2015–16 FC Zorya Luhansk season

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Zorya Luhansk
2015–16 season
ChairmanYevhen Heller
ManagerYuriy Vernydub
StadiumSlavutych-Arena
Premier League4th
Ukrainian CupFinal
UEFA Europa LeaguePlay-off round
Top goalscorerLeague: Budkivskyi (14)
All: Budkivskyi (17)
Highest home attendance1,500 vs Metalist Kharkiv
25 July 2015
Lowest home attendance1,000 vs Olimpik Donetsk
9 August 2015
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The 2014–15 Zorya Luhansk season is Zorya's sixteenth Ukrainian Premier League season, and their sixth season under manager Yuriy Vernydub. During the season Zorya Luhansk will compete in the Ukrainian Premier League, Ukrainian Cup and in the UEFA Europa League.

Transfers

In

Summer

Position Nationality Name From Type
MF Ukraine Kyrylo Doroshenko Ukraine Olimpik Donetsk Transfer
DF Belarus Mikhail Sivakow
Gabala FK
Transfer
DF Ukraine Vyacheslav Checher Ukraine Metalurh Donetsk Transfer
DF Ukraine Oleg Borodai Reserves Promotion
FW Ukraine Artur Zahorulko Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk Loan
MF Ukraine Dmytro Hrechyshkin Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk Loan
DF Ukraine Vyacheslav Tankovskyi Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk Loan

Winter

Position Nationality Name From Type
DF Ukraine Artem Sukhotskyi Ukraine Oleksandriya Transfer
FW Brazil
Paulinho
Brazil Corinthians Transfer
DF Ukraine
Yevhen Tkachuk
Ukraine Vorskla Poltava Transfer
DF Brazil Rafael Forster Unattached
GK Ukraine Oleksiy Shevchenko Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv Transfer
FW Ukraine Denys Bezborodko Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk Loan

Out

Summer

Position Nationality Name To Type
GK Ukraine Rustam Khudzhamov Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk Loan return
MF Ukraine Maksym Malyshev Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk Loan return
DF Ukraine Oleksandr Hrytsay End of career
DF Ukraine Maksim Bilyi Croatia Hajduk Split Transfer
DF Ukraine Vitaliy Vernydub
Gabala FK
Transfer
MF Ukraine Dmytro Khomchenovskyi Spain Ponferradina Transfer

Winter

Position Nationality Name To Type
FW Ukraine Artur Zahorulko Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk Loan return
MF Ukraine Ruslan Malinovskyi Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk Loan return
MF Ukraine
Ihor Kalinin
Unattached Released
DF Ukraine Oleg Borodai Unattached Released
GK Croatia Krševan Santini Cyprus Enosis Neon Paralimni Transfer
GK Ukraine Andriy Poltavtsev Georgia (country) Guria Lanchkhuti Loan
DF Ukraine Andriy Pylyavskyi Russia Rubin Kazan Transfer

Squad

Squad is given according to the club's official site,[1] and composed from players who playing in the main squad team as of 25 February 2016.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Ukraine UKR Oleksiy Shevchenko
2 DF Ukraine UKR Artem Sukhotskyi
3 DF Belarus BLR
Mikhail Sivakov
4 MF Ukraine UKR Ihor Chaykovskyi
5 DF Ukraine UKR Artem Hordiyenko
6 MF Ukraine UKR Mykyta Kamenyuka (captain)
8 MF Ukraine UKR Vyacheslav Tankovskyi (on loan from Shakhtar)
10 FW Georgia (country) GEO Jaba Lipartia
11 FW Brazil BRA
Paulinho
12 DF Brazil BRA Rafael Forster
16 DF Ukraine UKR Hryhoriy Yarmash
17 FW Ukraine UKR Yaroslav Kvasov
20 MF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Karavayev (on loan from Shakhtar)
22 MF Serbia SRB Željko Ljubenović
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 MF Ukraine UKR Kyrylo Doroshenko
24 MF Ukraine UKR Dmytro Hrechyshkin (on loan from Shakhtar)
27 DF Ukraine UKR
Yevhen Tkachuk
28 FW Ukraine UKR Pylyp Budkivskyi (on loan from Shakhtar)
29 MF Ukraine UKR Andriy Totovytskyi (on loan from Shakhtar)
30 GK Ukraine UKR Mykyta Shevchenko (on loan from Shakhtar)
34 MF Ukraine UKR Ivan Petryak (on loan from Shakhtar)
39 DF Ukraine UKR Yevhen Opanasenko
42 DF Nigeria NGA
Dennis Emmanuel Bonaventure
44 DF Ukraine UKR Vyacheslav Checher
49 FW Ukraine UKR Dmytro Lukanov
59 FW Ukraine UKR Denys Bezborodko (on loan from Shakhtar)
91 GK Ukraine UKR Ihor Levchenko

