The 2013–14 Ukrainian First League was the 23rd since its establishment. The competition commenced on 14 July 2013. Due to sponsorship reasons the league was called Favbet League 1. The competition had a winter break that started on 30 November 2013 and resumed on 28 March 2014. The completion concluded on 31 May 2014.
Promotion and relegation
Promoted teams
Group 1 Desna Chernihiv – Second League champion (returning after an absence of 3 seasons) Nyva Ternopil – Promotion/relegation play-off winner (returning after an absence of 3 seasons)
Group 2 UkrAhroKom Holovkivka – Second League (debut)
Relegated teams No teams were relegated from the 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League.
Originally Hoverla Uzhhorod and Metalurh Zaporizhzhia were to be relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League after finishing in 15th and 16th places. However, Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih failed attestation and their license was withdrawn by the Ukrainian Premier League. Number of clubs refused promotion leaving two vacant positions in the 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League which were awarded to the relegating clubs.
Team reduction The competition was reduced by two teams to sixteen at the PFL Conference on 26 June 2013. Krymteplytsia Molodizhne withdrew from the PFL after the previous season and Shakhtar Sverdlovsk bid for promotion was refused.
Location map
The following displays the location of teams.
Stadiums
The following stadiums are considered home grounds for the teams in the competition.
Rank Stadium Capacity Club Notes 1 Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy 25,800 FC Sumy 2 Central City Stadium, Mykolaiv 16,700 MFC Mykolaiv 3 Zirka Stadium, Kirovohrad 13,667 Zirka Kirovohrad 4 City Stadium, Ternopil 12,750 Nyva Ternopil 5 Yuri Gagarin Stadium, Chernihiv 12,060 Desna Chernihiv 6 Bukovyna Stadium, Chernivtsi 12,000 Bukovyna Chernivtsi 7 Stal Stadium, Alchevsk 9,200 Stal Alchevsk 8CSC Nika Stadium, Oleksandria 7,000PFC Oleksandriya UkrAhroKom Holovkivka Zirka Kirovohrad Used as home ground in Round 29 9 Naftovyk Stadium, Okhtyrka 5,256 Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka 10 Sonyachny Stadium, Kharkiv 4,924 Helios Kharkiv 11 Prapor Stadium, Kramatorsk 4,000 Avanhard Kramatorsk 12 Khimik Stadium, Armyansk 3,450 Tytan Armyansk 13 Sports Complex Olimpik, Donetsk 3,000 Olimpik Donetsk 14 Lokomotiv Stadium, Poltava 2,500 FC Poltava Avanhard Kramatorsk Used as home ground in Round 27 15 Helios Arena, Kharkiv 2,057 Helios Kharkiv 16 Stadium Educational Training Base Center FC Poltava, Kopyly Poltava Oblast 1,500 FC PoltavaUsed as home ground Round 24 & 26 17 Mashynobudivnyk Stadium, Karlivka 1,300 FC Poltava Used as home ground in Round 14 Helios Kharkiv Used as home ground in Round 27 Stal Alchevsk Used as home ground in Round 28 18 Dynamo Training Center, Kyiv 1,200 Dynamo-2 Kyiv 19 Enerhiya Stadium, Berdyansk 700 Olimpik DonetskUsed as home ground Round 30 20 Holovkivskyy Stadium, Holovkivka 580 UkrAhroKom Holovkivka Zirka Kirovohrad Used as home ground in spring session
Managers ClubCoachReplaced coachAvanhard Kramatorsk Yakiv Kripak Serhiy ShevchenkoBukovyna Chernivtsi Yuriy Hiy Vadym ZayatsDesna Chernihiv Oleksandr Ryabokon Dynamo-2 Kyiv Alyaksandr Khatskevich Helios Kharkiv Serhiy Yesin PFC Oleksandriya Volodymyr Sharan MFC Mykolaiv Vyacheslav Mazarati Volodymyr Ponomarenko Oleh Fedorchuk Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka Vadym Kolesnyk Yevhen YarovenkoNyva Ternopil Bohdan Samardak Ihor YavorskyiOlimpik Donetsk Roman Sanzhar FC Poltava Ilya Blyznyuk Stal Alchevsk Vadym PlotnikovFC Sumy Serhiy Strashnenko Andriy Kononenko Tytan Armyansk Serhiy Kozlov Oleh LutkovUkrAhroKom Holovkivka Yuriy Hura Zirka Kirovohrad Anatoliy Buznyk Mykola Fedorenko
Managerial changes TeamOutgoing head coachManner of departureDate of vacancyTableIncoming head coachDate of appointment PFC Oleksandriya Vitaliy Pervak End caretaker Pre season Volodymyr Sharan Stal Alchevsk Anatoliy Volobuyev Sporting Director in Club Vadym Plotnikov Tytan Armyansk Oleh Leshchynskyi Resigned Oleh Lutkov FC Poltava Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi Moves to Club Administration Ilya Blyznyuk Zirka Kirovohrad Samir Hasanov End caretaker Mykola Fedorenko Dynamo-2 Kyiv Andriy Husin Replaced Alyaksandr Khatskevich Bukovyna Chernivtsi Vadym Zayats Resigned 9th Yuriy Hiy MFC Mykolaiv Oleh Fedorchuk Resigned 15th Volodymyr Ponomarenko (interim) Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka Yevhen Yarovenko Resigned 4th Vadym Kolesnyk Avanhard Kramatorsk Serhiy Shevchenko Resigned 11th Yakiv Kripak MFC Mykolaiv Volodymyr Ponomarenko (interim) End as interim 15th Vyacheslav Mazarati Nyva Ternopil Ihor Yavorskyi Resigned 5th Bohdan Samardak Zirka Kirovohrad Mykola Fedorenko Resigned 11th Anatoliy Buznyk Tytan Armyansk Oleh Lutkov Resigned 15th Serhiy Kozlov (interim) FC Sumy Andriy Kononenko Sacked 10th Serhiy Strashnenko (interim)
League table Technical results and official standing on May 31, 2014. Professional Football League. 31 May 2014
Results
Positions by round The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition.
Top goalscorers
#ScorerGoals(Pen.)Team1 Oleksandr Akymenko13 (2)Stal Alchevsk3 Serhiy Starenkyi11PFC Oleksandriya Ruslan Kachur11 (2)Helios Kharkiv4 Mykhaylo Serhiychuk10 (2)MFC Mykolaiv Serhei Nudnii10 (7)Tytan Armyansk6 Sheriff Isa8Olimpik Donetsk Vladyslav Nasibulin8 FC Poltava Vasyl Palahniuk8 Bukovyna Chernivtsi Vitaliy Ponomar8UkrAhroKom Holovkivka Oleksandr Sytnik8Olimpik Donetsk Vasyl Hrytsuk8 (2)PFC Oleksandriya
See also 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League 2013–14 Ukrainian Second League 2013–14 Ukrainian Cup
References
External links РЕГЛАМЕНТ Всеукраїнських змагань з футболу серед команд клубів Професіональної футбольної ліги сезону 2013 – 2014 років (Regulation of the All-Ukrainian competitions in football among teams of the Professional Football League clubs in the season 2013–14). Professional Football League of Ukraine website.