Ukrainian First League 1996-97
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Ukrainian First League 1996–97 was the sixth season of the Ukrainian First League
Ukrainian First League
The Persha Liha or Ukrainian First League is a football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup...

 which was won by Metalurh Donetsk. The season started on August 4, 1996 and finished on June 20, 1997.

Teams

In 1996-97 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:



Club City Stadium Coach Replaced coach(es)
Metalist Kharkiv
FC Metalist Kharkiv
FC Metalist Kharkiv is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kharkiv. It competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, the highest football level in the country. Founded in 1925, the team worked its way up the rungs of the Soviet football system, eventually being promoted to the Soviet Top...

 
Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

 
Metalist Stadium
Metalist Stadium
Oblast Sports Complex "Metalist" , commonly known as Metalist Stadium , is a multi-use stadium in Kharkov, Ukraine. It is currently used chiefly for football matches and is the home of FC Metalist Kharkiv...

 
Mykhailo Fomenko
Mykhailo Fomenko
Mykhaylo Fomenko is a former Ukrainian footballer who capped 24 times for the USSR. He then became one of the most popular coaches in Ukraine. He is famous for his coaching in FC Metalist Kharkiv, returning the team to the European qualifications.-References:***...

 
Viktor Udovenko
Veres Rivne
FC Veres Rivne
FC Veres Rivne is a Ukrainian football club based in Rivne. The team ran into financial difficulties after the winter break of the 2010–11 season and was removed from the PFL . From 1992–1995, Veres Rivne took part in the Ukrainian Premier League, and achieved their best result of 12th place in...

 
Rivne
Rivne
Rivne or Rovno is a historic city in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Rivne Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Rivne Raion within the oblast...

 
Avanhard Stadium Viacheslav Kobeletsky
Poligraftechnika Olexandria  Oleksandriya  Olimp Stadium Yu.Koval An.Buznyk
Podillya Khmelnytskyi
FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi
FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi was a former Ukrainian football team that was based in Khmelnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. They played in Podillya Stadium which has 10,000 seats...

 
Khmelnytskyi
Krasyliv
Krasyliv
Krasyliv is a city in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It is located at around ....

 
Podillya Stadium
Yunist Stadium
V.Kvartsyany Vl.Bulhakov
Krystal Chortkiv  Chortkiv
Chortkiv
Chortkiv is a city in the Ternopil oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Chortkiv Raion . Population: 29,057...

 
Kharchovyk Stadium V.Ivehesh I.Hamaliy
Lviv
FC Lviv
FC Lviv is a Ukrainian football team based in Dobromyl, Ukraine. After participating in the Ukrainian Premier League 2008–09 season they were relegated to the Ukrainian First League.- FC Lviv :...

 
Lviv
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

 
Yunist Stadium Stepan Yurchyshyn
Stepan Yurchyshyn
Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn is a retired Soviet football player.The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006...

 
Dynamo-2 Kyiv
FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv
FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv is a Ukrainian football team based in Kiev , Ukraine. The club was inaugurated in 1946. The club has been featured regularly in the Ukrainian First League, since it cannot be promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League, being a reserve team from the FC Dynamo Kyiv franchise...

 
Kyiv  Dynamo Stadium Volodymyr Onyshchenko 
Yavir Krasnopillia
FC Spartak Sumy
FC Spartak Sumy was a Ukrainian football club based in Sumy.-History:January 12, 1982 at the village forestry Krasnopillyaa club with the name Yavir was established...

 
Krasnopillya  Kolos Stadium
Yavir Stadium
V.Dushkov
Stal Alchevsk
FC Stal Alchevsk
FC Stal Alchevsk is a Ukrainian professional football team of the Ukrainian First League that is based in Alchevsk. "Stal" is the Russian for "steel". The name was chosen as the pride for the heavily industrialized region of the country....

 
Alchevsk
Alchevsk
Alchevsk is a town in the Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is separate administrative unit, and is located approximately 45 km from the oblast capital, Luhansk, and right next to the district capital of Perevalsk....

