1992 in Ukrainian football

The 1992 season was the 62nd season of competitive football in Ukraine and the first season of fully independent Ukraine following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This year the Ukrainian Association of Football (as Football Federation of Ukraine) was granted a membership to the international football organizations FIFA and UEFA and allowed to sent its clubs to the UEFA continental competitions.

Football in Ukraine

Season	1992
Men's football
Vyshcha Liha	SC Tavriya Simferopol
Persha Liha	Veres Rivne (Group A) Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (Group B)
Perekhidna Liha	Dnister Zalishchyky (Group A) Bazhanovets Makiivka (Group B)
KFK Championship	no competition
Ukrainian Cup	Chornomorets Odesa
Women's football
Vyshcha Liha	Dynamo Kyiv
Persha Liha	Iskra Zaporizhia
Ukrainian Cup	Dynamo Kyiv
← 1991 1992–93 →

For the first time such former Soviet clubs like FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Chornomorets Odesa which represented the Soviet Union at European competitions since 1960s qualified for the UEFA competitions representing native Ukrainian nation. For the first time since 1948 FC Dynamo Kyiv returned to compete at the Ukrainian Cup, previously as the Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR. The champions title of SC Tavriya Simferopol was the first in independent Ukraine and the fourth including competitions of the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR.

National team

Main article: Ukraine national football team 1992

In 1992, Ukraine national football team conducted its first matches as representatives of now independent Ukraine and FIFA members. The first game was a match between Ukraine and Hungary held on 29 April 1992 at Avanhard Stadium in Uzhhorod, which was the first international home game for Ukraine, saw the first official goal and ended with a 1–3 defeat. The second game in a season took place on 27 June with the United States on away field, and ended in a 0–0 draw, recording a first point for the national team.

Results and fixtures

Ukraine  v  Hungary

29 April 1992 International Friendly	Ukraine	1–3	Hungary	Uzhhorod, Ukraine
17:00 EEST	Hetsko  90'	Report	Salloi  61' Kiprich  68', 84' (pen.)	Stadium: Avanhard Stadium Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus)

United States  v  Ukraine

27 June 1992 International Friendly	United States	0–0	Ukraine	Piscataway, United States
17:00 UTC-4		Report		Stadium: Rutgers Stadium Attendance: 11,815[1] Referee: Michael Caulfield (Ireland)

Domestic leagues

Men

Vyshcha Liha (Top League)

Main article: 1992 Vyshcha Liha

League table

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tavriya Simferopol (C)	18	11	6	1	30	9	+21	28	Qualification to Final playoff
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	18	10	6	2	31	10	+21	26	Qualification to Third place playoff
3	Chornomorets Odesa	18	9	7	2	30	12	+18	25	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
4	Torpedo Zaporizhya	18	6	7	5	21	16	+5	19
5	Metalurh Zaporizhya	18	6	6	6	20	19	+1	18
6	Karpaty Lviv	18	5	6	7	15	18	−3	16
7	Kremin Kremenchuk	18	4	8	6	17	23	−6	16
8	Nyva Vinnytsia (R)	18	5	4	9	18	33	−15	14	Relegated to Ukrainian First League
9	Evis Mykolaiv (R)	18	3	4	11	12	29	−17	10
10	Temp Shepetivka (R)	18	2	4	12	9	34	−25	8

Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv	18	13	4	1	31	13	+18	30	Qualification to Final playoff
2	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (O)	18	10	3	5	26	15	+11	23	Qualification to Third place playoff
3	Metalist Kharkiv	18	8	5	5	21	16	+5	21
4	Nyva Ternopil	18	8	5	5	16	12	+4	21
5	Volyn Lutsk	18	8	2	8	24	21	+3	18
6	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	18	7	4	7	17	16	+1	18
7	Zorya-MALS Luhansk	18	6	5	7	23	23	0	17
8	Naftovyk Okhtyrka (R)	18	5	3	10	12	28	−16	13	Relegated to Ukrainian First League
9	Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk (R)	18	3	6	9	9	18	−9	12
10	Odesa (R)	18	3	1	14	15	32	−17	7

Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference
(O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated.

