2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League


The 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 23rd since its establishment.
A total of sixteen teams participated in the league. Fifteen teams from last season's competition and one promoted club from the 2012–13 Ukrainian First League formed the league. The competition commenced on the 12 July 2013 when Tavriya Simferopol hosted Zorya Luhansk. Eighteen rounds were played prior to the winter recess. The competition was affected by the political turmoil that affected Ukraine during the spring session.

Russian invasion and its effects on the league

In November 2013, during the winter break of the Ukrainian Premier League, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest labelled Euromaidan started in Ukraine. The competition was to resume on 1 March 2014, but due to the Russian invasion continuing on with the Crimean crisis, the Premier League delayed the start of the spring stage. A decision was made by the Ukrainian Premier League to resume the competition on 15 March.
After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014 the teams from Crimea, namely Sevastopol and Tavriya Simferopol, continued to participate in the competition.
During the May 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine the Football Federation of Ukraine decided that all matches across all Ukrainian leagues, as well as the 2014 Ukrainian Cup Final, would be played behind closed doors for security reasons.
The unrest in Ukraine since November 2013 lead to an unexpected sense of unity among rival Ukrainian football fans. Various formerly bitter rival football fans held pro-Ukrainian Unity marches.

Teams

Promoted

Stal Alchevsk were to be promoted after finishing runners-up but their club administration refused promotion.
Hoverla Uzhhorod, the 15th placed team was allowed to stay in the Premier League after they passed attestation.
Metalurh Zaporizhya, the last-placed of the 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League was to be relegated to the Ukrainian First League at the end of the previous season but since no other team applied for entry from the Ukrainian First League they remained in the competition.

Location map

Stadiums

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

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League table

Results

The following table displays match results between each team in the competition.

Positions by round

The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition. The competition resumes with the spring stage with Round 21 due to the postponement of the competition due to the civil unrest in the country after the riots in Kiev and continuing on with the Crimean crisis. Originally scheduled Round 19 was played 15–17 April after Round 25 and Round 20 was played 23–24 April after Round 26.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

The top ten goalscorers were as follows:
RankScorerGoals
Team
1 Luiz Adriano20 Shakhtar Donetsk
2 Junior Moraes19 Metalurh Donetsk
3 Marko Devich15Metalist Kharkiv
4 Matheus13Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
4 Dieumerci Mbokani13Dynamo Kyiv
4 Yevhen Seleznyov13 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
7 Yannick Boli12 Zorya Luhansk
7 Andriy Yarmolenko12 Dynamo Kyiv
9 Oleksandr Hladkyi10Karpaty Lviv
9 Oleksiy Antonov10 Chornomorets Odesa

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Monthly awards

Season awards

The laureates of the 2013–14 UPL season were: