2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League

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The 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 22nd since its establishment in 1991 and fifth since its reorganisation.

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Ukrainian Premier League
Season2012–13
ChampionsShakhtar Donetsk
8th title
RelegatedNone relegated[1]
Champions LeagueShakhtar Donetsk
Metalist Kharkiv
Europa LeagueDynamo Kyiv
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Metalurh Donetsk
Chornomorets Odesa
Matches played239
Goals scored621 (2.6 per match)
Top goalscorer25 goals – Mkhitaryan (Shakhtar)
Biggest home winDnipro 7–0 Illichivets (Round 30)
Biggest away winMetalurh Z. 0–5 Dynamo (Round 15)
Zorya 0–5 Dynamo (Round 25)
Highest scoring8 – Metalurh Donetsk 6–2 Kryvbas (Round 11)
Longest winning run15 – Shakhtar (Round 1–15)
Longest unbeaten run15 – Shakhtar (Round 1–15)
Metalist (Round 16–30)
Longest winless run24 – Metalurh Z. (Round 1–24)
Longest losing run7 – Hoverla (Round 1–7)
Highest attendance66,837 DynamoShakhtar (Round 23)
Lowest attendance0[a] KarpatyDnipro (Round 28)
Average attendance12,628
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A total of sixteen teams participated in the league, the best 14 sides of the 2011–12 season and two promoted clubs from the 2011–12 Ukrainian First League. The season commenced on July 13, 2012 when Karpaty Lviv visited Lutsk and played a 1–1 draw against Volyn Lutsk. The competition had a winter break that began on 2 December and resumed on 1 March 2013 when Volyn Lutsk visited Donetsk and played against Shakhtar Donetsk.[2] The ending date of the competition was 26 May 2013.[3]

Henrikh Mkhitaryan from Shakhtar Donetsk set a new Ukraine Premier League record for number of goals scored in one season.[4] It is the second season in the league when no clubs were relegated.

Teams

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Renamed teams

Prior to the start of the season Hoverla-Zakarpattia Uzhhorod was renamed to Hoverla Uzhhorod.[5]

Location map

Location of teams in 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League
Kyiv city home venues of teams in the League

Stadiums

The following stadiums were used during the season:

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Rank Stadium Club Capacity Highest
Attendance
Notes
1 NSC Olimpiyskiy Dynamo Kyiv 70,050 66,837 Round 23 (Shakhtar)
2 Donbass Arena Shakhtar Donetsk 52,518 53,423 Round 8 (Dynamo)
3 OSC Metalist Metalist Kharkiv 40,003 40,003 Round 11 (Shakhtar)
4 Arena Lviv Karpaty Lviv 34,915
Hoverla Uzhhorod 5,100 Round 2 (Shakhtar) Used as home ground in Round 2 since main stadium was under repair.[6]
5 Chornomorets Stadium Chornomorets Odesa 34,164 34,164 Round 22 (Dynamo)
6 Dnipro Arena Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 31,003 30,530 Round 25 (Shakhtar)
7 Metalurh Stadium Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 29,783 8,900 Round 22 (Metalist)
8 Ukraina Stadium Karpaty Lviv 28,051 25,850 Round 24 (Dynamo)
9 Vorskla Stadium Vorskla Poltava 24,750 10,500 Round 6 (Dynamo)
10 Avanhard Stadium Zorya Luhansk 22,288 20,200 Round 25 (Dynamo)
11 RSC Lokomotiv Tavriya Simferopol 19,978 14,100 Round 13 (Shakhtar)
Arsenal Kyiv 2,500 Round 22 (Tavriya) Used as home ground in Round 22[7]
12 Dynamo Stadium Arsenal Kyiv 16,873 11,617 Round 2 (Dynamo)
13 Illichivets Stadium Illichivets Mariupol 12,680 11,200 Round 13 (Dynamo)
14 Avanhard Stadium Volyn Lutsk 12,080 10,000 Round 4 (Shakhtar)
15 Avanhard Stadium Hoverla Uzhhorod 12,000 7,000 Round 18 (Dynamo) Stadium was under repair in 2012.[6] Returned for Round 4.
16 Slavutych-Arena Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 11,983 11,500 Round 2 (Dnipro)
17 Metalurh Stadium Metalurh Donetsk 5,094 4,500 Round 15 (Shakhtar)
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Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

