2014–15 Ukrainian First League

Ukrainian First League
Season 2014–15
Champions Oleksandriya
Relegated Bukovyna
Matches played 226
Goals scored 551 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorer 21 Stanislav Kulish (Stal Dni.)
Biggest home win 5 goals Desna 61 Bukovyna (Round 26)
Biggest away win 5 goals Mykolaiv 05 Hirnyk-Sport (Round 14)
Highest scoring 8 goals Nyva 53 Bukovyna (ppd. Round 1)
Longest winning run 10 Oleksandriya (Round 110)
Longest unbeaten run 14 Oleksandriya (Round 111, 1315)
Longest winless run 13 Bukovyna (Rounds 39, ppd. 2, 11, 13, ppd. 1, 1415)
Longest losing run 9 Bukovyna (Rounds 39, ppd. 2, 11)
Highest attendance 6,400 OleksandriyaZirka (Round 26)
Lowest attendance 200 Dynamo-2Stal Alchevsk (Round 2)

The 2014–15 Ukrainian First League was the 24th since its establishment. The competition commenced on 26 July 2014 with seven matches.[1] Due to sponsorship reasons the league is called Favbet League 1. The competition was on winter recess from 17 November until 20 March when the competition resumed with the Round 18 match between FC Ternopil and MFC Mykolaiv.

Teams

The number of teams for the competition was confirmed on 7 July 2014.[2]

Promoted teams

Four teams were promoted from the 2013–14 Ukrainian Second League.

Relegated teams

No teams were relegated from the 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League. Tavriya Simferopol was to be relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League but the team terminated its existence after the annexation of Crimea by Russia.[7]

Withdrawn teams

Suspended teams

Merged teams

PFC Oleksandriya refused promotion to the Premier League.[9] Prior to the season PFC Oleksandriya and UkrAhroKom Holovkivka merged into one club renaming themselves to FC Oleksandriya.[10]

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

Stal (Dniprodzerzhynsk)
Home venues of teams in the 2014–15 Ukrainian First League.
Home towns in green are unused this season.
Teams in italics are from a conflict zone due to the insurgency in Donbass and are playing their home games in different cities.

Stadiums

The following stadiums are considered home grounds for the teams in the competition.[11]

Rank Stadium Capacity Club Notes
1 Metalurh Stadium, Kryvyi Rih 29,783 Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih
2 Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy 25,800 FC Sumy
3 Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv 16,873 Dynamo-2 Kyiv Used as home ground in Round 9
4 Central City Stadium, Mykolaiv 16,700 MFC Mykolaiv
5 Zirka Stadium, Kirovohrad 13,667 Zirka Kirovohrad
6 City Stadium, Ternopil 12,750 Nyva Ternopil
FC Ternopil
7 Yuri Gagarin Stadium, Chernihiv 12,060 Desna Chernihiv
8 Bukovyna Stadium, Chernivtsi 12,000 Bukovyna Chernivtsi
9 CSC Nika Stadium, Oleksandria 7,000 FC Oleksandriya
10 Naftovyk Stadium, Okhtyrka 5,256 Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
11 Sonyachny Training Center, Kharkiv 4,924[12] Helios Kharkiv
12 Metalurh Stadium, Dniprodzerzhynsk 2,900 Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk
13 Lokomotov Stadium, Poltava 2,500 FC Poltava
14 Yunist Stadium, Komsomolsk 2,500 Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk
15 Mashynobudivnyk Stadium, Karlivka 1,300[13] Stal Alchevsk Used as home ground [14]
16 Dynamo Training Center, Kyiv 1,200 Dynamo-2 Kyiv

Notes:

League table

As of 3 June 2015
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Comments
1 FC Oleksandriya (C) 30 22 6 2 53 15 +38 72 Premier League Promoted
2 Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk 30 17 9 4 45 21 +24 60 (+) new Premier League Promoted(1)
3 Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk 30 16 9 5 44 24 +20 57 (+) new
4 Zirka Kirovohrad 30 14 7 9 42 27 +15 49  
5 Desna Chernihiv 30 12 11 7 44 27 +17 47  
6 Dynamo-2 Kyiv 30 12 8 10 35 29 +6 44  
7 Helios Kharkiv 30 12 8 10 30 25 +5 44  
8 FC Sumy 30 12 7 11 35 41 6 43  
9 Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih 30 10 12 8 32 26 +6 42 (+) new
10 FC Poltava 30 11 9 10 29 27 +2 42  
11 FC Ternopil 30 11 8 11 33 49 16 41 (+) new
12 Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka 30 10 10 10 32 34 2 40  
13 Nyva Ternopil 30 8 3 19 25 52 27 27  
14 MFC Mykolaiv (Q) 30 6 6 18 34 67 33 24 Play-off game
15 Stal Alchevsk 30 5 0 25 16 28 12 15 withdrew(2)
16 Bukovyna Chernivtsi 30 4 3 23 24 61 37 15 Second League Relegated
Source: (Ukrainian) Professional Football League of Ukraine[15]
(C) Champion; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.
Rules for classification:[11] 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) head-to-head fair play (all games) 8) draw or playoff
Promotion to Ukrainian Premier League
Qualifies for Promotion/Relegation playoff game [16]
Relegation to Ukrainian Second League

