1992 Vyshcha Liha

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Dynamo–Nyva T.
1991

1992 Vyshcha Liha (Ukrainian: Чемпіонат серед команд вищої ліги) was the first football championship organized in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and officially recognized by the UEFA. The last Soviet season finished in fall of 1991.

The

Football Federation of Ukraine
when organizing the competition decided to shift its calendar to synchronize it with one common in Europe "fall-spring" and organized a short championship.

The first two games of the Round 1 took place on 6 March 1992 in Odesa where local Chornomorets was hosting Karpaty, and Mykolaiv where local Evis was playing against the visiting Temp.

Teams and organization

League's formation and issues

Composition

The league and its calendar were adopted at the FFU Executive Committee session on 10 September 1991[1] with the ongoing 1991 season of the All-Soviet football competitions. It was established that the new league will consist of 20 teams divided in two groups.[1] Six clubs (last three from each group) were set to be relegated and replaced with two best from the First League, thus reducing the league for the next season to 16. Winners of both groups were to play against one another for the national title. The league's final was originally planned to consist of two games (home and away), but later due to scheduling of the Ukraine national football team's games it was changed to one on a neutral field.[1]

To the league were included all Ukrainian clubs of the 1991 Soviet Top and First leagues (8 clubs), nine of eleven Ukrainian clubs out the 1991 Soviet Second League (all of them competed in the west zone), the two best teams of the 1991 Soviet Second (lower) League and the winner of the Ukrainian Cup.[1] The FFU president Viktor Bannikov was against to include the Ukrainian Cup winner into the top league.[1]

There were opponents of organization of the championship among the most notable was

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
, one of few Ukrainian coaches who managed to win the Soviet Top League).

There were plenty of alternative proposition on the composition and the season's calendar among which from the president of Prykarpattia Anatoliy Revutskyi and the head coach of Temp Ishtvan Sekech.[1]

Calendar

The championship started on March 6, about a month later after the qualification rounds of another national tournament, the first edition of Ukrainian Cup. The first half of the season was scheduled to finish on April 19 with the second one to resume on April 25 (6 days intermission). The last round was to be played on June 17.

Considering such a schedule and the fact that the Ukrainian Cup competition was on the way simultaneously, the Ukrainian clubs had to forfeit their scheduled games in the Soviet Cup competition. In addition to that

Dynamo Kyiv
also participated in the Champions League competition which ended for Dynamo only on April 15. Each team this season had at least two games scheduled every week on average.

Considering other official games (outside of the league), FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia and FC Dynamo Kyiv has played the record of 26 games from February 18 through June 21 and the most among the other clubs in the League.

Location of teams

Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1992

Qualified teams

Team League and position in 1991[1] Coach Replaced coach
Chornomorets Odesa
Soviet Top League
4 Viktor Prokopenko
Dynamo Kyiv 5 Anatoliy Puzach
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
9 Mykola Pavlov
Yevhen Kucherevsky
Shakhtar Donetsk 12
Valery Yaremchenko
Metalurh Zaporizhya
13 Ihor Nadein
Metalist Kharkiv 15 Leonid Tkachenko
Bukovyna Chernivtsi
Soviet First League
5 Yukhym Shkolnykov
Tavriya Simferopol 6
Anatoliy Zayaev
Karpaty Lviv Soviet Second League, West 1 Stepan Yurchyshyn
Zorya-MALS Luhansk 2 Anatoliy Kuksov
Nyva Ternopil 4 Leonid Koltun
Nyva Vinnytsia 5 Valery Petrov
Vyacheslav Hrozny
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 7 Yevhen Lemeshko
Volyn Lutsk 8 Myron Markevych
SC Odesa
10 Serhiy Marusyn
Kremin Kremenchuk 13 Volodymyr Lozynskyi
Evis Mykolaiv
15 Ivan Balan
Naftovyk Okhtyrka
Championship of the Ukrainian SSR
1
Valery Dushkov
Prykarpattya 2
Yuriy Shuliatytskyi
Ivan Krasnetskyi
Temp Shepetivka Soviet Second League B, Zone 1
Winner of Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
9 Ishtvan Sekech

Note:

Clubs' name changes

  • Zorya-MALS Luhansk before the season carried name Zorya Luhansk. Name extension was provided for sponsorship reasons.
  • Evis Mykolaiv before the season carried name Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv.
  • SC Odesa changed its name from SKA Odesa on May 5, 1992, due to restructuring of the
    Odesa Military District and Armed Forces of Ukraine
    .

