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

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

Summary

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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

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

Renamed

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Location map

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Managers

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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

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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

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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

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Shakhtar Donetsk2 – 1 (a.e.t.)Dynamo Kyiv
Marica   59'
Aghahowa   100'
Report Rodolfo   79'
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

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

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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

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References

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