динамо" выиграло у УАФ спор за право посещения зрителями матча УПЛ против "Ворсклы" ). LB.ua. 22 February 2020
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  4. There was approved calendar of the 2019–20 UPL championship first half (Затверджено календар першого кола Чемпіонату УПЛ 2019/20). Ukrainian Premier League. 12 June 2019
  5. Changes in the regulation: the UPL fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth teams will play-off the trip ticket to the Europe League (Изменения в регламенте: пятая, шестая, седьмая и восьмая команды УПЛ розыграют путевку в Лигу Европы). UA-Football. 12 June 2019
  6. In UPL voted to introduce VAR from 2020 (В УПЛ проголосовали за введение VAR с 2020 года). UA-Football. 12 June 2019
  7. The Ukrainian championship changed its logo and now is called as Favbet liha (Чемпионат Украины сменил логотип и теперь называется Favbet лига). Football.ua. 7 August 2019
  8. Real Manager. Real Manager.
  9. The Real Manager: there starts a struggle for the first prizes of the official UPL fantasy league (Real Manager: розпочинається боротьба за перші призи офіційної фентезі-ліги УПЛ). Ukrainian Premier League. 12 September 2019
  10. The UPL collective congratulates FC Shakhtar with becoming the champions (Колектив УПЛ вітає ФК «Шахтар» із чемпіонством!). Ukrainian Premier League. 20 June 2020
  11. The longest season in history (Найдовший сезон в історії). Ukrainian Premier League. 27 July 2020
  12. The highest-scoring season in history (Найрезультативніший сезон в історії). Ukrainian Premier League. 30 July 2020
  13. The games of the Favbet Liha, the under-21 and under-19 championships will be conducted without spectators until 3 April (Матчі Favbet Ліги, Чемпіонатів U-21 та U-19 до 3 квітня пройдуть без глядачів). Ukrainian Premier League. 12 March 2020
  14. Vsevolod Mazur. The UAF paused all football competitions in Ukraine (УАФ приостановила все футбольные соревнования в Украине). Sport Arena. 17 March 2020
  15. There took place a working meeting among leader of UPL and UAF with representatives of clubs (Відбулася робоча зустріч керівників УПЛ та УАФ із представниками клубів). Ukrainian Premier League. 14 May 2020
  16. Official. The UAF EC approved decision about completion of the Ukrainian football championships among U-21 and U-19 teams (Офіційно. Виконком УАФ затвердив рішення про завершення чемпіонатів України серед команд U-21 та U-19). Ukrainian Association of Football. 27 May 2020
  17. The Favbet Liha is restarting on 30 May (Favbet Ліга відновиться 30 травня). Ukrainian Premier League. 26 May 2020
  18. No more 200 individuals at stadium and 5 substitutions per game (updated)! (Не більше 200 осіб на стадіоні та 5 замін за матч (оновлено)!). Ukrainian Premier League. 27 May 2020
  19. Spectators return to the stadiums (Глядачі повертаються на стадіони). Ukrainian Premier League. 22 July 2020
  20. Thomas Grimm will head the UPL until 5 April (Томас Грімм очолюватиме УПЛ до 5 квітня). Ukrinform. 20 December 2019
  21. Andreas Böni. The Grimm's crazy life experiences in Ukraine (Grimms verrückte Erlebnisse in der Ukraine). Blick. 27 March 2020 Script error: No such module "In lang".
  22. Grimm: "There are many different picaresque stories in Ukrainian football that do not ease the work for the League's president (Гримм: «В украинском футболе есть много разных авантюрных историй, которые не облегчают работу президента лиги»). Sport Arena. 28 March 2020 Script error: No such module "In lang".
  23. On the post of the UPL president registered 3 candidates and two more people were interested (На посаду президента УПЛ зареєструвалися 3 кандидати. Цікавились ще 2 осіб). UA-Football. 4 May 2020
  24. The UPL president elections were postponed (Вибори президента УПЛ перенесені). Ukrainian Premier League. 18 May 2020
  25. The UPL announced its decision about presidential elections (УПЛ оголосила рішення щодо виборів президента). Football Hub. 18 May 2020
  26. Ihor Tsyhanyk: "I get awfully angry when I get named as television presenter or commentator (Ігор Циганик: «Я страшенно злюся, коли мене називають телеведучим чи коментатором»). 1927.kiev.ua. 23 May 2020
  27. Locations where completion is conducted (Місця проведення змагань). 2018–19 Ukrainian Premier League regulations.
  28. Karpaty moved their match from Lviv to Lutsk (ФК «Карпати» перенесли свій домашній матч зі Львова до Луцька). ZAXID.NET. 19 June 2020.
  29. "Made an agreement for four matches": why Lviv footballers decided to loan the stadium in Ternopil («Домовилися на чотири матчі»: чому львівські футболісти вирішили орендувати тернопільський стадіон). 20 hvylyn. 7 July 2020.
  30. In the next season Kolos will play in Kiev (В следующем сезоне Колос будет играть в Киеве). UA-Football. 4 June 2019
  31. The Kolos President: We are installing drainage and replacing turf that no one would be telling that we have a pasture (Президент Колоса: Делаем дренаж и меняем газон, чтобы никто не говорил, что у нас пастбище). UA-Football. 11 June 2019
  32. Dynamo – Vorskla 2:1 («Динамо» — «Ворскла» — 2:1). Ukrainian Premier League. 22 February 2020
  33. Greetings to all fans, coaches, players with resuming of the Ukrainian championship (Вітаємо всіх уболівальників, тренерів, гравців з поновленням чемпіонату України!). Ukrainian Premier League. 22 February 2020
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  36. Sukhkenko, M. How Kopytko took over Veres and transformed it into Lviv (Як Копитко захопив Верес и перетворив його на Львів). Sport Arena. 23 May 2018
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  58. 58.0 58.1 58.2 Defining of teams' places in competitions (Визначення місць команд у змаганнях). 2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League regulations.
  59. Karpaty Lviv are officially excluded from the UPL (Львовские "Карпаты" официально исключены из УПЛ) Archived 2020-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. ZIK. 9 July 2020
  60. The game Karpaty — Mariupol won't take place (Матч «Карпати» — «Маріуполь» не відбудеться). Ukrainian Premier League. 30 May 2020
  61. Yegor Danilov. The UPL confirmed cancelation of the game between Karpaty and Mariupol (УПЛ подтвердила отмену матча между Карпатами и Мариуполем). Sport Arena. 30 May 2020
  62. Arkadiy Kapelka. "Karpaty" go on 2 weeks quarantine and cancel its trainings ("Карпати" ідуть на двохтижневий карантин та скасовують тренування). Footboom. 2 June 2020
  63. The games of the 25th round Vorskla – Karpaty and the 26th Karpaty – Dnipro-1 will not take place! (Матчі 25-го туру «Ворскла» — «Карпати», та 26-го «Карпати» — «Дніпро-1» не відбудуться!). Ukrainian Premier League. 2 June 2020
  64. There have been set dates for rescheduled games with participation of Karpaty (Визначено дати проведення перенесених матчів за участі «Карпат»). Ukrainian Premier League. 26 June 2020
  65. Arkadiy Kapelka. The game Karpaty – Mariupol won't take place (Поєдинок "Карпати" - "Маріуполь" не відбудеться). Footboom. 30 June 2020
  66. The Round 29 game Mariupol–Karpaty will not take place (Матч 29 туру «Маріуполь» — «Карпати» не відбудеться). Ukrainian Premier League. 3 July 2020
  67. On Thursday Karpaty may be left without their professional status (В четверг Карпаты могут лишить профессионального статуса). Sport.ua. 8 July 2020
  68. Офіційно. КДК УАФ виключив ФК «Карпати» (Львів) зі змагань УПЛ UAF. 9 July 2020
  69. Changes to season's regulations: fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth UPL teams will playoff for a voyage to the Europa League (Изменения в регламенте: пятая, шестая, седьмая и восьмая команды УПЛ розыграют путевку в Лигу Европы). UA-Football. 12 June 2019
  70. Play-off participants of Favbet League are determined (Визначились учасники плей-офф Favbet Ліги). Ukrainian Premier League. 16 July 2020
  71. 71.0 71.1 There were approved dates and time of the first playoff games of the Favbet Liha (Затверджено дати й час початку перших матчів плей-офф Favbet Ліги). Ukrainian Premier League. 17 July 2020
  72. Spectators are returning to stadiums (Глядачі повертаються на стадіони). Ukrainian Premier League. 22 July 2020
  73. Top scorers. Ukrainian Premier League.
  74. Taison and Moraes are the most productive in the season (Тайсон і Мораес – найрезультативніші в сезоні). Ukrainian Premier League. 21 July 2020
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  76. Shakhtar–Lviv game report at Official UPL Site
  77. Dnipro-1–Dynamo game report at Official UPL Site
  78. Lviv–Olimpik game report at Official UPL Site
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  88. 88.0 88.1 Riabokon and Mykhailychenko are the heroes of polls (Рябоконь і Михайліченко — герої опитувань!). Ukrainian Premier League. 20 July 2020
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