2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League Explained
The 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League season is the 26th top-level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the ninth since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. The league is scheduled to play its first 18 rounds before the winter break (10 December 2016 – 25 February 2017) finishing its first stage of tournament in March. The second stage is scheduled to start on 1 April 2017 and finish on 31 May 2017.
The league's title sponsor for 2016–17 season as for the previous season is a bookmaker company Parimatch, the title of which is displayed on the season shield.
With the continuation of the military conflict in the eastern oblasts (regions) of Ukraine since 2014 and the Russian occupation of Crimea (see the map), the league was forced to change its format again and will now be contested by 12 teams after being cut from 14 in the 2015–16 season.
Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions. On 6 May 2017 in Kharkiv, Shakhtar Donetsk secured its 10th championship title with a win over Zorya Luhansk and four more rounds to play in the season.[1] The 10th title that Shakhtar earned this season would allow the club to place a star on the club's crest to indicate this feat.[1]
Changes and announcements
On 29 February 2016, the Ukrainian Premier League administration announced that there will be changes to the competition format for the 2016–17 season.[2] It was confirmed that the championship would be played in two different phases, the first phase will be using a standard double round-robin tournament system and the second phase will be broken into two groups one from 1st to 6th place which will play for the championship and the European spots and the second group made up of teams from 7th place to 12th which will play to avoid relegation. The bottom two teams will be relegated and would be replaced by the champion and the runner-up of the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League. The points gained in the first stage are passed on to the second stage.
The new format was to be presented by the FFU Executive Committee.[3] On 29 April 2016, the FFU Executive Committee approved the changes to the new UPL format for 2016–17 season.[4] The fixtures were announced on 7 June 2016.[5] The competition commenced on 21 July when Shakhtar Donetsk hosted Zirka Kropyvnytskyi in Lviv.[6] The first eighteen rounds will be played before winter break which will begin after 10 December 2016. The competition is to resume 25 February 2017. The first phase will end on 18 March 2017 after which the league will split according to the first phase final standings with the second phase starting on 1 April 2017. The season will be concluded on 31 May 2017.
On 7 March 2017, the official website of Dynamo announced that the draw for the second stage of 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League on 10 March 2017 at the VIP-lounge of Olympiyskyi NSC at 12:00 LST.[7] On 10 March 2017 at Olimpiyskyi NSC took place a draw for the second stage of the tournament.[8]
Teams
Promoted teams
Renamed teams
As part of ongoing decommunization in Ukraine, several populated places in Ukraine changed their names, therefore the league adopted the same changes and applied them to the respective clubs in parentheses.
Location map
Stadiums
The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:
| width=18 | Rank | width=150 | Stadium | width=130 | Club | width=70 | Capacity[12] | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | NSC Olimpiyskiy | Dynamo Kyiv | 70,050 | |
| 2 | OSC Metalist | Shakhtar Donetsk | 40,003 | Used as home ground in round 7 and second half of season |
| align=center rowspan=3 | 3 | Arena Lviv | Karpaty Lviv | align=center rowspan=3 | 34,915 | |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | Used as home ground during first half of season |
| Olimpik Donetsk | Used as home ground in round 19[13] [14] |
| 4 | Chornomorets Stadium | Chornomorets Odesa | 34,164 | |
| 5 | Dnipro-Arena | Dnipro | 31,003 | |
| 6 | Yuvileiny Stadium | Olimpik Donetsk | 25,830 | Used as home ground during first half of season |
| align=center rowspan=2 | 7 | Vorskla Stadium | Vorskla Poltava | align=center rowspan=2 | 24,795 | |
| Olimpik Donetsk | Used as home ground in round 21[15] [16] [17] |
| 8 | Meteor Stadium | Stal Kamianske | 24,381 | Used as home ground during season[18] |
| 9 | Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium | Olimpik Donetsk | 16,873 | Used as home ground in the second half |
| align=center rowspan=2 | 10 | Zirka Stadium | Zirka Kropyvnytskyi | align=center rowspan=2 | 13,667 | |
| Olimpik Donetsk | Used as home ground in round 3 |
| 11 | Avanhard Stadium | Volyn Lutsk | 12,080 | |
| align=center rowspan=2 | 12 | Slavutych-Arena | Zorya Luhansk | align=center rowspan=2 | 11,883 | Used as home ground during season |
| Zirka Kropyvnytskyi | Used as home ground in round 17 |
| 13 | Tsentralnyi Stadion | Olimpik Donetsk | 10,321 | Used as home ground in round 17 |
| 14 | CSC Nika Stadium | FC Oleksandriya | 7,000 | | |
Personnel and sponsorship
Managerial changes
Notes:
First stage
First stage table
First stage positions by round
The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition played chronologically.