Second stage

Championship playoff

Main article: 1992 Vyshcha Liha final

1992-06-21

?:? LST

SC Tavriya Simferopol	1 – 0	FC Dynamo Kyiv
Shevchenko  75'	Report goal (video)

Ukraina Stadium, Lviv

Attendance: 36,000[2]

Referee: Volodymyr Pianykh (Donetsk), (FIFA)

Tavriya Simferopol[3]

Dynamo Kyiv[3]

Tavriya Simferopol: GK 1 Oleh Kolesov FW 2 Serhiy Shevchenko (c) DF 3 Mykola Turchinenko DF 4 Oleksandr Holovko DF 5 Vidmantas Vishniauskas  64' DF 6 Serhiy Voronezhsky MF 7 Andriy Oparin  77' DF 8 Sefer Alibayev DF 9 Yuri Getikov FW 10 Sergei Gladyshev MF 11 Vladyslav Novikov Substitutes: MF 12 Yuriy Mikhailus  77'  87' MF 13 Serhiy Yesin  87' Manager: Anatoliy Zayayev

Dynamo Kyiv: GK 1 Valdemaras Martinkėnas DF 2 Oleh Luzhny DF 3 Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi  55' DF 4 Andrey Aleksanenkov DF 5 Serhiy Shmatovalenko (c) MF 7 Serhiy Kovalets MF 6 Yuri Moroz DF 8 Serhiy Zayets FW 9 Oleh Salenko MF 10 Stepan Betsa MF 11 Volodymyr Sharan  75' Substitutes: FW 13 Oleh Matveyev  55' FW 14 Yuriy Hrytsyna  75' Manager: Anatoliy Puzach

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Yevhen Kanana (Donetsk) Oleh Chornyi (Donetsk)

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.

Third place playoff

June 20, 1992

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	3 – 2	Shakhtar Donetsk
Tyshchenko  19' Konovalov  38', 74'	Report	Bielichenko  51' Atelkin  80'

Metalurh Stadium, Zaporizhia

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Tukhovsky (Simferopol)

Honors and awards

• Top goalscorer: Yuri Hudymenko, Tavriya Simferopol (12)
• Ukrainian Footballer of the Year: Viktor Leonenko, Dynamo Kyiv

Persha Liha (First League)

Main article: 1992 Ukrainian First League

League table

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	FC Veres Rivne (C, P)	26	14	8	4	38	15	+23	36	Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
2	FC Pryladyst Mukacheve	26	14	5	7	27	15	+12	33
3	FC Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya	26	11	8	7	25	27	−2	30
4	FC Podillia Khmelnytsky	26	10	10	6	29	21	+8	30
5	FC Krystal Chortkiv	26	11	7	8	34	26	+8	29
6	FC Desna Chernihiv	26	11	7	8	23	24	−1	29
7	FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv	26	9	10	7	33	23	+10	28
8	FC Avtomobilist Sumy	26	11	4	11	29	29	0	26
9	FC Stal Alchevsk	26	9	8	9	28	22	+6	26
10	FC Polissia Zhytomyr (R)	26	10	5	11	30	31	−1	25	Relegated to Second League
11	FC Halychyna Drohobych (R)	26	9	5	12	25	32	−7	23
12	FC Dnipro Cherkasy (R)	26	9	4	13	22	27	−5	22
13	FC Chaika Sevastopol (R)	26	7	4	15	19	39	−20	18
14	SKA Kyiv (R)	26	3	3	20	14	45	−31	9

Source:
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (C, P)	26	15	10	1	46	23	+23	40	Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
2	FC Metalurh Nikopol	26	15	7	4	45	19	+26	37
3	FC Artania Ochakiv	26	13	6	7	27	24	+3	32
4	FC Ros Bila Tserkva	26	13	5	8	40	32	+8	31
5	FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	26	13	5	8	28	25	+3	31
6	FC Skala Stryi	26	11	9	6	39	24	+15	31
7	FC Shakhtar Pavlohrad	26	13	4	9	46	33	+13	30
8	FC Vorskla Poltava	26	12	5	9	33	25	+8	29
9	FC Khimik Severodonetsk	26	10	7	9	28	28	0	27
10	FC Krystal Kherson (R)	26	10	5	11	36	36	0	25	Relegated to Second League
11	FC Azovets Mariupol (R)	26	10	4	12	36	39	−3	24
12	FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk (R)	26	5	2	19	25	48	−23	12
13	FC Vahonobudivnyk Stakhanov (R)	26	4	3	19	16	48	−32	11
14	FC Chornomorets-2 Odessa (R)	26	0	4	22	14	55	−41	4

Source:
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.

