2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League
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The 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League season is the 26th top level football competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the ninth since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. Because of sponsorship the league's title for 2016-17 season is League Pari-Match. Dynamo Kyiv are the defending champions. With the continuation of the Ukrainian crisis in the oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk, the league will now be contested by 12 teams after being cut from 14 in the 2015–16 season.
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Format
On 29 February 2016 the Ukrainian Premier League administration announced that there will be changes to the competition format for the 2016–17 season.[1] It was confirmed that the championship would be played in two different phases, the first phase will be using a standard double round-robin tournament system and the second phase will be broken in to two groups one from 1st to 6th place which will play for the championship and the European spots and the second group made up of teams from 7th place to 12th which will play to avoid relegation. The buttom two teams will be relegated and would be replaced by the champion and the runner up of the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League. The points gained in the first stage are passed on to the second stage.
The new format will have to be confirmed by the FFU Executive Committee.[2] On 29 April 2016 the FFU Executive Committee approved the changes to the new UPL format for 2016-17 season.[3]
Teams
Promotions
Zirka Kirovohrad, the champion of the 2015–16 Ukrainian First League, rejoins the Premier League for the first time since the 2003–04 season.
Location map
Teams in italics are from a conflict zone of the War in Donbass and are playing their home games in different cities.
Stal plays its games also in Dnipropetrovsk rather than at home.
Stadiums
The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:
| Rank | Stadium | Club | Capacity | Highest Attendance |
Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NSC Olimpiyskiy | Dynamo Kyiv | 70,050 | |||
| 2 | Arena Lviv | Shakhtar Donetsk | 34,915 | Used as home ground during season | ||
| 3 | Chornomorets Stadium | Chornomorets Odesa | 34,164 | |||
| 4 | Dnipro-Arena | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 31,003 | |||
| 5 | Ukraina Stadium | Karpaty Lviv | 28,051 | |||
| 6 | Vorskla Stadium | Vorskla Poltava | 24,795 | |||
| 7 | Meteor Stadium | Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk | 24,381 | Used as home ground during season[4] | ||
| 8 | Zirka Stadium | Zirka Kirovohrad | 13,667 | |||
| 9 | Avanhard Stadium | Volyn Lutsk | 12,080 | |||
| 10 | Slavutych-Arena | Zorya Luhansk | 12,000 | Used as home ground during season | ||
| 11 | CSC Nika Stadium | Oleksandriya | 7,000 | |||
| 12 | Bannikov Stadium | Olimpik Donetsk | 1,678 | Used as home ground during season | ||
Note:
Round when attendance is noted as highest is the chronological number of the round, not the published round by the Ukrainian Premier League since some rounds were rescheduled for a later date.
Personnel and sponsorship
| Team | Home city | Head coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chornomorets Odesa | Odesa |  Oleksandr Babych (interim) |
Artem Filimonov |
Nike |  [5] |
| Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | Dnipropetrovsk | Myron Markevych |
Ruslan Rotan |
Nike | 50px |
| Dynamo Kyiv | Kyiv | Serhiy Rebrov |
Oleksandr Shovkovskiy |
adidas | — |
| Karpaty Lviv | Lviv | Oleh Luzhny[6] |
Ihor Plastun |
Joma | Pari-Match[7] |
| FC Oleksandriya | Oleksandriya | Volodymyr Sharan |
Andriy Zaporozhan |
Nike | УкрАгроКом |
| Olimpik Donetsk | Donetsk | Roman Sanzhar |
Dmytro Hryshko |
Puma | Altkom |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | Donetsk |  Paulo Fonseca |
 Darijo Srna |
Nike | 75px |
| Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk | Dniprodzerzhynsk |  Erik van der Meer |
Maksym Kalenchuk |
Nike[8] | ISD |
| Volyn Lutsk | Lutsk | Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi |
Serhiy Kravchenko |
adidas | — |
| Vorskla Poltava | Poltava | Vasyl Sachko |
adidas | 75px | |
| Zirka Kirovohrad | Kirovohrad | Serhiy Lavrynenko |
Oleh Dopilka |
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| Zorya Luhansk | Luhansk | Yuriy Vernydub |
Mykyta Kamenyuka |
Nike | — |
Managerial changes
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shakhtar Donetsk |  Mircea Lucescu |
Resigned | 21 May[9][10] | Pre-season | Paulo Fonseca |
1 June[11] |
References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- ↑ New season format. Ukrainian Premier League. 29 February 2016
- ↑ The working group prepared the final draft of the new format for Ukrainian Championship. UA-Football. 20 February 2016
- ↑ FFU approved changes to the UPL regulations. UA-Football. 29 April 2016
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- ↑ (Russian) Черноморец: новый спонсор — канал 2+2
- ↑ Karpaty senior squad. FC Karpaty Lviv website. 3 April 2016
- ↑ Video of Round 2 game between Karpaty - Stal. youtube. 26 July 2015
- ↑ (Ukrainian)«Сталь» повертається до успішних кольорів
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