1997–98 Vyshcha Liha
The 1997–98 Vyshcha Liha season was the 7th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions. Teams Promotions *Metalurh Donetsk, the champion of the 1996–97 Ukrainian First League – ''(debut)'' * Metalurh Mariupol, the third-place runner-up of the 1996–97 Ukrainian First League – ''(debut)'' Renamed * In a winter break Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad changed its name to Zirka Kirovohrad. Location Managers Changes League table Results Top goalscorers See also * 1997–98 Persha Liha * 1997–98 Druha Liha * 1997–98 Ukrainian Cup External linksukrsoccerhistory.com - source of information {{DEFAULTSORT:1997-98 Vyshcha Liha Ukrainian Premier League seasons 1997–98 in Ukrainian association football leagues Ukra The United Kingdom Rocketry Association (UKRA) is an enabling body set up to promote and represent high power, medium power and model rocketry in the United Kingdom for educational, recreational and amateur research purposes ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League ( ) or UPL is a professional association football league in Ukraine and the highest level of the Ukrainian football league system. Originally known as the Vyshcha Liha ( , ) it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 in Ukrainian football, 1992Hunchenko, O., Kazakov, V., Kulikovska, O. Historic and geographic characteristics of football development in Ukraine (ІСТОРИКО-ГЕОГРАФІЧНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ РОЗВИТКУ ФУТБОЛУ В УКРАЇНІ)' Ukrainian football championship upon discontinuation of the 1991 Soviet football championship and included the Ukraine-based clubs that competed previously in the Soviet top three tiers competitions as well as better clubs of the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR, Ukrainian republican competitions. The initial season of the league featured six former Soviet Top League clubs among which were FC Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Shakhtar, FC Chornomorets Odesa, Chornomoret ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi
FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi () is a Ukrainian amateur football club from Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, with its team currently playing in the Ukrainian Amateur League. The club traces its history of a football team that existed at the British factory of Elvorti (Elworthy) since 1911. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the factory was nationalized and converted into Soviet factory "Chervona Zirka", and likewise, the former team was dissolved, and the Soviet football team Chervona Zirka was formed in 1922. The club's professional football history started in 1958 when it was admitted to the Class B competitions. History The club traces its history back to the former sports club Elvorti Yelizavetgrad that was founded in 1911 at the Elvorti Factory owned by Robert Pearce Elworthy. Since 1907 the factory had its own football field. After start of World War I and the Ukrainian-Soviet War, most sports events in the region were suspended and in 1917 the club dissolved. Sports competition ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vyacheslav Hrozny
Vyacheslav Viktorovych Hrozny (; born 12 July 1956) is a Ukrainian football player and manager. Career He is a holder of the 1980 KFK Cup of the Ukrainian SSR as a player of FC Nyva Ternopil when it used to play in Pidhaitsi. Hrozny is a graduate of the Lutsk Pedagogical Institute and the Higher School of Coaches in Moscow. Since the late 1980s coached number of clubs in post-Soviet countries. Until his appointment with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the mid-1990s, Hrozny coached as an assistant to a head coach. In 1997, he was suspended from coaching in Ukraine and moved abroad. Hrozny returned in 2002 after being appointed as a coach of the newly formed club Arsenal Kyiv. But he did not stay in Ukraine for too long and in 2008 Hrozny left again to coach Terek Grozny and FC Tobol. On 30 December 2019, Hroznyi was announced as the new manager of Shakhter Karagandy. On 17 June 2020, Hroznyi's contract was terminated by mutual consent. Managerial statistics Achievements * Meri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vadym Tyschenko
Vadym Mykolayovych Tyshchenko or Vadim Nikolayevich Tishchenko (; 24 March 1963 – 14 December 2015) was a Soviet and Ukrainian association football player and Ukrainian coach. Biography Tyshchenko was born on 24 March 1963 in a small city of Horodok near LvivVerbitsky, I. Good-tempered giant. Whom was Vadym Tyshchenko'. UA-Football. 15 December 2015 in a family of Mykola Romanovych Tyshchenko from Sumy Oblast. When Vadym was 12, he moved to Lviv and enrolled in the Lviv sports boarding school (today Lviv Sports College). His first football coach was Fred Bushansky. Among his classmantes was Bohdan Samardak and many others. In the tenth grade Tyshchenko joined Komsomol of Ukraine. He graduated the boarding school back 1981 and soon appeared in Vinnytsia playing for the Second League team Nyva Vinnytsia that was coached by Yukhym Shkolnykov. In 1983 Nyva placed fifth in the Second League and Tyshchenko was approached by scouts of Dynamo Kyiv and joined the big club. In 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Myron Markevych
Myron Bohdanovych Markevych (; born 1 February 1951) is a Ukrainian association football, football manager and former player who manages FC Karpaty Lviv, Karpaty Lviv. He has worked as a manager in the Ukrainian Premier League and for the Ukraine national football team, Ukraine national team. He holds the record for coaching the most matches (500 as on 15 August 2011) in the Ukrainian Premier League.Information on Official Metalist Kharkiv website A former midfielder, he made 59 appearances in the Soviet Second League for FC Volyn Lutsk, Torpedo Lutsk. Playing career Markevych played as a midfielder for FC Karpaty Lviv, Karpaty Lviv (reserves), SCA Lviv, FC Alania Vladikavkaz, Spartak Ordzhinikidze, and FC Torpedo Lutsk, Torpedo Lutsk.Coaching career [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Valery Yaremchenko
