2020–21 Ukrainian Second League

The 2020–21 Ukrainian Second League was the 30th since its establishment. The football competitions in the Second League kicked off on 6 September 2020, about half a month after promotion/relegation playoffs. The planned 12th week of the season that accomplished the first half took place on 21 November 2020, yet the extra week was provided for few games that were forced to be rescheduled before teams retired for the winter intermission. The second half is scheduled to restart on 19 March 2021.

Ukrainian Second League

Season	2020–21
Champions	Metal Kharkiv
Promoted	Metal Kharkiv (Group B) Podillya Khmelnytskyi (Group A) Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (Group B) Uzhhorod (Group A)
Matches played	134
Goals scored	365 (2.72 per match)
Top goalscorer	9 – Yevhen Chepurnenko (Dinaz)
Biggest home win	Metal 6–0 Real Pharma (11 September 2020)
Biggest away win	Dnipro 0–4 Metal (5 September 2020), Karpaty L. 0–4 Volyn-2 (23 October 2020)
Highest scoring	Kryvbas 6–1 Nikopol (11 September)
Longest winning run	7 – Metal
Longest unbeaten run	19 – Metal
Longest winless run	8 – Mykolaiv-2
Longest losing run	7 – Nyva
Highest attendance	1,100 – Karpaty L. – Rubikon (3 October 2020)
Lowest attendance	0 – 61 games
Total attendance	13910
Average attendance	290
← 2019–20 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 4 February 2021.

Summary

In this season, the bottom two teams of the First League were relegated to the Second League. The top two teams from each group of the Second League gained promotion to the First League for the next season.^[1]

Teams

Promoted teams

Seven teams have been promoted from the 2019–20 Ukrainian Football Amateur League:^[2][3]

• Epitsentr Dunaivtsi – 2nd place of Group 1 (debut)
• Karpaty Halych – 4th place of Group 1 (debut)
• FC Chernihiv – 3rd place of Group 2 (debut)
• Rubikon Kyiv – 6th place of Group 2 (debut)
• Dnipro Cherkasy – 9th place of Group 2 (returning after 12 seasons, last played season in 2008–09)
• Yarud Mariupol – 4th place of Group 3 (debut)
• Peremoha Dnipro – 7th place of Group 3 (debut, the club was admitted despite disciplinary sanctions from the UAF about the last season "beef"^[4])

One reserve and one other team were added also without participation in the Ukrainian Football Amateur League:^[2][3]

• Volyn-2 Lutsk – (debut, based on Volyn U-19 Lutsk)^[5]
• Metal Kharkiv – (debut)

Relegated teams

Four teams have been relegated:^[2][3]

• Karpaty Lviv^[6] – 12th place in the 2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League (debut, the club was admitted despite being expelled from the Premier League for no show)
• Balkany Zoria – 14th place in the 2019–20 Ukrainian First League (returning after 3 seasons, relegated on own initiative)
• Metalurh Zaporizhya – 15th place in the 2019–20 Ukrainian First League (returning after a season, lost relegation play-off)
• Cherkashchyna Cherkasy – 16th place in the 2019–20 Ukrainian First League (returning after a season, lost relegation play-off)

Withdrawn teams

• Avanhard-2 Kramatorsk – withdrawn before the season
• Chornomorets-2 Odesa – withdrawn before the season
• FC Kalush, after failing to arrive for the game against Epitsentr, it was confirmed that the club will not host the game against Karpaty Lviv.^[7] The club withdrew even after paying their season's dues^[8] without playing a single game.
• Cherkashchyna Cherkasy – withdrawn during the winter break.^[9][10] Before the break the club played 10 games winning 5 of them, tying 4 and losing one game with goal difference having 14 scored and 7 allowed. Soon after the announcement, the newly elected President of PFL, Oleksandr Kadenko denied fact of withdrawal as no official request has been made.^[11] On 3 March 2021 the club has sent a letter confirming that it is leaving the competitions.^[12][13][14]