Championship round
Championship round table
Championship round positions by round
Relegation round
Relegation round table
Relegation round positions by round
Season statistics
Top goalscorers
The season top goalscorers were:[36] [37]
Hat-tricks
(number) Player scored (number) goals if more than 3
Awards
Monthly awards
On 16 November 2016, the Premier League administration announced start of voting for the Best player of the month.[43]
Round awards
On 17 November 2016, the Premier League administration along with Pari-Match introduced another award, "Best player of the round".[49] [50] On 1 March 2017, the All-Ukrainian association of Football Coaches introduced award "Best coach of the round".[51]
Season awards
The laureates of the 2016–17 UPL season were:[86]
Scandals
FIFA sanctions
Number of sanctions were implemented by FIFA against some Ukrainian clubs due to their refuse to follow their contractual agreements with players and coaching staff.
In summer of 2016 FIFA imposed sanctions against FC Volyn Lutsk due to the "Ramon Lopes case" denying Volyn the right to register new players other than out of own academy (sport school). The sanctions were in place until 1 March 2017. On 24 February 2017 it became known that sanctions were extended to the end of season.[87]
Separate and much bigger sanctions were implemented against FC Dnipro for number of instances among which are cases with Danilo Sousa Campos, Juande Ramos and others (see above). Before the winter break the club had 12 tournament points deducted, while more sanctions are anticipated to be introduced.[88] [89]
The FIFA sanctions were also implemented against FC Karpaty Lviv due to the "Semir Štilić case" (see above).
Other scandals
Previous agreement between Chornomorets and Zorya provided the Luhansk club with the Chornomorets home venue in Odesa for the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League. However the Odesa club failed to payback revenue to Zorya from tickets that were sold for the games. Zorya Luhansk took this case to court, while Chornomorets Odesa has paid portion of the debt already.[90]
See also
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.upl.ua/news/view/877 The first star for the "miners" (Перша зірочка для «гірників»)
- New season format. Ukrainian Premier League. 29 February 2016
- The working group prepared the final draft of the new format for Ukrainian Championship. UA-Football. 20 February 2016
- FFU approved changes to the UPL regulations. UA-Football. 29 April 2016
- News: http://www.fpl.ua/ukr/news/news_fpl/7119/. uk:Відбулось жеребкування календаря Ліги Парі-Матч. Ukrainian Premier League. 7 June 2016 . 7 June 2016. uk.
- Web site: http://www.fpl.ua/ukr/news/news_fpl/6383/. uk:Дати і час початку матчів 1-го туру Ліги Парі-Матч. Dates and time of the 1st round games of the League Pari-Match. Ukrainian Premier League. 3 July 2015. 3 July 2015. uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20150704074800/http://www.fpl.ua/ukr/news/news_fpl/6383/. 4 July 2015. dead.
