2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League

Ukrainian Premier League

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Season 2016–17
Matches played 66
Goals scored 165 (2.5 per match)
Top goalscorer 9 Júnior Moraes (Dynamo)
Biggest home win 5 Dnipro 50 Volyn (Round 1)
Biggest away win 3 Stal 03 Karpaty (Round 1)
Highest scoring 6 Dynamo 51 Oleksandriya (Round 1)
Longest winning run 6 Shakhtar (Round 16)
Longest unbeaten run 8 Shakhtar (Round 18)
Longest winless run 6 Zirka (Round 16)
Longest losing run 4 Zirka (Round 36)
Highest attendance 39,677 ShakhtarDynamo (Round 7)
Lowest attendance 570 StalOlimpik (Round 8)
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All statistics correct as of 16 October 2016.

The 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League season is the 26th top level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the ninth since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. The league is scheduled to play its first 18 rounds before the winter break (10 December 2016 25 February 2017) finishing its first stage of tournament in March. The second stage is schedule to start on 1 April 2017 and finish on 31 May 2017.

The league's title sponsor for 2016–17 season as for the previous season is a bookmaking company Pari-Match, the title of which is displayed on the season shield.

With the continuation of the military conflict in the eastern oblasts (regions) of Ukraine since 2014 and the Russian occupation of Crimea (see the map), the league was forced to change its format again and will now be contested by 12 teams after being cut from 14 in the 2015–16 season.

Dynamo Kyiv are the defending champions.

Format changes

On 29 February 2016, the Ukrainian Premier League administration announced that there will be changes to the competition format for the 201617 season.[2] It was confirmed that the championship would be played in two different phases, the first phase will be using a standard double round-robin tournament system and the second phase will be broken in to two groups one from 1st to 6th place which will play for the championship and the European spots and the second group made up of teams from 7th place to 12th which will play to avoid relegation. The bottom two teams will be relegated and would be replaced by the champion and the runner-up of the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League. The points gained in the first stage are passed on to the second stage.

The new format was to be presented by the FFU Executive Committee.[3] On 29 April 2016, the FFU Executive Committee approved the changes to the new UPL format for 2016–17 season.[4] The fixtures were announced on 7 June 2016.[5] The competition commenced on 21 July when Shakhtar Donetsk hosted Zirka Kropyvnytskyi in Lviv.[6] The first eighteen rounds will be played before winter break which will begin after 10 December 2016. The competition is to resume 25 February 2017. The first phase will end on 18 March 2017 after which the league will split according to the first phase final standings with the second phase starting on 1 April 2017. The season will be concluded on 31 May 2017.

Teams

Promotions

Renamed

As part of ongoing decommunization in Ukraine, several populated places in Ukraine changed their names, therefore the league adopted the same changes and applied them to the respective clubs in parenthesis.

Location map

Home venues of teams in the 2016–17 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.
Stal plays its games also in Dnipropetrovsk rather than at home.

Stadiums

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Rank Stadium Club Capacity[10] Notes
1 NSC Olimpiyskiy Dynamo Kyiv 70,050
2 OSC Metalist Shakhtar Donetsk 40,003 Used as home ground in round 7
3 Arena Lviv Karpaty Lviv 34,915
Shakhtar Donetsk Used as home ground during season
4 Chornomorets Stadium Chornomorets Odesa 34,164
5 Dnipro-Arena Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 31,003
6 Yuvileiny Stadium Olimpik Donetsk 25,830 Used as home ground during season
7 Vorskla Stadium Vorskla Poltava 24,795
8 Meteor Stadium Stal Kamianske 24,381 Used as home ground during season[11]
9 Zirka Stadium Zirka Kropyvnytskyi 13,667
Olimpik Donetsk Used as home ground in round 3
10 Avanhard Stadium Volyn Lutsk 12,080
11 Slavutych-Arena Zorya Luhansk 12,000 Used as home ground during season
12 CSC Nika Stadium FC Oleksandriya 7,000

Personnel and sponsorship

Team Home city Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Chornomorets Odesa Odessa Ukraine Oleksandr Babych (caretaker) Ukraine Artem Filimonov Legea 2+2
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro[12] Ukraine Dmytro Mykhaylenko (caretaker) Ukraine Ruslan Rotan Nike Biola
Dynamo Kyiv Kiev Ukraine Serhiy Rebrov Ukraine Oleksandr Shovkovskiy adidas
Karpaty Lviv Lviv Belarus Oleg Dulub Ukraine Ihor Khudobyak Joma Pari-Match
FC Oleksandriya Oleksandriia Ukraine Volodymyr Sharan Ukraine Andriy Zaporozhan Nike UkrAhroKom
Olimpik Donetsk Donetsk Ukraine Roman Sanzhar Ukraine Dmytro Hryshko Joma Altkom
Shakhtar Donetsk Donetsk Portugal Paulo Fonseca Croatia Darijo Srna Nike SCM
Stal Kamianske Kamianske[13] Netherlands Joop Gall Ukraine Maksym Kalenchuk Joma ISD
Volyn Lutsk Lutsk Ukraine Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi Ukraine Artem Shabanov Joma
Vorskla Poltava Poltava Ukraine Vasyl Sachko Ukraine Volodymyr Chesnakov adidas Ferrexpo
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi Kropyvnytskyi[14] Ukraine Viktor Dohadailo (caretaker) Argentina Federico Pereyra Joma
Zorya Luhansk Luhansk Ukraine Yuriy Vernydub Ukraine Mykyta Kamenyuka Nike

