Competition: | VBet Liha |
Pixels: | 280px |
Season: | 2023–24 |
Dates: | |
Winners: | Shakhtar Donetsk |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv |
Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih |
Continentalcup3: | Conference League |
Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Dnipro-1 Polissya Zhytomyr |
League Topscorer: | Vladyslav Vanat (Dynamo) (14 goals) |
Biggest Home Win: | (5 May 2024) |
Biggest Away Win: | (22 September 2023) (31 March 2024) |
Highest Scoring: | 7 goals (4 matches) |
Matches: | 240 |
Total Goals: | 594 |
Highest Attendance: | 2800 (31 March 2024) (19 May 2024) |
Attendance: | 86 019 |
Prevseason: | 2022–23 |
Nextseason: | 2024–25 |
Updated: | 03 June 2024 |
The 2023–24 Ukrainian Premier League season, referred to as the VBet Liha for sponsorship reasons, was the 33rd top-level football club competition since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 16th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. On June 7, 2023 the UPL published highlights of the next season regulation draft announcing that preliminary the next season is expected to start on July 29.[1] Also, this season had the national cup competitions restored which started on August 16. The season regulation draft is yet to be approved by the General Assembly of the UPL participants.[2]
This season the Ukrainian Premier League remained at 16 teams. Two teams had their status suspended due to the Russian occupation and/or destruction of their sports infrastructure. If one or both of Desna and Mariupol decide to return to the league competitions next season, it has been determined that the league would be increased to 18 teams.[3] On June 9, 2023 the president of FC Desna stated that the club would return to professional football the next season in 2024 and would start from the Second League due to issues with player transfers.[4] [5]
The minimum threshold for the stadium's capacity in the UPL is 4,500 (Article 10, paragraph 7.3).[6]
The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:
width=18 | Rank | width=150 | Stadium | width=100 | Place | width=130 | Club | width=70 | Capacity | Notes |
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align=center rowspan=2 | 1 | align=left rowspan=2 | Lviv | Rukh Lviv | align=center rowspan=2 | 34,915 | ||||
Shakhtar Donetsk | used as home ground during the season | |||||||||
2 | Chornomorets Stadium | Odesa | Chornomorets Odesa | align=center rowspan=1 | 34,164 | |||||
3 | Dnipro-Arena | Dnipro | Dnipro-1 | align=center rowspan=1 | 31,003 | |||||
align=center rowspan=2 | 4 | align=left rowspan=2 | Lviv | Rukh Lviv | align=center rowspan=2 | 27,925 | used as home ground in 1 match | |||
Zorya Luhansk | used as home ground in 1 match | |||||||||
align=center rowspan=1 | 5 | Butovsky Vorskla Stadium | Poltava | Vorskla Poltava | align=center rowspan=1 | 24,795 | ||||
align=center rowspan=4 | 6 | Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium | Kyiv | Dynamo Kyiv | align=center rowspan=4 | 16,873 | ||||
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | used as home ground in 1 match | |||||||||
FC Mynai | used as home ground in 1 match | |||||||||
Zorya Luhansk | used as home ground in 1 match | |||||||||
align=center rowspan=2 | 7 | Avanhard Stadium | Uzhhorod | Dnipro-1 | align=center rowspan=2 | 12,000 | used as home ground in 3 matches | |||
Zorya Luhansk | used as home ground in 1 match | |||||||||
8 | align=left | Cherkasy | LNZ Cherkasy | 10,321 | ||||||
9 | align=left | Oleksandriya | FC Oleksandriya | 7,000 | ||||||
align=center rowspan=2 | 10 | Tsentralnyi Stadion | Zhytomyr | Polissya Zhytomyr | align=center rowspan=2 | 5,928 | ||||
Zorya Luhansk | used as home ground in 1 match | |||||||||
11 | align=left | Kyiv | Obolon Kyiv | 5,100 | ||||||
align=center rowspan=3 | 12 | Kolos Stadium | Kovalivka | Kolos Kovalivka | align=center rowspan=3 | 5,050 | ||||
LNZ Cherkasy | used as home ground in 2 matches | |||||||||
