1992 Vyshcha Liha

1992 Vyshcha Liha (Ukrainian: Чемпіонат серед команд вищої ліги) was the first football championship organized in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and officially recognized by the UEFA. The last Soviet season finished in fall of 1991.

Vyshcha Liha
Season1992
ChampionsSC Tavriya Simferopol
1st title
RelegatedNyva Vinnytsia
Naftovyk Okhtyrka
Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
Evis Mykolaiv
Temp Shepetivka
SC Odessa
Champions LeagueTavriya Simferopol
Cup Winners' CupChornomorets Odessa
UEFA CupDynamo Kyiv
Matches played182
Goals scored403 (2.21 per match)
Top goalscorer(12) Yuriy Hudymenko (Tavriya)
Biggest home winTavriya 6–0 Temp
Chornomorets 6–0 Nyva V.
Biggest away winEvis 1–6 Shakhtar
Highest scoringDnipro 4–3 SC Odessa
Evis 1–6 Shakhtar
Highest attendance36,000 – Tavriya–Dynamo (final)
Lowest attendance280 – Dynamo–Nyva T.
← 1991

The Football Federation of Ukraine when organizing the competition decided to shift its calendar to synchronize it with one common in Europe "fall-spring" and organized a short championship.

Further information: Championship of the Ukrainian SSR

Teams and organization

Composition

The league and its calendar were adopted at the FFU Executive Committee session on 10 September 1991[1] with the ongoing 1991 season of the All-Soviet football competitions. It was established that the new league will consist of 20 teams divided in two groups.[1] Six clubs (last three from each group) were set to be relegated and replaced with two best from the First League, thus reducing the league for the next season to 16. Winners of both groups were to play against one another for the national title. The league's final was originally planned to consist of two games (home and away), but later due to scheduling of the Ukraine national football team's games it was changed to one on a neutral field.[1]

To the league were included all Ukrainian clubs of the 1991 Soviet Top and First leagues (8 clubs), nine of eleven Ukrainian clubs out the 1991 Soviet Second League (all of them competed in the west zone), the two best teams of the 1991 Soviet Second (lower) League and the winner of the Ukrainian Cup.[1] The FFU president Viktor Bannikov was against to include the Ukrainian Cup winner into the top league.[1]

There were opponents of organization of the championship among the most notable was FC Metalurh Zaporizhya.[1] The FC Metalist Kharkiv was against with the condition if they would be relegated from the 1991 Soviet Top League.[1] Also against the championship was Yevhen Kucherevskyi[1] (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, one of few Ukrainian coaches who managed to win the Soviet Top League).

There were plenty of alternative proposition on the composition and the season's calendar among which from the president of Prykarpattia Anatoliy Revutskyi and the head coach of Temp Ishtvan Sekech.[1]

Calendar

The championship started on March 6, about a month later after the qualification rounds of another national tournament, the first edition of Ukrainian Cup. The first half of the season was scheduled to finish on April 19 with the second one to resume on April 25 (6 days intermission). The last round was to be played on June 17.

Considering such a schedule and the fact that the Ukrainian Cup competition was on the way simultaneously, the Ukrainian clubs had to forfeit their scheduled games in the Soviet Cup competition. In addition to that Dynamo Kyiv also participated in the Champions League competition which ended for Dynamo only on April 15. Each team this season had at least two games scheduled every week on average.

Considering other official games (outside of the league), FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia and FC Dynamo Kyiv has played the record of 26 games from February 18 through June 21 and the most among the other clubs in the League.

Location of teams
Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1992

Qualified teams
Team League and position in 1991[1] Coach Replaced coach
Chornomorets Odessa Soviet Top League 4 Viktor Prokopenko
Dynamo Kyiv 5 Anatoliy Puzach
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 9 Mykola Pavlov Yevhen Kucherevsky
Shakhtar Donetsk 12 Valery Yaremchenko
Metalurh Zaporizhya 13 Ihor Nadein
Metalist Kharkiv 15 Leonid Tkachenko
Bukovyna Chernivtsi Soviet First League 5 Yukhym Shkolnykov
Tavriya Simferopol 6 Anatoliy Zayaev
Karpaty Lviv Soviet Second League, West 1 Stepan Yurchyshyn
Zorya-MALS Luhansk 2 Anatoliy Kuksov
Nyva Ternopil 4 Leonid Koltun
Nyva Vinnytsia 5 Valery Petrov Vyacheslav Hrozny
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 7 Yevhen Lemeshko
Volyn Lutsk 8 Myron Markevych
SC Odessa 10 Serhiy Marusyn
Kremin Kremenchuk 13 Volodymyr Lozynskyi
Evis Mykolaiv 15 Ivan Balan
Naftovyk Okhtyrka Soviet Second League B, Zone 1
Championship of the Ukrainian SSR		 1 Valery Dushkov
Prykarpattya 2 Yuriy Shuliatytskyi Ivan Krasnetskyi
Temp Shepetivka Soviet Second League B, Zone 1
Winner of Cup of the Ukrainian SSR		 9 Ishtvan Sekech

Note:

Clubs' name changes
  • Zorya-MALS Luhansk before the season carried name Zorya Luhansk. Name extension was provided for sponsorship reasons.
  • Evis Mykolaiv before the season carried name Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv.
  • SC Odessa changed its name from SKA Odessa on May 5, 1992, due to restructuring of the Odessa Military District and Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Stadiums
Rank Stadium Club Capacity Highest
Attendance		 Notes
1 Republican Stadium Dynamo Kyiv 100,000 5,000 Round 8 (Zorya-MALS)
2 Metalist Stadium Metalist Kharkiv 38,633 7,000 Round 15 (Dnipro)
3 Black Sea Shipping Central Stadium Chornomorets 34,362 9,500 Round 15 (Tavriya)
4 Shakhtar Stadium Shakhtar Donetsk 31,718 4,300 Round 20 (Tavriya)
5 Ukraina Stadium Karpaty Lviv 28,051 13,000 Round 3 (Tavriya)
Tavriya Simferopol 36,000 Final (Dynamo)
6 Central City Stadium Evis Mykolaiv 25,175 15,000 Round 4 (Chornomorets)
7 Meteor Stadium Dnipro 24,381 6,000 Round 13 (Dynamo)
8 Lokomotyv Stadium Nyva Vinnytsia 24,000 10,000 Round 17 (Shakhtar)
9 Avanhard Stadium Zorya-MALS 22,320 17,200 Round 14 (Dynamo)
10 Lokomotiv Stadium Tavriya Simferopol 19,978 3,500 Round 17 (Karpaty)
11 Dynamo Stadium Dynamo Kyiv 16,873 2,500 Round 17 (SC Odessa) as home ground in Round 12 and 17
12 AutoZAZ Stadium Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 15,000 5,000 Round 10 (Chornomorets)
13 City Stadium Nyva Ternopil 12,750 20,000 Round 10 (Dynamo)
14 Bukovyna Stadium Bukovyna Chernivtsi 12,000 14,000 Round 6 (Dynamo)
15 Metalurh Central Stadium Metalurh Zaporizhya 11,983 8,000 Round 1 (Shakhtar)
Dnipro 3,000 Playoff (Shakhtar)
16 Dnipro Stadium Kremin Kremenchuk 11,300 13,000 Round 14 (Chornomorets)
17 Avanhard Stadium Volyn Lutsk 10,792 20,000 Round 9 (Dynamo)
18 Elektron Stadium Prykarpattya 15,000 Round 5 (Dynamo)
19 Naftovyk Stadium Naftovyk Okhtyrka 5,256 4,500 Round 16 (Dnipro)
20 SKA Stadium SC Odessa 6,000 Round 4 (Dynamo)
21 Temp Stadium Temp Shepetivka 10,000 Round 8 (Shakhtar)

