1996–97 Ukrainian First League
Season | 1996–97 |
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Champions | Metalurh Donetsk |
Promoted | Metalurh Mariupol |
Relegated | Odessa Krystal Chortkiv Podillya Khmelnytskyi Veres Rivne |
Top goalscorer | (22) Oleksiy Antyukhin (Dynamo-2 Kyiv) |
← 1995–96 1997–98 → |
1996–97 Ukrainian First League was the sixth season of the Ukrainian First League which was won by Metalurh Donetsk. The season started on August 4, 1996, and finished on June 20, 1997.
Promotion and relegation[]
Promoted teams[]
Three clubs promoted from the 1995–96 Ukrainian Second League.
- Group A
- FC CSKA Kyiv – champion (returning after four seasons, previously in 1992 as SKA Kyiv)
- Group B
- FC Metalurh Mariupol – champion (returning after four seasons, previously in 1992 as FC Azovets Mariupol)
- FC Metalurh Donetsk – promotion play-off (debut)
Relegated teams[]
Three clubs were relegated from the 1995-96 Ukrainian Top League:
- SC Mykolaiv – 16th place (returning after two seasons, previously in 1994-95 as FC Evis Mykolaiv)
- FC Volyn Lutsk – 17th place (debut)
- FC Zorya Luhansk – 18th place (debut)
Renamed teams[]
- FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod changed its name to FC Verkhovyna Uzhhorod before the season.
- FC CSKA Kyiv changed its name to FC CSKA-2 Kyiv before the season since becoming the farm team of the Borysfen-CSKA merger.
- FC Dnipro Cherkasy changed its name to FC Cherkasy during the winter break.
Teams[]
In 1996-97 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:
Club | City | Stadium | Coach | Replaced coach(es) |
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Metalist Kharkiv | Kharkiv | Metalist Stadium | Mykhailo Fomenko | Viktor Udovenko |
Veres Rivne | Rivne | Avanhard Stadium | Viacheslav Kobeletsky | |
Poligraftechnika Olexandria | Oleksandriya | Olimp Stadium | Yuriy Koval | Anatoliy Buznyk |
Podillya Khmelnytskyi | Khmelnytskyi Krasyliv |
Podillya Stadium Yunist Stadium |
V.Kvartsyany | Volodymyr Bulhakov |
Krystal Chortkiv | Chortkiv | Kharchovyk Stadium | V.Ivehesh | Ivan Hamaliy |
Lviv | Lviv | Stepan Yurchyshyn | ||
Dynamo-2 Kyiv | Kyiv | Dynamo Stadium | Volodymyr Onyshchenko | |
Yavir Krasnopillia | Krasnopillya | Kolos Stadium Yavir Stadium |
Valeriy Dushkov | |
Stal Alchevsk | Alchevsk | Stal Stadium | Anatoliy Volobuyev | |
Dnipro Cherkasy | Cherkasy | Central Stadium Spartak Stadium |
Semen Osynovskyi | Ihor Chupryna |
Bazhanovets Makiivka | Makiivka | Avanhard Stadium | Viktor Pyshchev | |
Bukovyna Chernivtsi | Chernivtsi | Bukovyna Stadium | V.Bohuslavsky | Yukhym Shkolnykov |
Khimik Zhytomyr | Zhytomyr | City Stadium | Hryhoriy Ishchenko | V.Veber |
Naftovyk Okhtyrka | Okhtyrka | Naftovyk Stadium | Vasyl Yermak | Oleksandr Dovbiy |
Metalurh Nikopol | Nikopol | Elektrometalurh Stadium | Hryhoriy Verzhelenko | |
Volyn Lutsk | Lutsk | Avanhard Stadium | A.Radchenko | |
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod | Uzhhorod | Avanhard Stadium | Oleksandr Holokolosov Sr. | Matviy Bobal |
Zorya Luhansk | Luhansk | Avanhard Stadium | A.Shakun | Anatoliy Kuksov |
CSKA-2 Kyiv | Kyiv | CSKA Stadium | A.Shtelin | A.Petrakov |
