| Season: | 1992 |
| Dates: | 6 March – 21 June |
| Winners: | SC Tavriya Simferopol 1st title |
| League Topscorer: | (12) Yuriy Hudymenko (Tavriya) |
| Matches: | 182 |
| Total Goals: | 403 |
| Highest Attendance: | 36,000 – Tavriya–Dynamo (final) |
| Nextseason: | 1992–93 |
1992 Vyshcha Liha (Ukrainian: Чемпіонат серед команд вищої ліги) was the first football championship organized in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and officially recognized by the UEFA. The last Soviet season finished in fall of 1991.
The Football Federation of Ukraine when organizing the competition decided to shift its calendar to synchronize it with one common in Europe "fall-spring" and organized a short championship.
The first two games of the 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.
The league and its calendar were adopted at the FFU Executive Committee session on 10 September 1991 with the ongoing 1991 season of the All-Soviet football competitions. It was established that the new league will consist of 20 teams divided in two groups. Six clubs (last three from each group) were set to be relegated and replaced with 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.
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. The FFU president Viktor Bannikov was against to include the Ukrainian Cup winner into the top league.
There were opponents of organization of the championship among the most notable was FC Metalurh Zaporizhya. The FC Metalist Kharkiv was against with the condition if they would be relegated from the 1991 Soviet Top League. Also against the championship was Yevhen Kucherevskyi (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, one of few Ukrainian coaches who managed to win the Soviet Top League).
There were plenty of alternative proposition on the composition and the season's calendar among which from the president of Prykarpattia Anatoliy Revutskyi and the head coach of Temp Ishtvan Sekech.
The championship started on March 6, about a month later 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 has played the record of 26 games from February 18 through June 21 and the most among the other clubs in the League.
Note:
| width=18 | Rank | width=150 | Stadium | width=130 | Club | width=70 | Capacity | width=175 colspan=2 | 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 approximated
| Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment | Table | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FC Nyva Ternopil |  Mykhailo Dunets | Pre season | Leonid Koltun | Pre season | ||||
| FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | Yevhen Kucherevskyi | March 10, 1992 | 1st | Mykola Pavlov | March 10, 1992 | 1st | ||
| FC Nyva Vinnytsia | Vyacheslav Hrozny | March 28, 1992 | 10th | Valery Petrov | March 28, 1992 | 10th | ||
| FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | Ivan Krasnetskyi | April 1992 | 9th | Yuriy Shuliatytskyi | April 1992 | 9th |
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Notes:
Notes:
See main article: 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.
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 April 1992[4] | |||||
| 28 April 1992[5] | |||||
| 3 June 1992[6] | |||||
| Yuriy Hudymenko* | 9 June 1992[7] | ||||
| 17 June 1992[8] |
Notes:
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
| 1. SC Tavria Simferopol | ||
| < | ---->Goalkeepers: Oleh Kolesov (19 / -9), Dmitriy Gulenkov (1). Defenders: Mykola Turchynenko (19), Oleksandr Holovko (18), Ihor Volkov (17 / 1),  Vidmantas Vyšniauskas (15), Yuriy Getikov (14), Sefer Alibayev (9), Serhiy Voronezhsky (7), Dmitriy Smirnov (5).Midfielders: Andriy Oparin (19 / 1), Vladislav Novikov (18 / 1), Yuriy Mikhailus (2), Oleksandr Kundenok (2), Serhiy Yesin (1). Forwards: Sergei Gladyshev (19 / 6), Yuriy Hudymenko (18 / 12), Serhiy Shevchenko (18 / 8),  Sergey Andreev (15 / 2), Toliat Sheykhametov (7), Marat Mulashev (2).Manager: Anatoliy Zayayev. Transferred out during the season: Marat Mulashev (to Rubin Kazan), Oleksandr Kundenok (to Polissya Zhytomyr). | |
|---|---|---|
| 2. FC Dynamo Kyiv | ||
| < | ---->Goalkeepers: Valdemaras Martinkėnas (10 / -7), Ihor Kutepov (9 / -7). Defenders: Andriy Annenkov (17), Serhiy Zayets (15 / 1), Anatoliy Bezsmertny (14), Oleh Luzhnyi (13 / 2), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (9), Akhrik Tsveyba (9), Gintaras Kvitkauskas (6),  Ervand Sukiasian (5 / 2), Andrey Aleksanenkov (2).Midfielders: Volodymyr Sharan (19 / 2), Yuriy Moroz (19), Stepan Betsa (14 / 1), Pavlo Yakovenko (12 / 1), Oleh Volotek (11 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (12 / 1). Forwards: Oleh Salenko (16 / 7), Yuriy Hritsyna (13 / 7), Oleh Matveyev (10 / 1), Valeriy Yesipov (6), Viktor Leonenko (5 / 3). Manager: Anatoliy Puzach. Transferred out during the season: ?. | |
| 3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | ||
| < | ---->Goalkeepers: Valeriy Horodov (19 / -17), Mykola Medin. Defenders: Serhiy Diriavka (17), Volodymyr Horily (17), Volodymyr Bahmut (14 / 3), Serhiy Bezhenar (9 / 2), Serhiy Mamchur (9), Andriy Yudin (8). Midfielders: Andriy Polunin (17 / 2), Oleksandr Zakharov (17 / 2), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (16), Oleksiy Sasko (16), Yuriy Maksymov (14 / 3), Vadym Tyshchenko (13 / 2), Dmytro Mykhailenko (1), Oleksandr Omelchuk (1). Forwards: Valentyn Moskvin (19 / 3), Serhiy Konovalov (14 / 5), Serhiy Dumenko (7 / 4), Oleksandr Palianytsia (7 / 1), Vladimir Lebed (7 / 1), Oleksandr Tiehayev (2). Manager: Yevhen Kucherevsky (until March 15 (3 games)), Mykola Pavlov (since March 15 (15 games)). Transferred out during the season: Vladimir Lebed (to Krystal Kherson). |
Note: Players in italic are whose playing position is uncertain.