2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League

Ukrainian Premier League

Season	2010–11
Champions	Shakhtar Donetsk
Relegated	Metalurh Zaporizhya Sevastopol
Champions League	Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv
Europa League	Metalist Kharkiv Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Karpaty Lviv Vorskla Poltava
Matches played	240
Goals scored	609 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	17 – Yevhen Seleznyov (Dnipro)
Biggest home win	Dynamo 9–0 Illichivets (Round 15)
Biggest away win	Volyn 0–4 Vorskla (Round 1) Illichivets 1–5 Dnipro (Round 3) Illichivets 2–6 Vorskla (Round 17) Metalurh Zap. 0–4 Illichivets (Round 20) Metalurh Don. 1–5 Arsenal (Round 27)
Highest scoring	Dynamo 9–0 Illichivets (Round 15)
Longest winning run	11 – Shakhtar (Round 10–20)[1]
Longest unbeaten run	11 – Shakhtar (Round 10–20)[1]
Longest losing run	7 – Metalurh Zap. (Round 6–12)[1]
Highest attendance	50,390 Shakhtar – Dynamo (Round 12)
Lowest attendance	500 Zorya – Obolon (Round 22)
Average attendance	9228[2]
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 20th since its establishment and third since its reorganization. Shakhtar Donetsk were the defending champions, having won their 5th league title. A total of sixteen teams participated in the competition, fourteen of them contested the 2009–10 season while the remaining two were promoted from the Ukrainian First League.

The competition began on 9 July 2010 with four games. After the 19th Round the competition was suspended for the winter break and resumed on 3 March 2011.^[1]

On 6 May 2011 Shakhtar Donetsk retained the championship with a 2–0 derby victory over the rivals Metalurh Donetsk.^[3]

The top 5 teams were exactly the same as the previous season.

Changes from previous season

Team changes

Chornomorets Odesa and Zakarpattia Uzhhorod were relegated to Ukrainian First League after the 2009–10 season for finishing in 15th and 16th respectively. They are replaced by Ukrainian First League 2009-10 champions and runners-up: PFC Sevastopol and Volyn Lutsk. Volyn returned the top flight after 4 years while PFC Sevastapol debuts in the Premier League.

Managers and captains

Club	Coach	Captain	Replaced coach(es)
FC Arsenal Kyiv	Yuriy Bakalov	Vitaliy Reva
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Juande Ramos	Andriy Rusol	Vadym Tyschenko (interim) Volodymyr Bezsonov
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Yuri Semin	Oleksandr Shovkovskiy	Oleh Luzhny (interim) Valery Gazzayev
FC Illichivets Mariupol	Valeriy Yaremchenko	Adrian Pukanych	Ilya Bliznyuk Oleksandr Volkov (interim)
FC Karpaty Lviv	Oleg Kononov	Andriy Tlumak
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Yuriy Maksymov	Oleksandr Maksymov
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Myron Markevych	Oleksandr Horyainov
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	Vyacheslav Checher	Nikolay Kostov Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim) Andrei Gordeyev
FC Metalurh Zaporizhya	Hryhoriy Nehiryev (interim)	Junior Godoi	Roman Hryhorchuk Oleh Lutkov
FC Obolon Kyiv	Serhiy Kovalets	Valentyn Slyusar
PFC Sevastopol	Angel Chervenkov	Serhiy Ferenchak	Oleh Leschynskyi Serhiy Shevchenko Oleh Leschynskyi (interim)
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Mircea Lucescu	Darijo Srna
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Oleksandr Shudryk (interim)	Slobodan Marković	Serhiy Puchkov Valeriy Petrov (interim)
FC Volyn Lutsk	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi	Oleksandr Pyschur
FC Vorskla Poltava	Mykola Pavlov	Serhiy Dolhansky
FC Zorya Luhansk	Anatoly Chantsev	Volodymyr Yezerskiy

