2005–06 Vyshcha Liha

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 →

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

Summary edit

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 edit

Promoted edit

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 edit

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

Location map edit

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

Managers edit

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 edit

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	Relegated to Ukrainian First League

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

Results edit

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 edit

14 May 2006

18:00 LST

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

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 edit

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)