2005–06 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha
Season2005–06
ChampionsShakhtar Donetsk
3rd title
RelegatedVolyn Lutsk,
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
Champions LeagueShakhtar Donetsk (3rd Qualifying Round)
Dynamo Kyiv (2nd Qualifying Round)
UEFA CupChornomorets Odesa (2nd Qualifying Round)
Metalurh Zaporizhya (2nd Qualifying Round)
Intertoto CupDnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd Round)
Matches played241
Goals scored554 (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 attendance8,016

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

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

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

Renamed

Location map

Managers

Club Coach Replaced coach
FC Arsenal Kyiv Ukraine Oleksandr Zavarov Ukraine Oleksandr Baranov
Ukraine Ihor Babinchuk
FC Chornomorets Odesa Ukraine Semen Altman
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine Oleh Protasov Ukraine Yevhen Kucherevsky
Ukraine Vadym Tyshchenko
FC Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Anatoliy Demyanenko Ukraine Leonid Buryak
FC Volyn Lutsk Ukraine Vitaliy Kvartsiany
FC Kharkiv Ukraine Hennadiy Lytovchenko
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Oleksandr Kosevych
FC Metalist Kharkiv Ukraine Myron Markevych
FC Metalurh Donetsk Ukraine Stepan Matviiv Ukraine Oleksandr Sevidov
FC Metalurh Zaporizhya Ukraine Vyacheslav Hrozny Ukraine Valeriy Yaremchenko
Ukraine Anatoliy Chantsev
FC Illichivets Mariupol Ukraine Ivan Balan
FC Shakhtar Donetsk Romania Mircea Lucescu
SC Tavriya Simferopol Ukraine Mykhailo Fomenko Ukraine Oleh Fedorchuk
FC Vorskla Poltava Ukraine Viktor Nosov
FC Stal Alchevsk Ukraine Anatoliy Volobuyev
FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod Ukraine Petro Kushlyk Ukraine 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 Donetsk2 – 1 (a.e.t.)Dynamo Kyiv
Marica 59'
Aghahowa 100'
Report Rodolfo 79'
Attendance: 29,734
Referee: Slovakia Ľ. Micheľ (Slovakia), (FIFA)
Shakhtar Donetsk
Dynamo Kyiv
Shakhtar Donetsk:
GK 35 Ukraine Bohdan Shust
DF 33 Croatia Srna
DF 27 Ukraine Dmytro Chyhrynskyi
DF 3 Czech Republic Tomáš Hübschman Yellow card 58' downward-facing red arrow 91'
DF 26 Romania Răzvan Raț
MF 36 Brazil Elano Yellow card 21' downward-facing red arrow 73'
MF 4 Ukraine Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (c)
MF 18 Poland Mariusz Lewandowski
MF 7 Brazil Fernandinho
FW 29 Romania Ciprian Marica 59' downward-facing red arrow 80'
FW 25 Brazil Brandão Yellow card 118'
Substitutes:
MF 6 Serbia Igor Duljaj upward-facing green arrow 73' Yellow card 120'
DF 8 Brazil Leonardo
DF 13 Ukraine Vyacheslav Shevchuk
DF 14 Romania Flavius Stoican upward-facing green arrow 91'
GK 16 Czech Republic Jan Laštůvka
FW 17 Nigeria Julius Aghahowa upward-facing green arrow 80' 100'
FW 20 Ukraine Oleksiy Byelik
Manager:
Romania Mircea Lucescu
Dynamo Kyiv:
GK 1 Ukraine Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (c)
DF 3 Ukraine Serhiy Fedorov
FW 5 Ukraine Serhii Rebrov Yellow card 101'
FW 9 Brazil Kléber Yellow card 45'
MF 14 Ukraine Ruslan Rotan downward-facing red arrow 12'
FW 16 Uzbekistan Maksim Shatskikh
MF 20 Ukraine Oleh Husyev
DF 27 Ukraine Vladyslav Vashchuk
MF 30 Morocco Badr El Kaddouri Yellow card 119'
DF 32 Serbia Goran Gavrančić downward-facing red arrow 55'
DF 33 Russia Andrey Yeshchenko downward-facing red arrow 68'
Substitutes:
DF 4 Brazil Rodolfo upward-facing green arrow 55' 79'
MF 8 Belarus Valyantsin Byalkevich upward-facing green arrow 12'
MF 15 Brazil Diogo Rincón
FW 23 Latvia Māris Verpakovskis
FW 25 Ukraine Artem Milevskyi upward-facing green arrow 68' Yellow card 82'
DF 26 Ukraine Andriy Nesmachniy
GK 55 Ukraine Oleksandr Rybka
Manager:
Ukraine Anatoliy Demyanenko

MATCH OFFICIALS

  • Assistant referees:
    • Slovakia Martin Balko
    • Slovakia Tomáš Mokoš
  • Fourth official:Slovakia 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
Brazil Brandão Shakhtar Donetsk 15
Nigeria Emmanuel Okoduwa Arsenal Kyiv 15
Ukraine Oleksandr Kosyrin Metalurh Donetsk 13 (2)
Ukraine Serhii Rebrov Dynamo Kyiv 13 (2)
Ukraine Vasyl Sachko Volyn Lutsk 13 (2)
Brazil Kléber Dynamo Kyiv 11
Brazil Matuzalém Shakhtar Donetsk 10 (1)
Armenia Ara Hakobyan Metalurh Donetsk 10 (3)
Brazil Diogo Rincón Dynamo Kyiv 10 (4)
Ukraine Serhiy Shyshchenko Metalurh Zaporizhya 9
Georgia (country) Vasil Gigiadze Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 9 (4)
 

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