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.
Season | 2024–25 |
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Dates | 3 August 2024 – 24 May 2025 14 December 2024 – 22 February 2025 (winter break) |
Matches played | 108 |
Goals scored | 251 (2.32 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Artem Bondarenko (8 goals) |
Biggest home win | Shakhtar 6–0 Inhulets (23 November 2024) |
Biggest away win | Vorskla 0–5 Shakhtar (4 August 2024) |
Highest scoring | Oleksandriya 4–3 Shakhtar (24 August 2024) Shakhtar 5–2 Karpaty (14 September 2024) Dynamo 5–2 Inhulets (3 November 2024) |
Longest winning run | 5 matches Dynamo |
Longest unbeaten run | 13 matches Dynamo Oleksandriya |
Longest winless run | 14 matches Inhulets |
Longest losing run | 4 matches Obolon |
Highest attendance | 6,300 Karpaty 1–3 Dynamo (17 August 2024) |
Lowest attendance | 0 9 matches |
Total attendance | 122,522 |
Average attendance | 1,162 |
← 2023–24 2025–26 →
All statistics correct as of 24 November 2024. |
Teams
editThis season the Ukrainian Premier League remained at 16 teams.
Promoted teams
edit- Inhulets Petrove – first-placed team of the 2023–24 Ukrainian First League (returning after a season)
- Karpaty Lviv – second-placed team of the 2023–24 Ukrainian First League (returning, last competed in 2019–20, for the first time since its reorganization in 2020)
- Livyi Bereh Kyiv – winner of pre-season Mini-tournament. Third-placed team of the 2023–24 Ukrainian First League (debut)
Relegated teams
edit- FC Mynai – relegated after four seasons in the top flight.
- Metalist 1925 Kharkiv – relegated after three seasons in the top flight.
Withdrawn teams
editLocation map
editStadiums
editThe 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 |
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1 | Arena Lviv | Lviv | Rukh Lviv | 34,725 | |
Shakhtar Donetsk | used as home ground in 4 matches | ||||
2 | Chornomorets Stadium | Odesa | Chornomorets Odesa | 34,164 | |
3 | Ukraina Stadium | Lviv | Karpaty Lviv | 28,051 | |
4 | Butovsky Vorskla Stadium | Poltava | Vorskla Poltava | 23,842 | |
5 | Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium | Kyiv | Dynamo Kyiv | 16,873 | |
Zorya Luhansk | used as home ground during the season | ||||
6 | Tsentralnyi Stadion | Cherkasy | LNZ Cherkasy | 10,321 | |
7 | Avanhard Stadium | Rivne | Veres Rivne | 7,122 | |
8 | CSC Nika Stadium | Oleksandriya | FC Oleksandriya | 7,000 | |
9 | Tsentralnyi Stadion | Zhytomyr | Polissya Zhytomyr | 5,928 | |
10 | Obolon Arena | Kyiv | Obolon Kyiv | 5,103 | |
11 | Kolos Stadium | Kovalivka | Kolos Kovalivka | 5,050 | |
LNZ Cherkasy | used as home ground in 1 match | ||||
12 | Arena Livyi Bereh | Zolochivska hromada | Livyi Bereh Kyiv | 4,700 | |
Shakhtar Donetsk | used as home ground during the season | ||||
13 | Hirnyk Stadium | Kryvyi Rih | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 3,219 | |
Inhulets Petrove | used as reserve home ground during the season |
Personnel and sponsorship
editManagerial changes
editTeam | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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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 Bartulović (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 | ||
Vorskla Poltava | Serhiy Dolhanskyi (caretaker) | Return to previous coaching role | 23 October 2024 | 12th | Yuriy Maksymov | 24 October 2024 |
Notes:
League table
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Dynamo Kyiv | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 10 | +22 | 35 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round |
2 | Oleksandriya | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 8 | +14 | 33 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round |
3 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 12 | +25 | 29 | |
4 | Polissya Zhytomyr | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 11 | +10 | 23 | |
5 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 11 | +3 | 22 | |
6 | Karpaty Lviv | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 17 | −1 | 21 | |
7 | LNZ Cherkasy | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 20 | −5 | 18[a] | |
8 | Rukh Lviv | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 9 | +8 | 18[a] | |
9 | Veres Rivne | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 17 | −2 | 16 | |
10 | Vorskla Poltava | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 18 | −4 | 16 | |
11 | Zorya Luhansk | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 18 | −4 | 16 | |
12 | Kolos Kovalivka | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 13 | |
13 | Chornomorets Odesa | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 17 | −8 | 12 | Qualification for the Relegation play-off |
14 | Livyi Bereh Kyiv | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 18 | −14 | 9 | |
15 | Obolon Kyiv | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 27 | −21 | 9 | Relegation to Ukrainian First League |
16 | Inhulets Petrove | 14 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 29 | −20 | 6 |
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]
Notes:
Results
editTeams play each other twice on a home and away basis.
