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 15 Dnipro (Round 3)
Illichivets 26 Vorskla (Round 17)
Metalurh Zap. 0–4 Illichivets (Round 20)
Metalurh Don. 15 Arsenal (Round 27)
Highest scoring Dynamo 9–0 Illichivets (Round 15)
Longest winning run 11 – Shakhtar (Round 1020)[1]
Longest unbeaten run 11 – Shakhtar (Round 1020)[1]
Longest losing run 7 – Metalurh Zap. (Round 612)[1]
Highest attendance 50,390 ShakhtarDynamo (Round 12)
Lowest attendance 500 ZoryaObolon (Round 22)
Average attendance 9228[2]

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 20 derby victory over rivals Metalurh Donetsk.[3]

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

Teams

Location map

Managers and captains

Club Coach Captain Replaced coach(es)
Arsenal KyivUkraine Yuriy BakalovUkraine Vitaliy Reva
Dnipro DnipropetrovskSpain Juande RamosUkraine Andriy RusolUkraine Vadym Tyschenko (interim)
Ukraine Volodymyr Bezsonov
Dynamo KyivRussia Yuri SeminUkraine Oleksandr ShovkovskiyUkraine Oleh Luzhny (interim)
Russia Valery Gazzayev
Illichivets MariupolUkraine Valeriy YaremchenkoUkraine Adrian PukanychUkraine Ilya Bliznyuk
Ukraine Oleksandr Volkov (interim)
Karpaty LvivBelarus Oleg KononovUkraine Andriy Tlumak
Kryvbas Kryvyi RihUkraine Yuriy MaksymovUkraine Oleksandr Maksymov
Metalist KharkivUkraine Myron MarkevychUkraine Oleksandr Horyainov
Metalurh DonetskUkraine Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)Ukraine Vyacheslav ChecherBulgaria Nikolay Kostov
Ukraine Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)
Russia Andrei Gordeyev
Metalurh ZaporizhyaUkraine Hryhoriy Nehiryev (interim)Brazil Junior GodoiUkraine Roman Hryhorchuk
Ukraine Oleh Lutkov
Obolon KyivUkraine Serhiy KovaletsUkraine Valentyn Slyusar
FC SevastopolBulgaria Angel ChervenkovUkraine Serhiy FerenchakUkraine Oleh Leschynskyi
Ukraine Serhiy Shevchenko
Ukraine Oleh Leschynskyi (interim)
Shakhtar DonetskRomania Mircea LucescuCroatia Darijo Srna
Tavriya SimferopolUkraine Oleksandr Shudryk (interim)Serbia Slobodan MarkovićUkraine Serhiy Puchkov
Ukraine Valeriy Petrov (interim)
Volyn LutskUkraine Vitaliy KvartsyanyiUkraine Oleksandr Pyschur
Vorskla PoltavaUkraine Mykola PavlovUkraine Serhiy Dolhansky
Zorya LuhanskUkraine Anatoly ChantsevUkraine Volodymyr Yezerskiy

Managerial changes

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

Stadiums

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

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 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 (in Ukrainian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th fair play (C) = Champions; (R) = Relegated

Note:

Results

Home \ Away[1] ARK DNI DYNILLKARKRYMETMDOMZAOBOSEVSHATAVVOLVORZOR
Arsenal Kyiv 12 03 31 22 10 01 31 10 10 01 13 31 11 01 11
Dnipro 10 10 20 10 11 01 12 30 30 22 01 22 20 20 11
FC Dynamo Kyiv 32 00 902 10 30 11 10 20 02 20 30 21 51 20 20
Illichivets Mariupol 22 15 32 23 11 14 11 00 10 42 13 51 22 26 22
Karpaty Lviv 21 00 12 31 21 01 21 10 30 21 10 10 10 22 42
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 11 03 01 10 00 00 10 00 22 31 02 14 24 10 02
Metalist Kharkiv 21 22 12 30 11 34 31 30 21 40 12 23 31 23 30
Metalurh Donetsk 15 32 02 03 41 22 03 01 30 10 02 21 02 20 11
Metalurh Zaporizhya 21 03 11 04 00 12 02 12 12 10 11 22 01 20 10
Obolon Kyiv 11 01 22 20 11 11 02 11 10 22 10 21 01 01 10
Sevastopol 02 21 03 10 31 22 00 01 10 31 01 01 41 00 01
Shakhtar Donetsk 40 00 20 10 10 20 21 20 21 01 50 41 40 10 10
Tavriya Simferopol 01 01 11 22 31 21 01 21 20 31 21 12 00 22 00
Volyn Lutsk 00 11 12 31 03 00 14 13 10 10 10 01 22 04 01
Vorskla Poltava 01 02 31 13 11 30 00 11 21 01 40 11 00 01 10
Zorya Luhansk 02 01 12 22 22 10 02 02 02 10 00 13 53 30 11

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

Notes:

Round by Round

Team ╲ Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
Shakhtar Donetsk252321111111111111111111111111
FC Dynamo Kyiv763234322222222222222222222222
Metalist Kharkiv378565765554333333333333333333
Dnipro411112233433444444444444444444
Karpaty Lviv13119756554345655555555555555555
Vorskla Poltava1844434467767779688811121011796666
Tavriya Simferopol1215111113769101211111010867999787667101077
Metalurh Donetsk837101288776678891111101012101189118111188
Arsenal Kyiv52567910888885667867786678107799
Obolon Kyiv61415161613111291112141413131212111110910128911881010
Volyn Lutsk1616161314141415131010101112108976667910106991111
Zorya Luhansk1113141491013101213141313111210101212111291112121212131212
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih1512128812911119999911131313131414141413131413121313
Illichivets Mariupol9410121011121314151312121415141414141313131314141515151514
Sevastopol109691115151415141515151514151515151515151515151314141415
Metalurh Zaporizhya141013151516161616161616161616161616161616161616161616161616

Updated to match(es) played on 21 May 2011. Source: Dynamo Kyiv's Official Site (in Ukrainian)

Top goalscorers

Seleznyov
in 2010

The top ten goalscorers during the season.[37]

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

Awards

AwardFounderLaureate
Ukrainian Footballer of the Yearnewspaper Ukrainian FootballAndriy Voronin
Footballer of the Premier-Lihanewspaper KomandaAndriy Yarmolenko
Event of the Seasonua-football.comShakhtar Donetsk in quarter-finals
of Champions League
Discovery of the Seasonua-football.comJosé Sosa
Top Young Footballerua-football.comRoman Bezus
Team of the Seasonua-football.comMetalist Kharkiv
Top Ukrainian Footballerua-football.comOleh Husyev
Top Legionnaireua-football.comWillian
Top Coachua-football.comMyron Markevych

Season awards

The laureates of the 2010–11 UPL season were:[38]

See also

Transfers

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