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2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League

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Season
  
2016–17

Location
  
Ukraine

Matches played
  
107

Start date
  
2016

Goals scored
  
274

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Top goalscorer
  
10 – Júnior Moraes (Dynamo)

Biggest home win
  
6 – Oleksandriya 6–0 Volyn (Round 19)

Biggest away win
  
3 – Olimpik 0–4 Dynamo (Round 9)

Highest scoring
  
6 – Dynamo 3–4 Shakhtar (Round 18)

Longest winning run
  
6 – Shakhtar (Round 1–6)

Similar
  
2015–16 Ukrainian Premier L, 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier L, 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier L, 2016–17 Scottish Premiership, 2016–17 First Professio

The 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League season is the 26th top level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the ninth since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. The league is scheduled to play its first 18 rounds before the winter break (10 December 2016 – 25 February 2017) finishing its first stage of tournament in March. The second stage is schedule to start on 1 April 2017 and finish on 31 May 2017.

Contents

The league's title sponsor for 2016–17 season as for the previous season is a bookmaking company Pari-Match, the title of which is displayed on the season shield.

With the continuation of the military conflict in the eastern oblasts (regions) of Ukraine since 2014 and the Russian occupation of Crimea (see the map), the league was forced to change its format again and will now be contested by 12 teams after being cut from 14 in the 2015–16 season.

Dynamo Kyiv are the defending champions.

Format changes

On 29 February 2016, the Ukrainian Premier League administration announced that there will be changes to the competition format for the 2016–17 season. 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 into 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 bottom 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 was to be presented by the FFU Executive Committee. On 29 April 2016, the FFU Executive Committee approved the changes to the new UPL format for 2016–17 season. The fixtures were announced on 7 June 2016. The competition commenced on 21 July when Shakhtar Donetsk hosted Zirka Kropyvnytskyi in Lviv. The first eighteen rounds will be played before winter break which will begin after 10 December 2016. The competition is to resume 25 February 2017. The first phase will end on 18 March 2017 after which the league will split according to the first phase final standings with the second phase starting on 1 April 2017. The season will be concluded on 31 May 2017.

Promotions

  • Zirka Kropyvnytskyi, the champion of the 2015–16 Ukrainian First League – (returning for the first time since 2003–04 season, 13 seasons absence).

    • Renamed

    As part of ongoing decommunization in Ukraine, several populated places in Ukraine changed their names, therefore the league adopted the same changes and applied them to the respective clubs in parenthesis.

  • FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk is shown as out of Dnipro.
  • FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk is shown as out of Kamianske.
  • FC Zirka Kirovohrad is shown as out of Kropyvnytskyi.

    • Stadiums

    The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

    Managerial changes

    Notes:

  • ^(1) Volodymyr Bezubyak was a senior coach of Karpaty Lviv instead of a regular position of a head coach. The president Dyminsky came out with a new "know-how" and appointed Luzhny as a manager of all teams including the club's academy, while Bezubyak continued to coach the first team.
  • ^(2) The Karpaty's official head coach Oleh Luzhny was not confirmed on the position of head coach of Karpaty Lviv for the upcoming season. He was fired for not achieving the club's goal, but to the press he denied that he was managing anything.
  • ^(3) Both Viktor Dohadailo and Roman Monaryov were announced as replacements for the resigned Argentinian specialist. The Premier League posts Dohadailo as the only head coach of the senior team after the coach substitution.

    • Regular season results

    Updated to games played on 26 February 2017.
    Source: Ukrainian Premier League (Ukrainian)
    1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Notes:

  • ^(5) Round 17 match not played due to frozen pitch at Yuvileny Stadium
  • ^(6) Olympic Donetsk played their home match at Zirka Stadium

    • Regular season positions by round

    The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition played chronologically.

    Last updated: 26 February 2017
    Source:

    Championship round results

    Updated to games played on 24 July 2016.
    Source: Ukrainian Premier League (Ukrainian)
    1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Notes:

    Relegation round results

    Updated to games played on 24 July 2016.
    Source: Ukrainian Premier League (Ukrainian)
    1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Notes:

    Top goalscorers

    As of 26 February 2017

    Notes:

  • According to the season's regulations the top scorer tie-break is determined by three criteria: 1) less games played; 2) less penalty kicks scored; and 3) less minutes spent on the field.

    • Hat-tricks (pokers)

    (number) Player scored (number) goals if more than 3

    Monthly awards

    On 16 November the Premier League administration announced start of voting for the Best player of the month.

    Round awards

    On 22 November 2016 the Premier League administration along with Pari-Match introduced another award, "Best player of the round".

    References

    2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA