2007–08 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha
Season	2007–08
Champions	Shakhtar Donetsk
Relegated	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka, Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
Champions League	Shakhtar Donetsk (3rd Qualifying Round) Dynamo Kyiv (2nd Qualifying Round)
UEFA Cup	Metalist Kharkiv (1st Round) Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd Qualifying Round)
Intertoto Cup	Tavriya Simferopol (2nd Round)
Matches played	240
Goals scored	581 (2.42 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marko Dević (19) (Metalist Kharkiv)
Biggest home win	Arsenal - Zakarpattia 7:0
Biggest away win	numerous games 0:3 and 1:4
Highest scoring	Dynamo - Karpaty 7:3
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 Vyshcha Liha season is the seventeenth since its establishment. This season competition was sponsored by Biola which became the title sponsor of the League for the season. It began on July 17, 2007, and ended on May 18, 2008. 16 teams participated in the competition, 14 of which contested in the 2006-07 season, and two of which (Zakarpattia Uzhhorod and Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka) were promoted from the Ukrainian First League (the league immediately below the Ukrainian Premier League).

The winner of league was Shakhtar Donetsk with 74 points, followed by Dynamo Kyiv with 71 points. The top goalscorer of the season was Marko Dević from Metalist Kharkiv with 19 goals, 6 of which were penalties. The spot for second highest goalscorer with 17 goals was a three-way tie between Oleksandr Hladky from Shakhtar Donetsk, Yevhen Seleznyov from Arsenal Kyiv (on loan from Shakhtar), and Oleksandr Kosyrin from Metalurh Donetsk.

Teams

Promoted

FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka, champion of the 2006-07 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of 15 seasons)
FC Zakarpattya Uzhhorod, runner-up of the 2006-07 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of a seasons)

Location map

Locations of team home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 2005–06

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach
FC Arsenal Kyiv	Oleksandr Zavarov
FC Chornomorets Odessa	Vitaliy Shevchenko
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Oleh Protasov
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Yuri Semin	Anatoliy Demyanenko
FC Karpaty Lviv	Valery Yaremchenko	Oleksandr Ischenko
FC Kharkiv	Volodymyr Bezsonov
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleh Taran
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Myron Markevych
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Nikolay Kostov	Jos Daerden
FC Metalurh Zaporizhya	Anatoly Chantsev
FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	Valeriy Horodov	Serhiy Shevchenko Viktor Ishchenko
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Mircea Lucescu
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Mykhailo Fomenko
FC Vorskla Poltava	Mykola Pavlov	Anatoliy Momot
FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	Volodymyr Vasiutyk	Petro Kushlyk Volodymyr Sharan
FC Zorya Luhansk	Anatoliy Volobuev	Oleksandr Kosevych

League table

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Comments
1	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	24	2	4	75	24	+51	74	2008-09 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	22	5	3	65	26	+39	71	2008-09 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
3	Metalist Kharkiv *	30	19	6	5	51	27	+24	63	2008-09 UEFA Cup First round
4	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	18	5	7	40	27	+13	59	2008-09 UEFA Cup Second qualifying round
5	Tavriya Simferopol	30	13	8	9	38	40	−2	47	2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
6	Arsenal Kyiv	30	11	9	10	42	36	+6	42
7	Chornomorets Odessa	30	11	5	14	27	33	−6	38
8	Vorskla Poltava	30	9	9	12	28	30	−2	36
9	Metalurh Zaporizhzhya	30	9	9	12	24	32	−8	36
10	Karpaty Lviv	30	9	6	15	29	41	−12	33
11	Zorya Luhansk	30	9	4	17	24	43	−19	31
12	Metalurh Donetsk	30	6	13	11	34	39	−5	31
13	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	30	7	9	14	29	39	−10	30
14	FC Kharkiv	30	6	9	15	20	32	−12	27
15	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	30	6	8	16	18	38	−20	26	Relegation to the Ukrainian First League
16	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	30	3	9	18	17	54	−37	18	Relegation to the Ukrainian First League

Metalist Kharkiv was stripped of their bronze award for this season by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne in August 2013 for fixing of the match Karpaty Lviv – Metalist (of April 19, 2008).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Top goalscorers

Marko Dević

Scorer	Goals	Team
Marko Dević	19 (6 pk)	Metalist Kharkiv
Oleksandr Hladky	17 (1 pk)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Oleksandr Kosyrin	17 (3 pk)	Metalurh Donetsk
Yevhen Seleznyov	17 (3 pk)	Arsenal Kyiv
Ismaël Bangoura	15 (1 pk)	Dynamo Kyiv
Volodymyr Homenyuk	14 (2 pk)	Tavriya Simferopol
Brandão	12 (2 pk)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Fernandinho	11 (1 pk)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Maksim Shatskikh	10	Dynamo Kyiv
Serhiy Nazarenko	9 (3 pk)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Current results

