1994–95 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha
Season	1994–95
Champions	Dynamo Kyiv
Relegated	Temp Shepetivka, Veres Rivne
Champions League	Dynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' Cup	Shakhtar Donetsk
UEFA Cup	Chornomorets Odessa
Top goalscorer	(21) Arsen Avakov (Torpedo)
← 1993–94 1995–96 →

The 1994–95 Vyshcha Liha season was the 4th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Teams

Promotions

Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk, the champion of the 1993–94 Ukrainian First League – (returning after two seasons of absence)
Evis Mykolaiv, the runner-up of the 1993–94 Ukrainian First League – (returning after two seasons of absence)

Renamed

On 2 October 1994 Evis Mykolaiv changed its name to SC Mykolaiv.
During the season, Metalurh Zaporizhia also carried the name Metalurh-Viktor Zaporizhia (after a local entrepreneur Viktor Oharenko).

Location

Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1994-95

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Comments
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	34	25	8	1	87	24	+63	83	CL Qualifying Round
2	Chornomorets Odessa	34	22	7	5	62	29	+33	73	UC Qualifying Round
3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	34	19	8	7	60	33	+27	65
4	Shakhtar Donetsk	34	18	8	8	52	29	+23	62	CWC Qualifying Round
5	Tavriya Simferopol	34	17	8	9	61	37	+24	59
6	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	34	13	9	12	35	30	+5	48
7	Torpedo Zaporizhzhya	34	15	3	16	49	49	0	48
8	Karpaty Lviv	34	12	9	13	32	36	−4	45
9	Metalurh Zaporizhzhya	34	11	10	13	47	42	+5	43
10	Kremin Kremenchuk	34	12	6	16	42	54	−12	42
11	Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk	34	11	8	15	40	52	−12	41	new
12	Nyva Ternopil	34	11	5	18	40	44	−4	38
13	SK Mykolaiv	34	11	5	18	33	59	−26	38	new
14	Nyva Vinnytsia	34	10	7	17	38	51	−13	37
15	Volyn Lutsk	34	11	3	20	29	58	−29	36
16	Zorya-MALS Luhansk	34	10	5	19	35	70	−35	35
17	Temp Shepetivka (R)	34	10	4	20	31	41	−10	34	Persha Liha
18	Veres Rivne (R)	34	8	7	19	28	63	−35	31	Persha Liha

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

Legend:

	- Champions League
	- Cup Winners Cup
	- UEFA Cup
	- relegated

Note:

In bold are the participants of the 1995 Ukrainian Cup Final.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals (Pen.)
1	Arsen Avakov	Torpedo Zaporizhzhya	21 (6)
2	Oleksiy Antyukhin	Tavriya Simferopol	18
3	Oleksandr Haidash	Tavriya Simferopol	17
3	Victor Leonenko	Dynamo Kyiv	17 (1)
5	Ihor Petrov	Shakhtar Donetsk	14 (5)
6	Mikhail Potskhveria	Zorya / Metalurh	13
7	Timerlan Huseinov	Chornomorets Odessa	12
7	Andrei Fedkov	Kremin Kremenchuk	12 (1)
9	Ruslan Zabranskyi	Mykolaiv	11 (1)
10	Ivan Korponay	Kremin Kremenchuk	10

