2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League

The 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League season will be the 30th top-level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 13th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. The defending champion is the 13-times winner Shakhtar Donetsk.

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Official logo[1]
Season2020–21
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Teams

This season, Ukrainian Premier League will be expanded to 14 teams, which will include 11 teams from the previous season and the top three teams from the 2019–20 Ukrainian First League. As of 15 March 2020, six teams have confirmed their places in the league.

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

Home venues of teams in the 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League.
Teams in italics are from a conflict zone of the War in Donbass and are playing their home games in different cities.

Stadiums

Two of the qualified to the date teams play their matches outside of home towns. The minimum threshold for the stadium's capacity in the UPL is 5,000 (Article 10, paragraph 7.2).[2]

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Rank Stadium Place Club Capacity Notes
1 NSC Olimpiyskiy Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv 70,050
2 OSC Metalist Kharkiv Shakhtar Donetsk 40,003 used as home ground during the season
3 Chernihiv Stadium Chernihiv Desna Chernihiv 12,060
4 Slavutych-Arena Zaporizhia Zorya Luhansk 12,000 used as home ground during the season
5 CSC Nika Stadium Oleksandriya FC Oleksandriya 7,000
6 Kolos Stadium (planned)[3] Kovalivka Kolos Kovalivka 5,000[4]

Personnel and sponsorship
Team President Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Desna Chernihiv Volodymyr Levin Oleksandr Ryabokon Denys Favorov Nike Parimatch
Dynamo Kyiv Ihor Surkis Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Serhiy Sydorchuk New Balance[5] —
Kolos Kovalivka Andriy Zasukha Ruslan Kostyshyn Vitaliy Havrysh Nike Svitanok
FC Oleksandriya Serhiy Kuzmenko Volodymyr Sharan Andriy Zaporozhan Nike AhroVista
Shakhtar Donetsk Rinat Akhmetov Luís Castro Taison Nike Parimatch
Zorya Luhansk Yevhen Heller Viktor Skrypnyk Mykyta Kamenyuka Nike Favorite Sport




References
  1. Official Logo. Ukrainian Premier League website.
  2. Locations where completion is conducted (Місця проведення змагань). 2018–19 Ukrainian Premier League regulations.
  3. Kolos will play of their own stadium in the next UPL season (Колос будет выступать на своем стадионе в следующем сезоне УПЛ). Football.ua. 27 January 2020.
  4. Stadium reconstruction continues! (Реконструкція стадіону триває!). FC Kolos Kovalivka.
  5. ""Динамо Киев" заключит сделку с New Balance | Footykits.ru - Футбольная форма 2018/2019". footykits.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-05-14.
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