 
Stal Stadium Anatoliy Volobuyev
Anatoliy Volobuyev
Anatoliy Ivanovych Volobuyev is a former Ukrainian football player, and a head-coach of couple Ukrainian teams in the Premier and First leagues.-Coaching career:...

 
Dnipro Cherkasy
FC Dnipro Cherkasy
FC Dnipro Cherkasy was a Ukrainian football team, based in Cherkasy.-History overview:The club was established on 9 May 1955, the 10th anniversary Victory Day. The team kept its professional status for 44 years since acquiring it in 1958 and reacqiured it in 2003 after the short term disruption...

 
Cherkasy
Cherkasy
Cherkasy or Cherkassy , is a city in central Ukraine. It is the capital of the Cherkasy Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Cherkasky Raion within the oblast...

 
Central Stadium
Spartak Stadium
Sm.Osynovsky Ihor Chupryna
Bazhanovets Makiivka
FC Shakhtar Makiivka
FC Shakhtar Makiivka is a Ukrainian football club from Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast.The club participated in the Soviet competition for a quite a stretch...

 
Makiivka
Makiivka
Makiivka, also spelled Makiyivka is an industrial city located in eastern Ukraine within the Donetsk Oblast , from the capital Donetsk. As of the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the city's population is 389,589 inhabitants, of these 178,475 are men and 211,114 are women. It is an important steel...

 
Avanhard Stadium V.Pyshchev
Bukovyna Chernivtsi
FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi
FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi is a Ukrainian football club based in Chernivtsi. For the 2010–11 season, the club is taking part in the Persha Liha. From 1992–94, Bukovyna played in the Ukrainian Premier League, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the Ukrainian teams taking part in...

 
Chernivtsi
Chernivtsi
Chernivtsi is the administrative center of Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. The city is situated on the upper course of the River Prut, a tributary of the Danube, in the northern part of the historic region of Bukovina, which is currently divided between Romania and Ukraine...

 
Bukovyna Stadium V.Bohuslavsky Yukhym Shkolnykov
Yukhym Shkolnykov
Yukhym Shkolnykov was a Ukrainian coach.-External links:...

Khimik Zhytomyr
FC Polissya Zhytomyr
FC Polissya Zhytomyr was a professional Ukrainian football club. The club was based in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.- Brief history :In Soviet times the club carried the name Avtomobilist , then it changed to Polissya...

 
Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr is a city in the North of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zhytomyr Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zhytomyr Raion...

 
City Stadium H.Ishchenko V.Veber
Naftovyk Okhtyrka
FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka is a Ukrainian football club based in Okhtyrka, Ukraine, where it was founded in 1980.-History:Naftovyk Okhtyrka took part in the first Ukrainian Premier League season in 1992, after being initially chosen to participate for being the Ukrainian SSR Champion in 1991...

 
Okhtyrka
Okhtyrka
Okhtyrka is a city in Ukraine, a raion centre within Sumy Oblast. It is situated near the Vorskla River, on an eleven-mile spur of the Kiev–Kharkiv railway line. It is home to Akhtyrka air base...

 
Naftovyk Stadium Vasyl Yermak A.Dovbiy
Metalurh Nikopol  Nikopol
Nikopol
Nikopol is a city in Ukraine, in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, on the right bank of Dnieper river, about 100 km south-west of Dnipropetrovsk. It has about 128,900 inhabitants and is the third biggest city in the oblast as well as among the top 50 nationwide...

 
Elektrometalurh Stadium H.Verzhelenko
Volyn Lutsk
FC Volyn Lutsk
FC Volyn Lutsk is a professional Ukrainian football team in the Ukrainian Premier League.-History:The Lutsk club was formed in 1960 initially as Avanhard, after the Soviet sports society, but before the start of competitions the name was changed to Volyn. Right from its establishment the club...

 
Lutsk
Lutsk
Lutsk is a city located by the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast and the administrative center of the surrounding Lutskyi Raion within the oblast...

 
Avanhard Stadium A.Radchenko
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod  Uzhhorod
Uzhhorod
Uzhhorod or Uzhgorod is a city located in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. It is the administrative center of the Zakarpattia Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Uzhhorodskyi Raion within the oblast...

 
Avanhard Stadium Oleksandr Holokolosov Sr. M.Bobal
Zorya Luhansk
FC Zorya Luhansk
FC Zorya Luhansk , formerly known as Zorya Voroshilovgrad and Zorya-MALS, is a Ukrainian football team. Zorya Luhansk is based in the city of Luhansk , Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.-History:...

 
Luhansk
Luhansk
Luhansk also known as Lugansk is a city in southeastern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Luhansk Oblast . The city itself is also designated as its own separate municipality within the oblast...

 
Avanhard Stadium A.Shakun A.Kuksov
CSKA-2 Kyiv  Kyiv  CSKA Stadium A.Shtelin A.Petrakov
Khimik Severodonetsk  Sieverodonetsk
Sieverodonetsk
Severodonetsk is a city in the Luhansk Oblast of south-eastern Ukraine. The city is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast, and is located on the Seversky Donets River, approximately to the north north west from the oblast capital, Luhansk.Severodonetsk has several factories and...

 
Khimik Stadium Yu.Koval Yu.Vankevych
Odessa  Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

 
SKA Stadium Serhiy Marusyn
SC Mykolaiv  Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv , also known as Nikolayev , is a city in southern Ukraine, administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv is the main ship building center of the Black Sea, and, arguably, the whole Eastern Europe.-Name of city:...

 
Central Stadium Anatoliy Zayaev
Anatoliy Zayaev
Anatoliy Zayaev was a Soviet football player and is a Ukrainian coach. Until 1990's worked in SC Tavriya Simferopol as the team director. In 1992 he became famous by obaining the national title when SC Tavriya Simferopol beat FC Dynamo Kyiv in Lviv.-External links:...

 
Yevhen Kucherevsky
Metalurh Donetsk  Donetsk
Donetsk
Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...

 
Shakhtar Stadium Ye.Korol
Metalurh Mariupol  Mariupol
Mariupol
Mariupol , formerly known as Zhdanov , is a port city in southeastern Ukraine. It is located on the coast of the Azov Sea, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Mariupol is the largest city in Priazovye - a geographical region around Azov Sea, divided by Russia and Ukraine - and is also a popular sea...

 
Azovstal Stadium Yu.Pohrebnyak

Final table

1 Metalurh Donetsk
FC Metalurh Donetsk
FC Metalurh Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. The club currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League.- Pre-history :...

46 32 5 9 77:39 101 (+) new
Vyscha Liha
Ukrainian Premier League 1997-98
-Preseason changes:Managers-Final table of Ukrainian Premier League season 1997-98:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 1998 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:-Managers:-External links:*...

2 Dynamo-2 Kyiv
FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv
FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv is a Ukrainian football team based in Kiev , Ukraine. The club was inaugurated in 1946. The club has been featured regularly in the Ukrainian First League, since it cannot be promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League, being a reserve team from the FC Dynamo Kyiv franchise...

46 29 8 9 91:33 95 no promotion
3 Metalurh Mariupol
FC Illychivets Mariupol
FC Illichivets Mariupol is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Mariupol.-Quick overview:The team was previously called FC Metalurh Mariupol. FC Metalurh Mariupol changed its name to Illichivets during the winter break of the 2002–2003 season...

46 29 6 11 92:56 93 (+) new
Vyscha Liha
Ukrainian Premier League 1997-98
-Preseason changes:Managers-Final table of Ukrainian Premier League season 1997-98:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 1998 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:-Managers:-External links:*...

4 Volyn Lutsk
FC Volyn Lutsk
FC Volyn Lutsk is a professional Ukrainian football team in the Ukrainian Premier League.-History:The Lutsk club was formed in 1960 initially as Avanhard, after the Soviet sports society, but before the start of competitions the name was changed to Volyn. Right from its establishment the club...

