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Ukrainian First League
Season	2010–11
Champions	PFC Oleksandria
Promoted	Chornomorets
Relegated	Prykarpattya
Matches played	291
Goals scored	762 (2.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	20 – Ruslan Hunchak (Bukovyna)
Biggest home win	Stal 5–0 Prykarpattya (Round 2) Lviv 6–1 Feniks-Illichivets (Round 18)
Biggest away win	Feniks-Illichivets 1–6 Zirka (Round 19) Prykarpattya 1–6 Lviv (Round 34)
Highest scoring	Lviv 6–1 Feniks-Illichivets (Round 18) Feniks-Illichivets 1–6 Zirka (Round 19) Prykarpattya 1–6 Lviv (Round 34)
Longest winning run	6 – Chornomorets (Rounds ppd. 15, 20–21, 23–25)
Longest unbeaten run	14 – Chornomorets (Rounds 11–14, 16–19, ppd. 15, 20–21, 23–25)
Longest losing run	7 – Prykarpattya (Round 8, 10–15)
Highest attendance	10,000 – Bukovyna – Chornomorets (Round 26)
Lowest attendance	100 – Dynamo-2 – Chornomorets (Round 8) Dynamo-2 – Tytan (Round 12) Helios – Dnister (Round 14) Arsenal – Dnister (Round 22)
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 Ukrainian First League was the 20th since its establishment. Eighteen teams competed in the competition. Two teams were promoted from the 2009–10 Ukrainian Second League and a third team replaced a team that withdrew from the competition.

The competition began on July 17, 2010, with six matches. The competition had a winter break and resumed March 19, 2011.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted teams

These three teams were promoted from the 2009–10 Ukrainian Second League

Group A

Bukovyna Chernivtsi – champion (returning after nine seasons)
Nyva Vinnytsia – Playoff winner (returning after four seasons)

Group B

Tytan Armyansk – champion (debut)

Relegated teams

Two teams were relegated from the 2009–10 Ukrainian Premier League

Chornomorets Odesa – 15th place (returning after eight seasons)
Zakarpattya Uzhhorod – 16th place (returning after a season)

Playoff game

At the meeting of the Professional Football League of Ukraine, it was confirmed that FC Desna Chernihiv failed attestation for the season and hence would have their license withdrawn. To allow an extra team to be promoted, the PFL determined that a playoff game between the 2nd placed teams from Druha Liha – Kremin Kremenchuk and Nyva Vinnytsia would determine the vacancy created. This playoff game was played June 28, 2010.^[1]

June 28, 2010

17:00 UTC+3

Kremin Kremenchuk	0–2	Nyva Vinnytsia
	^[2]^[3]	Kozban 12' Nayko 48'

Central Stadium, Makariv

Attendance: 700

Referee: Dmytro Kutakov (Brovary)

Nyva Vinnytsia were promoted into the First League, while Kremin Kremenchuk remain in the Second League.

Team locations

Map

The following displays the location of teams.

Krymteplitsia(Ahrarne)

Location of teams in Ukrainian First League 2010–11

Stadiums

The following stadiums were used during the season.

Rank	Stadium	Capacity	Club	Notes
1	Central Stadium, Vinnytsia	24,000	Nyva Vinnytsia
2	MCS Rukh, Ivano-Frankivsk	15,000	Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk
3	Zirka Stadium, Kirovohrad	13,667	Zirka Kirovohrad
4	Labor Reserve, Bila Tserkva	13,500	Arsenal Bila Tserkva	With stadium under construction capacity is reduced to 5,000.
5	Avanhard Zakarpattya, Uzhhorod	12,000	Zakarpattya Uzhhorod
6	Bukovyna Stadium, Chernivtsi	12,000	Bukovyna Chernivtsi
7	Stal Stadium, Alchevsk	8,632	Stal Alchevsk
8	KSC Nika, Oleksandria	5,692	PFC Oleksandria
9	Naftovyk Stadium, Okhtyrka	5,256	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
10	Spartak Stadium, Odesa	4,800	Chornomorets Odesa Dnister Ovidiopol	Dniester loans usage of stadium in 2011 due to state of home stadium^[4]
11	Khimik Stadium, Krasnoperekopsk, Crimea	4,116	Tytan Armyansk	Used as home ground after the winter break^[a]
12	Khimik Stadium, Armyansk, Crimea	3,450	Tytan Armyansk
13	Khimik Sport Complex, Vinnytsia	3,283^[6]	Nyva Vinnytsia	Used as home stadium in Round 22^[7]
14	ST Sport Arena, Ahrarne, Crimea	3,250	Krymteplitsia Molodizhne
15	Lofort Arena, Dobromyl	3,220	FC Lviv
16	Enerhetyk Stadium, Burshtyn	3,000	Enerhetyk Burshtyn
16	Avanhard Stadium, Mukachevo	3,000	Zakarpattya Uzhhorod	Used as home stadium in Round 22^[8]
18	Sport Complex Obukhivsky Raion, Obukhiv, Kyiv Oblast^[9]	2,064	Arsenal Bila Tserkva	Club forced to play away from home after the winter break.^[b]
19	Helios Arena, Kharkiv	2,057	Helios Kharkiv
20	Dukov Dnister Stadium, Ovidiopol	1,500	Dnister Ovidiopol
21	Stadium Yunist, Kalinino, Crimea	1,050	Feniks-Illichovets Kalinino
22	Dynamo Club Stadium, Chapayevka	750	Dynamo-2 Kyiv