Merged and renamed teams

• FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih – it was restructured from FC Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih. On 29 July 2020 the president of Hirnyk Kostiantyn Karamanits confirmed that his team is being renamed into Kryvbas-2020 next season.^[15][1] Later it changed to Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih.^[16] The club's rebranding was triggered on petition of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who is a native of Kryvyi Rih.^{[17][18][19][20]}
• Earlier in 2020, FC Chernihiv merged with Avanhard Koriukivka as Chernihiv-Avanhard and kept its original team Chernihiv-YSB during the 2019–20 Ukrainian Football Amateur League.^[21][22] During the season Avanhard Koriukivka had more points and even played in post season play-offs. In August 2020 to the Second League instead of the merged club was admitted FC Chernihiv only.^[23] There is no real procedure on promotion from the amateur championship and clubs are being selected regardless of final standings such as FC Dnipro Cherkasy or FC Peremoha Dnipro.
• SC Tavriya Simferopol merged with FC Tavriya Novotroitske.^[24]

Location map

The following map displays the location of teams. Group A teams marked in red. Group B teams marked in green.

Chaika

Bukovyna

Podillya

Nyva

Obolon-2

Uzhhorod

Dinaz

Rubikon

Chernihiv

Epitsentr

Karpaty H.

Volyn-2

Karpaty L.

Real Pharma

Cherkasy teams :
Cherkashchyna
Dnipro

Mykolaiv-2

Kryvbas

Enerhiya

Nikopol

Tavriya

Yarud

Peremoha

Metal

Metalurh

Balkany

Cherkasy

Home venues of teams in the 2020–21 Ukrainian Second League. SC Tavriya is forced to play its home games outside of Crimea (Autonomous Republic of Crimea).

Stadiums

Group A

Team[3]	Stadium[a]	Position in 2019–20
Karpaty Lviv	Ukraina Stadium	PL
Dinaz Vyshhorod	Dinaz Stadium Stadion im.Brukvenka Koncha-Zaspa training	4th
Podillia Khmelnytskyi	Sport Complex Podillia Stadion Rukh	6th
Chaika	Stadion im.Brukvenka Arsenal Arena	7th
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Bukovyna Stadium Stadion Olimpiya	8th
Nyva Vinnytsia	Tsentralnyi Miskyi Stadion Stadion Khimik	9th
FC Uzhhorod	Avanhard Stadium	10th
Obolon-2 Bucha	Yuvileinyi Stadium	11th
FC Chernihiv	Chernihiv Arena[26] Livyi Bereh Arena[27] Stadion Champion	Am
Epitsentr Dunaivtsi	Kolos Stadium Skif Stadium Yunist Stadium	Am
Karpaty Halych	Enerhetyk Stadium	Am
Rubikon Kyiv	Arsenal Arena	Am
Volyn-2 Lutsk	Pidshypnyk Stadium	—

Group B

Team[3]	Stadium[a]	Position in 2019–20
Balkany Zoria	Stadion im.B.Tropantsia[b] Stadion Liustdorf Stadion im.Liubchika	1L
Cherkashchyna Cherkasy[c]	Zorya Stadium	1L
Metalurh Zaporizhya	Slavutych-Arena	1L
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Hirnyk Stadium[d]	4th
Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	Enerhiya Stadium	5th
FC Nikopol	Elektrometalurh Stadium	6th
MFC Mykolaiv-2	Park Peremohy Stadium	7th
Tavriya Simferopol	Marianivskyi Stadium[e]	8th
Real Pharma Odesa	Stadion Ivan	9th
Dnipro Cherkasy	Tsentralnyi Stadion	Am
Peremoha Dnipro	Stadion Olimpiyski Rezervy	Am
Yarud Mariupol	Zakhidnyi Stadium	Am
Metal Kharkiv	Soniachny Stadium[31]	—