Managerial changes

Managerial changes approximated

Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment Table
FC Nyva Ternopil Mykhailo Dunets Pre season Leonid Koltun Pre season
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Yevhen Kucherevskyi March 10, 1992 1st Mykola Pavlov March 10, 1992 1st
FC Nyva Vinnytsia Vyacheslav Hrozny March 28, 1992 10th Valery Petrov March 28, 1992 10th
FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk Ivan Krasnetskyi April 1992 9th Yuriy Shuliatytskyi April 1992 9th

First stage

Qualified teams
Tavriya SimferopolChornomorets Odessa

Group A final standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Tavriya Simferopol (C) 18 11 6 1 30 9 +21 28 Qualification to Final playoff
2 Shakhtar Donetsk 18 10 6 2 31 10 +21 26 Qualification to Third place playoff
3 Chornomorets Odesa 18 9 7 2 30 12 +18 25 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
4 Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 18 6 7 5 21 16 +5 19
5 Metalurh Zaporizhya 18 6 6 6 20 19 +1 18
6 Karpaty Lviv 18 5 6 7 15 18 −3 16
7 Kremin Kremenchuk 18 4 8 6 17 23 −6 16
8 Nyva Vinnytsia (R) 18 5 4 9 18 33 −15 14 Relegated to Ukrainian First League
9 Evis Mykolaiv (R) 18 3 4 11 12 29 −17 10
10 Temp Shepetivka (R) 18 2 4 12 9 34 −25 8
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Home \ Away CHO EVS KRE KAR MZA NVI SHA TAV TMP TOR
Chornomorets Odesa 2–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 6–0 3–0 0–0 3–1 2–1
Evis Mykolaiv 1–2 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–6 1–2 1–0 1–1
Kremin Kremenchuk 1–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 2–3 1–1 1–1 1–1
Karpaty Lviv 2–1 2–0 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 0–2 2–0 0–0
Metalurh Zaporizhya 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 4–1 1–1 2–2 3–1 0–1
Nyva Vinnytsia 0–0 2–0 4–2 3–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 3–1
Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 5–0 0–0 2–0 0–0
Tavriya Simferopol 1–0 1–0 3–0 1–0 2–1 4–1 1–1 6–0 2–0
Temp Shepetivka 0–2 1–1 2–3 1–0 0–2 0–1 0–4 1–0 1–1
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 0–2 2–0 0–0 2–1 3–0 4–0 1–2 1–1 2–0
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Notes:

    Team ╲ Round1234567891011121314151617181920
    Chornomorets Odesa61335523332222222233
    MFC Mykolaiv23567897898888889999
    Kremin Kremenchuk24676666666666666667
    Karpaty Lviv45889988787777777776
    Metalurh Zaporizhya78453334543344444445
    Nyva Vinnytsia89101010101010101010101091098888
    Shakhtar Donetsk56212242224433333322
    Tavriya Simferopol12121111111111111111
    Temp Shepetivka810998779979991091010101010
    Torpedo Zaporizhzhia107744455455555555554
    Source: Aleksey Kobyzev's Web-Site (in Russian)

    Group B final standings
    Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
    1 Dynamo Kyiv 18 13 4 1 31 13 +18 30 Qualification to Final playoff
    2 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (O) 18 10 3 5 26 15 +11 23 Qualification to Third place playoff
    3 Metalist Kharkiv 18 8 5 5 21 16 +5 21
    4 Nyva Ternopil 18 8 5 5 16 12 +4 21
    5 Volyn Lutsk 18 8 2 8 24 21 +3 18
    6 Bukovyna Chernivtsi 18 7 4 7 17 16 +1 18
    7 Zorya-MALS Luhansk 18 6 5 7 23 23 0 17
    8 Naftovyk Okhtyrka (R) 18 5 3 10 12 28 −16 13 Relegated to Ukrainian First League
    9 Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk (R) 18 3 6 9 9 18 −9 12
    10 Odesa (R) 18 3 1 14 15 32 −17 7
    Source:
    Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference
    (O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated.
    Home \ Away BUK DNI DYN MET NAF NVT ODE PIF VOL ZOR
    Bukovyna Chernivtsi 1–2 0–0 0–1 3–0 2–1 3–1 0–0 2–1 3–1
    Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0–1 0–1 2–1 2–0 4–1 4–3 1–0 3–0 2–0
    Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 2–2 2–1 1–0 1–0 4–2 2–0 2–0 2–1
    Metalist Kharkiv 0–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 0–2 1–0 3–1 1–0
    Naftovyk Okhtyrka 0–0 0–1 1–3 1–0 0–0 3–1 1–0 2–1 2–2
    Nyva Ternopil 1–0 1–0 0–2 1–1 2–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–0
    SC Odesa 3–0 1–1 1–3 0–3 0–1 0–1 1–0 0–2 0–1
    Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk 0–1 0–1 0–0 1–1 4–1 0–0 1–0 0–0 2–1
    Volyn Lutsk 2–0 1–0 2–3 3–1 3–0 1–0 3–0 1–1 2–0
    Zorya-MALS Luhansk 2–1 1–1 1–1 2–2 3–0 1–1 1–0 4–0 2–1
    Source: uafootball.net.ua
    Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Notes:

      Team ╲ Round1234567891011121314151617181920
      Bukovyna Chernivtsi21121112223222453456
      Dnipro14777454532233222222
      Dynamo Kyiv22312221111111111111
      Metalist Kharkiv73233533354466634333
      Naftovyk Okhtyrka45666885646788888988
      Nyva Ternopil77444667485655345544
      Odesa9109910101010101010101010101010101010
      Ivano-Frankivsk56888778999999999899
      Volyn Lutsk57544346778544566765
      Zoria Luhansk1099109999867877777677
      Source: Aleksey Kobyzev's Web-Site (in Russian)

      Second stage
      Main article: 1992 Vyshcha Liha final

      Championship playoff
      SC Tavriya Simferopol1 – 0FC Dynamo Kyiv
      Shevchenko  75' Report
      goal (video)
      Attendance: 36,000[2]

      MATCH OFFICIALS

      • Assistant referees:

      MATCH RULES

      • 90 minutes.
      • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
      • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
      • Seven named substitutes
      • Maximum of 3 substitutions.

      Tavriya Simferopol qualified for 1992–93 European Cup Preliminary round and Dynamo Kyiv qualified for 1992–93 UEFA Cup First round.

      Third place playoff
      Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk3 – 2Shakhtar Donetsk
      Tyshchenko  19'
      Konovalov  38', 74'      		 Report Bielichenko  51'
      Atelkin  80'
      Attendance: 3,000
      Referee: Tukhovsky (Simferopol)

      Season statistics

      Top scorers
      Rank Player Club Goals[4]
      (Pen.)
      1 Yuriy Hudymenko Tavriya Simferopol 12
      2 Timerlan Huseinov Zorya-MALS Luhansk 11
      3 Serhiy Rebrov Shakhtar Donetsk 10
      Ivan Hetsko Chornomorets Odessa 10 (6)
      5 Oleksandr Zayats Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 9 (3)
      6 Serhiy Shevchenko Tavriya Simferopol 8 (2)
      7 Yuriy Hrytsyna Dynamo Kyiv 7
      Ivan Korponay Kremin Kremenchuk 7
      Serhiy Husyev Chornomorets Odessa 7 (1)
      Oleh Salenko Dynamo Kyiv 7 (3)

      Hat-tricks
      PlayerForAgainstResultDate
      Ivan Hetsko
      Chornomorets Odessa
      Nyva Vinnytsia
      6–0
      		4 April 1992[5]
      Pavlo Shkapenko
      Metalurh Zaporizhya
      Nyva Vinnytsia
      4–1
      		28 April 1992[6]
      Serhiy Rebrov
      Shakhtar Donetsk
      Evis Mykolaiv
      1–6
      		3 June 1992[7]
      Yuriy Hudymenko*
      Tavriya Simferopol
      Temp Shepetivka
      6–0
      		9 June 1992[8]
      Yuriy Hrytsyna
      Dynamo Kyiv
      Naftovyk Okhtyrka
      1–3
      		17 June 1992[9]

      Notes:

      • (*) Asterisk identifies players who scored four goals (poker).