Khimik Severodonetsk | Sieverodonetsk | Khimik Stadium | Yuriy Koval | Yuriy Vankevych |
Odessa | Odessa | SKA Stadium | Serhiy Marusyn | |
Mykolaiv | Central Stadium | Anatoliy Zayaev | Yevhen Kucherevsky | |
Metalurh Donetsk | Donetsk | Shakhtar Stadium | Yevhen Korol | |
Metalurh Mariupol | Mariupol | Azovstal Stadium | Yuriy Pohrebnyak |
Final table[]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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1 | Metalurh Donetsk (C, P) | 46 | 32 | 5 | 9 | 77 | 39 | +38 | 101 | Promoted to Vyshcha Liha |
2 | Dynamo-2 Kyiv | 46 | 29 | 8 | 9 | 91 | 33 | +58 | 95 | |
3 | Metalurh Mariupol (P) | 46 | 29 | 6 | 11 | 92 | 56 | +36 | 93 | Promoted to Vyshcha Liha |
4 | Volyn Lutsk | 46 | 26 | 5 | 15 | 62 | 47 | +15 | 83 | |
5 | Naftovyk Okhtyrka | 46 | 25 | 6 | 15 | 76 | 43 | +33 | 81 | |
6 | Stal Alchevsk | 46 | 23 | 9 | 14 | 76 | 43 | +33 | 78 | |
7 | SC Mykolaiv | 46 | 21 | 12 | 13 | 66 | 37 | +29 | 75 | |
8 | FC Lviv | 46 | 20 | 9 | 17 | 56 | 43 | +13 | 69 | |
9 | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 46 | 19 | 10 | 17 | 64 | 51 | +13 | 67 | |
10 | Polihraftekhnika Oleksandria | 46 | 17 | 14 | 15 | 55 | 51 | +4 | 65 | |
11 | Metalurh Nikopol | 46 | 20 | 4 | 22 | 60 | 66 | −6 | 64 | |
12 | Metalist Kharkiv | 46 | 18 | 9 | 19 | 55 | 53 | +2 | 63 | |
13 | Yavir Krasnopillia | 46 | 18 | 7 | 21 | 61 | 61 | 0 | 61 | |
14 | Khimik Severodonetsk | 46 | 16 | 11 | 19 | 64 | 62 | +2 | 59 | |
15 | Verkhovyna Uzhhorod | 46 | 17 | 7 | 22 | 56 | 78 | −22 | 58 | |
16 | Shakhtar Makiivka | 46 | 15 | 11 | 20 | 55 | 62 | −7 | 56 | |
17 | FC Cherkasy | 46 | 16 | 7 | 23 | 46 | 78 | −32 | 55 | |
18 | Khimik Zhytomyr | 46 | 15 | 10 | 21 | 44 | 61 | −17 | 55 | |
19 | CSKA-2 Kyiv | 46 | 15 | 9 | 22 | 37 | 56 | −19 | 54 | |
20 | Zoria Luhansk | 46 | 16 | 5 | 25 | 58 | 84 | −26 | 53 | |
21 | SC Odesa (R) | 46 | 14 | 8 | 24 | 47 | 79 | −32 | 50 | Relegated to Second League |
22 | Podillia Khmelnytskyi (R) | 46 | 11 | 13 | 22 | 40 | 66 | −26 | 46 | |
23 | Veres Rivne (R) | 46 | 11 | 9 | 26 | 36 | 79 | −43 | 42 | |
24 | Krystal Chortkiv (R) | 46 | 9 | 6 | 31 | 31 | 77 | −46 | 33 |
Source:[citation needed]
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Persha Liha 1996-97 Winners |
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FC Metalurh Donetsk First title |
Top scorers[]
Statistics are taken from here.[1]
Scorer | Goals (Pen.) | Team | |
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1 | Oleksiy Antiukhin | 22 (7) | Dynamo-2 Kyiv |
2 | Yuriy Hetman | 21 (1) | Metalurh Mariupol |
3 | Oleksandr Sevidov | 20 | Metalurh Donetsk |
4 | Viktor Diak | 18 (10) | Shakhtar Makiivka |
5 | 16 (12) | Metalurh Mariupol | |
6 | Yevhen Sonin | 15 (3) | SC Mykolaiv |
7 | 14 | Metalurh D. / Stal | |
14 (1) | Khimik Severodonetsk | ||
9 | 13 | Metalist Kharkiv | |
13 (2) | Yavir Krasnopillya |
See also[]
- Ukrainian Premier League 1996-97
- Ukrainian Second League 1996-97
References[]
- ^ Statistics (in Russian)
Categories:
- Ukrainian First League seasons
- 1996–97 in Ukrainian association football leagues
- 1996–97 in European second tier association football leagues