Honors and awards

• Top goalscorer: Denys Filimonov, Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (16)

Perekhidna Liha (Transitional League)

Main article: 1992 Ukrainian Transitional League

League table

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Dnister Zalishchyky	16	8	5	3	15	13	+2	21	Second League
2	Hazovyk Komarne	16	8	4	4	24	17	+7	20
3	Yavir Krasnopillia	16	8	4	4	21	19	+2	20
4	Zirka Kirovohrad	16	8	3	5	35	24	+11	19
5	Andezyt Khust	16	7	4	5	23	22	+1	18	Transitional League
6	Olympik Kharkiv	16	5	5	6	23	26	−3	15
7	Elektron Romny	16	5	2	9	22	29	−7	12
8	Lysonia Berezhany	16	2	6	8	14	21	−7	10
9	Promin Sambir Raion[lower-alpha 1]	16	1	7	8	22	28	−6	9

Source:
Notes:

1. Promin Sambir Raion initially was from a village of the Sambir Raion, Volia Baranetska in Lviv Oblast. Several years later the club moved to Sambir.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Bazhanovets Makiivka	16	10	3	3	25	8	+17	23	Second League
2	Titan Armyansk	16	8	5	3	19	10	+9	21
3	Meliorator Kakhovka	16	8	5	3	21	16	+5	21
4	Druzhba Osypenko[lower-alpha 1]	16	5	11	0	17	8	+9	21
5	Prometei Shakhtarsk	16	8	4	4	27	10	+17	20	Transitional League
6	Okean Kerch	16	6	5	5	16	10	+6	17
7	Hirnyk Khartsyzk	16	4	1	11	10	33	−23	9
8	Antratsyt Kirovske	16	2	3	11	15	32	−17	7
9	More Feodosia	16	1	3	12	2	25	−23	5

Source:
Notes:

1. Osypenko is a village in Berdyansk Raion, a suburb of Berdyansk.

Women

Vyshcha Liha (Top League)

Main article: 1992 Vyshcha Liha (women)

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv	18	16	2	0	54	6	+48	34	Champions
2	Arena-Hospodar Kyiv	18	9	6	3	26	14	+12	24
3	Lehenda Chernihiv	18	8	5	5	26	21	+5	21
4	Olimp Kyiv	18	7	5	6	26	18	+8	19
5	Bukovynka Chernivtsi	18	5	9	4	19	15	+4	19
6	Luhanochka Luhansk	18	8	2	8	17	25	−8	18
7	Borysfen Zaporizhia	18	4	9	5	13	19	−6	17
8	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	18	5	2	11	19	34	−15	12
9	Krym-Yuni Simferopol	18	2	6	10	14	34	−20	10
10	Chornomorochka Odesa	18	0	6	12	6	34	−28	6	Qualification to relegation play-offs

Source: WFPL.ua, Womensfootball.ua

Honors and awards

• Top goalscorer: Svitlana Frishko, Dynamo Kyiv (21)

Persha Liha (First League)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Iskra Zaporizhia	14	11	3	0	37	2	+35	25	Promotion to Vyshcha Liha
2	Tekstylnyk Donetsk	14	11	2	1	40	6	+34	24
3	Yunisa Luhansk	14	6	4	4	34	17	+17	16
4	Radosin Kyiv	14	5	6	3	19	12	+7	16
5	Mriya Kirovohrad	14	5	3	6	14	33	−19	13	Qualification to promotion play-offs
6	Lvivianka Lviv	14	3	2	9	11	26	−15	8
7	Tavriya Kherson	14	2	3	9	12	40	−28	7
8	Olimp-2 Kyiv	14	1	1	12	3	34	−31	3

