2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League

The 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League season will be the 30th top-level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 13th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. The defending champion is the 13-times winner Shakhtar Donetsk.

FavBet Liha (UPL)
Official logo[1]
Season2020–21
Dates21 August 2020 – 15 May 2021[2]
(winter break 13 December 2020 – 13 February 2021)
2021–22 →

Summary

For the next from 2021–22 season, the league is expected to expand again to 16 teams next season as part of the league's expansion plan. The lowest ranked team from Ukrainian Premier League will get relegated to Ukrainian First League. However, the top three teams from Ukrainian First League will gain promotion to Ukrainian Premier League next season.

Teams

This season, as it was announced earlier, the Ukrainian Premier League has been expanded to 14 teams, which will include 11 teams from the previous season and the top three teams from the 2019–20 Ukrainian First League.[3]

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

Home venues of teams in the 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League.
Teams in italics are from a conflict zone of the War in Donbass and are playing their home games in different cities.

Stadiums
Further information: List of football stadiums in Ukraine

Three of the qualified to the date teams play their matches outside of home towns. The minimum threshold for the stadium's capacity in the UPL is 5,000 (Article 10, paragraph 7.2).[4]

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Rank Stadium Place Club Capacity Notes
1 NSC Olimpiyskiy Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv 70,050
Shakhtar Donetsk used as home ground during the season[5]
2 Dnipro-Arena Dnipro SC Dnipro-1 31,003
3 Ukraina Stadium Lviv FC Lviv 28,051
4 Vorskla Stadium Poltava Vorskla Poltava 24,795
5 Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium Kyiv Olimpik Donetsk 16,873 used as home ground during the season
6 Zirka Stadium Kropyvnytskyi Inhulets Petrove 14,628 used as home ground during the season[6]
7 Volodymyr Boiko Stadium Mariupol FC Mariupol 12,680 due to turf restoration, all first half Mariupol will play away[7]
8 Chernihiv Stadium Chernihiv Desna Chernihiv 12,060
9 Avanhard Stadium Uzhhorod FC Mynai 12,000 used as home ground during the season
10 Slavutych-Arena Zaporizhia Zorya Luhansk 12,000 used as home ground during the season
11 CSC Nika Stadium Oleksandriya FC Oleksandriya 7,000
12 Kolos Stadium Kovalivka Kolos Kovalivka 5,000[8] under construction, planned[9][10]

Personnel and sponsorship
Team President Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Desna Chernihiv Volodymyr Levin Oleksandr Ryabokon Vladyslav Ohirya Nike Parimatch
SC Dnipro-1 Yuriy Bereza Dmytro Mykhaylenko Serhiy Kravchenko Nike —
Dynamo Kyiv Ihor Surkis Mircea Lucescu Serhiy Sydorchuk New Balance —
Inhulets Petrove Oleksandr Povoroznyuk Serhiy Lavrynenko Vladyslav Lupashko Joma etg.ua
Kolos Kovalivka Andriy Zasukha Ruslan Kostyshyn Vitaliy Havrysh Nike Svitanok
FC Lviv Bohdan Kopytko[11] Giorgi Tsetsadze Serhiy Borzenko Nike LIMO
FC Mariupol Tariq Mehmood Chaudhry Ostap Markevych TBA Nike Favorit Sport
FC Mynai Valeriy Peresolyak Vasyl Kobin Mykhaylo Kopolovets Nike —
FC Oleksandriya Serhiy Kuzmenko Volodymyr Sharan Yuriy Pankiv Nike AhroVista
Olimpik Donetsk Vladyslav Helzin Ihor Klymovskyi Dmytro Hryshko Joma Parimatch
Rukh Lviv Hryhoriy Kozlovskyi Ivan Fedyk Ihor Duts Puma Grand Hotel
Shakhtar Donetsk Rinat Akhmetov Luís Castro Andriy Pyatov Nike Parimatch
Vorskla Poltava Kostyantyn Zhevago Yuriy Maksymov Volodymyr Chesnakov Nike Ferrexpo
Zorya Luhansk Yevhen Heller Viktor Skrypnyk Mykyta Shevchenko Nike Favorit Sport