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced Coach	Home stadium
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Mykola Pavlov	Yozhef Sabo 17 games Volodymyr Onyschenko 5 games	Republican Stadium
FC Chornomorets Odessa	Leonid Buriak		Black Sea Shipping Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Bernd Stange	Mykola Pavlov 17 games Oleksandr Lysenko 6 games	Meteor Stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Vladimir Salkov	Valery Yaremchenko 17 games	Shakhtar Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Anatoliy Zayaev	Pavlo Kostin 10 games Andriy Cheremysin 7 games Vitaliy Shalychev 10 games	Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Yuriy Koval	Volodymyr Brukhtiy 4 games Anatoliy Bida 1 game Viktor Kuznetsov 17 games Valentyn Laktionov 3 games	Metalurh Stadium
FC Torpedo Zaporizhia	Ihor Nadein		AvtoZAZ Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv	Myron Markevych		Ukraina Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia	Oleksandr Tomakh	Anatoliy Kuksov 7 games	Metalurh Stadium
FC Kremin Kremenchuk	Tiberiy Korponay	Evhen Rudakov 4 games	Dnipro Stadium
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Ihor Yurchenko		Elektron Stadium
FC Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Yavorskyi	Valeriy Dushkov 11 games	City Stadium
SC Mykolaiv	Yevhen Kucherevskyi	Valery Zhuravko 10 games Leonid Koltun 1 game	Central City Stadium
FC Nyva Vinnytsia	Serhiy Morozov	Oleksandr Bobaryko 22 games Yuriy Koval 2 games	Central City Stadium
FC Volyn Lutsk	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi	Roman Pokora 8 games	Avanhard Stadium
FC Zorya-MALS	Oleksandr Zhuravliov	Volodymyr Kobzarev 17 games Yuriy Sevastyanov 3 games Anatoliy Korshykov 3 games	Avanhard Stadium
FC Temp Shepetivka	Revaz Dzodzuashvili	Leonid Tkachenko 16 games Stanislav Bernykov 8 games	Temp Stadium
FC Veres Rivne	Mykhailo Fomenko	Vyacheslav Kobyletskyi 16 games Orest Bal 5 games Ivan Krasnetskyi(7 games)	Avanhard Stadium

Changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
FC Chornomorets Odessa	Viktor Prokopenko			pre-season	Leonid Buriak		pre-season
FC Nyva Ternopil	Leonid Buriak			pre-season	Valeriy Dushkov		pre-season
FC Nyva Vinnytsia	Yukhym Shkolnykov			pre-season	Oleksandr Bobaryko		pre-season
FC Kremin Kremenchuk	Yevhen Rudakov		July 1994		Tiberiy Korponay	1 August 1994
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Pavlo Kostin	Perished in car accident	end of September		Andriy Cheremysin (interim)	3 October 1994
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Andriy Cheremysin (interim)	Mutual consent	winter break		Vitaliy Shalychev	February 1995
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Vitaliy Shalychev		May 1995		Anatoliy Zayaev	May 1995

Notes:

The new 1994-95 season SC Tavriya Simferopol under leadership of a coach Pavlo Kostin (native of Chornomorske Raion, Crimea). Sometime after the game against Volyn (Round 10) on 23 September 1994 in Simferopol, Kostin (43 years old) perished in a car accident along with his wife.^[1] According to some sources (footballfacts.ru), Kostin perished on 15 September 1994.^[2]

