2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League

Ukrainian Premier League
Season 2014–15
Matches played 147
Goals scored 384 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer 12 Bicfalvi (Volyn)
Biggest home win 6 Shakhtar 60 Olimpik (Round 17)
Biggest away win 5 Olimpik 05 Shakhtar (Round 4)
Olimpik 05 Dnipro (Round 20)
Highest scoring 8 Shakhtar 62 Volyn (Round 9)
Illichivets 26Shakhtar (Round 18)
Longest winning run 7 Dynamo (Round 1314,10,1518)
Longest unbeaten run 21 Dynamo (Round 121)
Longest winless run 15 Illichivets (Round 115)
Longest losing run 4 Illichivets (Round 1114)
Highest attendance 57,502 Dynamo Shakhtar (Round 8)
Lowest attendance 0(2) VolynChornomorets (Round 16)

All statistics correct as of 26 April 2015.

The 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League season is the 24th since its establishment. The competition commenced on 25 July when Metalurh Donetsk hosted Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in Lviv.[1] With the continuation of the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine in the oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk the Football Federation of Ukraine, the league reduced the number of teams.[1]

Format

Initially, a new format was proposed by FC Shakhtar Donetsk to introduce for this season.[1] The first stage was to be a regular round robin of home/away format. In the second stage the championship was to have an additional play-off format where participants upon completion of the regular round robin was to be split into three groups of 4 (1–4 places), 4 (5–8 places) and 6 (9–14 places) teams. The points earned in the first stage were to be preserved. The first two groups of four teams would each have regular round robin home/away format, while the third group of six was to play each other only once.[1]

However, on 22 July 2014, it was confirmed, that the championship will be played using standard double round-robin tournament system. The last team will be relegated and will be replaced by the champion of the 2014–15 Ukrainian First League.[2]

Teams

Initially, a total of 16 teams were expected to participate in the league, the best 14 sides of the 2013–14 season and two promoted clubs from the 2013–14 Ukrainian First League. The fifteenth-placed team of the 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League, Tavriya Simferopol was relegated to the 2014–15 Ukrainian First League at the end of the season. A second team was to be relegated but with the withdrawal of Arsenal Kyiv during the 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League season only one team was relegated.

Teams from Crimea, namely Sevastopol and Tavriya Simferopol, will not participate in the Ukrainian competition since they ceased their existences and applied (under new names) for a Russian license after the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014.[3]

The relegated team and the vacant position were to be replaced by the champions of the 2013–14 Ukrainian First League, FC Olimpik Donetsk, and the runners-up, PFC Oleksandriya. But PFC Oleksandriya refused the promotion to the Premier League and merged with FC UkrAhroKom Holovkivka.[4][5]

On 2 June 2014, Premier League published two preliminary projects of possible season schedule with 16 and 12 teams respectively.[6] On 27 June 2014, it was confirmed that 14 teams will play in the 2014–15 season.[7]

Location map

Home venues of teams in the 2014–15 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.

Stadiums

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Rank Stadium Club Capacity Highest
Attendance
Notes
1 NSC Olimpiyskiy Dynamo Kyiv 70,050 57,502 Round 8 (Shakhtar)
2 OSC Metalist Metalist Kharkiv 40,003 21,546 Round 6 (Dnipro)
3 Arena Lviv Shakhtar Donetsk 34,915 32,509 Round 21 (Dynamo) Used as home ground.[8]
Metalurh Donetsk 7,527 Round 1 (Dnipro) Used as home ground in Round 1.[9]
4 Chornomorets Stadium Chornomorets Odesa 34,164 25,182 Round 6 (Shakhtar)
5 Dnipro-Arena Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 31,003 13,650 Round 19 (Metalist)
6 Ukraina Stadium Karpaty Lviv 28,051 7,800 Round 2 (Metalurh D.)
7 Vorskla Stadium Vorskla Poltava 24,795 10,600 Round 9 (Metalist)
8 Meteor Stadium Illichivets Mariupol 24,381 8,000 Round 8(Dnipro) Used as home ground in Round 6 & 8
9 Dynamo Stadium Dynamo Kyiv 16,873 7,500 Round 17 (Illichivets) Used as home ground in return match
Chornomorets Odesa 5,314 Round 18 (Dynamo) Used as home ground in Round 18.
10 Avanhard Stadium Volyn Lutsk 12,080 8,700 Round 20 (Dynamo)
11 Slavutych-Arena Metalurh Zaporizhya 12,000 10,000 Round 4 (Dnipro)
Zorya Luhansk 4,100 Round 6 (Dynamo) Used as home ground during season.[9]
12 Avanhard Stadium Hoverla Uzhhorod 12,000 8,800 Round 9 (Dynamo)
13 Obolon Arena Metalurh Donetsk 5,100 2,500 Round 3 (Metalurh Z.) Used as home ground in Round 3.[9]
Illichivets Mariupol 2,700 Round 18 (Shakhtar) Used as home ground in Round 18.
14 Bannikov Stadium Olimpik Donetsk 1,678 1,200 Round 4 (Shakhtar) Used as home ground[10]
Shakhtar Donetsk 1,100 Round 7 (Zorya) Used as home ground in Round 5.

