2005–06 Vyshcha Liha

The 2005–06 Vyshcha Liha season was the fifteenth since its establishment.

Vyshcha Liha

Season	2005–06
Champions	Shakhtar Donetsk 3rd title
Relegated	Volyn Lutsk, Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
Champions League	Shakhtar Donetsk (3rd Qualifying Round) Dynamo Kyiv (2nd Qualifying Round)
UEFA Cup	Chornomorets Odesa (2nd Qualifying Round) Metalurh Zaporizhya (2nd Qualifying Round)
Intertoto Cup	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd Round)
Matches played	241
Goals scored	554 (2.3 per match)
Top goalscorer	(15) - Brandão Emmanuel Okoduwa
Biggest home win	(6:0) - Shakhtar-Illichivets (7:1) Dynamo-Volyn
Biggest away win	(0:6) - Metalist-Dnipro
Highest scoring	(3:6) - Metalurh Z.-Kharkiv
Average attendance	8,016
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

Summary

The season started on July 12, 2005 with six games of the first round. The last day of the competition was May 10, 2006. However, because the top two teams have finished with an equal number of points, it was decided to conduct a decisive game between them, which was named as the Golden Match. The game took place soon upon the conclusion of the regular season on May 14. The winner of the championship final became Shakhtar Donetsk that managed to defeat Dynamo Kyiv 2–1 and for the first time winning its second consecutive title and third over all. The top scorers competition was also tied between two foreigners Brandão from Brazil and Emmanuel Okoduwa from Nigeria. Both players won their individual award scoring 15 goals.

Both Shakhtar and Dynamo lost only once Shakhtar at home to Dynamo, while Dynamo lost its only game at home to Dnipro. Both Shakhtar and Dynamo also finished 30 points away from the closest trailing team in the standings. A good season had FC Illichivets Mariupol tying for the fourth together with FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Also could be left unnoticed the big return of the Odesa sailors that finally earn their next set of medals for the first time since returning to premiers. Out of the newly promoted teams a good performance showed FC Stal Alchevsk that were just a point shy to stay among the top 10.

Both clubs from the Western Ukraine, FC Volyn Lutsk and FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod, were forced into relegation due to their poor performance.

Teams

Promoted

• FC Stal Alchevsk, champion of the 2004-05 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of 4 seasons)
• FC Arsenal Kharkiv, runner-up of the 2004-05 Ukrainian First League was replaced with the newly formed FC Kharkiv – (debut)

Notes: FC Arsenal Kharkiv was reinstated in the Ukrainian Second League.

Renamed

• FC Vorskla Poltava before the season carried the name of FC Vorskla-Naftogaz Poltava

Location map

Dynamo

Arsenal

Dnipro

Illichivets

Metalurh Z.

Kryvbas

Metalist
Khakriv

Volyn

Stal

Metalurh D.

Shakhtar

Tavriya

Vorskla

Zakarpattia

Chornomorets

Locations of team home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 2005–06

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach
FC Arsenal Kyiv	Oleksandr Zavarov	Oleksandr Baranov Ihor Babinchuk
FC Chornomorets Odesa	Semen Altman
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Oleh Protasov	Yevhen Kucherevsky Vadym Tyshchenko
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Anatoliy Demyanenko	Leonid Buryak
FC Volyn Lutsk	Vitaliy Kvartsiany
FC Kharkiv	Hennadiy Lytovchenko
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleksandr Kosevych
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Myron Markevych
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Stepan Matviiv	Oleksandr Sevidov
FC Metalurh Zaporizhya	Vyacheslav Hrozny	Valeriy Yaremchenko Anatoliy Chantsev
FC Illichivets Mariupol	Ivan Balan
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Mircea Lucescu
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Mykhailo Fomenko	Oleh Fedorchuk
FC Vorskla Poltava	Viktor Nosov
FC Stal Alchevsk	Anatoliy Volobuyev
FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	Petro Kushlyk	Viktor Ryashko

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shakhtar Donetsk (C)	30	23	6	1	64	14	+50	75	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	23	6	1	68	20	+48	75	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Chornomorets Odesa	30	13	6	11	36	31	+5	45	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4	Illychivets Mariupol	30	12	7	11	30	34	−4	43
5	Metalist Kharkiv	30	12	7	11	35	42	−7	43
6	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	11	10	9	33	23	+10	43	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
7	Tavriya Simferopol	30	11	6	13	29	31	−2	39
8	Metalurh Zaporizhya	30	11	6	13	32	40	−8	39	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
9	Metalurh Donetsk	30	10	9	11	35	35	0	39
10	Vorskla Poltava	30	9	10	11	28	34	−6	37
11	Stal Alchevsk	30	9	9	12	26	39	−13	36
12	Arsenal Kyiv	30	9	8	13	31	39	−8	35
13	FC Kharkiv	30	9	6	15	29	36	−7	33
14	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	30	9	6	15	27	35	−8	33
15	Volyn Lutsk (R)	30	9	6	15	31	45	−14	33	Relegated to Ukrainian First League
16	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod (R)	30	3	6	21	17	53	−36	15

