The 1994–95 Vyshcha Liha season was the 4th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Vyshcha Liha
Season1994–95
ChampionsDynamo Kyiv
3rd title
RelegatedTemp Shepetivka, Veres Rivne
Champions LeagueDynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' CupShakhtar Donetsk
UEFA CupChornomorets Odesa
Top goalscorer(21) Arsen Avakov (Torpedo)

Teams

edit

Promotions

edit

Renamed

edit
  • On 2 October 1994 Evis Mykolaiv changed its name to SC Mykolaiv.
  • During the season, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia also carried the name Metalurh-Viktor Zaporizhzhia (after a local entrepreneur Viktor Oharenko).

Location

edit
Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1994-95

Managers

edit
Club Coach Replaced Coach Home stadium
FC Dynamo Kyiv   Mykola Pavlov   Yozhef Sabo 17 games
  Volodymyr Onyschenko 5 games
Republican Stadium
FC Chornomorets Odesa   Leonid Buriak Black Sea Shipping Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk   Bernd Stange   Mykola Pavlov 17 games
  Oleksandr Lysenko 6 games
Meteor Stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk   Vladimir Salkov   Valery Yaremchenko 17 games Shakhtar Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol   Anatoliy Zayaev   Pavlo Kostin 10 games
  Andriy Cheremysin 7 games
  Vitaliy Shalychev 10 games
Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih   Yuriy Koval   Volodymyr Brukhtiy 4 games
  Anatoliy Bida 1 game
  Viktor Kuznetsov 17 games
  Valentyn Laktionov 3 games
Metalurh Stadium
FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia   Ihor Nadein AvtoZAZ Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv   Myron Markevych Ukraina Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia   Oleksandr Tomakh   Anatoliy Kuksov 7 games Metalurh Stadium
FC Kremin Kremenchuk   Tiberiy Korponay   Evhen Rudakov 4 games Dnipro Stadium
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk   Ihor Yurchenko Elektron Stadium
FC Nyva Ternopil   Ihor Yavorskyi   Valeriy Dushkov 11 games City Stadium
SC Mykolaiv   Yevhen Kucherevskyi   Valery Zhuravko 10 games
  Leonid Koltun 1 game
Central City Stadium
FC Nyva Vinnytsia   Serhiy Morozov   Oleksandr Bobaryko 22 games
  Yuriy Koval 2 games
Central City Stadium
FC Volyn Lutsk   Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi   Roman Pokora 8 games Avanhard Stadium
FC Zorya-MALS   Oleksandr Zhuravliov   Volodymyr Kobzarev 17 games
  Yuriy Sevastyanov 3 games
  Anatoliy Korshykov 3 games
Avanhard Stadium
FC Temp Shepetivka   Revaz Dzodzuashvili   Leonid Tkachenko 16 games
  Stanislav Bernykov 8 games
Temp Stadium
FC Veres Rivne   Mykhailo Fomenko   Vyacheslav Kobyletskyi 16 games
  Orest Bal 5 games
  Ivan Krasnetskyi(7 games)
Avanhard Stadium

Changes

edit
Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment Table
FC Chornomorets Odesa   Viktor Prokopenko pre-season   Leonid Buriak pre-season
FC Nyva Ternopil   Leonid Buriak pre-season   Valeriy Dushkov pre-season
FC Nyva Vinnytsia   Yukhym Shkolnykov pre-season   Oleksandr Bobaryko pre-season
FC Kremin Kremenchuk   Yevhen Rudakov July 1994   Tiberiy Korponay 1 August 1994
SC Tavriya Simferopol   Pavlo Kostin Perished in car accident end of September   Andriy Cheremysin (interim) 3 October 1994
SC Tavriya Simferopol   Andriy Cheremysin (interim) Mutual consent winter break   Vitaliy Shalychev February 1995
SC Tavriya Simferopol   Vitaliy Shalychev May 1995   Anatoliy Zayaev May 1995

Notes:

  • The new 1994-95 season SC Tavriya Simferopol under leadership of a coach Pavlo Kostin (native of Chornomorske Raion, Crimea). Sometime after the game against Volyn (Round 10) on 23 September 1994 in Simferopol, Kostin (43 years old) perished in a car accident along with his wife.[1] According to some sources (footballfacts.ru), Kostin perished on 15 September 1994.[2]

