1999–2000 Vyshcha Liha Explained

The 1999–2000 Vyshcha Liha season was the 9th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Teams

Chornomorets Odesa, the runners-up of the 1998–99 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of a season)

Note: the 1998–99 Ukrainian First League was won by the second team of Dynamo Kyiv, FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv, which could not be promoted. The third placed team FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia was originally also had to be promoted, but due to its financial situation it filed for bankruptcy. Because of the situation with Torpedo, the Professional Football League of Ukraine scheduled a playoff game which was won by Prykarpattia.

Club	Coach	Replaced coach	Home stadium
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Valery Lobanovsky		Dynamo Stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Viktor Prokopenko	Anatoliy Byshovets 8 games Oleksiy Drozdenko 6 games	Shakhtar Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleh Taran		Metalurh Stadium
FC Vorskla Poltava	Anatoliy Konkov		Vorskla Stadium
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Mykhailo Fomenko		Metalist Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	Myron Markevych		Metalurh Stadium
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Semen Altman	Mykhailo Sokolovskyi 5 games	Donetsk Metallurgical Factory Stadium
FC Metalurh Mariupol	Mykola Pavlov		Azovets Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv	Lev Brovarskyi		SKA Stadium Ukraina Stadium
FC CSKA Kyiv	Volodymyr Bezsonov		Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex CSK ZSU Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Mykola Fedorenko	Leonid Koltun 2 games	Meteor Stadium
FC Nyva Ternopil	Valeriy Bohuslavskyi		City Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Volodymyr Muntian	Anatoliy Korobochka the first half	Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Serhiy Morozov	Ihor Yavorskyi 12 games Anatoliy Boyko 2 games	Rukh Stadium
FC Chornomorets Odesa	Anatoliy Azarenkov	Oleksandr Holokolosov 7 games Valeriy Melnyk 2 games	Black Sea Shipping Stadium
FC Zirka Kirovohrad	Yuriy Koval	Oleksandr Ischenko 5 games	Zirka Stadium

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
FC Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Yurchenko			pre-season	Valeriy Bohuslavsky		pre-season
FC Karpaty Lviv	Stepan Yurchyshyn			pre-season	Lev Brovarsky		pre-season

Maksim Shatskikh	Dynamo Kyiv	20 (1)
Ivan Hetsko	Karpaty Lviv / Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	19 (1) (10 goals for Karpaty Lviv)
Serhii Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv	18 (6)
Andriy Vorobei	Shakhtar Donetsk	15 (1)
Kostyantyn Babych	Metalurh Mariupol	12
Avtandil Kapanadze	Nyva Ternopil	12
Hennady Zubov	Shakhtar Donetsk	12 (4)
Oleksandr Haidash	Tavriya Simferopol / Metalurh Mariupol	10
Volodymyr Maziar	Vorskla Poltava	10
Viktor Ivanenko	Metalist Kharkiv	10 (3)
Hennadiy Moroz	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	10 (6)