2020–21 Ukrainian First League

The 2020–21 Ukrainian First League was the 30th since its establishment. The league competition consists of 16 teams according to the decision of the PFL Council of Leagues.^[1] The season commenced on 5 September 2020.^[2] The final composition and regulations of the Professional Football League of Ukraine both leagues were adopted at the PFL Conference on 21 August 2020.^[3]

Ukrainian First League

Season	2020–21
Dates	5 September 2020 – 11 June 2021 winter break 1 December 2020 – 18 March 2021
Champions	Veres Rivne
Promoted	Veres Rivne, Chornomorets Odesa, Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Relegated	MFC Mykolaiv, Krystal Kherson
Matches played	115
Goals scored	299 (2.6 per match)
Top goalscorer	15 – Ruslan Chernenko (Ahrobiznes)
Biggest home win	6 – Mykolaiv 6–0 Krystal (Round 16)
Biggest away win	4 – VPK-Ahro 0–4 Mykolaiv (Round 12) Krystal 0–4 Chornomorets (Round 12)
Highest scoring	7 – Mykolaiv 6–1 Hirnyk-Sport (Round 6)
Longest winning run	7 – Ahrobiznes (Round 10–16)
Longest unbeaten run	8 – Chornomorets (Round 1–8)
Longest winless run	7 – Krystal (Round 1–8)
Longest losing run	7 – Krystal (Round 1–8)
Highest attendance	13,134 – Metalist 1925 0–1 Chornomorets (Round 28)
Lowest attendance	0 – 94 games
Total attendance	18644
Average attendance	888[a]
← 2019–20 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 1 December 2020 includes only games with spectators .

Summary

In this season, the bottom two teams of the First League are to be relegated to the Second League. The top two teams from each group of the Second League will gain promotion to the First League for the next season.^[4]

Promotion and/or relegation play-off games that were in place since 2011 (with exclusion in 2013) were discontinued altogether for the season.

This league's season was expected to have number of team increased to eighteen,^[1] however due to financial situation with both FC Karpaty Lviv and FC Balkany Zorya the PFL reinstated the sixteen team competition as per last season(see "Teams" section).

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic attendance restriction in the league is still in effect, but was partially eased.^{[clarification needed]} The postponed games^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]} that the PFL was not able to reschedule for the later dates of fall half of the season, on 30 November 2020 were rescheduled for the spring half of 2021.^[11]

Teams

This season, Ukrainian First League consist of 16 teams, which includes top two teams from the both groups of 2019–20 Ukrainian Second League and two relegation/promotion play-offs winners.

Promoted teams

The following teams have been promoted from the 2019–20 Ukrainian Second League:

• Nyva Ternopil – first place in Group A (returning after 5 seasons, last competed in the 2015–16 season)
• Polissia Zhytomyr – second place in Group A (debut, however another club named as Polissia Zhytomyr last competed in the 2004–05 season)
• Veres Rivne – play-off winner (returning after 3 seasons)
• VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka – first place in Group B (debut)
• Krystal Kherson – second place in Group B (returning after 28 seasons, last competed in the 1992 league's inaugural season)
• Alians Lypova Dolyna – play-off winner (debut)

Relegated teams

• None – Karpaty Lviv that placed 12th in the 2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League, were excluded from the league for repeated absence from scheduled games.^[12] A possibility was declared at first that the club might be admitted to the First League nonetheless,^[13] but later it was announced that Karpaty will be admitted the Second League instead.^[14][15] About a month later on 14 August 2020, Tribuna.ua informed that Karpaty never applied for certification for the next season in first or second leagues.^[16]

Legal and other issues

• FC Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni was approved by the Ukrainian Association of Football (UAF) to play, after the UAF Chamber of Dispute Resolution order the club to pay compensation to its former player and the club completely ignored it.^[17]
• FC Balkany Zorya announced that it was considering withdrawing from the league as it is too expensive for the club.^[18][19]

Renamed teams

• FC Obolon-Brovar Kyiv changed its name to FC Obolon Kyiv before the start of the season.^[20]
• FC Veres Rivne changed its name to RNK Veres Rivne before the start of the season.^[4]
• MFC Kremin Kremenchuk changed its name to FC Kremin Kremenchuk before the start of the season.^[4]
• FC Avanhard Kramatorsk changed its name to Avanhard-SK Kramatorsk at the during the latter (May 30) part of the season.^[21]

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

Alians

Ahrobiznes

Avanhard

Chornomorets

Hirnyk-Sport

Kremin

Krystal

Metalist 1925

Mykolaiv

Nyva

Obolon

Polissia

Prykarpattia

Volyn

VPK-Ahro

Veres

Home venues of teams in the 2020–21 Ukrainian First League.

Stadiums

The following stadiums were used as home grounds for the teams in the competition. The minimum capacity for stadiums of the First League clubs is set at 1,500 spectators.^[22]

Rank	Stadium	Location	Capacity	Club	Notes
1	OSC Metalist	Kharkiv	40,003	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
2	Arena Lviv	Lviv	34,915	Ahrobiznes Volochysk	Round 18
3	Chornomorets Stadium	Odesa	34,164	Chornomorets Odesa
4	Yuvileiny Stadium	Sumy	25,830	Alians Lypova Dolyna	Rounds 1, 3, 14, 5
5	Meteor Stadium	Dnipro	24,381	VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka
6	Ternopil City Stadium	Ternopil	15,150	Nyva Ternopil
7	Avanhard Stadium	Lutsk	12,080	Volyn Lutsk
				Nyva Ternopil	Round 18
8	MCS Rukh	Ivano-Frankivsk	6,500	Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Under passive reconstruction since 1986, only one stand out of four is active
9	Prapor Stadium	Kramatorsk	6,000	Avanhard Kramatorsk
10	Central Stadium	Zhytomyr	5,928	Polissia Zhytomyr	Returned for round 18[a]
11	Naftovyk Stadium	Okhtyrka	5,256	Alians Lypova Dolyna	Rounds 8, 10, 12
12	Obolon Arena	Kyiv	5,100	Obolon Kyiv
13	Metalurh Stadium[24][b]	Bakhmut	4,000	Avanhard Kramatorsk	Round 12
14	Skif Stadium	Lviv	3,742	Veres Rivne	Rounds 11, 19
				Nyva Ternopil	Round 16
15	Krystal Stadium	Kherson	3,400	Krystal Kherson
16	Enerhetyk Stadium	Burshtyn	3,000	Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Round 11
17	Yunist Stadium	Volochysk	2,700	Ahrobiznes Volochysk	home stadium
				Nyva Ternopil	Round 15
18	Yunist Stadium	Horishni Plavni	2,500	Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni
19	Spartak-Arena	Zhytomyr	2,500[26]	Polissia Zhytomyr	Round 8[c]
20	Bannikov Stadium	Kyiv	1,678	Polissia Zhytomyr	temporary home stadium[d]
21	Kremin Stadium	Kremenchuk	1,500	Kremin Kremenchuk
22	Vyshnivets Stadium	Vyshnivets	1,500[28]	Nyva Ternopil	Round 10
23	Yuvileynyi Stadium	Bucha	1,028	Polissia Zhytomyr	Round 6[e]
24	Bohdan Markevych Stadium	Vynnyky	900	Ahrobiznes Volochysk	Round 10, 12[f]
25	Kolos Stadium	Mlyniv	850	Veres Rivne	temporary home stadium
26	Alians-Arena	Bairak	520	Alians Lypova Dolyna	Round 19, 21
27	Central Stadium (upper field)	Mykolaiv	500	MFC Mykolaiv	temporary home stadium[g]
28	Metalist Educational Training Base	Vysokyi	500	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	Round 8, 10, 12

See also: List of football stadiums in Ukraine

Notes

1. After over 16 years^[23]
2. Metalurh Stadium is not among UAF approved stadiums on the list that was published in summer of 2020^[25]
3. Polissia Zhytomyr played their Round 8 home match at Spartak-Arena in their home city
4. Before the season's start it was announced in news media that Polissia Zhytomyr may start to play their home games in Zhytomyr at Tsentralnyi Stadion,^[27] but in reality plays most of their home matches at Bannikov Stadium in Kyiv
5. Polissia Zhytomyr played their Round 6 home match at Yuvileynyi Stadium in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast
6. Bohdan Markevych Stadium in Vynnyky, Lviv Oblast was used as home game for Ahrobiznes Volochysk in Round 10 & 12
7. MFC Mykolaiv have played all their home games thus far in the season at the Upper Field of the Central City Stadium

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	President	Head coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Ahrobiznes Volochysk	Oleh Sobutskyi	Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi	Nike	Ahrobiznes
Alians Lypova Dolyna	Serhiy Demchenko[29]	Yuriy Yaroshenko	Puma	Alians
Avanhard Kramatorsk	Maksym Yefimov	Oleksiy Horodov	Lotto Sport	Donbasenergo
Chornomorets Odesa	Leonid Klimov	Oleksiy Antonov	Legea	Hefest
Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni	Petro Kaplun	Ihor Zhabchenko	Adidas	Ferrexpo
Kremin Kremenchuk	Serhiy Kovnir	Serhiy Svystun (interim)	Select Sport	Alfateks
Krystal Kherson	Vadym Yevtushenko[30]	Vadym Yevtushenko	Joma	Ahro star
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	Yaroslav Vdovenko	Valeriy Kriventsov	Puma	AES Group
MFC Mykolaiv	Serhiy Kantor	Illia Blyzniuk	Mayner	Ekvator Factory
Nyva Ternopil	Oleksandr Stadnyk	Ihor Klymovskyi	K-Sector	Rodyna invest
Obolon Kyiv	Oleksandr Slobodian	Valeriy Ivashchenko (interim)	Jako	Favorite Sport
Polissia Zhytomyr	Volodymyr Zahurskyi	Serhiy Shyshchenko	Erreà	BGV Group
Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Vasyl Olshanetskyi	Oleh Rypan (interim)	Joma	Adamson
Veres Rivne	Ivan Nadieyin	Yuriy Virt	Nike	Ukrteplo
Volyn Lutsk	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi	Vasyl Sachko	Joma	—
VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka	Volodymyr Korsun	Serhiy Solovyov	Nike	VPK-Ahro

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
Polissya Zhytomyr	Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi	Resigned	4 July 2020[31]	Pre-season	Serhiy Shyshchenko	7 July 2020[32]
Kremin Kremenchuk	Serhiy Svystun	Undisclosed	14 August 2020[33]		Oleksandr Holovko	14 August 2020[34]
Volyn Lutsk	Andriy Tlumak	End of contract	14 August 2020[35]		Vasyl Sachko	19 August 2020[36]
Avanhard Kramatorsk	Oleksiy Horodov (interim)	Made permanent	17 August 2020[37]		Oleksiy Horodov	17 August 2020[37]
Obolon Kyiv	Valeriy Ivashchenko (interim)	Made permanent	18 August 2020[38]		Valeriy Ivashchenko	18 August 2020[38]
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	Vyacheslav Khruslov (interim)	End of interim	21 August 2020		Valeriy Kriventsov	21 August 2020[39]
Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Volodymyr Kovalyuk	Mutual consent	2 September 2020[40]		Ruslan Mostovyi	4 September 2020[41]
Krystal Kherson	Eduard Khavrov	Resigned	28 September 2020[42][43]	16th	Serhiy Valyayev	1 October 2020[44]
Nyva Ternopil	Vasyl Malyk	Resigned	10 October 2020[45]	11th	Ihor Bilan	10 October 2020[45]
Obolon Kyiv	Valeriy Ivashchenko	Changed to assistant	17 October 2020[46]	15th	Pavlo Yakovenko	18 October 2020[46]
Krystal Kherson	Serhiy Valyayev	Resigned	20 November 2020[47][48]	16th	Serhiy Shevtsov (interim)	21 November 2020[49][50]
Kremin Kremenchuk	Oleksandr Holovko	Mutual consent	11 December 2020[51]	12th	Oleksiy Hodin	6 January 2021[52]
Krystal Kherson	Serhiy Shevtsov (interim)	Resigned	8 January 2021[53]	16th	Vadym Yevtushenko	23 February 2021[54]
Chornomorets Odesa	Serhiy Kovalets	Mutual consent	17 February 2021[55]	3rd	Oleksiy Antonov	18 February 2021[55]
Nyva Ternopil	Ihor Bilan	Mutual consent	12 April 2021[56]	13th	Ihor Klymovskyi	13 April 2021[57]
Kremin Kremenchuk	Oleksiy Hodin	Resigned	30 April 2021[58]	14th	Serhiy Svystun (interim)	30 April 2021[58]
Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	Ruslan Mostovyi	Sacked	1 May 2021[59]	15th	Oleh Rypan (interim)	1 May 2021[59]
Obolon Kyiv	Pavlo Yakovenko	Mutual consent	5 May 2021[60]	8th	Valeriy Ivashchenko (interim)	5 May 2021[60]

Notes:

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Veres Rivne (P, C)	30	21	5	4	56	21	+35	68	Promotion to Ukrainian Premier League[61][4]
2	Chornomorets Odesa (P)	30	18	7	5	45	23	+22	61
3	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (P)	30	16	8	6	36	22	+14	56
4	Mykolaiv (R)	30	15	8	7	49	23	+26	53	Relegation to Ukrainian Second League[4]
5	Ahrobiznes Volochysk	30	15	7	8	46	27	+19	52
6	Alians Lypova Dolyna	30	14	9	7	46	31	+15	51
7	Volyn Lutsk	30	13	7	10	39	28	+11	46
8	Obolon Kyiv	30	13	4	13	44	35	+9	43
9	Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni	30	11	5	14	43	45	−2	38
10	VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka	30	11	4	15	30	48	−18	37
11	Polissia Zhytomyr	30	9	8	13	32	37	−5	35
12	Avanhard Kramatorsk	30	9	5	16	32	51	−19	32
13	Nyva Ternopil	30	8	7	15	30	50	−20	31
14	Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	30	8	6	16	25	45	−20	30
15	Kremin Kremenchuk	30	6	6	18	23	50	−27	24
16	Krystal Kherson (R)	30	3	4	23	21	61	−40	13	Relegation to Ukrainian Second League[4]

Updated to match(es) played on 12 June 2021. Source: PFL.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference in all games; 6) Goals scored in all games (Note: calculation by criteria indicated in rules 2, 3, 4 is conducted with consideration of all teams that have an equal number of tournament points at the moment of calculation and not only among those which after preliminary criteria have appeared more successful).^[22]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AHR	ALD	AVK	CHO	HIS	KRE	KRY	M25	MYK	NYV	OBL	POL	PRY	VER	VOL	VPK
Ahrobiznes Volochysk		2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	5–1	4–2	1–2	1–1	4–0	1–0	3–2	3–0	0–0	0–0	1–2
Alians Lypova Dolyna	1–1		1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	4–0	1–0	4–2	4–1	2–1	0–2	3–2
Avanhard Kramatorsk	1–1	0–3		1–2	0–3	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	3–1	1–2	0–3	3–1	1–2	2–1	2–3
Chornomorets Odesa	0–1	0–2	3–1		1–1	2–1	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–0
Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni	0–0	2–3	0–2	0–1		2–0	3–0	3–0	0–3	4–1	2–3	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–3	1–2
Kremin Kremenchuk	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–1		1–0	0–4	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–2	1–2	2–0
Krystal Kherson	1–4	0–0	1–2	0–4	1–3	1–2		1–2	1–2	1–1	3–2	0–1	0–1	2–3	0–1	1–2
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	3–2	0–1	1–0		1–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	4–1	1–1	1–2
MFC Mykolaiv	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–1	6–1	2–0	6–0	1–2		4–0	5–3	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0
Nyva Ternopil	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–3[a]	2–2	2–0	1–2	0–0		2–1	2–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	1–2
Obolon Kyiv	1–0	2–0	5–0	2–3	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–1		3–0	4–1	0–2	2–1	0–0
Polissia Zhytomyr	1–3	1–2	1–2	1–1	3–2	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–3	0–1	1–2		1–1	0–0	1–0	3–1
Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–3	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–1		0–1	2–0	0–1
Veres Rivne	2–0	3–3	5–1	4–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	3–0		2–0	1–0
Volyn Lutsk	2–1	2–2	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–3	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–1		2–0
VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka	2–3	1–3	2–1	0–2	0–3	3–0	1–2	0–1	0–4	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–4	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 12 June 2021. Source: Calendar (in Ukrainian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. According to the UAF CDC decision of 9 April 2021, FC Nyva Ternopil was awarded technical loss (0:3) (for late announcement the visiting club and the PFL by the hosting club about place and start of the match), and the team of Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni – technical victory (3:0).^[62][63][64]

