1993–94 Vyshcha Liha

1993–94 Vyshcha Liha was the third season of the Vyshcha Liha.

Vyshcha Liha
Season1993–94
ChampionsFC Dynamo Kyiv
2nd title
RelegatedFC Bukovyna Chernivtsi
FC Metalist Kharkiv
Champions LeagueDynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' CupChornomorets Odessa
UEFA CupShakhtar Donetsk
Top goalscorer(18) Timerlan Huseinov (Chornomorets)
Biggest home win7:0 Dnipro - Metalurh (Round 17)
Biggest away win0:4 Zorya-MALS - Shakhtar (Round 15)
Highest scoring7:1 Tariya - Metalist (Round 15)

Last season the league champions Dynamo received a fierce competition from the Pavlov led Dnipro out of Dnipropetrovsk. The third season was promising to be even more exciting. Dynamo was going through some difficult times and before the start of the season, it was sold to Hryhoriy Surkis from Viktor Bezverkhyi.

The season started on August 8 with nine games of the first round. It finally was concluded on June 19. It was anticipated that at least four clubs would be really competing for the top title. At the end it turned out the other way around. Dnipro has remarkably given up its positions, losing almost ten games. Chornomorets also did not pose any resistance to neither Dynamo or Shakhtar. However, the biggest surprise was the relegation of Metalist Kharkiv which won only six games. Metalurh Zaporizhia barely escaped relegation, partially due to their excellent game in Kharkiv where they manage to thrash the local Metalist 3:0. Three rounds before the end Dynamo was recognized as the champions. There was one technical loss (-:+) that was awarded again to SC Tavriya Simferopol when it was hosting FC Volyn Lutsk in the 32nd round on June 11, 1994, for fielding a suspended player Dzyubenko.

Preseason changes

The league was expanded to 18 teams including the same 16 from the past season.

Teams

Promotions

Location
Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1993-94
Rank Stadium Place Club Capacity Notes
1 Respublikansky Stadion Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv 100,062
2 Tsentralnyi Stadion BSS Odesa Chornomorets Odesa 43,000
3 Avanhard Luhansk Zorya-MALS Luhansk 32,243
4 Metalist Kharkiv Metalist Kharkiv 32,000
5 Tsentralnyi Stadion "Shakhtar"
Stadion Rudupravlinnia		 Donetsk
Komsomolske		 Shakhtar Donetsk 31,545
?
6 Meteor Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 30,000
7 Metalurh
UGOK Stadion		 Kryvyi Rih Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 29,783
?
8 Ukraina Lviv Karpaty Lviv 28,051
9 Lokomotyv Simferopol Tavriya Simferopol 26,000
10 Avanhard Rivne Veres Rivne 25,000
11 Metalurh Zaporizhia Metalurh Zaporizhia 25,000
12 Lokomotyv Vinnytsia Nyva Vinnytsia 24,000
13 Miskyi Stadion Ternopil Nyva Ternopil 17,000
14 CJSC ZAZ Stadion Zaporizhia Torpedo Zaporizhia 15,000
15 Bukovyna Chernivtsi Bukovyna Chernivtsi 12,000
16 Dnipro Kremenchuk Kremin Kremenchuk 11,300
17 Avanhard Lutsk Volyn Lutsk 10,792
18 Temp Shepetivka Temp Shepetivka 8,000

Notes:

    Managers
    Club Coach Replaced Coach
    FC Dynamo Kyiv Yozhef Sabo Mykhailo Fomenko
    FC Shakhtar Donetsk Valery Yaremchenko
    FC Chornomorets Odessa Viktor Prokopenko
    FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Mykola Pavlov
    FC Karpaty Lviv Myron Markevych
    FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Volodymyr Brukhtiy Ihor Nadein
    FC Nyva Ternopil Leonid Buriak
    SC Tavriya Simferopol Anatoliy Zayaev
    FC Temp Shepetivka Leonid Tkachenko
    FC Nyva Vinnytsia Yukhym Shkolnykov
    FC Volyn Lutsk Roman Pokora
    FC Veres Rivne Vyacheslav Kobyletskyi Mykhailo Dunets
    FC Torpedo Zaporizhia Ihor Nadein Viktor Matviyenko
    FC Zorya-MALS Volodymyr Kobzarev Anatoliy Shakun
    FC Kremin Kremenchuk Evhen Rudakov Boris Streltsov 8 games
    Tiberiy Korponay 9 games
    FC Metalurh Zaporizhia Anatoliy Kuksov Janis Skredelis
    Hryhoriy Vul
    FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi Oleksandr Pavlenko
    FC Metalist Kharkiv Viktor Kamarzayev Oleksandr Dovbiy
    Yevhen Lemeshko