Note:

Round when attendance is noted as highest is the chronological number of the round, not the published round by the Ukrainian Premier League since some rounds were rescheduled for a later date.

Personnel and sponsorship

Team Home city Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Chornomorets Odesa Odessa Ukraine Oleksandr Babych (interim) Ukraine Anatoliy Didenko Nike Imexbank
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine Myron Markevych Ukraine Ruslan Rotan Nike Biola
Dynamo Kyiv Kiev Ukraine Serhiy Rebrov Ukraine Oleksandr Shovkovskyi adidas Nadra Bank
Hoverla Uzhhorod Uzhhorod Ukraine Vyacheslav Hrozny Uzbekistan Maksim Shatskikh adidas
Illichivets Mariupol Mariupol Ukraine Mykola Pavlov Ukraine Serhiy Yavorskyi Nike AIG
Karpaty Lviv Lviv Croatia Igor Jovićević Ukraine Oleh Holodyuk Joma Favbet / Limo
Metalist Kharkiv Kharkiv Ukraine Ihor Rakhayev Ukraine Serhiy Pohorilyi adidas VETEK
Metalurh Donetsk Donetsk Ukraine Volodymyr Pyatenko Ukraine Vyacheslav Checher Umbro ISD
Metalurh Zaporizhya Zaporizhia Ukraine Anatoliy Chantsev Ukraine Vitaliy Lysytskyi Nike Zaporizhstal
Olimpik Donetsk Donetsk Ukraine Roman Sanzhar Ukraine Dmytro Hryshko Puma Altkom
Shakhtar Donetsk Donetsk Romania Mircea Lucescu Croatia Darijo Srna Nike SCM
Volyn Lutsk Lutsk Ukraine Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi Romania Eric Bicfalvi adidas Vodafone
Vorskla Poltava Poltava Ukraine Vasyl Sachko Albania Armend Dallku adidas Ferrexpo
Zorya Luhansk Luhansk Ukraine Yuriy Vernydub Ukraine Mykyta Kamenyuka Nike Holsten

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment
Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Serhiy Rebrov (interim)[11] Change of contract May 18 Pre-season Ukraine Serhiy Rebrov May 18
Metalist Kharkiv Ukraine Ihor Rakhayev (interim)[12] Change of contract May 19 Pre-season Ukraine Ihor Rakhayev May 19
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Spain Juande Ramos[13] End of contract May 22 Pre-season Ukraine Myron Markevych[14] May 26
Metalurh Donetsk Russia Sergei Tashuyev[15] Signed by Anzhi Makhachkala May 22 Pre-season Ukraine Volodymyr Pyatenko[16] June 16
Vorskla Poltava Ukraine Anatoliy Momot[17] Interim coach June 10 Pre-season Ukraine Vasyl Sachko[17] June 10
Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Oleksandr Sevidov[18] Mutual agreement June 17 Pre-season Croatia Igor Jovićević (interim)[19] June 18
Metalurh Zaporizhya Ukraine Oleh Taran[20] Sacked November 7 11th Ukraine Oleksandr Tomakh (interim)[20] November 7
Chornomorets Odesa Ukraine Roman Hryhorchuk[21] Mutual consent December 16 9th Ukraine Oleksandr Babych (interim)[21] December 16
Metalurh Zaporizhya Ukraine Oleksandr Tomakh (interim) End as interim February 24 11th Ukraine Anatoliy Chantsev[22] February 24

Qualification to European competitions for 2015–16

Qualified Teams

League table

As of 26 April 2015
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dynamo Kyiv 21 16 5 0 49 10 +39 53 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Shakhtar Donetsk 21 15 3 3 58 13 +45 48 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 21 14 5 2 41 12 +29 47 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
4 Zorya Luhansk 21 10 4 7 31 27 +4 34
5 Metalist Kharkiv 20 7 9 4 27 24 +3 30
6 Vorskla Poltava 21 7 8 6 25 19 +6 29
7 Metalurh Donetsk 21 6 8 7 24 25 1 26
8 Volyn Lutsk 21 7 4 10 27 37 10 25
9 Olimpik Donetsk 21 6 4 11 19 53 34 22
10 Metalurh Zaporizhya 21 5 5 11 16 37 21 20
11 Chornomorets Odesa 20 3 9 8 15 24 9 18
12 Hoverla Uzhhorod 21 3 8 10 17 30 13 17
13 Karpaty Lviv 21 4 7 10 17 26 9 10[lower-alpha 1]
14 Illichivets Mariupol 21 1 5 15 18 47 29 8 Relegation to Ukrainian First League
Updated to match(es) played on 26 April 2015. Source: (Ukrainian) Ukrainian Premier League[27]
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) fair play rating
Notes:
  1. Karpaty Lviv were deducted a total of 9 points. Initially three points were deducted[25] and then additional 6 points for non compliance with contractual agreements with player agents (regarding Martin Bogatinov).[26]

