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Ukrainian Premier League
Official logo^[1]
Season	2017–18
Dates	16 July 2017 – 19 May 2018
Champions	Shakhtar Donetsk 11th title
Champions League	Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv
Europa League	Vorskla Poltava Zorya Luhansk Mariupol
Matches played	183
Goals scored	407 (2.22 per match)
Top goalscorer	21 – Facundo Ferreyra (Shakhtar)
Biggest home win	5 – Dynamo 5–0 Karpaty (Round 3) Zorya 5–0 Chornomorets (Round 7) Shakhtar 5–0 Chornomorets (Round 20) Shakhtar 5–0 Zirka (Round 21)
Biggest away win	5 – Karpaty 1–6 Veres (Round 8)
Highest scoring	8 – Zorya 4–4 Dynamo (Round 11)
Longest winning run	6 – Shakhtar (Rounds 3-8)
Longest unbeaten run	13 – Shakhtar (Rounds 3-15)
Longest winless run	17 – Stal (Rounds 3-19)
Longest losing run	7 – Stal (Rounds 3-9)
Highest attendance	38,618 – Dynamo–Shakhtar (Round 13)
Lowest attendance	0 – 3 games^[2]
← 2016–17 2018–19 → All statistics correct as of 9 March 2018.

The 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League season is the 27th top level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the tenth since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League.

The tournament started on 16 July 2017 with the competition set to end on 19 May 2018. The relegation play-offs took place on 23 May and 26 May 2018.^[3] The league has scheduled to take its winter intermission after Round 19 on 9–10 December 2017 and resume its competition of the Championship with Round 20 on 17 February 2018.

The defending champion is the 10-times winner FC Shakhtar Donetsk.

The league's last season title sponsor, a bookmaker company Parimatch, withdrew from the sponsorship. On 7 July 2017, Pari-Match announced that it had ended its cooperation with the Ukrainian Premier League.^[4]

Before the start of the season a scandal arose around promotion between the First League clubs FC Desna Chernihiv and NK Veres Rivne when Veres that placed lower in tournament table was admitted to the Premier League ahead of Desna. Later it was announced that Desna might be promoted as well due to rumors around a financial situation of FC Stal Kamianske. The final decision of the league's composition was adopted at the FFU Conference on 16 June 2017.^[5]^[6]

With the ongoing War in Donbass, the Round 2 games started with a minute of silence to commemorate the warriors of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who had perished in the ATO zone.^[7]

Competition format

On 28 April 2017, the Ukrainian Premier League administration announced that its General Assembly of participants adopted decision about changes to the competition format and calendar for the next 2017–18 season.^[8] Before the assembly, the UPL Administration presented to its clubs five variants of competition format.^[9]

For the next season UPL will keep 12 clubs (that fact was confirmed at the conference of coaches few days prior);^[10]
Competition will have two stages, with the first stage having 22 rounds and the second stage after team will split into two six-members groups having 10 more rounds in each group;
Team that placed the 12th will be relegated directly to Persha Liha, teams that placed 10th and 11th will play two-leg play-off with the second and third teams of the Persha Liha.

The format was confirmed by the FFU Executive Committee on 30 May 2017.^[3]

The draw for the second stage calendar was announced on 10 February and is scheduled to take place three days later on 13 February 2018.^[11]

Next season changes and a structural reform

On 26 October 2017, the magazine "Futbol" reported quoting the FFU Executive Committee member Artem Frankov that the Ukrainian Premier League at its next earliest session will review a possibility to expand the league back to 16 teams starting since the 2019–20 season.^[12] At the same time number of clubs in the Ukrainian First League will be decreased also to 16 teams.^[12]

On 8 November 2017, a conference took place involving officials of the Ukrainian Premier League as well as the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) where its participants were discussing a reorganization of competition system in professional and amateur football.^[13] A decision about the reform was adopted by the FFU Executive Committee on 20 June 2017.^[13]

Teams

Promotions

Two teams were promoted to the league (instead of the relegated FC Dnipro and FC Volyn Lutsk):

FC Mariupol (renamed after the previous season)^[14]^[15] – the champion of the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League (returning after two seasons absence)
NK Veres Rivne^[15] – third place of the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League (returning for the first time since 1994–95, 22 seasons absence)

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

Kyiv

Kyiv teams :
Dynamo
Olimpik
Stal

Lviv

Lviv teams :
Karpaty
Veres

Donetsk

Donetsk teams :
Shakhtar
Olimpik

Veres

Zorya

(Dnipro)

(Kharkiv)

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Home venues of teams in the 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League.
Teams in italics are from a conflict zone of the War in Donbass and are playing their home games in different cities.
Stal Kamianske plays its home games in Kyiv. Veres Rivne plays its home games in Lviv.

Kyiv city home venues of teams in the League

(Lviv)

Karpaty

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Lviv city home venues of teams in the League

Stadiums

Five teams play their matches outside of home towns. The minimum threshold for the stadium's capacity in the UPL is 5,000.^[16]

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Rank	Stadium	Place	Club	Capacity	Notes
1	NSC Olimpiyskiy	Kyiv	Dynamo Kyiv	70,050
2	OSC Metalist	Kharkiv	Shakhtar Donetsk	40,003	Used as home ground during the season.
3	Arena Lviv	Lviv	Veres Rivne	34,915	Used as home ground during the season.
4	Chornomorets Stadium	Odesa	Chornomorets Odesa	34,164
5	Ukraina Stadium	Lviv	Karpaty Lviv	28,051
5	Ukraina Stadium	Lviv	NK Veres Rivne	28,051	Round 32 (last round)^[17]
6	Vorskla Stadium	Poltava	Vorskla Poltava	24,795
7	Meteor Stadium	Dnipro	Stal Kamianske	24,381	Nominally reserved as the home station for Stal where it played only its first game.
8	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium^[a]	Kyiv	Olimpik Donetsk	16,873	Used as home ground during the season.
8	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium^[a]	Kyiv	Dynamo Kyiv	16,873	Dynamo used the stadium since April 2018 since NSC Olympiyskiy was getting ready to host the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final.
9	Zirka Stadium	Kropyvnytskyi	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	13,667
10	Illichivets Stadium^[b]	Mariupol	FC Mariupol	12,680
11	Slavutych-Arena	Zaporizhia	Zorya Luhansk	12,000	Used as home ground during the season.
12	CSC Nika Stadium	Oleksandriya	FC Oleksandriya	7,000
13	Obolon Arena	Kyiv	Stal Kamianske	5,100	De facto, the home stadium of Stal.