- https://sportarena.com/football/upl/zherebevka-vtorogo-etapa-upl-sostoitsya-10-marta/ Draw of the second stage of 2016-17 UPL took place on 10 March (Жеребьевка второго этапа УПЛ состоится 10 марта)
- http://www.fpl.ua/ukr/news/news_fpl/7608/ There became known the calendar of the Liha Pari-Match second stage (Став відомий календар другого етапу Ліги Парі-Матч)
- http://www.fpl.ua/eng/clubs/327/ Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro)
- http://www.fpl.ua/eng/clubs/333/ Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk (Kamianske)
- http://www.fpl.ua/eng/clubs/328/ Zirka Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi)
- http://www.fpl.ua/eng/statstadion Stadiums
- https://sportarena.com/football/upl/olimpik-podpisal-dogovor-o-provedenii-matchej-na-arene/ Olimpik signed an agreement about playing its games at Arena Lviv (Олимпик подписал договор о проведении матчей на Арене Львов)
- Nedbailo, A. Geninson: Olimpik will not be based in Lviv (Генинсон: Олимпик не будет базироваться во Львове). Sport Arena. 21 February 2017
- https://sportarena.com/football/upl/olimpik-sygraet-protiv-vorskly-v-poltave/ Olimpik will play against Vorskla in Poltava (Олимпик сыграет против Ворсклы в Полтаве)
- http://olimpik.com.ua/news/glavniy_arbitr_matcha07032017 A referee for the game between "Olimpik" and "Vorskla" will be Yurii Mozharovskyi («Олимпик» и «Ворсклу» рассудит Юрий Можаровский)
- https://sportarena.com/football/upl/cherkassy-gotovy-prinyat-olimpik-no-mestnyj-klub/ Cherkasy is ready to host Olimpik, but the local club against that (Черкассы готовы принять Олимпик, но местный клуб против)
- Web site: http://www.ua-football.com/ua/ukrainian/high/1438755741-stal-vistupatime-na-meteori-do-kincya-chempionatu.html. uk:Сталь виступатиме на Метеорі до кінця чемпіонату. Stal will perform at Meteor until the end of the championship. 5 August 2015. 5 August 2015. ua-football.com. uk.
- Web site: http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/1463846955-oficialno-luchesku-pokidaet-shahter.html . ru:Официально. Луческу покидает Шахтер . Officially: Lucescu is leaving Shakhtar . UA-Football . 21 May 2016 . 31 May 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160601033430/http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/1463846955-oficialno-luchesku-pokidaet-shahter.html . June 1, 2016 . ru.
- Web site: http://ua.tribuna.com/tribuna/blogs/seira_vs/955356.html . ru:Великий развод. Почему ушел Луческу . Great dissolution. Why Lucescu left . tribuna.com . 28 May 2016 . 31 May 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160601045059/http://ua.tribuna.com/tribuna/blogs/seira_vs/955356.html . June 1, 2016 . ru.
- Web site: http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/1464710661-oficialno-paulu-fonseka-glavnyy-trener-shahtera.html . ru:Официально: Паулу Фонсека - главный тренер Шахтера . Officially: Paulo Fonseca – head coach of Shakhtar . UA-Football . 31 May 2016 . 31 May 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160601032257/http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/1464710661-oficialno-paulu-fonseka-glavnyy-trener-shahtera.html . June 1, 2016 . ru.
- Web site: http://www.champion.com.ua/football/2016/05/9/650348/ . uk:Безуб'як завершив роботу на посаді старшого тренера Карпат . Bezubyak completes his assignment as senior coach of Karpaty . Champion.com.ua . 8 May 2016 . 6 June 2016. uk.
- Web site: http://www.ua-football.com/ua/ukrainian/high/1465212172-oficiyno-yaremchenko-golovniy-trener-karpat.html . uk:Офіційно: Яремченко - головний тренер Карпат . Officially: Yaremchenko – head coach of Karpaty . UA-Football . 6 June 2016 . 6 June 2016. uk.
- Web site: https://football24.ua/karpati_znovu_bez_golovnogo_trenera_yaremchenko_vidmovivsya_ocholyuvati_komandu_n322401/. uk:"Карпати" знову без головного тренера: Яремченко відмовився очолювати команду . Karpaty again without a head trainer: Yaremchenko refused to lead the team . Football24.ua . 17 June 2016 . 17 June 2016. uk.