1. Minimum capacity of stadium for the Second League is 500 spectators.^[25]
2. On 27 October 2020 Balkany announced that it is moving to the Chornomorets base in the "Sauvignon" neighborhood of Odesa.^[28]
3. Cherkashchyna Cherkasy withdrew midseason^[9]
4. Last season it carried the name of Shakhta Oktiabrska Stadium^[29][30]
5. Tavriya Simferopol moved to play their home matches in Marianivka, Kakhovka Raion after merging with Tavriya Novotroitske. All matches will be played in Kherson Oblast of Ukraine due to the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation

Managers

Club	Head coach	Replaced coach
Balkany Zoria	Denys Kolchin	Andriy Parkhomenko
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Yevhen Kovalenko	Stepan Makoviychuk
Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka	Viacheslav Bohodyelov (interim)	Taras Ilnytskyi Oleksandr Protchenko (interim) Oleksandr Shcherbakov
Cherkashchyna Cherkasy	Vacant	Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi
FC Chernihiv	Valeriy Chornyi (interim)	Vadym Postovoy[32]
Dinaz Vyshhorod	Volodymyr Bondarenko
Dnipro Cherkasy	Ihor Stolovytskyi
Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	Eduard Khavrov	Oleh Fedorchuk
Epitsentr Dunaivtsi	Ihor Badlo
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Hennadiy Prykhodko
FC Kalush	Stepan Matviyiv
Karpaty Halych	Roman Hnativ
Karpaty Lviv	Lyubomyr Vovchuk
Metal Kharkiv	Oleksandr Kucher
Metalurh Zaporizhya	Volodymyr Mykytyn
MFC Mykolaiv-2	Anatoliy Didenko	Mykola Popelyshko
FC Nikopol	Oleksandr Poklonskyi	Hryhoriy Varzhelenko Yevhen Yarovenko Serhiy Vorobei
Nyva Vinnytsia	Volodymyr Tsytkin	Oleh Shumovytskyi
Obolon-2 Bucha	Andriy Kornyev (interim)	Oleksandr Antonenko
Peremoha Dnipro	Serhiy Vorobei	Yevhen Yarovenko Pavlo Taran Dmytro Ryabyi[a]
Podillya Khmelnytskyi	Vitaliy Kostyshyn
Real Pharma Odesa	Artem Riazantsev
Rubikon Kyiv	Serhiy Litovchenko	Viktor Kuriata
Tavriya Simferopol	Serhiy Puchkov	Serhiy Shevchenko Oleh Fedorchuk Yuriy Chumak (Interim)
FC Uzhhorod	Volodymyr Vasiutyk
Volyn-2 Lutsk	Albert Shakhov
Yarud Mariupol	Oleh Krasnopyorov	Volodymyr Kilikevych

