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2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League

The 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League season, referred to as the Ukrainian Premier League VBET for sponsorship reasons, is the 34th top-level football club competition since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 17th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League.

Ukrainian Premier League VBET
Official logo[1]
Season2024–25
Dates3 August 2024 – 24 May 2025
14 December 2024 – 22 February 2025
(winter break)
Matches played36
Goals scored93 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorerOleksandr Nazarenko (Polissya Zhytomyr)
(5 goals)
Biggest home winRukh 5–0 Inhulets
(30 August 2024)
Biggest away winVorskla 0–5 Shakhtar
(4 August 2024)
Highest scoringOleksandriya 4–3 Shakhtar
(24 August 2024)
Longest winning run4 matches
Oleksandriya
Longest unbeaten run4 matches
Oleksandriya
Polissya
Longest winless run5 matches
Inhulets
Obolon
Longest losing run4 matches
Obolon
Highest attendance6,300
Karpaty 1–3 Dynamo
(17 August 2024)
Lowest attendance0
4 matches
Total attendance44,858
Average attendance1,239
All statistics correct as of 1 September 2024.

Teams

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This season the Ukrainian Premier League remained at 16 teams.

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Relegated teams

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WIthdrawn teams

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Location map

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Home venues of teams in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League.
Teams in italics are from areas bordering the Russian Federation and are playing their home games in different cities due to ongoing hostilities.

Stadiums

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Further information: List of football stadiums in Ukraine

The minimum threshold for the stadium's capacity in the UPL is 4,500 (Article 10, paragraph 8.3).[3]

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Rank Stadium Place Club Capacity Notes
1 Arena Lviv Lviv Rukh Lviv 34,915
2 Chornomorets Stadium Odesa Chornomorets Odesa 34,164
3 Ukraina Stadium Lviv Karpaty Lviv 27,925
4 Butovsky Vorskla Stadium Poltava Vorskla Poltava 24,795
5 Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv 16,873
Zorya Luhansk used as home ground during the season
6 Avanhard Stadium Uzhhorod Inhulets Petrove 12,000
7 Tsentralnyi Stadion Cherkasy LNZ Cherkasy 10,321
8 CSC Nika Stadium Oleksandriya FC Oleksandriya 7,000
9 Tsentralnyi Stadion Zhytomyr Polissya Zhytomyr 5,928
10 Obolon Arena Kyiv Obolon Kyiv 5,100
11 Kolos Stadium Kovalivka Kolos Kovalivka 5,050
12 Arena Livyi Bereh Zolochivska hromada Livyi Bereh Kyiv 4,700
Shakhtar Donetsk used as home ground during the season
13 Avanhard Stadium Rivne Veres Rivne 4,650
14 Hirnyk Stadium Kryvyi Rih Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 2,500

Personnel and sponsorship

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Team President Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Chornomorets Odesa Leonid Klimov   Oleksandr Babych   Bohdan Butko Kelme Vbet
Dynamo Kyiv Ihor Surkis   Oleksandr Shovkovskyi   Vitaliy Buyalskyi New Balance A-Bank
Inhulets Petrove Oleksandr Povoroznyuk   Vasyl Kobin   Oleksandr Kozak Macron П'ятихатська
Karpaty Lviv Volodymyr Matkivskyi   Vladyslav Lupashko   Denys Miroshnichenko Nike Львівське
Kolos Kovalivka Andriy Zasukha   Oleksandr Pozdeyev   Valeriy Bondarenko Nike Vbet
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Kostyantyn Karamanits   Yuriy Vernydub   Dmytro Khomchenovskyi SKIDAN Rudomain
Livyi Bereh Kyiv Mykola Lavrenko   Vitaliy Pervak   Ruslan Dedukh Nike ″Metalo Galva″
LNZ Cherkasy Viktor Kravchenko   Andrés Carrasco   Oleh Tarasenko Macron Vbet
Obolon Kyiv Oleksandr Slobodian   Serhiy Shyshchenko   Nazariy Fedorivskyi Jako FavBet
Oleksandriya Serhiy Kuzmenko   Ruslan Rotan   Kyrylo Kovalets Nike AgroVista
Polissya Zhytomyr Hennadiy Butkevych   Imad Ashur   Ruslan Babenko Nike BGV Group
Rukh Lviv Hryhoriy Kozlovskyi   Vitaliy Ponomaryov   Marko Sapuha Macron Emily Resort
Shakhtar Donetsk Rinat Akhmetov  [A] Marino Pušić   Taras Stepanenko Puma FavBet
Veres Rivne Ivan Nadieyin   Oleh Shandruk   Bohdan Kohut Kelme Vbet
Vorskla Poltava Kostyantyn Zhevago   Serhiy Dolhanskyi (caretaker)   Ihor Perduta Nike Ferrexpo
Zorya Luhansk Yevhen Heller   Mladen Bartulovic (interim)   Roman Vantukh Puma —

