1996–97 Vyshcha Liha

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The 1996–97 Vyshcha Liha season was the 6th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Preseason changes

Number of teams in the league was reduced from 18 to 16. Vyshcha Liha became a member of the newly established Professional Football League of Ukraine.

Teams

Promotions

Renamed

Before the start of season CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv was replaced with CSKA Kyiv which played in tier 3.[1] Just before the start of new 1996–97 season a scandal took place related to ownership.[2] Dmytro Zlobenko was removed from the club which with help of the Army was passed to some businessman by name of Mikhail Grinshpon, a president of "Kyiv–Donbas".[3] Concurrently, Mikhail Grinshpon was an adviser to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksandr Kuzmuk.[3]

Location

Metalurh
Torpedo
Nyva T.
Tavriya
Shakhtar
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Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1996-97

Managers

Club Coach Replaced Coach Home stadium
FC Dynamo Kyiv
Valery Lobanovsky
 Ukraine Yozhef Sabo 17 games(first half) Dynamo Stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Valery Yaremchenko
 Shakhtar Stadium
FC Vorskla Poltava Ukraine Viktor Pozhechevskyi Vorskla Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Vyacheslav Hrozny
 Meteor Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Myron Markevych Ukraina Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol Ukraine Mykola Pavlov
Serhiy Shevchenko 10 games
Ukraine Ivan Balan 5 games
Ukraine Valeriy Shvediuk
7 games 		Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Chornomorets Odesa
Leonid Buriak
 Black Sea Shipping Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
Oleksandr Tomakh
 Metalurh Stadium
FC Nyva Ternopil Ukraine Ihor Yavorskyi City Stadium
FC Zirka Kirovohrad
 Ukraine Oleksandr Dovbiy
Oleksandr Ischenko 22 games
Ukraine Mykhailo Kalyta
1 game 		Zirka Stadium
FC CSKA Kyiv Ukraine Volodymyr Lozynskyi CSK ZSU Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Oleksandr Lysenko Ukraine Oleksiy Cherednyk 12 games Metalurh Stadium
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk Ukraine Viktor Kolotov Russia Boris Streltsov 5 games Elektron Stadium
FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia
Viktor Matvienko
 Ukraine Ihor Nadein 27 games AvtoZAZ Stadium
FC Kremin Kremenchuk Ukraine Mykhailo Byelykh Dnipro Stadium
FC Nyva Vinnytsia
Oleksandr Ischenko
 Ukraine Pasha Kasanov 23 games
Ukraine Volodymyr Reva 2 games 		Central City Stadium

Notes: Games between Dynamo Kyiv and CSKA Kyiv were played at the Republican Stadium.

Changes

Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment Table
FC Shakhtar Donetsk Ukraine Valeriy Rudakov pre-season
Valery Yaremchenko
 pre-season
SC Tavriya Simferopol Ukraine Anatoliy Zayayev pre-season
Serhiy Shevchenko
 pre-season
FC CSKA Kyiv Ukraine Viktor Chanov pre-season
Volodymyr Lozynsky
 pre-season
FC Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Volodymyr Zhuravchak pre-season Ukraine Myron Markevych pre-season
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
 Germany Bernd Stange pre-season
Viacheslav Hrozny
 pre-season
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Myron Markevych pre-season Ukraine Oleksiy Cherednyk pre-season
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk Ukraine Ihor Yurchenko pre-season Russia Boris Streltsov pre-season
FC Kremin Kremenchuk
Valery Yaremchenko
 pre-season Ukraine Mykhailo Bilykh pre-season
FC Nyva Vinnytsia
Serhiy Morozov
 pre-season Ukraine Pasha Kasanov pre-season

