2005–06 Ukrainian First League

The 2005–06 Ukrainian First League was the fifteenth since its establishment. There were 20 teams competing. Two teams were relegated from the 2004–05 Vyshcha Liha. Four teams were promoted from the 2004–05 Ukrainian Second League.

Ukrainian First League

Season	2005–06
Champions	Zorya Luhansk
Promoted	Zorya Luhansk Karpaty Lviv
Relegated	(all withdrew) Shakhtar-2 Donetsk FC Bershad
Top goalscorer	19 - Bohdan Yesyp (Naftovyk-Ukrnafta)
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

Teams

In 2005-06 season, the Ukrainian First League consisted of the following teams:

Promoted teams

These four teams were promoted from Druha Liha at the start of the season:

Group A

• FC Enerhetyk Burshtyn – runner up (debut, promoted ahead of the winner FC Rava Rava-Ruska)
• FC Bershad – 5th place (debut, last minute swap for the withdrawn FC Nyva Vinnytsia)

Group B

• FC Krymteplytsia Molodizhne – winners (debut)

Group C

• FC Helios Kharkiv – winners (debut)

Relegated teams

Two teams were relegated from the Vyshcha Liha season:

• FC Obolon Kyiv – 15th placed (returning after three seasons)
• FC Borysfen Boryspil – 16th placed (returning after two seasons)

Withdrawn teams

• FC Nyva Vinnytsia announced that it withdraws from the league just before the season's start.

Location

Shakhtar-2

Zoria

Dynamo-2
Obolon
CSKA

Borysfen

Karpaty

Naftovyk

Spartak IF

Dynamo

Helios

Hazovyk

Krymteplitsia

Spartak S

Podillya

Stal

Bershad

Enerhetyk

Locations of teams in First League

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach
FC Bershad	Serhiy Shevchenko	Anatoliy Murakhovskyi Vitaliy Sklyarenko
Borysfen Boryspil	Oleksandr Prykhodko	Stepan Matviyiv Pavlo Irichuk
CSKA Kyiv	Yuriy Maksymov	Vasyl Yevseyev
Dynamo-2 Kyiv	Volodymyr Onyshchenko
Dynamo-Ihroservice Simferopol	Oleh Lutkov	Serhiy Lezhentsev
Enerhetyk Burshtyn	Mykola Prystai	Mykhaylo Savka
Hazovyk-Skala Stryi	Bohdan Bandura
Helios Kharkiv	Kostiantyn Pakhomov	Volodymyr Shekhovtsov Rostyslav Lysenko
Karpaty Lviv	Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi
Krymteplitsia Molodizhne	Oleh Fedorchuk	Oleh Lutkov Anvar Suleimanov
Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	Serhiy Shevchenko
Obolon Kyiv	Petro Slobodyan	Bohdan Blavatskyi
Podillya Khmelnytskyi	Serhiy Kucherenko
Shakhtar-2 Donetsk	Mykola Fedorenko
Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	Ihor Yurchenko	Mykola Prystai
Spartak Sumy	Serhiy Strashnenko	Volodymyr Parkhomenko Valeriy Dushkov Valeriy Bermudes Viktor Ivanenko
Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	Viktor Maslov
Zorya Luhansk	Yuriy Koval

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Zorya Luhansk (C, P)	34	27	6	1	74	13	+61	87	Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
2	Karpaty Lviv (P)	34	25	5	4	53	14	+39	80
3	Obolon Kyiv	34	22	6	6	51	19	+32	72
4	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	34	17	7	10	50	35	+15	58
5	Dynamo-2 Kyiv	34	15	7	12	51	36	+15	52
6	Hazovyk-Skala Stryi	34	14	10	10	35	33	+2	52
7	Podillya Khmelnytskyi	34	14	7	13	39	37	+2	49
8	Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	34	13	9	12	34	29	+5	48
9	Krymteplitsia Molodizhne	34	12	11	11	35	34	+1	47
10	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	34	10	15	9	33	31	+2	45
11	Shakhtar-2 Donetsk (D)	34	12	8	14	37	42	−5	44	Withdrew
12	Helios Kharkiv	34	12	8	14	26	35	−9	44
13	Dynamo-Ihroservis Simferopol	34	10	8	16	40	51	−11	38
14	Enerhetyk Burshtyn	34	8	12	14	31	44	−13	36
15	CSKA Kyiv	34	8	8	18	25	52	−27	32
16	Borysfen Boryspil	34	3	14	17	23	46	−23	23
17	Spartak Sumy	34	5	5	24	28	68	−40	20	Avoided relegation
18	FC Bershad (D)	34	3	4	27	14	60	−46	4	Withdrew

Source: www.uafootball.net.ua
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted

• FC Nyva Vinnytsia (5th Persha Liha 2004-05) merged its operations with FC Bershad' (5th Druha Liha Hrupa A 2004-05) and moved to Bershad' and renamed the club prior to the start of the season. Three points deducted from FC Bershad for failure to comply with Federation directives (12/16/2005) and another 6 points (9 total) deducted for continual nonconformance of League directives (2/24/2006) Informed the UFF that the team is dissolved and will not play any more matches. (May 19, 2006)
• The game between Karpaty and Spartak Sumy (2:1) on March 18, 2006, was annulled by the PFL Bureau (decision of April 26) and both teams were awarded a defeat.

Persha Liha 2005-06 Winners
FC Zorya Luhansk First title

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.^[1]

Scorer	Goals (pen.)	Team
Bohdan Yesyp	19	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
Mykola Bahlay	15 (2)	Hazovyk-Skala
Vadym Kyrylov	14	Zoria Luhansk
Pavlo Onysko	14 (1)	Krymteplytsia Molodizhne
Maksym Feshchuk	12	Karpaty Lviv
Valeriy Ivashchenko	12	Obolon Kyiv
Kostyantyn Vizyonok	12 (2)	Zoria Luhansk
Yevhen Seleznyov	11	Shakhtar-2 Donetsk
Serhiy Kucherenko	11 (3)	Podillya Khmelnytskyi
Bohdan Smishko	10	Zoria Luhansk