1992 Ukrainian First League was the first Ukrainian First League (second tier) season with the record number of teams participating in the league at 28, divided into groups. The season started on March 14 and finished on July 5, 1992.
At the end of the season, the five worst teams from each of the two groups were relegated to the Ukrainian Second League (the third tier). The winners of each group qualified for the top league for the next season. There was no title game scheduled between the group winners.
Teams
In the 1992 season, the Ukrainian First League consisted mostly of clubs that had competed in the Soviet Second League (Ukrainian Zone). The league was split into two groups A (mostly western and central Ukraine) and B (mostly eastern and southern Ukraine).
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Pre-season organization
TeamLocationVenueCapacityLeague and position in 1991CoachReplaced coachHalychynaDrohobychKranovyk StadiumSoviet Second League18Borys RassykhinVorsklaPoltavaVorskla Stadium19 Sergei DotsenkoKolosNikopolMetalurh StadiumSoviet Second League "B"3Volodymyr NechayevVeresRivneAvanhard Stadium4Viktor NosovPryladystMukachevoOctober 50th Anniversary Stadium5Vilmos TelingerKrystalKhersonKrystal Stadium6Anatoliy LebidIgor GamulaRosBila TserkvaTrudovi Rezervy Stadium7Stanislav HoncharenkoAvtomobilistSumyKolos Stadium8Mykhailo FomenkoPolissyaZhytomyrLKSMU Stadium10Zaya AvdyshKryvbasKryvyi RihMetalurh Stadium11Volodymyr SryzhevskyiShakhtarPavlohradShakhtar Stadium12Anatoliy KeskyulaProfile of Keskyula at FootballFacts.ruDesnaChernihivGagarin Stadium13Yuriy HruznovPodillyaKhmelnytskyiPodillya Stadium14Hryhoriy IshchenkoZakarpattiaUzhhorodAvanhard Stadium15Stepan VoitkoSkalaStryiSokil Stadium16Mykhailo VilkhovyiPlayer's profile at FootballFacts.ruStalAlchevskStal Stadium17Anatoliy VolobuyevDniproCherkasyCentral Stadium18Viktor ZhylinKhimikSeverodonetskKhimik Stadium19Vadym DobizhaVahonobudivnykKadiivkaPeremoha Stadium20Oleksandr TkachenkoSKAKyivSKA Stadium21Oleh FeshchukovProfile at the FootballFacts.ruChaikaSevastopolChaika Stadium22Oleksiy RudykaArtaniaOchakivSokil Stadium23Valeriy ZhuravkoChornomorets-2OdesaSKA StadiumSoviet Top League Reserves6Vitaliy SidnyovDynamo-2KyivDynamo Stadium12Volodymyr OnyshchenkoShakhtar-2KostyantynivkaAvtosteklo Stadium14Yevhen KorolNovatorMariupolSport Complex AzovstalUkrainian KFK competitions1Yuriy KermanKrystalChortkivKharchovyk Stadium2 Boris StreltsovPolihraftekhnikaOleksandriyaShakhtar Stadium3Yuriy KovalOleksandr Ishchenko
Games of Chornomorets-2 were conducted at various stadiums such as Chornomorets Stadium, OSPO Stadium, ZRSS Stadium, Stankozavod Stadium, SRZ Stadium. Some games of Ros were conducted at the Kolos Stadium in Terezyne (Bila Tserkva Raion). Some games of Pryladyst were conducted at Spartak Stadium. Some games of Dnipro were conducted at Avanhard Stadium in Smila
Name changes before season The city of Kommunarsk changed back to Alchevsk Karpaty Kamyanka-Buzka was swapped with Skala Stryi, which was a runner of the Lviv Oblast football competitions Mayak Ochakiv changed its name to Artania Ochakiv Dynamo Bila Tserkva to Ros Bila Terkva Novator Mariupol to Azovets Mariupol Kolos Nikopol to Metalurh Nikopol
Group A Group A standings
Goalscorers Aleksei Snigiryov (FC Veres Rivne) 10 Valeriy Kinashenko (FC Pryladyst Mukacheve) 10
Hat-tricks PlayerForAgainstResultDateValeriy KinashenkoPryladyst MukacheveAvtomobilist Sumy3–0 (A)3 April 1992 Tagir FasakhovKrystal ChortkivChaika Sevastopol4–0 (H)8 April 1992
Clean sheets RankPlayerClubCleansheets1Serhiy KvasnikovPryladyst Mukachevo172 Viktor DerbunovVeres Rivne153Yuriy MelashenkoDesna Chernihiv144Oleh DibrovaPolihraftekhnika Oleksandriya125Arkadiy BatalovPodillya Khmelnytskyi11
Group B Group B standings
Goalscorers Denys Filimonov (FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) 16 Viktor Hromov (FC Shakhtar Pavlohrad) 14 Oleksandr Haiduk (FC Ros Bila Tserkva) 11 Vadym Oliynyk (FC Metalurh Nikopol) 10 Hennadiy Moroz (FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) 9 Hennadiy Zamriy (FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod) 9 Oleksandr Pindeyev (FC Vorskla Poltava/FC Chornomorets-2 Odesa) 9 Ihor Nichenko (FC Krystal Kherson/FC Metalist Kharkiv) 9
Hat-tricks PlayerForAgainstResultDateValeriy YefremovAzovets MariupolVahonobudivnyk Stakhanov4–1 (H)14 May 1992Volodymyr TrubnykovShakhtar PavlohradAzovets Mariupol6–0 (H)29 June 1992
Clean sheets RankPlayerClubCleansheets1Serhiy KiriyenkoMetalurh Nikopol122Volodymyr VasiutykZakarpattia Uzhhorod11
See also Ukrainian Premier League 1992 Ukrainian Second League 1992
References
External links Championship of Ukraine - Official site of the FFU Archive of championships of Ukraine on the site ukrsoccerhistory.com Ukrainian football from Axel