2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League

34th season of top-tier football league in Ukrainian football From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League season, referred to as the Ukrainian Premier League VBET for sponsorship reasons, is the 34th top-level football club competition since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 17th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League.

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Season2024–25
Dates3 August 2024 – 24 May 2025
17 December 2024 – 21 February 2025
(winter break)
Matches played133
Goals scored315 (2.37 per match)
Top goalscorerVladyslav Vanat
(10 goals)
Biggest home winShakhtar 6–0 Inhulets
(23 November 2024)
Biggest away winVorskla 0–5 Shakhtar
(4 August 2024)
Highest scoringOleksandriya 4–3 Shakhtar
(24 August 2024)
Shakhtar 5–2 Karpaty
(14 September 2024)
Dynamo 5–2 Inhulets
(3 November 2024)
Longest winning run5 matches
Dynamo
Longest unbeaten run17 matches
Dynamo
Longest winless run14 matches
Inhulets
Longest losing run4 matches
Obolon
Highest attendance6,300
Karpaty 1–3 Dynamo
(17 August 2024)
Lowest attendance0
9 matches
Total attendance136,830
Average attendance1,069
2025–26
All statistics correct as of 16 December 2024.
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Teams

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This season the Ukrainian Premier League remained at 16 teams.

Relegated teams

Withdrawn teams

Location map

Home venues of teams in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League.
Several teams (Zorya and Shakhtar) are playing their home games in different cities due to ongoing hostilities.


Stadiums

The minimum threshold for the stadium's capacity in the UPL is 4,500 (Article 10, paragraph 8.3).[3]

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

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Rank Stadium Place Club Capacity Notes
1 Arena Lviv Lviv Rukh Lviv 34,725
Shakhtar Donetsk used as home ground in 9 matches
2 Chornomorets Stadium Odesa Chornomorets Odesa 34,164
3 Ukraina StadiumLviv Karpaty Lviv 28,051
4 Butovsky Vorskla Stadium Poltava Vorskla Poltava 23,842
5 Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv 16,873
Zorya Luhansk used as home ground during the season
6 Tsentralnyi StadionCherkasy LNZ Cherkasy 10,321
7 Avanhard StadiumRivne Veres Rivne 7,122
8 CSC Nika StadiumOleksandriya FC Oleksandriya 7,000
9 Tsentralnyi Stadion Zhytomyr Polissya Zhytomyr 5,928
10 Obolon ArenaKyiv Obolon Kyiv 5,103
11 Kolos Stadium Kovalivka Kolos Kovalivka 5,050
LNZ Cherkasy used as home ground in 1 match
Inhulets Petrove used as home ground in 1 match
12 Arena Livyi Bereh Zolochivska hromada Livyi Bereh Kyiv 4,700
Shakhtar Donetsk used as home ground in 1 match
13 Hirnyk Stadium Kryvyi Rih Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 3,219
Inhulets Petrove used as reserve home ground during the season
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Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

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Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Inhulets Petrove Ukraine Vladyslav Lupashko Mutual agreement 5 June 2024 Pre-season Ukraine Vasyl Kobin 15 June 2024[5]
LNZ Cherkasy Belarus Oleg Dulub End of the contract 10 June 2024[6] Spain Andrés Carrasco 11 June 2024[7]
Chornomorets Odesa Ukraine Roman Hryhorchuk Mutual consent[8] 26 June 2024[8] Ukraine Stepan Matviyiv (caretaker) 26 June 2024
Ukraine Stepan Matviyiv (caretaker) End of the contract 30 June 2024 Ukraine Serhiy Politylo (caretaker) 1 July 2024[9][10]
Ukraine Anatoliy Didenko (caretaker)
Ukraine Anatoliy Didenko & Serhiy Politylo (caretakers) End of caretaker spell[B] 13 July 2024 Ukraine Oleksandr Babych 9 July 2024[11]
Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Myron Markevych Mutual consent[12] 17 July 2024 Ukraine Vladyslav Lupashko 19 July 2024
Zorya Luhansk Ukraine Yuriy Koval (caretaker) Return to previous position 26 August 2024 8th Croatia Mladen Bartulović (interim) 26 August 2024
Obolon Kyiv Ukraine Valeriy Ivashchenko Fired 4 September 2024[13] 16th Ukraine Oleksandr Antonenko (interim) 4 September 2024
Ukraine Oleksandr Antonenko (interim) End of interim 5 September 2024 Ukraine Serhiy Shyshchenko 5 September 2024
Vorskla Poltava Ukraine Serhiy Dolhanskyi (caretaker) Return to previous coaching role 23 October 2024 12th Ukraine Yuriy Maksymov 24 October 2024
LNZ Cherkasy Spain Andrés Carrasco Suspended 11 December 2024 10th Ukraine Artem Chorniy (caretaker) 11 December 2024
Sacked after suspended 12 December 2024 Ukraine Andriy Dykan (caretaker) 12 December 2024
Ukraine Artem Chorniy & Andriy Dykan (caretakers) End of caretaker spell 18 December 2024 Ukraine Roman Hryhorchuk 18 December 2024
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Notes:

  1. Given the fact that the company continues to cooperate with Russian clubs, the logo of Joma on the game uniform is disguised by the logo of another sponsor of the club
  2. Since 14th matchweek

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dynamo Kyiv 17 13 4 0 37 11 +26 43 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2 Oleksandriya 17 11 5 1 26 12 +14 38 Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
3 Shakhtar Donetsk 16 10 3 3 41 15 +26 33
4 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 17 9 4 4 22 16 +6 31
5 Polissya Zhytomyr 18 8 6 4 25 16 +9 30
6 Karpaty Lviv 17 7 3 7 22 21 +1 24
7 Rukh Lviv 18 5 8 5 21 15 +6 23
8 Zorya Luhansk 16 7 1 8 18 20 2 22
9 Veres Rivne 18 5 7 6 20 24 4 22[a]
10 LNZ Cherkasy 18 6 4 8 19 26 7 22[a]
11 Kolos Kovalivka 18 3 9 6 12 14 2 18
12 Vorskla Poltava 17 4 4 9 15 25 10 16[b]
13 Livyi Bereh Kyiv 17 4 4 9 9 20 11 16[b] Qualification for the Relegation play-off
14 Chornomorets Odesa 18 4 3 11 13 26 13 15
15 Obolon Kyiv 17 3 5 9 10 29 19 14 Relegation to Ukrainian First League
16 Inhulets Petrove 17 1 6 10 12 32 20 9
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Updated to match(es) played on 22 February 2025. Source: upl.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw or "Golden match" if two teams tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).[14]
Notes:
  1. Head-to-head points: Veres 3, LNZ 0.
  2. Head-to-head points (goal difference): Vorskla 3 (+2), Livyi Bereh 3 (-2).

Results

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Teams play each other twice on a home and away basis.

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Home \ Away CHO DYN INH KAR KOL KRY LIV LNZ OBL OLK PZH RUX SHA VER VOR ZOR
Chornomorets Odesa 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–3 1–0 1–4 1–1 0–1 0–1
Dynamo Kyiv 3–1 5–2 2–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–0 3–1
Inhulets Petrove 0–2 0–1
Karpaty Lviv 1–3 0–0 1–0 3–0 3–0 1–0 1–3 5–0 1–1
Kolos Kovalivka 1–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1–0 1–1 2–0 3–1 0–1 3–1 1–1 0–3 1–1
Livyi Bereh Kyiv 1–0 0–3 0–0 0–1 3–1 1–1 0–1 0–3 0–2
LNZ Cherkasy 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 0–1 0–2 3–1 1–2
Obolon Kyiv 1–5 2–1 2–2 0–1 0–0 0–4 0–0 0–2
Oleksandriya 3–0 0–0 2–1 3–0 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 4–3 1–0
Polissia Zhytomyr 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 4–0 0–1 1–0 2–1 2–1
Rukh Lviv 1–1 5–0 0–1 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–3 1–1 3–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 2–1 a 6–0 5–2 5–1 4–0 0–1 1–1 3–1 3–1
Veres Rivne 1–2 2–2 0–0 0–2 1–3 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–2 2–1
Vorskla Poltava 0–3 0–1 0–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 0–5
Zorya Luhansk 2–1 0–2 2–1 2–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–0
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Updated to match(es) played on 22 February 2025. Source: UPL calendar
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches affected by air alerts

Round 2.
Shakhtar vs Polissia. The match had been interrupted in the 61st minute for 30 minutes.[15]
Round 3.
Vorskla vs Obolon. Kick off time was delayed for 35 minutes. The match had been interrupted in the 16th minute.[16]
Zorya vs Oleksandriya. Kick off time was delayed for 45 minutes.[17]
Round 4.
Livyi Bereh vs Chornomorets. Kick off time was delayed for 90 minutes.[18]
LNZ vs Karpaty. Kick off time was postponed for 6 hours.[19]
Round 5.
Kryvbas vs Shakhtar. The match, which kicked off on 1 September 2024, has been interrupted in the 50th minute.[20] It will be resumed in 2025.
Round 6.
Vorskla vs Rukh. Beginning of the second half was delayed for 20 minutes.[21]
Round 7.
Kryvbas vs Vorskla. Kick off time was delayed for 30 minutes. The match had been interrupted in the 6th minute. Beginning of the second half was delayed for 18 minutes.[22]
Round 8.
Veres vs Shakhtar. Kick off time was delayed for 27 minutes.[23]
Round 10.
Oleksandriya vs Vorskla. Kick off time was delayed for 40 minutes.[24]
Round 11.
Kryvbas vs LNZ. Kick off time was delayed for 80 minutes.[25]
Round 13.
Livyi Bereh vs Inhulets. Kick off time was delayed for 25 minutes.[26]
Kolos vs Kryvbas. Kick off time was delayed for 80 minutes.[27]
Round 14.
Veres vs Oleksandriya. Kick off time was delayed for 90 minutes.[28]
Round 16.
Inhulets vs Zorya. The match, which kicked off on 8 December 2024 (kick off time was delayed for 141 minute), has been interrupted during half-time.[29][30] It will be resumed in 2025.
Kolos vs Obolon. Kick off time was delayed for 110 minutes. Beginning of the second half was delayed for 35 minutes.[31]
Dynamo vs Oleksandriya. The match had been interrupted in the 58th minute for 38 minutes.[32]
Round 17.
Vorskla vs Livyi Bereh. Beginning of the second half was delayed for 100 minutes.[33]
Oleksandriya vs LNZ. The match had been interrupted in the 30th minute. Beginning of the second half was delayed for 40 minutes.[34]
Kryvbas vs Karpaty. Kick off time was delayed for 30 minutes.[35]