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dynamo Kyiv
Goalkeepers: Oleksandr Shovkovsky (25 / -15), Valeriy Vorobiov (7 / -8), Andriy Kovtun (3 / -1). Defenders: Vladyslav Vashchuk (31 / 3), Oleh Luzhny (24 / 4), Serhiy Lezhentsev (24), Andriy Khomyn (21 / 2), Yuriy Dmytrulin (17 / 1), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (14), Serhiy Bezhenar (13 / 1), Andriy Annenkov (3). Midfielders: Vitaliy Kosovsky (27 / 6), Dmytro Mykhailenko (25 / 5), Serhiy Mizin (20 / 5), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (17 / 3), Serhiy Kovalets (17 / 2), Yuriy Kalitvintsev (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (11 / 5), Volodymyr Sharan (11 / 2), Dmytro Topchiyev (2), Maksim Demenko (1), Vladyslav Prudius (1). Forwards: Serhiy Rebrov (24 / 8), Pavlo Shkapenko (24 / 8), Viktor Leonenko (20 / 17), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 5), Andriy Shevchenko (17 / 1), Serhiy Skachenko (16 / 3), Oleksandr Pryzetko (13 / 1), Mikheil Jishkariani (8 / 3), Naser al-Sohi (1). Manager: Yozhef Sabo (first half), Volodymyr Onyshchenko, Mykola Pavlov (second half). Transferred out during the season: Oleksandr Pryzetko (to Dinamo-Gazovik), Maksim Demenko (to Lada Togliatti), Serhiy Kovalets (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Volodymyr Sharan (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Mikheil Jishkariani (to CSKA-Borysfen), Valeriy Vorobiov (to CSKA-Borysfen), Dmytro Topchiyev (to CSKA-Borysfen), Vladyslav Prudius (to CSKA-Borysfen).
2. FC Chornomorets Odessa
Goalkeepers: Oleh Suslov (34 / -27), Vadym Vinokurov (2 / -2). Defenders: Yuriy Bukel (29), Andriy Telesnenko (28 / 1), Vladislav Ternavsky (16 / 1), Yuriy Smotrych (10), Denys Kolchyn (8), Vitaliy Skysh (5), Oleksiy Cherednyk (3), Serhiy Bulyhin-Shramko (2). Midfielders: Dmytro Parfyonov (33 / 6), Ihor Zhabchenko (32 / 7), Yuriy Sak (23 / 5), Vitaliy Kolesnychenko (21 / 2), Andrei Gashkin (20 / 5), Oleksandr Spivak (19), Oleksandr Horshkov (18), Ihor Korniyets (16 / 1), Yuriy Seleznyov (13 / 2), Ruslan Romanchuk (12 / 2), Oleksandr Nikiforov (9), Oleksandr Zotov (8 / 3), Vyacheslav Yeremeyev (7), Viktor Yablonskyi (5 / 1), Vladyslav Zubkov (4), Viktor Bohatyr (3). Forwards: Tymerlan Huseinov (29 / 12), Volodymyr Musolitin (19 / 3), Vitaliy Parakhnevych (13 / 4), Vasyl Kardash (13 / 2), Oleh Mochulyak (8 / 2), Kostyantyn Kulyk (5 / 2). Manager: Leonid Buriak. Transferred out during the season: ?.
3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Goalkeepers: Mykola Medin (19 / -13), Svyatoslav Syrota (16 / -17), Konstantin Ledovskikh (1 / -3). Defenders: Viktor Skrypnyk (31 / 8), Volodymyr Bahmut (30 / 1), Volodymyr Horily (25), Serhiy Diryavka (19), Serhiy Bezhenar (17 / 3), Dmytro Yakovenko (17), Oleksandr Chervonyi (7), Hennadiy Kozar (7), Yevhen Dmitriyev (6), Andriy Yudin (6), Oleksiy Kuptsov (3), Albert Shakhov (2), Serhiy Bilokin (1), Serhiy Zadorozhnyi (1). Midfielders: Andriy Polunin (31 / 7), Aleksandr Zakharov (25 / 1), Valentyn Moskvyn (17 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (15 / 3), Dmytro Topchiyev (15 / 3), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (15 / 2), Ihor Plotko (15 / 1), Volodymyr Sharan (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (13 / 4), Serhiy Dumenko (9 / 1), Serhiy Chornyi (3). Forwards: Borys Finkel (29 / 9), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 3), Oleksandr Palyanytsia (13 / 6), Oleh Taran (7 / 1), Andriy Kotyuk (6), Andreas Sassen (6), Serhiy Chuichenko (4). Manager: Mykola Pavlov (first half), Oleksandr Lysenko, Bernd Stange (second half). Transferred out during the season: Serhiy Bezhenar (to Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Konovalov (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yuriy Maksymov (to Dynamo Kyiv).

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

References

↑ Naukhatskiy, B. Memorial Cup of our countryman. Sports column, "Chernomorskie izvestiya". 28 September 2013
↑ Kostin at footballfacts.ru

External links

Season record at Alexei Kobyzev website

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

1994–95 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Armenia '94 '95 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '94 '95 Finland '94 '95 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '94 '95 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '94 '95 Latvia '94 '95 Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '94 '95 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '94 '95 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '94 '95 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '94 '95 Finland '94 '95 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '94 '95 Israel Italy Latvia '94 '95 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '94 '95 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
League cups	England Finland '94 '95 France Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, Group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup

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