1995–96 Vyshcha Liha

The 1995–96 Vyshcha Liha season was the 5th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Vyshcha Liha

Season	1995–96
Champions	Dynamo Kyiv 4th title
Relegated	Volyn Lutsk Zorya Luhansk SK Mykolaiv
Champions League	Dynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' Cup	Nyva Vinnytsia
UEFA Cup	Chornomorets Odesa
Intertoto Cup	Shakhtar Donetsk
Top goalscorer	(20) Timerlan Huseinov (Chornomorets)
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

Teams

Promotions

• Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad, the champion of the 1994–95 Ukrainian First League – (debut)
• CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv, the runner-up of the 1994–95 Ukrainian First League – (debut)

Renamed

• Before the start of the season Zorya-MALS Luhansk changed its name to Zorya Luhansk.

Location

Kyiv

Kyiv teams :
CSKA-Borysfen
Dynamo

Zaporizhzhia

Zaporizhzhia teams :
Metalurh
Torpedo

Prykarpattia

Nyva V.

Chornomorets

Zirka-NIBAS

Dnipro

Kryvbas

Karpaty

Kremin

Mykolaiv

Nyva T.

Tavriya

Shakhtar

Volyn

Zorya

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Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1995-96

CSKA-Borysfen

Dynamo

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Kyiv city home venues of teams in the League

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced Coach	Home stadium
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Yozhef Sabo		Republican Stadium Dynamo Stadium
FC Chornomorets Odesa	Leonid Buriak		Black Sea Shipping Stadium
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Bernd Stange		Meteor Stadium
FC CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv	Viktor Chanov	Mykhailo Fomenko 29 games	CSK ZSU Stadium
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	Oleksandr Tomakh		Metalurh Stadium
FC Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad	Oleksandr Ischenko		Zirka Stadium
FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	Ihor Nadein		AvtoZAZ Stadium
FC Karpaty Lviv	Volodymyr Zhuravchak		Ukraina Stadium
FC Kremin Kremenchuk	Valery Yaremchenko	Tiberiy Korponay 13 games Anatoliy Skurskyi 4 games	Dnipro Stadium
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Valeriy Rudakov	Vladimir Salkov 6 games	Shakhtar Stadium
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Ihor Yurchenko		Elektron Stadium
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Anatoliy Zayaev	Yuriy Kerman 17 games	Lokomotyv Stadium
FC Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Yavorskyi		City Stadium
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Myron Markevych	Yuriy Koval 12 games Yuriy Hruznov 3 games	Metalurh Stadium
FC Nyva Vinnytsia	Serhiy Morozov		Central City Stadium
SC Mykolaiv	Yevhen Kucherevskyi		Central City Stadium
FC Volyn Lutsk	Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi 22 games Oleksiy Yeschenko 1 game	Avanhard Stadium
FC Zorya-MALS	Viktor Aristov	Oleksandr Zhuravliov 14 games Anatoliy Korshykov 3 games	Avanhard Stadium

Changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Mykola Pavlov			pre-season	Yozhef Szabo		pre-season
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Pavlo Kostin			pre-season	Yuriy Kerman		pre-season
CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv	?			pre-season	Mykhailo Fomenko		pre-season
FC Karpaty Lviv	Myron Markevych			pre-season	Volodymyr Zhuravchak		pre-season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	34	24	7	3	65	17	48	79	Qualification to Champions League qualifying round
2	Chornomorets Odesa	34	22	7	5	56	25	31	73	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	34	19	6	9	65	34	31	63
4	CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv	34	15	11	8	47	27	20	56
5	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	34	16	4	14	49	42	7	52
6	Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad	34	14	8	12	37	33	4	50
7	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	34	15	3	16	40	46	−6	48
8	Karpaty Lviv	34	12	10	12	39	39	0	46
9	Kremin Kremenchuk	34	14	4	16	46	56	−10	46
10	Shakhtar Donetsk	34	13	6	15	44	43	1	45	Qualification to Intertoto Cup group stage
11	Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk	34	12	8	14	49	49	0	44
12	Tavriya Simferopol	34	12	8	14	46	46	0	44
13	Nyva Ternopil	34	13	3	18	37	42	−5	42
14	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	34	11	9	14	43	52	−9	42
15	Nyva Vinnytsia	34	11	7	16	28	36	−8	40	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
16	SC Mykolaiv (R)	34	10	8	16	37	53	−16	38	Relegated to Ukrainian First League
17	Volyn Lutsk (R)	34	9	7	18	34	58	−24	34
18	Zorya Luhansk (R)	34	4	4	26	16	80	−64	16

Source: uafootball.net.ua
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goal scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	CHO	CSK	DNI	DYN	KAR	KRE	KRY	MZA	MYK	NVT	NYV	PRY	SHA	TAV	TZA	VOL	ZIR	ZOR
Chornomorets Odesa	—	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	6–1	2–0	4–3	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	4–3	3–1	4–1	1–1	2–0
CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv	1–0	—	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	4–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	0–1	4–0
Dnipro	0–2	2–0	—	0–0	3–0	2–0	4–2	5–0	5–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	3–1
Dynamo Kyiv	3–0	0–0	5–1	—	2–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	4–0	5–1	1–0
Karpaty Lviv	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	—	2–0	2–2	1–0	3–0	3–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	2–1
Kremin Kremenchuk	0–1	1–1	0–3	0–1	6–1	—	1–1	1–0	3–2	3–0	0–1	4–2	3–2	1–0	3–2	3–1	2–1	1–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–2	1–3	2–1	—	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–3	5–1	5–4	2–0
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	—	3–2	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	5–0
SC Mykolaiv	1–2	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	—	2–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	0–3	0–0	4–1
Nyva Ternopil	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	3–1	2–1	4–1	—	2–0	3–1	1–3	1–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	3–1
Nyva Vinnytsia	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–1	2–1	3–2	—	1–0	0–0	1–3	2–0	2–0	0–1	5–0
Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk	1–1	3–2	1–1	2–3	1–0	5–2	1–0	4–1	2–2	3–1	2–1	—	2–0	4–3	4–0	3–0	0–0	4–0
Shakhtar Donetsk	2–0	2–3	1–0	2–3	2–0	4–1	4–0	1–2	0–1	2–4	1–2	1–0	—	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–0
Tavriya Simferopol	0–0	2–2	3–3	0–2	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	5–2	0–2	1–0	3–0	1–3	—	2–0	:-	0–0	3–0
Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	2–1	0–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–3	—	1–1	1–0	3–0
Volyn Lutsk	0–3	1–1	1–5	0–2	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	3–3	3–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–3	0–1	—	1–0	3–1
Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad	0–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	4–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	—	2–0
Zorya Luhansk	0–3	1–5	0–3	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	1–5	0–0	:-	0–1	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–1	3–2	2–1	—

Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Timerlan Huseinov

Rank	Player	Club	Goals (Pen.)
1	Timerlan Huseinov	Chornomorets Odesa	20 (1)
2	Andriy Shevchenko	Dynamo Kyiv	16 (2)
3	Oleksandr Palyanytsia	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	13
	Andriy Pokladok	Karpaty Lviv	13 (1)
	Oleh Matviiv	Shakhtar / Kremin	13 (5)
6	Volodymyr Mozolyuk	Volyn Lutsk	12 (3)
7	Volodymyr Sharan	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	11
	Ivan Korponay	Kremin Kremenchuk	11 (1)
9	Serhiy Borysenko	Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad	10
	Mikhail Potskhveria	Metalurh / Shakhtar	10
	Oleh Yaschuk	Nyva Ternopil	10
	Roman Hryhorchuk	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	10 (6)
	Yuriy Vernydub	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	10 (8)

External links

• ukrsoccerhistory.com - source of information