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2004–05 Vyshcha Liha
14th season of top-tier football league in Vyshcha Liha
14th season of top-tier football league in Vyshcha Liha
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| competition | Vyshcha Liha |
| season | 2004–05 |
| winners | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2nd title | |
| runners-up | Dynamo Kyiv |
| relegated | Obolon Kyiv, |
| Borysfen Boryspil | |
| continentalcup1 | Champions League |
| continentalcup1 qualifiers | Shakhtar Donetsk (3rd Qualifying Round) |
| Dynamo Kyiv (2nd Qualifying Round) | |
| continentalcup2 | UEFA Cup |
| continentalcup2 qualifiers | Metalurh Donetsk (2nd Qualifying Round) |
| Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd Qualifying Round) | |
| league topscorer | (14) - Oleksandr Kosyrin (Chornomorets Odesa) |
| biggest home win | (4:0) - Tavriya-Vorskla |
| biggest away win | (0:7) - Obolon-Dynamo |
| highest scoring | (0:7) - Obolon-Dynamo |
| (5:2) Shakhtar-Obolon | |
| Arsenal-Illichivets | |
| matches | 240 |
| total goals | 506 |
| average attendance | 7,391 |
| prevseason | 2003–04 |
| nextseason | 2005–06 |
2nd title | runners-up = Dynamo Kyiv Borysfen Boryspil Dynamo Kyiv (2nd Qualifying Round) Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd Qualifying Round) (5:2) Shakhtar-Obolon Arsenal-Illichivets
The 2004–05 Vyshcha Liha season was the fourteenth since its establishment.
The season started on July 15, 2004, with all eight games of the first round. The last day of the competition was June 16, 2005. Shakhtar Donetsk won its second champion's title place ahead of the reigning champions Dynamo that held for the last couple of seasons. The Miners only lost two of their games, one at home to Metalist Kharkiv that had just returned to the top league and another one in Simferopol to Tavriya. Shakhtar also won both of their match-ups with Dynamo Kyiv. The top scorers competition was won by Oleksandr Kosyrin from Chornomorets Odesa who had 14 precise shots on goal.
Illichivets Mariupol was close to qualify for the European competition once again; however, it was not able to convert on the poor playing form of the leading Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk that had a bad stretch at the "finish line".
Both clubs from the Kyiv region, FC Obolon Kyiv and FC Borysfen Boryspil, that performed very well last season were forced into relegation due to their poor performance. Especially, strikingly bad season had Borysfen that won three games.
Teams
Promotions
- Zakarpattia Uzhhorod, the winners of the 2003–04 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of 2 seasons)
- Metalist Kharkiv, the runners-up of the 2003–04 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of a seasons)
Location
Managers
| Club | Coach | Replaced coach |
|---|---|---|
| FC Arsenal Kyiv | UKR Oleksandr Baranov | |
| FC Chornomorets Odesa | UKR Semen Altman | |
| FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | UKR Yevhen Kucherevsky | |
| FC Dynamo Kyiv | UKR Yozhef Sabo | UKR Oleksiy Mykhailychenko |
| FC Volyn Lutsk | UKR Petro Kushlyk | UKR Vitaliy Kvartsiany |
| FC Borysfen Boryspil | UKR Stepan Matviiv | UKR Oleksandr Ryabokon |
| FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | UKR Oleksandr Kosevych | UKR Anatoliy Piskovets |
| FC Metalist Kharkiv | UKR Oleksandr Zavarov | UKR Hennadiy Lytovchenko |
| FC Metalurh Donetsk | RUS Vitaliy Shevchenko | SER Slavoljub Muslin |
| FC Metalurh Zaporizhya | UKR Valeriy Yaremchenko | |
| FC Illichivets Mariupol | UKR Ivan Balan | UKR Mykola Pavlov |
| FC Shakhtar Donetsk | ROM Mircea Lucescu | |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | UKR Oleh Fedorchuk | UKR Anatoliy Zayaev |
| FC Vorskla Poltava | UKR Volodymyr Muntyan | |
| FC Obolon Kyiv | UKR Oleksandr Ryabokon | UKR Petro Slobodyan |
| FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod | UKR Viktor Ryashko |
League table
Results
Top goal scorers

| Brazil Matuzalem | Shakhtar Donetsk | 8 |
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