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
FC Uzhhorod	Mykhailo Ivanytsia	Resigned	18 June 2020[33]	Pre-season	Volodymyr Vasiutyk	23 July 2020[34]	Pre-season
Real Pharma Odesa	Oleksandr Spitsyn	Unknown	28 June 2020[35]		Artem Riazantsev	28 June 2020[35]
Metal Kharkiv	New club				Oleksandr Kucher	25 July 2020[36]
Karpaty Lviv	Roman Sanzhar	Mutual agreement	29 July 2020[37]		Lyubomyr Vovchuk	24 August 2020[38]
Peremoha Dnipro	Yevhen Fetisov[39]	Undisclosed	5 August 2020		Evgeny Yarovenko	5 August 2020[40]
Karpaty Halych	Petro Rusak	Undisclosed	24 August 2020		Roman Hnativ	24 August 2020[38]
Metalurh Zaporizhya	Oleksiy Hodin (interim)	End of interim	27 August 2020		Volodymyr Mykytyn	27 August 2020[41]
Volyn-2 Lutsk	New club				Albert Shakhov	3 September 2020[42]
FC Cherkashchyna	Oleksandr Kyrylyuk	Undisclosed	6 September 2020		Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi	6 September 2020[43]
Rubikon Kyiv	Viktor Kuriata	Undisclosed		9th	Serhiy Litovchenko	8 October 2020[44]	9th
Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka	Taras Ilnytskyi	Resigned	13 October 2020[45]	5th	Oleksandr Protchenko (interim)	10 October 2020	5th
	Oleksandr Protchenko (interim)	End of interim	21 October 2020		Oleksandr Shcherbakov	21 October 2020[46]
Peremoha Dnipro	Evgeny Yarovenko	Fired	19 November 2020[47]	6th	Pavlo Taran	24 November 2020[48]	6th
Balkany Zoria	Andriy Parkhomenko	Resigned	20 November 2020[49]	10th	Denys Kolchin	1 December 2020[50]	10th
FC Nikopol	Hryhoriy Varzhelenko	Change of duties	20 November 2020[51]	11th	Evgeny Yarovenko	1 December 2020[51]	11th
Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	Oleh Fedorchuk	Moved to Tavriya	3 January 2021[52]	7th	Eduard Khavrov	10 January 2021[53][54]	7th
Tavriya Simferopol	Serhiy Shevchenko	Sacked	3 January 2021[52]	2nd	Oleh Fedorchuk	3 January 2021[52]	2nd
Nyva Vinnytsia	Oleh Shumovytskyi	undisclosed	23 January 2021	12th	Volodymyr Tsytkin	23 January 2021[55][56]	12th
Yarud Mariupol	Volodymyr Kilikevych	undisclosed	25 January 2021	12th	Oleh Krasnopyorov	25 January 2021[57]	12th
MFC Mykolaiv-2	Mykola Popelyshko	undisclosed	29 January 2021	13th	Anatoliy Didenko	29 January 2021[58]	13th
Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka	Oleksandr Shcherbakov	Resigned, family matters	1 February 2021[59]	6th	Viacheslav Bohodyelov (interim)	1 February 2021[59]	6th
Peremoha Dnipro	Pavlo Taran	Unknown	February 2021[60][61]	6th	Dmytro Ryabyi	8 February 2021[62]	6th
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Stepan Makoviychuk	Mutual agreement	5 February 2021[63]	7th	Yevhen Kovalenko	28 February 2021[64]	7th
FC Nikopol	Evgeny Yarovenko	Fired	7 February 2021[65]	11th	Serhiy Vorobei	23 February 2021[66]	11th
FC Cherkashchyna	Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi	Left the club	23 February 2021[67]	5th	Withdrew
Tavriya Simferopol	Oleh Fedorchuk	Fired	21 April 2021[68]	4th	Yuriy Chumak (interim)	26 April 2021[69]	4th
FC Chernihiv	Vadym Postovoy	Fired	21 April 2021[70]	10th	Valeriy Chornyi (interim)	21 April 2021[71]	10th
Obolon-2 Bucha	Oleksandr Antonenko	Assigned to Obolon Kyiv	12 May 2021[72]	10th	Andriy Kornyev (interim)	12 May 2021[72]	10th
Tavriya Simferopol	Yuriy Chumak (Interim)	Interim term ended	10 June 2021	4th	Serhiy Puchkov	10 June 2021[73]	4th
Peremoha Dnipro	Dmytro Ryabyi	Resigned	11 June 2021[74]	9th	Serhiy Vorobei	11 June 2021[74]	9th
FC Nikopol	Serhiy Vorobei	Moved to Peremoha	11 June 2021[75]	11th	Oleksandr Poklonskyi	11 June 2021[75]	11th

Notes:

1. In the PFL protocols for Peremoha for the 2020–21 Ukrainian Second League season spring half as the club's manager is shown someone Viktor Kyrtysh