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK Ukraine UKR Andriy Poltavtsev (on loan to Guria Lanchkhuti)
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF Ukraine UKR Mykhaylo Shershen (on loan to Kremin Kremenchuk)
MF Ukraine UKR Maksym Banasevych (on loan to Desna Chernihiv)

Competitions

Premier League

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
2 Shakhtar Donetsk 26 20 3 3 76 25 +51 63 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round[a]
3
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk[b]
26 16 5 5 50 22 +28 53
4 Zorya Luhansk 26 14 6 6 51 26 +25 48 Qualification to Europa League group stage
5 Vorskla Poltava 26 11 9 6 32 26 +6 42 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
6 FC Oleksandriya 26 10 8 8 30 29 +1 38
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Fairplay ranking; 8) Draw.[3]
Notes:
  1. ^ Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup. However, since they already qualified for European competition based on their league position, the spot awarded to the cup winners was passed down the league.
  2. Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk will be excluded from participating in the next UEFA club competition for which they would otherwise qualify in the next three (3) seasons (i.e. the 2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons).[2]

Results summary

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
20 11 5 4 41 24  +17 38 6 3 2 23 19  +4 5 2 2 18 5  +13

Results by round

Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526
GroundAHAHAHAAHAHHHAHAAHAHHAHAHA
ResultWDLWWDDWDWWLLWWWDWLWLLDWLW
Position13642344444444333333344444
Updated to match(es) played on 19 May 2016. Source: Socceraway
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