Source: uafootball.net.ua
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ARK	CHO	DNI	DYN	ILL	KHA	KRY	MET	MDO	MZA	SHA	STA	TAV	VOL	VOR	ZAK
Arsenal Kyiv	—	0–1	1–0	0–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–1
Chornomorets Odesa	1–1	—	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	5–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	2–0	1–2	2–0
Dnipro	1–0	1–2	—	0–3	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	0–1	1–3	0–0	0–0	4–0
Dynamo Kyiv	3–1	4–1	0–2	—	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–2	3–1	1–1	2–2	4–0	2–0	7–1	0–0	4–1
Illichivets Mariupol	3–5	0–1	0–0	1–2	—	2–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	0–1	1–1	3–2	2–0
FC Kharkiv	3–1	0–1	0–1	0–3	3–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	0–1	0–0	3–2	2–0	1–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	1–2	1–0	2–2	0–1	0–1	3–1	—	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–0
Metalist Kharkiv	1–2	1–1	0–6	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	—	2–0	3–1	1–5	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	4–1
Metalurh Donetsk	2–2	3–2	1–1	0–3	0–0	1–1	3–2	3–1	—	0–0	1–3	5–0	0–0	4–0	2–0	1–0
Metalurh Zaporizhzhya	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	3–6	2–1	0–0	3–1	—	0–3	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–2	3–0
Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	6–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	—	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–0
Stal Alchevsk	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–3	—	1–0	2–2	2–0	1–0
Tavriya Simferopol	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–3	5–2	—	1–2	2–3	1–0
Volyn Lutsk	2–1	0–3	2–1	1–3	0–0	2–0	3–0	3–0	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	—	2–1	3–1
Vorskla Poltava	2–0	1–2	1–1	0–4	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–1	0–2	1–0	2–3	2–0	—	0–0
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–3	0–0	0–2	0–3	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	—

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

Final match

Shakhtar Donetsk	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Dynamo Kyiv
Marica 59' Aghahowa 100'	Report	Rodolfo 79'

14 May 2006

18:00 LST

Metalurh Stadium, Kryvyi Rih

Attendance: 29,734

Referee: Ľ. Micheľ (Slovakia), (FIFA)

Shakhtar Donetsk

Dynamo Kyiv

Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 35 Bohdan Shust DF 33 Srna DF 27 Dmytro Chyhrynskyi DF 3 Tomáš Hübschman  58'  91' DF 26 Răzvan Raț MF 36 Elano  21'  73' MF 4 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (c) MF 18 Mariusz Lewandowski MF 7 Fernandinho FW 29 Ciprian Marica 59'  80' FW 25 Brandão  118' Substitutes: MF 6 Igor Duljaj  73'  120' DF 8 Leonardo DF 13 Vyacheslav Shevchuk DF 14 Flavius Stoican  91' GK 16 Jan Laštůvka FW 17 Julius Aghahowa  80' 100' FW 20 Oleksiy Byelik Manager: Mircea Lucescu

Dynamo Kyiv: GK 1 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (c) DF 3 Serhiy Fedorov FW 5 Serhii Rebrov  101' FW 9 Kléber  45' MF 14 Ruslan Rotan  12' FW 16 Maksim Shatskikh MF 20 Oleh Husyev DF 27 Vladyslav Vashchuk MF 30 Badr El Kaddouri  119' DF 32 Goran Gavrančić  55' DF 33 Andrey Yeshchenko  68' Substitutes: DF 4 Rodolfo  55' 79' MF 8 Valyantsin Byalkevich  12' MF 15 Diogo Rincón FW 23 Māris Verpakovskis FW 25 Artem Milevskyi  68'  82' DF 26 Andriy Nesmachniy GK 55 Oleksandr Rybka Manager: Anatoliy Demyanenko

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Martin Balko Tomáš Mokoš Fourth official: V. Grinjak

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes Maximum of 3 substitutions.

Top goal scorers

Brandão

Okoduwa

Brandão Shakhtar Donetsk 15 Emmanuel Okoduwa Arsenal Kyiv 15 Oleksandr Kosyrin Metalurh Donetsk 13 (2) Serhii Rebrov Dynamo Kyiv 13 (2) Vasyl Sachko Volyn Lutsk 13 (2) Kléber Dynamo Kyiv 11 Matuzalém Shakhtar Donetsk 10 (1) Ara Hakobyan Metalurh Donetsk 10 (3) Diogo Rincón Dynamo Kyiv 10 (4) Serhiy Shyshchenko Metalurh Zaporizhya 9 Vasil Gigiadze Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 9 (4)

See also

• 2005–06 Ukrainian Cup