Note: home games of each team are shown at the horizontal lines

#	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dynamo Kyiv	DK			1:3				7:3				2:0		2:2			8	4	3	1	15	9	+6	15
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	1:1	SD			2:0						3:0		2:1	4:1			8	7	1	0	19	4	+15	22
3	Metalist Kharkiv		1:3	MK		3:0	2:0									1:0	2:0	8	4	2	2	13	8	+5	14
4	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk				DD					4:1	2:0		1:0			0:0	2:0	8	6	1	1	15	5	+10	19
5	Tavriya Simferopol					TS			2:1	3:3	4:3		1:0					8	3	2	3	10	13	-3	11
6	Chornomorets Odessa	0:0					CO					1:0	0:1	1:0				8	3	2	3	3	5	-2	11
7	Metalurh Zaporizhzhya	0:1						MZ	1:0			3:0	0:0					8	4	2	2	7	5	+2	14
8	Karpaty Lviv								KL	0:0	3:0						1:1	8	2	2	4	9	12	-3	8
9	Metalurh Donetsk						0:0	3:0		MD	0:1							8	2	4	2	11	10	+1	10
10	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	0:1						0:1			KK		1:1					8	2	1	5	7	13	-6	7
11	Zorya Luhansk			3:2	0:1				0:1			ZL			3:1			8	2	1	5	7	13	-6	7
12	FC Kharkiv				1:2				1:0	1:1			FK					8	2	3	3	5	7	-2	9
13	Vorskla Poltava			1:1	2:1	0:0						1:1		VP	2:1			8	2	4	2	7	7	0	10
14	Arsenal Kyiv			1:1						1:3					AK	7:0	3:0	8	2	2	4	17	15	+2	8
15	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod		0:1			1:0	2:0	1:1						0:0		ZU		8	2	3	3	4	10	-6	9
16	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka		0:3				0:1	0:1			1:2						NO	8	0	1	7	2	15	-13	1

Stadia

The following stadiums were used as home grounds during the season:

Rank	Stadium	Capacity^[4]	Club	Notes
1	NSC Olimpiysky	83,450	Arsenal Kyiv	Played last 6 games
2	Chornomorets Stadium	34,362	Chornomorets Odessa	Annual venue for the Ukrainian Super Cup
3	Shakhtar Stadium	31,718	Metalurh Donetsk
4	Metalurh Stadium	29,783	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
5	Ukraina Stadium	28,051	Karpaty Lviv	Renovations are taking place
6	RSK Olimpiyskiy	25,831	Shakhtar Donetsk
7	Vorskla Stadium	25,000	Vorskla Poltava	FC Kharkiv played against Dynamo and Zorya
8	Stadium Meteor	24,381	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
9	Metalist Stadium	22,757	Metalist Kharkiv FC Kharkiv	Temporarily in emergency conditions
10	Avanhard Stadium	22,320	Zorya Luhansk
11	Lokomotiv Stadium	19,978	Tavriya Simferopol
12	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium	16,873	Dynamo Kyiv Arsenal Kyiv	FC Arsenal Kyiv its first 9 games here
13	Avanhard Stadium	12,000	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
14	Slavutych Arena	11,983	Metalurh Zaporizhia
15	Dynamo Stadium	6,000	Metalist Kharkiv FC Kharkiv	Metalist played three games here including one against Kharkiv, Kharkiv played here its home game against Vorskla
16	Naftovyk Stadium	5,256	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka

References

↑ Lausanne announced a verdict on the game Karpaty - Metalist (Лозанна озвучила вердикт по матчу "Карпаты" - "Металлист"). ua-football.com. August 2, 2013.
↑ Football - Match Fixing Archived 2013-10-15 at the Wayback Machine.. Court of Arbitration of Sport. Lausanne August 2, 2013.
↑ Lausanne court upholds UEFA decision to disqualify FC Metalist from European competitions, says club’s vice president, Interfax-Ukraine (28 August 2013)
UEFA happy with CAS decision on Metalist complaint, Interfax-Ukraine (28 August 2013)
↑ "Attendance figures for the 17th season of Ukrainian Premier League". UA Football. Archived from the original on 22 August 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2007.

External links

Ukrainian Premier League seasons
Vyshcha Liha	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
Premier League	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Golden matches	1992 Tavria vs Dynamo 2006 Shakhtar vs Dynamo
List of Ukrainian football champions

2007–08 in Ukrainian football
Domestic leagues	Premier League First League Second League
Domestic cups	National Cup Super Cup
Club seasons
Premier League	Chornomorets Odesa Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Kyiv Hoverla Uzhhorod Illichivets Mariupol Karpaty Lviv Metalist Kharkiv Metalurh Donetsk Metalurh Zaporizhya Olimpik Donetsk Shakhtar Donetsk Volyn Lutsk Vorskla Poltava Zorya Luhansk
Summer 2007 transfers Winter 2007–08 transfers

2007–08 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '07 '08 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '07 '08 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '07 '08 Faroe Islands '07 '08 Finland '07 '08 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '07 '08 Latvia '07 '08 Lithuania '07 '08 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '07 '08 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Romania Russia '07 '08 San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '07 '08 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '07 '08 Finland '07 '08 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '07 '08 Latvia '07 '08 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '07 '08 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '07 '08 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England Finland '07 '08 France Germany Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Scotland Wales
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying rounds, Group stage, Knockout stage, Final) UEFA Cup (Qualifying rounds, Group stage, Knockout stage, Final) Intertoto Cup '07 '08 Super Cup '07 '08

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