1992 in Ukrainian football

Football in Ukraine
Season	1992
Men's football
Vyshcha Liha	SC Tavriya Simferopol
Persha Liha	Veres Rivne (Group A); Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (Group B)
Perekhidna Liha	Dnister Zalishchyky (Group A); Bazhanovets Makiivka (Group B)
KFK Championship	no competition
Ukrainian Cup	Chornomorets Odesa
Women's football
Vyshcha Liha	Dynamo Kyiv
Persha Liha	Iskra Zaporizhia
Ukrainian Cup	Dynamo Kyiv

The 1992 season was the 62nd season of competitive football in Ukraine and the first season of fully independent Ukraine following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This year the Ukrainian Association of Football (as Football Federation of Ukraine) was granted a membership to the international football organizations FIFA and UEFA and allowed to send its clubs to the UEFA continental competitions.

For the first time such former Soviet clubs like FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Chornomorets Odesa which represented the Soviet Union at European competitions since 1960s qualified for the UEFA competitions representing native Ukrainian nation. For the first time since 1948 FC Dynamo Kyiv returned to compete at the Ukrainian Cup, previously as the Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR. The champions title of SC Tavriya Simferopol was the first in independent Ukraine and the fourth including competitions of the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR.

National team

In 1992, Ukraine national football team conducted its first matches as representatives of now independent Ukraine and FIFA members. The first game was a match between Ukraine and Hungary held on 29 April 1992 at Avanhard Stadium in Uzhhorod, which was the first international home game for Ukraine, saw the first official goal and ended with a 1–3 defeat. The second game in a season took place on 27 June with the United States on away field, and ended in a 0–0 draw, recording a first point for the national team.

Results and fixtures

29 April 1992 International Friendly	Ukraine	1–3	Hungary	Uzhhorod, Ukraine
17:00 EEST	Hetsko 90'	Report	Salloi 61' Kiprich 68', 84' (pen.)	Stadium: Avanhard Stadium Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus)

27 June 1992 International Friendly	United States	0–0	Ukraine	Piscataway, United States
17:00 UTC-4		Report		Stadium: Rutgers Stadium Attendance: 11,815^[1] Referee: Michael Caulfield (Ireland)

Men's football

Vyshcha Liha (Top League)

League table

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tavriya Simferopol (C)	18	11	6	1	30	9	+21	28	Qualification to Final playoff
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	18	10	6	2	31	10	+21	26	Qualification to Third place playoff
3	Chornomorets Odesa	18	9	7	2	30	12	+18	25	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
4	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	18	6	7	5	21	16	+5	19
5	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	18	6	6	6	20	19	+1	18
6	Karpaty Lviv	18	5	6	7	15	18	−3	16
7	Kremin Kremenchuk	18	4	8	6	17	23	−6	16
8	Nyva Vinnytsia (R)	18	5	4	9	18	33	−15	14	Relegated to Ukrainian First League
9	Evis Mykolaiv (R)	18	3	4	11	12	29	−17	10
10	Temp Shepetivka (R)	18	2	4	12	9	34	−25	8

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv	18	13	4	1	31	13	+18	30	Qualification to Final playoff
2	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (O)	18	10	3	5	26	15	+11	23	Qualification to Third place playoff
3	Metalist Kharkiv	18	8	5	5	21	16	+5	21
4	Nyva Ternopil	18	8	5	5	16	12	+4	21
5	Volyn Lutsk	18	8	2	8	24	21	+3	18
6	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	18	7	4	7	17	16	+1	18
7	Zorya-MALS Luhansk	18	6	5	7	23	23	0	17
8	Naftovyk Okhtyrka (R)	18	5	3	10	12	28	−16	13	Relegated to Ukrainian First League
9	Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk (R)	18	3	6	9	9	18	−9	12
10	Odesa (R)	18	3	1	14	15	32	−17	7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Second stage

Championship playoff

1992-06-21

SC Tavriya Simferopol	1 – 0	FC Dynamo Kyiv
Shevchenko 75'	Report goal (video)

Ukraina Stadium, Lviv

Attendance: 36,000^[2]

Referee: Volodymyr Pianykh (Donetsk), (FIFA)

Tavriya Simferopol^[3]


Tavriya Simferopol:
GK	1	Oleh Kolesov
FW	2	Serhiy Shevchenko (c)
DF	3	Mykola Turchinenko
DF	4	Oleksandr Holovko
DF	5	Vidmantas Vyšniauskas	64'
DF	6	Serhiy Voronezhsky
MF	7	Andriy Oparin	77'
DF	8	Sefer Alibayev
DF	9	Yuri Getikov
FW	10	Sergei Gladyshev
MF	11	Vladyslav Novikov
Substitutes:
MF	12	Yuriy Mikhailus	77'	87'
MF	13	Serhiy Yesin	87'
Manager:
Anatoliy Zayayev

Dynamo Kyiv^[3]


Dynamo Kyiv:
GK	1	Valdemaras Martinkėnas
DF	2	Oleh Luzhnyi
DF	3	Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi	55'
DF	4	Andrey Aleksanenkov
DF	5	Serhiy Shmatovalenko (c)
MF	7	Serhiy Kovalets
MF	6	Yuri Moroz
DF	8	Serhiy Zayets
FW	9	Oleh Salenko
MF	10	Stepan Betsa
MF	11	Volodymyr Sharan	75'
Substitutes:
FW	13	Oleh Matveyev	55'
FW	14	Yuriy Hrytsyna	75'
Manager:
Anatoliy Puzach

MATCH OFFICIALS

Assistant referees:
- Yevhen Kanana (Donetsk)
- Oleh Chornyi (Donetsk)

MATCH RULES

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Seven named substitutes
Maximum of 3 substitutions.

Third place playoff

June 20, 1992

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	3 – 2	Shakhtar Donetsk
Tyshchenko 19' Konovalov 38', 74'	Report	Bielichenko 51' Atelkin 80'

Metalurh Stadium, Zaporizhzhia

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Tukhovsky (Simferopol)

Honors and awards

Top goalscorer: Yuri Hudymenko, Tavriya Simferopol (12)
Ukrainian Footballer of the Year: Viktor Leonenko, Dynamo Kyiv