1992 Vyshcha Liha
Template:Short description Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The 1992 Vyshcha Liha (Template:Langx) was the first football championship organized by the reformed Football Federation of Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Football Federation of Ukraine, when organizing the competition, decided to shift its calendar to synchronize it with a common in Europe "fall-spring" and organized a short championship to secure berth spots for the 1992–93 European club competitions.
The newly formed competition involved the participation of Ukraine-based football "teams of masters" (professional teams) from the top All-Union football competitions, including the 1991 Soviet Vysshaya Liga teams.
The first two games of Round 1 took place on 6 March 1992 in Odesa, where local Chornomorets was hosting Karpaty, and Mykolaiv, where local Evis was playing against the visiting Temp.
Teams and organization
League's formation and issues
Composition
The league and its calendar were adopted at the FFU Executive Committee session on 10 September 1991[1] with the ongoing 1991 season of the All-Soviet football competitions. It was established that the new league will consist of 20 teams divided into two groups.[1] Six clubs (last three from each group) were set to be relegated and replaced with the two best from the First League, thus reducing the league for the next season to 16. Winners of both groups were to play against one another for the national title. The league's final was originally planned to consist of two games (home and away), but later, due to scheduling of the Ukraine national football team's games, it was changed to one on a neutral field.[1]
To the league were included all Ukrainian clubs of the 1991 Soviet Top and First leagues (8 clubs), nine of eleven Ukrainian clubs out the 1991 Soviet Second League (all of them competed in the west zone), the two best teams of the 1991 Soviet Second (lower) League and the winner of the Ukrainian Cup.[1] The FFU president Viktor Bannikov was against to include the Ukrainian Cup winner into the top league.[1]
There were opponents of organization of the championship among the most notable was FC Metalurh Zaporizhya.[1] The FC Metalist Kharkiv was against with the condition if they would be relegated from the 1991 Soviet Top League.[1] Also against the championship was Yevhen Kucherevskyi[1] (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, one of few Ukrainian coaches who managed to win the Soviet Top League).
There were plenty of alternative propositions on the composition and the season's calendar, among which were from the president of Prykarpattia Anatoliy Revutskyi and the head coach of Temp Ishtvan Sekech.[1]
Calendar
The championship started on March 6, about a month after the qualification rounds of another national tournament, the first edition of Ukrainian Cup. The first half of the season was scheduled to finish on April 19, with the second one to resume on April 25 (6 days intermission). The last round was to be played on June 17.
Considering such a schedule and the fact that the Ukrainian Cup competition was on the way simultaneously, the Ukrainian clubs had to forfeit their scheduled games in the Soviet Cup competition. In addition to that, Dynamo Kyiv also participated in the Champions League competition, which ended for Dynamo only on April 15. Each team this season had at least two games scheduled every week on average.
Considering other official games (outside of the league), FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia and FC Dynamo Kyiv have played a record 26 games from February 18 through June 21, the most among the other clubs in the League.
Location of teams
Qualified teams
Note:
- FC Temp Shepetivka placed only 9th in the 1991 Soviet Lower Second League.
- FC Halychyna Drohobych and FC Vorskla Poltava that competed in the Soviet Second League were placed in the Persha Liha (Ukrainian Second Division) as such that were relegated.
Clubs' name changes
- Zorya-MALS Luhansk before the season carried the name Zorya Luhansk. A name extension was provided for sponsorship reasons.
- Evis Mykolaiv before the season carried the name Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv.
- SC Odesa changed its name from SKA Odesa on May 5, 1992, due to restructuring of the Soviet Odesa Military District and Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Stadiums
| Rank | Stadium | Club | Capacity | Highest Attendance |
Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Republican Stadium | Dynamo Kyiv | 100,000 | 5,000 | Round 8 (Zorya-MALS) | |
| 2 | Metalist Stadium | Metalist Kharkiv | 38,633 | 7,000 | Round 15 (Dnipro) | |
| 3 | Black Sea Shipping Central Stadium | Chornomorets | 34,362 | 9,500 | Round 15 (Tavriya) | |
| 4 | Shakhtar Stadium | Shakhtar Donetsk | 31,718 | 4,300 | Round 20 (Tavriya) | |
| 5 | Ukraina Stadium | Karpaty Lviv | 28,051 | 13,000 | Round 3 (Tavriya) | |
| Tavriya Simferopol | 36,000 | Final (Dynamo) | ||||
| 6 | Central City Stadium | Evis Mykolaiv | 25,175 | 15,000 | Round 4 (Chornomorets) | |
| 7 | Meteor Stadium | Dnipro | 24,381 | 6,000 | Round 13 (Dynamo) | |
| 8 | Lokomotyv Stadium | Nyva Vinnytsia | 24,000 | 10,000 | Round 17 (Shakhtar) | |
| 9 | Avanhard Stadium | Zorya-MALS | 22,320 | 17,200 | Round 14 (Dynamo) | |
| 10 | Lokomotiv Stadium | Tavriya Simferopol | 19,978 | 3,500 | Round 17 (Karpaty) | |
| 11 | Dynamo Stadium | Dynamo Kyiv | 16,873 | 2,500 | Round 17 (SC Odesa) | as home ground in Round 12 and 17 |
| 12 | AutoZAZ Stadium | Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | 15,000 | 5,000 | Round 10 (Chornomorets) | |
| 13 | City Stadium | Nyva Ternopil | 12,750 | 20,000 | Round 10 (Dynamo) | |
| 14 | Bukovyna Stadium | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 12,000 | 14,000 | Round 6 (Dynamo) | |
| 15 | Metalurh Central Stadium | Metalurh Zaporizhya | 11,983 | 8,000 | Round 1 (Shakhtar) | |
| Dnipro | 3,000 | Playoff (Shakhtar) | ||||
| 16 | Dnipro Stadium | Kremin Kremenchuk | 11,300 | 13,000 | Round 14 (Chornomorets) | |
| 17 | Avanhard Stadium | Volyn Lutsk | 10,792 | 20,000 | Round 9 (Dynamo) | |
| 18 | Elektron Stadium | Prykarpattya | 15,000 | Round 5 (Dynamo) | ||
| 19 | Naftovyk Stadium | Naftovyk Okhtyrka | 5,256 | 4,500 | Round 16 (Dnipro) | |
| 20 | SKA Stadium | SC Odesa | 6,000 | Round 4 (Dynamo) | ||
| 21 | Temp Stadium | Temp Shepetivka | 10,000 | Round 8 (Shakhtar) | ||
Managerial changes
Managerial changes approximated
| Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment | Table |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FC Nyva Ternopil | Template:FlagiconMykhailo Dunets | Pre season | Template:FlagiconLeonid Koltun | Pre season | |||
| FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | Template:FlagiconYevhen Kucherevskyi | March 10, 1992 | 1st | Template:FlagiconMykola Pavlov | March 10, 1992 | 1st | |
| FC Nyva Vinnytsia | Template:FlagiconVyacheslav Hrozny | March 28, 1992 | 10th | Template:FlagiconValery Petrov | March 28, 1992 | 10th | |
| FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | Template:FlagiconIvan Krasnetskyi | April 1992 | 9th | Template:FlagiconYuriy Shuliatytskyi | April 1992 | 9th |
First stage
Qualified teams
- On April 17, Dynamo Kyiv qualified for European football for the 1992–93 season for Russian reasons according to the last Soviet championship.[2]
- Before 17th Round, Chornomorets Odesa qualified for the 1992–93 Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round after winning 1992 Ukrainian Cup.
- After 17th Round, Dynamo Kyiv qualified for the Championship play-off.
- After 20th Round, Tavriya Simferopol qualified for the Championship playoff.
- After 20th Round, Shakhtar Donetsk and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk qualified for the Third place playoff.
- Tavriya won the title and was admitted to the European Cup.
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Group A final standings
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Group B final standings
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Second stage
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Championship playoff
1992 Vyshcha Liha final Tavriya Simferopol qualified for 1992–93 European Cup Preliminary round and Dynamo Kyiv qualified for 1992–93 UEFA Cup First round.
Third place playoff
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Season statistics
Top scorers
Clean sheets
Hat-tricks
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
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4 April 1992[4] |
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28 April 1992[5] |
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3 June 1992[6] |
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9 June 1992[7] |
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17 June 1992[8] |
Notes:
- (*) Asterisk identifies players who scored four goals (poker).
Medal squads
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
Note: Players in italic are whose playing position is uncertain.
See also
References
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- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Mylenko, V. First steps in Ukrainian club football (Первые шаги украинского клубного футбола). Football.ua. 26 November 2010.
- ↑ Spartak Moscow qualified for the CWC releasing their UEFA Cup spot.
- ↑ Top scorers (Бомбардиры).uafootball.net.ua
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External links
- Season information on the Ukrainian Football from Dmytro Troshchiy
- Season information on RSSSF
- Season information on the Ukrainian Football from Aleksei Kobyzev
- Banyas, V. The Top League Cup: long forgotten tournament... (Кубок вищої ліги: таки забутий турнір...) Template:Webarchive. Ukrainian Premier League. 11 August 2017
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