Notes:

Results

As of 24 May 2015
Home ╲ Away BUK DES DK2HELHIRHISMYKNAFNVTOLKPOLSTASTDSUMTNPZIR
Bukovyna Chernivtsi 02 11 01 01 01 13(5) 14 20 11 01 01 01 41 12 04
Desna Chernihiv 61 21 11 00 40 41 21 20 31 11 01 42 11 00 01
Dynamo-2 Kyiv 20 11 40 23 14 31 20 20 01 20 41 00 21 10 12
Helios Kharkiv 30(9) 11 01 11 00 22 20 01 13 12 +:- 12 01 10 10
Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih 10 00 00 10 01 31 11 40 02 00 12 01 02 00 12
Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk 21 41 11(11) 00 00 21 21 01 00 21 21 01 30 40 11
MFC Mykolaiv 04 32 00 12 32 05 12 02 14 24 10 12 33 13 01
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka 10 10 00 11 11 03 00 21 21 11 +:- 00 33 21 20
Nyva Ternopil 53(6) 02 12 02 02 13 31 11 01 01 +:- 15 20 22 02
FC Oleksandriya 41 21 40(10) 10 11 30 40 21 30 21 10 00 20 40 21
FC Poltava 20 00 10 02 12 01 33 10 30 01 +:- 32 01 00 00
Stal Alchevsk -:+ -:+ 01 02 -:+ -:+ -:+ 12 12 -:+ 12 02 12 -:+ 31
Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk 41(8) 10 10 01 11 00 11 32 20 11 00 +:- 30 40 21
FC Sumy 20 11 11 14 21 11 10 11 10 01 10 +:- 02 51 10
FC Ternopil 11 11 10 10 03 22 42 10 22(7) 01 10 30 21 32 14
Zirka Kirovohrad 41 02 20 00 22 20 01 10 10 00 11 23 11 10 51

Source: Calendar (Ukrainian)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Notes:

Position by Round

Team \ Round 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
FC Oleksandriya 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk 3 4 2 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk 5 1 3 2 2 2 4 4 5 6 5 2 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Zirka Kirovohrad 14 12 11 13 10 8 5 7 8 12 10 11 13 11 13 14 14 11 10 9 8 6 7 5 6 8 6 5 5 4
Desna Chernihiv 12 10 10 8 8 10 10 8 7 5 4 5 6 9 9 6 6 7 5 5 5 5 5 6 7 5 5 4 4 5
Dynamo-2 Kyiv 8 3 6 10 12 11 9 12 11 13 11 12 11 12 10 9 5 5 6 6 6 7 6 7 8 6 7 6 7 6
Helios Kharkiv 2 5 4 5 4 4 3 3 4 3 6 6 7 6 7 7 9 10 12 12 11 10 8 10 11 9 8 8 6 7
FC Sumy 15 13 13 14 14 13 14 13 9 7 8 8 9 8 8 10 10 9 9 10 10 9 10 9 5 7 9 9 10 8
Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih 9 7 9 9 11 14 13 11 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 11 11 12 11 11 12 12 12 11 10 11 10 12 11 9
FC Poltava 13 11 8 6 6 6 6 6 6 8 9 9 8 7 5 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 11 12 12 12 12 11 8 10
FC Ternopil 6 8 7 4 5 5 7 5 3 4 3 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 9 11
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka 16 16 16 11 13 12 12 9 10 9 7 7 5 4 6 5 8 6 8 7 9 11 9 8 9 10 11 10 12 12
Nyva Ternopil 11 15 15 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 10 12 13 13 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13
MFC Mykolaiv 7 9 12 12 9 9 11 14 12 10 12 10 10 13 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14
Stal Alchevsk 1 6 5 7 7 7 8 10 13 11 13 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
Bukovyna Chernivtsi 10 14 14 15 15 15 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16