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dynamo Kyiv (C) 30 23 4 3 69 20 +49 73 Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2 Shakhtar Donetsk[a] 30 19 5 6 72 28 +44 62 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
3 Vorskla Poltava 30 17 7 6 50 26 +24 58 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
4 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk[a] 30 14 13 3 48 19 +29 55
5 Karpaty Lviv 30 15 7 8 36 23 +13 52
6 Tavriya Simferopol 30 13 5 12 36 46 −10 44
7 Chornomorets Odesa 30 12 6 12 36 31 +5 42
8 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 30 12 5 13 48 44 +4 41
9 Nyva Ternopil 30 11 6 13 34 37 −3 39
10
Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad
 30 11 3 16 31 55 −24 36
11 CSKA Kyiv 30 9 8 13 33 35 −2 35
12 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 30 9 6 15 24 48 −24 33
13 Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 30 8 7 15 33 49 −16 31
14 Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 30 8 5 17 25 56 −31 29
15 Kremin Kremenchuk (R) 30 7 3 20 28 57 −29 24 Relegated to Ukrainian First League
16 Nyva Vinnytsia (R) 30 4 6 20 19 48 −29 18
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goal scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Participant of the 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final

Results

Home \ Away CHO CSK DNI DYN KAR KRE KRY MZA NVT NYV PRY SHA TAV TZA VOR
ZIR
Chornomorets Odesa — 0–0 3–0 1–3 0–0 1–0 0–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 5–1 2–0 0–3 5–1
CSKA Kyiv 1–2 — 0–0 0–1 0–1 3–1 1–2 2–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 5–1 0–0 1–2
Dnipro 3–2 2–1 — 0–1 0–0 3–0 2–1 4–0 1–0 4–0 4–0 2–0 1–0 4–0 1–1 4–0
Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 2–2 2–2 — 2–0 5–0 5–0 1–2 1–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 3–0 2–1 2–1 6–1
Karpaty Lviv 1–0 1–2 0–0 0–2 — 4–0 5–1 1–0 3–1 1–2 3–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–0
Kremin Kremenchuk 1–0 0–2 1–1 1–4 0–1 — 2–1 4–1 3–2 3–0 2–1 0–1 2–3 1–1 0–4 1–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1–0 2–1 0–0 0–2 1–2 1–0 — 1–0 2–0 3–0 1–1 1–3 1–0 2–1 1–1 0–2
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 1–0 4–2 1–1 0–0 2–0 3–2 1–1 — 4–2 2–0 3–2 1–1 8–1 2–0 2–0 0–1
Nyva Ternopil 2–0 0–0 2–2 1–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 2–1 — 3–0 3–0 1–4 1–0 2–1 1–0 5–1
Nyva Vinnytsia 0–1 2–2 0–2 0–1 0–1 2–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 — 1–2 1–2 0–0 0–0 2–4 3–1
Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 2–4 0–0 2–2 0–2 1–2 2–0 2–0 3–2 0–0 2–1 — 2–1 1–2 2–1 0–2 0–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 3–0 3–0 1–0 1–3 0–0 4–2 6–0 4–2 5–0 1–0 2–0 — 4–0 9–1 4–0 3–1
Tavriya Simferopol 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–3 3–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 3–2 2–0 0–2 — 2–1 1–1 1–0
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 1–2 +:- 1–3 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–4 0–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–3 — 2–3 3–1
Vorskla Poltava 2–1 1–0 0–0 4–3 0–0 2–0 4–0 3–0 2–1 3–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 — 3–0
Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad
 0–2 2–0 0–0 0–4 2–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–4 2–3 2–1 1–2 2–0 —
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goals
(Pen.)
1
Oleh Matviiv
 Shakhtar Donetsk 21 (6)
2
Serhii Rebrov
 Dynamo Kyiv 20 (6)
3
Serhiy Chuychenko
 Vorskla Poltava 14 (2)
4
Oleksandr Haidash
 Tavriya Simferopol 13
Andriy Fedkov
 Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 13 (3)
6 Ukraine Serhiy Mizin CSKA / Chornomorets 12 (3)
7 Ukraine Serhiy Atelkin Shakhtar Donetsk 11
Ukraine Valentyn Poltavets Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 11
Ukraine Yakiv Kripak Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 11 (3)
10 Ukraine Hennadiy Moroz
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
 10

See also

References

  1. ^ 6-й национальный чемпионат украины - футбольный клуб. wildstat.ru (FC Zorya Luhansk)
  2. ^ 6-й национальный чемпионат украины - футбольный клуб. wildstat.ru (FC Zorya Luhansk)
  3. ^ a b Varis, S. Mikhail Grinshpon: astronomical "partitioner" of Ukraine. Part 1. (Михаил Гриншпон: космический «распильщик» Украины. ЧАСТЬ 1). Skelet Info. 17 July 2017

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