1993–94 Ukrainian First League

1993–94 Ukrainian First League was the third season of the Ukrainian First League which was won by Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk. The season started on August 15, 1993, and its final round (40th) was played on July 3, 1994. In the last round Evis Mykolaiv (Shipbuilders) snatched the ticket to the Ukrainian Premier League from under the nose of Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya (a point ahead of the Shipbuilders) by beating Naftovyk Okhtyrka 2:1 after allowing the first goal.

Ukrainian First League
Season1993-94
ChampionsPrykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
PromotedPrykarpattia, Evis
RelegatedArtania, Desna
Top goalscorer(26) Serhiy Chuichenko (Polihraftekhnika)

It is also worth of noting that the newly promoted club from Cherkasy was leading the league during the winter break and along with the Oleksandria club was the main contender for promotion. The second half of the season for Dnipro was terrible and they placed in the mid-table after the final round.

Promotion and relegation

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Two clubs promoted from the 1992–93 Ukrainian Second League.

Relegated teams

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No clubs were relegated from the 1992-93 Ukrainian Top League:

Renamed teams

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Teams

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In 1993-94 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Stadiums

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The following stadiums are considered home grounds for the teams in the competition.

Rank Stadium Capacity Club Managers
1 Vorskla Stadium, Poltava 24,795 FC Vorskla Poltava Viktor Maslov
2 Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv 16,873 FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv Volodymyr Onyshchenko
3 Evis Stadium, Mykolaiv 15,600 FC Evis Mykolaiv Leonid Koltun
4 SKA Stadium, Odesa 15,000 SC Odesa Volodymyr Smarovoz
5 Gagarin Stadium, Chernihiv 12,060 FC Desna Chernihiv Andriy Protsko
6 Avanhard Stadium, Uzhhorod 12,000 FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod Ivan Shanhin
7 Podillya Stadium, Khmelnytskyi 10,500 FC Nord-Am Podillya Khmelnytskyi Volodymyr Vusatyi
8 Central city Stadium, Cherkasy 10,321 FC Dnipro Cherkasy Semen Osynovskyi
9 Stal Stadium, Alchevsk 9,200 FC Stal Alchevsk Anatoliy Volobuyev
10 Elektron Stadium, Ivano-Frankivsk 7,820 FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk Ihor Yurchenko
11 Elektrometalurh Stadium, Nikopol 7,200 FC Metalurh Nikopol Volodymyr Nechayev
12 Sokil Stadium, Stryi 6,000 FC Skala Stryi Yuriy Shulyatytskyi
13 Central Stadium, Zhytomyr 5,928 FC Khimik Zhytomyr Oleksandr Ishchenko
14 Naftovyk Stadium, Okhtyrka 5,256 FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka Andriy Biba
15 Khimik Stadium, Severodonetsk 5,000 FC Khimik Severodonetsk Stanislav Honcharenko
16 Kharchovyk Stadium, Chortkiv 3,600 FC Krystal Chortkiv Ivan Krasnetskyi
17 Pryladyst Stadium, Mukacheve FC Pryladyst Mukacheve Hryhoriy Ishchenko
18 Artania Stadium, Ochakiv FC Artania Ochakiv Valery Zhuravko
19 Avanhard Stadium, Sumy FC Avtomobilist Sumy Serhiy Strashnenko
20 Olimp Stadium, Oleksandriya FC Polihraftekhnika Oleksandria Yuriy Koval

Final table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk (C, P) 38 26 7 5 81 33 +48 59 Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
2 Evis Mykolaiv (P) 38 25 6 7 76 32 +44 56
3 Polihraftekhnika Oleksandria 38 22 11 5 62 22 +40 55
4 Stal Alchevsk 38 22 7 9 56 40 +16 51
5 Naftovyk Okhtyrka 38 19 10 9 57 28 +29 48
6 Dnipro Cherkasy 38 19 7 12 56 39 +17 45
7 Dynamo-2 Kyiv 38 16 8 14 50 37 +13 40
8 Vorskla Poltava 38 15 7 16 30 52 −22 37
9 Metalurh Nikopol 38 15 6 17 44 56 −12 36
10 Khimik Zhytomyr 38 14 8 16 39 47 −8 36
11 Nord-Am-Podillia Khmelnytskyi 38 13 9 16 45 47 −2 35
12 Khimik Siverodonetsk 38 12 9 17 37 46 −9 33
13 SC Odesa 38 12 9 17 43 54 −11 33
14 Zakarpattia Uzhhorod 38 12 8 18 33 53 −20 32
15 Karpaty Mukacheve 38 12 7 19 41 57 −16 31
16 Skala Stryi 38 11 7 20 36 48 −12 29
17 Krystal Chortkiv 38 10 9 19 29 41 −12 29
18 SBTS Sumy 38 11 5 22 39 58 −19 27
19 Artania Ochakiv (R) 38 9 6 23 29 69 −40 24 Relegated to Second League
20 Desna Chernihiv (R) 38 7 10 21 29 53 −24 24
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Persha Liha 1993-94 Winners
Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
First title

Top scorers

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Statistics are taken from here.[1]

Scorer Goals (Pen.) Team
1   Serhiy Chuichenko 26 (8) Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya
2   Serhiy Turiansky 22 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
3   Oleksandr Ostashov 18 Dnipro Cherkasy
4   Ruslan Zabranskyi 16 (3) Evis Mykolaiv
  Mykola Yurchenko 16 (3) Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
6   Anatoliy Redushko 14 Skala / Prykarpattia
  Oleksiy Hrachov 14 Naftovyk Okhtyrka
  Valeriy Kudlyuk 14 (2) Evis Mykolaiv
  Vakhtang Karibov 14 (9) Pryladyst Mukacheve
10   Andriy Shevchenko 12 Dynamo-2 Kyiv
  Vitaliy Chayka 12 (10) Stal Alchevsk

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Statistics (in Russian)