2001–02 Ukrainian First League

Ukrainian First League
Season2001–02
ChampionsVolyn-1 Lutsk
PromotedVolyn-1 Lutsk, Chornomorets Odesa, Obolon Kyiv
RelegatedElektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol, Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk, Nyva Ternopil
Top goalscorer(17) Vasyl Sachko (Volyn Lutsk) and Viktor Arefyev (Stal Alchevsk)

The 2001–02 Ukrainian First League was the eleventh season of the Ukrainian First League which was won by SC Volyn-1 Lutsk. The season started on July 17, 2001, and finished on June 16, 2002.

Promotion and relegation

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Three clubs promoted from the 2000–01 Ukrainian Second League.

Group A
Group B
Group C

Relegated teams

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Two clubs were relegated from the 2000-01 Ukrainian Top League:

Renamed teams

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  • FC Lviv merged with Karpaty becoming their farm team and changed its name to FC Karpaty-2 Lviv before the season.
  • FC Metalurh Nikopol changed its name to FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol before the season.
  • Due to reorganization of FC Arsenal Kyiv, FC CSKA-2 Kyiv changed its name back to FC CSKA Kyiv during winter break.

Teams

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In 2001-02 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

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Locations of teams in First League

Final table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Volyn-1 Lutsk (C, P) 34 25 3 6 56 24 +32 78 Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
2 Chornomorets Odesa (P) 34 21 4 9 48 21 +27 67
3 Obolon Kyiv (P) 34 18 8 8 49 26 +23 62
4 Polissia Zhytomyr 34 16 10 8 41 32 +9 58[a] Qualification for promotion play-off
5 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk 34 15 8 11 41 27 +14 53
6 Stal Alchevsk 34 14 8 12 42 34 +8 50
7 Naftovyk Okhtyrka 34 13 10 11 35 32 +3 49
8 Dynamo-2 Kyiv 34 11 14 9 42 32 +10 47
9 Zirka Kirovohrad 34 11 13 10 29 28 +1 46
10 SC Mykolaiv 34 12 10 12 37 44 −7 46
11 Shakhtar-2 Donetsk 34 13 7 14 50 46 +4 46
12 Karpaty-2 Lviv 34 12 6 16 41 52 −11 42
13 Borysfen Boryspil 34 10 10 14 43 45 −2 40[a]
14 CSKA Kyiv 34 10 9 15 32 39 −7 39
15 Nyva Vinnytsia 34 10 8 16 35 52 −17 38
16 Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopil (R) 34 10 7 17 30 41 −11 37 Relegated to Second League
17 Dnipro-2 Dniproperivsk (R) 34 8 7 19 29 48 −19 31
18 Nyva Ternopil (R) 34 3 4 27 20 77 −57 13
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b The result of the 25th round match Borysfen Boryspil - FC Polissya Zhytomyr (1:2) was annulled and replaced with such -:-, with no points added to either team.
Persha Liha 2001-02 Winners
FC Volyn Lutsk
First title

Promotion play-off

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Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya1 – 0Polissya Zhytomyr
Babych 45+2'
Martynenko Yellow card 30' Yellow-red card 78'		 Report
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Serhiy Shebek (Kyiv)

FC Polissya Zhytomyr failed to obtain a berth in the 2002–03 Vyshcha Liha.

Top scorers

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Statistics are taken from here.[1]

Scorer Goals (Pen.) Team
1 Ukraine Vasyl Sachko 17 (1) Volyn-1 Lutsk
Ukraine Viktor Arefyev 17 (5) Stal Alchevsk
3 Ukraine Vyacheslav Tereschenko 16 (1) Obolon Kyiv
4 Ukraine Pavlo Parshyn 14 (4) Polissya Zhytomyr
5 Ukraine Volodymyr Skrypka 13 SC Mykolaiv
6 Ukraine Pavlo Onysko 12 Karpaty-2 Lviv
7 Ukraine Volodymyr Hashchyn 11 (3) Volyn-1 Lutsk
8 Ukraine Kostiantyn Balabanov 10 Chornomorets Odesa
Ukraine Pavlo Zakharov 10 (7) Naftovyk Okhtyrka
10 Ukraine Oleksandr Sobkovych 7 (4) Obolon Kyiv

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Statistics (in Russian)
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