Managerial changes

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Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Inhulets Petrove   Vladyslav Lupashko Mutual agreement 5 June 2024 Pre-season   Vasyl Kobin 15 June 2024[5]
LNZ Cherkasy   Oleg Dulub End of the contract 10 June 2024[6]   Andrés Carrasco 11 June 2024[7]
Chornomorets Odesa   Roman Hryhorchuk Mutual consent[8] 26 June 2024[8]   Stepan Matviyiv (caretaker) 26 June 2024
  Stepan Matviyiv (caretaker) End of the contract 30 June 2024   Serhiy Politylo (caretaker) 1 July 2024[9][10]
  Anatoliy Didenko (caretaker)
  Anatoliy Didenko & Serhiy Politylo (caretakers) End of caretaker spell[B] 13 July 2024   Oleksandr Babych 9 July 2024[11]
Karpaty Lviv   Myron Markevych Mutual consent[12] 17 July 2024   Vladyslav Lupashko 19 July 2024
Zorya Luhansk   Yuriy Koval (caretaker) Return to previous position 26 August 2024 8th   Mladen Bartulovic (interim) 26 August 2024
Obolon Kyiv   Valeriy Ivashchenko Fired 4 September 2024[13] 16th   Oleksandr Antonenko (interim) 4 September 2024
  Oleksandr Antonenko (interim) End of interim 5 September 2024   Serhiy Shyshchenko 5 September 2024

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Oleksandriya 4 4 0 0 10 5 +5 12 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2 Polissya Zhytomyr 4 3 1 0 10 2 +8 10 Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
3 Rukh Lviv 4 3 0 1 13 3 +10 9[a]
4 LNZ Cherkasy 5 3 0 2 6 5 +1 9[a]
5 Dynamo Kyiv 3 3 0 0 6 2 +4 9[a]
6 Zorya Luhansk 5 3 0 2 6 6 0 9[a]
7 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 4 2 1 1 4 4 0 7
8 Vorskla Poltava 4 2 1 1 6 6 0 7
9 Shakhtar Donetsk 4 2 0 2 9 5 +4 6[b]
10 Livyi Bereh Kyiv 5 2 0 3 4 6 −2 6[b]
11 Karpaty Lviv 5 1 2 2 6 6 0 5
12 Veres Rivne 5 1 1 3 3 7 −4 4
13 Chornomorets Odesa 5 1 0 4 2 7 −5 3 Qualification for the Relegation play-off
14 Inhulets Petrove 5 0 3 2 3 9 −6 3
15 Kolos Kovalivka 5 0 2 3 3 6 −3 2 Relegation to Ukrainian First League
16 Obolon Kyiv 5 0 1 4 2 14 −12 1
Updated to match(es) played on 1 September 2024. Source: upl.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw or "Golden match" if two teams tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).[14]
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  1. ^ a b c d Head-to-head points (goal difference, goals scored): Rukh 3 (+1, 4), LNZ 3 (+1, 3), Dynamo 3 (+1, 1), Zorya 0 (-3, 0)
  2. ^ a b Head-to-head points (goal difference): Shakhtar 3 (+1), Livyi Bereh 0 (-1)

Results

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Teams play each other twice on a home and away basis.

Home \ Away CHO DYN INH KAR KOL KRY LIV LNZ OBL OLK PZH RUX SHA VER VOR ZOR
Chornomorets Odesa 1–0 1–4 0–1
Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 a
Inhulets Petrove
Karpaty Lviv 1–3 3–0 1–1
Kolos Kovalivka 0–0 0–1
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1–0 1–1
Livyi Bereh Kyiv 1–0 0–1 0–3
LNZ Cherkasy 2–1 1–0 0–2 3–1
Obolon Kyiv 2–2 0–4 0–2
Oleksandriya 2–1 4–3
Polissia Zhytomyr 1–1 4–0
Rukh Lviv 5–0 ppd 3–0
Shakhtar Donetsk a 0–1
Veres Rivne 1–2 0–0 0–2 1–3
Vorskla Poltava 2–0 0–5
Zorya Luhansk 2–1 1–2
Updated to match(es) played on 31 August 2024. Source: UPL calendar
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Mini-Tournament play-offs

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After the withdrawal of Dnipro-1 from the Ukrainian Premier League the administration concured a playoff between the relegated teams from the 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League season and the third and fourth placed teams from the 2023–24 Ukrainian First League Promotion group.


Team 1  Score  Team 2
Livyi Bereh Kyiv 1 – 1
5 – 4 (pen.) 		Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi 3 – 3
3 – 5 (pen.) 		FC Mynai


Semi-Finals

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Livyi Bereh Kyiv1 – 1Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Report
Penalties
5 – 4

Livyi Bereh Kyiv advance to the Final of the Mini-Tournament play-offs

Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi3 – 3FC Mynai
Report
Penalties
3 – 5

FC Mynai advance to the Final of the Mini-Tournament play-offs

Final

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Team 1  Score  Team 2
Livyi Bereh Kyiv 3 – 0 FC Mynai


Livyi Bereh Kyiv3 – 0FC Mynai
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Livyi Bereh Kyiv promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League
FC Mynai relegated to the Ukrainian First League

Relegation play-offs

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Teams that placed 13th and 14th in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League play two-leg play-off with the third and fourth teams of the 2024–25 Ukrainian First League.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
TBD x–x TBD
TBD x–x TBD

First Semi-final

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Second Semi-final

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Season statistics

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Clean sheets

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As of 1 September 2024[16]

Rank Player Club Clean
sheets
1   Dmytro Ledviy Rukh Lviv 3
2   Pavlo Isenko Vorskla Poltava 2
  Oleksandr Kemkin Karpaty Lviv
  Andriy Klishchuk Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
  Mykyta Turbayevskyi Zorya Luhansk
  Dmytro Riznyk Shakhtar Donetsk
  Yevhen Volynets Polissya Zhytomyr

Hat-tricks

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As of 1 September 2024

Player For Against Result Date
  Oleksandr Filippov Oleksandriya Shakhtar Donetsk 4–3 (H) 24 August 2024
  Oleksandr Nazarenko Polissya Zhytomyr Obolon Kyiv 4–0 (H) 25 August 2024

Awards

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Monthly awards

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Month Player of the Month Coach of the Month Ref.
Player Club Coach Club
August 2024   Oleksandr Nazarenko Polissya Zhytomyr   Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [17]
September 2024
October 2024
November 2024
December 2024 / February 2025
March 2025
April 2025
May 2025

Round awards

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Round Player Coach
Player Club Reference Coach Club Reference
Round 1   Mykola Matviyenko Shakhtar Donetsk [18]   Marino Pušić Shakhtar Donetsk [18]
Round 2   Mykola Shaparenko Dynamo Kyiv [19]   Imad Ashur Polissya Zhytomyr [19]
Round 3   Oleksandr Pikhalyonok Dynamo Kyiv [20]   Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [21]
Round 4   Oleksandr Filippov FC Oleksandriya [22]   Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [22]
Round 5   Illya Kvasnytsia Rukh Lviv [23]   Vitaliy Pervak Livyi Bereh Kyiv [23]
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
winter break
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Round 22
Round 23
Round 24
Round 25
Round 26
Round 27
Round 28
Round 29
Round 30