    Final standings
    Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
    1 Dynamo Kyiv (C) 34 23 10 1 61 21 +40 56 Qualification to Champions League qualifying round
    2 Shakhtar Donetsk 34 20 9 5 64 32 +32 49 Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
    3 Chornomorets Odessa[lower-alpha 1] 34 20 8 6 52 23 +29 48 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
    4 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 34 16 9 9 53 35 +18 41
    5 Karpaty Lviv 34 16 8 10 37 30 +7 40
    6 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 34 14 8 12 26 26 0 36
    7 Nyva Ternopil 34 13 10 11 44 26 +18 36
    8 Tavriya Simferopol[lower-alpha 1] 34 12 10 12 41 34 +7 34
    9 Temp Shepetivka 34 12 8 14 39 38 +1 32
    10 Nyva Vinnytsia 34 12 8 14 37 45 −8 32
    11 Volyn Lutsk 34 10 12 12 27 30 −3 32
    12 Veres Rivne 34 10 12 12 32 36 −4 32
    13 Torpedo Zaporizhzhya 34 9 10 15 27 39 −12 28
    14 Zorya-MALS Luhansk 34 10 6 18 24 46 −22 26
    15 Kremin Kremenchuk 34 9 8 17 26 39 −13 26
    16 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 34 9 6 19 26 49 −23 24
    17 Bukovyna Chernivtsi (R) 34 7 6 21 25 51 −26 20 Relegated to Ukrainian First League
    18 Metalist Kharkiv (R) 34 6 8 20 22 63 −41 20
    Source:
    Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference
    (C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
    Notes:
    1. Participant of the 1994 Ukrainian Cup Final
    • Dynamo Kyiv won its second title at home against Metalist Kharkiv on June 7, 1994, earning its 20th win of the season at the Republican Stadium in Kiev in front of 3,500 spectators.

    Top goalscorers
    Rank Player Club Goals
    (Pen.)
    1 Timerlan Huseinov Chornomorets Odessa 18 (1)
    2 Oleh Matviiv Shakhtar Donetsk 17 (5)
    3 Victor Leonenko Dynamo Kyiv 15 (4)
    4 Oleh Mochulyak Nyva Ternopil 14
    5 Serhii Konovalov Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 13
    Serhiy Skachenko Temp Shepetivka 13
    7 Borys Finkel Bukovyna Chernivtsi 12
    Serhiy Onopko Shakhtar Donetsk 12
    Pavlo Shkapenko Dynamo Kyiv 12
    Andriy Pokladok Karpaty Lviv 12 (1)

    Medal squads

    (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

    1. FC Dynamo Kyiv

    Goalkeepers: Andriy Kovtun (14 / -6), Ihor Kutepov (11 / -9), Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (9 / -6).
    Defenders: Oleh Luzhny (34 / 1), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (27), Vladyslav Vashchuk (24), Vitaliy Ponomarenko (19), Andriy Khomyn (17 / 1), Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi (8), Serhiy Fedorov (1).
    Midfielders: Dmytro Topchiyev (32 / 3), Serhiy Mizin (28 / 6), Serhiy Kovalets (28 / 2), Volodymyr Sharan (19 / 4), Andriy Anenkov (13 / 1), Vladyslav Prudius (13 / 1), Maksim Demenko (12), Vyacheslav Khruslov (10 / 1), Yuri Hrytsyna (10), Andriy Zavyalov (9 / 2).
    Forwards: Oleksandr Pryzetko (33 / 7), Pavlo Shkapenko (31 / 12), Viktor Leonenko (24 / 15), Mikheil Jishkariani (13 / 1), Vitaliy Mintenko (12 / 2), Serhiy Rebrov (10 / 2).

    Manager: Mykhailo Fomenko (first half), Yozhef Sabo (second half).

    Transferred out during the season: ?.

    2. FC Shakhtar Donetsk

    Goalkeepers: Dmytro Shutkov (29 / -28), Andriy Kurayev (3 / -3), Volodymyr Havrylov (2 / -1).
    Defenders: Viktor Smyhunov (30 / 1), Ihor Leonov (29 / 1), Oleksandr Koval (28), Andriy Kuptsov (24), Oleksandr Melyevanov (7), Ruslan Uzakov (3), Pavlo Filipenko (2).
    Midfielders: Serhiy Onopko (33 / 12), Serhiy Yashchenko (33), Hennadiy Orbu (32 / 2), Valeriy Kriventsov (29 / 8), Yuri Byelichenko (29 / 5), Serhiy Popov (28 / 3), Ihor Stolovytsky (22 / 1), Ihor Shcherbyna (6), Serhiy Kovalyov (2).
    Forwards: Oleh Matveyev (27 / 17), Serhiy Atelkin (27 / 11), Oleksandr Voskoboinyk (24 / 3).

    Manager: Valeriy Yaremchenko.

    Transferred out during the season: Ihor Shcherbyna (to Zirka Kirovohrad), Ruslan Uzakov (to Shakhter Shakhty).

    3. FC Chornomorets Odessa

    Goalkeepers: Oleh Suslov (34 / -23), Yevhen Nemodruk (2).
    Defenders: Yuriy Bukel (32), Andriy Telesnenko (22 / 1), Viktor Yablonskyi (17), Serhiy Bulyhin-Shramko (16), Yuriy Smotrych (15), Vitaliy Skysh (10).
    Midfielders: Ihor Zhabchenko (32 / 5), Dmytro Parfyonov (32 / 3), Viktor Bohatyr (29 / 3), Ruslan Romanchuk (28 / 1), Ihor Korniyets (28), Vyacheslav Yeremeyev (20 / 5), Yuriy Sak (16), Oleksandr Bondarenko (11), Oleh Koshelyuk (11).
    Forwards: Tymerlan Huseinov (33 / 18), Kostyantyn Kulyk (28 / 4), Vitaliy Parakhnevych (24 / 8), Vladimir Lebed (10 / 2).

    Manager: Viktor Prokopenko.

    Transferred out during the season: Yuriy Sak (to Spartak Moscow), Oleksandr Bondarenko (to BVSC Budapest), Oleh Koshelyuk (to Beitar Jerusalem), Vladimir Lebed (to Krystal Kherson).

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

    See also

    References
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