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Ukrainian Premier League
Season	2007–08
Champions	Shakhtar Donetsk
Relegated	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka,; Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
Champions League	Shakhtar Donetsk (3rd Qualifying Round); Dynamo Kyiv (2nd Qualifying Round)
UEFA Cup	Metalist Kharkiv (1st Round); Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd Qualifying Round)
Intertoto Cup	Tavriya Simferopol (2nd Round)
Goals scored	581
Top goalscorer	Marko Dević (19)
	← 2006-07 2008-09 →

The 2007–08 Ukrainian Premier League season is the seventeenth since its establishment. This season competition was sponsored by Biola which became the title sponsor of the League for the season. It began on July 17, 2007, and ended on May 18, 2008. 16 teams participated in the competition, 14 of which contested in the 2006-07 season, and two of which (Zakarpattia Uzhhorod and Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka) were promoted from the Ukrainian First League (the league immediately below the Ukrainian Premier League).

The winner of league was Shakhtar Donetsk with 74 points, followed by Dynamo Kyiv with 71 points. The top goalscorer of the season was Marko Dević from Metalist Kharkiv with 19 goals, 6 of which were penalties. The spot for second highest goalscorer with 17 goals was a three-way tie between Oleksandr Hladky from Shakhtar Donetsk, Yevhen Seleznyov from Arsenal Kyiv (on loan from Shakhtar), and Oleksandr Kosyrin from Metalurh Donetsk.

[edit] Teams

The locations of the 16 teams participating in Vyscha Liha season 2007-08

Club	Town	2006-07 Season
FC Arsenal Kyiv	Kiev	14th
Chornomorets	Odessa	6th
FC Dnipro	Dnipropetrovsk	4th
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Kiev	1st
FC Karpaty Lviv	Lviv	8th
FC Kharkiv	Kharkiv	12th
FC Kryvbas	Kryvyi Rih	10th
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Kharkiv	3rd
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Donetsk	9th
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia	Zaporizhia	7th
FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	Okhtyrka	Persha Liha, 1st
FC Shakhtar	Donetsk	2nd
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Simferopol	5th
FC Vorskla	Poltava	13th
OSC Zakarpattia	Uzhhorod	Persha Liha, 2nd
FC Zorya Luhansk	Luhansk	11th

[edit] League table

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Comments
1	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	24	2	4	75	24	+51	74	CL 3^rd Qualifying Round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	22	5	3	65	26	+39	71	CL 2^nd Qualifying Round
3	Metalist Kharkiv	30	19	6	5	51	27	+24	63	UC 1^st Round
4	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	18	5	7	40	27	+13	59	UC 2^nd Qualifying Round
5	Tavriya Simferopol	30	13	8	9	38	40	−2	47	IC 2^nd Round
6	Arsenal Kyiv	30	11	9	10	42	36	+6	42
7	Chornomorets Odessa	30	11	5	14	27	33	−6	38
8	Vorskla Poltava	30	9	9	12	28	30	−2	36
9	Metalurh Zaporizhzhya	30	9	9	12	24	32	−8	36
10	Karpaty Lviv	30	9	6	15	29	41	−12	33
11	Zorya Luhansk	30	9	4	17	24	43	−19	31
12	Metalurh Donetsk	30	6	13	11	34	39	−5	31
13	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	30	7	9	14	29	39	−10	30
14	FC Kharkiv	30	6	9	15	20	32	−12	27
15	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	30	6	8	16	18	38	−20	26	Persha Liha
16	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	30	3	9	18	17	54	−37	18	Relegated Persha Liha

Ukrainian Premier League 2007-08 Winners
Shakhtar Donetsk 4th Title

[edit] Top goalscorers

Scorer ^[1]	Goals	Team
Marko Dević	19 (6 pk)	Metalist Kharkiv
Oleksandr Hladky	17 (1 pk)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Oleksandr Kosyrin	17 (3 pk)	Metalurh Donetsk
Yevhen Seleznyov	17 (3 pk)	Arsenal Kyiv
Ismaël Bangoura	15 (1 pk)	Dynamo Kyiv
Volodymyr Homenyuk	14 (2 pk)	Tavriya Simferopol
Brandão	12 (2 pk)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Fernandinho	11 (1 pk)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Maksim Shatskikh	10	Dynamo Kyiv
Serhiy Nazarenko	9 (3 pk)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

[edit] Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach
FC Arsenal Kyiv	Oleksandr Zavarov
FC Chornomorets Odessa	Vitaliy Shevchenko
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Oleh Protasov
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Yuri Semin	Anatoliy Demyanenko
FC Karpaty Lviv	Valery Yaremchenko	Oleksandr Ischenko
FC Kharkiv	Volodymyr Bezsonov
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleh Taran
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Myron Markevych
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Nikolay Kostov	Jos Daerden
FC Metalurh Zaporizhya	Anatoly Chantsev
FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	Valeriy Horodov	Serhiy Shevchenko
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Mircea Lucescu
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Mykhailo Fomenko
FC Vorskla Poltava	Mykola Pavlov	Anatoliy Momot
FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	Volodymyr Vasiutyk	Volodymyr Sharan
FC Zorya Luhansk	Anatoliy Volobuev	Oleksandr Kosevych

[edit] Current results

Note: home games of each team are shown at the horizontal lines

#	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dynamo Kyiv	DK			1:3				7:3				2:0		2:2			8	4	3	1	15	9	+6	15
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	1:1	SD			2:0						3:0		2:1	4:1			8	7	1	0	19	4	+15	22
3	Metalist Kharkiv		1:3	MK		3:0	2:0									1:0	2:0	8	4	2	2	13	8	+5	14
4	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk				DD					4:1	2:0		1:0			0:0	2:0	8	6	1	1	15	5	+10	19
5	Tavriya Simferopol					TS			2:1	3:3	4:3		1:0					8	3	2	3	10	13	-3	11
6	Chornomorets Odessa	0:0					CO					1:0	0:1	1:0				8	3	2	3	3	5	-2	11
7	Metalurh Zaporizhzhya	0:1						MZ	1:0			3:0	0:0					8	4	2	2	7	5	+2	14
8	Karpaty Lviv								KL	0:0	3:0						1:1	8	2	2	4	9	12	-3	8
9	Metalurh Donetsk						0:0	3:0		MD	0:1							8	2	4	2	11	10	+1	10
10	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	0:1						0:1			KK		1:1					8	2	1	5	7	13	-6	7
11	Zorya Luhansk			3:2	0:1				0:1			ZL			3:1			8	2	1	5	7	13	-6	7
12	FC Kharkiv				1:2				1:0	1:1			FK					8	2	3	3	5	7	-2	9
13	Vorskla Poltava			1:1	2:1	0:0						1:1		VP	2:1			8	2	4	2	7	7	0	10
14	Arsenal Kyiv			1:1						1:3					AK	7:0	3:0	8	2	2	4	17	15	+2	8
15	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod		0:1			1:0	2:0	1:1						0:0		ZU		8	2	3	3	4	10	-6	9
16	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka		0:3				0:1	0:1			1:2						NO	8	0	1	7	2	15	-13	1

[edit] Promoted teams

These two teams were promoted from Persha Liha at the start of the season:

FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka : champion of Persha Liha
FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod : runner-up of Persha Liha

[edit] Stadia

Rank	Stadium	Capacity ^[2]	Club	Notes
1	NSC Olimpiysky	83,450	None at the moment due to reconstruction	Largest stadium in Ukraine, Dynamo Kyiv plays its major European matches on this ground, annual venue for the Ukrainian Cup final and FC Arsenal Kyiv
2	Tsentralnyi-Chornomorets Stadium	34,362	Chornomorets Odessa	Annual venue for the Ukrainian Super Cup
3	Shakhtar Stadium	31,718	Metalurh Donetsk
4	Metalist Stadium	30,133	(temporarilly in emergency conditions)	While upgrades are taking place, max capacity is at 22,757 (planned capacity is 42,000+)
5	Metalurh Stadium	29,783	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
6	Ukraina Stadium	28,051	Karpaty Lviv	Plans to upgrade to ~40,000 seats in prep for Euro 2012
7	RSK Olimpiyskiy	25,831	Shakhtar Donetsk	Moving to new UEFA 5-star 50,000-seat venue in 2008
8	Vorskla Stadium	25,000	Vorskla Poltava FC Kharkiv (temporarilly)
9	Stadium Meteor	24,381	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Moving to new 31,003-seat arena in 2007
10	Avanhard Stadium	22,320	Zorya Luhansk
11	Lokomotiv Stadium	19,978	Tavriya Simferopol
12	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium	16,873	Dynamo Kyiv Arsenal Kyiv	Arsenal Kyiv is temporarily playing at this stadium
13	Avanhard Stadium	12,000	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
14	Slavutych Arena	11,983	Metalurh Zaporizhia
15	Dynamo Stadium	6,000	Metalist Kharkiv (temporarily)	Helios Kharkiv (host, plays in the lower leagues)
16	Naftovyk Stadium	5,256	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka

[edit] References

^ "Scorers table for the 17th season of Ukrainian Premier League". Professional football league. http://www.pfl.com.ua/v.php. Retrieved March 23 2008.

^ "Attendance figures for the 17th season of Ukrainian Premier League". UA Football. http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/46b0c2e0.html. Retrieved August 3 2007.

[edit] See also

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[0] "Scorers table for the 17th season of Ukrainian Premier League". Professional football league. http://www.pfl.com.ua/v.php. Retrieved March 23 2008.

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