2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League

The 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 20th since its establishment and third since its reorganization. Shakhtar Donetsk were the defending champions, having won their 5th league title. A total of sixteen teams participated in the competition, fourteen of them contested the 2009–10 season while the remaining two were promoted from the Ukrainian First League.

Ukrainian Premier League

Season	2010–11
Champions	Shakhtar Donetsk 6th title
Relegated	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Sevastopol
Champions League	Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv
Europa League	Metalist Kharkiv Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Karpaty Lviv Vorskla Poltava
Matches played	240
Goals scored	609 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	17 – Yevhen Seleznyov (Dnipro)
Biggest home win	Dynamo 9–0 Illichivets (Round 15)
Biggest away win	Volyn 0–4 Vorskla (Round 1) Illichivets 1–5 Dnipro (Round 3) Illichivets 2–6 Vorskla (Round 17) Metalurh Zap. 0–4 Illichivets (Round 20) Metalurh Don. 1–5 Arsenal (Round 27)
Highest scoring	Dynamo 9–0 Illichivets (Round 15)
Longest winning run	11 – Shakhtar (Round 10–20)^[1]
Longest unbeaten run	11 – Shakhtar (Round 10–20)^[1]
Longest losing run	7 – Metalurh Zap. (Round 6–12)^[1]
Highest attendance	50,390 Shakhtar – Dynamo (Round 12)
Lowest attendance	500 Zorya – Obolon (Round 22)
Average attendance	9228^[2]
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The competition began on 9 July 2010 with four games. After the 19th Round, the competition was suspended for the winter break and resumed on 3 March 2011.^[1]

On 6 May 2011, Shakhtar Donetsk retained the championship with a 2–0 derby victory over rivals Metalurh Donetsk.^[3]

The top five teams were exactly the same as the previous season.

Teams

Promoted

• FC Sevastopol, champion of the 2009-10 Ukrainian First League – (debut)
• FC Volyn Lutsk, runner-up of the 2009-10 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of 4 seasons)

Location map

 

 

Kyiv

 

Kyiv teams :
Dynamo
Arsenal
Obolon

 

Donetsk

 

Donetsk teams :
Shakhtar
Metalurh D.

 

Simreropol

 

Simferopol teams :
Tavriya
Sevastopol

 

Dnipro

 

Illichivets

 

Karpaty

 

Sevastopol

 

Metalist

 

Volyn

 

Kryvbas

 

Metalurh Za.

 

Vorskla

 

Zorya

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Locations of team home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 2010–11

 

 

Arsenal

 

Dynamo
Arsenal

 

Obolon

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Kyiv city home venues of teams in the League

Managers and captains

Club	Coach	Captain	Replaced coach(es)
Arsenal Kyiv	Yuriy Bakalov	Vitaliy Reva
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Juande Ramos	Andriy Rusol	Vadym Tyschenko (interim)   Volodymyr Bezsonov
Dynamo Kyiv	Yuri Semin	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi	Oleh Luzhnyi (interim)   Valery Gazzayev
Illichivets Mariupol	Valeriy Yaremchenko	Adrian Pukanych	Ilya Bliznyuk   Oleksandr Volkov (interim)
Karpaty Lviv	Oleg Kononov	Andriy Tlumak
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Yuriy Maksymov	Oleksandr Maksymov
Metalist Kharkiv	Myron Markevych	Oleksandr Horyainov
Metalurh Donetsk	Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	Vyacheslav Checher	Nikolay Kostov   Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)   Andrei Gordeyev
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	Hryhoriy Nehiryev (interim)	Junior Godoi	Roman Hryhorchuk   Oleh Lutkov
Obolon Kyiv	Serhiy Kovalets	Valentyn Slyusar
FC Sevastopol	Angel Chervenkov	Serhiy Ferenchak	Oleh Leschynskyi   Serhiy Shevchenko   Oleh Leschynskyi (interim)
Shakhtar Donetsk	Mircea Lucescu	Darijo Srna
Tavriya Simferopol	Oleksandr Shudryk (interim)	Slobodan Marković	Serhiy Puchkov   Valeriy Petrov (interim)
Volyn Lutsk	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi	Oleksandr Pyschur
Vorskla Poltava	Mykola Pavlov	Serhiy Dolhansky
Zorya Luhansk	Anatoly Chantsev	Volodymyr Yezerskiy

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	Roman Hryhorchuk^[4]	End of contract	May 10	pre-season	Oleh Lutkov	May 27
FC Sevastopol	Oleh Leschynskyi^[5]	Dismissed	June 19	pre-season	Serhiy Shevchenko	June 19	pre-season
FC Sevastopol	Serhiy Shevchenko^[6]	Dismissed	September 12	15th place	Oleh Leschynskyi (interim)	September 12	15th place
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Volodymyr Bezsonov^[7]	Resigned	September 18	3rd place	Vadym Tyschenko (interim)	September 18	3rd place
Tavriya Simferopol	Serhiy Puchkov^[8]	Dismissed	September 22	12th place	Valeriy Petrov (interim)	September 22	12th place
Dynamo Kyiv	Valeriy Gazzayev^[9]	Resigns	October 1	2nd place	Oleh Luzhnyi (interim)^[10]	October 1	2nd place
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Vadym Tyschenko (interim)^[11]	Interim position	October 1	3rd place	Juande Ramos	October 1	3rd place
Illichivets Mariupol	Ilya Bliznyuk^[12]	Resigned	November 1	15th place	Oleksandr Volkov (interim)	November 1	15th place
Metalurh Donetsk	Nikolay Kostov^[13]	Resigned	November 12	10th place	Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	November 12	10th place
Illichivets Mariupol	Oleksandr Volkov (interim)	End as interim	November 26	14th place	Valeriy Yaremchenko^[14]	November 26	14th place
FC Sevastopol	Oleh Leschynskyi (interim)	End as interim	December 21	15th place	Angel Chervenkov^[15]	December 21	15th place
Dynamo Kyiv	Oleh Luzhnyi (interim)	End as interim	December 24	2nd place	Yuri Semin^[16]	December 24	2nd place
Metalurh Donetsk	Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	End as interim	January 12	10th place	Andrei Gordeyev^[17]	January 12	10th place
Metalurh Donetsk	Andrei Gordeyev^[18]	Sacked	May 3	11th place	Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	May 3	11th place
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	Oleh Lutkov	Sacked	May 4	16th place	Hryhoriy Nehiryev (interim)	May 4	16th place
Tavriya Simferopol	Valeriy Petrov (interim)^[19]	Sacked	May 8	10th place	Oleksandr Shudryk (interim)	May 8	10th place

Stadiums

Rank	Stadium	Club	Capacity	Highest Attendance		Notes
1	Donbass Arena	Shakhtar Donetsk	52,518	50,390	Round 12 (Dynamo)
2	OSK Metalist	Metalist Kharkiv	41,411	38,600	Round 3 (Dynamo)
3	Dnipro Arena	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	31,003	31,003	Round 15 (Shakhtar) Round 22 (Dynamo)
4	Metalurh Stadium	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	29,783	10,000	Round 8 (Dynamo)
5	Ukraina Stadium	Karpaty Lviv	28,051	27,500	Round 28 (Dynamo)
6	RSK Olimpiyskiy	Metalurh Donetsk	25,831	6,000	Round 20 (Dynamo)	Used as home ground in Round 20^[20] and 21
		Zorya Luhansk		650	Round 26 (Metalurh Donetsk)	Used as home ground in Round 26^[21]
7	Vorskla Stadium	Vorskla Poltava	25,000	15,000	Round 6 (Dynamo)
8	Avanhard Stadium	Zorya Luhansk	22,320	19,000	Round 18 (Shakhtar)
9	Lokomotiv Stadium	Tavriya Simferopol	19,978	16,300	Round 25 (Shakhtar)
		PFC Sevastopol		12,000	Round 4 (Dynamo)	Used by Sevastopol as home ground for the season^[22]
10	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium	Dynamo Kyiv	16,873	15,000	Round 27 (Shakhtar)
		Arsenal Kyiv		4,200	Round 26 (Dynamo)	PL moved the Kyiv Derby game to Dynamo Stadium to accommodate a much larger crowd^[23]
11	Illichivets Stadium	Illichivets Mariupol	12,680	8,500	Round 21 (Zorya)
12	Avanhard Stadium	Volyn Lutsk	12,080	11,520	Round 7 (Shakhtar)
13	Slavutych-Arena	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	11,983	8,500	Round 2 (Shakhtar)
14	Dynamo Stadium (Kharkiv)	Metalist Kharkiv	9,000	6,516	Round 27 (Karpaty)	Used as home ground in Round 27^[24] and Round 29 as the main stadium had the turf and drainage system replaced.^[25]
15	Stal Stadium, Alchevsk	Zorya Luhansk	8,632	4,500	Round 28 (Dnipro)	Used as home ground in Round 28^[26]
16	Metalurh Stadium	Metalurh Donetsk	5,300	5,000	Round 13 (Shakhtar)
17	Obolon Stadium	Obolon Kyiv	5,100	5,100	Round 1 (Dynamo)
18	Bannikov Stadium	Arsenal Kyiv	1,678	1,480	Round 30 (Kryvbas)	Lent from FFU for home games in first half of season^[27]^[28]

Attendance

The total attendance for the season was 2,214,833.^[2] The most watched team was Shakhtar Donetsk with 722,231 spectators.^[2] The least watched team was Arsenal Kyiv with 153,339 spectators.^[2]

Qualification to European competitions for 2011–12

• Since Ukraine finished in seventh place of the UEFA country ranking after the 2009–10 season,^[29] the league will have the same number of qualifiers for 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. The Ukrainian Cup winner qualifies for the play-off round.