Zorya Luhansk | used as home ground in 1 match | |||||||||
align=center rowspan=4 | 13 | Zolochivska hromada | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | align=center rowspan=4 | 4,700 | used as home ground during the season | ||||
Zorya Luhansk | used as home ground during the season | |||||||||
Shakhtar Donetsk | used as home ground in 2 matches | |||||||||
Chornomorets Odesa | used as home ground in 1 match | |||||||||
14 | align=left | Rivne | Veres Rivne | 4,650 | ||||||
align=center rowspan=1 | 15 | Skif Stadium | Lviv | Zorya Luhansk | align=center rowspan=1 | 4,033 | used as home ground in 1 match | |||
align=center rowspan=1 | 16 | Hirnyk Stadium | Kryvyi Rih | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | align=center rowspan=1 | 2,500 | ||||
align=center rowspan=1 | 17 | Mynai Arena | Mynai | FC Mynai | align=center rowspan=1 | 1,312 |
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Shakhtar Donetsk | Fired | 8 June 2023[7] [8] [9] [10] | Pre-season | Patrick van Leeuwen | 3 July 2023[11] | |
Veres Rivne | Yuriy Virt | Resigned | 14 June 2023[12] | Serhiy Lavrynenko | 16 June 2023[13] | |
Zorya Luhansk | Patrick van Leeuwen | Signed with Shakhtar | 3 July 2023 | Nenad Lalatović | 4 July 2023[14] [15] | |
SC Dnipro-1 | Oleksandr Kucher | Resigned | 20 August 2023[16] | 11th | Valeriy Horodov (interim) | 21 August 2023[17] [18] |
LNZ Cherkasy | Oleksandr Kovpak | Fired | 23 August 2023[19] [20] | 13th | Yuriy Dudnyk (caretaker) | 25 August 2023[21] |
Yuriy Dudnyk (caretaker) | End of interim | 30 August 2023[22] | 15th | Oleg Dulub | 30 August 2023[23] | |
Zorya Luhansk | Nenad Lalatović | Resigned | 27 August 2023[24] [25] | 11th | Mladen Bartulović (caretaker) | 27 August 2023[26] [27] |
Mladen Bartulović (caretaker) | End of interim | 9 September 2023 | 12th | Valeriy Kryventsov | 9 September 2023[28] [29] | |
SC Dnipro-1 | Valeriy Horodov (interim) | 14 September 2023 | 11th | Yuriy Maksymov | 14 September 2023[30] | |
Shakhtar Donetsk | Patrick van Leeuwen | Fired | 16 October 2023[31] | 2nd | Darijo Srna (interim) | 16 October 2023[32] |
Darijo Srna (interim) | Returned to previous position | 24 October 2023 | 3rd | Marino Pušić | 24 October 2023[33] [34] | |
Dynamo Kyiv | Mircea Lucescu | Resigned | 3 November 2023[35] | 7th | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (caretaker) | 4 November 2023[36] |
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | Edmar (caretaker) | 5 November 2023[37] [38] | 9th | Oleh Holodyuk (caretaker) | 5 November 2023[39] | |
Zorya Luhansk | Valeriy Kryventsov | 11 November 2023 | 13th | Yuriy Koval (caretaker) | 11 November 2023[40] | |
FC Mynai | Volodymyr Sharan | Mutual agreement | 17 November 2023[41] | 16th | Željko Ljubenović | 18 November 2023[42] |
Dynamo Kyiv | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (caretaker) | Made a head coach | 12 December 2023 | 5th | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi | 12 December 2023[43] |
Veres Rivne | Serhiy Lavrynenko | Sacked[44] [45] | 12 December 2023[46] | 15th | Oleh Shandruk | 12 December 2023[47] |
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | Oleh Holodyuk (caretaker) | Change of role | 20 December 2023 | 12th | Viktor Skrypnyk | 20 December 2023[48] |
Vorskla Poltava | Viktor Skrypnyk | Mutual agreement | 20 December 2023[49] | 7th | Serhiy Dolhanskyi (caretaker) | 4 January 2024[50] |
Polissya Zhytomyr | Yuriy Kalitvintsev | Resigned | 11 March 2024[51] | 6th | Serhiy Shyshchenko (caretaker) | 12 March 2024[52] |
Kolos Kovalivka | Yaroslav Vyshnyak | Change of role | 28 April 2024[53] | 12th | Oleksandr Pozdeyev (caretaker) | 28 April 2024 |
Oleksandr Pozdeyev (caretaker) | End of interim | 12 May 2024[54] | 12th | Oleksandr Pozdeyev | 12 May 2024 | |
Polissya Zhytomyr | Serhiy Shyshchenko (caretaker) | 26 May 2024[55] | 5th | Imad Ashur | 26 May 2024 | |
Teams play each other twice on a home and away basis.
