Preseason changes

Team	Outgoing head coac	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...	Valeriy Rudakov			pre-season	Valery Yaremchenko Valery Yaremchenko Valeriy Yaremchenko is a Ukrainian coach of Illichivets and a former footballer. He was born in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. As a player he participated in 247 games as a member of FC Shakhtar Donetsk scoring 24 goals...		pre-season
SC Tavriya Simferopol SC Tavriya Simferopol SC Tavriya Simferopol is a football club from Simferopol, Crimea, which plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. Tavriya is Crimea's most successful football club and is the winner of the very first Ukrainian Premier League, making them one out of 3 teams that have ever held this title.- History...	Anatoliy Zayayev			pre-season	Serhiy Shevchenko Serhiy Shevchenko Sergei Shevchenko is a former Soviet and Ukrainian striker, the champion of Ukraine with SC Tavriya Simferopol, and a Kazakh coach.-See also:For the Ukrainian born player who retired before the Ukrainian independent national championship see Serhiy Vasylovych Shevchenko .-References:*...		pre-season
FC CSKA Kyiv FC Arsenal Kyiv FC Arsenal Kyiv is a professional football club from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.-History:In the 1950s, a different club under the same name Arsenal Kyiv won the 1958 Ukrainian SSR Championship. However in 1963 the club was renamed to "Temp Kyiv". In 1964 the club was replaced by FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv...	Viktor Chanov Viktor Chanov Viktor Viktorovich Chanov , is a former football goalkeeper. Throughout the 1980s in the former USSR, Chanov played mainly for FC Dynamo Kyiv.-Career in the USSR:...			pre-season	Volodymyr Lozynsky		pre-season
FC Karpaty Lviv FC Karpaty Lviv FC Karpaty Lviv is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Lviv. Named after the Carpathian Mountains, they are one of perennial mid-table clubs in Ukraine.-Early years :...	Volodymyr Zhuravchak			pre-season	Myron Markevych Myron Markevych Myron Bohdanovych Markevych is a former football midfielder and current head coach of Metalist Kharkiv in the Ukrainian Premier League and former head coach of the Ukrainian national football team...		pre-season
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Football Club Dnipro is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Dnipropetrovsk.-BRIT:The club's franchise traces its history all the way back when the first team that was formed in 1918 by the Petrovsky factory and was called as BRIT . The team participated in the regional competition...	Bernd Stange Bernd Stange Bernd Stange is a German football manager currently managing Belarus.Stange was born in a Sorbian town of Saxony. He started playing at an early age and was called into the East German youth team...			pre-season	Viacheslav Hrozny Vyacheslav Hrozny -External links:...		pre-season
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Kryvyi Rih. The club currently plays in Ukrainian Premier League and is based in the Metalurh Stadium, which seats 29,734....	Myron Markevych Myron Markevych Myron Bohdanovych Markevych is a former football midfielder and current head coach of Metalist Kharkiv in the Ukrainian Premier League and former head coach of the Ukrainian national football team...			pre-season	Oleksiy Cherednyk Oleksiy Cherednyk Oleksiy Valentynovich Cherednyk is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian football player and a current scout.-Honours:* Olympic champion: 1988....		pre-season
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was a Ukrainian football team based in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, the unofficial capital of the Prykarpattia region. The club was founded in 1940 and was to play in the Druha Liha under the guidance of Mykola Prystay. The club has previously gone...	Ihor Yurchenko Ihor Yurchenko Ihor Mykolayovych Yurchenko is the Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer known for his performance in the Ukrainian club Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk. Ihor has a younger brother Mykola Yurchenko whose name is also tightly intertwined with the fate of the western Ukrainian club.-Playing...			pre-season	Boris Streltsov		pre-season
FC 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...	Valery Yaremchenko Valery Yaremchenko Valeriy Yaremchenko is a Ukrainian coach of Illichivets and a former footballer. He was born in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. As a player he participated in 247 games as a member of FC Shakhtar Donetsk scoring 24 goals...			pre-season	Mykhailo Bilykh		pre-season
FC 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...	Serhiy Morozov Serhiy Morozov Serhiy Yuryevich Morozov is a retired Soviet football player and a current Ukrainian coach.-International career:Morozov played his only game for USSR on 29 June 1972 in a friendly against Uruguay....			pre-season	Pasha Kasanov Pasha Kasanov Pasha Namazovych Kasanov is a retired Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach.- External links :*...		pre-season

Final standings

• In bold are the participants of the 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final.