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
Metalurh Zaporizhya	Roman Hryhorchuk[4]	End of contract	May 10	pre-season	Oleh Lutkov	May 27
PFC Sevastopol	Oleh Leschynskyi[5]	Dismissed	June 19	pre-season	Serhiy Shevchenko	June 19	pre-season
PFC Sevastopol	Serhiy Shevchenko[6]	Dismissed	September 12	15th place	Oleh Leschynskyi (interim)	September 12	15th place
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Volodymyr Bezsonov[7]	Resigned	September 18	3rd place	Vadym Tyschenko (interim)	September 18	3rd place
Tavriya Simferopol	Serhiy Puchkov[8]	Dismissed	September 22	12th place	Valeriy Petrov (interim)	September 22	12th place
Dynamo Kyiv	Valeriy Gazzayev[9]	Resigns	October 1	2nd place	Oleh Luzhny (interim)[10]	October 1	2nd place
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Vadym Tyschenko (interim)[11]	Interim position	October 1	3rd place	Juande Ramos	October 1	3rd place
Illichivets Mariupol	Ilya Bliznyuk[12]	Resigned	November 1	15th place	Oleksandr Volkov (interim)	November 1	15th place
Metalurh Donetsk	Nikolay Kostov[13]	Resigned	November 12	10th place	Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	November 12	10th place
Illichivets Mariupol	Oleksandr Volkov (interim)	End as interim	November 26	14th place	Valeriy Yaremchenko[14]	November 26	14th place
PFC Sevastopol	Oleh Leschynskyi (interim)	End as interim	December 21	15th place	Angel Chervenkov[15]	December 21	15th place
Dynamo Kyiv	Oleh Luzhny (interim)	End as interim	December 24	2nd place	Yuri Semin[16]	December 24	2nd place
Metalurh Donetsk	Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	End as interim	January 12	10th place	Andrei Gordeyev[17]	January 12	10th place
Metalurh Donetsk	Andrei Gordeyev[18]	Sacked	May 3	11th place	Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	May 3	11th place
Metalurh Zaporizhya	Oleh Lutkov	Sacked	May 4	16th place	Hryhoriy Nehiryev (interim)	May 4	16th place
Tavriya Simferopol	Valeriy Petrov (interim)[19]	Sacked	May 8	10th place	Oleksandr Shudryk (interim)	May 8	10th place

Stadia

Location map

Dynamo
Obolon

Arsenal

Dnipro

Illichivets

Karpaty

Sevastopol

Metalist

Volyn

Kryvbas

Metalurh D.
Shakhtar

Metalurh Za.

Tavriya

Vorskla

Zorya

Locations of team home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 2010–11

Stadia

The following stadia were used during the season.