- http://football.ua/ukraine/307650-markevich-podaju-v-otstavku.html Маркевич: "Подаю в отставку"
- http://www.fcdnipro.ua/ru/news/2016/06/30/9274/ Михайленко - и.о. главного тренера
- Web site: На польські збори "Карпати" повезе Сергій Зайцев . 2016-07-05 . 2016-07-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160713205130/http://www.fckarpaty.lviv.ua/ua/news/16198/page.html . dead .
- http://www.ua-football.com/ua/ukrainian/high/1470832906-oficiyno-van-der-meyer-zalishiv-stal.html Офіційно. Ван дер Меєр залишив Сталь
- Web site: Joop Gall . 2016-08-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160902043908/http://fcstal.com/ru/news/?id=754 . 2016-09-02 . dead .
- http://www.fckarpaty.lviv.ua/ua/news/16729/page.html Олег Дулуб – головний тренер ФК «Карпати»
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161126150115/http://fczirka.com.ua/index.php/g/news/3242-3242 Official announcement of the Football Club "Zirka" (Офіційна заява Футбольного клубу «Зірка»)
- Web site: Сталь расстается с Якобом Галлом: 11.01.17 . 2017-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170113110421/http://fcstal.com/ru/news/?id=1335 . 2017-01-13 . dead .
- Web site: Леонид Кучук возглавил Сталь: 15.01.17 . 2017-01-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170117220824/http://fcstal.com/ru/news/?id=1340 . 2017-01-17 . dead .
- https://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/1488051847-chernomorec-babicha-utverdili-glavnym-trenerom-lyulka-kapitan.html Chornomorets: Babych was confirmed as the head coach, Lelyuk – captain (Черноморец: Бабича утвердили главным тренером, Люлька - капитан)
- Web site: Роман Монарьов – головний тренер "Зірки" | Офіційний сайт ФК "Зірка" Кропивницький.
- Web site: Ліга Парі-Матч (2016/17).
- Web site: Ukrainian football championship 2021/2022 - all scorers (136 players).
- http://www.ua-football.com/live/match/41183-dinamo-aleksandriya Dynamo–Oleksandriya game report
- http://fpl.ua/ukr/protocol/2016_2017/pl/590/14/ Olimpik–Dnipro game report
- http://fpl.ua/ukr/protocol/2016_2017/pl/12/13/ Dynamo–Volyn game report
- http://www.fpl.ua/ukr/protocol/2016_2017/pl/30/12/ Oleksandriya–Volyn game report
- http://www.upl.ua/report/view/2281 Stal–Oleksandriya game report
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161128013255/http://fpl.ua/ukr/news/news_fpl/7412/ Premier-liha announces start of voting for the Best player of month (Прем’єр-ліга анонсує старт голосування за «Найкращого гравця місяця»)
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- Web site: Ігор Худоб'як — найкращий гравець місяця Ліги Парі-Матч!. https://web.archive.org/web/20170408220959/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/779. 2017-04-08.
- Web site: Олександр Гладкий — найкращий гравець Ліги Парі-Матч у квітні!. 2017-05-12. 2017-05-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20170515232748/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/892. dead.
- Web site: Марлос — найкращий гравець Ліги Парі-Матч у травні!. 2017-06-09. 2017-11-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20171109183621/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/993. dead.
- Web site: Семь футболистов поспорят за звание лучшего игрока октября в УПЛ. 17 November 2016.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161128013624/http://www.fpl.ua/ukr/news/news_fpl/7429/ Valeriy Luchkevych is the best player of the Liha Pari-Match Round 15! (Валерій Лучкевич — найкращий гравець 15 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!)
- Web site: Всеукраїнське об'єднання тренерів з футболу Тренерський ракурс – 19-й тур УПЛ. Ребров – найкращий тренер . 2017-03-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170318084526/http://uafc.org.ua/2017/03/trenerskij-rakurs-19-j-tur-upl-rebrov-krashhij-trener/ . 2017-03-18 . dead .
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- Web site: Кваме Карікарі — найкращий гравець 22 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!. https://web.archive.org/web/20170320210358/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/732. 2017-03-20.