17 July 2015 (2015-07-17) 1
Zaporizhia
19:00 EEST (UTC+3) Zhurakhovskyi Yellow card 42'
Kulynych Yellow card 43'
Lysytskyi Yellow card 72'
Summary Khomchenovskyi 17'
Ljubenović 34'
Malinovskyi 50'
Karavayev 72'
Kamenyuka 81'
Sivakow 90+3'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Anatoliy Abdula
25 July 2015 (2015-07-25) 2 Zorya Luhansk 0–0
Zaporizhia
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Malinovskyi Yellow card 57' Summary
Kurylov
Yellow card 70'
Stadium:
Yuriy Mozharovsky
2 August 2015 (2015-08-02) 3
Dnipropetrovsk
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Putrash 25', 55'
Vasin Yellow card 62'
Summary Lukanov Yellow card 34'
Lipartia Yellow card 52'
Yarmash Yellow card 71'
Stadium: Meteor Stadium
Attendance: 2,600
Referee: Anatolii Zhabchenko
9 August 2015 (2015-08-09) 4 Zorya Luhansk 4–0
Zaporizhia
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Budkivskyi Yellow card 33' 82', 85'
Lipartia 43'
Petryak 62'
Summary Isa Yellow card 47'
Semenyna Yellow card 90'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ivan Bondar
16 August 2015 (2015-08-16) 5
Odesa
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Petko Yellow card 20'
Shapoval Yellow card 30'
Summary Shevchenko Yellow card 30'
Petryak 47'
Karavayev 56'
Stadium: Chornomorets Stadium
Attendance: 9,244
Referee: Ukraine Sergii Boiko
30 August 2015 (2015-08-30) 6 Zorya Luhansk 0–0
Zaporizhia
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Pylyavskyi Yellow card 10'
Sivakow Yellow card 54'
Hordiyenko Yellow card 81'
Shevchenko Yellow card 88'
Summary
Danilo Silva Yellow card 52'
Rybalka Yellow card 56'
Vitorino Antunes Yellow card 74'
Khacheridi
Yellow card 90'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 6,800
Referee: Ukraine Konstantin Trukhanov
13 September 2015 (2015-09-13) 7 Karpaty Lviv 1–1 Zorya Luhansk Lviv
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Chachua Yellow card 18'
Ksyonz Yellow card 19'
Khudobyak Yellow card 32' Yellow-red card 66'
Karnoza Yellow card 36'
Miroshnichenko Yellow card 56'
Summary Sivakow Red card 9'
Karavayev 11'
Hrechyshkin Yellow card 21'
Petryak Yellow card 32'
Hordiyenko Yellow card 43'
Malinovskyi Yellow card 75'
Ljubenović Yellow card 90+3'
Stadium: Ukraina Stadium
Attendance: 7,328
Referee: Ukraine Anatolii Zhabchenko
20 September 2015 (2015-09-20) 8
Dnipropetrovsk
19:30 EET Cheberyachko Yellow card 40'
Rotan Yellow card 81'
Summary Hordiyenko 7'
Karavayev 14'
Lipartia 85'
Levchenko Yellow card 90'
Stadium: Dnipro-Arena
Attendance: 12,713
Referee: Ukraine Yury Vaks
27 September 2015 (2015-09-27) 9 Zorya Luhansk 1–1
Zaporizhia
17:00 EET Budkivskyi 26' Summary Kolomoyets 72' Stadium:
Yuriy Mozharovsky
4 October 2015 (2015-10-04) 10 Volyn Lutsk 0–3 Zorya Luhansk Lutsk
19:30 EET Bohdanov Yellow card 52'
Shust Red card 59'
Summary Malinovskyi 19'
Budkivskyi 22'
Lipartia 61' (pen.)
Stadium:
Yevhen Aranovsky
18 October 2015 (2015-10-18) 11 Zorya Luhansk 2–1
Zaporizhia
19:30 EET Budkivskyi 51'
Kamenyuka 81' (pen.)
Summary Savchenko Yellow card 35'
Lyulka Yellow card 65'
Serhiychuk Yellow card 74'
Rudko Red card 80'
Ivanov 86'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ukraine Dmytro Kutakov
30 October 2015 (2015-10-30) 13 Zorya Luhansk 1–7
Zaporizhia
19:00 EET Kamenyuka 67' (pen.)
Sivakow Yellow card 75'
Summary
Fred 40'
Stepanenko 47' Yellow card 90' 90+2'
Alex Teixeira 58' 70'
Eduardo
75' 86'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Ukraine Yury Vaks
7 November 2015 (2015-11-07) 14 Zorya Luhansk 4–1
Zaporizhia
14:00 EET Karavayev 5' 90'
Malinovskyi 28' Yellow card 45+1'
Budkivskyi 59'
Totovytskyi Yellow card 70'
Hrechyshkin Yellow card 84'
Summary Ihnatenko Yellow card 25'
Demchenko Yellow card 70'
Zhurakhovskyi 90+3'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Ukraine Oleksandr Ivanov
22 November 2015 (2015-11-22) 15 Metalist Kharkiv 0–1 Zorya Luhansk Kharkiv
19:30 EET Dovhyi Yellow card 5'
Zubeyko Yellow card 40'
Rudyka Yellow card 56' Yellow-red card
Sobol Yellow card 90+1'
Summary Hrechyshkin Yellow card 21'
Kamenyuka Yellow card 33' Yellow-red card
Petryak Yellow card 54'
Ljubenović 68' (pen.)
Pylyavskyi Yellow card 77'
Stadium: OSC Metalist
Attendance: 6,180
Referee: Ukraine Sergii Boiko
28 November 2015 (2015-11-28) 16 Zorya Luhansk 2–1
Zaporizhia
13:00 EET Hordiyenko Yellow card 41'
Kravchenko 57' (o.g.)
Budkivskyi 63'
Opanasenko Yellow card 70'
Chaykovskyi Yellow card 75'
Checher Yellow card 78'
Yarmash Yellow card 90+3'
Summary Kulach 12' Yellow card 74'
Baranovskyi Yellow card 23'
Budnik Yellow card 85'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 600
Referee: Ukraine Mykola Balakin
5 December 2015 12 Vorskla Poltava 0–2 Zorya Luhansk Poltava
14:00 EET Siminin Yellow card 73' Summary Hordiyenko Yellow card 35' 74'
Budkivskyi 54'
Opansenko Yellow card 70'
Shevchenko Yellow card 90+2'
Stadium:
Yevhen Aranovsky
6 March 2016 (2016-03-06) 17 Olimpik Donetsk 1–1 Zorya Luhansk Kyiv
14:00 Nyemchaninov Yellow card 50'
Petrov Yellow card 56'
Fedoriv Yellow card 66'
Postupalenko 71'
Shestakov Yellow card 76'
Tanchyk Yellow card 81'
Summary Budkivskyi 58' Stadium: Bannikov Stadium
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ukraine Sergiy Berezka
12 March 2016 (2016-03-12) 18 Zorya Luhansk 4–0
Zaporizhia
17:00 Budkivskyi Yellow card 45' 72'
Karavayev 54'
Petryak Yellow card 58'
Totovytskyi 68'
Ljubenović 83'
Summary Azatskyi Red card 5'
Danchenko Yellow card 56'
Filimonov Yellow card 70'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ukraine Yury Grisjo
20 March 2016 (2016-03-20) 19 Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 Zorya Luhansk Kyiv
19:30 Harmash Yellow card 32'
Júnior Moraes 76'
Sydorchuk Yellow card 90+2'
Summary Hordiyenko Yellow card 12'
Tankovskyi Yellow card 51'
Checher Yellow card 78'
Karavayev Yellow card 81'
Petryak Yellow card 87'
Kamenyuka Yellow card 90'
Stadium:
Yuriy Mozharovsky
2 April 2016 (2016-04-02) 20 Zorya Luhansk 4–1
Zaporizhia
17:00 Ljubenović 5' Yellow card 5'
Budkivskyi 21'
Tankovskyi Yellow card 38'
Totovytskyi 43'
Chaykovskyi 61'
Summary Okechukwu 38'
Hitchenko Red card 44'
Miroshichenko Yellow card 51' Yellow-red card
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 900
Referee: Ukraine Yury Vaks
10 April 2016 (2016-04-10) 21 Zorya Luhansk 1–2
Zaporizhia
19:30 Hordiyenko 63' Summary Fedetskyi Yellow card 20'
Bruno Gama Yellow card 32'
Laštůvka Yellow card 65'
Shakhov 75'
Anderson Pico Yellow card 79' 86'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 5,500
Referee: Ukraine Anatoliy Zhabchenko
16 April 2016 (2016-04-16) 22
Oleksandriya
14:00 Basov Yellow card 45+1'
Polyarus 48'
Shendrik Yellow card 62'
Hrytsuk 89'
Summary Tankovskyi Yellow card 9'
Rafael Forster Yellow card 23'
Stadium: CSC Nika Stadium
Attendance: 4,112
Referee: Ukraine Kostyantin Trukhanov
23 April 2016 (2016-04-23) 23 Zorya Luhansk 1–1
Zaporizhia
14:00
Paulinho 71'
Rafael Forster
Yellow card 90+7'
Summary
Kravchenko Yellow card 15'
Didenko 31'
Goropevšek Red card 59'
Kvartsyanyi Red card 60'
Romanyuk Yellow card 76'
Memeshev Yellow card 85'
Kohinov Yellow card 89'
Humenyuk Yellow card 90+2'
Nedilko
Yellow card 90+5'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ukraine Vitaliy Romanov
30 April 2016 (2016-04-30) 24 Hoverla Uzhhorod 0–4 Zorya Luhansk Uzhhorod
14_00 Savchenko Yellow card 19'
Havrysh Yellow card 34'
Toma Yellow card 43'
Ivanov Yellow card 49'
Summary Opanasenko 13'
Budkivskyi 40', 46'
Karavayev 45'
Stadium: Avanhard Stadium
Attendance: 550
Referee: Ukraine Ivan Bondar
7 May 2016 (2016-05-07) 25 Zorya Luhansk 1–2
Zaporizhia
17:00 Budkivskyi 12'
Kamenyuka Yellow card 77'
Summary
Dytyatev Yellow card 41'
Khlyobas 46'
Kolomoyets Yellow card 58'
Sklyar Yellow card 75'
Chesnakov Yellow card 77'
Tkachuk
Yellow card 81'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ukraine Igor Paskhal
15 May 2016 (2016-05-15) 26 Shakhtar Donetsk 2–3 Zorya Luhansk Lviv
Rakytskyi
Yellow card 81'
Summary Ljubenović Yellow card 47'
Totovytskyi 56', 61', 82'
Stadium: Arena Lviv
Attendance: 6,751
Referee: Ukraine Kateryna Monzul