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Shakhtar Donetsk Romania Mircea Lucescu Resigned 21 May 2016[15][16] Pre-season Portugal Paulo Fonseca 1 June 2016[17]
Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Volodymyr Bezubyak(1) End of contract 8 May 2016[18] Pre-season Ukraine Valeriy Yaremchenko 6 June 2016[19](2)
Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Valeriy Yaremchenko Resigned 17 June 2016[20] Pre-season Ukraine Anatoliy Chantsev (caretaker) 17 June 2016[20]
Dnipro Ukraine Myron Markevych Resigned 30 June 2016[21] Pre-season Ukraine Dmytro Mykhaylenko (caretaker) 30 June 2016[22]
Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Anatoliy Chantsev (caretaker) Resigned (state of health) 5 July 2016[23] Pre-season Ukraine Serhiy Zaytsev (caretaker) 5 July 2016[23]
Stal Kamianske Netherlands Erik van der Meer Resigned (family circumstances) 10 August 2016[24] 7th Netherlands Joop Gall (caretaker)
Netherlands Joop Gall
10 August 2016
permanent since 28 August 2016[25]
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi Ukraine Serhiy Lavrynenko Mutual consent 19 August 2016 11th Argentina Dario Drudi (caretaker) 19 August 2016
Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Serhiy Zaytsev (caretaker) End as caretaker 7 October 2016[26] 12th Belarus Oleg Dulub 7 October 2016[26]
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi Argentina Dario Drudi (caretaker) Mutual consent 15 November 2016[27] 9th Ukraine Viktor Dohadailo (caretaker)(3) 15 November 2016[27]

Notes:

Regular season

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Shakhtar Donetsk (Q) 16 14 2 0 35 8 +27 44 Qualification to Championship round
2 Dynamo Kyiv (Q) 17 11 4 2 35 15 +20 37
3 Zorya Luhansk 17 9 4 4 27 16 +11 31
4 Olimpik Donetsk 16 8 3 5 23 25 2 27
5 FC Oleksandriya 16 7 4 5 27 21 +6 25
6 Chornomorets Odesa 17 6 5 6 13 17 4 23
7 Vorskla Poltava 17 5 5 7 19 21 2 20 Qualification to Relegation round
8 Stal Kamianske 16 3 5 8 12 20 8 14
9 Zirka Kropyvnytskyi 16 4 2 10 13 26 13 14
10 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk[lower-alpha 1] 17 4 5 8 18 27 9 11
11 Volyn Lutsk 17 2 4 11 12 29 17 10
12 Karpaty Lviv[lower-alpha 2] 16 2 5 9 16 25 9 5
Updated to match(es) played on 3 December 2016. Source: UEFA, Ukrainian Premier League, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Draw.[34]
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.
Notes:
  1. Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk were deducted a total of 6 points by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee for failing to clear their debts with former coach Juande Ramos and his assistants. [31]
  2. Karpaty Lviv were deducted a total of 6 points IAW the FIFA Disciplinary Committee decision of 4 March 2016.[32] On 22 July 2016 the president of Ukrainian Premier League announced that he will ask FIFA to change its decision about Karpaty.[33]

Regular season results

Home ╲ Away CHO DNI DYKKAROLKOLDSTKSHAVOLVORZIRZOR
Chornomorets Odesa 00 11 10 30 14 00 12 21 00
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 12 14 11 02 50 11 01 20
Dynamo Kyiv 10 41 51 21 a 21 02 20 01
Karpaty Lviv 00 11 02 02 01 23 10 22
FC Oleksandriya 11 32 11 20 12 32 40 01
Olimpik Donetsk 10 30 04 02 11 21 42(5) 02
Stal Kamianske 12 11 12 03 23 01 10 01
Shakhtar Donetsk 20 40 11 21 10 30 41 10
Volyn Lutsk 01 30 14 11 11 22 01 10
Vorskla Poltava 10 12 22 11 22 12 00 01 21
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi 01 10 12 00 03 20 20 11
Zorya Luhansk 40 23 21 12 30 22 20 21 21

Updated to games played on 27 November 2016.
Source: Ukrainian Premier League (Ukrainian)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Notes:

Regular season positions by round

The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition played chronologically.