Mini-Tournament play-offs

After the withdrawal of Dnipro-1 from the Ukrainian Premier League the administration concured a playoff between the relegated teams from the 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League season and the third and fourth placed teams from the 2023–24 Ukrainian First League Promotion group.


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Team 1  Score  Team 2
Livyi Bereh Kyiv 1 – 1
5 – 4 (pen.)
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi 3 – 3
3 – 5 (pen.)
FC Mynai
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Semi-Finals

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Livyi Bereh Kyiv advance to the Final of the Mini-Tournament play-offs


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FC Mynai advance to the Final of the Mini-Tournament play-offs

Final

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Team 1  Score  Team 2
Livyi Bereh Kyiv 3 – 0 FC Mynai
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Livyi Bereh Kyiv promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League

Relegation play-offs

Teams that placed 13th and 14th in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League play two-leg play-off with the third and fourth teams of the 2024–25 Ukrainian First League.

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
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First Semi-final

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Second Semi-final

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Season statistics

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Awards

Monthly awards

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Round awards

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Round Player Coach
Player Club Reference Coach Club Reference
Round 1 Ukraine Mykola Matviyenko Shakhtar Donetsk [43] Bosnia and Herzegovina Marino Pušić Shakhtar Donetsk [43]
Round 2 Ukraine Mykola Shaparenko Dynamo Kyiv [44] Ukraine Imad Ashur Polissya Zhytomyr [44]
Round 3 Ukraine Oleksandr Pikhalyonok Dynamo Kyiv [45] Ukraine Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [46]
Round 4 Ukraine Oleksandr Filippov FC Oleksandriya [47] Ukraine Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [47]
Round 5 Ukraine Illya Kvasnytsia Rukh Lviv [48] Ukraine Vitaliy Pervak Livyi Bereh Kyiv [48]
Round 6 Ukraine Artem Bondarenko Shakhtar Donetsk [49] Bosnia and Herzegovina Marino Pušić Shakhtar Donetsk [49]
Round 7 Ukraine Mykyta Kravchenko FC Oleksandriya [50] Ukraine Oleksandr Pozdeyev Kolos Kovalivka [50]
Ukraine Heorhiy Sudakov Shakhtar Donetsk [51] Ukraine Vitaliy Ponomaryov Rukh Lviv [51]
Round 8 Ukraine Oleksiy Hutsulyak Polissya Zhytomyr [52] Ukraine Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [52]
Round 9 Ukraine Heorhiy Sudakov Shakhtar Donetsk [53] Ukraine Oleksandr Babych Chornomorets Odessa [53]
Round 10 Ukraine Illya Putrya LNZ Cherkasy [54] Ukraine Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Dynamo Kyiv [54]
Round 11 Croatia Hrvoje Ilić Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [55] Ukraine Yuriy Vernydub Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [55]
Round 12 Ukraine Mykola Shaparenko Dynamo Kyiv [56] Ukraine Ruslan Rotan FC Oleksandriya [56]
Round 13 Portugal Miguel Campos FC Oleksandriya [57] Ukraine Oleh Shandruk Veres Rivne [57]
Round 14 Ukraine Oleksandr Zubkov Shakhtar Donetsk [58] Ukraine Yuriy Maksymov Vorskla Poltava [58]
Round 15 Ukraine Yehor Tverdokhlib Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [59] Ukraine Vasyl Kobin Inhulets Petrove [59]
Round 16 Ukraine Vladyslav Vanat Dynamo Kyiv [60] Ukraine Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Dynamo Kyiv [60]
Round 17 Ukraine Bohdan Mykhaylichenko Polissya Zhytomyr [61] Ukraine Serhiy Shyshchenko Obolon Kyiv [61]
winter break
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Round 22
Round 23
Round 24
Round 25
Round 26
Round 27
Round 28
Round 29
Round 30
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See also

Notes

  1. Born on territory of Bosnian republic in Yugoslavia before its dissolution, Marino Pušić is of mixed ethnic background and carries a dual citizenship.[4]
  2. Despite the appointment to the position of head coach, Oleksandr Babych has not yet taken up his duties, so the team was led by Anatoliy Didenko

References

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