2015–16 FC Zorya Luhansk season

The 2014–15 Zorya Luhansk season is Zorya's sixteenth Ukrainian Premier League season, and their sixth season under manager Yuriy Vernydub. During the season Zorya Luhansk will compete in the Ukrainian Premier League, Ukrainian Cup and in the UEFA Europa League.

Zorya Luhansk
2015–16 season
ChairmanYevhen Heller
ManagerYuriy Vernydub
StadiumSlavutych-Arena
Premier League4th
Ukrainian CupFinal
UEFA Europa LeaguePlay-off round
Top goalscorerLeague: Budkivskyi (14)
All: Budkivskyi (17)
Highest home attendance1,500 vs Metalist Kharkiv
25 July 2015
Lowest home attendance1,000 vs Olimpik Donetsk
9 August 2015

Transfers

edit

Summer

edit
Position Nationality Name From Type
MF   Kyrylo Doroshenko   Olimpik Donetsk Transfer
DF   Mikhail Sivakow   Gabala FK Transfer
DF   Vyacheslav Checher   Metalurh Donetsk Transfer
DF   Oleg Borodai Reserves Promotion
FW   Artur Zahorulko   Shakhtar Donetsk Loan
MF   Dmytro Hrechyshkin   Shakhtar Donetsk Loan
DF   Vyacheslav Tankovskyi   Shakhtar Donetsk Loan

Winter

edit
Position Nationality Name From Type
DF   Artem Sukhotskyi   Oleksandriya Transfer
FW   Paulinho   Corinthians Transfer
DF   Yevhen Tkachuk   Vorskla Poltava Transfer
DF   Rafael Forster Unattached
GK   Oleksiy Shevchenko   Dynamo Kyiv Transfer
FW   Denys Bezborodko   Shakhtar Donetsk Loan

Summer

edit
Position Nationality Name To Type
GK   Rustam Khudzhamov   Shakhtar Donetsk Loan return
MF   Maksym Malyshev   Shakhtar Donetsk Loan return
DF   Oleksandr Hrytsay End of career
DF   Maksim Bilyi   Hajduk Split Transfer
DF   Vitaliy Vernydub   Gabala FK Transfer
MF   Dmytro Khomchenovskyi   Ponferradina Transfer

Winter

edit
Position Nationality Name To Type
FW   Artur Zahorulko   Shakhtar Donetsk Loan return
MF   Ruslan Malinovskyi   Shakhtar Donetsk Loan return
MF   Ihor Kalinin Unattached Released
DF   Oleg Borodai Unattached Released
GK   Krševan Santini   Enosis Neon Paralimni Transfer
GK   Andriy Poltavtsev   Guria Lanchkhuti Loan
DF   Andriy Pylyavskyi   Rubin Kazan Transfer

Squad

edit

Squad is given according to the club's official site,[1] and composed from players who playing in the main squad team as of 25 February 2016.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   UKR Oleksiy Shevchenko
2 DF   UKR Artem Sukhotskyi
3 DF   BLR Mikhail Sivakov
4 MF   UKR Ihor Chaykovskyi
5 DF   UKR Artem Hordiyenko
6 MF   UKR Mykyta Kamenyuka (captain)
8 MF   UKR Vyacheslav Tankovskyi (on loan from Shakhtar)
10 FW   GEO Jaba Lipartia
11 FW   BRA Paulinho
12 DF   BRA Rafael Forster
16 DF   UKR Hryhoriy Yarmash
17 FW   UKR Yaroslav Kvasov
20 MF   UKR Oleksandr Karavayev (on loan from Shakhtar)
22 MF   SRB Željko Ljubenović
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 MF   UKR Kyrylo Doroshenko
24 MF   UKR Dmytro Hrechyshkin (on loan from Shakhtar)
27 DF   UKR Yevhen Tkachuk
28 FW   UKR Pylyp Budkivskyi (on loan from Shakhtar)
29 MF   UKR Andriy Totovytskyi (on loan from Shakhtar)
30 GK   UKR Mykyta Shevchenko (on loan from Shakhtar)
34 MF   UKR Ivan Petryak (on loan from Shakhtar)
39 DF   UKR Yevhen Opanasenko
42 DF   NGA Dennis Emmanuel Bonaventure
44 DF   UKR Vyacheslav Checher
49 FW   UKR Dmytro Lukanov
59 FW   UKR Denys Bezborodko (on loan from Shakhtar)
91 GK   UKR Ihor Levchenko

