1992 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha
Season	1992
Champions	SC Tavriya Simferopol
Relegated	Nyva V., Evis, Temp, Naftovyk, Prykarpattia, SKA Odessa
Champions League	Tavriya Simferopol
Cup Winners' Cup	Chornomorets Odessa
UEFA Cup	Dynamo Kyiv
Matches played	182
Goals scored	403 (2.21 per match)
Top goalscorer	(12) Yuriy Hudymenko (Tavriya)
Biggest home win	Tavriya 6–0 Temp Chornomorets 6–0 Nyva V.
Biggest away win	Evis 1–6 Shakhtar
Highest scoring	Dnipro 4–3 SKA Odessa Evis 1–6 Shakhtar
Highest attendance	20,000 Volyn – Dynamo 20,000 Nyva T. – Dynamo
Lowest attendance	280 Dynamo – Nyva T.
← 1991 1992–93 →

1992 Vyshcha Liha was the very first football championship organized in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and disbandment of the Soviet Football Union. The main contenders for the title were participants of the former Soviet Higher League. The last Soviet season finished in fall of 1991. Six of the league's members joined the national championship of Ukraine. The Football Federation of Ukraine when organizing the competition decided to shift its calendar to synchronize it with one common in Europe "fall-spring" and organized a short championship.

Calendar

The championship started on March 6, about a month later after the qualification rounds of another major national tournament the first edition of Ukrainian Cup. The first half of the season was scheduled to finish on April 19 with the second one to resume on April 25 (6 days intermission). The last round was to be played on June 17. Considering such a schedule and the fact that the Ukrainian Cup competition was on the way simultaneously, the Ukrainian clubs had to forfeit their scheduled games in the Soviet Cup competition. In addition to that Dynamo Kyiv also participated in the Champions League competition which ended for Dynamo only on April 15. Each team this season had at least two games scheduled every week on average. Considering other official games FC Torpedo Zaporizhia and FC Dynamo Kyiv has played the record of 26 games from February 18 through June 21 and the most among the other clubs in the League.

Bukovyna

Chornomorets

SKA Odesa

Evis

Kremin

Metalurh.
Torpedo

Nyva V.

Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1992

Pre-season organization

The following teams were given the right to play in the first football championship of independent Ukraine:

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity	League and position in 1991		Coach	Replaced coach
Chornomorets	Odessa	Chornomorets	34,362	Soviet Top League	4	Viktor Prokopenko
Dynamo Kyiv	Kiev	Republican, Kiev	100,000		5	Anatoliy Puzach
Dnipro	Dnipropetrovsk	Meteor	24,381		9	Mykola Pavlov	Yevhen Kucherevsky
Shakhtar Donetsk	Donetsk	Shakhtar, Donetsk	31,718		12	Valery Yaremchenko
Metalurh Zaporizhia	Zaporizhia	Metalurh, Zaporizhia	11,983		13	Ihor Nadein
Metalist Kharkiv	Kharkiv	Metalist	38,633		15	Leonid Tkachenko
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Chernivtsi	Bukovyna	12,000	Soviet First League	5	Yukhym Shkolnykov
Tavriya Simferopol	Simferopol	Lokomotiv, Simferopol	19,978	Soviet First League	6	Ishtvan Sekech
Karpaty Lviv	Lviv	Ukraina	28,051	Soviet Second League, West	1	Stepan Yurchyshyn
Zorya-MALS Luhansk	Luhansk	Avanhard, Luhansk	22,320		2	Anatoliy Kuksov
Nyva Ternopil	Ternopil	Municipal, Ternopil	12,750		4	Leonid Koltun
Nyva Vinnytsia	Vinnytsia	Lokomotyv, Vinnytsia	24,000		5	Valery Petrov	Vyacheslav Hrozny
Torpedo Zaporizhia	Zaporizhia	AutoZAZ	15,000		7	Yevhen Lemeshko
Volyn Lutsk	Lutsk	Avanhard, Lutsk	10,792		8	Myron Markevych
SC Odessa	Odessa	SKA,^[1] Odessa			10	Serhiy Marusyn
Kremin Kremenchuk	Kremenchuk	Dnipro	11,300		13	Volodymyr Lozynskyi
Evis Mykolaiv	Mykolaiv	Central, Mykolaiv	25,175		15	Ivan Balan
Naftovyk Okhtyrka	Okhtyrka	Naftovyk	5,256	Soviet Second League B, Zone 1	1	Valery Dushkov
Prykarpattya	Ivano-Frankivsk	Elektron	7,000		2	Yuriy Shuliatytskyi	Ivan Krasnetskyi
Temp Shepetivka	Shepetivka	Temp			9	Ishtvan Sekech

