1996–97 Vyshcha Liha

The 1996–97 Vyshcha Liha season was the 6th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Vyshcha Liha
Season1996–97
ChampionsDynamo Kyiv
5th title
RelegatedNyva Vinnytsia, Kremin Kremenchuk
Champions LeagueDynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' CupShakhtar Donetsk
UEFA CupVorskla Poltava, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Top goalscorer(21) Oleh Matveyev (Shakhtar)

Preseason changes

Number of teams in the league was reduced from 18 to 16. Vyshcha Liha became a member of the newly established Professional Football League of Ukraine.

Teams

Promotions

Renamed

Before the start of season CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv was replaced with CSKA Kyiv which played in tier 3.[1] Just before the start of new 1996–97 season a scandal took place related to ownership.[2] Dmytro Zlobenko was removed from the club which with help of the Army was passed to some businessman by name of Mikhail Grinshpon, a president of "Kyiv–Donbas".[3] Concurrently, Mikhail Grinshpon was an adviser to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksandr Kuzmuk.[3]

Location
Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1996-97

Managers
Club Coach Replaced Coach Home stadium
FC Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Valery Lobanovsky Ukraine Yozhef Sabo 17 games(first half) Dynamo Stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk Ukraine Valery Yaremchenko Shakhtar Stadium
FC Vorskla Poltava Ukraine Viktor Pozhechevskyi Vorskla Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine Vyacheslav Hrozny Meteor Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Myron Markevych Ukraina Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol Ukraine Mykola Pavlov Ukraine Serhiy Shevchenko 10 games
Ukraine Ivan Balan 5 games
Ukraine Valeriy Shvediuk 7 games		 Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Chornomorets Odesa Ukraine Leonid Buriak Black Sea Shipping Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Oleksandr Tomakh Metalurh Stadium
FC Nyva Ternopil Ukraine Ihor Yavorskyi City Stadium
FC Zirka Kirovohrad Ukraine Oleksandr Dovbiy Ukraine Oleksandr Ischenko 22 games
Ukraine Mykhailo Kalyta 1 game		 Zirka Stadium
FC CSKA Kyiv Ukraine Volodymyr Lozynskyi CSK ZSU Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Oleksandr Lysenko Ukraine Oleksiy Cherednyk 12 games Metalurh Stadium
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk Ukraine Viktor Kolotov Russia Boris Streltsov 5 games Elektron Stadium
FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Viktor Matvienko Ukraine Ihor Nadein 27 games AvtoZAZ Stadium
FC Kremin Kremenchuk Ukraine Mykhailo Byelykh Dnipro Stadium
FC Nyva Vinnytsia Ukraine Oleksandr Ischenko Ukraine Pasha Kasanov 23 games
Ukraine Volodymyr Reva 2 games		 Central City Stadium

Notes: Games between Dynamo Kyiv and CSKA Kyiv were played at the Republican Stadium.

Changes
Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment Table
FC Shakhtar Donetsk Ukraine Valeriy Rudakov pre-season Ukraine Valery Yaremchenko pre-season
SC Tavriya Simferopol Ukraine Anatoliy Zayayev pre-season Kazakhstan Serhiy Shevchenko pre-season
FC CSKA Kyiv Ukraine Viktor Chanov pre-season Ukraine Volodymyr Lozynsky pre-season
FC Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Volodymyr Zhuravchak pre-season Ukraine Myron Markevych pre-season
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Germany Bernd Stange pre-season Ukraine Viacheslav Hrozny pre-season
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Myron Markevych pre-season Ukraine Oleksiy Cherednyk pre-season
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk Ukraine Ihor Yurchenko pre-season Russia Boris Streltsov pre-season
FC Kremin Kremenchuk Ukraine Valery Yaremchenko pre-season Ukraine Mykhailo Bilykh pre-season
FC Nyva Vinnytsia Ukraine Serhiy Morozov pre-season Ukraine Pasha Kasanov pre-season