Source: WFPL.ua

Domestic cups

Men

Ukrainian Cup

Main article: 1992 Ukrainian Cup

Main bracket

	Round of 16						Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Final
	Polissya Zhytomyr	4	1	5
	Chornomorets (a.e.t.)	1	7	8
							Chornomorets	2	1	3
							Metalurh Zaporizhia	0	1	1
	Vahonobudivnyk	1	0	1
	Metalurh Zaporizhia	0	7	7
													Chornomorets	3	0	3
												Torpedo Zaporizhia	1	0	1
	Torpedo Zaporizhia	6	0	6
	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	0	1	1
							Torpedo Zaporizhia	1	1	2
							Dynamo Kyiv	0	1	1
	Dynamo Kyiv (a.e.t.)	1	2	3
	Skala Stryi	1	1	2
																		Chornomorets (a.e.t.)	1
																			Metalist Kharkiv	0
	Karpaty Lviv	1	0	1
	Shakhtar Donetsk	2	2	4
							Shakhtar Donetsk	6	0	6
							Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	0	1	1
	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	1	1	2
	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2	3	5
													Shakhtar Donetsk	0	1	1
												Metalist Kharkiv	1	1	2
	Krystal Chortkiv	1	0	1
	Metalist Kharkiv	2	2	4
							Metalist Kharkiv	2	0	2
							Naftovyk Okhtyrka	0	1	1
	Naftovyk Okhtyrka	1	1	2
	Kremin Kremenchuk	1	0	1

Final

Main article: 1992 Ukrainian Cup Final

31 May 1992

19:00

Chornomorets Odessa (PL)	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	(PL) Metalist Kharkiv
Tsymbalar  107'	Report

Republican Stadium, Kiev

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Yevhen Kanana (Donetsk)

Women

	Semifinals							Final
	Dynamo Kyiv		5	2	7
	Krym-YuNI Simferopol		0	0	0
								Dynamo Kyiv		1	0	1
								Arena-Hospodar Fastiv		0	0	0
	Arena-Hospodar Fastiv		1	1	2
	Bukovynka Chernivtsi		1	0	1

Ukrainian clubs in international competition

1991–92 European competitions

Main article: 1991–92 European Cup

Dynamo Kyiv v Barcelona

4 March 1992 Group stage	Dynamo Kyiv	0–2	Barcelona	Kiev, Ukraine
19:00		Report	Stoichkov  33' Salinas  66'	Stadium: Republican Stadium Attendance: 48,500 Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)

Barcelona v Dynamo Kyiv

18 March 1992 Group stage	Barcelona	3–0	Dynamo Kyiv	Barcelona, Spain
20:45	Stoichkov  60', 81' Salinas  88'	Report		Stadium: Camp Nou Attendance: 53,000 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Germany)

Benfica v Dynamo Kyiv

1 April 1992 Group stage	Benfica	5–0	Dynamo Kyiv	Lisbon, Portugal
21:00	Brito  25', 62' Isaías  71' Yuran  83', 87'	Report		Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 78,000 Referee: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)

Dynamo Kyiv v Sparta Prague

15 April 1992 Group stage	Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	Sparta Prague	Kiev, Ukraine
21:00	Salenko  82'	Report		Stadium: Republican Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Brian McGinlay (Scotland)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Barcelona	6	4	1	1	10	4	+6	9	Advance to final
Sparta Prague	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	6
Benfica	6	1	3	2	8	5	+3	5
Dynamo Kyiv	6	2	0	4	3	12	−9	4

Source: UEFA

1992–93 European competitions

Main article: 1992–93 UEFA Champions League

Shelbourne v Tavriya Simferopol

19 August 1992 Preliminary round	Shelbourne	0–0	Tavriya Simferopol	Dublin, Ireland
18:30 UTC+1		Report		Stadium: Tolka Park Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

Tavriya Simferopol v Shelbourne

2 September 1992 Preliminary round	Tavriya Simferopol	2–1	Shelbourne	Simferopol, Ukraine
19:00 UTC+1	Shevchenko  10' Sheykhametov  15'	Report	Dully  42'	Stadium: Lokomotyv Stadium Attendance: 10,500 Referee: Gerd Grabher (Switzerland)