Stadiums

Rank Stadium Club Capacity Highest
Attendance
Notes
1
Republican Stadium
Dynamo Kyiv 100,000 5,000 Round 8 (Zorya-MALS)
2
Metalist Stadium
Metalist Kharkiv 38,633 7,000 Round 15 (Dnipro)
3 Black Sea Shipping Central Stadium Chornomorets 34,362 9,500 Round 15 (Tavriya)
4 Shakhtar Stadium Shakhtar Donetsk 31,718 4,300 Round 20 (Tavriya)
5 Ukraina Stadium Karpaty Lviv 28,051 13,000 Round 3 (Tavriya)
Tavriya Simferopol 36,000 Final (Dynamo)
6 Central City Stadium
Evis Mykolaiv
25,175 15,000 Round 4 (Chornomorets)
7 Meteor Stadium
Dnipro
24,381 6,000 Round 13 (Dynamo)
8 Lokomotyv Stadium Nyva Vinnytsia 24,000 10,000 Round 17 (Shakhtar)
9 Avanhard Stadium Zorya-MALS 22,320 17,200 Round 14 (Dynamo)
10
Lokomotiv Stadium
Tavriya Simferopol 19,978 3,500 Round 17 (Karpaty)
11 Dynamo Stadium Dynamo Kyiv 16,873 2,500 Round 17 (SC Odesa) as home ground in Round 12 and 17
12 AutoZAZ Stadium Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 15,000 5,000 Round 10 (Chornomorets)
13
City Stadium
Nyva Ternopil 12,750 20,000 Round 10 (Dynamo)
14 Bukovyna Stadium
Bukovyna Chernivtsi
12,000 14,000 Round 6 (Dynamo)
15
Metalurh Central Stadium
Metalurh Zaporizhya
11,983 8,000 Round 1 (Shakhtar)
Dnipro
3,000 Playoff (Shakhtar)
16 Dnipro Stadium Kremin Kremenchuk 11,300 13,000 Round 14 (Chornomorets)
17 Avanhard Stadium Volyn Lutsk 10,792 20,000 Round 9 (Dynamo)
18 Elektron Stadium Prykarpattya 15,000 Round 5 (Dynamo)
19 Naftovyk Stadium
Naftovyk Okhtyrka
5,256 4,500 Round 16 (Dnipro)
20 SKA Stadium
SC Odesa
6,000 Round 4 (Dynamo)
21 Temp Stadium Temp Shepetivka 10,000 Round 8 (Shakhtar)

Managerial changes

Managerial changes approximated

Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment Table
FC Nyva Ternopil UkraineMykhailo Dunets Pre season UkraineLeonid Koltun Pre season
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
UkraineYevhen Kucherevskyi March 10, 1992 1st UkraineMykola Pavlov March 10, 1992 1st
FC Nyva Vinnytsia
Vyacheslav Hrozny
March 28, 1992 10th UkraineValery Petrov March 28, 1992 10th
FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk UkraineIvan Krasnetskyi April 1992 9th
Yuriy Shuliatytskyi
April 1992 9th

First stage

Qualified teams

Tavriya SimferopolDynamo KyivChornomorets Odessa

Group A final standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Tavriya Simferopol (C) 18 11 6 1 30 9 +21 28 Qualification to Final playoff
2 Shakhtar Donetsk 18 10 6 2 31 10 +21 26 Qualification to Third place playoff
3 Chornomorets Odesa 18 9 7 2 30 12 +18 25 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
4 Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 18 6 7 5 21 16 +5 19
5 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 18 6 6 6 20 19 +1 18
6 Karpaty Lviv 18 5 6 7 15 18 −3 16
7 Kremin Kremenchuk 18 4 8 6 17 23 −6 16
8 Nyva Vinnytsia (R) 18 5 4 9 18 33 −15 14 Relegated to Ukrainian First League
9 Evis Mykolaiv (R) 18 3 4 11 12 29 −17 10
10 Temp Shepetivka (R) 18 2 4 12 9 34 −25 8
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:[citation needed]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Home \ Away CHO EVS KRE KAR MZA NVI SHA TAV TMP TOR
Chornomorets Odesa 2–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 6–0 3–0 0–0 3–1 2–1
Evis Mykolaiv 1–2 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–6 1–2 1–0 1–1
Kremin Kremenchuk 1–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 2–3 1–1 1–1 1–1
Karpaty Lviv 2–1 2–0 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 0–2 2–0 0–0
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 4–1 1–1 2–2 3–1 0–1
Nyva Vinnytsia 0–0 2–0 4–2 3–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 3–1
Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 5–0 0–0 2–0 0–0
Tavriya Simferopol 1–0 1–0 3–0 1–0 2–1 4–1 1–1 6–0 2–0
Temp Shepetivka 0–2 1–1 2–3 1–0 0–2 0–1 0–4 1–0 1–1
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 0–2 2–0 0–0 2–1 3–0 4–0 1–2 1–1 2–0
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Notes:

Team ╲ Round1234567891011121314151617181920
Metalurh Zaporizhya
78453334543344444445
Nyva Vinnytsia89101010101010101010101091098888
Shakhtar Donetsk56212242224433333322
Tavriya Simferopol12121111111111111111
Temp Shepetivka810998779979991091010101010
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia107744455455555555554
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