2001–02 Ukrainian First League

The 2001–02 Ukrainian First League was the eleventh season of the Ukrainian First League which was won by SC Volyn-1 Lutsk. The season started on July 17, 2001, and finished on June 16, 2002.

Ukrainian First League
Season2001–02
ChampionsVolyn-1 Lutsk
PromotedVolyn-1 Lutsk, Chornomorets Odesa, Obolon Kyiv
RelegatedElektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol, Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk, Nyva Ternopil
Top goalscorer(17) Vasyl Sachko (Volyn Lutsk) and Viktor Arefyev (Stal Alchevsk)

Promotion and relegation

Three clubs promoted from the 2000–01 Ukrainian Second League.

Group A
Group B
  • FC Obolon Kyiv – champion (returning after a season)
Group C
  • FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka – champion (returning after a season)

Relegated teams

Two clubs were relegated from the 2000-01 Ukrainian Top League:

  • FC Stal Alchevsk – 14th place (returning after a season)
  • FC Nyva Ternopil – 15th place (debut)

Renamed teams
  • FC Lviv merged with Karpaty becoming their farm team and changed its name to FC Karpaty-2 Lviv before the season.
  • FC Metalurh Nikopol changed its name to FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol before the season.
  • Due to reorganization of FC Arsenal Kyiv, FC CSKA-2 Kyiv changed its name back to FC CSKA Kyiv during winter break.

Teams

In 2001-02 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Locations of teams in First League

Final table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Volyn-1 Lutsk (C, P) 34 25 3 6 56 24 +32 78 Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
2 Chornomorets Odessa (P) 34 21 4 9 48 21 +27 67
3 Obolon Kyiv (P) 34 18 8 8 49 26 +23 62
4 Polissia Zhytomyr 34 16 10 8 41 32 +9 58[lower-alpha 1] Qualification for promotion play-off
5 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk 34 15 8 11 41 27 +14 53
6 Stal Alchevsk 34 14 8 12 42 34 +8 50
7 Naftovyk Okhtyrka 34 13 10 11 35 32 +3 49
8 Dynamo-2 Kyiv 34 11 14 9 42 32 +10 47
9 Zirka Kirovohrad 34 11 13 10 29 28 +1 46
10 SC Mykolaiv 34 12 10 12 37 44 −7 46
11 Shakhtar-2 Donetsk 34 13 7 14 50 46 +4 46
12 Karpaty-2 Lviv 34 12 6 16 41 52 −11 42
13 Borysfen Boryspil 34 10 10 14 43 45 −2 40[lower-alpha 1]
14 CSKA Kyiv 34 10 9 15 32 39 −7 39
15 Nyva Vinnytsia 34 10 8 16 35 52 −17 38
16 Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopil (R) 34 10 7 17 30 41 −11 37 Relegated to Second League
17 Dnipro-2 Dniproperivsk (R) 34 8 7 19 29 48 −19 31
18 Nyva Ternopil (R) 34 3 4 27 20 77 −57 13
Source:
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. The result of the 25th round match Borysfen Boryspil - FC Polissya Zhytomyr (1:2) was annulled and replaced with such -:-, with no points added to either team.
Persha Liha 2001-02 Winners
FC Volyn Lutsk
First title

Promotion play-off
Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya1 – 0Polissya Zhytomyr
Babych  45+2'
Martynenko  30'  78'		 Report
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Serhiy Shebek (Kiev)

FC Polissya Zhytomyr failed to obtain a berth in the 2002-03 Top League.

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.[1]

Scorer Goals (Pen.) Team
1 Vasyl Sachko 17 (1) Volyn-1 Lutsk
Viktor Arefyev 17 (5) Stal Alchevsk
3 Vyacheslav Tereschenko 16 (1) Obolon Kyiv
4 Pavlo Parshyn 14 (4) Polissya Zhytomyr
5 Volodymyr Skrypka 13 SC Mykolaiv
6 Pavlo Onysko 12 Karpaty-2 Lviv
7 Volodymyr Hashchyn 11 (3) Volyn-1 Lutsk
8 Kostiantyn Balabanov 10 Chornomorets Odesa
Pavlo Zakharov 10 (7) Naftovyk Okhtyrka
10 Oleksandr Sobkovych 7 (4) Obolon Kyiv
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See also

References
  1. Statistics (in Russian)
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