The 2005–06 Vyshcha Liha season was the fifteenth since its establishment.
Summary The season started on July 12, 2005 with six games of the first round. The last day of the competition was May 10, 2006. However, because the top two teams have finished with an equal number of points, it was decided to conduct a decisive game between them, which was named as the Golden Match. The game took place soon upon the conclusion of the regular season on May 14. The winner of the championship final became Shakhtar Donetsk that managed to defeat Dynamo Kyiv 2–1 and for the first time winning its second consecutive title and third over all. The top scorers competition was also tied between two foreigners Brandão from Brazil and Emmanuel Okoduwa from Nigeria. Both players won their individual award scoring 15 goals.
Both Shakhtar and Dynamo lost only once Shakhtar at home to Dynamo, while Dynamo lost its only game at home to Dnipro. Both Shakhtar and Dynamo also finished 30 points away from the closest trailing team in the standings. A good season had FC Illichivets Mariupol tying for the fourth together with FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Also could be left unnoticed the big return of the Odesa sailors that finally earn their next set of medals for the first time since returning to premiers. Out of the newly promoted teams a good performance showed FC Stal Alchevsk that were just a point shy to stay among the top 10.
Both clubs from the Western Ukraine, FC Volyn Lutsk and FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod, were forced into relegation due to their poor performance.
Teams
Promoted FC Stal Alchevsk, champion of the 2004-05 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of 4 seasons) FC Arsenal Kharkiv, runner-up of the 2004-05 Ukrainian First League was replaced with the newly formed FC Kharkiv – (debut)
Notes: FC Arsenal Kharkiv was reinstated in the Ukrainian Second League.
Renamed FC Vorskla Poltava before the season carried the name of FC Vorskla-Naftogaz Poltava
Location map
Managers ClubCoachReplaced coachFC Arsenal Kyiv Oleksandr Zavarov Oleksandr Baranov Ihor BabinchukFC Chornomorets Odesa Semen AltmanFC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Oleh Protasov Yevhen Kucherevsky Vadym TyshchenkoFC Dynamo Kyiv Anatoliy Demyanenko Leonid BuryakFC Volyn Lutsk Vitaliy Kvartsiany FC Kharkiv Hennadiy Lytovchenko FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Oleksandr Kosevych FC Metalist Kharkiv Myron MarkevychFC Metalurh Donetsk Stepan Matviiv Oleksandr SevidovFC Metalurh Zaporizhya Vyacheslav Hrozny Valeriy Yaremchenko Anatoliy ChantsevFC Illichivets Mariupol Ivan Balan FC Shakhtar Donetsk Mircea LucescuSC Tavriya Simferopol Mykhailo Fomenko Oleh FedorchukFC Vorskla Poltava Viktor NosovFC Stal Alchevsk Anatoliy VolobuyevFC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod Petro Kushlyk Viktor Ryashko
League table
Results
Final match
Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 35 Bohdan Shust DF 33 Darijo SrnaDF 27 Dmytro Chyhrynskyi DF 3 Tomáš Hübschman DF 26 Răzvan Raț MF 36 Elano MF 4 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (c)MF 18 Mariusz Lewandowski MF 7 Fernandinho FW 29 Ciprian Marica FW 25 Brandão Substitutes:MF 6 Igor Duljaj DF 8 Leonardo DF 13 Vyacheslav Shevchuk DF 14 Flavius Stoican GK 16 Jan Laštůvka FW 17 Julius Aghahowa FW 20 Oleksiy Byelik Manager: Mircea LucescuDynamo Kyiv: GK 1 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (c)DF 3 Serhiy Fedorov FW 5 Serhii Rebrov FW 9 Kléber MF 14 Ruslan Rotan FW 16 Maksim ShatskikhMF 20 Oleh HusyevDF 27 Vladyslav VashchukMF 30 Badr El Kaddouri DF 32 Goran Gavrančić DF 33 Andrey Yeshchenko Substitutes:DF 4 Rodolfo MF 8 Valyantsin Byalkevich MF 15 Diogo RincónFW 23 Māris VerpakovskisFW 25 Artem Milevskyi DF 26 Andriy NesmachniyGK 55 Oleksandr RybkaManager: Anatoliy Demyanenko MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Martin Balko Tomáš Mokoš Fourth official: V. GrinjakMATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes Maximum of 3 substitutions.
Top goal scorers
Brandão Shakhtar Donetsk 15 Emmanuel Okoduwa Arsenal Kyiv 15 Oleksandr Kosyrin Metalurh Donetsk 13 (2) Serhii Rebrov Dynamo Kyiv 13 (2) Vasyl Sachko Volyn Lutsk 13 (2) Kléber Dynamo Kyiv 11 Matuzalém Shakhtar Donetsk 10 (1) Ara Hakobyan Metalurh Donetsk 10 (3) Diogo Rincón Dynamo Kyiv 10 (4) Serhiy Shyshchenko Metalurh Zaporizhya 9 Vasil Gigiadze Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 9 (4)
See also 2005–06 Ukrainian Cup
References
External links ukrsoccerhistory.com - source of information ukranianfootball.narod.ru