Team ╲ Round 12345678910111213141516171819202122
Shakhtar Donetsk 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Dynamo Kyiv 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 2
Zorya Luhansk 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 3
Olimpik Donetsk 8 8 6 7 9 8 6 4 6 6 6 6 5 4 4 4
FC Oleksandriya 10 6 8 10 5 5 7 7 5 5 4 4 4 5 5 5
Chornomorets Odesa 6 11 11 9 6 6 5 5 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 6
Vorskla Poltava 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Stal Kamianske 9 9 7 6 8 9 9 10 10 10 10 9 8 8 8 8
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi 7 7 9 11 11 11 11 9 9 9 8 8 9 9 9 9
Volyn Lutsk 11 10 10 8 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 3 4 4 7 7 8 8 8 8 9 10 11 11 11 11
Karpaty Lviv 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

Last updated: 3 December 2016
Source:

Championship round

Championship round table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Team 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Team 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3 Team 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
4 Team 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Team 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Team 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 1 April 2017. Source: UEFA, Ukrainian Premier League, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Draw.[36]

Championship round results

Home ╲ Away TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA

Updated to games played on 24 July 2016.
Source: Ukrainian Premier League (Ukrainian)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Notes:

Championship round positions by round

Team/
Round
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
1
2
3
4
5
6

Relegation round

Relegation round table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
7 Team 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Team 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Team 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Team 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Team 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to Ukrainian First League
12 Team 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 1 April 2017. Source: UEFA, Ukrainian Premier League, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Draw.[37]

Relegation round results

Home ╲ Away TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA

Updated to games played on 24 July 2016.
Source: Ukrainian Premier League (Ukrainian)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Notes:

Relegation round positions by round

Team/
Round
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
7
8
9
10
11
12

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 3 December 2016[38]
Rank Player Club Goals
(Pen.)
1 Brazil Júnior Moraes Dynamo Kyiv 9 (2)
2 Argentina Facundo Ferreyra Shakhtar Donetsk 7
3 Argentina Gustavo Blanco Leschuk Karpaty Lviv 6
Ukraine Yuriy Kolomoyets Vorskla Poltava 6
5 Ukraine Vitaliy Ponomar Oleksandriya 5
Ukraine Anton Postupalenko Olimpik Donetsk 5
Ukraine Roman Yaremchuk Oleksandriya 5
Ukraine Oleksandr Karavayev Zorya Luhansk 5
Netherlands Sylvano Comvalius Stal Kamianske 5 (2)
10 Ukraine Andriy Bohdanov Olimpik Donetsk 4
Brazil Dentinho Shakhtar Donetsk 4
Ukraine Dmytro Khlyobas Vorskla Poltava 4
Ukraine Viktor Kovalenko Shakhtar Donetsk 4
Serbia Željko Ljubenović Zorya Luhansk 4
Ukraine Ivan Petryak Zorya Luhansk 4
Ukraine Vladyslav Kocherhin Dnipro 4
Ukraine Ivan Matyazh Olimpik Donetsk 4 (1)
Ukraine Andriy Yarmolenko Dynamo Kyiv 4 (1)

Notes:

Hat-tricks

Player For Against Result Date
Brazil Júnior Moraes Dynamo Kyiv FC Oleksandriya
5–1
23 July 2016[39]
Ukraine Andriy Bohdanov Olimpik Donetsk FC Dnipro
3–0
11 September 2016[40]
Brazil Júnior Moraes Dynamo Kyiv Volyn Lutsk
1–4
26 November 2016[41]

(number) Player scored (number) goals

  away win
  home win
  draw

Awards

Monthly awards

On 16 November the Premier League administration announced start of voting for the Best player of the month.[42]

Month Player of the Month
Player Club Reference
October 2016 Ukraine Roman Yaremchuk FC Oleksandriya [43]

Round awards

On 22 November 2016 the Premier League administration along with Pari-Match introduced another award, "Best player of the round".[44]

Round Player of the Round
Player Club Reference
Round 15 Ukraine Valeriy Luchkevych FC Dnipro [45]
Round 16 Ukraine Viktor Kovalenko FC Shakhtar Donetsk [46]

See also

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  43. https://web.archive.org/web/20161122223035/http://fpl.ua/ukr/news/news_fpl/7428/
  44. Valeriy Luchkevych is the best player of the Liha Pari-Match Round 15! (Валерій Лучкевич — найкращий гравець 15 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!). Ukrainian Premier League. 22 November 2016
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  46. https://web.archive.org/web/20161204003150/http://www.fpl.ua/ukr/news/news_fpl/7452/

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