      Medal squads

      (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

      1. SC Tavria Simferopol
      Goalkeepers: Oleh Kolesov (19 / -9), Dmitriy Gulenkov (1).

      Defenders: Mykola Turchynenko (19), Oleksandr Holovko (18), Ihor Volkov (17 / 1), Vidmantas Vyšniauskas (15), Yuriy Getikov (14), Sefer Alibayev (9), Serhiy Voronezhsky (7), Dmitriy Smirnov (5).
      Midfielders: Andriy Oparin (19 / 1), Vladislav Novikov (18 / 1), Yuriy Mikhailus (2), Oleksandr Kundenok (2), Serhiy Yesin (1).
      Forwards: Sergei Gladyshev (19 / 6), Yuriy Hudymenko (18 / 12), Serhiy Shevchenko (18 / 8), Sergey Andreev (15 / 2), Toliat Sheykhametov (7), Marat Mulashev (2).

      Manager: Anatoliy Zayayev.

      Transferred out during the season: Marat Mulashev (to Rubin Kazan), Oleksandr Kundenok (to Polissya Zhytomyr).

      2. FC Dynamo Kyiv
      Goalkeepers: Valdemaras Martinkėnas (10 / -7), Ihor Kutepov (9 / -7).

      Defenders: Andriy Annenkov (17), Serhiy Zayets (15 / 1), Anatoliy Bezsmertny (14), Oleh Luzhny (13 / 2), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (9), Akhrik Tsveyba (9), Gintaras Kvitkauskas (6), Ervand Sukiasian (5 / 2), Andrey Aleksanenkov (2).
      Midfielders: Volodymyr Sharan (19 / 2), Yuriy Moroz (19), Stepan Betsa (14 / 1), Pavlo Yakovenko (12 / 1), Oleh Volotek (11 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (12 / 1).
      Forwards: Oleh Salenko (16 / 7), Yuriy Hritsyna (13 / 7), Oleh Matveyev (10 / 1), Valeriy Yesipov (6), Viktor Leonenko (5 / 3).

      Manager: Anatoliy Puzach.

      Transferred out during the season: ?.

      3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
      Goalkeepers: Valeriy Horodov (19 / -17), Mykola Medin.

      Defenders: Serhiy Diriavka (17), Volodymyr Horily (17), Volodymyr Bahmut (14 / 3), Serhiy Bezhenar (9 / 2), Serhiy Mamchur (9), Andriy Yudin (8).
      Midfielders: Andriy Polunin (17 / 2), Oleksandr Zakharov (17 / 2), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (16), Oleksiy Sasko (16), Yuriy Maksymov (14 / 3), Vadym Tyshchenko (13 / 2), Dmytro Mykhailenko (1), Oleksandr Omelchuk (1).
      Forwards: Valentyn Moskvin (19 / 3), Serhiy Konovalov (14 / 5), Serhiy Dumenko (7 / 4), Oleksandr Palianytsia (7 / 1), Vladimir Lebed (7 / 1), Oleksandr Tiehayev (2).

      Manager: Yevhen Kucherevsky (until March 15 (3 games)), Mykola Pavlov (since March 15 (15 games)).

      Transferred out during the season: Vladimir Lebed (to Krystal Kherson).

      Note: Players in italic are whose playing position is uncertain.

      See also

      References
      1. Mylenko, V. First steps in Ukrainian club football (Первые шаги украинского клубного футбола). Football.ua. 26 November 2010.
      2. "Historical protocol" (in Russian). Kobyzev, Aleksey. 2006-05-31. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
      3. 20 years Tavria became the first champion of Ukraine. SK Tavria press release. June 21, 2012. (photos)
      4. Top scorers (Бомбардиры).uafootball.net.ua
      5. "Hat-tricks". uafootball.net. 4 April 1992. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
      6. "Hat-tricks". uafootball.net. 28 April 1992. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
      7. "Hat-tricks". uafootball.net. 3 June 1992. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
      8. "Hat-tricks". uafootball.net. 9 June 1992. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
      9. "Hat-tricks". uafootball.net. 17 June 1992. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
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