Top goalscorers

Oleh Matviiv	Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...	21
Serhiy Rebrov Serhiy Rebrov Serhiy Stanislavovych Rebrov is a retired Ukrainian football forward turned midfielder, currently assistant coach at Dynamo Kyiv reserves team. Rebrov gained international fame as an attacking partner of Andriy Shevchenko at Dynamo Kyiv throughout the 1990s and remains top all-time scorer of the...	Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Ukrainian Premier League and has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football...	20
Serhiy Chuychenko	Vorskla Poltava FC Vorskla Poltava FC Vorskla Poltava ,is a professional football team which plays in the Ukrainian Premier League and represents the city of Poltava.- History :...	14
Andriy Fedkov	Torpedo Zaporizhzhya FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhya FC Torpedo Zaporizhya is a former professional football team based in Zaporizhya, Ukraine. Founded in 1982, the club appeared played in the Ukrainian Premier League from 1992 through 1998, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 Ukrainian teams from the West Division...	13
Oleksandr Haidash Oleksandr Haidash Oleksandr Mykolayovych Haydash is a former Ukrainian professional football striker who played for FC Shakhtar Donetsk, SC Tavriya Simferopol and FC Metalurh Mariupol' in Ukraine and Sarıyer G.K. in the Turkish Süper Lig. As of 2007, he is the leading goal-scorer in the Ukrainian Premier League...	Tavriya Simferopol SC Tavriya Simferopol SC Tavriya Simferopol is a football club from Simferopol, Crimea, which plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. Tavriya is Crimea's most successful football club and is the winner of the very first Ukrainian Premier League, making them one out of 3 teams that have ever held this title.- History...	13
Serhiy Mizin Serhiy Mizin Serhiy Hryhorovych Mizin is a former Ukrainian professional football midfielder who played for FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC CSKA Kyiv, FC Chornomorets Odesa, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, FC Karpaty Lviv, FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Arsenal Kyiv in Ukrainian Premier League...	FC CSKA Kyiv FC Arsenal Kyiv FC Arsenal Kyiv is a professional football club from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.-History:In the 1950s, a different club under the same name Arsenal Kyiv won the 1958 Ukrainian SSR Championship. However in 1963 the club was renamed to "Temp Kyiv". In 1964 the club was replaced by FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv...  / Chornomorets Odessa FC Chornomorets Odessa FC Chornomorets Odesa is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Odessa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. During the reconstruction , the team played in the 4,610 Spartak Stadium...	12
Serhiy Atelkin Serhiy Atelkin Serhiy Atelkin |Kirovske]], Donetsk Oblast) is a retired Ukrainian footballer.-Playing career:Atelkin made his name playing as a striker for the likes of Shakhtar Donetsk , U.S. Lecce and Boavista FC. Despite success in domestic competitions, Atelkin only played for the Ukrainian national football...	Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...	11
Yakiv Kripak	Metalurh Zaporizhia	11
Hennadiy Moroz Hennadiy Moroz Hennadiy Moroz is a Ukrainian footballer.-External links:*...	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Football Club Dnipro is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Dnipropetrovsk.-BRIT:The club's franchise traces its history all the way back when the first team that was formed in 1918 by the Petrovsky factory and was called as BRIT . The team participated in the regional competition...	11
Valentyn Poltavets Valentyn Poltavets Valentyn Poltavets, , is a Ukrainian football midfielder currently playing for FC Dniester Ovidiopol.-Honours as player:* Swiss Cup Winner: 2003/04* Ukrainian Premier League Runner-up: bronze : 2000–01, 2005–06-External links:*...	Metalurh Zaporizhia	11

• Andrei Fedkov
  Andrei Fedkov
  Andrei Yuryevich Fedkov is a retired Russian football player. As of June 2009, he works as a deputy general director with FC Terek Grozny.-Honours:* Russian Cup winner: 2004....
  