League table

edit
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dynamo Kyiv (C) 34 25 8 1 87 24 +63 83 Qualification to Champions League qualifying round
2 Chornomorets Odesa 34 22 7 5 62 29 +33 73 Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
3 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk[a] 34 19 8 7 60 33 +27 65
4 Shakhtar Donetsk[a] 34 18 8 8 52 29 +23 62 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
5 Tavriya Simferopol 34 17 8 9 61 37 +24 59
6 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 34 13 9 12 35 30 +5 48
7 Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 34 15 3 16 49 49 0 48
8 Karpaty Lviv 34 12 9 13 32 36 −4 45
9 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 34 11 10 13 47 42 +5 43
10 Kremin Kremenchuk 34 12 6 16 42 54 −12 42
11 Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 34 11 8 15 40 52 −12 41
12 Nyva Ternopil 34 11 5 18 40 44 −4 38
13 SC Mykolaiv 34 11 5 18 33 59 −26 38
14 Nyva Vinnytsia 34 10 7 17 38 51 −13 37
15 Volyn Lutsk 34 11 3 20 29 58 −29 36
16 Zorya-MALS Luhansk 34 10 5 19 35 70 −35 35
17 Temp Shepetivka (R) 34 10 4 20 31 41 −10 34 Relegated to Ukrainian First League
18 Veres Rivne (R) 34 8 7 19 28 63 −35 31
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goal scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Participant of the 1995 Ukrainian Cup Final.

Results

edit
Home \ Away CHO DNI DYN KAR KRE KRY MZA MYK NVT NYV PRY SHA TAV TEM TZA VER VOL ZOR
Chornomorets Odesa 2–0 1–1 2–1 3–0 5–2 2–1 3–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 4–0 3–2 3–0 2–0 4–0 1–1
Dnipro 0–2 2–2 2–1 3–0 2–1 1–1 3–1 3–2 1–0 1–1 2–0 0–0 2–0 2–3 4–2 3–1 6–0
Dynamo Kyiv 1–2 4–2 3–0 3–2 2–0 0–0 4–0 3–0 2–1 4–0 3–0 2–1 5–0 1–0 7–0 3–1 4–0
Karpaty Lviv 0–0 3–1 0–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 3–1 0–0 0–0 3–1 0–1 1–0 4–3
Kremin Kremenchuk 0–2 1–2 0–4 0–0 0–0 3–2 1–1 1–0 4–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 3–1 5–1 1–1 1–0 4–1
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 3–0 0–1 6–3 0–0 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 3–0 2–0
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 3–1 0–0 2–2 1–0 2–1 0–2 4–1 0–0 4–0 0–0 1–5 0–2 2–0 4–0 1–0 1–0 5–0
SC Mykolaiv 1–0 1–1 2–5 1–1 0–1 0–1 3–2 2–1 0–1 2–0 1–6 4–2 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 2–1
Nyva Ternopil 0–2 0–2 1–1 2–1 5–0 0–2 1–6 2–0 1–0 3–0 2–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 3–0 3–0 3–1
Nyva Vinnytsia 2–2 0–2 1–3 1–1 0–1 1–0 3–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 1–1 1–3 1–0 2–0 2–0 3–0 3–1
Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 2–2 1–1 1–2 1–1 2–1 0–1 1–0 3–0 3–2 3–1 1–2 1–0 2–1 3–0 2–2 3–0 2–1
Shakhtar Donetsk 2–0 1–1 1–3 3–0 2–0 2–0 0–0 3–2 0–0 1–0 3–0 0–2 1–0 4–0 2–0 1–0 2–0
Tavriya Simferopol 2–0 1–2 0–0 3–0 3–1 1–0 3–3 3–1 3–2 3–1 2–1 1–2 3–1 3–1 7–0 6–0 1–1
Temp Shepetivka 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–2 1–2 2–0 4–0 3–0 1–0 2–1 3–0 1–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 3–0 2–1
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 1–2 1–0 1–1 1–2 4–0 1–1 3–1 2–0 3–2 4–2 2–0 1–0 0–1 3–0 4–1 2–0 4–0
Veres Rivne 2–1 0–3 1–2 2–0 2–3 2–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–1 1–3 0–0 0–3 0–3 2–1 3–0
Volyn Lutsk 1–2 0–3 2–2 3–0 3–2 1–0 1–0 0–1 2–1 3–3 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 3–1
Zorya-MALS Luhansk 0–1 0–2 0–5 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 4–2 2–2 0–1 4–2 2–0 0–0 1–0 1–0
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

edit
Rank Player Club Goals
(Pen.)
1   Arsen Avakov Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 21 (6)
2   Oleksiy Antyukhin Tavriya Simferopol 18
3   Oleksandr Haidash Tavriya Simferopol 17
  Victor Leonenko Dynamo Kyiv 17 (1)
5   Ihor Petrov Shakhtar Donetsk 14 (5)
6   Mikhail Potskhveria Zorya / Metalurh 13
7   Timerlan Huseinov Chornomorets Odesa 12
  Andrei Fedkov Kremin Kremenchuk 12 (1)
9   Ruslan Zabranskyi Mykolaiv 11 (1)
10   Ivan Korponay Kremin Kremenchuk 10

