2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League

The 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League season, referred to as the VBet Liha for sponsorship reasons, is the 34th top-level football club competition since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 17th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League.

VBet Liha (UPL)
Official logo[1]
Season2024–25
Dates10 August 2024 – TBA
TBA (winter break)
2025–26 →

Teams

This season the Ukrainian Premier League remained at 16 teams.

Relegated teams

Location map
Home venues of teams in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League.
Teams in italics are from areas bordering the Russian Federation and are playing their home games in different cities due to ongoing hostilities.

Stadiums
Further information: List of football stadiums in Ukraine

The minimum threshold for the stadium's capacity in the UPL is 4,500 (Article 10, paragraph 8.3).[2]

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Rank Stadium Place Club Capacity Notes
1 Arena LvivLviv Rukh Lviv 34,915
Shakhtar Donetsk used as home ground during the season
2 Chornomorets Stadium Odesa Chornomorets Odesa 34,164
3 Dnipro-Arena Dnipro Dnipro-1 31,003
4 Ukraina StadiumLviv Karpaty Lviv 27,925
5 Butovsky Vorskla Stadium Poltava Vorskla Poltava 24,795
6 Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv 16,873
7 Avanhard Stadium Uzhhorod Inhulets Petrove 12,000
8 Tsentralnyi StadionCherkasy LNZ Cherkasy 10,321
9 CSC Nika StadiumOleksandriya FC Oleksandriya 7,000
10 Tsentralnyi Stadion Zhytomyr Polissya Zhytomyr 5,928
11 Obolon ArenaKyiv Obolon Kyiv 5,100
12 Kolos Stadium Kovalivka Kolos Kovalivka 5,050
13 Livyi Bereh Arena Zolochivska hromada Zorya Luhansk 4,700 used as home ground during the season
14 Avanhard StadiumRivne Veres Rivne 4,650
15 Hirnyk Stadium Kryvyi Rih Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 2,500

Personnel and sponsorship
Team President Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Chornomorets Odesa Leonid Klimov TBA TBA Kelme Vbet
Dnipro-1 Maksym Bereza Yuriy Maksymov Nike Windrose
Dynamo Kyiv Ihor Surkis Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Vitaliy Buyalskyi New Balance A-Bank
Inhulets Petrove Oleksandr Povoroznyuk Vasyl Kobin Macron etg.ua
Karpaty Lviv Stepan Yurchyshyn Myron Markevych Nike Львівське
Kolos Kovalivka Andriy Zasukha Oleksandr Pozdeyev Nike ATTP
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Kostyantyn Karamanits Yuriy Vernydub Dmytro Khomchenovskyi Joma Rudomain
LNZ Cherkasy Viktor Kravchenko Andrés Carrasco Oleh Tarasenko Macron Vbet
Obolon Kyiv Oleksandr Slobodian Valeriy Ivashchenko Nazariy Fedorivskyi Jako FavBet
Oleksandriya Serhiy Kuzmenko Ruslan Rotan Vladyslav Kalitvintsev Nike AhroVista
Polissya Zhytomyr Volodymyr Zahurskyi Imad Ashur Vladyslav Ohirya Nike BGV Group
Rukh Lviv Hryhoriy Kozlovskyi Vitaliy Ponomaryov Marko Sapuha Macron Emily Resort
Shakhtar Donetsk Rinat Akhmetov [upper-alpha 1] Marino Pušić Taras Stepanenko Puma FavBet
Veres Rivne Ivan Nadieyin Oleh Shandruk Bohdan Kohut Kelme Vbet
Vorskla Poltava Kostyantyn Zhevago Serhiy Dolhanskyi (caretaker) TBA[upper-alpha 2] Nike Ferrexpo
Zorya Luhansk Yevhen Heller Yuriy Koval (caretaker) Vyacheslav Churko Puma —

Managerial changes
Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Inhulets Petrove Vladyslav Lupashko Mutual agreement 5 June 2024 Pre-season Vasyl Kobin 15 June 2024[4]
LNZ Cherkasy Oleg Dulub End of the contract 10 June 2024[5] Andrés Carrasco 11 June 2024[6]
Chornomorets Odesa Roman Hryhorchuk Signed by Neftci Baku 26 June 2024

Notes:

    League table
    Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
    1 Chornomorets Odesa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
    2 Dnipro-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
    3 Dynamo Kyiv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    4 Inhulets Petrove 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    5 Karpaty Lviv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    6 Kolos Kovalivka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    7 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    8 LNZ Cherkasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    9 Obolon Kyiv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    10 Oleksandriya 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    11 Polissya Zhytomyr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    12 Rukh Lviv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    13 Shakhtar Donetsk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Relegation play-off
    14 Veres Rivne 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    15 Vorskla Poltava 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to Ukrainian First League
    16 Zorya Luhansk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    First match(es) will be played: 10 August 2024. Source: upl.ua
    Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw or "Golden match" if two teams tied for title (Article 22, paragraph 3).[7]

    Results

    Teams play each other twice on a home and away basis.

    Home \ Away CHO DN1 DYN INH KAR KOL KRY LNZ OBL OLK PZH RUX SHA VER VOR ZOR
    Chornomorets Odesa
    Dnipro-1
    Dynamo Kyiv a
    Inhulets Petrove
    Karpaty Lviv
    Kolos Kovalivka
    Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
    LNZ Cherkasy
    Obolon Kyiv
    Oleksandriya
    Polissia Zhytomyr
    Rukh Lviv
    Shakhtar Donetsk a
    Veres Rivne
    Vorskla Poltava
    Zorya Luhansk
    Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: UPL calendar
    Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
    For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

    Relegation play-offs

    Teams that placed 13th and 14th in the 2024–25 Ukrainian Premier League play two-leg play-off with the third and fourth teams of the 2024–25 Ukrainian First League.

    Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
    TBD x–x TBD
    TBD x–x TBD

    First leg
    v
    v

    Second leg
    v
    v

    Season statistics

    Clean sheets

    As of 3 June 2024[9]

    Rank Player Club Clean
    sheets

    Awards

    Monthly awards
    Month Player of the Month Coach of the Month Ref.
    Player Club Coach Club
    August 2024
    September 2024
    October 2024
    November 2024
    December 2024 / February 2025
    March 2025
    April 2025
    May 2025

    Round awards
    Round Player Coach
    Player Club Reference Coach Club Reference
    Round 1
    Round 2
    Round 3
    Round 4
    Round 5
    Round 6
    Round 7
    Round 8
    Round 9
    Round 10
    Round 11
    Round 12
    Round 13
    Round 14
    Round 15
    Round 16
    Round 17
    winter break
    Round 18
    Round 19
    Round 20
    Round 21
    Round 22
    Round 23
    Round 24
    Round 25
    Round 26
    Round 27
    Round 28
    Round 29
    Round 30

    See also

    Notes
    1. Born on territory of Bosnian republic in Yugoslavia before its dissolution, Marino Pušić is of mixed ethnic background and carries a dual citizenship.[3]
    2. Captain of Vorskla Poltava Volodymyr Chesnakov ends your playing career and changed your role to assistant head coach since new season.

    References
    1. Official Logo. Ukrainian Premier League website.
    2. Places of holding competitions (Місця проведення змагань). 2022–23 Ukrainian Premier League regulations.
    3. Profile of Marino Pušić. www.worldfootball.net
    4. "Официально: Василий Кобин возглавил Ингулец" (in Russian). www.ua-football.com. 15 June 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
    5. "ЛНЗ ЗАВЕРШИВ СПІВПРАЦЮ З ОЛЕГОМ ДУЛУБОМ ТА ОЛЕКСАНДРОМ ГРАНОВСЬКИМ" (in Ukrainian). fc-lnz.com. 10 June 2024. Archived from the original on 10 June 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
    6. "АНДРЕС КАРРАСКО – ГОЛОВНИЙ ТРЕНЕР ФК ЛНЗ" (in Ukrainian). fc-lnz.com. 11 June 2024. Archived from the original on 12 June 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
    7. Defining of teams' places in competitions (Визначення місць команд у змаганнях). 2021–22 Ukrainian Premier League regulations.
    8. Top scorers. Ukrainian Premier League.
    9. "Most Clean Sheets". www.footystats.org/. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
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