Ukrainian Cup 1991 Holder: FC Temp Shepetivka (while placing only the 9th in the Soviet Second League B).

Dynamo usually playing at the Republican Stadium, this season also played two (Nyva Ternopil and Odessa) out of its nine home games at its own club stadium of Dynamo.

Clubs' name changes

Zorya-MALS Luhansk before the season carried name Zorya Luhansk. Name extension was provided for sponsorship reasons.

Evis Mykolaiv before the season carried name Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv.

SC Odessa changed its name from SKA Odessa on May 5, 1992, due to restructuring of the Odessa Military District and Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Managerial changes

Managerial changes approximated

Team	Outgoing head coach	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Yevhen Kucherevskyi	March 10, 1992	1st	Mykola Pavlov	March 10, 1992	1st
FC Nyva Vinnytsia	Vyacheslav Hrozny	March 28, 1992	10th	Valery Petrov	March 28, 1992	10th
FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	Ivan Krasnetskyi	April 1992	9th	Yuriy Shuliatytskyi	April 1992	9th

First stage

Qualified Teams

Before 17th Round, Chornomorets Odessa qualified for the QR 1992-93 CWC after winning the Ukrainian Cup.
After 17th Round, Dynamo Kyiv qualified for European football for the 1992–93 season and the 1992 Championship playoff.
After 20th Round, Tavriya Simferopol qualified for European football for the 1992–93 season and the 1992 Championship playoff.
After 20th Round, Shakhtar Donetsk and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk qualified for the 1992 3rd place playoff.

Group A final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Comments
1	Tavriya Simferopol (C)	18	11	6	1	30	9	+21	28	qualified for Final playoff
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	18	10	6	2	31	10	+21	26	qualified for 3rd place playoff
3	Chornomorets Odesa	18	9	7	2	30	12	+18	25	CWC Qualifying Round
4	Torpedo Zaporizhzhya	18	6	7	5	21	16	+5	19
5	Metalurh Zaporizhzhya	18	6	6	6	20	19	+1	18
6	Karpaty Lviv	18	5	6	7	15	18	−3	16
7	Kremin Kremenchuk	18	4	8	6	17	23	−6	16
8	Nyva Vinnytsia (R)	18	5	4	9	18	33	−15	14	Persha Liha
9	Evis Mykolaiv (R)	18	3	4	11	12	29	−17	10	Persha Liha
10	Temp Shepetivka (R)	18	2	4	12	9	34	−25	8	Persha Liha

Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Chornomorets Odesa	6	1	3	3	5	5	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3
MFC Mykolaiv	2	3	5	6	7	8	9	7	8	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9
Kremin Kremenchuk	2	4	6	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7
Karpaty Lviv	4	5	8	8	9	9	8	8	7	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6
Metalurh Zaporizhya	7	8	4	5	3	3	3	4	5	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5
Nyva Vinnytsia	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	10	9	8	8	8	8
Shakhtar Donetsk	5	6	2	1	2	2	4	2	2	2	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2
Tavriya Simferopol	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Temp Shepetivka	8	10	9	9	8	7	7	9	9	7	9	9	9	10	9	10	10	10	10	10
Torpedo Zaporizhia	10	7	7	4	4	4	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4

Source: Aleksey Kobyzev's Web-Site (Russian)

