A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | CH | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
| Season | 2015–16 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Dynamo Kyiv 15th title |
| Champions League | Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Europa League | Zorya Luhansk Vorskla Poltava FC Oleksandriya |
| Matches played | 136 |
| Goals scored | 365 (2.68 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | 22 – Alex Teixeira (Shakhtar) |
| Biggest home win | 8 – Volyn 9–1 Metalurh (Round 15) |
| Biggest away win | 6 – Metalurh 0–6 Zorya (Round 1), Stal 0–6 Dnipro (Round 11), Zorya 1–7 Shakhtar (Round 12), Metalurh 0–6 Dynamo (Round 16) |
| Highest scoring | 10 – Volyn 9–1 Metalurh (Round 15) |
| Longest winning run | 12 – Shakhtar (Round 6–17) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 10 – Dynamo (Round 1–10) |
| Longest winless run | 16 – Metalurh (Round 1–16) |
| Longest losing run | 8 – Metalurh (Round 9–16) |
| Highest attendance | 32,794 – Dynamo–Shakhtar (Round 11) |
| Lowest attendance | 300 – Olimpik–Volyn (Round 19) |
← 2014–15 2016–17 →
All statistics correct as of 20 March 2016. | |
The 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League season is the 25th top-level football competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the eighth since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. Because of sponsorship the league changed its title for 2015–16 season to League Parimatch. The competition commenced on 17 July when Metalurh Zaporizhzhia hosted Zorya Luhansk in Zaporizhzhia.[1] The first sixteen rounds were played before the winter break which began 6 December 2015; the competition resumed on 5 March 2016. The season concluded on 15 May 2016. Dynamo Kyiv are the defending champions. With the continuation of the Ukrainian crisis in the oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk, the league remained at 14 teams after being cut from 16 in the 2013–14 season.[1][2]
Format
It was confirmed that the championship would be played using a standard double round-robin tournament system. The last team would be relegated and would be replaced by the champion of the 2015–16 Ukrainian First League.[3] In the event of a decision being made to expand the league to 16 teams next season, the last team will play a play-off game with a team that takes the third place of the 2015–16 Ukrainian First League, while the champion and runner-up would be promoted.[3]
Teams
Promotions
- FC Oleksandriya, the champion of the 2014–15 Ukrainian First League – (returning for the first time since 2011–12 season, four seasons absence).
- Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk, the runner-up of the 2014–15 Ukrainian First League – (debut). Note: the club replaced FC Metalurh Donetsk (see below).
Metalurh Donetsk / Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk case
After the previous season the president of FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk announced that the club will be merged with FC Metalurh Donetsk and replace them in the Premier League for the 2015–16 season[4] due to the fact that both clubs are owned by the Industrial Union of Donbas (ISD).[5] On 11 July 2015, the owners of FC Metalurh Donetsk have sent a letter to the Football Federation of Ukraine announcing their withdrawal from the competitions.[6] Right before the start of competitions it was uncertain which club will replace Metalurh either FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk or FC Illichivets Mariupol.[7][8] On 14 July 2015, the administration of Illichivets released a letter explaining its reason why the club should remain in the league.[9] Due to the fact that the Premier League members did not manage to gather a quorum, on 16 July 2015, the Football Federation of Ukraine Executive Committee voted on to include Stal to the Premier League (29 for, 7 against and 1 abstain).[10][11]
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia case
On 7 October 2015, FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia petitioned to the Premier League to withdraw the club from the competition's participation due to the lack of financing.[12] On 24 November 2015, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia informed the Premier League about decision of a deliberate assembly of the Metalurh Zaporizhzhia members in regards to liquidation of the club. On 2 March 2016, the Premier League cancelled the 17th-round game for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia due to the fact that there are only four players were registered for the second half and only five more are allowed to be registered outside of a transfer window. Also the club failed to inform the league and the visiting team about place and time of the upcoming game.[12]
On 13 March 2016, it was announced that the club's academy the Sports School Metalurh, was handed over to the city authorities after the liquidation of the club.[13]
On 7 April 2016, another Zaporizhzhia city club "Rosso Nero" successfully changed its name to Metalurh Zaporizhzhia[14] and will participate in the 2016 Ukrainian Football Amateur League.[15]
Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk scandal
On 19 November 2015,[16][17] there was appointed a new president of the club Vardan Israelian as the previous president Maksym Zavhorodniy changed his place of work.[18] In a protest of appointing Vardan Israelian, the club's vice-president Mykola Kolyuchy resigned[19] and replaced with Bohdan Napolov.[20] On 24 December 2015, took place a meeting of members of FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk which decided discontinue contract with its U-19 team due to "a lack of patriotism" as well as liquidate contracts with number of players from the U-21 who were involved in corruption along with the team's head coach Serhiy Shyshchenko.[21] Israelian informed that during his talk with Mazyar, the latter said that he will not work without Kolyuchy in the club.[22]
Location map
Teams in italics are from a conflict zone of the War in Donbass and are playing their home games in different cities.
Stal plays its games also in Dnipropetrovsk rather than at home.
Stadiums
The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:
| Rank | Stadium | Club | Capacity | Highest Attendance |
Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NSC Olimpiyskiy | Dynamo Kyiv | 70,050 | 32,794 | Round 11 (Shakhtar) | |
| 2 | OSC Metalist | Metalist Kharkiv | 40,003 | 16,855 | Round 7 (Shakhtar) | |
| 3 | Arena Lviv | Shakhtar Donetsk | 34,915 | 6,497 | Round 24 (Dynamo) | Used as home ground during season |
| Karpaty Lviv | 14,656 | Round 18 (Dynamo) | Used as home ground in round 18 | |||
| 4 | Chornomorets Stadium | Chornomorets Odesa | 34,164 | 22,222 | Round 3 (Dynamo) | |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 13,213 | Round 5 (Dnipro) | Used as home ground in rounds 5 and 16 | |||
| 5 | Dnipro-Arena | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 31,003 | 22,060 | Round 4 (Dynamo) | |
| 6 | Ukraina Stadium | Karpaty Lviv | 28,051 | 7,328 | Round 7 (Zorya) | |
| 7 | Vorskla Stadium | Vorskla Poltava | 24,795 | 16,000 | Round 10 (Dynamo) | |
| 8 | Meteor Stadium | Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk | 24,381 | 5,500 | Round 11 (Dnipro) | Used as home ground during season[23] |
| 9 | Dynamo Stadium | Olimpik Donetsk | 16,873 | 2,500 | Round 14 (Dynamo) | Used as home ground in Round 14 |
| Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 4,800 | Round 16 (Dynamo) | Used as home ground in Round 16 | |||
| 10 | Avanhard Stadium | Volyn Lutsk | 12,080 | 10,280 | Round 8 (Dynamo) | |
| 11 | Slavutych-Arena | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 12,000 | 6,960 | Round 10 (Olimpik) | |
| Zorya Luhansk | 6,800 | Round 6 (Dynamo) | Used as home ground during season | |||
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 6,751 | Round 14 (Zorya) | Used as home ground in Round 14 & 26 | |||
| 12 | Avanhard Stadium | Hoverla Uzhhorod | 12,000 | 3,600 | Round 15 (Shakhtar) | |
| 13 | CSC Nika Stadium | Oleksandriya | 7,000 | 6,500 | Round 13 (Shakhtar) | |
| 14 | Bannikov Stadium | Olimpik Donetsk | 1,678 | 1,050 | Round 9 (Shakhtar) | Used as home ground during season |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 1,354 | Round 8 (Stal) | Used as home ground in Round 8 | |||
Note:
Round when attendance is noted as highest is the chronological number of the round, not the published round by the Ukrainian Premier League since some rounds were rescheduled for a later date.
