2015–16 Ukrainian First League

The 2015–16 Ukrainian First League was the 25th since its establishment. The competition commenced on 26 July 2015 with eight matches. The competition had a winter break which began after Round 18 on November 22. The competition resumed on 26 March 2016 and completed on 1 June 2016.

Ukrainian First League
Season2015–16
ChampionsZirka Kirovohrad
PromotedZirka Kirovohrad
RelegatedNyva (withdrew)
Dynamo-2 (withdrew)
Hirnyk (withdrew)
Matches played220
Goals scored509 (2.31 per match)
Top goalscorer16 – Artem Favorov (Obolon-Brovar)
Biggest home winZirka 6–0 FC Ternopil (Round 5)
Biggest away win4 – Nyva 0–4 FC Sumy (Round 3)
Highest scoring7 – Hirnyk-Sport 3–4 FC Poltava (Round 29)
Longest winning run6 – Zirka (Round 19–25)
Longest unbeaten run9 – Helios (Rounds 1–9)
Longest winless run8 –Illichivets (Rounds 3–4, 6, 8–9, ppd. 7, 10, ppd. 5)
Longest losing run8 – Nyva (Round 6–9, Round 11–14)
Highest attendance7,500 – Dnipro–Hirnyk (Round 20)
Lowest attendance100 –
Desna–FC Sumy(Round 12)

Teams

The number of teams for the competition was confirmed on 19 June 2015.[1]

Two teams were promoted from the 2014–15 Ukrainian Second League.[2]

Relegated teams

One team was promoted from the 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League.

  • Illichivets Mariupol[3] – 14th place (returning after an absence of seven seasons)

Reinstated teams

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

Kyiv city home venues of teams in the League
Home venues of teams in the 2015–16 Ukrainian First League.

Stadiums

The following stadiums are considered home grounds for the teams in the competition.

Rank Stadium Capacity Club Notes
1 Metalurh Stadium, Kryvyi Rih 29,783 Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih
2 Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy 25,800 FC Sumy
3 Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv 16,873 Dynamo-2 Kyiv Used as home ground in Round 14 and 17
4 Central City Stadium, Mykolaiv 16,700 MFC Mykolaiv
5 Zirka Stadium, Kirovohrad 13,667 Zirka Kirovohrad
6 Labor Reserve, Bila Tserkva 13,500 Desna Chernihiv Used as home ground[lower-alpha 1]
7 City Stadium, Ternopil 12,750 Nyva Ternopil
FC Ternopil
8 Illichivets Stadium, Mariupol 12,680 Illichivets Mariupol
9 Yuri Gagarin Stadium, Chernihiv 12,060 Desna Chernihiv
10 Central Stadion, Cherkasy 10,321 Cherkaskyi Dnipro
11 Naftovyk Stadium, Okhtyrka 5,256 Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
12 Obolon Arena, Kyiv 5,100 Obolon-Brovar Kyiv
13 Sonyachny Stadium, Kharkiv 4,924[5] Helios Kharkiv
14 Avanhard Stadium, Kramatorsk 2,500 Avanhard Kramatorsk
15 Lokomotov Stadium, Poltava 2,500 FC Poltava
16 Yunist Stadium, Komsomolsk 2,500 Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk
17 Dynamo Training Center, Kyiv 1,200 Dynamo-2 Kyiv
  1. Due to reconstruction of their home ground Yuri Gagarin Stadium, Desna Chernihiv played their Round 12 home game in Bila Tserkva[4]

Managers
Club Coach Replaced coach
Avanhard Kramatorsk Yakiv Kripak
Cherkaskyi Dnipro Ihor Stolovytskyi
Desna Chernihiv Oleksandr Ryabokon
Dynamo-2 Kyiv Vadym Yevtushenko
Helios Kharkiv Serhiy Syzykhin
Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih Hennadiy Prykhodko
Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk Ihor Zhabchenko
Illichivets Mariupol Valeriy Kriventsov
MFC Mykolaiv Ruslan Zabranskyi
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka Volodymyr Knysh
Nyva Ternopil Petro Badlo (interim) Roman Tolochko
Obolon-Brovar Kyiv Sergei Soldatov
FC Poltava Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi (interim) Oleh Fedorchuk
FC Sumy Yuriy Yaroshenko
FC Ternopil Vasyl Ivehesh
Zirka Kirovohrad Serhiy Lavrynenko

Managerial changes
Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment Table
Helios Kharkiv Serhiy Syzykhin (interim) Change of contract 1 July 2015[6] Pre-season Serhiy Syzykhin 1 July 2015 Pre-season
Nyva Ternopil Roman Tolochko Resigns 9 September 2015[7] 15th Petro Badlo (interim) 9 September 2015 15th
FC Ternopil Vasyl Ivehesh Hospitalized 13 May 2016[8] 15th Ivan Maruschak (interim) 14 May 2016 15th

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Zirka Kirovohrad (C, P) 30 20 5 5 49 22 +27 65 Promoted to Ukrainian Premier League[9]
2 Cherkaskyi Dnipro 30 16 7 7 45 27 +18 55
3 Obolon-Brovar Kyiv 30 16 6 8 45 35 +10 54
4 Illichivets Mariupol 30 14 11 5 34 23 +11 53
5 Helios Kharkiv 30 13 12 5 33 24 +9 51
6 Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih (D) 30 13 10 7 39 27 +12 49 Withdrew after the season[lower-alpha 1]
7 MFC Mykolaiv[lower-alpha 2] 30 13 8 9 34 27 +7 44
8 Desna Chernihiv 30 11 7 12 30 29 +1 40
9 Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka 30 11 7 12 31 33 −2 40
10 FC Poltava 30 10 8 12 29 32 −3 38
11 Dynamo-2 Kyiv (D) 30 9 9 12 27 34 −7 36 Withdrew after the season[lower-alpha 3]
12 Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk 30 8 9 13 30 35 −5 33
13 Avanhard Kramatorsk 30 8 8 14 28 42 −14 32
14 FC Sumy 30 8 6 16 35 54 −19 30 Avoided relegation playoff[lower-alpha 4]
15 FC Ternopil[lower-alpha 2] 30 6 7 17 18 47 −29 22 Avoided relegation[lower-alpha 5]
16 Nyva Ternopil[lower-alpha 2] (D) 30 2 4 24 10 26 −16 7 Withdrew during the season[lower-alpha 6]
Source: (in Ukrainian) Professional Football League of Ukraine[18]
Rules for classification: [19] 1) points 2) goal difference 3) goals scored
4) head-to-head points 5) head-to-head goal difference 6) head-to-head goals scored
7) head-to-head fair play (all games) 8) draw or playoff
(C) Champion; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted.
Notes:
  1. Several weeks after the season completed the administration of Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih announced that the club would withdraw from the PFL.[10] (23 June 2016)
  2. The Control Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of Ukraine deducted three points and fined the clubs Nyva Ternopil, FC Ternopil and MFC Mykolaiv for match fixing during the 2014–15 season.[11] (2 September 2015)
  3. The management of the senior club FC Dynamo Kyiv prior to the last game of the season announced that the reserve club, Dynamo-2 Kyiv would be terminating after the completion of the season.[12]
  4. Originally the fourteenth placed was to have played in a promotion-relegation playoff series against the third team in the Second League competition. However, two days before the end of the season, on 30 May 2016 the PFL ruled that due to sporting principles to keep 16 teams in the First League the promotion-relegation playoff match between the third placed team in the Second League against the 14th placed team in the First League was cancelled and that the third placed team in the Second League would be automatically promoted to the First League.[13]
  5. Originally, as per competition regulations, the fifteenth placed team, FC Ternopil was to be relegated to the Ukrainian Second League. However, after the season at the Conference of the PFL in preparation for the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League season the committee decided to expand the competition to eighteen teams and include FC Ternopil.[14]
  6. Nyva Ternopil announced that it will not play the first games of the spring half of the competition.[15] The club indicated that it would compete in the Ternopil Oblast competition.[16] The Football Federation of Ukraine formally expelled the club from the competition on 1 April 2016.[17] Later In April 2016, the club joined the 2016 Ukrainian Football Amateur League.

Results
As of 1 June 2016
Home \ Away AVK CHD DES DK2 HEL HIR HIS ILL MYK NAF NVT OBK POL SUM TNP ZIR
Avanhard Kramatorsk 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–1 2–1 0–2 0–2 2–3 +:- 1–2 0–0 3–0 2–0 0–2
Cherkaskyi Dnipro 2–0 2–0 3–1 1–1 2–1 3–0 3–2 0–2 1–0 3–1 4–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 2–2
Desna Chernihiv 3–1 3–1 1–2 0–1 1–1 0–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 +:- 0–2 2–1 4–1 1–1 1–0
Dynamo-2 Kyiv 2–1 2–2 3–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–3 2–1 4–1 2–1 0–1
Helios Kharkiv 2–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 0–0[lower-alpha 1] 2–2 0–2 3–0[lower-alpha 2] 1–2 1–0 3–2 3–0 1–1
Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih 1–1 2–1 0–0 2–0 1–1 3–1 1–2 3–0 0–3 +:-[lower-alpha 2] 2–1 0–0 2–0 1–1 0–0
Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–0[lower-alpha 3] 1–1 3–1 2–0 1–3 1–2 3–4 3–0 1–3 1–1
Illichivets Mariupol 1–1 1–1 0–1[lower-alpha 4] 4–2 3–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–1[lower-alpha 5] 0–0 3–0
MFC Mykolaiv 2–1 1–0 3–1 0–0 0–2 0–3 2–0 4–0 0–1 3–0 2–2 1–1 3–1 3–0 0–2
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka 4–2 0–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 2–3 0–2 1–0 0–0 +:- 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–0 2–3
Nyva Ternopil[lower-alpha 6] 0–1 1–1 2–0 -:+ -:+ 0–1 0–0 -:+ -:+ 0–1 -:+ 0–1 0–4 -:+ 0–1
Obolon-Brovar Kyiv 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 1–2 2–3 1–0 0–2 0–0 3–0 2–2 3–1 4–2 3–2 1–2
FC Poltava 0–1 0–2 0–1 2–0 0–0 1–0 1–2 1–0 3–1 +:- 1–2 2–2 1–0 1–0
PFC Sumy 3–2 0–1 0–4 2–1 0–0 2–2 0–1 0–1 2–1 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–3 4–1 0–1
FC Ternopil 1–1 1–0 0–2 1–0 0–1 0–3 1–1 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 0–2 1–1 0–1 1–2
Zirka Kirovohrad 5–1 2–0 1–0 2–1 4–0 2–1 1–3 0–0 2–1 1–0 +:- 1–2 2–0 2–0 6–0
Updated to match(es) played on 1 June 2016. Source: (in Ukrainian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. Illichivets Mariupol postpones their Round 12 away match against Helios Kharkiv since several players were called for international duty.[20] Match was played after Round 16.
  2. Nyva Ternopil informed the PFL that they would not arrive for their Round 10 match against Helios Kharkiv due to their difficult financial situation.[21] Control Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of Ukraine awarded a 3–0 technical victory to Helios. (12 November 2015)[22]
  3. Round 4 match at Yunist Stadium between Hirnyk-Sport and Hirnyk was abandoned due to the waterlogged condition of the pitch due to torrential rain prior to the start of the match.[23][24] The match was rescheduled and played after Round 12 on 14 October.[25]
  4. Illichivets Mariupol postpones their Round 7 home match against Desna Chernihiv since several players were called for international duty.[26] Match played after Round 9.[27]
  5. Illichivets Mariupol postpones their Round 5 home match against FC Sumy since several players were called for international duty.[28] Match played after Round 10.[27]
  6. Nyva Ternopil informed the PFL that the club will not be able to take part in the first game of the spring half of the season.[15] (23 March 2016) Later the FFU formally expelled the club and awarded technical victories to their opponents.[17] (1 April 2016)

Position by round
Team ╲ Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
Zirka Kirovohrad13147413221211111111111111111111
Cherkaskyi Dnipro938584342534343333334333224322
Obolon-Brovar Kyiv1712868635642222225442444442233
Illichivets Mariupol2123799910141113101110788766666665444
Helios Kharkiv10116242453466798854555555556665
Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih1454755786323434442223222333556
MFC Mykolaiv3610101078788879655661010911111111109777
Desna Chernihiv71291112101010111013108891111119771010101098888
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka84112656777121313141313121212108987779109
FC Poltava6813149121211999111210129910888777881010910
Dynamo-2 Kyiv423631114155556677691198991113121211
Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk1210111315151614151312967710109111113131212121311111112
Avanhard Kramatorsk16161616161613121312108111211121213131312121313131212131313
PFC Sumy59591111111314151515141413151514141415141414141414141414
FC Ternopil151314121413141512111414151515141415151514151515151515151515
Nyva Ternopil111515151314151616161616161616161616161616161616161616161616
Updated to match(es) played on 1 June 2016. Source: pfl.ua

Top goalscorers
As of 1 June 2016[29]
Rank Scorer Goals
(Pen.)		 Team
1 Artem Favorov 16 (3) Obolon-Brovar Kyiv
2 Yevhen Chepurnenko 11 (1) Desna Chernihiv
3 Artem Sitalo 10 (4) Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih
Serhiy Vakulenko 10 (6) Illichivets Mariupol
5 Volodymyr Bayenko 8 Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih
Denys Skepskyi 8 (2) Cherkaskyi Dnipro
7 Borys Baranets 7 Zirka Kirovohrad
Oleksandr Batalskyi 7 Cherkaskyi Dnipro
Rank Scorer Goals
(Pen.)		 Team
7 Oleksiy Chychykov 7 Zirka Kirovohrad
Ruslan Ivashko 7 Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk
Roman Loktionov 7 Zirka Kirovohrad
Vasyl Prodan 7 Obolon-Brovar Kyiv
Artur Zahorulko 7 Illichivets Mariupol
Denys Favorov[lower-alpha 1] 7 (1) FC Poltava/Desna Chernihiv
Ihor Sikorskyi 7 (4) MFC Mykolaiv
  1. Denys Favorov signed with Desna Chernihiv during the winter break.[30]

See also

References
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  29. Full roster at UA-Football
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