2000–01 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha

Season	2000–01
Dates	12 July 2000 – 19 June 2001 29 November 2000 – 10 March 2001 (winter break)
Champions	Dynamo Kyiv 9th title
Relegated	Stal Alchevsk Nyva Ternopil
Champions League	Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk
UEFA Cup	CSKA Kyiv Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Top goalscorer	Andriy Vorobei (Shakhtar) (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Shakhtar - Metalist 8:0
Biggest away win	Nyva - Shakhtar 0:7
Highest scoring	Nyva - Dynamo 3:7
← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

The 2000–01 Vyshcha Liha season was the 10th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

Teams

Promotions

• Stal Alchevsk, the runners-up of the 1999–2000 Ukrainian First League – (debut)

Note: the 1999–2000 Ukrainian First League was won by the second team of Dynamo Kyiv, FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv, which could not be promoted.

Location

Dnipro

Dynamo
CSKA

Kryvbas

Karpaty

Metalurh M.

Vorskla

Metalist

Metalurh Z.

Nyva T.

Stal

Tavriya

Shakhtar
Metalurh D.

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Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 2000-01

Stadiums

Rank	Stadium	Place	Club	Capacity	Notes
1	Stadion "Metalist"	Kharkiv	Metalist Kharkiv	32,000
2	Stadion "Shakhtar"	Donetsk	Shakhtar Donetsk	31,545
3	Stadion "Meteor"	Dnipropetrovsk	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30,000
4	Stadion "Metalurh"	Kryvyi Rih	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	29,782
5	Stadion "Ukraina"	Lviv	Karpaty Lviv	27,000
6	Stadion "Lokomotyv"	Simferopol	Tavriya Simferopol	26,000
7	Tsentralnyi Stadion "Metalurh"	Zaporizhia	Metalurh Zaporizhia	25,000
8	Stadion "Vorskla"	Poltava	Vorskla Poltava	25,000
9	Stadion "Dynamo"	Kyiv	Dynamo Kyiv	18,864
10	Tsentralnyi Miskyi Stadion	Ternopil	Nyva Ternopil	17,000
11	Stadion "Stal"	Alchevsk	Stal Alchevsk	12,500
12	Stadion "CSK ZSU"	Kyiv	CSKA Kyiv	12,000
13	Stadion "Azovstal"	Mariupol	Metalurh Mariupol	12,000
14	Stadion imeni 125-richia DMZ	Donetsk	Metalurh Donetsk	4,000

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Valery Lobanovsky
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Viktor Prokopenko
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Mykola Fedorenko
FC Metalurh Mariupol	Mykola Pavlov
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Semen Altman
FC CSCA Kyiv	Mykhailo Fomenko
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Valeriy Petrov	Oleksandr Ischenko 24 games
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia	Volodymyr Atamaniuk	Myron Markevych 24 games
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Viktor Udovenko	Leonid Tkachenko the first half Valeriy Shalychev 12 games
FC Karpaty Lviv	Stepan Yurchyshyn	Lev Brovarskyi 24 games
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Hennadiy Litovchenko	Oleh Taran 8 games
FC Vorskla Poltava	Serhiy Sobetskyi	Anatoliy Konkov 7 games Serhiy Morozov 18 games
FC Stal Alchevsk	Anatoliy Volobuev
FC Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Biskup	Valeriy Bohuslavskyi 8 games Ihor Yavorskyi 7 games

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
FC CSCA Kyiv	Volodymyr Bezsonov			pre-season	Mykhailo Fomenko		pre-season
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Mykhailo Fomenko			pre-season	Leonid Tkachenko		pre-season
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Volodymyr Muntian			pre-season	Oleksandr Ischenko		pre-season
FC Vorskla Poltava	Anatoliy Konkov		August		Serhiy Morozov	August
FC Nyva Ternopil	Valeriy Bohuslavsky		August		Ihor Yavorsky	September
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleh Taran		September		Hennadiy Litovchenko	October
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Leonid Tkachenko		November		Valeriy Shalychev	March
FC Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Yavorsky		March		Ihor Biskup	April
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Oleksandr Ischenko		May		Valeriy Petrov	June
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia	Myron Markevych		May		Volodymyr Atamaniuk	June
FC Karpaty Lviv	Lev Brovarsky		May		Stepan Yurchyshyn	June
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Valeriy Shalychev		June		Viktor Udovenko	June
FC Vorskla Poltava	Serhiy Morozov		June		Serhiy Sobetsky	June

