2001–02 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha
Season 2001–02
Champions Shakhtar Donetsk
Relegated Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
Champions League Dynamo Kyiv
Shakhtar Donetsk
UEFA Cup Metalurh Donetsk
Metalurh Zaporizhia
Top goalscorer (12) Serhiy Shyschenko (Metalurh Donetsk)
Biggest home win Dynamo - Metalist 6:0
Biggest away win Kryvbas - Dynamo 0:7
Highest scoring Zakarpattia - Metalist 3:5
Polihraftekhnika - Dnipro 2:6

Final standings

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
Head-to-head
1 Shakhtar Donetsk (C) 26 20 6 0 49 10+39 66 2002–03 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2 FC Dynamo Kyiv 26 20 5 1 62 9+53 65 2002–03 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3 Metalurh Donetsk 26 12 6 8 38 28+10 42 2002–03 UEFA CupFirst round
4 Metalurh Zaporizhya 26 11 7 8 25 22+3 40 2002–03 UEFA Cup Qualifying round 1 MZA: 7 pts
MET: 9 pts
DNI: 1 pts
5 Metalist Kharkiv 26 11 7 8 35 361 40
6 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 26 11 7 8 30 20+10 40
7 Tavriya Simferopol 26 8 6 12 27 369 30
8 Karpaty Lviv 26 7 8 11 19 3112 29
9 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 26 6 10 10 28 4012 28
10 Illichivets Mariupol 26 6 8 12 29 4213 26
11 Vorskla Poltava 26 6 7 13 19 3314 25
12 Arsenal Kyiv 26 6 5 15 18 2810 23 ARK 2–0 POL
POL 1–0 ARK
13 Polihraftekhnika 26 5 8 13 21 3918 23 Qualification to Relegation Playoffs
14 Zakarpattia Uzhhorod (R) 26 5 6 15 23 4926 21 Relegation to Ukrainian First League

Source: Football Federation of Ukraine
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored away; 4th overall wins; 5th goal difference; 6th goals scored [1]
1Metalurh Zaporizhia obtained the uncontested European competitions berth (both Shakhtar and Dynamo were participants of the 2002 Ukrainian Cup Final) after it was awarded the 4th place on the decision the Executive Committee of Football Federation of Ukraine.[2][3] According to the Metalist head coach Mykhailo Fomenko, the club's leadership did not contested the decision as it was afraid for obligation to invest more funds in the club, plus the home stadium had to be reconstructed.[4]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

European qualifications case

Due to the fact that both finalists of the 2002 Ukrainian Cup Final Dynamo and Shakhtar qualified for the UEFA Champions League, the forth European competition berth was to be awarded to the best fourth placed team in the league competition. The fourth place with 40 points earned was Metalist Kharkiv, however there were two more teams with the same amount of points Metalurh Zaporizhia and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. According to the 2001-02 season regulations the first tie breaker in case of even points were the head-to-head points among the teams that tied. Therefore originally Metalist Kharkiv was the main contender to qualify for the European competitions. However, the administration of FC Metalurh Zaporizhia argued the fact that their team head better head-to-head record with both Metalist Kharkiv (2 1-0-1 2-2 with an away goal) and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2 1-0-1 2-1). On 16 June 2002 the FFU Executive Committee came up with its final decision awarding Metalurh Zaporizhia with qualification to European competitions.

Top goalscorers

Ukraine Serhiy Shyschenko Metalurh Donetsk 12 (2)
Ukraine Vitaliy Pushkutsa Metalist Kharkiv 11 (1)
Ukraine Olexandr Melashchenko Dynamo Kyiv 9
Ukraine Andriy Vorobei Shakhtar Donetsk 9
Belarus Valentin Belkevich Dynamo Kyiv 9(1)
Romania Florin Cernat Dynamo Kyiv 9 (1)
Georgia (country) Vasyl Gigiadze Tavriya Simferopol 9 (7)
Ukraine Igor Prodan Zakarpattia Uzhhorod 8
Ukraine Serhiy Chuychenko Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya 8(3)
Ukraine Hennady Zubov Shakhtar Donetsk 8 (4)

Managers

Club Coach Replaced coach Home stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk Italy Nevio Scala Ukraine Viktor Prokopenko Shakhtar Stadium
FC Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Oleksiy Mykhailychenko Ukraine Valery Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium
FC Metalurh Donetsk Ukraine Semen Altman Metalurh Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia Ukraine Oleh Taran Ukraine Volodymyr Atamanyuk Metalurh Stadium
AvtoZAZ Stadium
FC Metalist Kharkiv Ukraine Mykhailo Fomenko Metalist Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine Yevhen Kucherevsky Ukraine Mykola Fedorenko Meteor Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol Ukraine Anatoliy Zayayev Ukraine Valeriy Petrov Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv Ukraine Lev Brovarskyi Ukraine Myron Markevych Ukraina Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Ihor Nadein Ukraine Hennadiy Lytovchenko Metalurh Stadium
FC Metalurh Mariupol Ukraine Mykola Pavlov Illichivets Stadium
FC Vorskla Poltava Ukraine Andriy Bal Vorskla Stadium
FC Arsenal Kyiv Ukraine Oleh Kuznetsov (co-coach Ukraine Volodymyr Bezsonov) CKS ZSU Stadium
FC Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya Ukraine Roman Pokora Nika Stadium
FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod Ukraine Yuriy Kalitvintsev Avanhard Stadium

Relegation Playoff

June 16, 2002
Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya 1 – 0
Polissia Zhytomyr
Babych  45+2'
Martynenko Yellow cardRed card 30', 78'
Report
CSK ZSU Stadium, Kiev
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Shebek (Kiev)

See also

References

  1. Regulation of the All-Ukrainian competitions in football among professional teams in 2001/02
  2. Committee on communication with public and media of FFU (18 June 2002). Рішення виконавчого комітету Федерації футболу України [Decision of the Executive Committee of Football Federation of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Football Federation of Ukraine. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  3. Committee on communication with public and media of FFU (17 June 2002). Офіційний прес-реліз Федерації футболу України [Official press release of the Football Federation of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Football Federation of Ukraine. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  4. Verbytsky, I. Mykhailo Fomenko: To head the national football team I could have already at the end of 1990s. I refused as I thought that it is not time yet. UA-Football. 17 December 2015

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