Rank	Stadium	Club	Capacity	Highest Attendance		Notes
1	Donbass Arena	Shakhtar Donetsk	52,518	50,390	Round 12 (Dynamo)
2	OSK Metalist	Metalist Kharkiv	41,411	38,600	Round 3 (Dynamo)
3	Dnipro Arena	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	31,003	31,003	Round 15 (Shakhtar) Round 22 (Dynamo)
4	Metalurh Stadium	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	29,783	10,000	Round 8 (Dynamo)
5	Ukraina Stadium	Karpaty Lviv	28,051	27,500	Round 28 (Dynamo)
6	RSK Olimpiyskiy	Metalurh Donetsk	25,831	6,000	Round 20 (Dynamo)	Used as home ground in Round 20[20] and 21
		Zorya Luhansk		650	Round 26 (Metalurh Donetsk)	Used as home ground in Round 26[21]
7	Vorskla Stadium	Vorskla Poltava	25,000	15,000	Round 6 (Dynamo)
8	Avanhard Stadium	Zorya Luhansk	22,320	19,000	Round 18 (Shakhtar)
9	Lokomotiv Stadium	Tavriya Simferopol	19,978	16,300	Round 25 (Shakhtar)
		PFC Sevastopol		12,000	Round 4 (Dynamo)	Used by Sevastopol as home ground for the season[22]
10	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium	Dynamo Kyiv	16,873	15,000	Round 27 (Shakhtar)
		Arsenal Kyiv		4,200	Round 26 (Dynamo)	PL moved the Kyiv Derby game to Dynamo Stadium to accommodate a much larger crowd[23]
11	Illichivets Stadium	Illichivets Mariupol	12,680	8,500	Round 21 (Zorya)
12	Avanhard Stadium	Volyn Lutsk	12,080	11,520	Round 7 (Shakhtar)
13	Slavutych Arena	Metalurh Zaporizhya	11,983	8,500	Round 2 (Shakhtar)
14	Dynamo Stadium (Kharkiv)	Metalist Kharkiv	9,000	6,516	Round 27 (Karpaty)	Used as home ground in Round 27[24] and Round 29 as the main stadium had the turf and drainage system replaced.[25]
15	Stal Stadium, Alchevsk	Zorya Luhansk	8,632	4,500	Round 28 (Dnipro)	Used as home ground in Round 28[26]
16	Metalurh Stadium	Metalurh Donetsk	5,300	5,000	Round 13 (Shakhtar)
17	Obolon Stadium	Obolon Kyiv	5,100	5,100	Round 1 (Dynamo)
18	Bannikov Stadium	Arsenal Kyiv	1,678	1,480	Round 30 (Kryvbas)	Lent from FFU for home games in first half of season[27][28]

Attendance

The total attendance for the season was 2,214,833.^[2] The most watched team was Shakhtar Donetsk with 722,231 spectators.^[2] The least watched team was Arsenal Kyiv with 153,339 spectators.^[2]

Qualification to European competitions for 2011–12

• Since Ukraine finished in seventh place of the UEFA country ranking after the 2009–10 season,^[29] the league will have the same number of qualifiers for UEFA Europa League 2011–12. The Ukrainian Cup winner qualifies for the play-off round.

Qualified Teams

• After the 22nd Round, Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for European football for the 2011–12 season.^[30]
• After the 25th Round, both Dynamo Kyiv and Metalist Kharkiv qualified for European football for the 2011–12 season.^[31]
• After the 26th Round, Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Champions League.^[32]
• After the 26th Round, both Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Karpaty Lviv qualified for European football for the 2011–12 season.^[32]
• After the 27th Round, Karpaty Lviv qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.^[33]

• After the 28th Round, Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Group stage (C) and Dynamo Kyiv qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round.^[3]
• After the 28th Round, both Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Metalist Kharkiv qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.^[3]
• After the results of the semi-finals of the Ukrainian Cup, Metalist Kharkiv enters the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League in the Play-off round.^[34]

• After the 29th Round, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk enters the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League in the Play-off round and Karpaty Lviv enters in the Third qualifying round.^[35]
• After the 30th Round, Vorskla Poltava qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League and enters Second qualifying round. 

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shakhtar Donetsk (C)	30	23	3	4	53	16	+37	72	2011–12 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	FC Dynamo Kyiv	30	20	5	5	60	24	+36	65	2011–12 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	Metalist Kharkiv	30	18	6	6	58	26	+32	60	2011–12 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
4	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	16	9	5	45	19	+26	57
5	Karpaty Lviv	30	13	9	8	41	34	+7	48	2011–12 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
6	Vorskla Poltava	30	10	9	11	37	32	+5	39	2011–12 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
7	Tavriya Simferopol	30	10	9	11	44	46	−2	39
8	Metalurh Donetsk	30	11	5	14	36	45	−9	38
9	Arsenal Kyiv	30	10	7	13	36	38	−2	37
10	Obolon Kyiv	30	9	7	14	26	38	−12	34
11	Volyn Lutsk	30	9	7	14	27	49	−22	34
12	Zorya Luhansk	30	7	9	14	28	40	−12	30
13	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	30	6	11	13	27	45	−18	29
14	Illichivets Mariupol	30	7	8	15	45	67	−22	29
15	Sevastopol (R)	30	7	6	17	26	48	−22	27	Relegation to 2011–12 Ukrainian First League
16	Metalurh Zaporizhya (R)	30	6	6	18	18	40	−22	24