  , FC Torpedo Zaporizhia to FC Baltika Kaliningrad
  FC Baltika Kaliningrad
  Baltika is an association football club based in Kaliningrad, Russia. Currently the club plays in the Football Championship of the National League.-History:The club was founded on 22 December 1954 as Pishchevik Kaliningrad...
  
  
• Serhiy Mizin
  Serhiy Mizin
  Serhiy Hryhorovych Mizin is a former Ukrainian professional football midfielder who played for FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC CSKA Kyiv, FC Chornomorets Odesa, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, FC Karpaty Lviv, FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Arsenal Kyiv in Ukrainian Premier League...
  
  , FC Chornomorets Odessa
  FC Chornomorets Odessa
  FC Chornomorets Odesa is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Odessa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. During the reconstruction , the team played in the 4,610 Spartak Stadium...
  
   to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
  FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
  Football Club Dnipro is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Dnipropetrovsk.-BRIT:The club's franchise traces its history all the way back when the first team that was formed in 1918 by the Petrovsky factory and was called as BRIT . The team participated in the regional competition...
  
  
• Serhiy Atelkin
  Serhiy Atelkin
  Serhiy Atelkin |Kirovske]], Donetsk Oblast) is a retired Ukrainian footballer.-Playing career:Atelkin made his name playing as a striker for the likes of Shakhtar Donetsk , U.S. Lecce and Boavista FC. Despite success in domestic competitions, Atelkin only played for the Ukrainian national football...
  
  , FC Shakhtar Donetsk
  FC Shakhtar Donetsk
  FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...
  
   to U.S. Lecce
  U.S. Lecce
  Unione Sportiva Lecce or simply U.S. Lecce is an Italian football club based in Lecce, Apulia who play in the Italian Serie A. After being crowned Serie B champions in 2009–10, the team successfully managed to avoid relegation in 2010-11....
  
  