Sion v Tavriya Simferopol

16 September 1992 First round	Sion	4–1	Tavriya Simferopol	Sion, Switzerland
20:00	Hottiger  18' Túlio  35', 74' Roberto Assis  78'	Report	Shevchenko  85' (pen.)	Stadium: Stade Tourbillon Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Léon Schelings (Belgium)

Tavriya Simferopol v Sion

30 September 1992 First round	Tavriya Simferopol	1–3	Sion	Simferopol, Ukraine
19:00	Shevchenko  69' (pen.)	Report	Túlio  67', 77' Herr  89'	Stadium: Lokomotyv Stadium Attendance: 9,600 Referee: Christer Fällström (Sweden)

Main article: 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup

Vaduz v Chornomorets Odesa

19 August 1992 Qualifying round	Vaduz	0–5	Chornomorets Odesa	Vaduz, Liechtenstein
18:30		Report	Tsymbalar  44' Lebed  47' Sak  53' Husyev  81', 82'	Stadium: Gemeindesportplatz Attendance: 1,650 Referee: Erny Kesseler (Luxembourg)

Chornomorets Odesa v Vaduz

2 September 1992 Qualifying round	Chornomorets Odesa	7–1	Vaduz	Odesa, Ukraine
19:00	Nikiforov  9', 49' (pen.), 78', 90' Yablonskyi  23' Tsymbalar  27' Lebed  77'	Report	Stöber  87'	Stadium: Central Stadium of ChMP Attendance: 4,600 Referee: Jozef Marko (Czechoslovakia)

Olympiacos v Chornomorets Odesa

17 September 1992 First round	Olympiacos	0–1	Chornomorets Odesa	Piraeus, Greece
21:30		Report	Sak  4'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Brian Hill (England)

Chornomorets Odesa v Olympiacos

30 September 1992 First round	Chornomorets Odesa	0–3	Olympiacos	Odesa, Ukraine
19:00		Report	Vaitsis  15' Lytovchenko  27' Protasov  80'	Stadium: Central Stadium of ChMP Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Gianni Beschin (Italy)

Main article: 1992–93 UEFA Cup

Dynamo Kyiv v Rapid Wien

16 September 1992 First round	Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	Rapid Wien	Kyiv, Ukraine
19:00	Yakovenko  46'	Report		Stadium: Republican Stadium Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Antonio Martin Navarrete (Spain)

Rapid Wien v Dynamo Kyiv

30 September 1992 First round	Rapid Wien	3–2	Dynamo Kyiv	Vienna, Austria
20:35	Mandreko  8' Fjørtoft  16', 38'	Report	Leonenko  44' (pen.)  87'	Stadium: Gerhard Hanappi Stadium Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Piero Ceccarini (Italy)

Anderlecht v Dynamo Kyiv

21 October 1992 Second round	Anderlecht	4–2	Dynamo Kyiv	Brussels, Belgium
20:45	Nilis  23' Degryse  38' Versavel  51' Van Vossen  59'	Report	Shkapenko  20' Leonenko  54'	Stadium: Constant Vanden Stock Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Frederick McKnight (Northern Ireland)

Dynamo Kyiv v Anderlecht

4 November 1992 Second round	Dynamo Kyiv	0–3	Anderlecht	Kyiv, Ukraine
19:00		Report	Van Vossen  21' Nilis  61', 69'	Stadium: Republican Stadium Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)

References

1. Yannis, Alex (28 June 1992). "Ukrainian National Team Receives a Welcome Celebration at Rutgers". The New York Times.
2. "Historical protocol" (in Russian). Kobyzev, Aleksey. 2006-05-31. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
3. 20 years Tavria became the first champion of Ukraine. SK Tavria press release. June 21, 2012. (photos)

External links

• Complete results to all national league matches
• Ukraine - List of Champions. RSSSF.
• Main page. Ukrainian Football from Dmitriy Troschiy. (in Russian)
• 1992 Ukraine. RSSSF.