Results

Home ╲ Away[1] CHO DNI DYKHOVILLKARMETMDOMZAOLDSHAVOLVORZOR
Chornomorets Odesa 02(3) 11 00 00 22 40 02 10 10 00
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 21 03 11 10 40 00 11 10 50 50 11
FC Dynamo Kyiv 20 50 00 30 30 00 10 41 10 22
Hoverla Uzhhorod 00 04 21 22 22 10 01 01 00 00 12
Illichivets Mariupol 33 01 14 22 13 11 12 26 12 21
Karpaty Lviv 01 10 10 33 01 12 41 02 02 00 12
Metalist Kharkiv ppd 25 12 10 00 10 21 00 22 42
Metalurh Donetsk 10 02 30 11 11 11 42 21 12 11 00
Metalurh Zaporizhya 00 01 24 21 21 00 01 22 04 11 03
Olimpik Donetsk 21 05 01 12 32 10 32 05 11 10
Shakhtar Donetsk 50 00 00 41 30 10 a 20 60 62 30 01
Volyn Lutsk 11(2) 01 13 31 02 03(1) 30 40 22 12
Vorskla Poltava 13 03 20 00 20 00 21 50 12 20 20
Zorya Luhansk 10 21 22 21 12 30 51 14

Updated to games played on 26 April 2015.
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: Mariupol's first three scheduled home games, in rounds 1, 2 and 4 against Volyn Lutsk, Chornomorets and Dynamo were instead played away, with Mariupol hosting the fixture later in the season.

Positions by round

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

Team \ Round 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526
FC Dynamo Kyiv 6 3 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Shakhtar Donetsk 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 3 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Zorya Luhansk 10 14 10 7 11 10 9 6 6 4 4 4 7 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Metalist Kharkiv 4 5 8 5 5 8 10 7 7 8 5 8 6 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Vorskla Poltava 11 13 13 6 9 7 4 5 5 6 7 6 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 6 6
Metalurh Donetsk 12 8 6 8 10 11 8 10 8 7 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 8 8 7
Volyn Lutsk 5 6 9 12 8 5 7 9 10 10 9 7 5 7 7 8 6 6 6 7 8
Olimpik Donetsk 14 9 7 11 7 4 5 4 4 5 6 5 4 5 6 6 8 8 9 9 9
Metalurh Zaporizhya 13 7 5 9 6 9 11 11 11 11 11 12 12 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10
Chornomorets Odesa 1 4 3 4 4 6 6 8 9 9 8 9 9 9 9 10 10 11 11 11 11
Hoverla Uzhhorod 7 11 11 13 13 13 13 12 13 12 12 11 11 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
Karpaty Lviv 8 12 14 10 12 12 12 13 12 14 14 14 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 14 13
Illichivets Mariupol 9 10 12 14 14 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 14

Last updated: 26 April 2015
Source:

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played on 26 April 2015.[32]
Rank Player Club Goals (pen.)
1 Romania Eric Bicfalvi Volyn Lutsk 12 (4)
2 Ukraine Artem Kravets Dynamo Kyiv 11
Brazil Alex Teixeira Shakhtar Donetsk 11
Ukraine Andriy Yarmolenko Dynamo Kyiv 11 (2)
5 Croatia Nikola Kalinić Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 10 (1)
6 Ukraine Oleksandr Hladkyi Shakhtar Donetsk 9
7 Brazil Luiz Adriano Shakhtar Donetsk 8 (1)
Serbia Đorđe Lazić Metalurh Donetsk 8 (2)
Brazil Cleiton Xavier(6) Metalist Kharkiv 8 (3)
10 Ukraine Yevhen Konoplyanka Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 7
Ukraine Yevhen Seleznyov Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 7 (1)

Notes:

Hat-tricks

Player For Against Result Date
Ukraine Artem Kravets
Dynamo Kyiv
Illichivets Mariupol
4–1
17 August 2014[33]
Portugal Bruno Gama
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Metalist Kharkiv
5–2
13 September 2014[34]
Brazil Cleiton Xavier
Metalist Kharkiv
Illichivets Mariupol
3–1
9 November 2014[35]
Brazil Jajá
Metalist Kharkiv
Zorya Luhansk
4–2
30 November 2014[36]
  away win
  home win
  tie

Awards

Monthly awards

Month UA-Football Player of the Month
Player Club Reference
August Ukraine Oleksandr Hladkyi Shakhtar Donetsk 1
September Ukraine Andriy Yarmolenko Dynamo Kyiv 2
October Ukraine Serhiy Sydorchuk Dynamo Kyiv 3
November Ukraine Andriy Yarmolenko Dynamo Kyiv 4
March Ukraine Andriy Yarmolenko Dynamo Kyiv 5

See also

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