Qualified teams

• After the 22nd Round, Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for European football for the 2011–12 season.^[30]
• After the 25th Round, both Dynamo Kyiv and Metalist Kharkiv qualified for European football for the 2011–12 season.^[31]
• After the 26th Round, Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Champions League.^[32]
• After the 26th Round, both Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Karpaty Lviv qualified for European football for the 2011–12 season.^[32]
• After the 27th Round, Karpaty Lviv qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.^[33]

• After the 28th Round, Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Group stage (C) and Dynamo Kyiv qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round.^[3]
• After the 28th Round, both Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Metalist Kharkiv qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.^[3]
• After the results of the semi-finals of the Ukrainian Cup, Metalist Kharkiv enters the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League in the Play-off round.^[34]

• After the 29th Round, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk enters the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League in the Play-off round and Karpaty Lviv enters in the Third qualifying round.^[35]
• After the 30th Round, Vorskla Poltava qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League and enters Second qualifying round. 

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shakhtar Donetsk (C)	30	23	3	4	53	16	+37	72	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	20	5	5	60	24	+36	65	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Metalist Kharkiv	30	18	6	6	58	26	+32	60	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
4	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	16	9	5	46	20	+26	57
5	Karpaty Lviv	30	13	9	8	41	34	+7	48	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
6	Vorskla Poltava	30	10	9	11	37	32	+5	39	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round^[a]
7	Tavriya Simferopol	30	10	9	11	44	46	−2	39
8	Metalurh Donetsk	30	11	5	14	36	45	−9	38
9	Arsenal Kyiv	30	10	7	13	36	38	−2	37
10	Obolon Kyiv	30	9	7	14	26	38	−12	34
11	Volyn Lutsk	30	9	7	14	27	49	−22	34
12	Zorya Luhansk	30	7	9	14	28	40	−12	30
13	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	30	6	11	13	27	45	−18	29
14	Illichivets Mariupol	30	7	8	15	45	67	−22	29
15	Sevastopol (R)	30	7	6	17	26	48	−22	27	Relegation to Ukrainian First League
16	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia (R)	30	6	6	18	18	40	−22	24

Source: uafootball.net.ua
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th fair play
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Since the 2011 Ukrainian Cup Final was between 2 teams that had already qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League (Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv) the 6th placed team (Vorskla Poltava) qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.

Results

Home \ Away	ARK	DNI	DYN	ILL	KAR	KRY	MET	MDO	MZA	OBO	SEV	SHA	TAV	VOL	VOR	ZOR
Arsenal Kyiv	—	1–2	0–3	3–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–3	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–1
Dnipro	1–0	—	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	3–0	3–0	2–2	0–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–1
Dynamo Kyiv	3–2	0–0	—	9–0^[a]	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–2	2–0	3–0	2–1	5–1	2–0	2–0
Illichivets Mariupol	2–2	1–5	3–2	—	2–3	1–1	1–4	1–1	0–0	1–0	4–2	1–3	5–1	2–2	2–6	2–2
Karpaty Lviv	2–1	0–0	1–2	3–1	—	2–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	4–2
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	1–1	0–3	0–1	1–0	0–0	—	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–2	3–1	0–2	1–4	2–4	1–0	0–2
Metalist Kharkiv	2–1	2–2	1–2	3–0	1–1	3–4	—	3–1	3–0	2–1	4–0	1–2	2–3	3–1	2–3	3–0
Metalurh Donetsk	1–5	3–2	0–2	0–3	4–1	2–2	0–3	—	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–2	2–0	1–1
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	2–1	0–3	1–1	0–4	0–0	1–2	0–2	1–2	—	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–0	1–0
Obolon Kyiv	1–1	0–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	—	2–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–0
Sevastopol	0–2	2–1	0–3	1–0	3–1	2–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	3–1	—	0–1	0–1	4–1	0–0	0–1
Shakhtar Donetsk	4–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–1	5–0	—	4–1	4–0	1–0	1–0
Tavriya Simferopol	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	3–1	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	3–1	2–1	1–2	—	0–0	2–2	0–0
Volyn Lutsk	0–0	1–1	1–2	3–1	0–3	0–0	1–4	1–3	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	—	0–4	0–1
Vorskla Poltava	0–1	0–2	3–1	1–3	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	4–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	—	1–0
Zorya Luhansk	0–2	0–1	1–2	2–2	2–2	1–0	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–3	5–3	3–0	1–1	—

Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Highest victory score in Ukrainian Premier League history (October 31, 2010) surpassing the record established by Shakhtar Donetsk against FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia (9–1) on May 16, 1997.^[36]

Round by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Shakhtar Donetsk	2	5	2	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Dynamo Kyiv	7	6	3	2	3	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Metalist Kharkiv	3	7	8	5	6	5	7	6	5	5	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Dnipro	4	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Karpaty Lviv	13	11	9	7	5	6	5	5	4	3	4	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Vorskla Poltava	1	8	4	4	4	3	4	4	6	7	7	6	7	7	7	9	6	8	8	8	11	12	10	11	7	9	6	6	6	6
Tavriya Simferopol	12	15	11	11	13	7	6	9	10	12	11	11	10	10	8	6	7	9	9	9	7	8	7	6	6	7	10	10	7	7
Metalurh Donetsk	8	3	7	10	12	8	8	7	7	6	6	7	8	8	9	11	11	10	10	12	10	11	8	9	11	8	11	11	8	8
Arsenal Kyiv	5	2	5	6	7	9	10	8	8	8	8	8	5	6	6	7	8	6	7	7	8	6	6	7	8	10	7	7	9	9
Obolon Kyiv	6	14	15	16	16	13	11	12	9	11	12	14	14	13	13	12	12	11	11	10	9	10	12	8	9	11	8	8	10	10
Volyn Lutsk	16	16	16	13	14	14	14	15	13	10	10	10	11	12	10	8	9	7	6	6	6	7	9	10	10	6	9	9	11	11
Zorya Luhansk	11	13	14	14	9	10	13	10	12	13	14	13	13	11	12	10	10	12	12	11	12	9	11	12	12	12	12	13	12	12
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	15	12	12	8	8	12	9	11	11	9	9	9	9	9	11	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	13	13	14	13	12	13	13
Illichivets Mariupol	9	4	10	12	10	11	12	13	14	15	13	12	12	14	15	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	14	14	15	15	15	15	14
Sevastopol	10	9	6	9	11	15	15	14	15	14	15	15	15	15	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	13	14	14	14	15
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	14	10	13	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

Source: (in Ukrainian)

Top goalscorers

 

Seleznyov in 2010

The top ten goalscorers during the season.^[37]

#	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	Yevhen Seleznyov	17	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2	Marko Dević	14 (3)	Metalist Kharkiv
3	Lucky Idahor	13 (1)	Tavriya Simferopol
4	Denys Oliynyk	12	Metalist Kharkiv
5	Andriy Yarmolenko	11	Dynamo Kyiv
6	Oleksiy Antonov	10	Illichivets Mariupol
	Vasyl Sachko	10	Vorskla Poltava
	Luiz Adriano	10 (1)	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Andriy Shevchenko	10 (2)	Dynamo Kyiv
	Konstantyn Yaroshenko	10 (2)	Illichivets Mariupol

Awards

Award	Founder	Laureate
Ukrainian Footballer of the Year	newspaper Ukrainian Football	Andriy Voronin
Footballer of the Premier-Liha	newspaper Komanda	Andriy Yarmolenko
Event of the Season	ua-football.com	Shakhtar Donetsk in quarter-finals of Champions League
Discovery of the Season	ua-football.com	José Sosa
Top Young Footballer	ua-football.com	Roman Bezus
Team of the Season	ua-football.com	Metalist Kharkiv
Top Ukrainian Footballer	ua-football.com	Oleh Husyev
Top Legionnaire	ua-football.com	Willian
Top Coach	ua-football.com	Myron Markevych

Season awards

The laureates of the 2010–11 UPL season were:^[38]

• Best player:   Willian (Shakhtar Donetsk)
• Best coach:   Mircea Lucescu (Shakhtar Donetsk)
• Best goalkeeper:   Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Best arbiter:   Viktor Shvetsov (Odesa)
• Best young player:   Yevhen Konoplyanka (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
• Best goalscorer:   Yevhen Seleznyov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)

See also

• 2010–11 Ukrainian First League
• 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League Reserves
• 2010–11 Ukrainian Second League
• 2010–11 Ukrainian Cup
• 2010–11 UEFA Europa League

Transfers

• Transfer window regulations for the Ukrainian championship is unclear
• List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2010
• List of Ukrainian football transfers winter 2010–2011

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