Notes:

^ The reconstruction is intended to be finished mainly by the beginning of next season, while finishing touches might be applied until August 1, 2017.^[18] The renovations are conducted in preparation to the 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League for which the Dynamo Stadium is chosen to be a venue of the final game.^[19]
^ Officially renamed as Volodymyr Boiko Stadium, the stadium is listed as Illichivets at the Ukrainian Premier League website^[20]

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	President	Head coach^[21]	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Chornomorets Odesa	Leonid Klimov	Kostyantyn Frolov	Serhiy Lyulka	Legea	Gefest
Dynamo Kyiv	Ihor Surkis	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	Viktor Tsyhankov	adidas	UEFA No to racism
Karpaty Lviv	Petro Dyminskyi	Oleh Boychyshyn	Artem Fedetskyi	Joma	ZIK
Mariupol	Pavlo Rozumnyi	Oleksandr Babych	Rustam Khudzhamov	Nike	Favorit Sport
Oleksandriya	Serhiy Kuzmenko	Volodymyr Sharan	Andriy Zaporozhan	Nike	UkrAhroKom
Olimpik Donetsk	Vladyslav Helzin	Roman Sanzhar	Zauri Makharadze	Joma	Pari-Match
Shakhtar Donetsk	Rinat Akhmetov	Paulo Fonseca	Taras Stepanenko	Nike	SCM
Stal Kamianske	Vardan Israelian	Nikolay Kostov	Maksym Zaderaka	Hummel	—
Veres Rivne	Bohdan Kopytko	Andriy Demchenko (interim)	Serhiy Borzenko	Joma	Global Development
Vorskla Poltava	Roman Cherniak	Vasyl Sachko	Volodymyr Chesnakov	adidas	Ferrexpo
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	Maksym Berezkin	Roman Monaryov	Maksym Drachenko	Joma	—
Zorya Luhansk	Yevhen Heller	Yuriy Vernydub	Oleksandr Karavayev	Nike	Favorit Sport

Notes:

Ever since Darijo Srna was tested positive for doping (dehydroepiandrosterone among others), on 22 September 2017 he voluntarily stopped participation in competitions and on 20 November 2017 he has been suspended by UEFA for the continental competitions.^[22]^[23]^[24] The team's captain for Shakhtar has been served either by Taras Stepanenko or Taison. On 22 February 2018, the disqualification was officially applied and retrospectively including the time he was suspended from competitions.^[22] The start time of disqualification was identified as 22 March 2017 (date of test taken)^[23] and the end time shall be no earlier than 22 August 2018.^[22]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
Dynamo Kyiv	Serhii Rebrov	End of contract	31 May 2017^[25]	Pre-season	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	2 June 2017^[26]	Pre-season
NK Veres Rivne	Yuriy Virt (caretaker)	Change of contract	6 June 2017^[27]		Yuriy Virt	6 June 2017^[27]
Stal Kamianske	Leonid Kuchuk	End of contract	6 June 2017^[28]		Yegishe Melikyan	25 June 2017^[29]
Karpaty Lviv	Oleg Dulub	Resigned	11 June 2017^[30]		Sergio Navarro	16 June 2017^[30]
Chornomorets Odesa	Oleksandr Babych	Resigned	21 August 2017^[31]	12th	Oleksandr Hranovskyi (caretaker)	21 August 2017^[31]	12th
	Oleksandr Hranovskyi (caretaker)	End of interim spell	30 August 2017		Oleksiy Chystyakov (caretaker)	30 August 2017^[32]
	Oleksiy Chystyakov (caretaker)	End of interim spell	4 September 2017		Oleg Dulub	4 September 2017^[33]
Karpaty Lviv	Sergio Navarro	Sacked	14 September 2017^[34]	10th	Serhiy Zaytsev	14 September 2017^[35]^[36]	10th
FC Mariupol	Oleksandr Sevidov	Mutual consent	22 September 2017^[37]	5th	Oleksandr Babych	22 September 2017^[38]	5th
Stal Kamianske	Yegishe Melikyan	Resigned	25 September 2017^[39]^[40]	11th	Kyrylo Nesterenko (caretaker)	25 September 2017^[41]	11th
Stal Kamianske	Kyrylo Nesterenko (caretaker)	End of interim spell	28 September 2017^[42]	11th	Nikolay Kostov	28 September 2017^[42]	11th
Karpaty Lviv	Serhiy Zaytsev	Sacked	19 November 2017^[43]	11th	Dario Drudi (caretaker)	19 November 2017^[44]	11th
Karpaty Lviv	Dario Drudi (caretaker)	Will work as assistant	21 November 2017^[45]	11th	Oleh Boychyshyn	21 November 2017^[46]	11th
Chornomorets Odesa	Oleg Dulub	Mutual consent	22 December 2017^[47]	10th	Kostyantyn Frolov	23 December 2017^[48]	10th
Veres Rivne	Yuriy Virt	Mutual consent	29 December 2017^[49]	5th	Yury Svirkov	30 December 2017^[50]	5th
Veres Rivne	Yury Svirkov	Resigned	25 April 2018^[51]	6th	Andriy Demchenko (caretaker)	26 April 2018^[52]	6th

Notes:

First stage

First stage table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shakhtar Donetsk	22	16	3	3	51	18	+33	51	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	22	13	6	3	42	20	+22	45
3	Vorskla Poltava	22	11	4	7	28	22	+6	37
4	Zorya Luhansk	22	8	9	5	38	28	+10	33
5	Veres Rivne	22	7	11	4	26	17	+9	32
6	FC Mariupol	22	9	5	8	30	27	+3	32
7	Olimpik Donetsk	22	7	7	8	24	26	−2	28	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	FC Oleksandriya	22	4	11	7	19	23	−4	23
9	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	22	4	7	11	13	31	−18	19
10	Karpaty Lviv	22	3	10	9	13	35	−22	19
11	Chornomorets Odesa	22	3	9	10	16	36	−20	18
12	Stal Kamianske	22	3	6	13	15	32	−17	15

First stage results

Home \ Away	CHO	DYK	KAR	MAR	OLK	OLD	SHA	STK	VER	VOR	ZIR	ZOR
Chornomorets Odesa	—	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–3	3–3	1–1
Dynamo Kyiv	2–1	—	5–0	5–1	3–0	1–0	0–0	4–1	0–0	2–1	3–0	3–2
Karpaty Lviv	1–1	1–1	—	0–1	0–0	2–1^[a]	0–3	3–1	1–6	1–3	1–1	0–2
Mariupol	3–0	3–0^[b]	3–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–3	4–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–5
FC Oleksandriya	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	—	0–2	1–2	4–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1
Olimpik Donetsk	1–0	1–2	0–0	3–2	1–0	—	2–4	2–0	0–0	1–4	1–0	3–3
Shakhtar Donetsk	5–0	0–1	2–0	3–1	1–2	2–0	—	1–1	2–0	3–2	5–0	3–1
Stal Kamianske	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	—	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1
Veres Rivne	3–1	3–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	—	1–0	0–0	0–1
Vorskla Poltava	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–0	—	2–1	1–1
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	0–1	0–2	0–0	0–3	0–0^[c]	0–0	2–4	1–0	1–3	1–0	—	2–1
Zorya Luhansk	5–0	4–4	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	—

Source: Ukrainian Premier League (in Ukrainian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.
Notes:

^ The game stopped after the first half (1:1) due to heavy snowfall. On 3 December 2017, the UPL Administration announced that the game will not be postponed to the next day on 4 December 2017 and a decision on its outcome will be adopted additionally.^[53] On 6 December 2017, the League's administration announced that it will pass to the FFU Control and Disciplinary Committee for review all its materials related to the game.^[54]^[55] Among many issues related to Karpaty, on 21 December 2017 the FFU CDC adopted a decision for a game between Karpaty and Olimpik to finish after the winter break.^[56] The game was played on 21 February 2018.^[57]
^ see 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League#Mariupol vs Dynamo (security issues)
^ The game between Zirka Kropyvnytskyi and Oleksandriya was postponed three days due to the pitch conditions after recent snowstorm.^[58]

First stage positions by round

The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition played chronologically.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Team ╲ Round
Shakhtar Donetsk	1	4	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Dynamo Kyiv	3	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Vorskla Poltava	12	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	5	5	5	3	3	3	3	3
Zorya Luhansk	10	9	9	11	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	4	4	4
Veres Rivne	7	8	7	5	6	5	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	3	4	5	5	5	5
FC Mariupol	8	7	5	7	5	6	6	6	5	5	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	7	6
Olimpik Donetsk	2	3	6	3	3	4	4	4	6	6	5	4	3	3	3	3	4	5	6	7	6	7
FC Oleksandriya	11	11	10	9	10	11	11	11	9	8	8	9	9	10	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	5	6	8	10	11	9	8	8	8	9	9	8	10	9	8	10	10	9	9	9	10	9
Karpaty Lviv	6	10	11	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	8	8	9	11	11	11	11	10	9	10
Chornomorets Odesa	9	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	10	11	11	11	9	9	10	10	11	11	11
Stal Kamianske	4	2	3	6	7	7	9	9	11	11	10	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

After the second round, places of Zirka Kropyvnytskyi (6th) and FC Mariupol (7th) are defined by undisclosed criterion.
After the third round, places of Zirka Kropyvnytskyi (8th) and Zorya Luhansk (9th) are defined by undisclosed criterion.

Championship round

Championship round table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shakhtar Donetsk (C)	32	24	3	5	71	24	+47	75	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Dynamo Kyiv	32	22	7	3	64	25	+39	73	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Vorskla Poltava	32	14	7	11	37	35	+2	49	Qualification for the Europa League group stage^[a]
4	Zorya Luhansk	32	11	10	11	44	44	0	43	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round^[a]
5	FC Mariupol	32	10	9	13	38	41	−3	39	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round^[a]
6	Veres Rivne (D)	32	7	14	11	28	30	−2	35	Club suspended after the season

^ ^a ^b ^c Since the winners of the 2017–18 Ukrainian Cup, Shakhtar Donetsk, qualified for European competition based on league position, the spot awarded to the cup winners (Europa League group stage) was passed to the third-placed team, the spot awarded to the third-placed team (Europa League third qualifying round) was passed to the fourth-placed team, and the spot awarded to the fourth-placed team (Europa League second qualifying round) was passed to the fifth-placed team.

Championship round results

Home \ Away	DYK	MAR	SHA	VER	VOR	ZOR
Dynamo Kyiv	—	1–1	2–1	1–0	4–0	4–0
Mariupol	2–3	—	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–0
Shakhtar Donetsk	0–1	3–0	—	1–0	4–2	2–1
Veres Rivne	1–4	1–1	0–2	—	0–0	0–1
Vorskla Poltava	0–1	1–0	0–3	0–0	—	2–0
Zorya Luhansk	0–1	3–1	0–3	1–0	0–3	—

Championship round positions by round

Team ╲ Round	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
Team ╲ Round
Shakhtar Donetsk	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Dynamo Kyiv	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Vorskla Poltava	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Zorya Luhansk	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FC Mariupol	5	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5
Veres Rivne	6	6	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Relegation round

Relegation round table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	FC Oleksandriya	32	10	15	7	32	27	+5	45
8	Karpaty Lviv	32	8	13	11	28	45	−17	37
9	Olimpik Donetsk	32	9	9	14	29	38	−9	36
10	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi (R)	32	7	10	15	22	40	−18	31	Qualification for the Relegation play-offs
11	Chornomorets Odesa (Z)	32	6	11	15	26	49	−23	29	Qualification for the Relegation play-offs
12	Stal Kamianske (R, X)	32	6	8	18	23	44	−21	26	Relegated and later withdrawn

Source: Ukrainian Premier League (in Ukrainian), UEFA, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Draw.
(R) Relegated; (X) Withdrew; (Z) Readmitted in after withdrawal of FC Poltava. see 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League #Relegation play-offs for more information.

Relegation round results

Home \ Away	CHO	KAR	OLK	OLD	STK	ZIR
Chornomorets Odesa	—	1–1	1–3	3–1	0–1	1–0
Karpaty Lviv	3–1	—	1–2	0–3	3–0	2–1
FC Oleksandriya	0–0	1–1	—	2–0	2–0	1–0
Olimpik Donetsk	1–0	0–2	0–0	—	0–2	0–1
Stal Kamianske	1–2	0–1	1–2	0–0	—	1–1
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–2	—

Relegation round positions by round

Team ╲ Round	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
Team ╲ Round
FC Oleksandriya	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	7
Karpaty Lviv	11	11	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	8
Olimpik Donetsk	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	9
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Chornomorets Odesa	10	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	11
Stal Kamianske	12	10	11	11	11	11	12	11	11	12

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Relegation play-offs

Teams that placed 10th and 11th in the 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League play two-leg play-off with the second and third teams of the 2017–18 Ukrainian First League. On 11 May 2018, a draw for relegation play-offs took place in the House of Football, Kyiv.^[59] The games were played on 23 May and 27 May 2018.^[60]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	1–5	Desna Chernihiv	1–1	0–4
Chornomorets Odesa	1–3	FC Poltava	1–0	0–3 (a.e.t.)

First leg

23 May 2018

17:00 UTC+3

Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	1–1	Desna Chernihiv
D. Favorov 77' (o.g.)	Report	Volkov 32'

Zirka Stadium, Kropyvnytskyi

Attendance: 2,981

Referee: Serhiy Boyko (Kyiv Oblast)

23 May 2018

19:00 UTC+3

Chornomorets Odesa	1–0	FC Poltava
Kovalets 36'	Report

Chornomorets Stadium, Odesa

Attendance: 4,124

Referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi (Kyiv)

Second leg

27 May 2018

17:00 UTC+3

FC Poltava	3–0 (a.e.t.)	Chornomorets Odesa
Dehtyarev 67', 105' Zubeiko 113' (o.g.)	Report	Romanyuk 64' 110'

Lokomotyv Stadium, Poltava

Attendance: 3,700

Referee: Yuriy Mozharovskyi (Lviv)

FC Poltava won 3–1 on aggregate and was promoted to the 2018–19 Ukrainian Premier League. Chornomorets Odesa was relegated to the 2018–19 Ukrainian First League. But later, the league picked Chornomorets Odesa for the FC Poltava's replacement for the next season after their withdrawal.

27 May 2018

18:00 UTC+3

Desna Chernihiv	4–0	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi
A.Favorov 24' D.Favorov 38' Arveladze 52', 87' Volkov 63'	Report

Chernihiv Stadium, Chernihiv

Attendance: 10,799

Referee: Kostiantyn Trukhanov (Kharkiv)

Desna Chernihiv won 5–1 on aggregate and was promoted to the 2018–19 Ukrainian Premier League. Zirka Kropyvnytskyi was relegated to the 2018–19 Ukrainian First League.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 19 May 2018^[update]^[61]

Rank	Scorer	Team	Goals (Pen.)
1	Facundo Ferreyra	Shakhtar Donetsk	21 (1)
2	Marlos^[a]	Shakhtar Donetsk	18 (5)
3	Viktor Tsyhankov	Dynamo Kyiv	13 (2)
4	Iury	Zorya Luhansk	11 (1)
5	Yuriy Kolomoyets	Vorskla Poltava	9
	Dieumerci Mbokani	Dynamo Kyiv	9
	Mykhaylo Serhiychuk^[c]	Veres / Vorskla	9 (3)
8	Oleksiy Khoblenko^[b]	Chornomorets Odesa	8 (1)
8	Orest Kuzyk	Stal Kamianske	8 (1)
10	Artem Hromov	Zorya Luhansk	7
	Serhiy Starenkyi	FC Oleksandriya	7
	Marian Shved	Karpaty Lviv	7

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Viktor Tsyhankov	Dynamo Kyiv	Karpaty Lviv	5–0	29 July 2017^[62]
Serhiy Starenkyi	Oleksandriya	Stal Kamanske	4–1	16 September 2017^[63]
Oleksandr Andriyevskyi	Zorya Luhansk	Mariupol	5–2	22 October 2017^[64]
Andriy Boryachuk	Mariupol	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	3–0	18 February 2018^[65]

^(number) Player scored (number) goals if more than 3

Away win

Home win

Draw

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month
Month	Player	Club	Reference
July 2017	Marlos^[a]	Shakhtar Donetsk	^[66]
August 2017	Maksym Pryadun	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	^[67]
September 2017	Alyaksandr Hutar	Chornomorets Odesa	^[68]
October 2017	Oleksandr Andriyevskyi	Zorya Luhansk	^[69]
November 2017	Artem Polyarus	FC Oleksandriya	^[70]
March 2018	Viktor Tsyhankov	Dynamo Kyiv	^[71]
April 2018	Jorge Carrascal	Karpaty Lviv	^[72]
May 2018	Benjamin Verbič	Dynamo Kyiv	^[73]

Round awards

Round	Player			Coach
Round	Player	Club	Reference	Coach	Club	Reference
Round 1	Marlos^[a]	Shakhtar Donetsk	^[74]	Yegishe Melikyan	Stal Kamianske	^[75]
Round 2	Dieumerci Mbokani	Dynamo Kyiv	^[76]	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	Dynamo Kyiv	^[77]
Round 3	Viktor Tsyhankov	Dynamo Kyiv	^[78]	Oleksandr Sevidov	FC Mariupol	^[79]
Round 4	Oleksandr Tkachenko	Vorskla Poltava	^[80]	Yuriy Virt	Veres Rivne	^[81]
Round 5	Vyacheslav Churko	FC Mariupol	^[82]	Roman Sanzhar	Olimpik Donetsk	^[83]
Round 6	Oleksandr Chyzhov	Vorskla Poltava	^[84]	Roman Monaryov	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	^[85]
Round 7	Maksym Pryadun	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	^[86]	Yuriy Vernydub	Zorya Luhansk	^[87]
Round 8	Viktor Tsyhankov	Dynamo Kyiv	^[88]	Yuriy Virt	Veres Rivne	^[89]
Round 9	Alyaksandr Hutar	Chornomorets Odesa	^[90]	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	Dynamo Kyiv	^[91]
Round 10	Oleksandr Bandura	Veres Rivne	^[92]	Yuriy Virt	Veres Rivne	^[93]
Round 11	Ihor Kharatin	Zorya Luhansk	^[94]	Vasyl Sachko	Vorskla Poltava	^[95]
Round 12	Yuriy Kolomoyets	Vorskla Poltava	^[96]	Oleg Dulub	Chornomorets Odesa	^[97]
Round 13	Oleksandr Andriyevskyi	Zorya Luhansk	^[98]	Yuriy Vernydub	Zorya Luhansk	^[99]
Round 14	Serhiy Myakushko	Karpaty Lviv	^[100]	Nikolay Kostov	Stal Kamianske	^[101]
Round 15	Vitaliy Buyalskyi	Dynamo Kyiv	^[102]	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	Dynamo Kyiv	^[103]
Round 16	Artem Polyarus	FC Oleksandriya	^[104]	Volodymyr Sharan	FC Oleksandriya	^[105]
Round 17	Marlos^[a]	Shakhtar Donetsk	^[106]	Volodymyr Sharan	FC Oleksandriya	^[107]
Round 18	Viktor Tsyhankov	Dynamo Kyiv	^[108]	Not awarded
Round 19	Yuriy Pankiv	FC Oleksandriya	^[109]	Vasyl Sachko	Vorskla Poltava	^[110]
winter break
Round 20	Andriy Boryachuk	FC Mariupol	^[111]	Nikolay Kostov	Stal Kamianske	^[112]
Round 21	Marlos	Shakhtar Donetsk	^[113]	Yuriy Vernydub	Zorya Luhansk	^[114]
Round 22	Viktor Tsyhankov	Dynamo Kyiv	^[115]	Oleksandr Babych	FC Mariupol	^[116]^[117]
Round 23	Facundo Ferreyra	Shakhtar Donetsk	^[118]	Paulo Fonseca	Shakhtar Donetsk	^[119]^[120]
Round 24	Viktor Tsyhankov	Dynamo Kyiv	^[121]	Yuriy Vernydub	Zorya Luhansk	^[122]
Round 25	Mykola Shaparenko	Dynamo Kyiv	^[123]^[124]	Paulo Fonseca	Shakhtar Donetsk	^[125]^[126]
Round 26	Viktor Tsyhankov	Dynamo Kyiv	^[127]	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	Dynamo Kyiv	^[128]
Round 27	Volodymyr Shepelyev	Dynamo Kyiv	^[129]	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	Dynamo Kyiv	^[130]
Round 28	Artem Besyedin	Dynamo Kyiv	^[131]	Paulo Fonseca	Shakhtar Donetsk	^[132]
Round 29	Iury	Zorya Luhansk	^[133]	Kostiantyn Frolov	Chornomorets Odesa	^[134]
Round 30	Taison	Shakhtar Donetsk	^[135]	Oleksandr Babych	FC Mariupol	^[136]
Round 31	Oleksandr Bandura	Veres Rivne	^[137]	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	Dynamo Kyiv	^[138]
Round 32	Vladyslav Kulach	Vorskla Poltava	^[139]	Vasyl Sachko	Vorskla Poltava	^[140]

The 2017 Coach of the Year award

The best coaches were identified by the All-Ukrainian Football Coaches Association.^[141]

Place	Coach	Team	Mark
1	Roman Sanzhar	Olimpik Donetsk	4.18
2	Paulo Fonseca	Shakhtar Donetsk	4.16
3	Yuriy Vernydub	Zorya Luhansk	4.02
4	Volodymyr Sharan	FC Oleksandriya	3.88
5	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	Dynamo Kyiv	3.60

Season awards

The laureates of the 2017–18 UPL season were:^[142]^[143]

Best player: Marlos (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Best coach: Alyaksandr Khatskevich (Dynamo Kyiv)
Best goalkeeper: Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Best arbiter: Yuriy Mozharovskyi (Lviv)
Best young player: Viktor Tsyhankov (Dynamo Kyiv)
Best goalscorer: Facundo Ferreyra (Shakhtar Donetsk)

Season's incidents

Desna vs Veres promotion

On 1 June 2017, it was announced that second-placed club FC Desna Chernihiv was denied a license to play in the top division. The argument was that the club was not able to provide guarantees for an adequate financing of infrastructure.^[144] The license was received by NK Veres Rivne, the third-placed team during the last season in the second-tier division.^[145]

Both clubs FC Desna Chernihiv and NK Veres Rivne did not play at their home stadiums in the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League. The first one played in Kyiv at the Obolon Arena, while the other one played in Varash, at the Izotop Stadium of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant. The administration of Desna released a letter of protest before a meeting of FFU representatives.^[146] In protest, the Desna administration announced that the club would not play its final game of the season against FC Illichivets Mariupol, but later relented.^[147] Nonetheless, during the game, players of both teams expressed their protest on the field in a special way: when the whistle was blown the players, instead of starting play, were demonstratively standing around yet kicking a ball.^[148]

On 2 June 2017, upon conclusion of its conference the UPL administration announced about the final composition of the league and calendar for the upcoming season.^[149] The conference confirmed the admission of Veres to the league and the only club that voted against was FC Dynamo Kyiv, while six votes were for decision and three (including FC Zorya Luhansk) abstained.^[150] On 2 June 2017, the Desna fans were picketing the House of Football in Kyiv after they arrived on four buses from Chernihiv.^[151]

On 7 June 2017, sports media UA-Football requested from Football Federation of Ukraine and FC Desna Chernihiv to publish related documents to have better understanding over the situation and come to some kind of closure on the subject.^[152]

Number of football experts negatively commented on the situation,^[153]^[154]^[155]^[156] while the PFC Sumy head coach Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi stated that tomorrow these sports functionaries in such way will make Veres the national champions.^[157] The former PFL president Svyatoslav Syrota said that the FFU vice-president is lying about Desna problems.^[158] President of FC Inhulets Petrove, Oleksandr Porovoznyuk, called on other clubs to withdraw their teams from the league in support for FC Desna Chernihiv.^[159] President of FC Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni Petro Kaplun stated that it makes him laugh when the president of Veres Oleksiy Khakhlev asks to follow the regulations. He points out that last season Veres was admitted to the Second League with complete disregard to the season's regulations. Kaplun also called on the FFU authorities to pay attention to what owners of professional clubs have to say as they have a right to express their vote of confidence for the FFU leadership.^[160]

Mariupol vs Dynamo (security issues)

Another issue relating to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine became serious when FC Dynamo Kyiv failed to arrive to Mariupol for the away game against FC Mariupol on 27 August 2017.^[161]

The issue was ongoing ever since the end of previous season when on 2 June 2017 FC Mariupol's promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League became official.^[161] On 3 June 2017 the vice president of Dynamo Serhiy Mokhnyk officially announced that the club will not travel for a game in Mariupol city as it is difficult to present guarantees in security due the fact that the city is located near a frontline (about 23–25 km (14–16 mi), see War in Donbass).^[161] The vice president also offered to conduct the game on a neutral field such as Dnipro Arena.^[162] Few days later in more details the same announcement was repeated by Ihor Surkis who also added that if he will receive documented security guarantees, he will send his team to Mariupol.^[161]^[163]

The leadership of the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) in a face of Andriy Pavelko right away expressed its opposition for the Dynamo's statement.^[161] The president of FFU made an emphasis that the game in Mariupol is an important component of uniting policy on national scale.^[161] He also underlined that there is no danger in conducting the game in Mariupol.^[161]

During preparation for the next season the issue was moved to background. However, when the season started on 16 July 2017, the issue surfaced again.^[161] About a week later, on 24 July 2017, Dynamo received recommendation letter from the Ministry of Interior and the Security Service of Ukraine where it was urged not to travel to Mariupol for a game.^[164] The same day Dynamo published its own letter addressed to the Football Federation of Ukraine and Ukrainian Premier League petitioning to transfer the Round 7 game against Mariupol scheduled on 27 August 2017 to another city.^[165]^[161] Two days later, on 26 July 2017, almost at the same time both the Minister of Interior (Arsen Avakov)^[166] and the President of UPL (Volodymyr Heninson)^[167] made public announcements assuring in safety of conducting football games in the littoral city of the Sea of Azov.

Throughout the rest of month of July two games took place in Mariupol. Until August FC Karpaty Lviv supported the position of Dynamo.^[161] Eventually to this "stand off" became involved the general manager of FC Shakhtar Donetsk Serhiy Palkin, while the television channel "Football" launched a wide informational campaign in support to conduct the game.^[161] For example, during one of the channel's broadcasting the president of Football Federation of Mariupol city called Hryhoriy Surkis the "main football separatist" and offered him to resolve the issue through Viktor Medvedchuk and the president of the aggressor state (Vladimir Putin).^[161]^[168]^[169]^[170] On 11 August 2017, the Deputy director of National Police in Donetsk Oblast wrote an official letter to the Football Federation of Ukraine with security guarantees for all games in Mariupol.^[171] Finally the game between FC Mariupol and FC Karpaty took place on August 13 in Mariupol.^[161]

On 18 August 2017, FFU issued a press release where it denied the petition of Dynamo in transferring the game.^[172] The session of the FFU Executive Committee that had taken place on 22 August 2017 should have solved the problem.^[161]

Following no show of Dynamo to the game with FC Mariupol on 27 August 2017, FC Mariupol issued a press release where it accused its opponents in attempt to discredit the football club from Mariupol.^[173] On 14 November 2017, The Appeal Committee of the Football Federation of Ukraine did not satisfy the Dynamo appeal and counted the team's technical defeat.^[174]

On 19 February 2018, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne declined all claims of Dynamo to the Football Federation of Ukraine in relations to the "Mariupol case".^[175]^[176]

On 28 February 2018, the Ukrainian Premier League has officially updated its standings in correspondence to the earlier decision of the FFU CDC of 11 September 2017.^[177]

Relocation of teams

Due to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine some football clubs were forced to be dissolved, other moved away to other cities in Ukraine. Among the UPL teams, teams from Donetsk, Olimpik and Shakhtar, moved to Kyiv, Zorya Luhansk moved to Zaporizhia, teams from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Tavriya and Sevastopol, were dissolved. The relocated teams did not hurry with their change of place of registry in hope to be able to return home in near future.

In 2018 Shakhtar has officially changed its place of registry from Donetsk to Mariupol.^[16]

During the season several clubs (Shakhtar, Stal, and Veres) changed their city registration for various reasons and informed the Football Federation of Ukraine that since the next season will represent other cities.^[16]

2018 UPL presidential elections

The 2018 presidential elections of the Ukrainian Premier League took place on 6 April 2018. The current president Volodymyr Heninson that serves as the president since February 2016 announced that he will not run for president in 2018.^[178]^[179] Among possible candidates specialists note a Swiss lawyer Thomas Grimm or Joe Palmer from AFC Wimbledon.^[178] As of 26 March 2018, a day before deadline for submitting candidacy for election, there is only Thomas Grimm whose candidacy was submitted by FC Oleksandriya on 22 March 2018.^[180] On 6 April 2018, Thomas Grimm was elected as a new president with 10 votes for and 2 abstained.^[181]^[182]

Prospective disciplinary sanctions

According to FootballHub, in March the FFU Disciplinary Committee prosecuted the Olimpik's junior teams U-19 and U-21 for game fixing.^[183] Earlier the CDC chairman, Francesco Baranca, underlined that Olimpik won't participate in European competitions if its junior teams will be disqualified.^[183]

FC Vorskla Poltava could have problems with the league's attestation for next season for debts to its former players.^[184] Another UPL player submitted his claim to the FFU CDC against its former club FC Stal Kamianske.^[185]

Notes

^
On 29 September 2017, it was announced that Marlos (native of Brazil) officially received Ukrainian citizenship and awaits for the FIFA documents permitting him to play for the Ukraine national football team.^[186] On 30 September 2017, FFU announced that Marlos is called up to play for the Ukraine national football team in the upcoming games of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification against Kosovo and Croatia.^[187]
^
On 12 January 2018, Khoblenko signed with Lech Poznan.^[188]
^
On 5 March 2018, Serhiychuk signed with FC Vorskla Poltava.^[189]

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^ "Олександр Хацкевич – найкращий тренер 31 туру Чемпіонату УПЛ!". Ukrainian Premier League. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
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^ "Сачко, Кныш и Варжеленко – лучшие тренеры недели в Украине". Sport Arena. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^ Roman Sanzhar – the best coach of the Premier League in 2017 (Роман Санжар – найкращий тренер Прем’єр-ліги 2017 року). UAFC. 28 December 2017
^ "УПЛ определила лучшего игрока и тренера сезона 2017/2018".
^ "Марлос, Пятов, Хацкевич, Циганков і Можаровський — лауреати сезону!".
^ Veres passed an attestation and will be playing in the UPL along with a coach Kvartsianyi (Верес получил аттестат и сыграет в УПЛ с тренером Кварцяным). Sport Arena. 1 June 2017
^ Desna was not allowed in UPL, out of the First League there will be promoted Veres (Десну не пустили в УПЛ, из Первой лиги выйдет Верес). Football.ua. 1 June 2017
^ Desna's administration: if there won't be the Premier Liha, there won't be financing (Руководство Десны: не будет Премьер-лиги — не будет финансирования). Football.ua. 1 June 2017
^ The Illichivets-Desna game will take place (Матч Ильичевец - Десна состоится). UA-Football. 2 June 2017
^ The Illichivets-Desna game started with a protest of players (Матч Ильичевец - Десна начался с акции протеста футболистов). UA-Football. 4 June 2017
^ "УПЛ представила календарь игр первого этапа чемпионата Украины 2017/18". football.ua. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
^ Rafailov: I would like that UPL was forming based exclusively on a sports principles (Рафаилов: Хотелось бы, чтобы УПЛ формировалась исключительно по спортивному принципу). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
^ "500 thousands for a place in the UPL?!" How the Desna fans were picketing FFU and UPL ("500 тисяч за місце в УПЛ?!" Як фанати Десни пікетували ФФУ та УПЛ). Football24.ua. 2 June 2017
^ Open letter of the UA-Football site administration to the Football Federation of Ukraine and FC Desna (Открытое письмо редакции сайта UA-Футбол к ФФУ и ФК Десна). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
^ Surkis: That what is happening with Desna is a delirium and a shame for our Federation (Суркис: То, что происходит с Десной - это бред и позор нашей Федерации). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
^ The lawlessness should not be in place, this a sport and we play for spectators (Khatskevych: (Хацкевич: Беcпредел не должен твориться, это спорт - мы играем для зрителей). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
^ Verbytskyi, I. In the realm of gloom, or Why Veres and Desna are the same evil (У царстві мороку, або Чому Верес і Десна – однакове зло). Football 24. 2 June 2017
^ Haponenko, O. Veres won over Desna in the final of the Cabinet's Football Cup (Верес обыграл Десну в финале Кубка Кабинетного футбола). Football 24. 2 June 2017
^ Bezsmertnyi: Tomorrow they will make this Veres yet a champion (Бессмертный: Завтра они этот Верес еще и чемпионом сделают). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
^ Syrota: Bandurko lied about Desna problems on all 5 criteria (Сирота: Бандурко збрехав про проблеми Десни за всіма 5 критеріями). Football24.ua. 4 June 2017
^ President of Inhulets calls on all clubs' leaders of the First League to withdraw their teams from competitions (Президент Ингульца призывает всех глав клубов Первой лиги снять команды с соревнований). Football.ua. 7 June 2017
^ (Каплун: Во второй лиге Верес оказался не по регламенту, а благодаря ручному голосованию исполкома ФФУ). UA-Football. 12 June 2017
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Shvets, S. Mariupol – Dynamo. Instead of announcement of the most scandalous game of season (Мариуполь - Динамо. Вместо анонса самого скандального матча сезона). UA-Football. 27 August 2017
^ Dynamo offers to play the game with FC Mariupol at Dnipro-Arena (Динамо предлагает сыграть матч с ФК Мариуполь на Днепр-Арене). UA-Football. 3 June 2017
^ Surkis: Give me the iron-strong guarantees and we will play even in Donetsk (Суркис: Дайте железные гарантии - и мы сыграем хоть в Донецке). UA-Football. 7 June 2017
^ MVS and SBU recommend Dynamo not to conduct games in Mariupol due to security concerns (МВД и СБУ рекомендовали "Динамо" не проводить матчей в Мариуполе из соображений безопасности). Gordonua. 24 July 2017
^ Dynamo asks FFU and UPL to transfer the game from Mariupol (Динамо просит ФФУ и УПЛ перенести матч из Мариуполя). UA-Football. 24 July 2017
^ MVS will assure the safety of all Premier League games in Mariupol – Avakov (МВД обеспечит безопасность всех матчей Премьер-лиги в Мариуполе – Аваков). Gordonua. 26 July 2017
^ There are no reasons to transfer football games out of Mariupol – the UPL president (Переносить футбольные матчи из Мариуполя нет никаких оснований – президент УПЛ). Gordonua. 26 July 2017
^ President of the Football Federation of Mariupol: For me the main football separatist is Hryhoriy Surkis (Глава Федерации футбола Мариуполя: Главный футбольный сепаратист для меня - Григорий Суркис). UA-Football. 14 August 2017
^ President of Football Federation of Mariupol Zhuravlyov: Hryhoriy Surkis is the main football separatist (Голова федерації футболу Маріуполя Журавльов: Григорій Суркіс – головний футбольний сепаратист). Football 24. 14 August 2017
^ President of Football Federation of Mariupol Zhuravlyov: Surkis often goes to Moscow. Perhaps he receives a request from the aggressor (Голова федерації футболу Маріуполя Журавльов: Суркіс часто їздить в Москву. Може, там він отримує прохання від агресора). Football 24. 13 August 2017
^ Donetsk Oblast police provided written security guarantees for the UPL games in Mariupol (Поліція Донецької області дала письмові гарантії безпеки на матчах УПЛ в Маріуполі). Football 24. 11 August 2017
^ FFU refused to transfer the Dynamo's game out of Mariupol (ФФУ отказалась переносить матч "Динамо" из Мариуполя). Gordonua. 18 August 2017
^ Mariupol: Dynamo is attempting to discredit our club (Мариуполь: Динамо пытается дискредитировать наш клуб). UA-Football. 27 August 2017
^ Dynamo counted the technical defeat for failure to appear in Mariupol (Динамо засчитано техническое поражение за неявку в Мариуполь). UA-Football 14 November 2017
^ The FFU won court case against Dynamo regarding the "Mariupol case" (ФФУ выиграла суд у Динамо по «мариупольскому делу»). Sport Arena. 19 February 2018
^ Committee decision. Media release Court of Arbitration for Sport. Retrieved 14 February 2023
^ Three teams of FC Dynamo Kyiv were awarded technical losses (Трьом командам ФК «Динамо» Київ зараховані технічні поразки). Ukrainian Premier League. 28 February 2018
^ ^a ^b Heninson won't run for the UPL president (Генинсон не будет баллотироваться на должность президента УПЛ). Football.ua. 7 March 2018
^ Heninson confirmed that he won't run for the UPL president (Генінсон підтвердив, що не йде на вибори президента УПЛ). Football 24. 7 March 2018
^ Grimm yet is the only candidate for the presidential post of UPL (Гримм пока единственный кандидат на пост президента УПЛ. Палмер не выдвинут). Sport Arena. 26 March 2018
^ During voting for the UPL president Dynamo and Zorya abstained (Динамо и Заря воздержались при голосовании за президента УПЛ). Sport Arena. 6 April 2018
^ Boiko, I.Returning of spectators to stands and with what else the new UPL president is getting ready to be preoccupied (Повернення глядачів на трибуни та чим ще має зайнятись новий президент УПЛ). Sport Arena. 6 April 2018
^ ^a ^b CDC prosecuted Olimpik for match fixing - mass media (КДК наказал Олимпик за договорные матчи — СМИ). Sport Arena. 29 March 2018
^ Vorskla could have problems with the UPL attestation due to debts to Zarychnyuk (У Ворсклы могут быть проблемы с аттестацией УПЛ из-за долга перед Заричнюком). Sport Arena. 29 March 2018
^ Shabanov submitted his claim against Stal to the FFU CDC (Шабанов подал заявление на Сталь в КДК ФФУ). Sport Arena. 29 March 2018
^ Marlos officially received Ukrainian citizenship (Марлос офіційно отримав громадянство України). football24.ua. 29 September 2017
^ Marlos is called to the Ukraine national football team up against Croatia and Kosovo (Марлос вызван в сборную Украины на Хорватию и Косово). Sport Arena. 30 September 2017
^ Khoblenko is a player of Lech (Хобленко — игрок Леха). Sport Arena. 12 January 2018
^ Vorskla signed Serhiychuk until the end of season (Ворскла подписала Сергийчука до конца года). Sport Arena. 5 March 2018

