2000–01 Vyshcha Liha

The 2000–01 Vyshcha Liha season was the 10th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Teams

Note: the 1999–2000 Ukrainian First League was won by the second team of Dynamo Kyiv, FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv, which could not be promoted.

Metalurh Z.

Club	Coach	Replaced coach	Home stadium
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Valery Lobanovsky		Dynamo Stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Viktor Prokopenko		Shakhtar Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Mykola Fedorenko		Meteor Stadium
FC Metalurh Mariupol	Mykola Pavlov		Azovstal Stadium
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Semen Altman		Metalurh Stadium
FC CSCA Kyiv	Mykhailo Fomenko		CKS ZSU Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Valeriy Petrov	Oleksandr Ischenko 24 games	Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia	Volodymyr Atamaniuk	Myron Markevych 24 games	Metalurh Stadium
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Viktor Udovenko	Leonid Tkachenko the first half Valeriy Shalychev 12 games	Metalist Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv	Stepan Yurchyshyn	Lev Brovarskyi 24 games	Ukraina Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Hennadiy Litovchenko	Oleh Taran 8 games	Metalurh Stadium
FC Vorskla Poltava	Serhiy Sobetskyi	Serhiy Morozov 18 games	Vorskla Stadium
FC Stal Alchevsk	Anatoliy Volobuev		Stal Stadium
FC Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Biskup	Valeriy Bohuslavskyi 8 games Ihor Yavorskyi 7 games	City Stadium

Team	Outgoing head coach	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
FC CSCA Kyiv	Volodymyr Bezsonov		pre-season	Mykhailo Fomenko		pre-season
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Mykhailo Fomenko		pre-season	Leonid Tkachenko		pre-season
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Volodymyr Muntian		pre-season	Oleksandr Ischenko		pre-season
FC Vorskla Poltava	Anatoliy Konkov	August		Serhiy Morozov	August
FC Nyva Ternopil	Valeriy Bohuslavsky	August		Ihor Yavorsky	September
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleh Taran	September		Hennadiy Litovchenko	October
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Leonid Tkachenko	November		Valeriy Shalychev	March
FC Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Yavorsky	March		Ihor Biskup	April
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Oleksandr Ischenko	May		Valeriy Petrov	June
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia	Myron Markevych	May		Volodymyr Atamaniuk	June
FC Karpaty Lviv	Lev Brovarsky	May		Stepan Yurchyshyn	June
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Valeriy Shalychev	June		Viktor Udovenko	June
FC Vorskla Poltava	Serhiy Morozov	June		Serhiy Sobetsky	June

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	26	20	4	2	58	17	+41	64	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	Shakhtar Donetsk^[a]	26	19	6	1	71	21	+50	63	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	26	17	4	5	37	18	+19	55	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Metalurh Mariupol	26	13	4	9	35	26	+9	43
5	Metalurh Donetsk	26	11	9	6	30	24	+6	42
6	CSKA Kyiv^[a]	26	10	10	6	30	23	+7	40	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
7	Tavriya Simferopol	26	8	9	9	24	31	−7	33	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
8	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	26	8	8	10	27	31	−4	32
9	Metalist Kharkiv	26	8	7	11	27	37	−10	31
10	Karpaty Lviv	26	9	3	14	33	42	−9	30
11	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	26	6	6	14	22	36	−14	24
12	Vorskla Poltava	26	6	5	15	16	29	−13	23
13	Stal Alchevsk (R)	26	3	6	17	19	49	−30	15	Relegated to Ukrainian First League
14	Nyva Ternopil (R)	26	2	3	21	20	65	−45	9	Relegated to Ukrainian First League

Home \ Away	CSK	DNI	DYN	KAR	KRY	MET	MDO	MTM	MZA	NVT	SHA	STA	TAV	VOR
CSKA Kyiv	—	1–1	1–5	4–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	4–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–0
Dnipro	2–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–4	2–0	3–0	2–1
Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	2–1	—	1–1	4–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	6–0	1–2	2–0	3–0	2–1
Karpaty Lviv	1–0	0–2	2–0	—	2–1	2–0	1–2	3–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	4–1	3–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	0–1	1–1	0–2	5–2	—	2–1	3–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–4	1–0	0–0	-:+
Metalist Kharkiv	0–0	0–1	0–2	2–2	1–0	—	2–0	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	3–1
Metalurh Donetsk	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	—	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–0
Metalurh Mariupol	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	—	3–1	5–1	1–3	2–0	2–0	1–0
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–2	-:+	—	2–0	2–3	2–3	0–2	0–0
Nyva Ternopil	1–3	0–2	3–7	5–2	0–2	1–1	2–3	1–1	0–1	—	0–7	0–0	0–2	1–3
Shakhtar Donetsk	0–0	3–1	1–1	3–2	2–1	8–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	2–1	—	3–1	5–0	1–0
Stal Alchevsk	1–2	0–1	0–5	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–3	0–4	1–2	1–0	2–5	—	0–1	0–1
Tavriya Simferopol	0–1	1–1	1–2	3–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	3–2	—	2–1
Vorskla Poltava	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	—

Andriy Vorobei	Shakhtar Donetsk	21 (4)
Ivan Hetsko	Metalist Kharkiv / Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	14 (4)
Serhiy Atelkin	Shakhtar Donetsk	11
Oleksandr Rykun	Metalurh Mariupol	11 (3)
Olexandr Melashchenko	Dynamo Kyiv / Vorskla Poltava	10
Stepan Molokutsko	Metalurh Mariupol	9 (1)
Hennady Zubov	Shakhtar Donetsk	9 (1)
Vasyl Shved	Karpaty Lviv	8
Georgi Demetradze	Dynamo Kyiv	8 (1)
Julius Aghahowa	Shakhtar Donetsk	7
Valentin Belkevich	Dynamo Kyiv	7
Serhiy Popov	Shakhtar Donetsk	7
Artem Yashkin	Dynamo Kyiv	7
Serhiy Zakarlyuka	CSCA Kyiv	7