1994–95 Vyshcha Liha Explained

Competition:	Vyshcha Liha
Season:	1994–95
Winners:	Dynamo Kyiv 3rd title
Relegated:	Temp Shepetivka, Veres Rivne
Continentalcup1:	Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:	Dynamo Kyiv
Continentalcup2:	Cup Winners' Cup
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:	Shakhtar Donetsk
Continentalcup3:	UEFA Cup
Continentalcup3 Qualifiers:	Chornomorets Odesa
League Topscorer:	(21) Arsen Avakov (Torpedo)
Prevseason:	1993–94
Nextseason:	1995–96

The 1994–95 Vyshcha Liha season was the 4th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Teams

Promotions

• Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk, the champion of the 1993–94 Ukrainian First League – (returning after two seasons of absence)
• Evis Mykolaiv, the runner-up of the 1993–94 Ukrainian First League – (returning after two seasons of absence)

Renamed

• On 2 October 1994 Evis Mykolaiv changed its name to SC Mykolaiv.
• During the season, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia also carried the name Metalurh-Viktor Zaporizhzhia (after a local entrepreneur Viktor Oharenko).

Location

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced Coach	Home stadium
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Mykola Pavlov	Yozhef Sabo 17 games Volodymyr Onyschenko 5 games	Republican Stadium
FC Chornomorets Odesa	Leonid Buriak		Black Sea Shipping Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Bernd Stange	Mykola Pavlov 17 games Oleksandr Lysenko 6 games	Meteor Stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Vladimir Salkov	Valery Yaremchenko 17 games	Shakhtar Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Anatoliy Zayaev	Pavlo Kostin 10 games Andriy Cheremysin 7 games Vitaliy Shalychev 10 games	Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Yuriy Koval	Volodymyr Brukhtiy 4 games Anatoliy Bida 1 game Viktor Kuznetsov 17 games Valentyn Laktionov 3 games	Metalurh Stadium
FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	Ihor Nadein		AvtoZAZ Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv	Myron Markevych		Ukraina Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	Oleksandr Tomakh	Anatoliy Kuksov 7 games	Metalurh Stadium
FC Kremin Kremenchuk	Tiberiy Korponay	Evhen Rudakov 4 games	Dnipro Stadium
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Ihor Yurchenko		Elektron Stadium
FC Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Yavorskyi	Valeriy Dushkov 11 games	City Stadium
SC Mykolaiv	Yevhen Kucherevskyi	Valery Zhuravko 10 games Leonid Koltun 1 game	Central City Stadium
FC Nyva Vinnytsia	Serhiy Morozov	Oleksandr Bobaryko 22 games Yuriy Koval 2 games	Central City Stadium
FC Volyn Lutsk	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi	Roman Pokora 8 games	Avanhard Stadium
FC Zorya-MALS	Oleksandr Zhuravliov	Volodymyr Kobzarev 17 games Yuriy Sevastyanov 3 games Anatoliy Korshykov 3 games	Avanhard Stadium
FC Temp Shepetivka	Revaz Dzodzuashvili	Leonid Tkachenko 16 games Stanislav Bernykov 8 games	Temp Stadium
FC Veres Rivne	Mykhailo Fomenko	Vyacheslav Kobyletskyi 16 games Orest Bal 5 games Ivan Krasnetskyi(7 games)	Avanhard Stadium

Changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
FC Chornomorets Odesa	Viktor Prokopenko			pre-season	Leonid Buriak		pre-season
FC Nyva Ternopil	Leonid Buriak			pre-season	Valeriy Dushkov		pre-season
FC Nyva Vinnytsia	Yukhym Shkolnykov			pre-season	Oleksandr Bobaryko		pre-season
FC Kremin Kremenchuk	Yevhen Rudakov		July 1994		Tiberiy Korponay	1 August 1994
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Pavlo Kostin	Perished in car accident	end of September		Andriy Cheremysin (interim)	3 October 1994
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Andriy Cheremysin (interim)	Mutual consent	winter break		Vitaliy Shalychev	February 1995
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Vitaliy Shalychev		May 1995		Anatoliy Zayaev	May 1995

Notes:

• The new 1994-95 season SC Tavriya Simferopol under leadership of a coach Pavlo Kostin (native of Chornomorske Raion, Crimea). Sometime after the game against Volyn (Round 10) on 23 September 1994 in Simferopol, Kostin (43 years old) perished in a car accident along with his wife.^[1] According to some sources (footballfacts.ru), Kostin perished on 15 September 1994.^[2]

League table

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals (Pen.)
1	Arsen Avakov	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	21 (6)
2	Oleksiy Antyukhin	Tavriya Simferopol	18
3	Oleksandr Haidash	Tavriya Simferopol	17
	Victor Leonenko	Dynamo Kyiv	17 (1)
5	Ihor Petrov	Shakhtar Donetsk	14 (5)
6	Mikhail Potskhveria	Zorya / Metalurh	13
7	Timerlan Huseinov	Chornomorets Odesa	12
	Andrei Fedkov	Kremin Kremenchuk	12 (1)
9	Ruslan Zabranskyi	Mykolaiv	11 (1)
10	Ivan Korponay	Kremin Kremenchuk	10

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

align=center width=700	1. FC Dynamo Kyiv
align=left width=700	Goalkeepers: Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (25 / -15), Valeriy Vorobiov (7 / -8), Andriy Kovtun (3 / -1). Defenders: Vladyslav Vashchuk (31 / 3), Oleh Luzhnyi (24 / 4), Serhiy Lezhentsev (24), Andriy Khomyn (21 / 2), Yuriy Dmytrulin (17 / 1), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (14), Serhiy Bezhenar (13 / 1), Andriy Annenkov (3). Midfielders: Vitaliy Kosovsky (27 / 6), Dmytro Mykhailenko (25 / 5), Serhiy Mizin (20 / 5), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (17 / 3), Serhiy Kovalets (17 / 2), Yuriy Kalitvintsev (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (11 / 5), Volodymyr Sharan (11 / 2), Dmytro Topchiyev (2), Maksim Demenko (1), Vladyslav Prudius (1). Forwards: Serhii Rebrov (24 / 8), Pavlo Shkapenko (24 / 8), Viktor Leonenko (20 / 17), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 5), Andriy Shevchenko (17 / 1), Serhiy Skachenko (16 / 3), Oleksandr Pryzetko (13 / 1), Mikheil Jishkariani (8 / 3), Naser al-Sohi (1). Manager: Yozhef Sabo (first half), Volodymyr Onyshchenko, Mykola Pavlov (second half). Transferred out during the season: Oleksandr Pryzetko (to Dinamo-Gazovik), Maksim Demenko (to Lada Togliatti), Serhiy Kovalets (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Volodymyr Sharan (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Mikheil Jishkariani (to CSKA-Borysfen), Valeriy Vorobiov (to CSKA-Borysfen), Dmytro Topchiyev (to CSKA-Borysfen), Vladyslav Prudius (to CSKA-Borysfen).
align=center width=700	2. FC Chornomorets Odesa
align=left width=700	Goalkeepers: Oleh Suslov (34 / -27), Vadym Vinokurov (2 / -2). Defenders: Yuriy Bukel (29), Andriy Telesnenko (28 / 1), Vladislav Ternavsky (16 / 1), Yuriy Smotrych (10), Denys Kolchyn (8), Vitaliy Skysh (5), Oleksiy Cherednyk (3), Serhiy Bulyhin-Shramko (2). Midfielders: Dmytro Parfyonov (33 / 6), Ihor Zhabchenko (32 / 7), Yuriy Sak (23 / 5), Vitaliy Kolesnychenko (21 / 2), Andrei Gashkin (20 / 5), Oleksandr Spivak (19), Oleksandr Horshkov (18), Ihor Korniyets (16 / 1), Yuriy Seleznyov (13 / 2), Ruslan Romanchuk (12 / 2), Oleksandr Nikiforov (9), Oleksandr Zotov (8 / 3), Vyacheslav Yeremeyev (7), Viktor Yablonskyi (5 / 1), Vladyslav Zubkov (4), Viktor Bohatyr (3). Forwards: Tymerlan Huseinov (29 / 12), Volodymyr Musolitin (19 / 3), Vitaliy Parakhnevych (13 / 4), Vasyl Kardash (13 / 2), Oleh Mochulyak (8 / 2), Kostyantyn Kulyk (5 / 2). Manager: Leonid Buriak. Transferred out during the season: ?.
align=center width=700	3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
align=left width=700	Goalkeepers: Mykola Medin (19 / -13), Svyatoslav Syrota (16 / -17), Konstantin Ledovskikh (1 / -3). Defenders: Viktor Skrypnyk (31 / 8), Volodymyr Bahmut (30 / 1), Volodymyr Horily (25), Serhiy Diryavka (19), Serhiy Bezhenar (17 / 3), Dmytro Yakovenko (17), Oleksandr Chervonyi (7), Hennadiy Kozar (7), Yevhen Dmitriyev (6), Andriy Yudin (6), Oleksiy Kuptsov (3), Albert Shakhov (2), Serhiy Bilokin (1), Serhiy Zadorozhnyi (1). Midfielders: Andriy Polunin (31 / 7), Aleksandr Zakharov (25 / 1), Valentyn Moskvyn (17 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (15 / 3), Dmytro Topchiyev (15 / 3), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (15 / 2), Ihor Plotko (15 / 1), Volodymyr Sharan (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (13 / 4), Serhiy Dumenko (9 / 1), Serhiy Chornyi (3). Forwards: Borys Finkel (29 / 9), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 3), Oleksandr Palyanytsia (13 / 6), Oleh Taran (7 / 1), Andriy Kotyuk (6), Andreas Sassen (6), Serhiy Chuichenko (4). Manager: Mykola Pavlov (first half), Oleksandr Lysenko, Bernd Stange (second half). Transferred out during the season: Serhiy Bezhenar (to Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Konovalov (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yuriy Maksymov (to Dynamo Kyiv).

Note: Players in italic are whose playing position is uncertain.

External links

• Season record at Alexei Kobyzev website

Notes and References

1. Naukhatskiy, B. Memorial Cup of our countryman . Sports column, "Chernomorskie izvestiya". 28 September 2013
2. http://footballfacts.ru/staffs/483477-kostin-pavel-ivanovich Kostin