The 2005–06 Ukrainian First League was the fifteenth since its establishment. There were 20 teams competing. Two teams were relegated from the 2004–05 Vyshcha Liha. Four teams were promoted from the 2004–05 Ukrainian Second League.
Teams In 2005-06 season, the Ukrainian First League consisted of the following teams: Promoted teams These four teams were promoted from Druha Liha at the start of the season:
Group A FC Enerhetyk Burshtyn – runner up (debut, promoted ahead of the winner FC Rava Rava-Ruska) FC Bershad – 5th place (debut, last minute swap for the withdrawn FC Nyva Vinnytsia)
Group B FC Krymteplytsia Molodizhne – winners (debut)
Group C FC Helios Kharkiv – winners (debut)
Relegated teams Two teams were relegated from the Vyshcha Liha season: FC Obolon Kyiv – 15th placed (returning after three seasons) FC Borysfen Boryspil – 16th placed (returning after two seasons)
Withdrawn teams FC Nyva Vinnytsia announced that it withdraws from the league just before the season's start.
Location
Managers ClubCoachReplaced coachFC Bershad Serhiy Shevchenko Anatoliy Murakhovskyi Vitaliy SklyarenkoBorysfen Boryspil Oleksandr Prykhodko Stepan Matviyiv Pavlo IrichukCSKA Kyiv Yuriy Maksymov Vasyl YevseyevDynamo-2 Kyiv Volodymyr Onyshchenko Dynamo-Ihroservice Simferopol Oleh Lutkov Serhiy LezhentsevEnerhetyk Burshtyn Mykola Prystai Mykhaylo SavkaHazovyk-Skala Stryi Bohdan Bandura Helios Kharkiv Kostiantyn Pakhomov Volodymyr Shekhovtsov Rostyslav LysenkoKarpaty Lviv Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi Krymteplitsia Molodizhne Oleh Fedorchuk Oleh Lutkov Anvar SuleimanovNaftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka Serhiy Shevchenko Obolon Kyiv Petro Slobodyan Bohdan BlavatskyiPodillya Khmelnytskyi Serhiy Kucherenko Shakhtar-2 Donetsk Mykola Fedorenko Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk Ihor Yurchenko Mykola PrystaiSpartak Sumy Serhiy Strashnenko Volodymyr Parkhomenko Valeriy Dushkov Valeriy Bermudes Viktor IvanenkoStal Dniprodzerzhynsk Viktor Maslov Zorya Luhansk Yuriy Koval
Final table
FC Nyva Vinnytsia (5th Persha Liha 2004-05) merged its operations with FC Bershad' (5th Druha Liha Hrupa A 2004-05) and moved to Bershad' and renamed the club prior to the start of the season. Three points deducted from FC Bershad for failure to comply with Federation directives (12/16/2005) and another 6 points (9 total) deducted for continual nonconformance of League directives (2/24/2006) Informed the UFF that the team is dissolved and will not play any more matches. (May 19, 2006) The game between Karpaty and Spartak Sumy (2:1) on March 18, 2006, was annulled by the PFL Bureau (decision of April 26) and both teams were awarded a defeat. Persha Liha 2005-06 WinnersFC Zorya LuhanskFirst title
Top scorers Statistics are taken from here.Statistics ScorerGoals (pen.)Team Bohdan YesypNaftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka Mykola BahlayHazovyk-Skala Vadym KyrylovZoria Luhansk Pavlo OnyskoKrymteplytsia Molodizhne Maksym FeshchukKarpaty Lviv Valeriy IvashchenkoObolon Kyiv Kostyantyn VizyonokZoria Luhansk Yevhen SeleznyovShakhtar-2 Donetsk Serhiy KucherenkoPodillya Khmelnytskyi Bohdan SmishkoZoria Luhansk
References
External links Persha Liha at Official Site of the Professional Football league of Ukraine Ukraine 2005/06. www.rsssf.org