1993–94 Vyshcha Liha

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

Vyshcha Liha

Season	1993–94
Champions	FC Dynamo Kyiv 2nd title
Relegated	FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi FC Metalist Kharkiv
Champions League	Dynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' Cup	Chornomorets Odesa
UEFA Cup	Shakhtar Donetsk
Top goalscorer	(18) Timerlan Huseinov (Chornomorets)
Biggest home win	7:0 Dnipro - Metalurh (Round 17)
Biggest away win	0:4 Zorya-MALS - Shakhtar (Round 15)
Highest scoring	7:1 Tariya - Metalist (Round 15)
← 1992–93 1994–95 →

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 Zaporizhzhia 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

• Nyva Vinnytsia, the champion of the 1992–93 Ukrainian First League – (returning after a season absence)
• Temp Shepetivka, the runner-up of the 1992–93 Ukrainian First League – (returning after a season absence)

Location

Zaporizhzhia

Zaporizhzhia teams :
Metalurh
Torpedo

Bukovyna

Nyva V.

Temp

Chornomorets

Veres

Dnipro

Dynamo

Kryvbas

Karpaty

Kremin

Metalist

Nyva T.

Tavriya

Shakhtar

Volyn

Zorya-MALS

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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	Zaporizhzhia	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	25,000
12	Lokomotyv	Vinnytsia	Nyva Vinnytsia	24,000
13	Miskyi Stadion	Ternopil	Nyva Ternopil	17,000
14	CJSC ZAZ Stadion	Zaporizhzhia	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	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 Odesa	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 Zaporizhzhia	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 Zaporizhzhia	Anatoliy Kuksov	Janis Skredelis Hryhoriy Vul
FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Oleksandr Pavlenko
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Viktor Kamarzayev	Oleksandr Dovbiy Yevhen Lemeshko

League table

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 Odesa	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	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 Zaporizhzhia	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 Zaporizhzhia	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: uafootball.net.ua
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

• 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 Kyiv in front of 3,500 spectators.

Results

Home \ Away	BUK	CHO	DNI	DYN	KAR	KRE	KRY	MET	MZA	NVT	NYV	SHA	TAV	TEM	TZA	VER	VOL	ZOR
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	—	0–1	0–1	0–3	3–2	1–0	2–0	4–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0
Chornomorets Odesa	4–0	—	2–1	1–2	1–1	4–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	0–1	3–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	4–1
Dnipro	4–2	0–0	—	2–3	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	7–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	0–0
Dynamo Kyiv	3–1	2–0	2–0	—	2–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	4–1	2–1	0–0	1–0
Karpaty Lviv	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–2	—	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	0–0	1–2	1–0
Kremin Kremenchuk	2–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	1–2	—	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–1
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	3–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	—	0–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0
Metalist Kharkiv	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–1	3–2	1–0	—	0–3	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–2
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	—	1–2	1–0	0–3	4–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–1
Nyva Ternopil	3–0	0–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	4–1	3–0	3–0	2–0	—	3–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–0
Nyva Vinnytsia	3–1	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	—	2–2	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–0
Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	5–2	2–1	2–1	—	2–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	3–1	3–0
Tavriya Simferopol	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–4	2–0	3–0	2–0	7–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	—	2–1	3–0	1–1	-:+	3–1
Temp Shepetivka	1–0	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	—	3–0	1–2	2–1	1–0
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–3	3–3	0–1	2–1	—	1–1	1–0	1–0
Veres Rivne	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–3	0–0	2–0	1–1	4–0	0–1	0–0	3–2	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	—	0–0	2–1
Volyn Lutsk	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–3	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	—	2–1
Zorya-MALS Luhansk	2–0	1–4	0–3	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–4	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	—

Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals (Pen.)
1	Timerlan Huseinov	Chornomorets Odesa	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 Luzhnyi (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), Serhii 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 Odesa

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

• 1993–94 Ukrainian First League
• 1993–94 Ukrainian Second League
• 1993–94 Ukrainian Third League
• 1993–94 Ukrainian Cup

External links

• Season information on the Ukrainian Football from Dmytro Troshchiy
• Season information on RSSSF
• Season information on the Ukrainian Football from Aleksei Kobyzev