Last updated: 3 June 2015
Source: pfl.ua

Promotion/Relegation play-off

A promotion/relegation home and away play-off is to be played by the 3rd place team of 2014–15 Ukrainian Second League against the 14th placed team of the 2014–15 Ukrainian First League competition. Seedings for the playoff were announced in Ukrainian House of Football on May 29.[30]

First leg

7 June 2015
18:00
MFC Mykolaiv 0 0 Kremin Kremenchuk
Report
Tsentralnyi Stadion, Mykolaiv
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Vadym Saik

Second leg

11 June 2015
18:00
Kremin Kremenchuk 0 1 MFC Mykolaiv
Report Storublevtsev  62'
Oleh Babayev Kremin Arena, Kremenchuk
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Mykola Balakyn

MFC Mykolaiv wins 10 on aggregate and remains in First League

Top goalscorers

As of 3 June 2015
# Scorer Goals
(Pen.)
Team
1 Ukraine Stanislav Kulish 21 Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk
2 Ukraine Bohdan Semenets 14 FC Ternopil
3 Ukraine Oleksiy Chychykov 11 Zirka Kirovohrad
4 Ukraine Dmytro Bohachov 10 FC Sumy
Ukraine Vitaliy Ponomar 10 FC Oleksandriya
6 Ukraine Serhiy Herasymets 9 Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk
Ukraine Serhiy Kravchenko 9 (3) Helios Kharkiv
8 Ukraine Volodymyr Korolkov 8 (3) Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk
Ukraine Anton Kotlyar 8 (6) Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk
10 Ukraine Maksym Kalenchuk 7 Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk
Ukraine Yehor Kartushov 7 Desna Chernihiv
Ukraine Oleksiy Khoblenko 7 Dynamo-2 Kyiv
Ukraine Roman Loktionov(30) 7 Stal Alchevsk / Zirka Kirovohrad
Ukraine Ihor Zahalskyi 7 (2) Zirka Kirovohrad
Ukraine Petro Kondratyuk 7 (3) Desna Chernihiv
Ukraine Yuriy Solomka 7 (3) FC Poltava

Notes:

Managers

Club Coach Replaced coach
Bukovyna Chernivtsi Ukraine Yuriy Hiy
Desna Chernihiv Ukraine Oleksandr Ryabokon
Dynamo-2 Kyiv Ukraine Vadym Yevtushenko Belarus Alyaksandr Khatskevich
Helios Kharkiv Ukraine Serhiy Syzykhin (interim) Ukraine Serhiy Yesin
Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Hennadiy Prykhodko
Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk Ukraine Ihor Zhabchenko
FC Oleksandriya Ukraine Volodymyr Sharan
MFC Mykolaiv Ukraine Vyacheslav Mazarati
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka Ukraine Vadym Kolesnyk
Nyva Ternopil Ukraine Roman Tolochko Ukraine Bohdan Samardak
FC Poltava Ukraine Oleh Fedorchuk Ukraine Ilya Blyznyuk
Stal Alchevsk Ukraine Vadym Plotnikov
Stal DniprodzerzhynskUkraine Volodymyr Mazyar
FC SumyUkraine Yuriy Yaroshenko
FC TernopilUkraine Vasyl Ivehesh
Zirka Kirovohrad Ukraine Serhiy Lavrynenko Ukraine Anatoliy Buznyk
Ukraine Samir Hasanov

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment Table
FC Sumy Ukraine Serhiy Strashnenko (interim) End interim Pre-season Ukraine Yuriy Yaroshenko[32] Pre-season
Zirka Kirovohrad Ukraine Anatoliy Buznyk [33] Fired October 28 11th Ukraine Samir Hasanov[33] October 28 11th
Zirka Kirovohrad Ukraine Samir Hasanov [34] Resigns November 12 14th Ukraine Serhiy Lavrynenko[34] November 12 14th
Dynamo-2 Kyiv Belarus Alyaksandr Khatskevich [35] Leaves for Belarus December 4 5th Ukraine Vadym Yevtushenko[36] December 15 5th
FC Poltava Ukraine Ilya Blyznyuk[37] January 11 7th Ukraine Oleh Fedorchuk[37] January 11 7th
Helios Kharkiv Ukraine Serhiy Yesin[38] Fired April 1 Ukraine Serhiy Syzykhin (interim) April 1
Nyva Ternopil Ukraine Bohdan Samardak[39] Resigns April 27 13th Ukraine Roman Tolochko [40] April 30 13th

See also

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