# 1992 FC Shakhtar Donetsk season

The 1992 season was the first season in the top Ukrainian football league for Shakhtar Donetsk. Shakhtar Donetsk competed in Vyshcha Liha and Ukrainian Cup, earlier Shakhtar was eliminated from the 1991–92 Soviet Cup.

## Players
### Squad information

| Squad no. | Name | Nationality | Position | Date of birth (age) | Signed from | Signed in | Apps. | Goals |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||
| | Dmytro Shutkov | | GK | (1972-04-03)3 April 1972 (aged 20) | Academy | 1991 | 28 | 0 |
| | Andriy Kurayev | | GK | (1972-12-19)19 December 1972 (aged 19) | Antratsyt Kirovske | 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| Defenders |||||||||
| | Yevhen Drahunov (c) | | DF | (1964-02-13)13 February 1964 (aged 28) | Kolos Pavlohrad | 1985 | 195 | 15 |
| | Vadym Krasnikov | | DF | (1969-01-21)21 January 1969 (aged 23) | Antratsyt Kirovske | 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| | Andriy Kuptsov | | DF | (1971-01-23)23 January 1971 (aged 21) | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| | Oleksandr Martiuk | | DF | (1972-07-24)24 July 1972 (aged 19) | Novator Mariupol | 1991 | 21 | 0 |
| | Vasyl Mazur | | DF | (1970-05-23)23 May 1970 (aged 22) | Sports College Luhansk | 1987 | 33 | 0 |
| | Viktor Smihunov | | DF | (1962-01-28)28 January 1962 (aged 30) | Tavriya Simferopol | 1992 | 27 | 0 |
| Midfielders |||||||||
| | Oleksandr Barabash | | MF | (1971-01-18)18 January 1971 (aged 21) | Neftianik Fergana | 1992 | 15 | 0 |
| | Yuriy Bielichenko | | MF | (1964-12-13)13 December 1964 (aged 27) | Nyva Vinnytsia | 1992 | 24 | 3 |
| | Yevhen Manko | | MF | (1971-10-14)14 October 1971 (aged 20) | Stal Komunarsk | 1992 | 4 | 1 |
| | Serhiy Popov | | MF | (1971-04-22)22 April 1971 (aged 21) | Nyva Vinnytsia | 1992 | 17 | 2 |
| | Ihor Stolovytskyi | | MF | (1969-08-29)29 August 1969 (aged 22) | Spartak Ryazan | 1990 | 60 | 6 |
| | Yuriy Fokin | | MF | (1966-01-03)3 January 1966 (aged 26) | Tavriya Simferopol | 1992 | 19 | 2 |
| | Serhiy Yashchenko | | MF | (1959-06-25)25 June 1959 (aged 32) | CSKA Moscow | 1982 | 338 | 40 |
| Forwards |||||||||
| | Serhiy Atelkin | | FW | (1972-01-08)8 January 1972 (aged 20) | Antratsyt Kirovske | 1989 | 47 | 2 |
| | Serhiy Pohodin | | FW | (1968-04-29)29 April 1968 (aged 24) | Zorya Luhansk | 1990 | 61 | 10 |
| | Serhii Rebrov | | FW | (1974-06-03)3 June 1974 (aged 18) | Academy | 1991 | 35 | 14 |
| | Serhiy Scherbakov | / | FW | (1971-08-15)15 August 1971 (aged 20) | Academy | 1989 | 84 | 19 |
* Serhiy Scherbakov is a Russian footballer who played couple of friendlies for Ukraine in 1992.
* In bold are players who also played for the Ukraine national football team in 1992 (4 players).

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Moving from |
| GK | Andriy Kurayev | Antratsyt Kirovske |
| DF | Viktor Smihunov | Tavriya Simferopol |
| MF | Yuriy Fokin | Tavriya Simferopol |
| MF | Oleksandr Barabash | Neftianik Fergana |
| MF | Yuriy Bielichenko | Nyva Vinnytsia |
| MF | Serhiy Popov | Nyva Vinnytsia |
| MF | Yevhen Manko | Stal Komunarsk |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Moving to |
| FW | Serhiy Scherbakov | Sporting CP |
| FW | Serhii Rebrov | Dynamo Kyiv |
| DF | Vasyl Mazur | Zorya-MALS Luhansk |

## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Vyshcha Liha | 7 March 1992 | 21 June 1992 | Matchday 1 | 4th | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 33 | 13 | +20 | 052.63 |
| Cup | 1 March 1992 | 26 May 1992 | Round of 16 (1⁄8) | Semifinals (1⁄2) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 050.00 |
| Soviet Cup | 4 September 1991 | 25 November 1991 | Round of 32 (1⁄16) | Round of 16 (1⁄8) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 29 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 47 | 20 | +27 | 051.72 |
Source: Competitions

### Premier League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | 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 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: 1992 Shakhtar season

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| Ground | A | A | H | H | | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | | A | A | A | H | H |
| Result | D | D | W | W | | D | L | W | D | W | L | W | W | W | | W | D | W | W | D |
| Position | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |

#### Matches

Notes:
* At the Round 8 match goal on 64' was scored by Rebrov, but some sources have it to be scored by Schebakov. The website (www.uafootball.net.ua) that provides game report does not list Rebrov to score 3 goals for that game on 8 April in the list of hat-tricks (Hat-tricks).