1994–95 Vyshcha Liha

The 1994–95 Vyshcha Liha season was the 4th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Vyshcha Liha
Season1994–95
ChampionsDynamo Kyiv
3rd title
RelegatedTemp Shepetivka, Veres Rivne
Champions LeagueDynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' CupShakhtar Donetsk
UEFA CupChornomorets Odessa
Top goalscorer(21) Arsen Avakov (Torpedo)

Teams

Promotions

Renamed
  • On 2 October 1994 Evis Mykolaiv changed its name to SC Mykolaiv.
  • During the season, Metalurh Zaporizhia also carried the name Metalurh-Viktor Zaporizhia (after a local entrepreneur Viktor Oharenko).

Location
Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1994-95

Final standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dynamo Kyiv (C) 34 25 8 1 87 24 +63 83 Qualification to Champions League qualifying round
2 Chornomorets Odessa 34 22 7 5 62 29 +33 73 Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
3 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk[lower-alpha 1] 34 19 8 7 60 33 +27 65
4 Shakhtar Donetsk[lower-alpha 1] 34 18 8 8 52 29 +23 62 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
5 Tavriya Simferopol 34 17 8 9 61 37 +24 59
6 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 34 13 9 12 35 30 +5 48
7 Torpedo Zaporizhzhya 34 15 3 16 49 49 0 48
8 Karpaty Lviv 34 12 9 13 32 36 −4 45
9 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 34 11 10 13 47 42 +5 43
10 Kremin Kremenchuk 34 12 6 16 42 54 −12 42
11 Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 34 11 8 15 40 52 −12 41
12 Nyva Ternopil 34 11 5 18 40 44 −4 38
13 SK Mykolaiv 34 11 5 18 33 59 −26 38
14 Nyva Vinnytsia 34 10 7 17 38 51 −13 37
15 Volyn Lutsk 34 11 3 20 29 58 −29 36
16 Zorya-MALS Luhansk 34 10 5 19 35 70 −35 35
17 Temp Shepetivka (R) 34 10 4 20 31 41 −10 34 Relegated to Ukrainian First League
18 Veres Rivne (R) 34 8 7 19 28 63 −35 31
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goal scored
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Participant of the 1995 Ukrainian Cup Final.

Top goalscorers
Rank Player Club Goals
(Pen.)
1 Arsen Avakov Torpedo Zaporizhzhya 21 (6)
2 Oleksiy Antyukhin Tavriya Simferopol 18
3 Oleksandr Haidash Tavriya Simferopol 17
Victor Leonenko Dynamo Kyiv 17 (1)
5 Ihor Petrov Shakhtar Donetsk 14 (5)
6 Mikhail Potskhveria Zorya / Metalurh 13
7 Timerlan Huseinov Chornomorets Odessa 12
Andrei Fedkov Kremin Kremenchuk 12 (1)
9 Ruslan Zabranskyi Mykolaiv 11 (1)
10 Ivan Korponay Kremin Kremenchuk 10

Managers
Club Coach Replaced Coach Home stadium
FC Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Pavlov Yozhef Sabo 17 games
Volodymyr Onyschenko 5 games		 Republican Stadium
FC Chornomorets Odessa Leonid Buriak Black Sea Shipping Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Bernd Stange Mykola Pavlov 17 games
Oleksandr Lysenko 6 games		 Meteor Stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk Vladimir Salkov Valery Yaremchenko 17 games Shakhtar Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol Anatoliy Zayaev Pavlo Kostin 10 games
Andriy Cheremysin 7 games
Vitaliy Shalychev 10 games		 Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Yuriy Koval Volodymyr Brukhtiy 4 games
Anatoliy Bida 1 game
Viktor Kuznetsov 17 games
Valentyn Laktionov 3 games		 Metalurh Stadium
FC Torpedo Zaporizhia Ihor Nadein AvtoZAZ Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv Myron Markevych Ukraina Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia Oleksandr Tomakh Anatoliy Kuksov 7 games Metalurh Stadium
FC Kremin Kremenchuk Tiberiy Korponay Evhen Rudakov 4 games Dnipro Stadium
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk Ihor Yurchenko Elektron Stadium
FC Nyva Ternopil Ihor Yavorskyi Valeriy Dushkov 11 games City Stadium
SC Mykolaiv Yevhen Kucherevskyi Valery Zhuravko 10 games
Leonid Koltun 1 game		 Central City Stadium
FC Nyva Vinnytsia Serhiy Morozov Oleksandr Bobaryko 22 games
Yuriy Koval 2 games		 Central City Stadium
FC Volyn Lutsk Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi Roman Pokora 8 games Avanhard Stadium
FC Zorya-MALS Oleksandr Zhuravliov Volodymyr Kobzarev 17 games
Yuriy Sevastyanov 3 games
Anatoliy Korshykov 3 games		 Avanhard Stadium
FC Temp Shepetivka Revaz Dzodzuashvili Leonid Tkachenko 16 games
Stanislav Bernykov 8 games		 Temp Stadium
FC Veres Rivne Mykhailo Fomenko Vyacheslav Kobyletskyi 16 games
Orest Bal 5 games
Ivan Krasnetskyi(7 games)		 Avanhard Stadium

Changes
Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment Table
FC Chornomorets Odessa Viktor Prokopenko pre-season Leonid Buriak pre-season
FC Nyva Ternopil Leonid Buriak pre-season Valeriy Dushkov pre-season
FC Nyva Vinnytsia Yukhym Shkolnykov pre-season Oleksandr Bobaryko pre-season
FC Kremin Kremenchuk Yevhen Rudakov July 1994 Tiberiy Korponay 1 August 1994
SC Tavriya Simferopol Pavlo Kostin Perished in car accident end of September Andriy Cheremysin (interim) 3 October 1994
SC Tavriya Simferopol Andriy Cheremysin (interim) Mutual consent winter break Vitaliy Shalychev February 1995
SC Tavriya Simferopol Vitaliy Shalychev May 1995 Anatoliy Zayaev May 1995

Notes:

  • The new 1994-95 season SC Tavriya Simferopol under leadership of a coach Pavlo Kostin (native of Chornomorske Raion, Crimea). Sometime after the game against Volyn (Round 10) on 23 September 1994 in Simferopol, Kostin (43 years old) perished in a car accident along with his wife.[1] According to some sources (footballfacts.ru), Kostin perished on 15 September 1994.[2]

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (25 / -15), Valeriy Vorobiov (7 / -8), Andriy Kovtun (3 / -1).
Defenders: Vladyslav Vashchuk (31 / 3), Oleh Luzhny (24 / 4), Serhiy Lezhentsev (24), Andriy Khomyn (21 / 2), Yuriy Dmytrulin (17 / 1), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (14), Serhiy Bezhenar (13 / 1), Andriy Annenkov (3).
Midfielders: Vitaliy Kosovsky (27 / 6), Dmytro Mykhailenko (25 / 5), Serhiy Mizin (20 / 5), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (17 / 3), Serhiy Kovalets (17 / 2), Yuriy Kalitvintsev (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (11 / 5), Volodymyr Sharan (11 / 2), Dmytro Topchiyev (2), Maksim Demenko (1), Vladyslav Prudius (1).
Forwards: Serhiy Rebrov (24 / 8), Pavlo Shkapenko (24 / 8), Viktor Leonenko (20 / 17), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 5), Andriy Shevchenko (17 / 1), Serhiy Skachenko (16 / 3), Oleksandr Pryzetko (13 / 1), Mikheil Jishkariani (8 / 3), Naser al-Sohi (1).

Manager: Yozhef Sabo (first half), Volodymyr Onyshchenko, Mykola Pavlov (second half).

Transferred out during the season: Oleksandr Pryzetko (to Dinamo-Gazovik), Maksim Demenko (to Lada Togliatti), Serhiy Kovalets (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Volodymyr Sharan (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Mikheil Jishkariani (to CSKA-Borysfen), Valeriy Vorobiov (to CSKA-Borysfen), Dmytro Topchiyev (to CSKA-Borysfen), Vladyslav Prudius (to CSKA-Borysfen).

2. FC Chornomorets Odessa

Goalkeepers: Oleh Suslov (34 / -27), Vadym Vinokurov (2 / -2).
Defenders: Yuriy Bukel (29), Andriy Telesnenko (28 / 1), Vladislav Ternavsky (16 / 1), Yuriy Smotrych (10), Denys Kolchyn (8), Vitaliy Skysh (5), Oleksiy Cherednyk (3), Serhiy Bulyhin-Shramko (2).
Midfielders: Dmytro Parfyonov (33 / 6), Ihor Zhabchenko (32 / 7), Yuriy Sak (23 / 5), Vitaliy Kolesnychenko (21 / 2), Andrei Gashkin (20 / 5), Oleksandr Spivak (19), Oleksandr Horshkov (18), Ihor Korniyets (16 / 1), Yuriy Seleznyov (13 / 2), Ruslan Romanchuk (12 / 2), Oleksandr Nikiforov (9), Oleksandr Zotov (8 / 3), Vyacheslav Yeremeyev (7), Viktor Yablonskyi (5 / 1), Vladyslav Zubkov (4), Viktor Bohatyr (3).
Forwards: Tymerlan Huseinov (29 / 12), Volodymyr Musolitin (19 / 3), Vitaliy Parakhnevych (13 / 4), Vasyl Kardash (13 / 2), Oleh Mochulyak (8 / 2), Kostyantyn Kulyk (5 / 2).

Manager: Leonid Buriak.

Transferred out during the season: ?.

3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Mykola Medin (19 / -13), Svyatoslav Syrota (16 / -17), Konstantin Ledovskikh (1 / -3).
Defenders: Viktor Skrypnyk (31 / 8), Volodymyr Bahmut (30 / 1), Volodymyr Horily (25), Serhiy Diryavka (19), Serhiy Bezhenar (17 / 3), Dmytro Yakovenko (17), Oleksandr Chervonyi (7), Hennadiy Kozar (7), Yevhen Dmitriyev (6), Andriy Yudin (6), Oleksiy Kuptsov (3), Albert Shakhov (2), Serhiy Bilokin (1), Serhiy Zadorozhnyi (1).
Midfielders: Andriy Polunin (31 / 7), Aleksandr Zakharov (25 / 1), Valentyn Moskvyn (17 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (15 / 3), Dmytro Topchiyev (15 / 3), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (15 / 2), Ihor Plotko (15 / 1), Volodymyr Sharan (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (13 / 4), Serhiy Dumenko (9 / 1), Serhiy Chornyi (3).
Forwards: Borys Finkel (29 / 9), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 3), Oleksandr Palyanytsia (13 / 6), Oleh Taran (7 / 1), Andriy Kotyuk (6), Andreas Sassen (6), Serhiy Chuichenko (4).

Manager: Mykola Pavlov (first half), Oleksandr Lysenko, Bernd Stange (second half).

Transferred out during the season: Serhiy Bezhenar (to Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Konovalov (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yuriy Maksymov (to Dynamo Kyiv).

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

References
  1. Naukhatskiy, B. Memorial Cup of our countryman Archived 2015-07-19 at the Wayback Machine. Sports column, "Chernomorskie izvestiya". 28 September 2013
  2. Kostin at footballfacts.ru
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