Updated to games played on 21 May 2011.
Source: Premier League website (Ukrainian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th fair play
(C) = Champions; (R) = Relegated

Note:

• Since the 2011 Ukrainian Cup Final was between 2 teams that had already qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League (Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv) the 6th placed team (Vorskla Poltava) qualified for the UEFA Europa League 2011–12.

Results

Home ╲ Away

ARK

DNI

DYN

ILL

KAR

KRY

MET

MDO

MZA

OBO

SEV

SHA

TAV

VOL

VOR

ZOR

Arsenal Kyiv

1–2

0–3

3–1

2–2

1–0

0–1

3–1

1–0

1–0

0–1

1–3

3–1

1–1

0–1

1–1

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

1–0

1–0

2–0

1–0

1–1

0–1

1–2

3–0

3–0

2–2

0–1

2–2

2–0

2–0

1–1

FC Dynamo Kyiv

3–2

0–0

9–0^2

1–0

3–0

1–1

1–0

2–0

0–2

2–0

3–0

2–1

5–1

2–0

2–0

Illichivets Mariupol

2–2

1–5

3–2

2–3

1–1

1–4

1–1

0–0

1–0

4–2

1–3

5–1

2–2

2–6

2–2

Karpaty Lviv

2–1

0–0

1–2

3–1

2–1

0–1

2–1

1–0

3–0

2–1

1–0

1–0

1–0

2–2

4–2

Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih

1–1

0–3

0–1

1–0

0–0

0–0

1–0

0–0

2–2

3–1

0–2

1–4

2–4

1–0

0–2

Metalist Kharkiv

2–1

2–2

1–2

3–0

1–1

3–4

3–1

3–0

2–1

4–0

1–2

2–3

3–1

2–3

3–0

Metalurh Donetsk

1–5

3–2

0–2

0–3

4–1

2–2

0–3

0–1

3–0

1–0

0–2

2–1

0–2

2–0

1–1

Metalurh Zaporizhya

2–1

0–3

1–1

0–4

0–0

1–2

0–2

1–2

1–2

1–0

1–1

2–2

0–1

2–0

1–0

Obolon Kyiv

1–1

0–1

2–2

2–0

1–1

1–1

0–2

1–1

1–0

2–2

1–0

2–1

0–1

0–1

1–0

Sevastopol

0–2

2–1

0–3

1–0

3–1

2–2

0–0

0–1

1–0

3–1

0–1

0–1

4–1

0–0

0–1

Shakhtar Donetsk

4–0

0–0

2–0

1–0

1–0

2–0

2–1

2–0

2–1

0–1

5–0

4–1

4–0

1–0

1–0

Tavriya Simferopol

0–1

0–1

1–1

2–2

3–1

2–1

0–1

2–1

2–0

3–1

2–1

1–2

0–0

2–2

0–0

Volyn Lutsk

0–0

1–1

1–2

3–1

0–3

0–0

1–4

1–3

1–0

1–0

1–0

0–1

2–2

0–4

0–1

Vorskla Poltava

0–1

0–2

3–1

1–3

1–1

3–0

0–0

1–1

2–1

0–1

4–0

1–1

0–0

0–1

1–0

Zorya Luhansk

0–2

0–1

1–2

2–2

2–2

1–0

0–2

0–2

0–2

1–0

0–0

1–3

5–3

3–0

1–1

Updated to games played on 21 May 2011.
Source: Premier League website (Ukrainian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Notes:

• ² Highest victory score in Ukrainian Premier League history (October 31, 2010) surpassing the record established by Shakhtar Donetsk against FC Torpedo Zaporizhya (9–1) on May 16, 1997.^[36]

