The 2006–07

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was the sixteenth since its establishment. There were 20 teams competing. Two teams were relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League 2005-06. Four teams were promoted from the

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Promotion and relegation

Promoted teams

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

Group A

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: Druha Liha champion ''(Returning after seven seasons)''

Group B

* MFK Mykolaiv : Druha Liha champion ''(Returning after a seasons)'' *

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: Druha Liha runner-up ''(Returning after five seasons)''

Group C

FC Dnipro Cherkasy City Sports Club Dnipro Cherkasy () was a Ukrainian football team based in Cherkasy. Over its history the club has been dissolved and revived several times. The original club that existed 1955-1974 was dissolved following a financial scandal. Afte ...

: Druha Liha champion ''(Returning after five seasons)''

Relegated teams

Two teams were relegated from the

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2005–06 season after finishing on the bottom of the

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: *

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: 15th place ''(Returning after four seasons)'' * FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod : 16th place ''(Returning after two seasons)''

Renamed/relocated teams

* On May 23, 2006, the PFL Bureau of Ukraine acknowledged that

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will replace FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi as its successor. The club was moved from

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. * On December 19, 2006 FC Dynamo-Ihroservis Simferopol changed to FC Ihroservis Simferopol.

Teams

In 2006–07 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Managers

Final standings

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.

Teams withdrawn during and after season

Spartak Sumy

On November 28, 2006 PFL Bureau has excluded FC Spartak Sumy from competitions for the second ''no show''. Due to the fact that team has physically played less than 50% of calendar games (17 games), all its season record was stripped. Upon withdrawal it had 1-0-18 record and 4-49 goals difference.

Borysfen Boryspil

On March 16, 2007

FC Borysfen Boryspil FC Borysfen Boryspil is a formerly professional Ukrainian football club from Boryspil, Ukraine. The club was created as a phoenix club in 1997 by Ihor Kovalevych after disagreement in FC CSKA Kyiv (today FC Arsenal Kyiv). The history of the club ...

was excluded from competitions for systematic violation of statute and regulations of FFU and PFL, failure to comply with their organs of administration and implementation football justice as well as failure to fulfill terms of contracts with players and financial obligations to FFU and PFL. In the rest of games were nominated technical losses to the team and its opponents - technical victory.Decision #11 of the PFL Bureau of Ukraine
. March 16, 2007.

Podillia Khmelnytskyi

In the second half of the season Podillia Khmelnytskyi moved from Khmelnytskyi to Krasyliv. At the same time for the amateur championship registered a new club from Khmelnytskyi, '' FC Podillia-Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytskyi''. So, since spring 2007 there were two clubs Podillia, one at professional level playing in Krasyliv and other - amateur playing in Khmelnytskyi. One of the reasons was the prior merger of

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with FC Krasyliv back in 2004. At the end of 2006–07 season Podillia Krasyliv changed back to FC Krasyliv and was scheduled to play in the 2007-08 Ukrainian Second League, but withdrew just before the start of season. Instead of Krasyliv to the

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applied the newly revived FC Podillia-Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytskyi. In such manner there was created a club's continium.

Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk

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was relegated to the

, while another team form local university FC Fakel Ivano-Frankivsk obtain promotion to the

. The city municipality on whose balance ended up both clubs decided to keep one and dissolve another one. So, in the 2007-08 Ukrainian Second League season there were no clubs playing from

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, while a new team FSC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk was created in place of Fakel to participate in the 2007-08 Ukrainian First League season.

References

External links

*
Persha Liha at Official Site of the Professional Football league of Ukraine

- UA-Football.com {{DEFAULTSORT:2006-07 Ukrainian First League Ukrainian First League seasons 2006–07 in Ukrainian association football leagues

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