1995–96 Ukrainian First League

1995–96 Ukrainian First League was the fifth season of the Ukrainian First League which was easily won by Vorskla Poltava. The season started on August 4, 1995, and finished on July 1, 1996.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted teams

Two clubs promoted from the 1994–95 Ukrainian Second League.

• FC Yavir Krasnopillia – champion (debut)
• FC Lviv – 2nd place (debut)

Relegated teams

Two clubs were relegated from the 1994-95 Ukrainian Top League:

• FC Temp Shepetivka – 18th place (returning after two seasons)
• FC Veres Rivne – 18th place (returning after three seasons)

Renamed teams

• FC Bazhanovets Makiivka was renamed to FC Shakhtar Makiivka before the season
• FC Temp Shepetivka merged with FC Advis Khmelnytskyi before the season and was renamed to FC Temp-Advis Khmelnytskyi

Teams

In 1995-96 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Club	City	Stadium	Coach	Replaced coach(es)
Metalist Kharkiv	Kharkiv	Metalist Stadium	Viktor Udovenko	Viktor Kamarzayev
Veres Rivne	Rivne	Avanhard Stadium	Vyacheslav Kobeletskyi	Volodymyr Vusatyi
Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya	Oleksandriya	Olimp Stadium	Anatoliy Buznyk
Podillya Khmelnytskyi	Khmelnytskyi Krasyliv	Podillya Stadium Yunist Stadium	Volodymyr Bulhakov	Volodymyr Stryzhevskyi
Krystal Chortkiv	Chortkiv	Kharchovyk Stadium	Semen Osynovskyi	Ivan Hamaliy
FC Lviv	Lviv	Yunist Stadium	Stepan Yurchyshyn
Dynamo-2 Kyiv	Kyiv	Dynamo Stadium	Volodymyr Onyshchenko	Anatoliy Kroshchenko
Yavir Krasnopillia	Krasnopillya	Kolos Stadium Yavir Stadium	Valeriy Dushkov	Valeriy Bermudes
Stal Alchevsk	Alchevsk	Stal Stadium	Anatoliy Volobuyev
Dnipro Cherkasy	Cherkasy	Central Stadium Spartak Stadium	Ihor Chupryna	Semen Osynovskyi
Bazhanovets Makiivka	Makiivka	Avanhard Stadium	Viktor Pyshchev
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Chernivtsi	Bukovyna Stadium	Yukhym Shkolnykov
Khimik Zhytomyr	Zhytomyr	City Stadium	Andriy Biba	Volodymyr Nechayev
Naftovyk Okhtyrka	Okhtyrka	Naftovyk Stadium	Oleksandr Dovbiy	Andriy Biba
Metalurh Nikopol	Nikopol	Elektrometalurh Stadium	Hryhoriy Verzhelenko	Pavlo Yakovenko
Temp-Advis Khmelnytskyi Ratusha Kamianets-Podilskyi	Khmelnytskyi Kamianets-Podilskyi	Podillya Stadium Tonkocheyev CS	Oleksandr Petrov	Valeriy Dushkov
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	Uzhhorod	Avanhard Stadium	Matviy Bobal
FC Skala Stryj	Stryi	Sokil Stadium	Yuriy Shulyatytskyi	Roman Pokora
Vorskla Poltava	Poltava	Vorskla Stadium Lokomotyv Stadium	Viktor Pozhechevskyi
Khimik Severodonetsk	Sieverodonetsk	Khimik Stadium	Yuriy Koval	Yuriy Vankevych
SC Odesa	Odesa	SKA Stadium	Serhiy Marusyn
Naftokhimik Kremenchuk	Kremenchuk	Naftokhimik Stadium Dnipro Stadium	Mykhailo Byelykh

Final table

Note:
FC Temp Shepetivka at first united with FC Advis Khmelnytskyi. At winter break the club withdrew and was dissolved. To save the situation in the place of former Temp there was formed completely new team out of random amateur players based in Kamyanets-Podilskyi was given the name of Ratusha. The club folded at the end of the season.

Persha Liha 1995-96 Winners
FC Vorskla Poltava First title

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.

	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	Template:Flagicon Serhiy Chuichenko	35 (9)	Polihraftekhnika / Vorskla
2	Template:Flagicon Viktor Diak	21 (4)	Shakhtar Makiivka
3	Template:Flagicon Borys Finkel	20 (1)	Bukovyna Chernivtsi
	Template:Flagicon Vadym Plotnikov	20 (5)	Stal Alchevsk
5	Template:Flagicon Ivan Shariy	18 (2)	Vorskla Poltava
6	Template:Flagicon Vitaliy Samoilov	17	Dynamo-2 Kyiv
7	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Prudkyi	15 (1)	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
	Template:Flagicon Mykola Fedorko	15 (4)	Podillya Khmelnytskyi
9	Template:Flagicon Serhiy Chernoshvets	14 (4)	Naftovyk Okhtyrka
	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Agarin	14 (5)	Dnipro / Krystal