46 26 5 15 62:47 83 (-) new
5 Naftovyk Okhtyrka
FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka is a Ukrainian football club based in Okhtyrka, Ukraine, where it was founded in 1980.-History:Naftovyk Okhtyrka took part in the first Ukrainian Premier League season in 1992, after being initially chosen to participate for being the Ukrainian SSR Champion in 1991...

46 25 6 15 76:43 81
6 Stal Alchevsk
FC Stal Alchevsk
FC Stal Alchevsk is a Ukrainian professional football team of the Ukrainian First League that is based in Alchevsk. "Stal" is the Russian for "steel". The name was chosen as the pride for the heavily industrialized region of the country....

46 23 9 14 76:43 78
7 Mykolaiv 46 21 12 13 66:37 75 (-) new
8 FC Lviv
FC Lviv
FC Lviv is a Ukrainian football team based in Dobromyl, Ukraine. After participating in the Ukrainian Premier League 2008–09 season they were relegated to the Ukrainian First League.- FC Lviv :...

46 20 9 17 56:43 69
9 Bukovyna Chernivtsi
FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi
FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi is a Ukrainian football club based in Chernivtsi. For the 2010–11 season, the club is taking part in the Persha Liha. From 1992–94, Bukovyna played in the Ukrainian Premier League, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the Ukrainian teams taking part in...

46 19 10 17 64:51 67
10 Polihraftekhnika Oleksandria 46 17 14 15 55:51 65
11 Metalurh Nikopol 46 20 4 22 60:66 64
12 Metalist Kharkiv
FC Metalist Kharkiv
FC Metalist Kharkiv is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kharkiv. It competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, the highest football level in the country. Founded in 1925, the team worked its way up the rungs of the Soviet football system, eventually being promoted to the Soviet Top...

46 18 9 19 55:53 63
13 Yavir Krasnopillia
FC Spartak Sumy
FC Spartak Sumy was a Ukrainian football club based in Sumy.-History:January 12, 1982 at the village forestry Krasnopillyaa club with the name Yavir was established...

46 18 7 21 61:61 61
14 Khimik Siverodonetsk 46 16 11 19 64:62 59
15 Verkhovyna Uzhhorod 46 17 7 22 56:78 58
16 Shakhtar Makiivka
FC Shakhtar Makiivka
FC Shakhtar Makiivka is a Ukrainian football club from Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast.The club participated in the Soviet competition for a quite a stretch...

46 15 11 20 55:62 56
17 Cherkasy
FC Dnipro Cherkasy
FC Dnipro Cherkasy was a Ukrainian football team, based in Cherkasy.-History overview:The club was established on 9 May 1955, the 10th anniversary Victory Day. The team kept its professional status for 44 years since acquiring it in 1958 and reacqiured it in 2003 after the short term disruption...

46 16 7 23 46:78 55
18 Khimik Zhytomyr
FC Polissya Zhytomyr
FC Polissya Zhytomyr was a professional Ukrainian football club. The club was based in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.- Brief history :In Soviet times the club carried the name Avtomobilist , then it changed to Polissya...

46 15 10 21 44:61 55
19 CSKA-2 Kyiv
FC CSKA Kyiv
FC CSCA Kyiv was a Ukrainian association football club that competed in the Ukrainian Second League. The team withdrew from theprofessional league 4 September 2009.-History:...

46 15 9 22 37:56 54 (+) new
20 Zoria Luhansk 46 16 5 25 58:84 53 (-) new
21 Odessa 46 14 8 24 47:79 50 Druha Liha
Ukrainian Second League 1997-98
-Group A:Relegation Play-offFC Tysmenytsia - FC Promin Sambor 3:0 1:1-Group B:-Group C:Legend:...

22 Podillia Khmelnytskyi
FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi
FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi was a former Ukrainian football team that was based in Khmelnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. They played in Podillya Stadium which has 10,000 seats...

46 11 13 22 40:66 46 Druha Liha
Ukrainian Second League 1997-98
-Group A:Relegation Play-offFC Tysmenytsia - FC Promin Sambor 3:0 1:1-Group B:-Group C:Legend:...

