| Season: | 2015–16 |
| Relegated: | |
| League Topscorer: | 16 – Artem Favorov (Obolon-Brovar) |
| Biggest Home Win: | Zirka 6–0 FC Ternopil (Round 5) |
| Biggest Away Win: | 4 – Nyva 0–4 FC Sumy (Round 3) |
| Highest Scoring: | 7 – Hirnyk-Sport 3–4 FC Poltava (Round 29) |
| Matches: | 220 |
| Total Goals: | 509 |
| Longest Wins: | 6 – Zirka (Round 19–25) |
| Longest Unbeaten: | 9 – Helios (Rounds 1–9) |
| Longest Winless: | 8 –Illichivets (Rounds 3–4, 6, 8–9, ppd. 7, 10, ppd. 5) |
| Longest Losses: | 8 – Nyva (Round 6–9, Round 11–14) |
| Highest Attendance: | 7,500 – Dnipro–Hirnyk (Round 20) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 100 – Desna–FC Sumy(Round 12) |
| Nextseason: | 2016–17 |
The 2015–16 Ukrainian First League was the 25th since its establishment. The competition commenced on 26 July 2015 with eight matches. The competition had a winter break which began after Round 18 on November 22. The competition resumed on 26 March 2016 and completed on 1 June 2016.
The number of teams for the competition was confirmed on 19 June 2015.[1]
Two teams were promoted from the 2014–15 Ukrainian Second League.[2]
One team was promoted from the 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League.
The following displays the location of teams.
The following stadiums are considered home grounds for the teams in the competition.
| width=55 | Rank | width=220 | Stadium | width=72 | Capacity | width=160 | Club | width=220 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metalurh Stadium, Kryvyi Rih | 29,783 | Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih | ||||||
| 2 | Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy | 25,800 | |||||||
| 3 | Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv | 16,873 | Dynamo-2 Kyiv | Used as home ground in Round 14 and 17 | |||||
| 4 | Central City Stadium, Mykolaiv | 16,700 | MFC Mykolaiv | ||||||
| 5 | Zirka Stadium, Kirovohrad | 13,667 | Zirka Kirovohrad | ||||||
| 6 | Labor Reserve, Bila Tserkva | 13,500 | Desna Chernihiv | Used as home ground | |||||
| 7 | City Stadium, Ternopil | 12,750 | Nyva Ternopil | ||||||
| FC Ternopil | |||||||||
| 8 | Illichivets Stadium, Mariupol | 12,680 | Illichivets Mariupol | ||||||
| 9 | Yuri Gagarin Stadium, Chernihiv | 12,060 | Desna Chernihiv | ||||||
| 10 | 10,321 | Cherkaskyi Dnipro | |||||||
| 11 | Naftovyk Stadium, Okhtyrka | 5,256 | Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka | ||||||
| 12 | Obolon Arena, Kyiv | 5,100 | Obolon-Brovar Kyiv | ||||||
| 13 | Sonyachny Stadium, Kharkiv | 4,924[4] | Helios Kharkiv | ||||||
| 14 | Avanhard Stadium, Kramatorsk | 2,500 | Avanhard Kramatorsk | ||||||
| 15 | Lokomotov Stadium, Poltava | 2,500 | FC Poltava | ||||||
| 16 | Yunist Stadium, Komsomolsk | 2,500 | Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk | ||||||
| 17 | Dynamo Training Center, Kyiv | 1,200 | Dynamo-2 Kyiv |
| Club | Coach | Replaced coach | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avanhard Kramatorsk | |||
| Cherkaskyi Dnipro | |||
| Desna Chernihiv | |||
| Dynamo-2 Kyiv | |||
| Helios Kharkiv | |||
| Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih | |||
| Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk | |||
 Valeriy Kriventsov | |||
| MFC Mykolaiv | |||
| Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka | |||
 Petr Badlo (interim) | Roman Tolochko | ||
| Obolon-Brovar Kyiv | |||
| FC Poltava | Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi (interim) | ||
| FC Sumy | |||
| FC Ternopil | |||
| Zirka Kirovohrad |
| Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helios Kharkiv | Serhiy Syzykhin (interim) | Change of contract | 1 July 2015[5] | Pre-season | Serhiy Syzykhin | 1 July 2015 | |
| Nyva Ternopil | Roman Tolochko | Resigns | 9 September 2015[6] | 15th | Petr Badlo (interim) | 9 September 2015 | |
| FC Ternopil | Vasyl Ivehesh | Hospitalized | 13 May 2016[7] | 15th | Ivan Maruschak (interim) | 14 May 2016 |
| Rank | Scorer | Goals (Pen.) | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artem Favorov | 16 (3) | Obolon-Brovar Kyiv | |
| 2 | Yevhen Chepurnenko | 11 (1) | ||
| align=center rowspan=2 | 3 | Artem Sitalo | 10 (4) | Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih |
| Serhiy Vakulenko | 10 (6) | Illichivets Mariupol | ||
| align=center rowspan=2 | 5 | Volodymyr Bayenko | 8 | Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih |
| Denys Skepskyi | 8 (2) | Cherkaskyi Dnipro | ||
| align=center rowspan=2 | 7 | Borys Baranets | 7 | Zirka Kirovohrad |
| Oleksandr Batalskyi | 7 | Cherkaskyi Dnipro |
| Rank | Scorer | Goals (Pen.) | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center rowspan=7 | 7 | Oleksiy Chychykov | 7 | Zirka Kirovohrad |
| Ruslan Ivashko | 7 | Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk | ||
| Roman Loktionov | 7 | Zirka Kirovohrad | ||
| Vasyl Prodan | 7 | Obolon-Brovar Kyiv | ||
| Artur Zahorulko | 7 | Illichivets Mariupol | ||
| Denys Favorov | 7 (1) | |||
| Ihor Sikorskyi | 7 (4) | MFC Mykolaiv |