2001–02 Ukrainian First League

Ukrainian First League
Season 2001–02
Champions Volyn-1 Lutsk
Promoted Volyn-1 Lutsk, Chornomorets Odesa, Obolon Kyiv
Relegated Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol, Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk, Nyva Ternopil
Top goalscorer (17) Vasyl Sachko (Volyn Lutsk) and Viktor Arefyev (Stal Alchevsk)

The 2001–02 Ukrainian First League was the eleventh season of the Ukrainian First League which was won by SC Volyn-1 Lutsk. The season started on July 17, 2001, and finished on June 16, 2002.

Promotion and relegation

Three clubs promoted from the 2000–01 Ukrainian Second League.

Group A
Group B
Group C

Relegated teams

Two clubs were relegated from the 2000-01 Ukrainian Top League:

Renamed teams

  • FC Lviv merged with Karpaty becoming their farm team and changed its name to FC Karpaty-2 Lviv before the season.
  • FC Metalurh Nikopol changed its name to FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol before the season.
  • Due to reorganization of FC Arsenal Kyiv, FC CSKA-2 Kyiv changed its name back to FC CSKA Kyiv during winter break.

Teams

In 2001-02 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Final table

P
Team
G
W
D
L
Dif
Pts
Misc
1 Volyn-1 Lutsk (C, P) 34 25 3 6 56:24 78 Top League Promoted
2 Chornomorets Odessa (P) 34 21 4 9 48:21 67 Top League Promoted
3 Obolon Kyiv (P) 34 18 8 8 49:26 62 (+) new Top League Promoted
4 Polissia Zhytomyr 34 16 10 8 41:32 58 (+) new play-off
5 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk 34 15 8 11 41:27 53
6 Stal Alchevsk 34 14 8 12 42:34 50 (-) new
7 Naftovyk Okhtyrka 34 13 10 11 35:32 49 (+) new
8 Dynamo-2 Kyiv 34 11 14 9 42:32 47
9 Zirka Kirovohrad 34 11 13 10 29:28 46
10 SC Mykolaiv 34 12 10 12 37:44 46
11 Shakhtar-2 Donetsk 34 13 7 14 50:46 46
12 Karpaty-2 Lviv 34 12 6 16 41:52 42
13 Borysfen Boryspil 34 10 10 14 43:45 40
14 CSKA Kyiv 34 10 9 15 32:39 39
15 Nyva Vinnytsia 34 10 8 16 35:52 38
16 Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopil (R) 34 10 7 17 30:41 37 Second League Relegated
17 Dnipro-2 Dniproperivsk (R) 34 8 7 19 29:48 31 Second League Relegated
18 Nyva Ternopil (R) 34 3 4 27 20:77 13 (-) new Second League Relegated

Legend:

- Promoted

- Relegated

Persha Liha 2001-02 Winners
FC Volyn Lutsk
First title

Promotion play-off

Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya 1 0 Polissya Zhytomyr
Babych  45+2'
Martynenko Yellow cardYellow cardRed card 30', 78'
Report
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Serhiy Shebek (Kiev)

FC Polissya Zhytomyr failed to obtain a berth in the 2002-03 Top League.

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.[1]

Scorer Goals (Pen.) Team
1 Ukraine Vasyl Sachko 17 (1) Volyn-1 Lutsk
Ukraine Viktor Arefyev 17 (5) Stal Alchevsk
3 Ukraine Vyacheslav Tereschenko 16 (1) Obolon Kyiv
4 Ukraine Pavlo Parshyn 14 (4) Polissya Zhytomyr
5 Ukraine Volodymyr Skrypka 13 SC Mykolaiv
6 Ukraine Pavlo Onysko 12 Karpaty-2 Lviv
7 Ukraine Volodymyr Hashchyn 11 (3) Volyn-1 Lutsk
8 Ukraine Kostiantyn Balabanov 10 Chornomorets Odesa
Ukraine Pavlo Zakharov 10 (7) Naftovyk Okhtyrka
10 Ukraine Oleksandr Sobkovych 7 (4) Obolon Kyiv

See also

References

  1. Statistics (in Russian)
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