2006–07 Ukrainian First League

The 2006–07 Ukrainian First League is the sixteenth since its establishment. There were 20 teams competing. Two teams were relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League 2005-06. Four teams were promoted from the Ukrainian Second League 2005-06.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted teams

These four teams were promoted from Druha Liha at the start of the season:

Group A

• FC Desna Chernihiv : Druha Liha champion (Returning after seven seasons)

Group B

• MFK Mykolaiv : Druha Liha champion (Returning after a seasons)
• PFC Olexandria : Druha Liha runner-up (Returning after five seasons)

Group C

• FC Dnipro Cherkasy : Druha Liha champion (Returning after five seasons)

Relegated teams

Two teams were relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League 2005–06 season after finishing on the bottom of the competition:

• FC Volyn Lutsk : 15th place (Returning after four seasons)
• FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod : 16th place (Returning after two seasons)

Renamed teams

• On May 23, 2006, the PFL Bureau of Ukraine acknowledged FC Lviv as a successor of FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi.
• On December 19, 2006 FC Dynamo-Ihroservis Simferopol changed to FC Ihroservis Simferopol.^[1]

Withdrawn teams

Spartak Sumy

On November 28, 2006 PFL Bureau has excluded FC Spartak Sumy from competitions for the second no show. Due to the fact that team has physically played less than 50% of calendar games (17 games), all its season record was stripped.^[2] Upon withdrawal it had 1-0-18 record and 4-49 goals difference.

Borysfen Boryspil

On March 16, 2007 FC Borysfen Boryspil was excluded from competitions for systematic violation of statute and regulations of FFU and PFL, failure to comply with their organs of administration and implementation football justice as well as failure to fulfill terms of contracts with players and financial obligations to FFU and PFL. In the rest of games were nominated technical losses to the team and its opponents - technical victory.^[3]

Podillia Khmelnytskyi

In the second half of the season Podillia Khmelnytskyi moved from Khmelnytskyi to Krasyliv. At the same time for the amateur championship registered a new club from Khmelnytskyi, FC Podillia-Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytskyi. So, since spring 2007 there were two clubs Podillia, one at professional level playing in Krasyliv and other - amateur playing in Khmelnytskyi. One of the reasons was the prior merger of Podillia with FC Krasyliv back in 2004. At the end of 2006-07 season Podillia Krasyliv changed back to FC Krasyliv and was scheduled to play in the 2007-08 Ukrainian Second League, but withdrew just before the start of season.

Instead of Krasyliv to the Ukrainian Second League applied the newly revived FC Podillia-Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytskyi. In such manner there was created a club's continium.

Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk

FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was relegated to the Ukrainian Second League, while another team form local university FC Fakel Ivano-Frankivsk obtain promotion to the Ukrainian First League. The city municipality on whose balance ended up both clubs decided to keep one and dissolve another one. So, in the 2007-08 Ukrainian Second League season there were no clubs playing from Ivano-Frankivsk, while a new team FSC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk was created in place of Fakel to participate in the 2007-08 Ukrainian First League season.

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Comments
1	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	36	27	2	7	58	29	+29	83	Vyshcha Liha – Promoted – Champions
2	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	36	25	5	6	50	22	+28	80	(-) new – Vyshcha Liha – Promoted
3	Obolon Kyiv	36	23	4	9	47	27	+20	73
4	Krymteplitsia Molodizhne	36	21	7	8	53	37	+16	70
5	Olexandria	35	18	4	13	37	27	+10	58	(+) new
6	Dynamo-2 Kyiv	36	17	8	11	53	37	+16	59	no promotion
7	Helios Kharkiv	36	17	7	12	45	36	+9	58
8	Enerhetyk Burshtyn	36	15	11	10	44	33	+11	56
9	Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	36	15	8	13	42	37	+5	53
10	Ihroservice Simferopol	36	14	9	13	46	44	+2	51
11	FC Lviv	36	13	8	15	45	45	0	47
12	Volyn Lutsk	36	13	7	16	40	48	−8	46	(-) new
13	MFK Mykolaiv	36	12	10	14	33	40	−7	46	(+) new
14	Desna Chernihiv	36	11	8	17	51	58	−7	41	(+) new
15	Dnipro Cherkasy	36	10	9	17	31	46	−15	39	(+) new
16	CSKA Kyiv	36	10	8	18	24	44	−20	38
17	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	36	10	3	23	24	51	−27	33	withdrew
18	Podillya Khmelnytskyi	36	5	6	25	20	63	−43	9	-12(1) – withdrew
19	Borysfen Boryspil	36	1	4	31	10	29	−19	1	-6(2) – excluded

Notes :

• ^(1) Podillia Khmelnytskyi had taken 3 points off in accordance with decision of the FFU Disciplinary Committee of May 25, 2007; 3 points off in accordance with decision of the PFL Bureau of Ukraine of June 5, 2007; and 6 points off in accordance with decision of the FFU Appellation Committee of June 22, 2007.
• ^(2) Borysfen Boryspil had taken 6 points off in accordance with decision of the PFL Bureau of Ukraine of February 6, 2007.

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.^[4]

Scorer	Goals (pen.)	Team
Matviy Bobal	16	Ihroservice Simferopol
Bohdan Yesyp	15 (1)	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
Oleksandr Sytnik	14 (1)	Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk
Valentyn Krukovets	13 (1)	Desna Chernihiv
Alozi Chidi	13 (3)	Volyn Lutsk
Myroslav Bundash	13 (9)	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
Pavlo Onysko	12 (3)	Krymteplytsia Molodizhne Obolon Kyiv
Ruslan Zeinavalov	12 (8)	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
Oleksandr Hrebinyuk	11	PFC Olexandria
Roman Polishchuk	11 (5)	Dnipro Cherkasy

Teams

In 2006-07 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Desna

Dnipro

Dynamo-2
Obolon
CSKA

Borysfen

Zakarpattia

Naftovyk

Spartak IF

Dynamo

Helios

Hazovyk

Krymteplitsia

Spartak S

Podillya

Stal

Volyn

Enerhetyk

Mykolaiv

Olexandria

Locations of teams in First League

See also

• 2006–07 Ukrainian Premier League
• 2006–07 Ukrainian Second League
• 2006–07 Ukrainian Cup

References

External links

• (Ukrainian) Persha Liha at Official Site of the Professional Football league of Ukraine
• 38th round of season and final league table - UA-Football.com (Russian)