Top goalscorers

As of 12 June 2021^[update][65]

Rank Scorer Team Goals (Pen.) 1 Ruslan Chernenko Ahrobiznes Volochysk 15 (9) 2 Mykhaylo Shestakov Veres Rivne 13 (2) Yuriy Batyushyn Hirnyk-Sport / Metalist 1925 13 (6) 4 Bohdan Orynchak Volyn Lutsk 11 (4) 5 Bohdan Kushnirenko MFC Mykolaiv 10 (8) 6 Serhiy Kyslenko Nyva Ternopil 9 Oleksandr Batalskyi Obolon Kyiv 9 (1) Mykola Ahapov Alians Lypova Dolyna 9 (2) 9 Artur Murza Hirnyk-Sport / Obolon 8 (1) 10 Volodymyr Odaryuk MFC Mykolaiv 7 Hennadiy Pasich Veres Rivne 7 Robert Hehedosh Veres Rivne 7 (1) Kostyantyn Yaroshenko Alians Lypova Dolyna 7 (1) Ihor Semenyna Krystal / Nyva 7 (2) Mykhaylo Serhiychuk Veres Rivne 7 (4)

Awards

Monthly awards

The award is being selected on initiative of the PFL media partner UA-Football.

Month	Player of the Month
	Player	Club	Reference
September 2020	Bohdan Kohut	Veres Rivne	[66]
October 2020	Robert Hehedosh	Veres Rivne	[67]
November 2020	Oleksiy Maydanevych	Obolon Kyiv	[68]
April 2021	Dmytro Kryskiv	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	[69]
May 2021	Mykola Ahapov	Alians Lypova Dolyna	[70]
June 2021	Vitaliy Dakhnovskyi	Veres Rivne	[71]

Round awards

Round	Player			Coach
	Player	Club	Reference	Coach	Club	Reference
Round 1	Serhiy Bilous	Kremin Kremenchuk	[72]	Oleksandr Holovko	Kremin Kremenchuk	[72]
Round 2	Roman Hahun	Ahrobiznes Volochysk	[73]	Valeriy Kriventsov	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	[73]
Round 3	Vladyslav Horbachenko	VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka	[74]	Serhiy Kovalets	Chornomorets Odesa	[74]
Round 4	Artur Murza	Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni	[75]	Ihor Zhabchenko	Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni	[75]
Round 5	Ihor Sikorskyi	Volyn Lutsk	[76]	Yuriy Virt	Veres Rivne	[76]
Round 6	Serhiy Kravchenko	MFC Mykolaiv	[77]	Illya Blyznyuk	MFC Mykolaiv	[77]
Round 7	Robert Hehedosh	Veres Rivne	[78]	Volodymyr Knysh (director)[a]	VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka	[78]
Round 8	Vasyl Lytvynenko	Obolon Kyiv	[79]	Serhiy Shyshchenko	Polissia Zhytomyr	[79]
Round 9	Yuriy Kozyrenko	Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni	[80]	Ihor Zhabchenko (2)	Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni	[80]
Round 10	Artem Kovbasa	Chornomorets Odesa	[81]	Pavlo Yakovenko	Obolon Kyiv	[81]
Round 11	Dzhemal Kyzylatesh	Volyn Lutsk	[82]	Vasyl Sachko	Volyn Lutsk	[82]
Round 12	Serhiy Zahynailov	Alians Lypova Dolyna	[83]	Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi	Ahrobiznes Volochysk	[83]
Round 13	Oleksandr Batalskyi	Obolon Kyiv	[84]	Serhiy Kovalets (2)	Chornomorets Odesa	[84]
Round 14	Mykhailo Shestakov	Veres Rivne	[85]	Illia Blyzniuk (2)	MFC Mykolaiv	[85]
Round 15	Oleksiy Maidanevych	Obolon Kyiv	[86]	Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi (2)	Ahrobiznes Volochysk	[86]
Round 16	Bohdan Orynchak	Volyn Lutsk	[87]	Yuriy Virt (2)	Veres Rivne	[87]
winter break
Round 17	Yuriy Romanyuk	Ahrobiznes Volochysk	[88]	Vasyl Sachko (2)	Volyn Lutsk	[88]
Round 18	Volodymyr Odaryuk	MFC Mykolaiv	[89]	Valeriy Kriventsov (2)	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	[89]
Round 19	Mykola Hayduchyk	Veres Rivne	[90]	Yuriy Virt (3)	Veres Rivne	[90]
Round 20	Serhiy Panasenko	Veres Rivne	[91]	Serhiy Solovyov	VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka	[91]
Round 21	Roman Honcharenko	Veres Rivne	[92]	Ruslan Mostovyi	Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	[92]
Round 22	Vladyslav Sharay	Alians Lypova Dolyna	[93]	Illia Blyznyuk (3)	MFC Mykolaiv	[93]
Round 23	Stanislav Koval	Polissya Zhytomyr	[94]	Yuriy Virt (4)	Veres Rivne	[94]
Round 24	Ivan Holovkin	Krystal Kherson	[95]	Serhiy Shyshchenko (2)	Polissya Zhytomyr	[95]
Round 25	Mykola Ahapov	Alians Lypova Dolyna	[96]	Oleksiy Horodov	Avanhard Kramatorsk	[96]
Round 26	Vitaliy Ponomar	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	[97]	Valeriy Kryventsov (3)	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	[97]
Round 27	Kostyantyn Yaroshenko	Alians Lypova Dolyna	[98]	Valeriy Ivashchenko	Obolon Kyiv	[98]
Round 28	Serhiy Shvets	Polissya Zhytomyr	[99]	Oleksiy Antonov	Chornomorets Odesa	[99]
Round 29	Artem Habelok	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	[100]	Serhiy Shyshchenko (3)	Polissia Zhytomyr	[100]
Round 30	Oleksandr Byelyayev	VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka	[101]	Serhiy Solovyov (2)	VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka	[101]

Notes:

1. Being diagnosed with the COVID-19 and quarantined, the club's manager Serhiy Solovyov was temporarily spotted by the club's director in position of head coach^[78]

Number of teams by region

Number	Region	Team(s)
2	Poltava Oblast	Kremin and Hirnyk-Sport
1	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	VPK-Ahro
	Donetsk Oblast	Avanhard
	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	Prykarpattia
	Kharkiv Oblast	Metalist 1925
	Kherson Oblast	Krystal
	Khmelnytskyi Oblast	Ahrobiznes
	Kyiv Oblast	Obolon
	Mykolaiv Oblast	Mykolaiv
	Odesa Oblast	Chornomorets
	Rivne Oblast	Veres
	Sumy Oblast	Alians
	Ternopil Oblast	Nyva
	Volyn Oblast	Volyn
	Zhytomyr Oblast	Polissia

See also

• 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League
• 2020–21 Ukrainian Second League
• 2020–21 Ukrainian Football Amateur League
• 2020–21 Ukrainian Cup
• List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2020
• List of Ukrainian football transfers winter 2020–21