Managerial changes
Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming manager Date of appointment Table
Dynamo Kyiv Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Mutual agreement[12] 20 July 2020[13] Pre-season Mircea Lucescu 23 July 2020[14] Pre-season
Olimpik Donetsk Ihor Klymovskyi (interim) Made permanent 20 July 2020[15] Ihor Klymovskyi 20 July 2020[15]
FC Mariupol Oleksandr Babych End of contract 30 July 2020[16] Ostap Markevych 3 August 2020[17]

League table

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Desna Chernihiv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 SC Dnipro-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3 Dynamo Kyiv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to Europa Conference League third qualifying round
4 Inhulets Petrove 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to Europa Conference League second qualifying round
5 Kolos Kovalivka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 FC Lviv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 FC Mariupol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 FC Mynai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 FC Oleksandriya 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Olimpik Donetsk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Rukh Lviv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Shakhtar Donetsk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Vorskla Poltava 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Zorya Luhansk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to the Ukrainian First League
First match(es) will be played on 22 August 2020. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head bigger amount of goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Bigger amount of goals scored; 7) Draw or "golden match" if tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).

Results

Teams play each other twice on a home and away basis.

Home \ Away DES DN1 DYN INH KOL LVI MAR MYN OLK OLD RUX SHA VOR ZOR
Desna Chernihiv
SC Dnipro-1
Dynamo Kyiv a
Inhulets Petrove
Kolos Kovalivka
FC Lviv
FC Mariupol
FC Mynai
FC Oleksandriya
Olimpik Donetsk
Rukh Lviv
Shakhtar Donetsk a
Vorskla Poltava
Zorya Luhansk
First match(es) will be played on 21 August 2020. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round
Source:

References
  1. Official Logo. Ukrainian Premier League website.
  2. UAF Executive committee approved plan-calendar of the 2020/21 season (Виконком УАФ затвердив план-календар сезону 2020/21 років). Ukrainian Premier League. 12 August 2020
  3. There was approved the first half season calendar of the 2020–21 FavBet Liha (Затверджено календар першого кола Favbet Ліги 2020/21 років). Ukrainian Premier League. 10 August 2020
  4. Locations where completion is conducted (Місця проведення змагань). 2018–19 Ukrainian Premier League regulations.
  5. Shakhtar and Dynamo will be sharing Olimpiyskiy NSC the next season (Шахтер и Динамо будут делить НСК Олимпийский в следующем сезоне). Sport Arena. 11 August 2020
  6. Artur Malkin. There took place a session of the UAF Committee in certification of clubs to play in the 2020–21 seasons of the Premier or First leagues (Відбулося засідання Комітету з атестування УАФ щодо участі клубів у Прем’єр-лізі та першій лізі сезону-2020/2021 ). Footboom. 13 August 2020
  7. Vsevolod Mazur. Mariupol all its games of the first half of the 2020–21 FavBet Liha will play away (Мариуполь все матчи первого круга Favbet Лиги 2020/21 проведет на выезде). Sport Arena. 10 August 2020
  8. Stadium reconstruction continues! (Реконструкція стадіону триває!). FC Kolos Kovalivka.
  9. Kolos will play of their own stadium in the next UPL season (Колос будет выступать на своем стадионе в следующем сезоне УПЛ). Football.ua. 27 January 2020.
  10. "Kolos" will play its games of the Europe League at its stadium («Колос» будет играть матчи Лиги Европы на своем стадионе). Xsport. 1 August 2020
  11. Sukhkenko, M. How Kopytko took over Veres and transformed it into Lviv (Як Копитко захопив Верес и перетворив його на Львів). Sport Arena. 23 May 2018
  12. "Олексій Михайличенко повернеться на посаду спортивного директора" [Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko will return to the position of Sports director] (in Ukrainian). Dynamo Kyiv. 30 July 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  13. "New coaching staff to prepare Dynamo for the new season". Dynamo Kyiv. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  14. "Mircea Lucescu – FC Dynamo Kyiv head coach". FC Dynamo Kyiv. 23 July 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  15. ""Олимпик" утвердил Климовского главным тренером, без приставки и.о." [Olimpik approved Klymovskyi as a head coach without prefix interim] (in Russian). Footboom. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  16. "Александр Бабич и его штаб завершили работу в ФК Мариуполь" [Oleksandr Babych and his stuff finished their work in FC Mariupol] (in Russian). FC Mariupol. 30 July 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  17. "Остап Маркевич — главный тренер ФК Мариуполь" [Ostap Markevych is a head coach of FC Mariupol] (in Russian). FC Mariupol. 3 August 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
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