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Podillya Khmelnytskyi (P, C)	24	17	6	1	46	13	+33	57	Promotion to Ukrainian First League[1]
2	FC Uzhhorod (P)	24	17	4	3	50	23	+27	55
3	Dinaz Vyshhorod	24	15	6	3	52	19	+33	51
4	Epitsentr Dunaivtsi	24	14	6	4	36	15	+21	48
5	Karpaty Halych	24	14	4	6	42	25	+17	46
6	Nyva Vinnytsia	24	10	3	11	38	38	0	33
7	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	24	9	5	10	27	31	−4	32
8	Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka	24	6	7	11	26	32	−6	25
9	Obolon-2 Bucha	24	6	6	12	21	39	−18	24	Withdrew after season
10	FC Chernihiv	24	5	6	13	19	33	−14	21
11	Rubikon Kyiv	24	4	5	15	17	44	−27	17
12	Volyn-2 Lutsk	24	3	4	17	16	43	−27	13[a]	Withdrew after season
13	Karpaty Lviv	24	3	4	17	20	55	−35	13[a]
-	FC Kalush	0	-	-	-	-	-	—	0	Withdrew after Round 1 before their first game[76]

Updated to match(es) played on 11 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).^[25]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Volyn-2 4, Karpaty 1

Results

Home \ Away	BUK	CPB	CHE	DIN	EPD	KAH	KAR	NVV	OB2	POD	RUB	UZH	VO2
Bukovyna Chernivtsi		0–0	2–2	1–2	0–1	0–3	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–0[a]	0–1	1–0
Chaika	0–1		2–0	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	3–1	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–2	2–1
FC Chernihiv	2–1	2–0		1–2[b]	0–1	1–3	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–3	0–1	1–2	1–0
Dinaz Vyshhorod	5–1	2–0	0–0		1–2	3–2	3–0	5–1	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–0
Epitsentr Dunaivtsi	2–2[c]	1–1	2–0[d]	2–1		2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–3	3–0	0–0	3–0
Karpaty Halych	3–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	1–0		3–1	4–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	0–3	2–0
Karpaty Lviv	0–3	1–1	4–1	0–3	0–3	1–3		1–2	2–2	0–3	1–2	0–5	0–4
Nyva Vinnytsia	1–2	3–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	4–2		1–3	1–2	2–1	4–1	3–0
Obolon-2 Bucha	0–1	0–2[e]	0–0[f]	0–5	0–3	2–0	1–0[g]	0–2		0–0	2–2	0–1	2–0
Podillya Khmelnytskyi	3–1	1–0	1–0	3–3	0–0[h]	2–0	4–1	2–0	4–0		2–0	2–1	1–0
Rubikon Kyiv	1–3	1–3	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	0–3	0–3	1–2	1–4		1–4[i]	1–0
FC Uzhhorod	3–2	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–0[j]	0–3	3–0	2–1	4–2	3–1	2–1		3–0
Volyn-2 Lutsk	1–0	1–4	0–1	1–3	1–4	0–2	1–1	3–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 11 June 2021. Source: pfl.ua (in Ukrainian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. The game Bukovyna – Rubikon was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.^[77]
2. The game Chernihiv – Dinaz was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.^[78]
3. The game Epitsentr – Bukovyna was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.
4. The game Epitsentr – Chernihiv was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.^[79] Match played 25 May.
5. The game Obolon-2 – Chaika was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.
6. The game Obolon-2 – Chernihiv was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.^[80]
7. The game Obolon-2 – Karpaty L. was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.^[77]
8. The game Podillia – Epitsentr was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.^[79]
9. The game Rubikon – Uzhhorod was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.
10. The game Uzhhorod – Epitsentr was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.

Notes:

Top goalscorers

As of 10 June 2021^[update]

Rank	Scorer	Team	Goals (Pen.)
1	Adrian Pukanych	FC Uzhhorod	13
2	Vasyl Palahnyuk	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	11 (1)
3	Roman Lebed	Karpaty Halych	10 (5)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Metal Kharkiv (C, P)	22	20	2	0	65	5	+60	62	Promotion to Ukrainian First League[1]
2	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (P)	22	15	5	2	53	15	+38	50
3	Metalurh Zaporizhya	22	13	4	5	42	20	+22	43
4	Tavriya Simferopol	22	12	6	4	41	22	+19	42
5	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	22	9	3	10	34	35	−1	30
6	Yarud Mariupol	22	8	4	10	27	39	−12	28
7	Dnipro Cherkasy	22	7	6	9	17	34	−17	27
8	Balkany Zoria	22	6	5	11	20	28	−8	23[a]
9	Peremoha Dnipro	22	5	8	9	21	29	−8	23[a]
10	Real Pharma Odesa	22	5	3	14	13	40	−27	18
11	FC Nikopol	22	3	5	14	18	46	−28	14
12	MFC Mykolaiv-2	22	1	5	16	13	51	−38	8	Withdrew after season
-	Cherkashchyna Cherkasy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrawn and record annulled[9]

Updated to match(es) played on 11 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).^[25]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Balkany 4, Peremoha 1

Results

Home \ Away	BAZ	MEZ	CHE[a]	ENK	KRY	MK2	NIK	RPO	TAV	DNI	PER	YAR	MET
Balkany Zoria		0–2		1–0	1–1	4–0	0–0	3–0	0–2	0–1[b]	2–1	3–1	1–3
Metalurh Zaporizhya	2–0			4–0	2–2	3–0	7–1	3–1	1–4	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–2
Cherkashchyna Cherkasy[c]	2–1				1–1	2–0	2–0			0–0		1–0[d]
Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	4–0	1–1	2–2		2–4	3–0	5–2	3–0	0–2	4–0	0–0	1–3	1–3
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	1–0	2–0		5–0		1–1	6–1	6–0	5–0	1–0	1–0	5–1[e]	0–0
MFC Mykolaiv-2	1–1	0–1		1–2	0–4		1–1	0–0	0–3	1–2	3–4	0–1	0–2
FC Nikopol	0–1	0–3		3–0	1–2	0–1		0–0	0–2[f]	0–0	1–1	2–4	0–2
Real Pharma Odesa	2–0	2–0	0–2	1–3	0–1	2–1	1–3		0–3	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–2
Tavriya Simferopol	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–1[g]	6–1	2–0	1–0		4–0	1–1[h]	1–1	0–3
Dnipro Cherkasy	2–1	0–1		1–0	1–3	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–2		1–1	1–0	0–4
Peremoha Dnipro	0–0	1–3	1–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–1		3–0	0–4
Yarud Mariupol	1–1	0–3		1–3	0–2	1–1	2–0[i]	1–0	2–0	2–2	3–0		0–3
Metal Kharkiv	3–1	2–0		0–0	3–0	6–0	3–0	6–0	2–1	5–0	2–0	5–0

Updated to match(es) played on 11 June 2021. Source: pfl.ua (in Ukrainian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Cherkashchyna Cherkasy withdrew midseason. Results displayed involving the team were annulled.^[9]
2. The game Balkany – Dnipro was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.
3. Cherkashchyna Cherkasy withdrew midseason. Results displayed involving the team were annulled.^[9]
4. The game Cherkashchyna – Yarud was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.
5. The game Kryvbas – Yarud was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.^[78]
6. The game Nikopol – Tavriya was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.^[81]
7. The game Tavriya – Kryvbas was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.^[82] Scheduled for 4 November, on 2 November 2020 the game was postponed again.^[83]
8. The game Tavriya – Peremoha was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.
9. The game Yarud – Nikopol was postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak.

Notes:

Top goalscorers

As of 11 June 2021^[update]

Rank	Scorer	Team	Goals (Pen.)
1	Oleksiy Boyko	Tavriya Simferopol	10 (1)
	Eduard Sarapiy	Metalurh Zaporizhya	10 (3)
	Kostyantyn Cherniy	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	10 (4)

Championship game

According to Article 8.4 of the season's regulations, there is expected to be a championship game.^[25] On 8 June 2021 a draw identified hosting club for the game.^[84]

Metal Kharkiv v Podillya Khmelnytskyi

16 June 2021	Metal Kharkiv	1 – 0	Podillya Khmelnytskyi	Cherkasy[14]
	Fomin 54'	Report Overview		Stadium: Cherkasy Arena Referee: Sofia Prychyna (Lviv Oblast)

