2006–07 Ukrainian First League

The 2006–07 Ukrainian First League is the sixteenth since its establishment. There were 20 teams competing. Two teams were relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League 2005-06. Four teams were promoted from the 2005–06 Ukrainian Second League.

Ukrainian First League

Season	2006–07
Champions	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
Promoted	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
Relegated	(all withdrew) Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk Podillya Khmelnytskyi Borysfen Boryspil Spartak Sumy
Top goalscorer	16 - Matviy Bobal (Ihroservice Simferopol)
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

Promotion and relegation

Promoted teams

These four teams were promoted from Druha Liha at the start of the season:

Group A

• FC Desna Chernihiv : Druha Liha champion (Returning after seven seasons)

Group B

• MFK Mykolaiv : Druha Liha champion (Returning after a seasons)
• PFC Olexandria : Druha Liha runner-up (Returning after five seasons)

Group C

• FC Dnipro Cherkasy : Druha Liha champion (Returning after five seasons)

Relegated teams

Two teams were relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League 2005–06 season after finishing on the bottom of the competition:

• FC Volyn Lutsk : 15th place (Returning after four seasons)
• FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod : 16th place (Returning after two seasons)

Renamed/relocated teams

• On May 23, 2006, the PFL Bureau of Ukraine acknowledged that FC Lviv will replace FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi as its successor. The club was moved from Stryi to Lviv.
• On December 19, 2006 FC Dynamo-Ihroservis Simferopol changed to FC Ihroservis Simferopol.

Teams

In 2006–07 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Desna

Dnipro

Dynamo-2
Obolon
CSKA

Borysfen

Zakarpattia

Naftovyk-Ukrnafta

Spartak IF

Dynamo-Ihroservice

Helios

Lviv

Krymteplytsia

Spartak S

Podillya

Stal

Volyn

Enerhetyk

Mykolaiv

Oleksandriya

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Locations of teams in First League

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach
Desna Chernihiv	Serhiy Kucherenko	Oleksandr Tomakh Serhiy Bakun (caretaker)
Dynamo-2 Kyiv	Henadiy Lytovchenko
Enerhetyk Burshtyn	Mykola Prystay
Helios Kharkiv	Oleksandr Sevidov
Ihroservice Simferopol	Rostyslav Lysenko	Oleh Lutkov
Krymteplitsia Molodizhne	Oleksandr Haydash
Obolon Kyiv	Petro Slobodyan
PFC Oleksandria	Ihor Bohatyr
Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	Mykola Vasylkiv (caretaker)	Yuriy Shulyatytskyi (caretaker) Serhiy Kucherenko
Volyn Lutsk	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi
FC Lviv	Stepan Yurchyshyn	Bohdan Bandura
MFC Mykolaiv	Leonid Haidarzhy
CSKA Kyiv	Serhiy Revut	Yuriy Maksymov
Dnipro Cherkasy	Serhiy Morozov
Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	Serhiy Diryavka	Viktor Maslov Yuriy Pohrebnyak
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	Viktor Ishchenko (caretaker)	Serhiy Shevchenko
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	Petro Kushlyk
Spartak Sumy	Serhiy Strashnenko
Podillya Khmelnytskyi	Zyhmund Vysotskyi	Serhiy Kucherenko
Borysfen Boryspil	Oleksandr Ryabokon	Oleksandr Prykhodko (caretaker)

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka (C, P)	36	27	2	7	58	29	+29	83	Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
2	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod (P)	36	25	5	6	50	22	+28	80
3	Obolon Kyiv	36	23	4	9	47	27	+20	73
4	Krymteplitsia Molodizhne	36	21	7	8	53	37	+16	70
5	Olexandria	35	18	4	13	37	27	+10	58
6	Dynamo-2 Kyiv	36	17	8	11	53	37	+16	59	No promotion
7	Helios Kharkiv	36	17	7	12	45	36	+9	58
8	Enerhetyk Burshtyn	36	15	11	10	44	33	+11	56
9	Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	36	15	8	13	42	37	+5	53
10	Ihroservice Simferopol	36	14	9	13	46	44	+2	51
11	FC Lviv	36	13	8	15	45	45	0	47
12	Volyn Lutsk	36	13	7	16	40	48	−8	46
13	MFK Mykolaiv	36	12	10	14	33	40	−7	46
14	Desna Chernihiv	36	11	8	17	51	58	−7	41
15	Dnipro Cherkasy	36	10	9	17	31	46	−15	39
16	CSKA Kyiv	36	10	8	18	24	44	−20	38
17	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk (D)	36	10	3	23	24	51	−27	33	Withdrew
18	Podillya Khmelnytskyi (D)	36	5	6	25	20	63	−43	9
19	Borysfen Boryspil (D)	36	1	4	31	10	29	−19	1	Excluded
–	Spartak Sumy (D)	0	1	0	18	4	49	—	0	Withdrew

Source: Professional Football League of Ukraine
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head points; 5th head-to-head goal difference; 6th head-to-head goals scored; 7th fair play; 8th draw
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted
Notes:

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.

Scorer	Goals (pen.)	Team
Matviy Bobal	16	Ihroservice Simferopol
Bohdan Yesyp	15 (1)	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
Oleksandr Sytnik	14 (1)	Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk
Valentyn Krukovets	13 (1)	Desna Chernihiv
Alozi Chidi	13 (3)	Volyn Lutsk
Myroslav Bundash	13 (9)	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
Pavlo Onysko	12 (3)	Krymteplytsia Molodizhne Obolon Kyiv
Ruslan Zeinalov	12 (8)	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
Oleksandr Hrebinyuk	11	PFC Olexandria
Roman Polishchuk	11 (5)	Dnipro Cherkasy
Andriy Yarmolenko	7	Desna Chernihiv / Dynamo-2 Kyiv

Teams withdrawn during and after season

Spartak Sumy

On November 28, 2006 PFL Bureau has excluded FC Spartak Sumy from competitions for the second no show. Due to the fact that team has physically played less than 50% of calendar games (17 games), all its season record was stripped. Upon withdrawal it had 1-0-18 record and 4-49 goals difference.

Borysfen Boryspil

On March 16, 2007 FC Borysfen Boryspil was excluded from competitions for systematic violation of statute and regulations of FFU and PFL, failure to comply with their organs of administration and implementation football justice as well as failure to fulfill terms of contracts with players and financial obligations to FFU and PFL. In the rest of games were nominated technical losses to the team and its opponents - technical victory.

Podillia Khmelnytskyi

In the second half of the season Podillia Khmelnytskyi moved from Khmelnytskyi to Krasyliv. At the same time for the amateur championship registered a new club from Khmelnytskyi, FC Podillia-Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytskyi. So, since spring 2007 there were two clubs Podillia, one at professional level playing in Krasyliv and other - amateur playing in Khmelnytskyi. One of the reasons was the prior merger of Podillia with FC Krasyliv back in 2004. At the end of 2006–07 season Podillia Krasyliv changed back to FC Krasyliv and was scheduled to play in the 2007-08 Ukrainian Second League, but withdrew just before the start of season.

Instead of Krasyliv to the Ukrainian Second League applied the newly revived FC Podillia-Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytskyi. In such manner there was created a club's continium.

Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk

FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was relegated to the Ukrainian Second League, while another team form local university FC Fakel Ivano-Frankivsk obtain promotion to the Ukrainian First League. The city municipality on whose balance ended up both clubs decided to keep one and dissolve another one. So, in the 2007-08 Ukrainian Second League season there were no clubs playing from Ivano-Frankivsk, while a new team FSC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk was created in place of Fakel to participate in the 2007-08 Ukrainian First League season.

See also

• 2006–07 Ukrainian Premier League
• 2006–07 Ukrainian Second League
• 2006–07 Ukrainian Cup

External links

• (in Ukrainian) Persha Liha at Official Site of the Professional Football league of Ukraine
• 38th round of season and final league table - UA-Football.com (in Russian)