The 2004–05 Vyshcha Liha season was the fourteenth since its establishment.
The season started on July 15, 2004, with all eight games of the first round. The last day of the competition was June 16, 2005. Shakhtar Donetsk won its second champion's title place ahead of the reigning champions Dynamo that held for the last couple of seasons. The Miners only lost two of their games, one at home to Metalist Kharkiv that had just returned to the top league and another one in Simferopol to Tavriya. Shakhtar also won both of their match-ups with Dynamo Kyiv. The top scorers competition was won by Oleksandr Kosyrin from Chornomorets Odesa who had 14 precise shots on goal.
Illichivets Mariupol was close to qualify for the European competition once again; however, it was not able to convert on the poor playing form of the leading Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk that had a bad stretch at the "finish line".
Both clubs from the Kyiv region, FC Obolon Kyiv and FC Borysfen Boryspil, that performed very well last season were forced into relegation due to their poor performance. Especially, strikingly bad season had Borysfen that won three games.
Teams Promotions Zakarpattia Uzhhorod, the winners of the 2003–04 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of 2 seasons) Metalist Kharkiv, the runners-up of the 2003–04 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of a seasons)
Location
Managers ClubCoachReplaced coachFC Arsenal Kyiv Oleksandr Baranov FC Chornomorets Odesa Semen AltmanFC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Yevhen KucherevskyFC Dynamo Kyiv Yozhef Sabo Oleksiy MykhailychenkoFC Volyn Lutsk Petro Kushlyk Vitaliy KvartsianyFC Borysfen Boryspil Stepan Matviiv Oleksandr RyabokonFC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Oleksandr Kosevych Anatoliy PiskovetsFC Metalist Kharkiv Oleksandr Zavarov Hennadiy LytovchenkoFC Metalurh Donetsk Vitaliy Shevchenko Slavoljub MuslinFC Metalurh Zaporizhya Valeriy YaremchenkoFC Illichivets Mariupol Ivan Balan Mykola PavlovFC Shakhtar Donetsk Mircea LucescuSC Tavriya Simferopol Oleh Fedorchuk Anatoliy ZayaevFC Vorskla Poltava Volodymyr MuntyanFC Obolon Kyiv Oleksandr Ryabokon Petro SlobodyanFC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod Viktor Ryashko
League table
Results
Top goal scorers
Oleksandr Kosyrin Chornomorets Odesa 14 (4) Vasyl Sachko Volyn Lutsk 12 Andrés Augusto Mendoza Metalurh Donetsk 12 (1) Brandao Shakhtar Donetsk 12 (2) Serhiy Zakarlyuka Illychivets Mariupol 12 (4) Maksim Shatskikh Dynamo Kyiv 11 Diogo Rincón Dynamo Kyiv 10 (6) Vasyl Gigiadze Tavriya Simferopol 9 (1) Julius Aghahowa Shakhtar Donetsk 8 Kléber Dynamo Kyiv 8 Matuzalem Shakhtar Donetsk 8
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