| Season | 1998–99 |
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| Champions | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Relegated | SC Mykolaiv |
| Champions League | Dynamo Kyiv |
| UEFA Cup | Karpaty Lviv Shakhtar Donetsk Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih |
| Matches played | 240 |
| Top goalscorer | (18) Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo) |
| Biggest home win | Dynamo - Prykarpattia 7:0 Shakhtar - Mykolaiv 7:0 |
| Biggest away win | Metalist - Dynamo 1:6 Zirka - Dynamo 0:5 |
| Highest scoring | Shakhtar - Vorskla 7:3 |
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← 1997–98
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Contents |
| Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment | Table |
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| FC Nyva Ternopil | Leonid Ishchuk | pre-season | Ihor Yurchenko | pre-season | |||
| FC CSKA Kyiv | Serhiy Morozov | pre-season | Volodymyr Bezsonov | pre-season |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynamo Kyiv (C) | 30 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 75 | 17 | +58 | 74 | CL 2nd Qualifying Round |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 70 | 25 | +45 | 65 | UC Qualifying Round |
| 3 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 30 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 43 | 18 | +25 | 59 | UC Qualifying Round |
| 4 | Karpaty Lviv | 30 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 54 | 34 | +20 | 55 | UC 1st Round |
| 5 | Metalurh Mariupol | 30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 35 | 27 | +8 | 48 | |
| 6 | Metalist Kharkiv | 30 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 31 | 32 | −1 | 47 | new |
| 7 | CSKA Kyiv | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 37 | 35 | +2 | 43 | |
| 8 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhya | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 46 | 43 | +3 | 42 | |
| 9 | Tavriya Simferopol | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 33 | 39 | −6 | 37 | |
| 10 | Vorskla Poltava | 30 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 36 | 43 | −7 | 35 | |
| 11 | Zirka Kirovohrad | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 31 | 40 | −9 | 34 | |
| 12 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 30 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 28 | 46 | −18 | 32 | |
| 13 | Nyva Ternopil | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 29 | 41 | −12 | 31 | |
| 14 | Metalurh Donetsk | 30 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 51 | −24 | 28 | |
| 15 | Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 30 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 59 | −35 | 24 | Relegation play-off match |
| 16 | SC Mykolaiv (R) | 30 | 2 | 6 | 22 | 18 | 67 | −49 | 12 | new Persha Liha |
Note:
| Andriy Shevchenko | Dynamo Kyiv | 18 (1) |
| Ivan Hetsko | Karpaty Lviv | 16 |
| Oleksandr Palyanytsia | Karpaty Lviv | 16 (5) |
| Valentyn Poltavets | Metalurh Zaporizhzhya | 13 (3) |
| Andriy Vorobei | Shakhtar Donetsk | 11 |
| Oleksiy Osipov | Tavriya Simferopol | 11 (3) |
| Alexander Khatskevich | Dynamo Kyiv | 10 |
| Oleksandr Haidash | Tavriya Simferopol | 9 |
| Avtandil Kapanadze | Nyva Ternopil | 9 |
| Ihor Kislov | Zirka Kirovohrad | 9 |
| Ihor Kostiuk | Vorskla Poltava | 9 |
| Vitaliy Pantilov | Metalurh Mariupol | 9 |
| Serhiy Rebrov | Dynamo Kyiv | 9 |
| Yuriy Selezniov | Shakhtar Donetsk | 9 |
| Rank | Club | Points | Notes |
| 1 | Dynamo Kyiv | 46 | |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 16 | |
| 3 | Chornomorets (I) | 13 | |
| 4 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 4 | |
| Vorskla Poltava | 4 | ||
| 6 | Nyva Vinnytsia (I) | 2 | |
| 7 | CSKA Kyiv | 1 | |
| Round | Country | Club | Home | Away |
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| Q1 round | Barry Town | 8-0 | 2-1 | |
| Q2 round | Sparta Prague | 0-1 | 1-01 | |
| Group E | RC Lens Arsenal Panathinaikos |
1-1 3-1 2-1 |
3-1 1-1 1-2 |
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| 1/4 finals | Real Madrid | 2-0 | 1-1 | |
| 1/2 finals | Bayern Munich | 3-3 | 0-1 |
^a Dynamo won pk 3-1.
| Round | Country | Club | Home | Away |
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| Q round | Cork City FC | 2-0 | 1-2 | |
| 1st round | Lokomotiv Moscow | 0-2 | 1-3 |
| Round | Country | Club | Home | Away |
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| Q1 round | Birkirkara F.C. | 2-1 | 4-0 | |
| Q2 round | FC Zürich | 3-2 | 0-4 |
| Round | Country | Club | Home | Away |
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| 1st round | Leiftur | 3-0 | 3-0 | |
| 2nd round | Akademisk Boldklub | 1-1 | 2-2 | |
| 3rd round | Fortuna Sittard | 2-2 | 0-3 |
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