Ukrainian Cup

Qualifying round

Round of 32
23 August 2015 (2015-08-23) Krystal Kherson 0–5 Zorya Luhansk Kherson
17:00 EET Summary Khomchenovskyi 21'
Petryak 41'
Hrechyshkin 54'
Tankovskyi 60'
Lipartia 88'
Stadium: Stadion Kherson
Round of 16
23 September 2015 First leg Helios 0–2 Zorya Luhansk Piatykhaty
19:00 EET
Cherednychenko
Yellow card 32'
Summary Budkivskyi 34' 37'
Tankovskyi Yellow card 38'
Opansenko Yellow card 88'
Stadium: Stadion Sonyachnyj
Attendance: 3,165
Referee: Ukraine Andriy Kuzmin
27 October 2015 Second leg Zorya Luhansk 3–1
(5–1
Zaporizhia
17:00 EET Budkivskyi 7'
Karavayev 57' 68'
Sivakow Yellow card 64'
Summary Serhiy Loboyko Yellow card 15'
Cherednychenko
Yellow card 82'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 500
Referee: Ukraine Mikhailo Mytrovskyi
Quarter finals
2 March 2016 First leg Volyn Lutsk 1–1 Zorya Luhansk Lutsk
17:00
Kravchenko
Yellow card 90'
Summary Kamenyuka Yellow card 21'
Totovytskyi 23'
Stadium: Avanhard Stadium
Attendance: 3,200
Referee: Ukraine Yaroslav Kozyk
6 April 2016 Second leg Zorya Luhansk 5–0
(6–1
Zaporizhia
14:00 Hordiyenko 22'
Petryak 49'
Opanasenko Yellow card 71' 90+1'
Karavayev 78' 87'
Summary
Kravchenko Yellow card 40'
Polyovyi Yellow card 68'
Žunić Yellow card 75'
Bohdanov Yellow card 85' Yellow-red card
Shabanov
Yellow card 90+2'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ukraine Kostyantin Trukhanov
Semi-finals
20 April 2016 First leg
Dnipropetrovsk
19:00
Zozulya 17' Yellow card 26'
Chyhrynskyi
Yellow card 59'
Summary Sukhotsyi Yellow card 38'
Rafael Forster Yellow card 45+2'
Ljubenović Yellow card 63' Yellow card 73' Red card
Stadium:
Dnipro Arena
Attendance: 10,065
Referee: Ukraine
Yevhen Aranovskyi
11 May 2016 Second leg Zorya Luhansk 2–0
(2–1
Zaporizhia
17:00
Sivakov Yellow card 90+1'
Totovytsky
90+5'
Summary Skhakhov Yellow card 44'
Laštůvka Yellow card 90+5'
Bezus Yellow card 90+6'
Stadium:
Slavutych Arena
Attendance: 5,500
Referee: Anatoliy Abdula
Final
21 May 2016 Zorya Luhansk 0-2 Shakhtar Donetsk Lviv
17:00[4] LST Rafael Forster Yellow card 12'
Chaykovskyi Yellow card 64'
Sivakow Yellow card 64'
Yarmash Yellow card 70'
Summary
Hladkyy
42' 57'
Stadium: Arena Lviv[4]
Attendance: 21,720
Referee: Ukraine Yevhen Aranovskiy

UEFA Europa League

Qualifying round

Third qualifying round
Play-off round
Ukraine v Poland Legia Warsaw
20 August 2015 First leg Zorya Luhansk Ukraine 0–1 Poland Legia Warsaw Kyiv, Ukraine
20:00 EEST (UTC+3) Chaykovskyi Yellow card 30'
Ljubenović Yellow card 57'
Hordiyenko Yellow card 61'
Sivakow Yellow card 90'
Summary
Guilherme Yellow card 8'
Kucharczyk 48'
Jodłowiec
Yellow card 72'
Stadium: Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Greece Anastasios Sidiropoulos
27 August 2015 Second leg Legia Warsaw Poland 3–2
(4–2 agg.)
Ukraine Zorya Luhansk Warsaw, Poland
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Guilherme 62'
Rzeźniczak Yellow card 65'
Duda Yellow card 90+4' 90+5' (pen.
)
Summary Kamenyuka Yellow card 37'
Khomchenovskyi 39'
Sivakow Yellow card 45+2'
Malinovskyi 66'
Budkivskyi Yellow card 79'
Opanasenko Yellow card 90+4'
Stadium:
Polish Army Stadium
Attendance: 23,163
Referee: Germany Tobias Welz

References

  1. ^ "Официальный сайт ФК "Заря" – Луганск". Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  2. ^ "CFCB adjudicatory chamber orders". uefa.org. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Premier League 2015/2016 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  4. ^ a b Ukrainian Cup final will take place in Lviv. UA-Football. 29 April 2016

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