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced Coach
FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Ukrainian Premier League and has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football...	Valery Lobanovsky	Yozhef Sabo Yozhef Sabo Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo is a former Soviet football player of Hungarian ethnicity-Club:Szabó made his name as a player at Dynamo Kyiv, appearing at the club from 1959 to 1969... 17 games(first half)
FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...	Valery Yaremchenko Valery Yaremchenko Valeriy Yaremchenko is a Ukrainian coach of Illichivets and a former footballer. He was born in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. As a player he participated in 247 games as a member of FC Shakhtar Donetsk scoring 24 goals...
FC Vorskla Poltava FC Vorskla Poltava FC Vorskla Poltava ,is a professional football team which plays in the Ukrainian Premier League and represents the city of Poltava.- History :...	Viktor Pozhychevskyi
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Football Club Dnipro is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Dnipropetrovsk.-BRIT:The club's franchise traces its history all the way back when the first team that was formed in 1918 by the Petrovsky factory and was called as BRIT . The team participated in the regional competition...	Vyacheslav Hrozny Vyacheslav Hrozny -External links:...
FC Karpaty Lviv FC Karpaty Lviv FC Karpaty Lviv is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Lviv. Named after the Carpathian Mountains, they are one of perennial mid-table clubs in Ukraine.-Early years :...	Myron Markevych Myron Markevych Myron Bohdanovych Markevych is a former football midfielder and current head coach of Metalist Kharkiv in the Ukrainian Premier League and former head coach of the Ukrainian national football team...
SC Tavriya Simferopol SC Tavriya Simferopol SC Tavriya Simferopol is a football club from Simferopol, Crimea, which plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. Tavriya is Crimea's most successful football club and is the winner of the very first Ukrainian Premier League, making them one out of 3 teams that have ever held this title.- History...	Mykola Pavlov Mykola Pavlov Mykola Petrovych Pavlov is a former Ukrainian football defender, and currently head-coach of FC Vorskla Poltava in the Ukrainian Premier League.-Playing career:...	Serhiy Shevchenko Serhiy Shevchenko Sergei Shevchenko is a former Soviet and Ukrainian striker, the champion of Ukraine with SC Tavriya Simferopol, and a Kazakh coach.-See also:For the Ukrainian born player who retired before the Ukrainian independent national championship see Serhiy Vasylovych Shevchenko .-References:*... 10 games
FC Chornomorets Odessa FC Chornomorets Odessa FC Chornomorets Odesa is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Odessa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. During the reconstruction , the team played in the 4,610 Spartak Stadium...	Leonid Buriak
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia	Oleksandr Tomakh Oleksandr Tomakh Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Tomakh is a retired Soviet football player and a Ukrainian coach.-References:...
FC Nyva Ternopil FC Nyva Ternopil FC Nyva Ternopil is a professional Ukrainian football club, playing in the city of Ternopil, the capital of Ternopil Oblast. From 1992–01, Nyva Ternopil played in the Ukrainian Premier League, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 Ukrainian teams from the West...	Ihor Yavorskyi
FC Zirka Kirovohrad FC Zirka Kirovohrad FC Zirka Kirovohrad is a Ukrainian professional football team. The team is situated in Kirovohrad, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine and was founded in 1922. Zirka debuted in the Ukrainian Premier League 1994-95 season, where they finished 6th. In the Ukrainian Premier League 1999-00 season they finished...	Oleksandr Dovbiy	Oleksandr Ischenko Oleksandr Ischenko Oleksandr Ishchenko is a former football player and manager who is currenly the head coach of the FC Dynamo Kyiv Reserves and Youth Team. He played for SKA Odessa and FC Zvezda Kirovohrad, and he coached the Ukraine national under-21 football team, FC Karpaty Lviv and FC Illychivets... 22 games
FC CSKA Kyiv FC Arsenal Kyiv FC Arsenal Kyiv is a professional football club from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.-History:In the 1950s, a different club under the same name Arsenal Kyiv won the 1958 Ukrainian SSR Championship. However in 1963 the club was renamed to "Temp Kyiv". In 1964 the club was replaced by FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv...	Volodymyr Lozynskyi Volodymyr Lozynskyi Volodymyr Fyodorovich Lozynskyi or Vladimir Fyodorovich Lozinsky is a retired Soviet football player and current Ukrainian coach.-International career:...
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Kryvyi Rih. The club currently plays in Ukrainian Premier League and is based in the Metalurh Stadium, which seats 29,734....	Oleksandr Lysenko	Oleksiy Cherednyk Oleksiy Cherednyk Oleksiy Valentynovich Cherednyk is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian football player and a current scout.-Honours:* Olympic champion: 1988.... 12 games
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was a Ukrainian football team based in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, the unofficial capital of the Prykarpattia region. The club was founded in 1940 and was to play in the Druha Liha under the guidance of Mykola Prystay. The club has previously gone...	Viktor Kolotov Viktor Kolotov Viktor Mikhailovich Kolotov was the Soviet footballer who spent the most and the best of his years in Ukraine....	Boris Streltsov 5 games
FC Torpedo Zaporizhia	Viktor Matvienko Viktor Matvienko Viktor Antonovych Matviyenko is a former Soviet footballer and a current Ukrainian coach.-Honours:* Soviet Top League winner: 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977.* Soviet Cup winner: 1974.* UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner: 1975.* UEFA Super Cup winner: 1975....	Ihor Nadein Ihor Nadein Ihor Nadein is a coach of Soviet Union and the Distinguished Coach of Ukraine.-External links:... 27 games
FC 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...	Mykhailo Bilykh
FC 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...	Oleksandr Ischenko Oleksandr Ischenko Oleksandr Ishchenko is a former football player and manager who is currenly the head coach of the FC Dynamo Kyiv Reserves and Youth Team. He played for SKA Odessa and FC Zvezda Kirovohrad, and he coached the Ukraine national under-21 football team, FC Karpaty Lviv and FC Illychivets...	Pasha Kasanov Pasha Kasanov Pasha Namazovych Kasanov is a retired Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach.- External links :*... 23 games

 

 

 

 

External links

• ukrsoccerhistory.com - source of information