Valeriy Ivanovych Yaremchenko (; born 15 August 1947) is a Ukrainian former football manager and player. Career Yaremchenko was born in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. As a player, he participated in 247 games as a member of Shakhtar Donetsk scoring 24 goals. He coached Syria (1985–87), Shakhtar Donetsk (1989–94, 2001–03), Kremin (1994), Kolos Krasnodar (1995), Rotor Volgograd (2004), Metalurh Z Zaporizhia (2004–05). He was made honorary coach of Ukraine in 1993. Career statistics Honours Player Shakhtar Donetsk * Soviet Top League: runner-up 1975; third place 1978 * Soviet Cup runner-up: 1978 Manager Shakhtar Donetsk * Ukrainian Premier League runner-up: 1993–94, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2002–03 * Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup ( ) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003–04 season, the Cup winner qu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Valery Lobanovsky
Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi (, ; 6 January 1939 – 13 May 2002) was а Soviet and Ukraine, Ukrainian association football, football player and manager. He was Master of Sports of the USSR, Distinguished Coach of the USSR, and a laureate of the UEFA Order of Merit in Ruby (2002) and FIFA Order of Merit, the highest honour awarded by FIFA.Lobanovskyi Tournament news: Russian Super Cup in Kyiv? (rus.) In 2002 he was awarded the Hero of Ukraine award (posthumously), his nation's highest honour, for his contribution to Ukrainian football. In 2008, Lobanovskyi was ranked 6th in Inter (TV channel), Inter's list of the ''The Greatest Ukrainians, 100 Greatest Ukrainians'' following a nationwide poll that saw around 2.5 million people casting their votes. Lobanovskyi is most famous for his sp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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SC Tavriya Simferopol
Sports Club Tavriya () was a Ukrainian football club from Simferopol. Tavriya was a member of the Ukrainian Premier League from its founding and won the first Ukrainian Premier League 1992, Ukrainian Premier League making them one of three teams that have ever held this title. After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, the club was forced to cease its existence after 56 years, while in occupied Crimean peninsula a new club composed of some of its staff and players joined the Russian Football Union under the new name FC TSK Simferopol. In June 2015, the Football Federation of Ukraine and the Tavriya's president announced it would re-establish the club and its new home would be Kherson.Ukraine trying to revive Crimean c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FC Nyva Ternopil
FC Nyva Ternopil (; ) is a Ukrainian football club from the city of Ternopil, the administrative center of Ternopil Oblast. As of the 2020–21 season, it played in the Ukrainian First League, the second tier of Ukrainian football, following promotion from the 2019–20 Ukrainian Second League. Originally the club was formed as Nyva Pidhaitsi in the small town Pidhaitsi in 1978, then moved to a district centre Berezhany changing its name to Nyva Berezhany in 1982, and finally moved to Ternopil becoming Nyva Ternopil in 1985. In 2016 the club withdrew from the professional competitions and was reestablished as PFC Nyva Ternopil. Their home ground is the small stadium of former bird farm in village of Velyki Hayi near Ternopil, but all the major home league and cup matches they have played before in 15,150 seat Central City Stadium named after Roman Shukhevych, which belongs to Community of the City of Ternopil. History Club names * 1978–1982: FC Nyva Pidhaitsi * 1982–198 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
The Sports club "Metalurh Zaporizhzhia" (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Zaporizhzhia. Reestablished in 2017, it is a " phoenix club" of the original Soviet factory "team of masters" Metalurh that existed in 1935–2016 of the Soviet metallurgical giant Zaporizhstal. The original club holds several historical records of Soviet football, particularly while participating in the Soviet second tier (in 1971–1991 known as the First League). The club has spent the highest number of seasons in the Soviet second tier, as well as earned the highest number of tournament points. The club is also a three-time champion of the Ukrainian republican competitions. Just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the team of masters Metalurh Zaporizhia was transformed into a commercial football club. In 2017, the city of Zaporizhia administration reestablished the football club as Miskyi Football Club Metalurh Zaporizhia. In December 2024, the organization designation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FC Vorskla Poltava
FC Vorskla Poltava ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Poltava. The team set to compete in Ukrainian First League, the second tier of Football in Ukraine, Ukrainian football after relegation from Ukrainian Premier League in 2024–25. History Kolos Poltava The club draws its history from 1955 when on the initiative of the first secretary of the regional party cell Mikhail Stakhursky in the city of Poltava was established a football club Kolhospnyk within the republican trade union sports society ''Kolos (sports society), Kolhospnyk''. The same year it entered the 1955 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR, Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR where already played one of the older clubs from Poltava, FC Lokomotyv Poltava, Lokomotyv Poltava. Beside Kolhospnyk and Lokomotyv, at republican level Poltava was represented with some other sports societies before 1950s. Rumors about appearance of the new club in Poltava based at the VSS "Kolhospnyk" starte ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FC Karpaty Lviv
Football Club Karpaty Lviv ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv. In 2020–21 the club was reorganized and changed owner. During that period there existed two clubs with the same name, one at professional level competitions, another at amateur. History Early years (1963–68) The team of Karpaty was founded on 18 January, 1963. In 1961 Silmash Lviv won the championship of Lviv Oblast but lost its promotional play-off against Naftovyk Drohobych to qualify for the Soviet Class B championship. In 1962 Silmash Lviv won the championship and cup of the Lviv Oblast (see Lviv Oblast Football Federation) and won the promotional play-offs against Naftovyk, obtaining the rights to participate in the Soviet Class B championship ( Soviet First League). However, in 1963 the Football Federation of USSR conducted another reorganization in football national tournaments creating the Second Group of Class A and Class B became the third tier where a berth was reserved for a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |