2004–05 Vyshcha Liha

The 2004–05 Vyshcha Liha season was the fourteenth since its establishment.

The season started on July 15, 2004, with all eight games of the first round. The last day of the competition was June 16, 2005. Shakhtar Donetsk won its second champion's title place ahead of the reigning champions Dynamo that held for the last couple of seasons. The Miners only lost two of their games, one at home to Metalist Kharkiv that had just returned to the top league and another one in Simferopol to Tavriya. Shakhtar also won both of their match-ups with Dynamo Kyiv. The top scorers competition was won by Oleksandr Kosyrin from Chornomorets Odesa who had 14 precise shots on goal.

Illichivets Mariupol was close to qualify for the European competition once again; however, it was not able to convert on the poor playing form of the leading Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk that had a bad stretch at the "finish line".

Both clubs from the Kyiv region, FC Obolon Kyiv and FC Borysfen Boryspil, that performed very well last season were forced into relegation due to their poor performance. Especially, strikingly bad season had Borysfen that won three games.

Teams

Promotions

• Zakarpattia Uzhhorod, the winners of the 2003–04 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of 2 seasons)
• Metalist Kharkiv, the runners-up of the 2003–04 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of a seasons)

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach
FC Arsenal Kyiv	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Baranov
FC Chornomorets Odesa	Template:Flagicon Semen Altman
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Template:Flagicon Yevhen Kucherevsky
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Template:Flagicon Yozhef Sabo	Template:Flagicon Oleksiy Mykhailychenko
FC Volyn Lutsk	Template:Flagicon Petro Kushlyk	Template:Flagicon Vitaliy Kvartsiany
FC Borysfen Boryspil	Template:Flagicon Stepan Matviiv	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Ryabokon
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Kosevych	Template:Flagicon Anatoliy Piskovets
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Zavarov	Template:Flagicon Hennadiy Lytovchenko
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Template:Flagicon Vitaliy Shevchenko	Template:Flagicon Slavoljub Muslin
FC Metalurh Zaporizhya	Template:Flagicon Valeriy Yaremchenko
FC Illichivets Mariupol	Template:Flagicon Ivan Balan	Template:Flagicon Mykola Pavlov
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Template:Flagicon Mircea Lucescu
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Template:Flagicon Oleh Fedorchuk	Template:Flagicon Anatoliy Zayaev
FC Vorskla Poltava	Template:Flagicon Volodymyr Muntyan
FC Obolon Kyiv	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Ryabokon	Template:Flagicon Petro Slobodyan
FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	Template:Flagicon Viktor Ryashko

Top goal scorers

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Kosyrin

Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Kosyrin	Chornomorets Odesa	14 (4)
Template:Flagicon Vasyl Sachko	Volyn Lutsk	12
Template:Flagicon Andrés Augusto Mendoza	Metalurh Donetsk	12 (1)
Template:Flagicon Brandao	Shakhtar Donetsk	12 (2)
Template:Flagicon Serhiy Zakarlyuka	Illychivets Mariupol	12 (4)
Template:Flagicon Maksim Shatskikh	Dynamo Kyiv	11
Template:Flagicon Diogo Rincón	Dynamo Kyiv	10 (6)
Template:Flagicon Vasyl Gigiadze	Tavriya Simferopol	9 (1)
Template:Flagicon Julius Aghahowa	Shakhtar Donetsk	8
Template:Flagicon Kléber	Dynamo Kyiv	8
Template:Flagicon Matuzalem	Shakhtar Donetsk	8

External links

• ukrsoccerhistory.com - source of information

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