Group B final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Comments
1	Dynamo Kyiv	18	13	4	1	31	13	+18	30	UC 1st Round
2	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	18	10	3	5	26	15	+11	23
3	Metalist Kharkiv	18	8	5	5	21	16	+5	21
4	Nyva Ternopil	18	8	5	5	16	12	+4	21
5	Volyn Lutsk	18	8	2	8	24	21	+3	18
6	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	18	7	4	7	17	16	+1	18
7	Zorya-MALS Luhansk	18	6	5	7	23	23	0	17
8	Naftovyk Okhtyrka (R)	18	5	3	10	12	28	−16	13	Persha Liha
9	Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk (R)	18	3	6	9	9	18	−9	12	Persha Liha
10	SK Odesa (R)	18	3	1	14	15	32	−17	7	Persha Liha

Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	4	5	3	4	5	6
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1	4	7	7	7	4	5	4	5	3	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2
FC Dynamo Kyiv	2	2	3	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Metalist Kharkiv	7	3	2	3	3	5	3	3	3	5	4	4	6	6	6	3	4	3	3	3
Naftovyk Okhtyrka	4	5	6	6	6	8	8	5	6	4	6	7	8	8	8	8	8	9	8	8
Nyva Ternopil	7	7	4	4	4	6	6	7	4	8	5	6	5	5	3	4	5	5	4	4
Odesa	9	10	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Ivano-Frankivsk	5	6	8	8	8	7	7	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	9	9
Volyn Lutsk	5	7	5	4	4	3	4	6	7	7	8	5	4	4	5	6	6	7	6	5
Zoria Luhansk	10	9	9	10	9	9	9	9	8	6	7	8	7	7	7	7	7	6	7	7

Source: Aleksey Kobyzev's Web-Site (Russian)

Note:

In bold are the participants of the 1992 Ukrainian Cup Final.

Second stage

Championship playoff

SC Tavriya Simferopol v FC Dynamo Kyiv

1992-06-21
?:? LST

SC Tavriya Simferopol	1 – 0	FC Dynamo Kyiv
Shevchenko 75'	Report

Ukraina Stadium, Lviv
Attendance: 36,000^[2]
Referee: Pianykh (Donetsk), (FIFA)

Tavriya Simferopol^[3]

Dynamo Kyiv^[3]


Tavriya Simferopol:
GK	?	Oleh Kolesov
FW	?	Serhiy Shevchenko (c)
DF	?	Mykola Turchinenko
DF	?	Oleksandr Holovko
DF	?	Vidmantas Vishniauskas	16'
DF	?	Serhiy Voronezhsky
MF	?	Andriy Oparin	77'
DF	?	Sefer Alibayev
DF	?	Yuri Getikov
FW	?	Sergei Gladyshev
MF	?	Vladyslav Novikov
Substitutes:
MF	?	Yuriy Mikhailus	77'	87'
MF	?	Serhiy Yesin	87'
Manager:
Anatoliy Zayayev


Dynamo Kyiv:
GK	1	Valdemaras Martinkėnas
DF	2	Oleh Luzhny
DF	3	Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi	55'
DF	4	Andriy Aleksanenkov
DF	5	Serhiy Shmatovalenko (c)
MF	7	Serhiy Kovalets
MF	6	Yuri Moroz
DF	8	Serhiy Zayets
FW	9	Oleh Salenko
MF	10	Stepan Betsa
MF	11	Volodymyr Sharan	75'
Substitutes:
FW	13	Oleh Matveyev	55'
FW	14	Yuriy Hrytsyna	75'
Manager:
Anatoliy Puzach

MATCH OFFICIALS

Assistant referees:
- Yevhen Kanana (Donetsk)
- Oleh Chorny (Donetsk)
Fourth official:?

MATCH RULES

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Seven named substitutes
Maximum of 3 substitutions.

