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2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League

20th season of top-tier football league in Vyshcha Liha

Field	Value
competition	Ukrainian Premier League
season	2010–11
winners	Shakhtar Donetsk
6th title
relegated	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
Sevastopol
continentalcup1	Champions League
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Shakhtar Donetsk
Dynamo Kyiv
continentalcup2	Europa League
continentalcup2 qualifiers	Metalist Kharkiv
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Karpaty Lviv
Vorskla Poltava
league topscorer	17 – Yevhen Seleznyov (Dnipro)
biggest home win	Dynamo 9–0 Illichivets (Round 15)
biggest away win	Volyn 0–4 Vorskla (Round 1)
Illichivets 1–5 Dnipro (Round 3)
Illichivets 2–6 Vorskla (Round 17)
Metalurh Zap. 0–4 Illichivets (Round 20)
Metalurh Don. 1–5 Arsenal (Round 27)
highest scoring	Dynamo 9–0 Illichivets (Round 15)
matches	240
total goals	609
longest wins	11 – Shakhtar (Round 10–20)
longest unbeaten	11 – Shakhtar (Round 10–20)
longest losses	7 – Metalurh Zap. (Round 6–12)
highest attendance	50,390 Shakhtar – Dynamo (Round 12)
lowest attendance	500 Zorya – Obolon (Round 22)
average attendance	9228
prevseason	2009–10
nextseason	2011–12

6th title Sevastopol Dynamo Kyiv Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Karpaty Lviv Vorskla Poltava Illichivets 1–5 Dnipro (Round 3) Illichivets 2–6 Vorskla (Round 17) Metalurh Zap. 0–4 Illichivets (Round 20) Metalurh Don. 1–5 Arsenal (Round 27) The 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 20th since its establishment and third since its reorganization. Shakhtar Donetsk were the defending champions, having won their 5th league title. A total of sixteen teams participated in the competition, fourteen of them contested the 2009–10 season while the remaining two were promoted from the Ukrainian First League.

The competition began on 9 July 2010 with four games. After the 19th Round, the competition was suspended for the winter break and resumed on 3 March 2011.

On 6 May 2011, Shakhtar Donetsk retained the championship with a 2–0 derby victory over rivals Metalurh Donetsk.

The top five teams were exactly the same as the previous season.

Teams

Promoted

FC Sevastopol, champion of the 2009-10 Ukrainian First League – (debut)
FC Volyn Lutsk, runner-up of the 2009-10 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of 4 seasons)

Location map

Managers and captains

Club	Coach	Captain	Replaced coach(es)
Arsenal Kyiv	UKR Yuriy Bakalov	UKR Vitaliy Reva
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	ESP Juande Ramos	UKR Andriy Rusol	UKR Vadym Tyschenko (interim)
UKR Volodymyr Bezsonov
Dynamo Kyiv	RUS Yuri Semin	UKR Oleksandr Shovkovskyi	UKR Oleh Luzhnyi (interim)
Russia Valery Gazzayev
Illichivets Mariupol	UKR Valeriy Yaremchenko	UKR Adrian Pukanych	UKR Ilya Bliznyuk
UKR Oleksandr Volkov (interim)
Karpaty Lviv	RUS Oleg Kononov	UKR Andriy Tlumak
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	UKR Yuriy Maksymov	UKR Oleksandr Maksymov
Metalist Kharkiv	UKR Myron Markevych	UKR Oleksandr Horyainov
Metalurh Donetsk	UKR Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	UKR Vyacheslav Checher	BUL Nikolay Kostov
UKR Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)
RUS Andrei Gordeyev
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	UKR Hryhoriy Nehiryev (interim)	BRA Junior Godoi	UKR Roman Hryhorchuk
UKR Oleh Lutkov
Obolon Kyiv	Ukraine Serhiy Kovalets	UKR Valentyn Slyusar
FC Sevastopol	BUL Angel Chervenkov	UKR Serhiy Ferenchak	Ukraine Oleh Leschynskyi
Ukraine Serhiy Shevchenko
Ukraine Oleh Leschynskyi (interim)
Shakhtar Donetsk	ROM Mircea Lucescu	CRO Darijo Srna
Tavriya Simferopol	UKR Oleksandr Shudryk (interim)	SRB Slobodan Marković	UKR Serhiy Puchkov
UKR Valeriy Petrov (interim)
Volyn Lutsk	UKR Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi	UKR Oleksandr Pyschur
Vorskla Poltava	UKR Mykola Pavlov	UKR Serhiy Dolhansky
Zorya Luhansk	UKR Anatoly Chantsev	UKR Volodymyr Yezerskiy

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	UKR Roman Hryhorchuk	End of contract	May 10	pre-season	UKROleh Lutkov	May 27
FC Sevastopol	UKR Oleh Leschynskyi	Dismissed	June 19	pre-season	UKRSerhiy Shevchenko	June 19	pre-season
FC Sevastopol	UKR Serhiy Shevchenko	Dismissed	September 12	15th place	UKROleh Leschynskyi (interim)	September 12	15th place
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	UKR Volodymyr Bezsonov	Resigned	September 18	3rd place	UKRVadym Tyschenko (interim)	September 18	3rd place
Tavriya Simferopol	UKR Serhiy Puchkov	Dismissed	September 22	12th place	UKRValeriy Petrov (interim)	September 22	12th place
Dynamo Kyiv	RUS Valeriy Gazzayev	Resigns	October 1	2nd place	UKROleh Luzhnyi (interim)	October 1	2nd place
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	UKRVadym Tyschenko (interim)	Interim position	October 1	3rd place	ESPJuande Ramos	October 1	3rd place
Illichivets Mariupol	UKR Ilya Bliznyuk	Resigned	November 1	15th place	UKROleksandr Volkov (interim)	November 1	15th place
Metalurh Donetsk	BUL Nikolay Kostov	Resigned	November 12	10th place	UKR Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	November 12	10th place
Illichivets Mariupol	UKR Oleksandr Volkov (interim)	End as interim	November 26	14th place	UKRValeriy Yaremchenko	November 26	14th place
FC Sevastopol	UKROleh Leschynskyi (interim)	End as interim	December 21	15th place	BULAngel Chervenkov	December 21	15th place
Dynamo Kyiv	UKROleh Luzhnyi (interim)	End as interim	December 24	2nd place	RUSYuri Semin	December 24	2nd place
Metalurh Donetsk	UKR Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	End as interim	January 12	10th place	RUS Andrei Gordeyev	January 12	10th place
Metalurh Donetsk	RUS Andrei Gordeyev	Sacked	May 3	11th place	UKR Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim)	May 3	11th place
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	UKR Oleh Lutkov	Sacked	May 4	16th place	UKR Hryhoriy Nehiryev (interim)	May 4	16th place
Tavriya Simferopol	UKRValeriy Petrov (interim)	Sacked	May 8	10th place	UKROleksandr Shudryk (interim)	May 8	10th place

Stadiums

Rank	Stadium	Club	Capacity	Highest
Attendance	Notes
1	Donbas Arena	Shakhtar Donetsk	52,518	50,390	Round 12 (Dynamo)
2	OSK Metalist	Metalist Kharkiv	41,411	38,600	Round 3 (Dynamo)
3	Dnipro Arena	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	31,003	31,003	Round 15 (Shakhtar)
Round 22 (Dynamo)
4	Metalurh Stadium	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	29,783	10,000	Round 8 (Dynamo)
5	Ukraina Stadium	Karpaty Lviv	28,051	27,500	Round 28 (Dynamo)
6	RSK Olimpiyskiy	Metalurh Donetsk	25,831	6,000	Round 20 (Dynamo)
Zorya Luhansk	650	Round 26 (Metalurh Donetsk)	Used as home ground in Round 26
7	Vorskla Stadium	Vorskla Poltava	25,000	15,000	Round 6 (Dynamo)
8	Avanhard Stadium	Zorya Luhansk	22,320	19,000	Round 18 (Shakhtar)
9	Lokomotiv Stadium	Tavriya Simferopol	19,978	16,300	Round 25 (Shakhtar)
PFC Sevastopol	12,000	Round 4 (Dynamo)	Used by Sevastopol as home ground for the season
10	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium	Dynamo Kyiv	16,873	15,000	Round 27 (Shakhtar)
Arsenal Kyiv	4,200	Round 26 (Dynamo)	PL moved the Kyiv Derby game to Dynamo Stadium to accommodate a much larger crowd
11	Illichivets Stadium	Illichivets Mariupol	12,680	8,500	Round 21 (Zorya)
12	Avanhard Stadium	Volyn Lutsk	12,080	11,520	Round 7 (Shakhtar)
13	Slavutych-Arena	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	11,983	8,500	Round 2 (Shakhtar)
14	Dynamo Stadium (Kharkiv)	Metalist Kharkiv	9,000	6,516	Round 27 (Karpaty)
15	Stal Stadium, Alchevsk	Zorya Luhansk	8,632	4,500	Round 28 (Dnipro)
16	Metalurh Stadium	Metalurh Donetsk	5,300	5,000	Round 13 (Shakhtar)
17	Obolon Stadium	Obolon Kyiv	5,100	5,100	Round 1 (Dynamo)
18	Bannikov Stadium	Arsenal Kyiv	1,678	1,480	Round 30 (Kryvbas)

Attendance

The total attendance for the season was 2,214,833. The most watched team was Shakhtar Donetsk with 722,231 spectators. The least watched team was Arsenal Kyiv with 153,339 spectators.

Qualification to European competitions for 2011–12

Since Ukraine finished in seventh place of the UEFA country ranking after the 2009–10 season, the league will have the same number of qualifiers for 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. The Ukrainian Cup winner qualifies for the play-off round.

Qualified teams

After the 22nd Round, Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for European football for the 2011–12 season.
After the 25th Round, both Dynamo Kyiv and Metalist Kharkiv qualified for European football for the 2011–12 season.
After the 26th Round, Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Champions League.
After the 26th Round, both Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Karpaty Lviv qualified for European football for the 2011–12 season.
After the 27th Round, Karpaty Lviv qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.{{cite web |archive-url = https://archive.today/20240525080410/https://www.webcitation.org/5yMXfppfO?url=http://www.dynamicwebspace.com/10MB/duke_andy/Qual_Europe-2011-05-01.html |access-date = 1 May 2011 |archive-date = 2024-05-25 |url-status = dead
After the 28th Round, Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Group stage (C) and Dynamo Kyiv qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round.
After the 28th Round, both Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Metalist Kharkiv qualified for 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.
After the results of the semi-finals of the Ukrainian Cup, Metalist Kharkiv enters the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League in the Play-off round.{{cite web |archive-url = https://archive.today/20240525082502/https://www.webcitation.org/5ybvA3sLE?url=http://www.dynamicwebspace.com/10MB/duke_andy/Qual_Europe-2011-05-12.html |access-date = 11 May 2011 |archive-date = 2024-05-25 |url-status = dead
After the 29th Round, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk enters the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League in the Play-off round and Karpaty Lviv enters in the Third qualifying round.
After the 30th Round, Vorskla Poltava qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League and enters Second qualifying round.

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League table

Results

Round by round

Top goalscorers

The top ten goalscorers during the season.

#	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	UKR Yevhen Seleznyov	17	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2	UKR Marko Dević	14 (3)	Metalist Kharkiv
3	Nigeria Lucky Idahor	13 (1)	Tavriya Simferopol
4	Ukraine Denys Oliynyk	12	Metalist Kharkiv
5	Ukraine Andriy Yarmolenko	11	Dynamo Kyiv
6	UKR Oleksiy Antonov	10	Illichivets Mariupol
Ukraine Vasyl Sachko	10	Vorskla Poltava
Brazil Luiz Adriano	10 (1)	Shakhtar Donetsk
UKR Andriy Shevchenko	10 (2)	Dynamo Kyiv
UKR Konstantyn Yaroshenko	10 (2)	Illichivets Mariupol

Awards

Award	Founder	Laureate
Ukrainian Footballer of the Year	newspaper Ukrainian Football	Andriy Voronin
Footballer of the Premier-Liha	newspaper Komanda	Andriy Yarmolenko
Event of the Season	ua-football.com	Shakhtar Donetsk in quarter-finals
of Champions League
Discovery of the Season	ua-football.com	José Sosa
Top Young Footballer	ua-football.com	Roman Bezus
Team of the Season	ua-football.com	Metalist Kharkiv
Top Ukrainian Footballer	ua-football.com	Oleh Husyev
Top Legionnaire	ua-football.com	Willian
Top Coach	ua-football.com	Myron Markevych

Season awards

The laureates of the 2010–11 UPL season were:

Best player: BRA Willian (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Best coach: ROU Mircea Lucescu (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Best goalkeeper: UKR Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (Dynamo Kyiv)
Best arbiter: UKR Viktor Shvetsov (Odesa)
Best young player: UKR Yevhen Konoplyanka (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
Best goalscorer: UKR Yevhen Seleznyov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)

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