1999–2000 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha
Season	1999–2000
Dates	12 July 1999 – 20 June 2000; 4 December 1999 – 18 March 2000; (winter break)
Champions	Dynamo Kyiv; 8th title
Relegated	Chornomorets Odesa ; Zirka Kirovohrad ; Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk
Champions League	Dynamo Kyiv ; Shakhtar Donetsk
UEFA Cup	Vorskla Poltava ; Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
Matches played	240
Top goalscorer	(20) Maksim Shatskikh (Dynamo)
Biggest home win	Dynamo - Prykarpattia 6:0
Biggest away win	Metalist - Dynamo 0:5
Highest scoring	Zirka - Shakhtar 2:6
	← 1998–99 2000–01 →

The 1999–2000 Vyshcha Liha season was the 9th top-level football club competition since its establishment and the 4th since the establishment of the Professional Football League (PFL). FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

The competitions started in just over three weeks after the completion of the previous 1998–99 season, which ended on June 25, 1999. At the same time, the mid-season winter break lasted over three months.

It was planned to reduce the number of participants to 14 for next season; therefore, three teams were scheduled to be relegated this season.

Teams

This season, the Vyshcha Liha remained at 16 teams.

Promotions

Chornomorets Odesa, the runners-up of the 1998–99 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of a season)

Relegated teams

SC Mykolaiv – relegated after a season in the top flight.

Location

Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1999-2000

Stadiums

The following stadiums are regarded as home grounds:

Rank	Stadium	Place	Club	Capacity	Notes
1	Olimpiyskyi NSC	Kyiv	CSKA Kyiv	83,450	used as home ground in 2 match(es)
2	ChMP	Odesa	Chornomorets Odesa	43,000
3	Metalist	Kharkiv	Metalist Kharkiv	32,000
4	Shakhtar	Donetsk	Shakhtar Donetsk	31,545
4	Shakhtar	Donetsk	Metalurh Donetsk	31,545	used as home ground in 4 match(es)
5	Meteor	Dnipropetrovsk	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30,000
6	Metalurh	Kryvyi Rih	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	29,783
7	Ukraina	Lviv	Karpaty Lviv	28,051
8	Lokomotyv	Simferopol	Tavriya Simferopol	26,000
9	Metalurh	Zaporizhia	Metalurh Zaporizhia	25,000
10	Vorskla	Poltava	Vorskla Poltava	24,795
11	Miskyi	Ternopil	Nyva Ternopil	17,000
12	SKA	Lviv	Karpaty Lviv	17,000	used as home ground in 4 match(es)
13	Dynamo	Kyiv	Dynamo Kyiv	16,873
14	Rukh	Ivano-Frankivsk	Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	15,000
15	Zirka	Kirovohrad	Zirka Kirovohrad	14,628
16	CSK ZSU	Kyiv	CSKA Kyiv	12,000
17	Avanhard	Makiivka	Shakhtar Donetsk	10,000	used as home ground in 1 match(es)
18	Azovstal	Mariupol	Metalurh Mariupol	9,000
19	Mashynobudivnyk	Druzhkivka	Metalurh Donetsk	5,000	used as home ground in 1 match(es)
20	125-richia DMZ	Donetsk	Metalurh Donetsk	4,000

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Valery Lobanovsky
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Viktor Prokopenko	Anatoliy Byshovets 8 games Oleksiy Drozdenko 6 games
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleh Taran
FC Vorskla Poltava	Anatoliy Konkov
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Mykhailo Fomenko
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	Myron Markevych
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Semen Altman	Mykhailo Sokolovskyi 5 games
FC Metalurh Mariupol	Mykola Pavlov
FC Karpaty Lviv	Lev Brovarskyi
FC CSKA Kyiv	Volodymyr Bezsonov
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Mykola Fedorenko	Leonid Koltun 2 games
FC Nyva Ternopil	Valeriy Bohuslavskyi
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Volodymyr Muntian	Anatoliy Korobochka the first half
FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Serhiy Morozov	Ihor Yavorskyi 12 games Anatoliy Boyko 2 games
FC Chornomorets Odesa	Anatoliy Azarenkov	Oleksandr Holokolosov 7 games Valeriy Melnyk 2 games
FC Zirka Kirovohrad	Yuriy Koval	Oleksandr Ischenko 5 games

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
FC Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Yurchenko			pre-season	Valeriy Bohuslavsky
FC Karpaty Lviv	Stepan Yurchyshyn			pre-season	Lev Brovarsky
Shakhtar Donetsk	Anatoliy Byshovets	Resigned	5 October 1999^[1]	7th	Oleksiy Drozdenko (interim)	5 October 1999^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv^[a] (C)	30	27	3	0	85	18	+67	84	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	21	3	6	60	16	+44	66	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih^[a]	30	18	6	6	54	30	+24	60	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Vorskla Poltava	30	14	7	9	50	34	+16	49	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
5	Metalist Kharkiv	30	12	8	10	41	39	+2	44^[b]
6	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	30	12	8	10	43	35	+8	44^[b]
7	Metalurh Donetsk	30	11	10	9	39	35	+4	43
8	Metalurh Mariupol	30	13	3	14	49	48	+1	42
9	Karpaty Lviv	30	12	4	14	39	38	+1	40
10	CSKA Kyiv	30	9	8	13	31	36	−5	35
11	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	8	9	13	26	52	−26	33
12	Nyva Ternopil	30	7	10	13	40	57	−17	31
13	Tavriya Simferopol	30	7	8	15	32	51	−19	29^[c]
14	Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk (R)	30	7	8	15	27	47	−20	29^[c]	Relegated to Ukrainian First League
15	Chornomorets Odesa (R)	30	6	8	16	20	50	−30	26
16	Zirka Kirovohrad (R)	30	0	9	21	16	66	−50	9

Source: uafootball.net.ua, www.rsssf.org
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Participant of the 2000 Ukrainian Cup Final
^ ^a ^b Even on head-to-head points, away goals scored: Metalist +1, M. Zaporizhia 0.
^ ^a ^b Head-to-head points: Tavriya 6, Prykarpattia 0.

Results

Home \ Away	CHO	CSK	DNI	DYN	KAR	KRY	MET	MDO	MTM	MZA	NVT	PRY	SHA	TAV	VOR	ZIR
Chornomorets Odesa	—	2–0	-:+^[a]	2–2	0–0	2–0	0–1	0–1	3–4	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–3	1–2	1–1	1–0
CSKA Kyiv	3–0	—	3–0	0–3	2–3	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	3–0
Dnipro	1–1	2–1^[b]	—	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	2–0
Dynamo Kyiv	4–1	3–1	4–0	—	3–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	6–1	2–0^[c]	4–1	6–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–0
Karpaty Lviv	5–0	1–0	4–0	2–3	—	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	3–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	—	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	5–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	4–0	3–1
Metalist Kharkiv	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–5	1–0	1–1	—	2–1	2–0	0–0	5–2	2–0	0–1	2–1	2–1	4–0
Metalurh Donetsk	4–0	0–0	5–1	0–4	2–1	0–0	1–1	—	2–1	2–1	3–2	4–1	2–3	0–0	2–3	2–0
Metalurh Mariupol	5–0	2–0	3–2	2–3	1–0	0–2	3–1	4–1	—	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–2	4–1	2–1	3–0
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	2–0	2–2	6–1	0–3	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	—	4–0	2–2	1–0	3–2	3–1	2–0
Nyva Ternopil	3–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–2	3–3^[d]	2–1	3–0	2–1	0–3	—	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–0
Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	3–1	1–3	2–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	—	0–2	0–2	0–1	4–2
Shakhtar Donetsk	0–1	3–0	2–0	0–0^[e]	4–0	3–1	3–1	2–0	3–0	4–0	5–0	1–0	—	2–0	0–0	1–0
Tavriya Simferopol	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–3	4–1	2–4	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–3	—	0–3	2–0
Vorskla Poltava	4–0	2–0	4–0	1–2	1–0	3–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	4–2	2–0	0–3	4–0	—	1–1
Zirka Kirovohrad	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–4	0–2	0–3	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–6	2–2	0–2	—

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

^ Originally, the match Chornomorets v Dnipro that took place on April 22, 2000, ended in a 2:2 tie. The Professional Football League of Ukraine awarded a technical win to Dnipro and a loss to Chornomorets for fielding Dmytro Karyaka for Chornomorets.^[6]
^ Scheduled on August 15, 1999, it was postponed and played on October 20, 1999, due to call-up of their players to the Ukraine national football team.
^ Originally, the match Dynamo v M. Zaporizhia was scheduled to take place on August 1, 1999, but was postponed and played on November 21, 1999. The Professional Football League approved the game postponement to accommodate Dynamo, which was scheduled to play Zalgiris in the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League on August 4, 1999.
^ Scheduled on August 15, 1999, it was postponed and played on October 12, 1999, as Kryvbas participated in the European competitions.
^ Scheduled on August 15, 1999, it was postponed and played on November 29, 1999, as both teams participated in European competitions and call-up of their players to the Ukraine national football team.

Top goalscorers

Maksim Shatskikh	Dynamo Kyiv	20 (1)
Ivan Hetsko	Karpaty Lviv / Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	19 (1) (10 goals for Karpaty Lviv)
Serhii Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv	18 (6)
Andriy Vorobei	Shakhtar Donetsk	15 (1)
Kostyantyn Babych	Metalurh Mariupol	12
Avtandil Kapanadze	Nyva Ternopil	12
Hennady Zubov	Shakhtar Donetsk	12 (4)
Oleksandr Haidash	Tavriya Simferopol / Metalurh Mariupol	10
Volodymyr Maziar	Vorskla Poltava	10
Viktor Ivanenko	Metalist Kharkiv	10 (3)
Hennadiy Moroz	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	10 (6)