23 Veres Rivne
FC Veres Rivne
FC Veres Rivne is a Ukrainian football club based in Rivne. The team ran into financial difficulties after the winter break of the 2010–11 season and was removed from the PFL . From 1992–1995, Veres Rivne took part in the Ukrainian Premier League, and achieved their best result of 12th place in...

46 11 9 26 36:79 42 Druha Liha
Ukrainian Second League 1997-98
-Group A:Relegation Play-offFC Tysmenytsia - FC Promin Sambor 3:0 1:1-Group B:-Group C:Legend:...

24 Krystal Chortkiv 46 9 6 31 31:77 33 Druha Liha
Ukrainian Second League 1997-98
-Group A:Relegation Play-offFC Tysmenytsia - FC Promin Sambor 3:0 1:1-Group B:-Group C:Legend:...



Note:

Three teams were promoted from the Second League
Ukrainian Second League
The Ukrainian Second League is a professional football league in Ukraine which is part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine. The league is lower than the Ukrainian First League and the lowest level of professional football competitions in the country. Druha Liha is the third level of...

 and three teams relegated from the Premier League
Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...

. The First League
Ukrainian First League
The Persha Liha or Ukrainian First League is a football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup...

 was extended to 24 participants.


FC Naftokhimik Kremenchuk
FC Naftokhimik Kremenchuk
FC Naftokhimik Kremenchuk is a Ukrainian football club from Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast.-League and cup history:...

 did not participate this season in the league.


Dynamo-2 Kyiv
FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv
FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv is a Ukrainian football team based in Kiev , Ukraine. The club was inaugurated in 1946. The club has been featured regularly in the Ukrainian First League, since it cannot be promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League, being a reserve team from the FC Dynamo Kyiv franchise...

 cannot be promoted.


The League will be reduced to 22 teams for the next season.

As couple of years ago another rookie teams gained their promotions upon entering the League
Ukrainian First League
The Persha Liha or Ukrainian First League is a football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup...

 from the lower division
Ukrainian Second League 1995-96
-Group A:Note: The Sumy team became the second post Soviet team that lost its non-amateur status.Withdrawn teamsFC Temp-Advis-2 Shepetivka stopped its participation after the 7th round ....

: Metalurh Donetsk
FC Metalurh Donetsk
FC Metalurh Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. The club currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League.- Pre-history :...

 and Metalurh Mariupol
FC Illychivets Mariupol
FC Illichivets Mariupol is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Mariupol.-Quick overview:The team was previously called FC Metalurh Mariupol. FC Metalurh Mariupol changed its name to Illichivets during the winter break of the 2002–2003 season...

. Thus far they were the last clubs that made to the Top League
Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...

 from the Second
Ukrainian Second League
The Ukrainian Second League is a professional football league in Ukraine which is part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine. The league is lower than the Ukrainian First League and the lowest level of professional football competitions in the country. Druha Liha is the third level of...

 in two seasons(!).


Legend:

- Promoted

- Relegated

Persha Liha 1996-97 Winners
FC Metalurh Donetsk
FC Metalurh Donetsk
FC Metalurh Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. The club currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League.- Pre-history :...


First title

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.
  • Oleksiy Antiukhin (Dynamo-2
    FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv
    FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv is a Ukrainian football team based in Kiev , Ukraine. The club was inaugurated in 1946. The club has been featured regularly in the Ukrainian First League, since it cannot be promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League, being a reserve team from the FC Dynamo Kyiv franchise...

    ) - 22
  • Yuriy Hetman (Metalurh M.) - 21
  • Oleksandr Sevidov
    Oleksandr Sevidov
    Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Sevidov is a retired Ukrainian football player and now coach of Zakarpattia Uzhhorod. He has played in different Ukrainian and Russian clubs.-External links:*...

     (Metalurh D.
    FC Metalurh Donetsk
    FC Metalurh Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. The club currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League.- Pre-history :...

    ) - 20
  • V. Dyak (Shakhtar
    FC Shakhtar Makiivka
    FC Shakhtar Makiivka is a Ukrainian football club from Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast.The club participated in the Soviet competition for a quite a stretch...

    ) - 18
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