1996–97 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha
Season	1996–97
Champions	Dynamo Kyiv; 5th title
Relegated	Nyva Vinnytsia, Kremin Kremenchuk
Champions League	Dynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' Cup	Shakhtar Donetsk
UEFA Cup	Vorskla Poltava, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Top goalscorer	(21) Oleh Matveyev (Shakhtar)
	← 1995–96 1997–98 →

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

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

Vorskla Poltava, the champion of the 1995–96 Ukrainian First League – (debut)

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	Valery Lobanovsky	Yozhef Sabo 17 games(first half)	Dynamo Stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Valery Yaremchenko		Shakhtar Stadium
FC Vorskla Poltava	Viktor Pozhechevskyi		Vorskla Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Vyacheslav Hrozny		Meteor Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv	Myron Markevych		Ukraina Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Mykola Pavlov	Serhiy Shevchenko 10 games Ivan Balan 5 games Valeriy Shvediuk 7 games	Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Chornomorets Odesa	Leonid Buriak		Black Sea Shipping Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	Oleksandr Tomakh		Metalurh Stadium
FC Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Yavorskyi		City Stadium
FC Zirka Kirovohrad	Oleksandr Dovbiy	Oleksandr Ischenko 22 games Mykhailo Kalyta 1 game	Zirka Stadium
FC CSKA Kyiv	Volodymyr Lozynskyi		CSK ZSU Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleksandr Lysenko	Oleksiy Cherednyk 12 games	Metalurh Stadium
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Viktor Kolotov	Boris Streltsov 5 games	Elektron Stadium
FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	Viktor Matvienko	Ihor Nadein 27 games	AvtoZAZ Stadium
FC Kremin Kremenchuk	Mykhailo Byelykh		Dnipro Stadium
FC Nyva Vinnytsia	Oleksandr Ischenko	Pasha Kasanov 23 games 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	Table	Incoming head coach	Table
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Valeriy Rudakov	pre-season	Valery Yaremchenko	pre-season
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Anatoliy Zayayev	pre-season	Serhiy Shevchenko	pre-season
FC CSKA Kyiv	Viktor Chanov	pre-season	Volodymyr Lozynsky	pre-season
FC Karpaty Lviv	Volodymyr Zhuravchak	pre-season	Myron Markevych	pre-season
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Bernd Stange	pre-season	Viacheslav Hrozny	pre-season
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Myron Markevych	pre-season	Oleksiy Cherednyk	pre-season
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Ihor Yurchenko	pre-season	Boris Streltsov	pre-season
FC Kremin Kremenchuk	Valery Yaremchenko	pre-season	Mykhailo Bilykh	pre-season
FC Nyva Vinnytsia	Serhiy Morozov	pre-season	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^[a]	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^[a]	30	14	13	3	48	19	+29	55	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
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	Relegated to Ukrainian First League

Source: uafootball.net.ua
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goal scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b 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	Oleh Matviiv	Shakhtar Donetsk	21 (6)
2	Serhii Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv	20 (6)
3	Serhiy Chuychenko	Vorskla Poltava	14 (2)
4	Oleksandr Haidash	Tavriya Simferopol	13
4	Andriy Fedkov	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	13 (3)
6	Serhiy Mizin	CSKA / Chornomorets	12 (3)
7	Serhiy Atelkin	Shakhtar Donetsk	11
	Valentyn Poltavets	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	11
	Yakiv Kripak	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	11 (3)
10	Hennadiy Moroz	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	10

References

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

External links

ukrsoccerhistory.com - source of information

[table_note_SHD0.53205491394366-4] Participant of the 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final

[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)

[skeinf170717-3] 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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