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dynamo Kyiv (C) 30 23 4 3 69 20 +49 73 Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2 Shakhtar Donetsk[lower-alpha 1] 30 19 5 6 72 28 +44 62 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
3 Vorskla Poltava 30 17 7 6 50 26 +24 58 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
4 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk[lower-alpha 1] 30 14 13 3 48 19 +29 55
5 Karpaty Lviv 30 15 7 8 36 23 +13 52
6 Tavriya Simferopol 30 13 5 12 36 46 −10 44
7 Chornomorets Odesa 30 12 6 12 36 31 +5 42
8 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 30 12 5 13 48 44 +4 41
9 Nyva Ternopil 30 11 6 13 34 37 −3 39
10 Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad 30 11 3 16 31 55 −24 36
11 CSKA Kyiv 30 9 8 13 33 35 −2 35
12 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 30 9 6 15 24 48 −24 33
13 Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 30 8 7 15 33 49 −16 31
14 Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 30 8 5 17 25 56 −31 29
15 Kremin Kremenchuk (R) 30 7 3 20 28 57 −29 24 Relegated to Ukrainian First League
16 Nyva Vinnytsia (R) 30 4 6 20 19 48 −29 18
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goal scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Participant of the 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final

Results
Home \ Away CHO CSK DNI DYN KAR KRE KRY MZA NVT NYV PRY SHA TAV TZA VOR ZIR
Chornomorets Odesa — 0–0 3–0 1–3 0–0 1–0 0–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 5–1 2–0 0–3 5–1
CSKA Kyiv 1–2 — 0–0 0–1 0–1 3–1 1–2 2–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 5–1 0–0 1–2
Dnipro 3–2 2–1 — 0–1 0–0 3–0 2–1 4–0 1–0 4–0 4–0 2–0 1–0 4–0 1–1 4–0
Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 2–2 2–2 — 2–0 5–0 5–0 1–2 1–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 3–0 2–1 2–1 6–1
Karpaty Lviv 1–0 1–2 0–0 0–2 — 4–0 5–1 1–0 3–1 1–2 3–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–0
Kremin Kremenchuk 1–0 0–2 1–1 1–4 0–1 — 2–1 4–1 3–2 3–0 2–1 0–1 2–3 1–1 0–4 1–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1–0 2–1 0–0 0–2 1–2 1–0 — 1–0 2–0 3–0 1–1 1–3 1–0 2–1 1–1 0–2
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 1–0 4–2 1–1 0–0 2–0 3–2 1–1 — 4–2 2–0 3–2 1–1 8–1 2–0 2–0 0–1
Nyva Ternopil 2–0 0–0 2–2 1–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 2–1 — 3–0 3–0 1–4 1–0 2–1 1–0 5–1
Nyva Vinnytsia 0–1 2–2 0–2 0–1 0–1 2–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 — 1–2 1–2 0–0 0–0 2–4 3–1
Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 2–4 0–0 2–2 0–2 1–2 2–0 2–0 3–2 0–0 2–1 — 2–1 1–2 2–1 0–2 0–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 3–0 3–0 1–0 1–3 0–0 4–2 6–0 4–2 5–0 1–0 2–0 — 4–0 9–1 4–0 3–1
Tavriya Simferopol 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–3 3–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 3–2 2–0 0–2 — 2–1 1–1 1–0
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 1–2 +:- 1–3 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–4 0–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–3 — 2–3 3–1
Vorskla Poltava 2–1 1–0 0–0 4–3 0–0 2–0 4–0 3–0 2–1 3–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 — 3–0
Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad 0–2 2–0 0–0 0–4 2–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–4 2–3 2–1 1–2 2–0 —
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers
Rank Player Club Goals
(Pen.)
1 Ukraine Oleh Matviiv Shakhtar Donetsk 21 (6)
2 Ukraine Serhii Rebrov Dynamo Kyiv 20 (6)
3 Ukraine Serhiy Chuychenko Vorskla Poltava 14 (2)
4 Ukraine Oleksandr Haidash Tavriya Simferopol 13
Russia Andriy Fedkov Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 13 (3)
6 Ukraine Serhiy Mizin CSKA / Chornomorets 12 (3)
7 Ukraine Serhiy Atelkin Shakhtar Donetsk 11
Ukraine Valentyn Poltavets Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 11
Ukraine Yakiv Kripak Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 11 (3)
10 Ukraine Hennadiy Moroz Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 10

See also

References
  1. 6-й национальный чемпионат украины - футбольный клуб. wildstat.ru (FC Zorya Luhansk)
  2. 6-й национальный чемпионат украины - футбольный клуб. wildstat.ru (FC Zorya Luhansk)
  3. Varis, S. Mikhail Grinshpon: astronomical "partitioner" of Ukraine. Part 1. (Михаил Гриншпон: космический «распильщик» Украины. ЧАСТЬ 1). Skelet Info. 17 July 2017
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