Ukrainian First League 1997-98
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Teams

In 1997-98 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:



  • 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...

  • 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 :...

  • Poligraftechnika Olexandria
  • Avanhard-Industria Rovenky
  • Desna Chernihiv
    FC Desna Chernihiv
    SFC Desna Chernihiv are a Ukrainian football club based in Chernihiv. Desna was formed in 1960 under the name of Avanhard Chernihiv. Between 1961-75 the club was called Desna...

  • Kremin Kremenchuk
    FC Kremin Kremenchuk
    FC Kremin Kremenchuk is a Ukrainian football club based in Kremenchuk. Since the 2005–06 season, the club has taken part in the Ukrainian Second League. From 1992–97, Kremin played in the Ukrainian Premier League, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 Ukrainian...

  • 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...

  • Yavir Krasnopillia
    FC Yavir Krasnopilya
    FC Sumy is a professional Ukrainian football team based in the city of Sumy. The current club is the second football project in the city, established in 2008 based on the local Krasnopillya football school. The the club's emblem is based on Krasnopillya's as well...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Polissya 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...

  • 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...

  • Metalurh Nikopol
  • Zoria Luhansk
  • Verkhovyna Uzhhorod
  • 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:...

  • Mykolaiv
  • Khimik Severodonetsk
  • Nyva Vinnytsia
    FC Nyva Vinnytsia
    PFC Nyva Vinnytsia is a professional Ukrainian football club based in the city of Vinnytsia. It currently participates in the Ukrainian First League...


  • Final standings

    Note:

    Four teams were relegated. The League will be reduced to 20 members next season.

    Teams in bold last season members of the Vyscha Liha
    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...

    .


    Teams in italic last season members of the Druha Liha
    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...

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    FC Khimik Sieverodonetsk quit competition at the end of the season and did not reenter in the future.

    FC 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.

    Top scorers

    Statistics are taken from here.
    • Hennadiy Skydan (Mykolaiv) - 22
    • Oleh Hrytsay (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...

      ) - 22
    • Vadym Plotnikov
      Vadym Plotnikov
      Vadym Vyacheslavovych Plotnikov is a former Ukrainian footballer, and recently was head-coach of FC Stal Alchevsk in the Ukrainian First League .-External links:* Biography...

       (Stal
      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....

      ) - 21
    • Ruslan Zabransky (Mykolaiv) - 17
    • Borys Finkel (Nyva
      FC Nyva Vinnytsia
      PFC Nyva Vinnytsia is a professional Ukrainian football club based in the city of Vinnytsia. It currently participates in the Ukrainian First League...

      ) - 17
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