Third place playoff

June 20, 1992

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	3 – 2	Shakhtar Donetsk
Tyshchenko 19' Konovalov 38', 74'	Report	Bielichenko 51' Atelkin 80'

Metalurh Stadium, Zaporizhia
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Tukhovsky (Simferopol)

Top performers

Scorers

Yuriy Hudymenko	Tavriya Simferopol	12
Timerlan Huseinov	Zorya-MALS Luhansk	11
Ivan Hetsko	Chornomorets Odessa	10
Serhiy Rebrov	Shakhtar Donetsk	10
Oleksandr Zayats	Torpedo Zaporizhzhya	9
Serhiy Shevchenko	Tavriya Simferopol	8
Yuriy Hrytsyna	Dynamo Kyiv	7
Serhiy Husyev	Chornomorets Odessa	7
Ivan Korponay	Kremin Kremenchuk	7
Oleh Salenko	Dynamo Kyiv	7

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Ivan Hetsko	Chornomorets Odessa	Nyva Vinnytsia	6–0	4 April 1992^[4]
Pavlo Shkapenko	Metalurh Zaporizhia	Nyva Vinnytsia	4–1	28 April 1992^[5]
Serhiy Rebrov	Shakhtar Donetsk	Evis Mykolaiv	1–6	3 June 1992^[6]
Yuriy Hudymenko*	Tavriya Simferopol	Temp Shepetivka	6–0	9 June 1992^[7]
Yuriy Hrytsyna	Dynamo Kyiv	Naftovyk Okhtyrka	1–3	17 June 1992^[8]

Notes:

(*) Asterisk identifies players who scored four goals (poker).

Goalkeepers

Only considered players that participated in at least in five games (25+ percent) of the season.

#	Goalkeeper	Team	GP	Record	GA	GAA
1	Oleh Kolesov	Tavriya Simferopol	19	12-6-1	9	0.47
2	Aleksandr Zhydkov	Nyva Vinnytsia	6	3-2-1	3	0.50
3	Oleh Suslov	Chornomorets Odessa	11	6-4-1	6	0.55
4	Dmytro Shutkov	Shakhtar Donetsk	19	10-6-3	13	0.68
5	Valdemaras Martinkėnas	Dynamo Kyiv	10	5-4-1	7	0.70

#	Goalkeeper	Team	GP	Wins
1	Oleh Kolesov	Tavriya Simferopol	19	12
2	Valeriy Horodov	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	19	11
3	Dmytro Shutkov	Shakhtar Donetsk	19	10
4	Ihor Kutepov	Dynamo Kyiv	9	8
	Oleksandr Pomazun	Metalist Kharkiv	17	8
	Mykhailo Burch	Volyn Lutsk	17	8

Transfers

Oleh Salenko, FC Dynamo Kyiv to CD Logroñés (La Liga)
Ivan Korponay, FC Kremin Kremenchuk to FC Metalurh Zaporizhia
Serhiy Rebrov, FC Shakhtar Donetsk to FC Dynamo Kyiv
Ivan Hetsko, FC Chornomorets Odessa to Maccabi Haifa F.C. (Ligat HaAl)

European competitions

**Club Ranking in Europe (prorated)**
Rank	Club	Points	Notes
1	Dynamo Kyiv	32
2	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	10
3	Metalist Kharkiv	3
3	Chornomorets Odessa	3

Champion's Cup (FC Dynamo Kyiv)

Round	Club	Home	Away
1st round	HJK Helsinki	3-0	1-0
2nd round	Brøndby IF	1-1	1-0
Group B 4th place	FC Barcelona Sparta Prague S.L. Benfica	0-2 1-0 1-0	0-3 1-2 0-5

The results counted towards the Russian Federation(!), due to the fact that Dynamo was considered to be the Soviet team and thus—Russian.