- Web site: Всеукраїнське об'єднання тренерів з футболу Тренерський ракурс. Леонід Кучук – найкращий тренер 22-го тур УПЛ . 2017-03-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170524120057/http://uafc.org.ua/2017/03/trenerskij-rakurs-leonid-kuchuk-najkrashhij-trener-22-go-tur-upl/ . 2017-05-24 . dead .
- Web site: Леонід Кучук – найкращий тренер 22-го туру Ліги Парі-Матч. https://web.archive.org/web/20170320210504/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/733. 2017-03-20.
- Web site: Андрій Ярмоленко — найкращий гравець 23 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!. https://web.archive.org/web/20170408221346/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/764. 2017-04-08.
- Web site: Олег Дулуб – найкращий тренер 23-го туру Ліги Парі-Матч. https://web.archive.org/web/20170408221428/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/763. 2017-04-08.
- Web site: Еліас — найкращий гравець 24 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!. https://web.archive.org/web/20170410144204/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/788. 2017-04-10.
- Web site: Всеукраїнське об'єднання тренерів з футболу Тренерський ракурс. Олександр Бабич – найкращий тренер 24-го туру УПЛ . uafc.org.ua . 11 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170410173541/http://uafc.org.ua/2017/04/trenerskij-rakurs-oleksandr-babich-najkrashhij-trener-24-go-turu-upl/ . 10 April 2017 . dead.
- Web site: Денис Гармаш — найкращий гравець 25 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!. https://web.archive.org/web/20170418025832/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/809. 2017-04-18.
- Web site: Сергій Ребров – найкращий тренер 25-го туру Ліги Парі-Матч. https://web.archive.org/web/20170418174902/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/814. 2017-04-18.
- Web site: Дмитро Коркішко — найкращий гравець 26 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!.
- Web site: Паулу Фонсека – найкращий тренер 26-го туру УПЛ.
- Web site: Андрій Ярмоленко — найкращий гравець 27 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!.
- Web site: Василь Сачко – найкращий тренер 27-го туру УПЛ.
- Web site: Денис Гармаш — найкращий гравець 28 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!.
- Web site: Леонід Кучук – найкращий тренер 28-го туру Ліги Парі-Матч.
- Web site: Бланко Лещук — найкращий гравець 29 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!.
- Web site: Роман Санжар – найкращий тренер 29 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!.
- Web site: Денніс Бонавентуре — найкращий гравець 30 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!. 2017-05-23. 2017-11-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20171109161032/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/934. dead.
- Web site: Дмитро Михайленко – найкращий тренер 30 туру Ліги Парі-Матч. 2017-05-23. 2017-11-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20171109153731/http://www.upl.ua/news/view/932. dead.
- Web site: Андрій Ярмоленко – найкращий гравець 31 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!.
- Web site: Юрій Вернидуб – найкращий тренер 31 туру Ліги Парі-Матч.
- Web site: Іван Петряк – найкращий гравець 32 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!.
- Web site: Володимир Шаран – найкращий тренер 32 туру Ліги Парі-Матч!.
- Web site: П'ять номінацій + "33 найкращих".
- https://sportarena.com/football/upl/volyn-ne-smozhet-dozayavlyat-igrokov-do-kontsa-sezona/ Volyn could not register players to the end of season (Волынь не сможет дозаявлять игроков до конца сезона)
- https://sportarena.com/football/upl/stetsenko-dnepr-nahoditsya-pod-ugrozoj-perevoda-v/ Stetsenko: Dnipro is under threat to be transferred to the First League (Стеценко: Днепр находится под угрозой перевода в Первую лигу)
- Nedbailo, A. Geninson: there is a risk that we will lose Dnipro this summer (Генинсон: рискуем потерять Днепр летом). Sport Arena. 21 February 2017.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170308150230/https://campeones.ua/30879/ Court hearing between "Zorya" and "Chornomorets" was postponed until 4 April (Суд между "Зарей" и "Черноморцем" перенесен на 4 апреля)
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