2001–02 Vyshcha Liha

The 2001–02 Vyshcha Liha season was the 11th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Teams

Promotions

• Zakarpattia Uzhhorod, the runners-up of the 2000–01 Ukrainian First League – (debut)
• Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya, the third placed of the 2000–01 Ukrainian First League – (debut)

Note: the 2000–01 Ukrainian First League was won by the second team of Dynamo Kyiv, FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv, which could not be promoted.

Renamed

• FC CSKA Kyiv owned by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine was sold to the Kyiv city authorities headed by Oleksandr Omelchenko. The club was reorganized and renamed as FC Arsenal Kyiv to commemorate SC Arsenal that existed before 1960s.

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach	Home stadium
Shakhtar Donetsk	Template:Flagicon Nevio Scala	Template:Flagicon Viktor Prokopenko	Shakhtar Stadium
Dynamo Kyiv	Template:Flagicon Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko	Template:Flagicon Valeriy Lobanovskyi	Dynamo Stadium
Metalurh Donetsk	Template:Flagicon Semen Altman		Metalurh Stadium
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	Template:Flagicon Oleh Taran	Template:Flagicon Volodymyr Atamanyuk	Metalurh Stadium AvtoZAZ Stadium
Metalist Kharkiv	Template:Flagicon Mykhaylo Fomenko		Metalist Stadium
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Template:Flagicon Yevhen Kucherevskyi	Template:Flagicon Mykola Fedorenko	Meteor Stadium
Tavriya Simferopol	Template:Flagicon Anatoliy Zayayev	Template:Flagicon Valeriy Petrov	Lokomotyv Stadium
Karpaty Lviv	Template:Flagicon Lev Brovarskyi	Template:Flagicon Myron Markevych	Ukraina Stadium
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Template:Flagicon Ihor Nadein	Template:Flagicon Hennadiy Lytovchenko	Metalurh Stadium
Metalurh Mariupol	Template:Flagicon Mykola Pavlov		Illichivets Stadium
Vorskla Poltava	Template:Flagicon Andriy Bal		Vorskla Stadium
Arsenal Kyiv	Template:Flagicon Oleh Kuznetsov	(co-coach Template:Flagicon Volodymyr Bezsonov)	CKS ZSU Stadium
Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya	Template:Flagicon Roman Pokora		Nika Stadium
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	Template:Flagicon Yuriy Kalitvintsev		Avanhard Stadium

League table

European qualifications case

Because both finalists of the 2002 Ukrainian Cup Final Dynamo and Shakhtar qualified for the UEFA Champions League, the fourth European competition berth was to be awarded to the best fourth placed team in the league competition. The fourth place with 40 points earned was Metalist Kharkiv, however there were two more teams with the same number of points Metalurh Zaporizhia and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. According to the 2001-02 season regulations the first tie breaker in case of even points were the head-to-head points among the teams that tied. Therefore originally Metalist Kharkiv was the main contender to qualify for the European competitions. However, the administration of FC Metalurh Zaporizhia argued the fact that their team head better head-to-head record with both Metalist Kharkiv (2 1-0-1 2-2 with an away goal) and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2 1-1-0 2-1). On 16 June 2002 the FFU Executive Committee came up with its final decision awarding Metalurh Zaporizhia with qualification to European competitions.

Top goalscorers

Template:Flagicon Serhiy Shyshchenko	Metalurh Donetsk	12 (2)
Template:Flagicon Vitaliy Pushkutsa	Metalist Kharkiv	11 (1)
Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Melashchenko	Dynamo Kyiv	9
Template:Flagicon Andriy Vorobey	Shakhtar Donetsk	9
Template:Flagicon Valyantsin Byalkevich	Dynamo Kyiv	9(1)
Template:Flagicon Florin Cernat	Dynamo Kyiv	9 (1)
Template:Flagicon Vasil Gigiadze	Tavriya Simferopol	9 (7)
Template:Flagicon Ihor Prodan	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	8
Template:Flagicon Serhiy Chuychenko	Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya	8(3)
Template:Flagicon Hennady Zubov	Shakhtar Donetsk	8 (4)

See also

• 2001–02 Ukrainian First League
• 2001–02 Ukrainian Second League
• 2001–02 Ukrainian Cup

External links

• ukrsoccerhistory.com - source of information
• Decision of the Executive Committee of Football Federation of Ukraine Template:Webarchive
• Official press release of the Football Federation of Ukraine Template:Webarchive

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