Medal squads

edit

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (25 / -15), Valeriy Vorobiov (7 / -8), Andriy Kovtun (3 / -1).
Defenders: Vladyslav Vashchuk (31 / 3), Oleh Luzhnyi (24 / 4), Serhiy Lezhentsev (24), Andriy Khomyn (21 / 2), Yuriy Dmytrulin (17 / 1), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (14), Serhiy Bezhenar (13 / 1), Andriy Annenkov (3).
Midfielders: Vitaliy Kosovsky (27 / 6), Dmytro Mykhailenko (25 / 5), Serhiy Mizin (20 / 5), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (17 / 3), Serhiy Kovalets (17 / 2), Yuriy Kalitvintsev (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (11 / 5), Volodymyr Sharan (11 / 2), Dmytro Topchiyev (2), Maksim Demenko (1), Vladyslav Prudius (1).
Forwards: Serhii Rebrov (24 / 8), Pavlo Shkapenko (24 / 8), Viktor Leonenko (20 / 17), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 5), Andriy Shevchenko (17 / 1), Serhiy Skachenko (16 / 3), Oleksandr Pryzetko (13 / 1),   Mikheil Jishkariani (8 / 3),   Naser al-Sohi (1).

Manager: Yozhef Sabo (first half), Volodymyr Onyshchenko, Mykola Pavlov (second half).

Transferred out during the season: Oleksandr Pryzetko (to   Dinamo-Gazovik), Maksim Demenko (to   Lada Togliatti), Serhiy Kovalets (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Volodymyr Sharan (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Mikheil Jishkariani (to CSKA-Borysfen), Valeriy Vorobiov (to CSKA-Borysfen), Dmytro Topchiyev (to CSKA-Borysfen), Vladyslav Prudius (to CSKA-Borysfen).

2. FC Chornomorets Odesa

Goalkeepers: Oleh Suslov (34 / -27), Vadym Vinokurov (2 / -2).
Defenders: Yuriy Bukel (29), Andriy Telesnenko (28 / 1), Vladislav Ternavsky (16 / 1), Yuriy Smotrych (10), Denys Kolchyn (8), Vitaliy Skysh (5), Oleksiy Cherednyk (3), Serhiy Bulyhin-Shramko (2).
Midfielders: Dmytro Parfyonov (33 / 6), Ihor Zhabchenko (32 / 7), Yuriy Sak (23 / 5), Vitaliy Kolesnychenko (21 / 2),   Andrei Gashkin (20 / 5), Oleksandr Spivak (19), Oleksandr Horshkov (18), Ihor Korniyets (16 / 1), Yuriy Seleznyov (13 / 2), Ruslan Romanchuk (12 / 2), Oleksandr Nikiforov (9), Oleksandr Zotov (8 / 3), Vyacheslav Yeremeyev (7), Viktor Yablonskyi (5 / 1), Vladyslav Zubkov (4), Viktor Bohatyr (3).
Forwards: Tymerlan Huseinov (29 / 12), Volodymyr Musolitin (19 / 3), Vitaliy Parakhnevych (13 / 4), Vasyl Kardash (13 / 2), Oleh Mochulyak (8 / 2), Kostyantyn Kulyk (5 / 2).

Manager: Leonid Buriak.

Transferred out during the season: ?.

3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Mykola Medin (19 / -13), Svyatoslav Syrota (16 / -17),   Konstantin Ledovskikh (1 / -3).
Defenders: Viktor Skrypnyk (31 / 8), Volodymyr Bahmut (30 / 1), Volodymyr Horily (25), Serhiy Diryavka (19), Serhiy Bezhenar (17 / 3), Dmytro Yakovenko (17), Oleksandr Chervonyi (7), Hennadiy Kozar (7), Yevhen Dmitriyev (6), Andriy Yudin (6), Oleksiy Kuptsov (3), Albert Shakhov (2), Serhiy Bilokin (1), Serhiy Zadorozhnyi (1).
Midfielders: Andriy Polunin (31 / 7),   Aleksandr Zakharov (25 / 1), Valentyn Moskvyn (17 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (15 / 3), Dmytro Topchiyev (15 / 3), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (15 / 2), Ihor Plotko (15 / 1), Volodymyr Sharan (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (13 / 4), Serhiy Dumenko (9 / 1), Serhiy Chornyi (3).
Forwards: Borys Finkel (29 / 9), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 3), Oleksandr Palyanytsia (13 / 6), Oleh Taran (7 / 1), Andriy Kotyuk (6),   Andreas Sassen (6), Serhiy Chuichenko (4).

Manager: Mykola Pavlov (first half), Oleksandr Lysenko, Bernd Stange (second half).

Transferred out during the season: Serhiy Bezhenar (to Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Konovalov (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yuriy Maksymov (to Dynamo Kyiv).

Note: Players in italic are whose playing position is uncertain.

References

edit
  1. ^ Naukhatskiy, B. Memorial Cup of our countryman Archived 2015-07-19 at the Wayback Machine. Sports column, "Chernomorskie izvestiya". 28 September 2013
  2. ^ Kostin at footballfacts.ru
edit