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Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment
Illichivets Mariupol Ukraine Ihor Leonov (interim) Replaced May 29 Pre-season Ukraine Mykola Pavlov[9] May 29
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Serhiy Zaytsev (interim)[10] End as interim May 31 Ukraine Anatoliy Buznyk (interim) May 31
Tavriya Simferopol Ukraine Semen Altman[11] Sacked June 1 Ukraine Oleh Luzhnyi[12] June 6
Vorskla Poltava Ukraine Mykola Pavlov Signed by Illichivets May 29 Ukraine Vadym Yevtushenko[13] June 7
Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi (interim) End as interim June 7 Russia Pavel Kucherov (interim)[14] June 7
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Yuriy Maksymov Replaced June 10 Ukraine Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi[15] June 10
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi Resigned July 11 Ukraine Oleh Taran(interim)[16] July 12
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Anatoliy Buznyk[17] Resigned July 13 Ukraine Ihor Luchkevych(interim)[18] July 14
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Ihor Luchkevych (interim) End as interim July 24 15th Ukraine Serhiy Kovalets[19] July 24
Karpaty Lviv Russia Pavel Kucherov (interim) End as interim July 29 12th Bulgaria Nikolay Kostov[20] July 29
Vorskla Poltava Ukraine Vadym Yevtushenko[21] Resigned August 15 12th Ukraine Serhiy Svystun (interim)[22] August 18
Metalurh Donetsk Ukraine Volodymyr Pyatenko Resigned August 23 14th Ukraine Yuriy Maksymov[23] August 23
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Serhiy Kovalets Sacked August 31 16th Ukraine Anatoliy Zayaev (interim)[24] August 31
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Anatoliy Zayaev (interim) End as interim September 6 16th Ukraine Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi[25] September 6
Dynamo Kyiv Russia Yuri Syomin[26] Sacked September 24 3rd Ukraine Oleh Blokhin[27] September 25
Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Oleh Blokhin[28] Illness October 6 2nd Ukraine Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (temporary)[28] October 6
Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko End as interim November 6 3rd Ukraine Oleh Blokhin[29] November 6
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi[30] Contract terminated December 31 16th Ukraine Serhiy Zaytsev January 1
Arsenal Kyiv Belarus Leonid Kuchuk[31] Contract terminated January 1 8th Ukraine Yuriy Bakalov[32] January 1
Volyn Lutsk Ukraine Anatoliy Demyanenko Resigned April 23 13th Ukraine Anatoliy Piskovets (caretaker)[33] April 23
Karpaty Lviv Bulgaria Nikolay Kostov Resigns May 4 13th Ukraine Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi (interim)[34] May 7
Volyn Lutsk Ukraine Anatoliy Piskovets (interim) End as interim May 7 14th Ukraine Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi (interim)[35] May 7
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Oleh Taran[36] Resigned May 19 6th Did not play (Round 30)[37]
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Qualification to European competitions for 2013–14

  • Since Ukraine finished in eighth place of the UEFA country ranking after the 2011–12 season,[38] the league will have the same number of qualifiers for 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. The Ukrainian Cup winner qualifies for the play-off round.

Qualified Teams

Metalurh DonetskChornomorets OdesaDnipro DnipropetrovskDynamo KyivMetalist KharkivShakhtar Donetsk

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Shakhtar Donetsk (C) 30 25 4 1 82 18 +64 79 Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2 Metalist Kharkiv 30 20 6 4 59 25 +34 66 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3 Dynamo Kyiv 30 20 2 8 55 23 +32 62 Qualification for the Europa League play-off round
4 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 30 16 8 6 54 27 +27 56
5 Metalurh Donetsk 30 14 7 9 45 35 +10 49 Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
6 Chornomorets Odesa 30 12 7 11 32 36 4 43 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
7 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (D) 30 12 7 11 36 41 5 43 Club expelled after season[b]
8 Arsenal Kyiv 30 10 9 11 34 41 7 39
9 Illichivets Mariupol 30 10 8 12 30 32 2 38
10 Zorya Luhansk 30 10 7 13 32 43 11 37
11 Tavriya Simferopol 30 10 5 15 27 46 19 32[c]
12 Vorskla Poltava 30 8 7 15 31 36 5 31
13 Volyn Lutsk 30 7 8 15 26 45 19 29
14 Karpaty Lviv 30 7 6 17 37 52 15 27
15 Hoverla Uzhhorod 30 5 7 18 29 57 28 22
16 Metalurh Zaporizhya 30 1 8 21 12 64 52 11
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Source: uafootball.net.ua
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head points; 5th head-to-head goal difference; 6th head-to-head goals scored; 7th fair play; 8th draw (Regulation, p.52-53).
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified
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  1. Match was played in an empty stadium due to sanctions (see results)
  2. Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih were denied a license for the 2013–14 season due to financial problems and were expelled.[45]
  3. Tavria Simferopol were deducted 3 points for non compliance with contractual agreements with player agents (regarding Makhach Gadzhiyev).[46]

Results

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The following table displays match results between each team in the competition.

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Home \ Away ARK CHO DNI DYK HOV ILL KAR KRY MET MDO MZA SHA TAV VOL VOR ZOR
Arsenal Kyiv 0–1 1–1 0–1 2–0 2–1 4–1 1–1 1–2 0–2 3–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–1 0–1
Chornomorets Odesa 0–0 1–2 0–2 3–2 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 3–0 1–1 1–5 1–0 0–2 1–0 2–1
Dnipro 3–0 1–0 2–1 4–1 7–0 2–0 1–2 2–0 2–0 3–0 1–1 3–1 2–1 1–2 1–1
Dynamo Kyiv 4–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–3 1–0 3–0 1–2 2–0 4–1 1–0 1–0
Hoverla Uzhhorod 1–3 1–1 0–1 2–4 1–1 2–1 1–1 0–3 2–1 2–0 1–3 2–1 1–1 1–1 0–1
Illichivets Mariupol 2–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 0–1 0–2 0–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–2
Karpaty Lviv 1–1 1–2 2–4[a] 0–1 1–1 1–5 6–0 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–2 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–1 3–0 1–2 3–2 1–1 1–1 5–0 0–2 2–0 1–0 3–2 3–0
Metalist Kharkiv 0–1 3–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 3–2 1–1 0–2 5–0 1–0 4–0 2–0
Metalurh Donetsk 5–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 4–0 6–2 2–2 2–0 0–4 1–1 2–0 0–0 1–2
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 0–0 0–1 0–4 0–5 1–1 0–3 1–1 2–0 1–3 1–2 3–3 0–1 0–3 0–4 0–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 6–0 3–0 2–1 3–1 5–1 2–1 3–0 1–0 1–1 4–0 2–0 5–0 4–0 4–1 3–0
Tavriya Simferopol 1–1 1–3 1–2 3–2 0–2 1–0 0–2 2–0 0–1 4–3 1–0 0–1 3–0 0–0 1–0
Volyn Lutsk 1–3 0–2 1–1 0–2 2–1 0–2 1–1 3–0[b] 2–1 1–1 0–0 0–4 0–1 1–0 2–2
Vorskla Poltava 1–0 0–1 2–2 1–0 3–0 1–0 3–1 0–1 1–4 0–1 5–0 0–1 2–2 0–1 0–0
Zorya Luhansk 1–3 1–1 3–0[c] 0–5 2–1 2–2 2–1 0–1 1–3 1–2 2–0 0–3 3–0 3–1 1–1
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Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. The Round 28 match was played in an empty stadium as sanctions for display of inappropriate banners in Karpaty's previous home game against Zorya Luhansk.[47]
  2. Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih did not travel to Luts'k for their Round 30 fixture against Volyn Lutsk due to their financial situation.[37] The Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of Ukraine award a 3–0 technical victory to Volyn Lutsk.[48]
  3. The FFU awards a 3–0 technical victory to Zorya Luhansk in their Round 12 match against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk after Dnipro field eight foreign players during the match. The original match ended in a 3–2 victory for Zorya.[49]

Round by round

The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition.

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Team ╲ Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
Shakhtar Donetsk111111111111111111111111111111
Metalist Kharkiv344564444444444444332322232222
Dynamo Kyiv653222233233332333443233323333
Dnipro222333322322223222224444444444
Metalurh Donetsk1111151413149856666810766669766555555
Chornomorets Odesa591097111411121313131065555555555666676
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih7678567101191112121313810121298977888767
Arsenal Kyiv161612118765655557868810121312111111109998
Illichivets Mariupol14887101286787871091199776688777889
Tavriya Simferopol1314111311101013978111312121313111310101010109910101011
Zorya Luhansk43644557101110781111121210887899101111111110
Vorskla Poltava12129121413131213121210119691113141414141212121312121212
Volyn Lutsk87569911981099957107791112111313131414141413
Karpaty Lviv9101310128121414141414141414141414111311131414141213131314
Hoverla Uzhhorod101316161616161515151515151515151515151515151515151515151515
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia151514151515151616161616161616161616161616161616161616161616
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Source: [citation needed]

Season statistics

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Mkhitaryan in 2012

Top scorers

Top assists

Hat-tricks

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Awards

Monthly awards

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Month UA-Football Player of the Month
Player Nat Club Link
March Andriy Yarmolenko  UKR Dynamo Kyiv 2G 1A
April Fernandinho  BRA Shakhtar Donetsk 1A
May Marko Dević  UKR Metalist Kharkiv 3G
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Season awards

The laureates of the 2012–13 UPL season were:[56]

See also

References

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