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	26	20	4	2	58	17	+41	64	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	26	19	6	1	71	21	+50	63	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	26	17	4	5	37	18	+19	55	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Metalurh Mariupol	26	13	4	9	35	26	+9	43
5	Metalurh Donetsk	26	11	9	6	30	24	+6	42
6	CSKA Kyiv	26	10	10	6	30	23	+7	40	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
7	Tavriya Simferopol	26	8	9	9	24	31	−7	33	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
8	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	26	8	8	10	27	31	−4	32
9	Metalist Kharkiv	26	8	7	11	27	37	−10	31
10	Karpaty Lviv	26	9	3	14	33	42	−9	30
11	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	26	6	6	14	22	36	−14	24
12	Vorskla Poltava	26	6	5	15	16	29	−13	23
13	Stal Alchevsk (R)	26	3	6	17	19	49	−30	15	Relegated to Ukrainian First League
14	Nyva Ternopil (R)	26	2	3	21	20	65	−45	9

Source: uafootball.net.ua
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	CSK	DNI	DYN	KAR	KRY	MET	MDO	MTM	MZA	NVT	SHA	STA	TAV	VOR
CSKA Kyiv	—	1–1	1–5	4–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	4–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–0
Dnipro	2–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–4	2–0	3–0	2–1
Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	2–1	—	1–1	4–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	6–0	1–2	2–0	3–0	2–1
Karpaty Lviv	1–0	0–2	2–0	—	2–1	2–0	1–2	3–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	4–1	3–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	0–1	1–1	0–2	5–2	—	2–1	3–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–4	1–0	0–0	-:+
Metalist Kharkiv	0–0	0–1	0–2	2–2	1–0	—	2–0	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	3–1
Metalurh Donetsk	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	—	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–0
Metalurh Mariupol	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	—	3–1	5–1	1–3	2–0	2–0	1–0
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–2	-:+	—	2–0	2–3	2–3	0–2	0–0
Nyva Ternopil	1–3	0–2	3–7	5–2	0–2	1–1	2–3	1–1	0–1	—	0–7	0–0	0–2	1–3
Shakhtar Donetsk	0–0	3–1	1–1	3–2	2–1	8–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	2–1	—	3–1	5–0	1–0
Stal Alchevsk	1–2	0–1	0–5	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–3	0–4	1–2	1–0	2–5	—	0–1	0–1
Tavriya Simferopol	0–1	1–1	1–2	3–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	3–2	—	2–1
Vorskla Poltava	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	—

Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Vorobey

Andriy Vorobei	Shakhtar Donetsk	21 (4)
Ivan Hetsko	Metalist Kharkiv / Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	14 (4)
Serhiy Atelkin	Shakhtar Donetsk	11
Oleksandr Rykun	Metalurh Mariupol	11 (3)
Olexandr Melashchenko	Dynamo Kyiv / Vorskla Poltava	10
Stepan Molokutsko	Metalurh Mariupol	9 (1)
Hennady Zubov	Shakhtar Donetsk	9 (1)
Vasyl Shved	Karpaty Lviv	8
Georgi Demetradze	Dynamo Kyiv	8 (1)
Julius Aghahowa	Shakhtar Donetsk	7
Valentin Belkevich	Dynamo Kyiv	7
Serhiy Popov	Shakhtar Donetsk	7
Artem Yashkin	Dynamo Kyiv	7
Serhiy Zakarlyuka	CSCA Kyiv	7

Notable Transfers

• Georgi Demetradze, FC Dynamo Kyiv to Real Sociedad
• Serhiy Zakarlyuka, CSCA Kyiv to FC Metalurh Donetsk

External links

• ukrsoccerhistory.com - source of information
• Чемпионат Украины 2000/01 - Высшая лига. ukranianfootball.narod.ru