Notes:

^ Tytan Armyansk played their Round 21, 23 and 25^[5] games at Khimik Stadium, Krasnoperekopsk, Crimea
^ Arsenal Bila Tserkva played their Round 21,^[9] 23 and 25 games at SCOR Stadium, Obukhiv, Kyiv Oblast^[10]

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach
Arsenal Bila Tserkva	Ihor Artymovych
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Vadym Zayats
Chornomorets Odesa	Roman Hryhorchuk	Ihor Nakonechny
Dnister Ovidiopol	Andriy Parkhomenko
Dynamo-2 Kyiv	Andriy Husin	Hennadiy Lytovchenko
Enerhetyk Burshtyn	Bohdan Blavatskyi	Mykola Prystay Roman Pokora Mykhailo Savka Serhiy Ptashnyk
Feniks-Illichovets Kalinino	Ivan Maruschak
Helios Kharkiv	Volodymyr Shekhovtsov (caretaker)	Roman Pokora Serhiy Kandaurov Volodymyr Shekhovtsov (caretaker)
Krymteplytsia Molodizhne	Mykola Fedorko (caretaker)	Oleksandr Sevidov
FC Lviv	Oleksandr Ryabokon
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	Serhiy Mizin
Nyva Vinnytsia	Oleh Fedorchuk
PFC Oleksandria	Volodymyr Sharan
Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk	Ihor Dyriv (caretaker)	Mykola Prystay Serhiy Ptashnyk Petro Kushlyk
Stal Alchevsk	Anatoliy Volobuyev
Tytan Armyansk	Mykola Fedorenko
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	Oleksandr Sevidov	Igor Gamula
Zirka Kirovohrad	Anatoliy Buznyk	Oleksandr Deriberin

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
Chornomorets	Andriy Bal	Sacked	13 May	Pre-season	Ihor Nakonechny^[11]	13 May
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta	Serhiy Shevchenko^[12]	Leaves for PFC Sevastopol	10 June		Serhiy Mizin^[13]	27 June
FC Lviv	Viktor Ryashko (caretaker)^[14]	End as caretaker	23 June		Oleksandr Ryabokon	23 June
Zirka	Ihor Zhabchenko^[15]	Contract not extended	1 July		Oleksandr Deriberin	1 July
Enerhetyk	Mykola Prystay^[16]	Resigns	1 September	17th place	Roman Pokora^[17]	4 September
Helios	Serhiy Kandaurov^[18]	Resigns	12 September	14th place	Volodymyr Shekhovtsov (caretaker)	12 September
Helios	Volodymyr Shekhovtsov (caretaker)^[19]	End as caretaker	28 September	13th place	Roman Pokora	28 September
Enerhetyk	Roman Pokora^[19]	Leaves for FC Helios	28 September	15th place	Mykhailo Savka^[20]	28 September
Zirka	Oleksandr Deriberin^[21]	Resigned	29 September	18th place	Anatoliy Buznyk	29 September
Chornomorets	Ihor Nakonechny	Sacked	16 November	4th place	Roman Hryhorchuk^[22]	16 November
Enerhetyk	Mykhailo Savka^[23]	End of contract Assistant at Chornomorets	20 November	14th place	Serhiy Ptashnyk^[24]	22 December
Dynamo-2	Hennadiy Lytovchenko	Other club duties	21 December	9th place	Andriy Husin^[25]	21 December
Prykarpattya	Serhiy Ptashnyk^[24]	Leaves for Enerhetyk	22 December	18th place	Petro Kushlyk^[26]	13 January
Prykarpattya	Petro Kushlyk	Other club duties	20 March	17th place	Mykola Prystay^[27]	20 March
Krymteplytsia	Oleksandr Sevidov	Resigns	30 March	8th place	Mykola Fedorko (caretaker)	8 April
Zakarpattya	Igor Gamula	Sacked	6 April	5th place	Oleksandr Sevidov^[28]	6 April
Enerhetyk	Serhiy Ptashnyk	Sacked	12 April	15th place	Bohdan Blavatskyi^[29]	12 April
Prykarpattya	Mykola Prystay	License expired	20 April	17th place	Ihor Dyriv (caretaker)^[30]	20 April
Helios	Roman Pokora	Sacked	22 April	13th place	Volodymyr Shekhovtsov (caretaker)^[31]	22 April

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	PFC Oleksandria (C, P)	34	21	6	7	55	25	+30	69	Promoted to Ukrainian Premier League
2	Chornomorets Odesa (P)	34	18	11	5	53	26	+27	65	Promoted to Ukrainian Premier League
3	Stal Alchevsk	34	18	8	8	55	31	+24	62
4	Krymteplitsia Molodizhne	34	18	7	9	43	30	+13	61
5	FC Lviv	34	17	8	9	52	28	+24	59
6	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	34	16	8	10	51	40	+11	56
7	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	34	17	5	12	48	45	+3	56
8	Dynamo-2 Kyiv	34	15	7	12	39	35	+4	52
9	Arsenal Bila Tserkva	34	15	6	13	42	43	−1	51
10	Nyva Vinnytsia	34	14	8	12	44	42	+2	50
11	Tytan Armyansk	34	13	5	16	32	42	−10	44
12	Zirka Kirovohrad	34	12	7	15	43	44	−1	43
13	Dnister Ovidiopol	34	10	12	12	39	42	−3	42
14	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	34	10	11	13	40	44	−4	41
15	Helios Kharkiv	34	10	10	14	31	44	−13	40
16	Enerhetyk Burshtyn (O)	34	10	6	18	29	49	−20	36	Qualification for relegation play-off
17	Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk (R)	34	5	1	28	27	82	−55	16	Relegated to Ukrainian Second League
18	Feniks-Illichovets Kalinino^[a] (D)	34	3	2	29	17	48	−31	8	Withdrew (expelled) from PFL^[b]

Source: Professional Football League of Ukraine^[34]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th fair play^[35]
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Feniks-Illichovets Kalinino deducted 3 points by the PFL on February 9, 2011 due to failure of payment of league dues.^[32]
^ Prior to the resumption of competition after the winter break the club ceased operations and withdrew from the PFL.^[33]

Promotion/Relegation playoff

The promotion/relegation playoff stage consisted of two matches. For sponsorship reasons it was named as Umbro playoffs. At match one both second placed teams of the Second League groups played each other to determine the winner. At match two the match was played between the 16th place team of the First League and the winner of another playoff game between the second placed clubs from each group of the Second League.^[36]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Sumy	2–0	FC Poltava
Enerhetyk Burshtyn	2–0	FC Sumy

Match one

11 June 2011

17:00 EEST

FC Sumy	2 – 0	FC Poltava
Belmokhtar 48', 52'	Report

Illichivets-Uman Stadium, Uman

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: S.Skrypak (Kyiv)

Match two

15 June 2011

17:00 EEST

Enerhetyk Burshtyn	2–0	FC Sumy
Hordiyenko 22' Barchuk 90+2'	Report

Illichivets-Uman Stadium, Uman

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: M.Kuzmin (Mykolaiv)

Playoff bracket

Match one			Match two

			1L	Enerhetyk Burshtyn	2
2L	FC Sumy	2	2L	FC Sumy	0
2L	FC Poltava	0

1L – First League
2L – Second League

Withdrawn teams

Feniks-Illichovets Kalinino

At the end of the winter break Feniks-Illichivets Kalinino administration notified the PFL that their club was in liquidation and would withdraw from the league. All of their spring fixtures are considered technical losses. The club competed in twenty games in the League and had a record of 3 wins, 2 draws and 14 losses and 1 technical loss with 17 goals scored and 48 allowed.^[37]