Mini-Tournament play-offs
editAfter 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 |
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Livyi Bereh Kyiv | 1 – 1 5 – 4 (pen.) |
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv |
Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi | 3 – 3 3 – 5 (pen.) |
FC Mynai |
Semi-Finals
editLivyi Bereh Kyiv | 1 – 1 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
5 – 4 |
Livyi Bereh Kyiv advance to the Final of the Mini-Tournament play-offs
Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi | 3 – 3 | FC Mynai |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
3 – 5 |
FC Mynai advance to the Final of the Mini-Tournament play-offs
Final
editTeam 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Livyi Bereh Kyiv | 3 – 0 | FC Mynai |
Livyi Bereh Kyiv promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League
Relegation play-offs
editTeams 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. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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TBD | x–x | TBD | ||
TBD | x–x | TBD |
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Second Semi-final
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Season statistics
editAwards
editMonthly awards
editMonth | Player of the Month | Coach of the Month | Ref. | ||
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Player | Club | Coach | Club | ||
August 2024 | Oleksandr Nazarenko | Polissya Zhytomyr | Ruslan Rotan | FC Oleksandriya | [17] |
September 2024 | Volodymyr Brazhko | Dynamo Kyiv | Imad Ashur | Polissya Zhytomyr | [18] |
October 2024 | Oleksandr Nazarenko | Polissya Zhytomyr | Vladyslav Lupashko | Karpaty Lviv | [19] |
November 2024 | |||||
December 2024 / February 2025 | |||||
March 2025 | |||||
April 2025 | |||||
May 2025 |
Round awards
editRound | Player | Coach | ||||
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Player | Club | Reference | Coach | Club | Reference | |
Round 1 | Mykola Matviyenko | Shakhtar Donetsk | [20] | Marino Pušić | Shakhtar Donetsk | [20] |
Round 2 | Mykola Shaparenko | Dynamo Kyiv | [21] | Imad Ashur | Polissya Zhytomyr | [21] |
Round 3 | Oleksandr Pikhalyonok | Dynamo Kyiv | [22] | Ruslan Rotan | FC Oleksandriya | [23] |
Round 4 | Oleksandr Filippov | FC Oleksandriya | [24] | Ruslan Rotan | FC Oleksandriya | [24] |
Round 5 | Illya Kvasnytsia | Rukh Lviv | [25] | Vitaliy Pervak | Livyi Bereh Kyiv | [25] |
Round 6 | Artem Bondarenko | Shakhtar Donetsk | [26] | Marino Pušić | Shakhtar Donetsk | [26] |
Round 7 | Mykyta Kravchenko | FC Oleksandriya | [27] | Oleksandr Pozdeyev | Kolos Kovalivka | [27] |
Heorhiy Sudakov | Shakhtar Donetsk | [28] | Vitaliy Ponomaryov | Rukh Lviv | [28] | |
Round 8 | Oleksiy Hutsulyak | Polissya Zhytomyr | [29] | Ruslan Rotan | FC Oleksandriya | [29] |
Round 9 | Heorhiy Sudakov | Shakhtar Donetsk | [30] | Oleksandr Babych | Chornomorets Odessa | [30] |
Round 10 | Illya Putrya | LNZ Cherkasy | [31] | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi | Dynamo Kyiv | [31] |
Round 11 | Hrvoje Ilić | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | [32] | Yuriy Vernydub | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | [32] |
Round 12 | Mykola Shaparenko | Dynamo Kyiv | [33] | Ruslan Rotan | FC Oleksandriya | [33] |
Round 13 | Miguel Campos | FC Oleksandriya | [34] | Oleh Shandruk | Veres Rivne | [34] |
Round 14 | Oleksandr Zubkov | Shakhtar Donetsk | [35] | Yuriy Maksymov | Vorskla Poltava | [35] |
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
editNotes
edit- ^ Born on territory of Bosnian republic in Yugoslavia before its dissolution, Marino Pušić is of mixed ethnic background and carries a dual citizenship.[4]
- ^ 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
edit- ^ Official Logo. Ukrainian Premier League website.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Places of holding competitions (Місця проведення змагань). 2022–23 Ukrainian Premier League regulations.
- ^ Profile of Marino Pušić. www.worldfootball.net
- ^ "Официально: Василий Кобин возглавил Ингулец" (in Russian). www.ua-football.com. 15 June 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
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- ^ "ОЛЕКСАНДР БАБИЧ – ГОЛОВНИЙ ТРЕНЕР «ЧОРНОМОРЦЯ»" (in Ukrainian). chornomorets.football. 9 July 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
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- ^ Top scorers. Ukrainian Premier League.
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External links
edit- Official website of the Ukrainian Premier League
- The season's calendar planner. Ukrainian Premier League. (pdf format)