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Born on territory of Bosnian republic in Yugoslavia before its dissolution, Marino Pušić is of mixed ethnic background and carries a dual citizenship.[4]
  2. ^ Despite the appointment to the position of head coach, Oleksandr Babych has not yet taken up his duties, so the team was led by Anatoliy Didenko

References

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  1. ^ Official Logo. Ukrainian Premier League website.
  2. ^ "Дніпро-1 знімається, але просить Лігу зберегти за клубом професійний статус. Завтра відбудуться загальні збори УПЛ" [Dnipro-1 withdaws, but asks League to remain wit professional status. Tomorrow will be a Genernal Meeting of the PFL]. ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 18 July 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  3. ^ Places of holding competitions (Місця проведення змагань). 2022–23 Ukrainian Premier League regulations.
  4. ^ Profile of Marino Pušić. www.worldfootball.net
  5. ^ "Официально: Василий Кобин возглавил Ингулец" (in Russian). www.ua-football.com. 15 June 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  6. ^ "ЛНЗ ЗАВЕРШИВ СПІВПРАЦЮ З ОЛЕГОМ ДУЛУБОМ ТА ОЛЕКСАНДРОМ ГРАНОВСЬКИМ" (in Ukrainian). fc-lnz.com. 10 June 2024. Archived from the original on 10 June 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  7. ^ "АНДРЕС КАРРАСКО – ГОЛОВНИЙ ТРЕНЕР ФК ЛНЗ" (in Ukrainian). fc-lnz.com. 11 June 2024. Archived from the original on 12 June 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  8. ^ a b "РОМАН ГРИГОРЧУК ЗАЛИШАЄ "ЧОРНОМОРЕЦЬ"" (in Ukrainian). chornomorets.football. 26 June 2024. Archived from the original on 4 July 2024. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Ще два тренери завершили роботу в Чорноморці" (in Ukrainian). sport.ua. 1 July 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  10. ^ "ТРЕНУВАЛЬНА ГРА: «ЧОРНОМОРЕЦЬ» - «НИВА» ВІННИЦЯ – 2:2" (in Ukrainian). chornomorets.football. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  11. ^ "ОЛЕКСАНДР БАБИЧ – ГОЛОВНИЙ ТРЕНЕР «ЧОРНОМОРЦЯ»" (in Ukrainian). chornomorets.football. 9 July 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  12. ^ "Мирон Маркевич підтвердив, що залишив Карпати" (in Ukrainian). ua-football.com. 17 July 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  13. ^ "Валерій Іващенко покинув Оболонь" (in Ukrainian). fc.obolon.ua. 4 September 2024. Archived from the original on 4 September 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  14. ^ Defining of teams' places in competitions (Визначення місць команд у змаганнях). 2021–22 Ukrainian Premier League regulations.
  15. ^ Top scorers. Ukrainian Premier League.
  16. ^ "Most Clean Sheets". www.footystats.org/. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  17. ^ "Олександр Назаренко та Руслан Ротань - найкращі гравець та тренер VBET УПЛ серпня!" (in Ukrainian).
  18. ^ a b "Матвієнко, Цуріков, Яцик і всі інші герої початку сезону: уся збірна 1-го туру Прем'єр-Ліги". sportarena.com. 5 August 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  19. ^ a b "Шапаренко, Буяльський, Челядін, Герреро та найважчий вибір воротаря: уся збірна 2-го туру Прем'єр-Ліги". sportarena.com. 13 August 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  20. ^ "Піхальонок визнаний найкращим гравцем третього туру УПЛ". sportarena.com. 20 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  21. ^ "Ротань признан лучшим тренером третьего тура УПЛ-2024/25 по версии Всеукраинского объединения тренеров по футболу". sportarena.com. 19 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  22. ^ a b "Найкращий косовар нашого чемпіонату, «бразильські» фланги Полісся та Філіппов, який не потребує представлень. Уся збірна 4-го туру Прем'єр-Ліги". sportarena.com. 27 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  23. ^ a b "Квасниця, Приходько Холод і, звісно, Назаренко. Вся збірна 5-го туру Прем'єр-Ліги". sportarena.com. 2 September 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
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