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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 played108
Goals scored251 (2.32 per match)
Top goalscorerArtem Bondarenko
(8 goals)
Biggest home winShakhtar 6–0 Inhulets
(23 November 2024)
Biggest away winVorskla 0–5 Shakhtar
(4 August 2024)
Highest scoringOleksandriya 4–3 Shakhtar
(24 August 2024)
Shakhtar 5–2 Karpaty
(14 September 2024)
Dynamo 5–2 Inhulets
(3 November 2024)
Longest winning run5 matches
Dynamo
Longest unbeaten run13 matches
Dynamo
Oleksandriya
Longest winless run14 matches
Inhulets
Longest losing run4 matches
Obolon
Highest attendance6,300
Karpaty 1–3 Dynamo
(17 August 2024)
Lowest attendance0
9 matches
Total attendance122,522
Average attendance1,162
All statistics correct as of 24 November 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Withdrawn teams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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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 34,725
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

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

Managerial changes

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Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Inhulets Petrove Ukraine  Vladyslav Lupashko Mutual agreement 5 June 2024 Pre-season Ukraine  Vasyl Kobin 15 June 2024[5]
LNZ Cherkasy Belarus  Oleg Dulub End of the contract 10 June 2024[6] Spain  Andrés Carrasco 11 June 2024[7]
Chornomorets Odesa Ukraine  Roman Hryhorchuk Mutual consent[8] 26 June 2024[8] Ukraine  Stepan Matviyiv (caretaker) 26 June 2024
Ukraine  Stepan Matviyiv (caretaker) End of the contract 30 June 2024 Ukraine  Serhiy Politylo (caretaker) 1 July 2024[9][10]
Ukraine  Anatoliy Didenko (caretaker)
Ukraine  Anatoliy Didenko & Serhiy Politylo (caretakers) End of caretaker spell[B] 13 July 2024 Ukraine  Oleksandr Babych 9 July 2024[11]
Karpaty Lviv Ukraine  Myron Markevych Mutual consent[12] 17 July 2024 Ukraine  Vladyslav Lupashko 19 July 2024
Zorya Luhansk Ukraine  Yuriy Koval (caretaker) Return to previous position 26 August 2024 8th Croatia  Mladen Bartulović (interim) 26 August 2024
Obolon Kyiv Ukraine  Valeriy Ivashchenko Fired 4 September 2024[13] 16th Ukraine  Oleksandr Antonenko (interim) 4 September 2024
Ukraine  Oleksandr Antonenko (interim) End of interim 5 September 2024 Ukraine  Serhiy Shyshchenko 5 September 2024
Vorskla Poltava Ukraine  Serhiy Dolhanskyi (caretaker) Return to previous coaching role 23 October 2024 12th Ukraine  Yuriy Maksymov 24 October 2024

Notes:

  1. ^ Given the fact that the company continues to cooperate with Russian clubs, the logo of Joma on the game uniform is disguised by the logo of another sponsor of the club
  2. ^ Since 14th matchweek

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
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
Updated to match(es) played on 25 November 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]
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head points: LNZ 3, Rukh 0

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 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–4 1–1 0–1 0–1
Dynamo Kyiv 3–1 5–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–1 3–1
Inhulets Petrove
Karpaty Lviv 1–3 0–0 1–0 3–0 3–0 1–0 1–3 1–1
Kolos Kovalivka 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 0–1 1–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1–0 1–1 3–1 0–1 1–1 1–1
Livyi Bereh Kyiv 1–0 0–3 0–0 0–1 0–1 0–3 0–2
LNZ Cherkasy 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 0–1 0–2 3–1
Obolon Kyiv 1–5 2–1 2–2 0–1 0–0 0–4 0–0 0–2
Oleksandriya 2–1 3–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 4–3 1–0
Polissia Zhytomyr 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 4–0 2–1 2–1
Rukh Lviv 1–1 5–0 0–1 0–0 1–0 3–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 2–1 a 6–0 5–2 5–1 4–0 0–1 3–1
Veres Rivne 1–2 2–2 0–0 0–2 1–3 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–2 2–1
Vorskla Poltava 0–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 0–5
Zorya Luhansk 0–2 2–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–0
Updated to match(es) played on 24 November 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 Kyiv advance to the Final of the Mini-Tournament play-offs


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

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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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 Ukraine  Oleksandr Nazarenko Polissya Zhytomyr Ukraine  Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [17]
September 2024 Ukraine  Volodymyr Brazhko Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine  Imad Ashur Polissya Zhytomyr [18]
October 2024 Ukraine  Oleksandr Nazarenko Polissya Zhytomyr Ukraine  Vladyslav Lupashko Karpaty Lviv [19]
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 Ukraine  Mykola Matviyenko Shakhtar Donetsk [20] Bosnia and Herzegovina  Marino Pušić Shakhtar Donetsk [20]
Round 2 Ukraine  Mykola Shaparenko Dynamo Kyiv [21] Ukraine  Imad Ashur Polissya Zhytomyr [21]
Round 3 Ukraine  Oleksandr Pikhalyonok Dynamo Kyiv [22] Ukraine  Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [23]
Round 4 Ukraine  Oleksandr Filippov FC Oleksandriya [24] Ukraine  Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [24]
Round 5 Ukraine  Illya Kvasnytsia Rukh Lviv [25] Ukraine  Vitaliy Pervak Livyi Bereh Kyiv [25]
Round 6 Ukraine  Artem Bondarenko Shakhtar Donetsk [26] Bosnia and Herzegovina  Marino Pušić Shakhtar Donetsk [26]
Round 7 Ukraine  Mykyta Kravchenko FC Oleksandriya [27] Ukraine  Oleksandr Pozdeyev Kolos Kovalivka [27]
Ukraine  Heorhiy Sudakov Shakhtar Donetsk [28] Ukraine  Vitaliy Ponomaryov Rukh Lviv [28]
Round 8 Ukraine  Oleksiy Hutsulyak Polissya Zhytomyr [29] Ukraine  Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [29]
Round 9 Ukraine  Heorhiy Sudakov Shakhtar Donetsk [30] Ukraine  Oleksandr Babych Chornomorets Odessa [30]
Round 10 Ukraine  Illya Putrya LNZ Cherkasy [31] Ukraine  Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Dynamo Kyiv [31]
Round 11 Croatia  Hrvoje Ilić Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [32] Ukraine  Yuriy Vernydub Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [32]
Round 12 Ukraine  Mykola Shaparenko Dynamo Kyiv [33] Ukraine  Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [33]
Round 13 Portugal  Miguel Campos FC Oleksandriya [34] Ukraine  Oleh Shandruk Veres Rivne [34]
Round 14 Ukraine  Oleksandr Zubkov Shakhtar Donetsk [35] Ukraine  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

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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.
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  11. ^ "ОЛЕКСАНДР БАБИЧ – ГОЛОВНИЙ ТРЕНЕР «ЧОРНОМОРЦЯ»" (in Ukrainian). chornomorets.football. 9 July 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
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  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. ^ "Найкращі гравець та тренер вересня VBET Української Прем'єр-Ліги — Бражко та Ашур!" (in Ukrainian).
  19. ^ "Найкращі гравець та тренер жовтня VBET Української Прем'єр-Ліги — Назаренко та Лупашко!" (in Ukrainian).
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