Round by Round

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Shakhtar Donetsk	2	5	2	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
FC Dynamo Kyiv	7	6	3	2	3	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Metalist Kharkiv	3	7	8	5	6	5	7	6	5	5	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	4	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Karpaty Lviv	13	11	9	7	5	6	5	5	4	3	4	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Vorskla Poltava	1	8	4	4	4	3	4	4	6	7	7	6	7	7	7	9	6	8	8	8	11	12	10	11	7	9	6	6	6	6
Tavriya Simferopol	12	15	11	11	13	7	6	9	10	12	11	11	10	10	8	6	7	9	9	9	7	8	7	6	6	7	10	10	7	7
Metalurh Donetsk	8	3	7	10	12	8	8	7	7	6	6	7	8	8	9	11	11	10	10	12	10	11	8	9	11	8	11	11	8	8
Arsenal Kyiv	5	2	5	6	7	9	10	8	8	8	8	8	5	6	6	7	8	6	7	7	8	6	6	7	8	10	7	7	9	9
Obolon Kyiv	6	14	15	16	16	13	11	12	9	11	12	14	14	13	13	12	12	11	11	10	9	10	12	8	9	11	8	8	10	10
Volyn Lutsk	16	16	16	13	14	14	14	15	13	10	10	10	11	12	10	8	9	7	6	6	6	7	9	10	10	6	9	9	11	11
Zorya Luhansk	11	13	14	14	9	10	13	10	12	13	14	13	13	11	12	10	10	12	12	11	12	9	11	12	12	12	12	13	12	12
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	15	12	12	8	8	12	9	11	11	9	9	9	9	9	11	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	13	13	14	13	12	13	13
Illichivets Mariupol	9	4	10	12	10	11	12	13	14	15	13	12	12	14	15	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	14	14	15	15	15	15	14
Sevastopol	10	9	6	9	11	15	15	14	15	14	15	15	15	15	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	13	14	14	14	15
Metalurh Zaporizhya	14	10	13	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

Last updated: 21 May 2011
Source: Dynamo Kyiv's Official Site (Ukrainian)

Top goalscorers

The top ten goalscorers during the season.^[37]

#	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	Yevhen Seleznyov	17	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2	Marko Devych	14 (3)	Metalist Kharkiv
3	Lucky Idahor	13 (1)	Tavriya Simferopol
4	Denys Oliynyk	12	Metalist Kharkiv
5	Andriy Yarmolenko	11	Dynamo Kyiv
6	Oleksiy Antonov	10	Illichivets Mariupol
	Vasyl Sachko	10	Vorskla Poltava
	Luiz Adriano	10 (1)	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Andriy Shevchenko	10 (2)	Dynamo Kyiv
	Konstantyn Yaroshenko	10 (2)	Illichivets Mariupol

Awards

Award	Founder	Laureate
Ukrainian Footballer of the Year	newspaper Ukrainian Football	Andriy Voronin
Footballer of the Premier-Liha	newspaper Komanda	Andriy Yarmolenko
Event of the Season	ua-football.com	Shakhtar in Q-finals of Champions League
Discovery of the Season	ua-football.com	José Sosa
Top Young Footballer	ua-football.com	Roman Bezus
Team of the Season	ua-football.com	Metalist Kharkiv
Top Ukrainian Footballer	ua-football.com	Oleh Husyev
Top Legionnaire	ua-football.com	Willian da Silva
Top Coach	ua-football.com	Myron Markevych

See also

• 2010–11 Ukrainian First League
• 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League Reserves
• 2010–11 Ukrainian Second League
• 2010–11 Ukrainian Cup
• UEFA Europa League 2010–11

Transfers

• Transfer window regulations for the Ukrainian championship is unclear
• List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2010
• List of Ukrainian football transfers winter 2010–2011

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