Results

Home \ Away	ABT	BUK	CHO	DNR	DK2	ENE	FEN	HEL	KRM	LVI	NAF	NYV	OLK	PIF	STA	TYA	HOV	ZIR
Arsenal Bila Tserkva		1–2	2–2	0–0	0–2	2–1	+:-	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	3–2	0–0	1–2	1–3	2–0
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	2–1		3–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	+:-	0–2	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–0	3–1	2–1	3–1	2–1	0–0	1–2
Chornomorets Odesa	1–0	3–0		1–1	3–1	4–0	+:-	3–0	4–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	4–0	1–1	0–1
Dnister Ovidiopol	0–2	2–1	1–2		0–1	2–0	+:-	1–0	0–0	1–3	1–2	1–0	1–4	2–1	2–0	0–0	4–2	4–1
Dynamo-2 Kyiv	0–1	0–1	2–0	2–0		3–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	3–0
Enerhetyk Burshtyn	0–1	1–4	1–1	0–0	2–1		1–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–3	0–3^[a]	2–0	0–2	2–1	2–0
Feniks-Illichovets Kalinino	2–4	0–1	1–3	1–1	-:+	-:+		1–2	1–2	0–3	-:+	1–3	-:+	-:+	0–2	-:+	-:+	1–6
Helios Kharkiv	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	+:-		1–0	1–3	3–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	2–2
Krymteplytsia Molodizhne	4–1	3–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–0	+:-	2–1		0–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	5–1	1–2	2–1	0–0	2–0
FC Lviv	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	6–1	0–0	2–1		3–0	4–1	0–3	4–2	0–2	2–0	0–0	0–0
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	2–3	2–3	0–0	1–1	2–2	2–3	1–0	1–1	0–2	0–0		4–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	2–0
Nyva Vinnytsia	3–1	1–1	1–3	3–2	2–2	3–0^[b]	+:-	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–2		2–2	3–0	2–1	4–0	2–1	0–0
FC Oleksandriya	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1		3–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	2–1
Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk	0–2	0–1	1–5	2–2	0–2	0–3	1–2	0–2	1–2	1–6	2–0	0–1	0–3		0–3	2–1	1–3	1–0
Stal Alchevsk	3–0	4–2	1–1	1–1	2–2	3–1	3–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	5–0		0–0	3–2	2–1
Tytan Armyansk	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–3	3–0	0–1	3–0^[c]	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	2–0	2–1		0–2	0–0
Hoverla Uzhhorod	2–2	2–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	4–2	0–2	2–3	2–1	3–0	2–1	4–2	3–2	2–0		2–0
Zirka Kirovohrad	1–0	3–3	0–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	0–2	1–3	3–0	3–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–3	4–0

Updated to match(es) played on June 21, 2011. Source: PFL Persha Liha Calendar
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ PFL awarded a technical 3–0 victory to Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk due to Enerhetyk Burshtyn fielding Ihor Dolotko who was suspended for the game.^[38] The original Round 22 game ended in a 1–1 draw.
^ PFL awarded a technical 3–0 victory to Nyva Vinnytsia due to Enerhetyk Burshtyn not arriving for the Round 34 match on June 11, 2011.^[39]
^ Feniks-Illichivets Kalinino failed to play in their scheduled Round 17 match on October 23, 2010 indicating that had removed themselves from all competitions (October 21st, 2010).^[40] Four days later the club informed the PFL that their financial state had stabilized.^[41] PFL award a 3–0 technical victory to Tytan Armyansk.^[42]

Top scorers

	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	Ruslan Hunchak	20 (1)	Bukovyna Chernivtsi
2	Matviy Bobal	15 (4)	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
3	Vyacheslav Shevchenko	14	Stal Alchevsk/PFC Oleksandria^[a]
4	Oleksandr Kochura	12 (5)	Zirka Kirovohrad
5	Dmytro Leonov	10	Feniks-Illichivets Kalinino/Arsenal Bila Tserkva^[b]
	Vitaliy Havrysh	10 (1)	Stal Alchevsk
	Kostyantyn Vizyonok	10 (2)	Tytan Armyansk
	Serhiy Herasymets	10 (5)	Nyva Vinnytsia
9	Charles Newuche	9 (1)	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
	Denys Vasin	9 (1)	Chornomorets Odesa
	Anatoliy Didenko	9 (2)	Chornomorets Odesa
	Valentyn Poltavets	9 (6)	Dnister Ovidiopol