1992–93 Ukrainian First League

Ukrainian First League 1992–93 was the second season of the Ukrainian First League.

The league was reorganized from the previous season into a single group of 22 teams of which the best one was Nyva Vinnytsia. The league was joined by six clubs relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League, while no clubs were promoted from the Ukrainian Second League. The biggest favorite of the season FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka missed its chance to get back to the League of the strongest. Impressive season was for the FC Vorskla Poltava and FC Polihraftekhnika Oleksandria who will be setting a pace in the following years in the league. Disappointing season had FC Metalurh Nikopol and FC Pryladyst Mukacheve that nearly made it to the Top League last season.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted teams

• None, there were no clubs promoted from the Second League after the prior season.

Relegated teams

The following clubs were relegated from the Premier League after the prior season:

• Nyva Vinnytsia (8th, Grp. A)
• Evis Mykolaiv (9th, Grp. A)
• Temp Shepetivka (10th, Grp. A)
• Naftovyk Okhtyrka (8th, Grp. B)
• Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk (9th, Grp. B)
• SCA Odessa (10th, Grp. B)

Teams

In 1992-93 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Desna

Nyva

Dynamo-2

Pryladyst

Podillya

Krystal

Avtomobilist

Evis

Temp

Naftovyk

Prykarpattya

Polihraftekhnika

Stal

Zakarpattia

Metalurh

Ros

Skala

Vorskla

Artania

Shakhtar

Khimik

Odessa

Locations of teams in First League

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Comments
1	Nyva Vinnytsia	42	24	14	4	73	26	+47	62	Premier League
2	Temp Shepetivka	42	25	8	9	68	48	+20	58	Premier League
3	Naftovyk Okhtyrka	42	22	10	10	73	41	+32	54
4	Vorskla Poltava	42	21	9	12	57	46	+11	51
5	Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	42	18	14	10	53	35	+18	50
6	Polihraftekhnika Oleksandria	42	19	10	13	73	69	+4	48
7	Evis Mykolaiv	42	18	11	13	60	39	+21	48
8	Nord-Am-Podillia Khmelnytskyi	42	15	16	11	45	39	+6	46
9	Khimik Siverodonetsk	42	17	9	16	66	65	+1	43
10	Stal Alchevsk	42	16	10	16	40	37	+3	42
11	Skala Stryi	42	15	11	16	49	58	−9	41
12	Odessa	42	15	10	17	54	61	−7	40
13	Metalurh Nikopol	42	13	14	15	43	50	−7	40
14	Krystal Chortkiv	42	14	9	19	37	61	−24	37
15	Dynamo-2 Kyiv	42	10	17	15	48	39	+9	37	no promotion
16	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	42	13	10	19	45	56	−11	36
17	Avtomobilist Sumy	42	13	10	19	39	61	−22	36
18	Artania Ochakiv	42	15	5	2	42	73	−31	35
19	Desna Chernihiv	42	13	9	20	42	49	−7	35
20	Pryladyst Mukacheve	42	12	11	19	38	53	−15	35
21	Ros Bila Tserkva	42	10	15	17	40	48	−8	35	Second League
22	Shakhtar Pavlohrad	42	6	4	32	35	92	−57	16	Second League

• In bold' are teams that competed in the Supreme League.
• Dynamo-2 Kyiv can't be promoted.
• Nord-Am-Podillia Khmelnytskyi was named simply as Podillya Khmelnytskyi.

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.^[1]

	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	Roman Hryhorchuk	26 (9)	Prykarpattia
	Ihor Koliada	26 (12)	Temp
3	Yuriy Ovcharenko	24	Desna / Nyva
4	Oleksandr Pindeyev	17 (1)	Vorskla
	Ruslan Zabranskyi	17 (4)	Evis
6	Volodymyr Tymchenko	15	Odessa / Podillya
	Borys Shurshyn[2]	15 (2)	Naftovyk
	Yuriy Mykolayenko	15 (7)	Nyva
9	Georgi Kondratiev	14	Temp
	Volodymyr Maksymov[3]	14 (3)	Polihraftekhnika
	Vitaliy Kosovsky	14 (4)	Nyva

See also

• Ukrainian Premier League 1992-93
• Ukrainian Second League 1992-93

References