Rank | Scorer | Team | Goals | |
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align=center rowspan="1" | 1 | Vladyslav Vanat | Dynamo Kyiv | 14 (2) |
align=center rowspan="2" | 2 | Danylo Sikan | Shakhtar Donetsk | 10 (0) |
Vitaliy Buyalskyi | Dynamo Kyiv | 10 (3) | ||
align=center rowspan="4" | 4 | Oleksandr Filippov | Dnipro-1 | 9 (0) |
Eduardo Guerrero | Zorya Luhansk | 9 (0) | ||
Oleksiy Hutsulyak | Dnipro-1 | 9 (0) | ||
Oleh Kozhushko | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 8 (0) | ||
align=center rowspan="3" | 8 | Illya Kvasnytsya | Rukh Lviv | 8 (0) |
Andriy Shtohrin | Chornomorets Odesa | 8 (0) | ||
Andriy Yarmolenko | Dynamo Kyiv | 8 (2) | ||
Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets | ||
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align=center rowspan=1 | 1 | Dmytro Riznyk | Shakhtar Donetsk | align=center rowspan=1 | 13 |
align=center rowspan=1 | 2 | Kiril Fesyun | Kolos Kovalivka | align=center rowspan=1 | 12 |
align=center rowspan=1 | 3 | Heorhiy Bushchan | Dynamo Kyiv | align=center rowspan=1 | 11 |
align=center rowspan=2 | 4 | Andriy Klishchuk | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | align=center rowspan=2 | 10 |
Mykyta Shevchenko | Oleksandriya | ||||
align=center rowspan=2 | 6 | Dmytro Ledviy | Rukh Lviv | align=center rowspan=2 | 9 |
Yevhen Volynets | Dnipro-1 | ||||
align=center rowspan=2 | 8 | Denys Boyko | Polissya Zhytomyr | align=center rowspan=2 | 7 |
Herman Penkov | LNZ Cherkasy | ||||
align=center rowspan=2 | 10 | Pavlo Isenko | Vorskla Poltava | align=center rowspan=2 | 6 |
Oleksandr Saputin | Zorya Luhansk |
Month | Player of the Month | Coach of the Month | ||||
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Player | Club | Coach | Club | |||
July—August 2023 | Yvan Dibango | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | Roman Hryhorchuk | Chornomorets Odesa | [58] | |
September 2023 | Maksym Zaderaka | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | Yuriy Vernydub | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | [59] | |
October 2023 | Béni Makouana | Polissia Zhytomyr | Yuriy Kalitvintsev | Polissia Zhytomyr | [60] | |
November 2023 | Volodymyr Brazhko | Dynamo Kyiv | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi | Dynamo Kyiv | [61] | |
December 2023 / February 2024 | Vladyslav Vanat | Dynamo Kyiv | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi | Dynamo Kyiv | [62] | |
March 2024 | Vladyslav Vanat | Dynamo Kyiv | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi | Dynamo Kyiv | [63] | |
April 2024 | Danylo Sikan | Shakhtar Donetsk | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi | Dynamo Kyiv | [64] | |
May 2024 | Luifer Hernández | Polissia Zhytomyr | Serhiy Shyshchenko | Polissia Zhytomyr | [65] |