Out on loan

edit

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK   UKR Andriy Poltavtsev (on loan to Guria Lanchkhuti)
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   UKR Mykhaylo Shershen (on loan to Kremin Kremenchuk)
MF   UKR Maksym Banasevych (on loan to Desna Chernihiv)

Competitions

edit

Premier League

edit

League table

edit
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
2 Shakhtar Donetsk 26 20 3 3 76 25 +51 63 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round[a]
3 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk[b] 26 16 5 5 50 22 +28 53
4 Zorya Luhansk 26 14 6 6 51 26 +25 48 Qualification to Europa League group stage
5 Vorskla Poltava 26 11 9 6 32 26 +6 42 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
6 FC Oleksandriya 26 10 8 8 30 29 +1 38
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Fairplay ranking; 8) Draw.[3]
Notes:
  1. ^ Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup. However, since they already qualified for European competition based on their league position, the spot awarded to the cup winners was passed down the league.
  2. ^ On 31 March 2016, the Adjudicatory Chamber of the UEFA Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) announced that Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk will be excluded from participating in the next UEFA club competition for which they would otherwise qualify in the next three (3) seasons (i.e. the 2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons).[2]

Results summary

edit
Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
20 11 5 4 41 24  +17 38 6 3 2 23 19  +4 5 2 2 18 5  +13

Results by round

edit
Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526
GroundAHAHAHAAHAHHHAHAAHAHHAHAHA
ResultWDLWWDDWDWWLLWWWDWLWLLDWLW
Position13642344444444333333344444
Updated to match(es) played on 19 May 2016. Source: Socceraway
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

edit
17 July 2015 (2015-07-17) 1 Metalurh Zaporizhya 0–6 Zorya Luhansk Zaporizhia
19:00 EEST (UTC+3) Zhurakhovskyi   42'
Kulynych   43'
Lysytskyi   72'
Summary Khomchenovskyi   17'
Ljubenović   34'
Malinovskyi   50'
Karavayev   72'
Kamenyuka   81'
Sivakow   90+3'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Anatoliy Abdula
25 July 2015 (2015-07-25) 2 Zorya Luhansk 0–0 Metalist Kharkiv Zaporizhia
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Malinovskyi   57' Summary Kurylov   70' Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Yuriy Mozharovsky
2 August 2015 (2015-08-02) 3 Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk 2–0 Zorya Luhansk Dnipropetrovsk
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Putrash   25', 55'
Vasin   62'
Summary Lukanov   34'
Lipartia   52'
Yarmash   71'
Stadium: Meteor Stadium
Attendance: 2,600
Referee: Anatolii Zhabchenko
9 August 2015 (2015-08-09) 4 Zorya Luhansk 4–0 Olimpik Donetsk Zaporizhia
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Budkivskyi   33'   82', 85'
Lipartia   43'
Petryak   62'
Summary Isa   47'
Semenyna   90'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ivan Bondar
16 August 2015 (2015-08-16) 5 Chornomorets Odesa 0–2 Zorya Luhansk Odesa
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Petko   20'
Shapoval   30'
Summary Shevchenko   30'
Petryak   47'
Karavayev   56'
Stadium: Chornomorets Stadium
Attendance: 9,244
Referee:   Sergii Boiko
30 August 2015 (2015-08-30) 6 Zorya Luhansk 0–0 Dynamo Kyiv Zaporizhia
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Pylyavskyi   10'
Sivakow   54'
Hordiyenko   81'
Shevchenko   88'
Summary Belhanda   30'
Danilo Silva   52'
Rybalka   56'
Vitorino Antunes   74'
Khacheridi   90'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 6,800
Referee:   Konstantin Trukhanov
13 September 2015 (2015-09-13) 7 Karpaty Lviv 1–1 Zorya Luhansk Lviv
19:30 EEST (UTC+3) Chachua   18'
Ksyonz   19'
Khudobyak   32'     66'
Karnoza   36'
Miroshnichenko   56'
Summary Sivakow   9'
Karavayev   11'
Hrechyshkin   21'
Petryak   32'
Hordiyenko   43'
Malinovskyi   75'
Ljubenović   90+3'
Stadium: Ukraina Stadium
Attendance: 7,328
Referee:   Anatolii Zhabchenko
20 September 2015 (2015-09-20) 8 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0–3 Zorya Luhansk Dnipropetrovsk
19:30 EET Cheberyachko   40'
Rotan   81'
Summary Hordiyenko   7'
Karavayev   14'
Lipartia   85'
Levchenko   90'
Stadium: Dnipro-Arena
Attendance: 12,713
Referee:   Yury Vaks
27 September 2015 (2015-09-27) 9 Zorya Luhansk 1–1 Oleksandriya Zaporizhia
17:00 EET Budkivskyi   26' Summary Kolomoyets   72' Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   Yuriy Mozharovsky
4 October 2015 (2015-10-04) 10 Volyn Lutsk 0–3 Zorya Luhansk Lutsk
19:30 EET Bohdanov   52'
Shust   59'
Summary Malinovskyi   19'
Budkivskyi   22'
Lipartia   61' (pen.)
Stadium: Avanhard Stadium
Attendance: 5,100
Referee:   Yevhen Aranovsky
18 October 2015 (2015-10-18) 11 Zorya Luhansk 2–1 Hoverla Uzhhorod Zaporizhia
19:30 EET Budkivskyi   51'
Kamenyuka   81' (pen.)
Summary Savchenko   35'
Lyulka   65'
Serhiychuk   74'
Rudko   80'
Ivanov   86'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Dmytro Kutakov
30 October 2015 (2015-10-30) 13 Zorya Luhansk 1–7 Shakhtar Donetsk Zaporizhia
19:00 EET Kamenyuka   67' (pen.)
Sivakow   75'
Summary Fred   40'
Stepanenko   47'   90'   90+2'
Alex Teixeira   58'   70'
Eduardo   75'   86'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 3,500
Referee:   Yury Vaks
7 November 2015 (2015-11-07) 14 Zorya Luhansk 4–1 Metalurh Zaporizhya Zaporizhia
14:00 EET Karavayev   5'   90'
Malinovskyi   28'   45+1'
Budkivskyi   59'
Totovytskyi   70'
Hrechyshkin   84'
Summary Ihnatenko   25'
Demchenko   70'
Zhurakhovskyi   90+3'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,200
Referee:   Oleksandr Ivanov
22 November 2015 (2015-11-22) 15 Metalist Kharkiv 0–1 Zorya Luhansk Kharkiv
19:30 EET Dovhyi   5'
Zubeyko   40'
Rudyka   56'  
Sobol   90+1'
Summary Hrechyshkin   21'
Kamenyuka   33'  
Petryak   54'
Ljubenović   68' (pen.)
Pylyavskyi   77'
Stadium: OSC Metalist
Attendance: 6,180
Referee:   Sergii Boiko
28 November 2015 (2015-11-28) 16 Zorya Luhansk 2–1 Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk Zaporizhia
13:00 EET Hordiyenko   41'
Kravchenko   57' (o.g.)
Budkivskyi   63'
Opanasenko   70'
Chaykovskyi   75'
Checher   78'
Yarmash   90+3'
Summary Kulach   12'   74'
Baranovskyi   23'
Budnik   85'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 600
Referee:   Mykola Balakin
5 December 2015 12 Vorskla Poltava 0–2 Zorya Luhansk Poltava
14:00 EET Siminin   73' Summary Hordiyenko   35'   74'
Budkivskyi   54'
Opansenko   70'
Shevchenko   90+2'
Stadium: Butovskyi Vorskla Stadium
Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   Yevhen Aranovsky
6 March 2016 (2016-03-06) 17 Olimpik Donetsk 1–1 Zorya Luhansk Kyiv
14:00 Nyemchaninov   50'
Petrov   56'
Fedoriv   66'
Postupalenko   71'
Shestakov   76'
Tanchyk   81'
Summary Budkivskyi   58' Stadium: Bannikov Stadium
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Sergiy Berezka
12 March 2016 (2016-03-12) 18 Zorya Luhansk 4–0 Chornomorets Odesa Zaporizhia
17:00 Budkivskyi   45'   72'
Karavayev   54'
Petryak   58'
Totovytskyi   68'
Ljubenović   83'
Summary Azatskyi   5'
Danchenko   56'
Filimonov   70'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Yury Grisjo
20 March 2016 (2016-03-20) 19 Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 Zorya Luhansk Kyiv
19:30 Harmash   32'
Júnior Moraes   76'
Sydorchuk   90+2'
Summary Hordiyenko   12'
Tankovskyi   51'
Checher   78'
Karavayev   81'
Petryak   87'
Kamenyuka   90'
Stadium: NSC Olimpiyskiy
Attendance: 6,919
Referee:   Yuriy Mozharovsky
2 April 2016 (2016-04-02) 20 Zorya Luhansk 4–1 Karpaty Lviv Zaporizhia
17:00 Ljubenović   5'   5'
Budkivskyi   21'
Tankovskyi   38'
Totovytskyi   43'
Chaykovskyi   61'
Summary Okechukwu   38'
Hitchenko   44'
Miroshichenko   51'  
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 900
Referee:   Yury Vaks
10 April 2016 (2016-04-10) 21 Zorya Luhansk 1–2 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Zaporizhia
19:30 Hordiyenko   63' Summary Fedetskyi   20'
Bruno Gama   32'
Laštůvka   65'
Shakhov   75'
Anderson Pico   79'   86'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 5,500
Referee:   Anatoliy Zhabchenko
16 April 2016 (2016-04-16) 22 Oleksandriya 2–0 Zorya Luhansk Oleksandriya
14:00 Basov   45+1'
Polyarus   48'
Shendrik   62'
Hrytsuk   89'
Summary Tankovskyi   9'
Rafael Forster   23'
Stadium: CSC Nika Stadium
Attendance: 4,112
Referee:   Kostyantin Trukhanov
23 April 2016 (2016-04-23) 23 Zorya Luhansk 1–1 Volyn Lutsk Zaporizhia
14:00 Sivakov   67'   83'  
Paulinho   71'
Rafael Forster   90+7'
Summary Kravchenko   15'
Didenko   31'
Goropevšek   59'
Kvartsyanyi   60'
Romanyuk   76'
Memeshev   85'
Kohinov   89'
Humenyuk   90+2'
Nedilko   90+5'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Vitaliy Romanov
30 April 2016 (2016-04-30) 24 Hoverla Uzhhorod 0–4 Zorya Luhansk Uzhhorod
14_00 Savchenko   19'
Havrysh   34'
Toma   43'
Ivanov   49'
Summary Opanasenko   13'
Budkivskyi   40', 46'
Karavayev   45'
Stadium: Avanhard Stadium
Attendance: 550
Referee:   Ivan Bondar
7 May 2016 (2016-05-07) 25 Zorya Luhansk 1–2 Vorskla Poltava Zaporizhia
17:00 Budkivskyi   12'
Kamenyuka   77'
Summary Sapay   28'   86'  
Shynder   30'   85' (pen.)
Dytyatev   41'
Khlyobas   46'
Kolomoyets   58'
Sklyar   75'
Chesnakov   77'
Tkachuk   81'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Igor Paskhal
15 May 2016 (2016-05-15) 26 Shakhtar Donetsk 2–3 Zorya Luhansk Lviv
Facundo Ferreyra   32'
Wellington Nem   52'
Hladkyi   74'
Rakytskyi   81'
Summary Ljubenović   47'
Totovytskyi   56', 61', 82'
Stadium: Arena Lviv
Attendance: 6,751
Referee:   Kateryna Monzul

Ukrainian Cup

edit

Qualifying round

edit
Round of 32
edit
23 August 2015 (2015-08-23) Krystal Kherson 0–5 Zorya Luhansk Kherson
17:00 EET Summary Khomchenovskyi   21'
Petryak   41'
Hrechyshkin   54'
Tankovskyi   60'
Lipartia   88'
Stadium: Stadion Kherson
Round of 16
edit
23 September 2015 First leg Helios 0–2 Zorya Luhansk Piatykhaty
19:00 EET Cherednychenko   32' Summary Budkivskyi   34'   37'
Tankovskyi   38'
Opansenko   88'
Stadium: Stadion Sonyachnyj
Attendance: 3,165
Referee:   Andriy Kuzmin
27 October 2015 Second leg Zorya Luhansk 3–1
(5–1 agg.)
Helios Zaporizhia
17:00 EET Budkivskyi   7'
Karavayev   57'   68'
Sivakow   64'
Summary Serhiy Loboyko   15'
Kravchenko   71'
Mykola Ahapov   76'
Cherednychenko   82'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 500
Referee:   Mikhailo Mytrovskyi
Quarter finals
edit
2 March 2016 First leg Volyn Lutsk 1–1 Zorya Luhansk Lutsk
17:00 Bohdanov   18'
Kravchenko   90'
Summary Kamenyuka   21'
Totovytskyi   23'
Stadium: Avanhard Stadium
Attendance: 3,200
Referee:   Yaroslav Kozyk
6 April 2016 Second leg Zorya Luhansk 5–0
(6–1 agg.)
Volyn Lutsk Zaporizhia
14:00 Hordiyenko   22'
Petryak   49'
Opanasenko   71'   90+1'
Karavayev   78'   87'
Summary Goropevšek   36'  
Kravchenko   40'
Polyovyi   68'
Žunić   75'
Bohdanov   85'  
Shabanov   90+2'
Stadium: Slavutych-Arena
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Kostyantin Trukhanov
Semi-finals
edit
20 April 2016 First leg Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1–0 Zorya Luhansk Dnipropetrovsk
19:00 Zozulya   17'   26'
Chyhrynskyi   59'
Summary Sukhotsyi   38'
Rafael Forster   45+2'
Ljubenović   63'   73'  
Stadium: Dnipro Arena
Attendance: 10,065
Referee:   Yevhen Aranovskyi
11 May 2016 Second leg Zorya Luhansk 2–0
(2–1 agg.)
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Zaporizhia
17:00 Lipartia   8'
Opanasenko   58'
Sivakov   90+1'
Totovytsky   90+5'
Summary Skhakhov   44'
Laštůvka   90+5'
Bezus   90+6'
Stadium: Slavutych Arena
Attendance: 5,500
Referee: Anatoliy Abdula
Final
edit
21 May 2016 Zorya Luhansk 0-2 Shakhtar Donetsk Lviv
17:00[4] LST Rafael Forster   12'
Chaykovskyi   64'
Sivakow   64'
Yarmash   70'
Summary Hladkyy   42'   57' Stadium: Arena Lviv[4]
Attendance: 21,720
Referee:   Yevhen Aranovskiy

UEFA Europa League

edit

Qualifying round

edit
Third qualifying round
edit
30 July 2015 First leg Charleroi   0–2   Zorya Luhansk Charleroi, Belgium
20:30 CEST (UTC+2) N'Ganga   62'
Marinos   90+1'
Summary Pylyavskyi   30'
Sivakow   59'
Malinovskyi   70', 89'
Chaykovskyi   75'
Stadium: Stade du Pays de Charleroi
Attendance: 9,415
Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)
6 August 2015 Second leg Zorya Luhansk   3–0
(5–0 agg.)
  Charleroi Kyiv, Ukraine
20:00 EEST (UTC+3) Kamenyuka   28'
Chaykovskyi   40'
Ljubenović   58', 68' (pen.)
Malinovskyi   90+3'
Summary Deweast   42'
Marcq   67'
Stadium: Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)
Play-off round
edit
20 August 2015 First leg Zorya Luhansk   0–1   Legia Warsaw Kyiv, Ukraine
20:00 EEST (UTC+3) Chaykovskyi   30'
Ljubenović   57'
Hordiyenko   61'
Sivakow   90'
Summary Guilherme   8'
Kucharczyk   48'
Jodłowiec   72'
Stadium: Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium
Attendance: 16,000
Referee:   Anastasios Sidiropoulos
27 August 2015 Second leg Legia Warsaw   3–2
(4–2 agg.)
  Zorya Luhansk Warsaw, Poland
21:00 CEST (UTC+2) Pazdan   2'
Brzyski   16'
Guilherme   62'
Rzeźniczak   65'
Duda   90+4'   90+5' (pen.)
Summary Kamenyuka   37'
Khomchenovskyi   39'
Sivakow   45+2'
Malinovskyi   66'
Budkivskyi   79'
Opanasenko   90+4'
Stadium: Polish Army Stadium
Attendance: 23,163
Referee:   Tobias Welz

References

edit
  1. ^ "Официальный сайт ФК "Заря" – Луганск". Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  2. ^ "CFCB adjudicatory chamber orders". uefa.org. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Premier League 2015/2016 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  4. ^ a b Ukrainian Cup final will take place in Lviv. UA-Football. 29 April 2016
edit