3rd season of top-tier football league in Vyshcha Liha
Football league season
1993–94 Vyshcha Liha was the third season of the Vyshcha Liha .
Last season the league champions Dynamo received a fierce competition from the Pavlov led Dnipro out of Dnipropetrovsk . The third season was promising to be even more exciting. Dynamo was going through some difficult times and before the start of the season, it was sold to Hryhoriy Surkis from Viktor Bezverkhyi .
The season started on August 8 with nine games of the first round. It finally was concluded on June 19. It was anticipated that at least four clubs would be really competing for the top title. At the end, it turned out the other way around. Dnipro has remarkably given up its positions, losing almost ten games. Chornomorets also did not pose any resistance to neither Dynamo or Shakhtar. However, the biggest surprise was the relegation of Metalist Kharkiv which won only six games. Metalurh Zaporizhzhia barely escaped relegation, partially due to their excellent game in Kharkiv where they manage to thrash the local Metalist 3:0. Three rounds before the end Dynamo was recognized as the champions. There was one technical loss (-:+) that was awarded again to SC Tavriya Simferopol when it was hosting FC Volyn Lutsk in the 32nd round on June 11, 1994, for fielding a suspended player Dzyubenko.
Preseason changes
The league was expanded to 18 teams including the same 16 from the past season.
Teams
Location
Locations of teams home grounds in
Ukrainian Premier League 1993-94
Rank
Stadium
Place
Club
Capacity
Notes
1
Respublikansky Stadion
Kyiv
Dynamo Kyiv
100,062
2
Tsentralnyi Stadion BSS
Odesa
Chornomorets Odesa
43,000
3
Avanhard
Luhansk
Zorya-MALS Luhansk
32,243
4
Metalist
Kharkiv
Metalist Kharkiv
32,000
5
Tsentralnyi Stadion "Shakhtar" Stadion Rudupravlinnia
Donetsk Komsomolske
Shakhtar Donetsk
31,545 ?
6
Meteor
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
30,000
7
Metalurh UGOK Stadion
Kryvyi Rih
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
29,783 ?
8
Ukraina
Lviv
Karpaty Lviv
28,051
9
Lokomotyv
Simferopol
Tavriya Simferopol
26,000
10
Avanhard
Rivne
Veres Rivne
25,000
11
Metalurh
Zaporizhzhia
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
25,000
12
Lokomotyv
Vinnytsia
Nyva Vinnytsia
24,000
13
Miskyi Stadion
Ternopil
Nyva Ternopil
17,000
14
CJSC ZAZ Stadion
Zaporizhzhia
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia
15,000
15
Bukovyna
Chernivtsi
Bukovyna Chernivtsi
12,000
16
Dnipro
Kremenchuk
Kremin Kremenchuk
11,300
17
Avanhard
Lutsk
Volyn Lutsk
10,792
18
Temp
Shepetivka
Temp Shepetivka
8,000
Notes:
Managers
League table
Source:
uafootball.net.ua Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference
(C) Champions;
(R) Relegated
Notes:
^ a b Participant of the 1994 Ukrainian Cup Final
Results
Source:
uafootball.net.ua Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top goalscorers
Medal squads
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
1. FC Dynamo Kyiv
Goalkeepers: Andriy Kovtun (14 / -6), Ihor Kutepov (11 / -9), Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (9 / -6).
Defenders: Oleh Luzhnyi (34 / 1), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (27), Vladyslav Vashchuk (24), Vitaliy Ponomarenko (19), Andriy Khomyn (17 / 1), Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi (8), Serhiy Fedorov (1).
Midfielders: Dmytro Topchiyev (32 / 3), Serhiy Mizin (28 / 6), Serhiy Kovalets (28 / 2), Volodymyr Sharan (19 / 4), Andriy Anenkov (13 / 1), Vladyslav Prudius (13 / 1), Maksim Demenko (12), Vyacheslav Khruslov (10 / 1), Yuri Hrytsyna (10), Andriy Zavyalov (9 / 2).
Forwards: Oleksandr Pryzetko (33 / 7), Pavlo Shkapenko (31 / 12), Viktor Leonenko (24 / 15), Mikheil Jishkariani (13 / 1), Vitaliy Mintenko (12 / 2), Serhii Rebrov (10 / 2).
Manager: Mykhailo Fomenko (first half), Yozhef Sabo (second half).
Transferred out during the season: ?.
2. FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Goalkeepers: Dmytro Shutkov (29 / -28), Andriy Kurayev (3 / -3), Volodymyr Havrylov (2 / -1).
Defenders: Viktor Smyhunov (30 / 1), Ihor Leonov (29 / 1), Oleksandr Koval (28), Andriy Kuptsov (24), Oleksandr Melyevanov (7), Ruslan Uzakov (3), Pavlo Filipenko (2).
Midfielders: Serhiy Onopko (33 / 12), Serhiy Yashchenko (33), Hennadiy Orbu (32 / 2), Valeriy Kriventsov (29 / 8), Yuri Byelichenko (29 / 5), Serhiy Popov (28 / 3), Ihor Stolovytsky (22 / 1), Ihor Shcherbyna (6), Serhiy Kovalyov (2).
Forwards: Oleh Matveyev (27 / 17), Serhiy Atelkin (27 / 11), Oleksandr Voskoboinyk (24 / 3).
Manager: Valeriy Yaremchenko .
Transferred out during the season: Ihor Shcherbyna (to Zirka Kirovohrad ) , Ruslan Uzakov (to Shakhter Shakhty ) .
3. FC Chornomorets Odesa
Goalkeepers: Oleh Suslov (34 / -23), Yevhen Nemodruk (2).
Defenders: Yuriy Bukel (32), Andriy Telesnenko (22 / 1), Viktor Yablonskyi (17), Serhiy Bulyhin-Shramko (16), Yuriy Smotrych (15), Vitaliy Skysh (10).
Midfielders: Ihor Zhabchenko (32 / 5), Dmytro Parfyonov (32 / 3), Viktor Bohatyr (29 / 3), Ruslan Romanchuk (28 / 1), Ihor Korniyets (28), Vyacheslav Yeremeyev (20 / 5), Yuriy Sak (16), Oleksandr Bondarenko (11), Oleh Koshelyuk (11).
Forwards: Tymerlan Huseinov (33 / 18), Kostyantyn Kulyk (28 / 4), Vitaliy Parakhnevych (24 / 8), Vladimir Lebed (10 / 2).
Manager: Viktor Prokopenko .
Transferred out during the season: Yuriy Sak (to Spartak Moscow ) , Oleksandr Bondarenko (to BVSC Budapest ) , Oleh Koshelyuk (to Beitar Jerusalem ) , Vladimir Lebed (to Krystal Kherson ) .
Note : Players in italic are whose playing position is uncertain.
See also
References
External links
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