Awards

Round awards

Round	Player			Coach
	Player	Club	Reference	Coach	Club	Reference
Round 1	Ruslan Fomin	Metal Kharkiv	[85]	Volodymyr Bondarenko	Dinaz Vyshhorod	[85]
Round 2	Andriy Hryhoryk	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	[86]	Oleksandr Antonenko	Obolon-2 Bucha	[86]
Round 3	Oleh Bereza	Karpaty Lviv	[87]	Ihor Badlo	Epitsentr Dunaivtsi	[87]
Round 4	Yevhen Chepurnenko	Dinaz Vyshhorod	[88]	Serhiy Shevchenko	Tavriya Simferopol	[89]
Round 5	Bohdan Mohylnyi	Metalurh Zaporizhya	[90]	Oleh Fedorchuk	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	[90]
Round 6	Fadi Salback	Podillia Khmelnytskyi	[91]	Oleksandr Kucher	Metal Kharkiv	[91]
Round 7	Oleksandr Mishurenko	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	[92]	Volodymyr Mykytyn	Metalurh Zaporizhya	[93]
Round 8	Nazar Verbnyi	Karpaty Halych	[94]	Volodymyr Bondarenko	Dinaz Vyshhorod	[95]
Round 9	Bohdan Kozak	Karpaty Halych	[96]	Roman Hnativ	Karpaty Halych	[96]
Round 10	Yaroslav Deda	Karpaty Halych	[97]	Evgeny Yarovenko	Peremoha Dnipro	[97]
Round 11	Ievhen Kostiuk	Nyva Vinnytsia	[98]	Vitaliy Kostyshyn	Podillia Khmelnytskyi	[98]
Round 12	Oleh Lyha	Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka	[99]	Albert Shakhov	Volyn-2 Lutsk	[99]
winter break
Round 13	Ihor Kirienko	Dinaz Vyshhorod	[100]	Volodymyr Bondarenko	Dinaz Vyshhorod	[101]
Round 14	Viktor Berko	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	[102]	Oleh Krasnopyorov	Yarud Mariupol	[102]
Round 15	Oleksiy Zbun	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	[103]	Volodymyr Tsytkin	Nyva Vinnytsia	[104]
Round 16	Farès Bahlouli	Metal Kharkiv	[105]	Roman Hnativ	Karpaty Halych	[105]
Round 17	Ruslan Ivashko	Epitsentr Dunaivtsi	[106]	Volodymyr Vasyutyk	FC Uzhhorod	[106]
Round 18	Kostyantyn Cherniy	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	[107]	Volodymyr Tsytkin	Nyva Vinnytsia	[107]
Round 19	Yaroslav Braslavskyi	Nyva Vinnytsia	[108]	Oleksandr Antonenko	Obolon-2 Bucha	[108]
Round 20	Vitaliy Mentei	FC Chernihiv	[109]	Hennadiy Prykhodko	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	[109]
Round 21	Serhiy Maiboroda	FC Uzhhorod	[110]	Oleksandr Kucher	Metal Kharkiv	[110]
Round 22	Adrian Pukanych	FC Uzhhorod	[111]	Volodymyr Vasyutyk	FC Uzhhorod	[111]
Round 23	Artem Radchenko	Peremoha Dnipro	[112]	Eduard Khavrov	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	[112]
Round 24	Vyacheslav Studenko	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	[113]	Vitaliy Kostyshyn	Podillia Khmelnytskyi	[114]
Round 25	Oleksiy Boyko	Tavriya Simferopol	[115]	Volodymyr Tsytkin	Nyva Vinnytsia	[115]
Round 26	Valeriy Kaverin	Podillia Khmelnytskyi	[116]	Vitaliy Kostyshyn	Podillia Khmelnytskyi	[116]

See also

• 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League
• 2020–21 Ukrainian First League
• 2020–21 Ukrainian Football Amateur League
• 2020–21 Ukrainian Cup