1992 Vyshcha Liha


1992 Vyshcha Liha was the first football championship organized in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and officially recognized by the UEFA. The last Soviet season finished in fall of 1991.
The Football Federation of Ukraine when organizing the competition decided to shift its calendar to synchronize it with one common in Europe "fall-spring" and organized a short championship.

Teams and organization

League's formation and issues

Composition

The league and its calendar were adopted at the FFU Executive Committee session on 10 September 1991 with the ongoing 1991 season of the All-Soviet football competitions. It was established that the new league will consist of 20 teams divided in two groups. Six clubs were set to be relegated and replaced with two best from the First League, thus reducing the league for the next season to 16. Winners of both groups were to play against one another for the national title. The league's final was originally planned to consist of two games, but later due to scheduling of the Ukraine national football team's games it was changed to one on a neutral field.
To the league were included all Ukrainian clubs of the 1991 Soviet Top and First leagues, nine of eleven Ukrainian clubs out the 1991 Soviet Second League, the two best teams of the 1991 Soviet Second League and the winner of the Ukrainian Cup. The FFU president Viktor Bannikov was against to include the Ukrainian Cup winner into the top league.
There were opponents of organization of the championship among the most notable was FC Metalurh Zaporizhia. The FC Metalist Kharkiv was against with the condition if they would be relegated from the 1991 Soviet Top League. Also against the championship was Yevhen Kucherevskyi.
There were plenty of alternative proposition on the composition and the season's calendar among which from the president of Prykarpattia Anatoliy Revutskyi and the head coach of Temp Ishtvan Sekech.

Calendar

The championship started on March 6, about a month later after the qualification rounds of another national tournament, the first edition of Ukrainian Cup. The first half of the season was scheduled to finish on April 19 with the second one to resume on April 25. The last round was to be played on June 17.
Considering such a schedule and the fact that the Ukrainian Cup competition was on the way simultaneously, the Ukrainian clubs had to forfeit their scheduled games in the Soviet Cup competition. In addition to that Dynamo Kyiv also participated in the Champions League competition which ended for Dynamo only on April 15. Each team this season had at least two games scheduled every week on average.
Considering other official games, FC Torpedo Zaporizhia and FC Dynamo Kyiv has played the record of 26 games from February 18 through June 21 and the most among the other clubs in the League.

Location of teams


Qualified teams

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Managerial changes

Managerial changes approximated
TeamOutgoing head coachManner of departureDate of vacancyTableIncoming head coachDate of appointmentTable
FC Nyva TernopilMykhailo DunetsPre seasonLeonid KoltunPre season
FC Dnipro DnipropetrovskYevhen KucherevskyiMarch 10, 19921stMykola PavlovMarch 10, 19921st
FC Nyva VinnytsiaVyacheslav HroznyMarch 28, 199210thValery PetrovMarch 28, 199210th
FC Spartak Ivano-FrankivskIvan KrasnetskyiApril 19929thYuriy ShuliatytskyiApril 19929th

First stage

Qualified teams


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Group A final standings


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Group B final standings


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Second stage

Championship playoff

Tavriya Simferopol qualified for 1992–93 European Cup Preliminary round and Dynamo Kyiv qualified for 1992–93 UEFA Cup First round.

Third place playoff

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Notes:
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1. SC Tavria Simferopol
Goalkeepers: Oleh Kolesov, Dmitriy Gulenkov.

Defenders: Mykola Turchynenko, Oleksandr Holovko, Ihor Volkov, Vidmantas Vyšniauskas, Yuriy Getikov, Sefer Alibayev, Serhiy Voronezhsky, Dmitriy Smirnov.

Midfielders: Andriy Oparin, Vladislav Novikov, Yuriy Mikhailus, Oleksandr Kundenok, Serhiy Yesin.

Forwards: Sergei Gladyshev, Yuriy Hudymenko, Serhiy Shevchenko, Sergey Andreev, Toliat Sheykhametov, Marat Mulashev.
Manager: Anatoliy Zayayev.
Transferred out during the season: Marat Mulashev, Oleksandr Kundenok.
2. FC Dynamo Kyiv
Goalkeepers: Valdemaras Martinkėnas, Ihor Kutepov.

Defenders: Andriy Annenkov, Serhiy Zayets, Anatoliy Bezsmertny, Oleh Luzhny, Serhiy Shmatovalenko, Akhrik Tsveyba, Gintaras Kvitkauskas, Ervand Sukiasian, Andrey Aleksanenkov.

Midfielders: Volodymyr Sharan, Yuriy Moroz, Stepan Betsa, Pavlo Yakovenko, Oleh Volotek, Serhiy Kovalets.

Forwards: Oleh Salenko, Yuriy Hritsyna, Oleh Matveyev, Valeriy Yesipov, Viktor Leonenko.
Manager: Anatoliy Puzach.
Transferred out during the season: ?.
3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Goalkeepers: Valeriy Horodov, Mykola Medin.

Defenders: Serhiy Diriavka, Volodymyr Horily, Volodymyr Bahmut, Serhiy Bezhenar, Serhiy Mamchur, Andriy Yudin.

Midfielders: Andriy Polunin, Oleksandr Zakharov, Yevhen Pokhlebayev, Oleksiy Sasko, Yuriy Maksymov, Vadym Tyshchenko, Dmytro Mykhailenko, Oleksandr Omelchuk.

Forwards: Valentyn Moskvin, Serhiy Konovalov, Serhiy Dumenko, Oleksandr Palianytsia, Vladimir Lebed, Oleksandr Tiehayev.
Manager: Yevhen Kucherevsky, Mykola Pavlov.
Transferred out during the season: Vladimir Lebed.

Note': Players in italic'' are whose playing position is uncertain.