2016–17 Ukrainian First League

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Season 2016–17 Goals scored 406		Dates 24 Jul 2016 – 27 May 2017 Matches played 177

Top goalscorer 14 goals – Ruslan Stepanyuk (Veres) Biggest home win 4 – Illichivets 5–1 FC Sumy (Round 7) Mykolaiv 4–0 FC Sumy (Round 9) Veres 4–0 Inhulets (Round 9) Veres 5–1 Bukovyna (Round 18) Biggest away win 5 – Hirnyk-Sport 1–6 Veres (Round 8) Highest scoring 7 – Hirnyk-Sport 1–6 Veres (Round 8) Hirnyk-Sport 2–5 Desna (Round 12) Longest winning run 8 – Illichivets (Round 1–8) People also search for 2015–16 Ukrainian First League

The 2016–17 Ukrainian First League is the 26th since its establishment. The fixtures were announced on 16 July 2016 and the competition commenced in 24 July 2016. The spring session is planned to start 25 March 2017 with the competition ending on 27 May 2017.

Promoted teams

Originally, as per competition regulations the top three teams were promoted from the 2015–16 Ukrainian Second League. However, prior to the season commencing at the Conference of the PFL in preparation for the season the committee decided to expand the competition to eighteen teams and include the fourth, fifth and sixth placed teams.

Kolos Kovalivka – (debut)

Veres Rivne – (returning for the first time since 1996–97 season)

Inhulets Petrove – (debut)

Bukovyna Chernivtsi – (returning after one season)

Arsenal Kyiv – (debut, however a predecessor of Arsenal Kyiv, CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv, competed in the 1994-95 season)

Skala Stryi – (debut, however a club from Stryi namely FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi competed in the 2005–06 season)

Relegated teams

No teams were relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League

Withdrawn teams

Dynamo-2 Kyiv

Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

Stadiums

The following stadiums are considered home grounds for the teams in the competition.

Notes:

^(1) Due to reconstruction of the pitch at Chernihiv Stadium before the start of the season, Desna Chernihiv moved their home fixtures to different arenas.

Managerial changes

Notes:

^(5) Eduard Khavrov continued to perform managerial duties and the club announced that he will be in that position until a replacement was found.

^(6) On 12 January 2017 Mykola Krut, a curator of FC Ternopil, announced that an agreement was reached with Roman Maksymyuk for the position of head coach for the senior team and Maksymyuk has submitted documents to be selected. However, less than a week later on 18 January 2017 it was announced that the club and Maksymyuk did not reach agreement in regards to the coaching approach and the senior team of the club will continued to be coached by Matviykiv.

League table

As of 12 January 2017

Notes:

^(7) FC Poltava were deducted a total of 3 points IAW the FFU Control and Disciplinary Committee.(12 January 2017)

Results

As of 20 November 2016

Updated to games played on 20 November 2016.
Source: (Ukrainian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Notes:

^(10) Round 10 match between Mykolaiv and Naftovyk-Ukrnafta was postponed on mutual agreement to October 13 as Mykolaiv's Central City Stadium was unavailable. Match played after Round 13.

^(11) FC Ternopil informed the Professional Football League of Ukraine and administration of Illichivets that the club would not play their Round 14 match due to a flu epidemic affecting the team with only seven players available for selection. (13 October 2016)
Control-Disciplinary Committee of the FFU awards a 3–0 technical victory to Illichivets . (1 November 2016)

^(12) Round 15 fixture between Veres and Naftovyk-Ukrnafta was postponed until after the winter break by mutual agreement. (12 October 2016)

^(13) Round 19 match postponed due to heavy snowfalls that made the pitch unplayable.