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. SC Tavria Simferopol
Goalkeepers: Oleh Kolesov (19 / -9), Dmitriy Gulenkov (1). Defenders: Mykola Turchynenko (19), Oleksandr Holovko (18), Ihor Volkov (17 / 1), Vidmantas Vyšniauskas (15), Yuriy Getikov (14), Sefer Alibayev (9), Serhiy Voronezhsky (7), Dmitriy Smirnov (5). Midfielders: Andriy Oparin (19 / 1), Vladislav Novikov (18 / 1), Yuriy Mikhailus (2), Oleksandr Kundenok (2), Serhiy Yesin (1). Forwards: Sergei Gladyshev (19 / 6), Yuriy Hudymenko (18 / 12), Serhiy Shevchenko (18 / 8), Sergey Andreev (15 / 2), Toliat Sheykhametov (7), Marat Mulashev (2). Manager: Anatoliy Zayayev. Transferred out during the season: Marat Mulashev (to Rubin Kazan), Oleksandr Kundenok (to Polissya Zhytomyr).
2. FC Dynamo Kyiv
Goalkeepers: Valdemaras Martinkėnas (10 / -7), Ihor Kutepov (9 / -7). Defenders: Andriy Annenkov (17), Serhiy Zayets (15 / 1), Anatoliy Bezsmertny (14), Oleh Luzhny (13 / 2), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (9), Akhrik Tsveyba (9), Gintaras Kvitkauskas (6), Ervand Sukiasian (5 / 2), Andriy Aleksanenkov (2). Midfielders: Volodymyr Sharan (19 / 2), Yuriy Moroz (19), Stepan Betsa (14 / 1), Pavlo Yakovenko (12 / 1), Oleh Volotek (11 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (12 / 1). Forwards: Oleh Salenko (16 / 7), Yuriy Hritsyna (13 / 7), Oleh Matveyev (10 / 1), Valeriy Yesipov (6), Viktor Leonenko (5 / 3). Manager: Anatoliy Puzach. Transferred out during the season: ?.
3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Goalkeepers: Valeriy Horodov (19 / -17), Mykola Medin. Defenders: Serhiy Diriavka (17), Volodymyr Horily (17), Volodymyr Bahmut (14 / 3), Serhiy Bezhenar (9 / 2), Serhiy Mamchur (9), Andriy Yudin (8). Midfielders: Andriy Polunin (17 / 2), Oleksandr Zakharov (17 / 2), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (16), Oleksiy Sasko (16), Yuriy Maksymov (14 / 3), Vadym Tyshchenko (13 / 2), Dmytro Mykhailenko (1), Oleksandr Omelchuk (1). Forwards: Valentyn Moskvin (19 / 3), Serhiy Konovalov (14 / 5), Serhiy Dumenko (7 / 4), Oleksandr Palianytsia (7 / 1), Vladimir Lebed (7 / 1), Oleksandr Tiehayev (2). Manager: Yevhen Kucherevsky (until March 15 (3 games)), Mykola Pavlov (since March 15 (15 games)). Transferred out during the season: Vladimir Lebed (to Krystal Kherson).

Note: Players in italic are whose playing position is uncertain.

References

↑ SKA Stadium in Odessa at wikimapia
↑ "Historical protocol" (in Russian). Kobyzev, Aleksey. 2006-05-31. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
↑ 3.0 3.1 20 years Tavria became the first champion of Ukraine. SK Tavria press release. June 21, 2012. (photos)
↑ "Hat-tricks". uafootball.net. 4 April 1992. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
↑ "Hat-tricks". uafootball.net. 28 April 1992. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
↑ "Hat-tricks". uafootball.net. 3 June 1992. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
↑ "Hat-tricks". uafootball.net. 9 June 1992. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
↑ "Hat-tricks". uafootball.net. 17 June 1992. Retrieved 7 September 2014.

External links

Ukrainian Premier League seasons

Seasons	1992 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

Golden matches	1992 Tavria v Dynamo 2005–06 Shakhtar v Dynamo

1992 in Ukrainian football

Domestic leagues	Supreme League First League Transitional League

Domestic cups	National Cup

National teams	Seniors Youth U-19 Juniors

Club seasons

Premier League	Bukovyna Chernivtsi Chornomorets Odesa Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Kyiv Evis Mykolaiv Karpaty Lviv Kremin Kremenchuk Metalist Kharkiv Metalurh Zaporizhia Naftovyk Okhtyrka Nyva Ternopil Nyva Vinnytsia Odessa Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk Shakhtar Donetsk Tavriya Simferopol Temp Shepetivka Torpedo Zaporizhia Volyn Lutsk Zorya Luhansk

Winter 1991–92 transfers

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