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1996–97 Ukrainian First League

Field	Value
competition	Ukrainian First League
season	1996–97
winners	Metalurh Donetsk
promoted	Metalurh Mariupol
relegated	Odesa
Krystal Chortkiv
Podillya Khmelnytskyi
Veres Rivne
league topscorer	(22) Oleksiy Antyukhin (Dynamo-2 Kyiv)
prevseason	1995–96
nextseason	1997–98

Krystal Chortkiv Podillya Khmelnytskyi Veres Rivne 1996–97 Ukrainian First League was the sixth season of the Ukrainian First League which was won by Metalurh Donetsk. The season started on August 4, 1996, and finished on June 20, 1997.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted teams

Three clubs promoted from the 1995–96 Ukrainian Second League. ;Group A

FC CSKA Kyiv – champion (returning after four seasons, previously in 1992 as SKA Kyiv) ;Group B
FC Metalurh Mariupol – champion (returning after four seasons, previously in 1992 as FC Azovets Mariupol)
FC Metalurh Donetsk – promotion play-off (debut)

Relegated teams

Three clubs were relegated from the 1995-96 Ukrainian Top League:

SC Mykolaiv – 16th place (returning after two seasons, previously in 1994-95 as FC Evis Mykolaiv)
FC Volyn Lutsk – 17th place (debut)
FC Zorya Luhansk – 18th place (debut)

Renamed teams

FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod changed its name to FC Verkhovyna Uzhhorod before the season.
FC CSKA Kyiv changed its name to FC CSKA-2 Kyiv before the season since becoming the farm team of the Borysfen-CSKA merger.
FC Dnipro Cherkasy changed its name to FC Cherkasy during the winter break.

Teams

In 1996-97 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Club	City	Stadium	Coach	Replaced coach(es)
Metalist Kharkiv	Kharkiv	Metalist Stadium	Mykhailo Fomenko	Viktor Udovenko
Veres Rivne	Rivne	Avanhard Stadium	Viacheslav Kobeletsky
Poligraftechnika Olexandria	Oleksandriya	Olimp Stadium	Yuriy Koval	Anatoliy Buznyk
Podillya Khmelnytskyi	Khmelnytskyi
Krasyliv	Podillya Stadium
Yunist Stadium	Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi	Volodymyr Bulhakov
Krystal Chortkiv	Chortkiv	Kharchovyk Stadium	V.Ivehesh	Ivan Hamaliy
Lviv	Lviv	Yunist Stadium	Stepan Yurchyshyn
Dynamo-2 Kyiv	Kyiv	Dynamo Stadium	Volodymyr Onyshchenko
Yavir Krasnopillia	Krasnopillya	Kolos Stadium
Yavir Stadium	Valeriy Dushkov
Stal Alchevsk	Alchevsk	Stal Stadium	Anatoliy Volobuyev
Dnipro Cherkasy	Cherkasy	Central Stadium
Spartak Stadium	Semen Osynovskyi	Ihor Chupryna
Bazhanovets Makiivka	Makiivka	Avanhard Stadium	Viktor Pyshchev
Bukovyna Chernivtsi	Chernivtsi	Bukovyna Stadium	V.Bohuslavsky	Yukhym Shkolnykov
Khimik Zhytomyr	Zhytomyr	City Stadium	Hryhoriy Ishchenko	V.Veber
Naftovyk Okhtyrka	Okhtyrka	Naftovyk Stadium	Vasyl Yermak	Oleksandr Dovbiy
Metalurh Nikopol	Nikopol	Elektrometalurh Stadium	Hryhoriy Verzhelenko
Volyn Lutsk	Lutsk	Avanhard Stadium	A.Radchenko
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	Uzhhorod	Avanhard Stadium	Oleksandr Holokolosov Sr.	Matviy Bobal
Zorya Luhansk	Luhansk	Avanhard Stadium	A.Shakun	Anatoliy Kuksov
CSKA-2 Kyiv	Kyiv	CSKA Stadium	A.Shtelin	A.Petrakov
Khimik Severodonetsk	Sieverodonetsk	Khimik Stadium	Yuriy Koval	Yuriy Vankevych
Odesa	Odesa	SKA Stadium	Serhiy Marusyn
SC Mykolaiv	Mykolaiv	Central Stadium	Anatoliy Zayaev	Yevhen Kucherevsky
Metalurh Donetsk	Donetsk	Shakhtar Stadium	Yevhen Korol
Metalurh Mariupol	Mariupol	Azovstal Stadium	Yuriy Pohrebnyak

Final table

Persha Liha 1996-97 Winners
FC Metalurh Donetsk
First title

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.

Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	UKR Oleksiy Antyukhin	22 (7)
2	UKR Yuriy Hetman	21 (1)
3	UKR Oleksandr Sevidov	20
4	UKR Viktor Dyak	18 (10)
5	UKR Kostyantyn Pinchuk	16 (12)
6	UKR Yevhen Sonin	15 (3)
7	UKR Oleksandr Ostashov	14
UKR Oleh Babenko	14 (1)	Khimik Severodonetsk
9	UKR Oleksandr Karabuta	13
UKR Borys Shurshyn	13 (2)	Yavir Krasnopillya

References

[http://ukranianfootball.narod.ru/1997/1996_97_p.html Statistics] {{in lang. ru

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