Vyshcha Liha
Season2004–05
ChampionsShakhtar Donetsk
2nd title
RelegatedObolon Kyiv,
Borysfen Boryspil
Champions LeagueShakhtar Donetsk (3rd Qualifying Round)
Dynamo Kyiv (2nd Qualifying Round)
UEFA CupMetalurh Donetsk (2nd Qualifying Round)
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd Qualifying Round)
Matches played240
Goals scored506 (2.11 per match)
Top goalscorer(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
Average attendance7,391

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

Location

Managers

Club Coach Replaced coach
FC Arsenal KyivUkraine Oleksandr Baranov
FC Chornomorets OdesaUkraine Semen Altman
FC Dnipro DnipropetrovskUkraine Yevhen Kucherevsky
FC Dynamo KyivUkraine Yozhef SaboUkraine Oleksiy Mykhailychenko
FC Volyn LutskUkraine Petro KushlykUkraine Vitaliy Kvartsiany
FC Borysfen BoryspilUkraine Stepan MatviivUkraine Oleksandr Ryabokon
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi RihUkraine Oleksandr KosevychUkraine Anatoliy Piskovets
FC Metalist KharkivUkraine Oleksandr ZavarovUkraine Hennadiy Lytovchenko
FC Metalurh DonetskRussia Vitaliy ShevchenkoSerbia Slavoljub Muslin
FC Metalurh ZaporizhyaUkraine Valeriy Yaremchenko
FC Illichivets MariupolUkraine Ivan BalanUkraine Mykola Pavlov
FC Shakhtar DonetskRomania Mircea Lucescu
SC Tavriya SimferopolUkraine Oleh FedorchukUkraine Anatoliy Zayaev
FC Vorskla PoltavaUkraine Volodymyr Muntyan
FC Obolon KyivUkraine Oleksandr RyabokonUkraine Petro Slobodyan
FC Zakarpattia UzhhorodUkraine Viktor Ryashko

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Shakhtar Donetsk (C) 30 26 2 2 63 19 +44 80 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2 Dynamo Kyiv 30 23 4 3 58 14 +44 73 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3 Metalurh Donetsk 30 14 7 9 38 35 +3 49 Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 30 13 9 8 38 34 +4 48
5 Illichivets Mariupol 30 12 8 10 38 34 +4 44
6 Chornomorets Odesa 30 12 6 12 29 29 0 42
7 Tavriya Simferopol 30 11 9 10 34 28 +6 42
8 Volyn Lutsk 30 11 7 12 35 37 −2 40
9 Arsenal Kyiv 30 9 10 11 30 33 −3 37
10 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 30 8 11 11 25 32 −7 35
11 Metalist Kharkiv 30 9 7 14 25 37 −12 34
12 Zakarpattia Uzhhorod 30 7 10 13 21 30 −9 31
13 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 30 7 10 13 24 38 −14 31
14 Vorskla-Naftohaz Poltava 30 8 6 16 18 35 −17 30
15 Obolon Kyiv (R) 30 4 9 17 18 43 −25 21 Relegated to Ukrainian First League
16 Borysfen Boryspil (R) 30 3 11 16 15 31 −16 20
Source: uafootball.net.ua
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away ARK BOR CHO DNI DYN ILL KRY MET MDO MZA OBO SHA TAV VOL VOR ZAK
Arsenal Kyiv — 2–1 2–1 1–2 0–0 5–2 0–2 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–2 1–2 2–0 2–2
Borysfen Boryspil 0–1 — 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 0–0 0–2 0–1 1–0 -:+ 1–3
Chornomorets Odesa 1–0 0–1 — 2–0 0–3 0–1 3–1 2–1 1–0 1–0 3–1 1–3 1–0 2–1 1–1 0–0
Dnipro 1–0 0–0 1–0 — 1–2 2–0 2–1 4–2 3–3 1–1 3–0 1–3 3–1 1–0 3–1 0–3
Dynamo Kyiv 1–1 2–0 3–1 2–0 — 2–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 1–2 3–1 0–2 1–0 3–0 1–0 3–0
Illichivets Mariupol 0–0 1–0 2–1 3–0 1–1 — 2–0 1–1 3–0 2–2 1–1 0–1 2–2 1–0 2–0 3–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 0–3 1–1 0–0 1–2 0–2 0–0 — 3–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–2 0–2 0–0 1–0 1–0
Metalist Kharkiv 1–1 3–1 0–1 0–2 0–2 1–0 0–1 — 1–4 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0
Metalurh Donetsk 1–0 1–3 1–0 2–1 1–2 2–1 1–1 3–1 — 1–0 2–1 1–3 2–1 1–0 2–0 2–0
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 0–0 2–1 0–2 1–1 0–2 0–2 2–0 1–4 2–0 — 1–0 1–3 1–2 1–1 1–0 1–0
Obolon Kyiv 2–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 0–7 1–2 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 — 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 0–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 3–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 3–2 4–1 4–2 0–1 3–0 2–1 5–2 — 1–0 3–1 1–0 1–0
Tavriya Simferopol 1–1 2–1 2–2 1–1 0–1 2–0 1–2 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 2–1 — 4–1 4–0 +:-
Volyn Lutsk 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–1 3–2 3–1 4–2 1–2 2–2 1–0 1–3 1–0 — 1–1 3–0
Vorskla-Naftohaz Poltava 3–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–3 1–2 2–1 0–1 1–1 1–0 2–1 0–2 1–0 0–2 — 2–0
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod 2–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–2 0–0 0–0 2–2 1–0 —
Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goal scorers

Kosyrin
Ukraine Oleksandr Kosyrin Chornomorets Odesa 14 (4)
Ukraine Vasyl Sachko Volyn Lutsk 12
Peru Andrés Augusto Mendoza Metalurh Donetsk 12 (1)
Brazil Brandao Shakhtar Donetsk 12 (2)
Ukraine Serhiy Zakarlyuka Illychivets Mariupol 12 (4)
Uzbekistan Maksim Shatskikh Dynamo Kyiv 11
Brazil Diogo Rincón Dynamo Kyiv 10 (6)
Georgia (country) Vasyl Gigiadze Tavriya Simferopol 9 (1)
Nigeria Julius Aghahowa Shakhtar Donetsk 8
Brazil Kléber Dynamo Kyiv 8
Brazil Matuzalem Shakhtar Donetsk 8
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