External links

Official website of the Ukrainian Premier League
Mariupol – Dynamo: discussion around the game that failed to take place only begins (Маріуполь - Динамо: дискусія довкола матчу, що не відбувся, тільки починається). PROFUTBOL (ПРОФУТБОЛ). 27 August 2017. (YouTube video, Ukrainian/Russian)
Nazarkevych, Yu. The Rivne's record (Рівненський рекорд). Ukrainian Premier League. 19 November 2017

Ukrainian Premier League

List of Ukrainian football champions

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v t e 2017–18 in Ukrainian football
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Domestic leagues	Premier League Under-21 and Under-19 First League Under-19 Second League Amateur League Women League
Domestic cups	Ukrainian Cup Final Super Cup Women's Cup Amateur Cup FFU Regions' Cup
Related to national team	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (Group I)
Club seasons
Premier League	Chornomorets Odesa Dynamo Kyiv Karpaty Lviv Mariupol Oleksandriya Olimpik Donetsk Shakhtar Donetsk Stal Kamianske Veres Rivne Vorskla Poltava Zirka Kropyvnytskyi Zorya Luhansk
Summer 2017 transfers Winter 2017–18 transfers

v t e 2017–18 in European men's football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '17 '18 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '17 '18 Faroe Islands '17 '18 Finland '17 '18 France Georgia '17 '18 Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '17 '18 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '17 '18 Kosovo Latvia '17 '18 Lithuania '17 '18 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova '17 '18 Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '17 '18 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '17 '18 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '17 '18 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '17 '18 Finland France Georgia '17 '18 Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '17 '18 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '17 '18 Kosovo Latvia '17 '18 Liechtenstein Lithuania '17 '18 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '17 '18 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '17 '18 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England France Iceland '17 '18 Israel Latvia Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '17 '18 Scotland Wales
Supercups	Albania Andorra Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic & Slovakia England Estonia '17 '18 Faroe Islands France Georgia '17 '18 Germany Gibraltar Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Lithuania '17 '18 Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '17 '18 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '17 '18 Romania Russia San Marino Spain Turkey Ukraine
UEFA competitions	Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Super Cup Youth League UEFA Champions League Path Domestic Champions Path knockout phase
International competitions	2018 FIFA World Cup UEFA qualification 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup 2019 Euro Under-21 qualification 2018 Euro Under-19 qualification 2018 Euro Under-17 qualification

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