# 1994–95 Vyshcha Liha

The 1994–95 Vyshcha Liha season was the 4th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

## Teams
### Promotions

* Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk, the champion of the 1993–94 Ukrainian First League – (returning after two seasons of absence)
* Evis Mykolaiv, the runner-up of the 1993–94 Ukrainian First League – (returning after two seasons of absence)

### Renamed

* On 2 October 1994 Evis Mykolaiv changed its name to SC Mykolaiv.
* During the season, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia also carried the name Metalurh-Viktor Zaporizhzhia (after a local entrepreneur Viktor Oharenko).

### Location
## Managers

| Club | Coach | Replaced Coach | Home stadium |
| FC Dynamo Kyiv | Mykola Pavlov | Yozhef Sabo 17 games Volodymyr Onyschenko 5 games | Republican Stadium |
| FC Chornomorets Odesa | Leonid Buriak | | Black Sea Shipping Stadium |
| FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | Bernd Stange | Mykola Pavlov 17 games Oleksandr Lysenko 6 games | Meteor Stadium |
| FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Vladimir Salkov | Valery Yaremchenko 17 games | Shakhtar Stadium |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | Anatoliy Zayaev | Pavlo Kostin 10 games Andriy Cheremysin 7 games Vitaliy Shalychev 10 games | Lokomotyv Stadium |
| FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | Yuriy Koval | Volodymyr Brukhtiy 4 games Anatoliy Bida 1 game Viktor Kuznetsov 17 games Valentyn Laktionov 3 games | Metalurh Stadium |
| FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | Ihor Nadein | | AvtoZAZ Stadium |
| FC Karpaty Lviv | Myron Markevych | | Ukraina Stadium |
| FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | Oleksandr Tomakh | Anatoliy Kuksov 7 games | Metalurh Stadium |
| FC Kremin Kremenchuk | Tiberiy Korponay | Evhen Rudakov 4 games | Dnipro Stadium |
| FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | Ihor Yurchenko | | Elektron Stadium |
| FC Nyva Ternopil | Ihor Yavorskyi | Valeriy Dushkov 11 games | City Stadium |
| SC Mykolaiv | Yevhen Kucherevskyi | Valery Zhuravko 10 games Leonid Koltun 1 game | Central City Stadium |
| FC Nyva Vinnytsia | Serhiy Morozov | Oleksandr Bobaryko 22 games Yuriy Koval 2 games | Central City Stadium |
| FC Volyn Lutsk | Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi | Roman Pokora 8 games | Avanhard Stadium |
| FC Zorya-MALS | Oleksandr Zhuravliov | Volodymyr Kobzarev 17 games Yuriy Sevastyanov 3 games Anatoliy Korshykov 3 games | Avanhard Stadium |
| FC Temp Shepetivka | Revaz Dzodzuashvili | Leonid Tkachenko 16 games Stanislav Bernykov 8 games | Temp Stadium |
| FC Veres Rivne | Mykhailo Fomenko | Vyacheslav Kobyletskyi 16 games Orest Bal 5 games Ivan Krasnetskyi(7 games) | Avanhard Stadium |

### Changes

| Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment | Table |
| FC Chornomorets Odesa | Viktor Prokopenko | | | pre-season | Leonid Buriak | | pre-season |
| FC Nyva Ternopil | Leonid Buriak | | | pre-season | Valeriy Dushkov | | pre-season |
| FC Nyva Vinnytsia | Yukhym Shkolnykov | | | pre-season | Oleksandr Bobaryko | | pre-season |
| FC Kremin Kremenchuk | Yevhen Rudakov | | July 1994 | | Tiberiy Korponay | 1 August 1994 | |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | Pavlo Kostin | Perished in car accident | end of September | | Andriy Cheremysin (interim) | 3 October 1994 | |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | Andriy Cheremysin (interim) | Mutual consent | winter break | | Vitaliy Shalychev | February 1995 | |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | Vitaliy Shalychev | | May 1995 | | Anatoliy Zayaev | May 1995 | |
Notes:
* The new 1994-95 season SC Tavriya Simferopol under leadership of a coach Pavlo Kostin (native of Chornomorske Raion, Crimea). Sometime after the game against Volyn (Round 10) on 23 September 1994 in Simferopol, Kostin (43 years old) perished in a car accident along with his wife. According to some sources (footballfacts.ru), Kostin perished on 15 September 1994.

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Dynamo Kyiv (C) | 34 | 25 | 8 | 1 | 87 | 24 | +63 | 83 | Qualification to Champions League qualifying round |
| 2 | Chornomorets Odesa | 34 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 62 | 29 | +33 | 73 | Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round |
| 3 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 60 | 33 | +27 | 65 | |
| 4 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 34 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 52 | 29 | +23 | 62 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round |
| 5 | Tavriya Simferopol | 34 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 61 | 37 | +24 | 59 | |
| 6 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 35 | 30 | +5 | 48 | |
| 7 | Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | 34 | 15 | 3 | 16 | 49 | 49 | 0 | 48 | |
| 8 | Karpaty Lviv | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 32 | 36 | −4 | 45 | |
| 9 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 47 | 42 | +5 | 43 | |
| 10 | Kremin Kremenchuk | 34 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 42 | 54 | −12 | 42 | |
| 11 | Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 40 | 52 | −12 | 41 | |
| 12 | Nyva Ternopil | 34 | 11 | 5 | 18 | 40 | 44 | −4 | 38 | |
| 13 | SC Mykolaiv | 34 | 11 | 5 | 18 | 33 | 59 | −26 | 38 | |
| 14 | Nyva Vinnytsia | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 38 | 51 | −13 | 37 | |
| 15 | Volyn Lutsk | 34 | 11 | 3 | 20 | 29 | 58 | −29 | 36 | |
| 16 | Zorya-MALS Luhansk | 34 | 10 | 5 | 19 | 35 | 70 | −35 | 35 | |
| 17 | Temp Shepetivka (R) | 34 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 31 | 41 | −10 | 34 | Relegated to Ukrainian First League |
| 18 | Veres Rivne (R) | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 28 | 63 | −35 | 31 | Relegated to Ukrainian First League |
* 1 2 Participant of the 1995 Ukrainian Cup Final.

## Results

| Home \ Away | CHO | DNI | DYN | KAR | KRE | KRY | MZA | MYK | NVT | NYV | PRY | SHA | TAV | TEM | TZA | VER | VOL | ZOR |
| Chornomorets Odesa | — | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 5–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 |
| Dnipro | 0–2 | — | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 6–0 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 1–2 | 4–2 | — | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 7–0 | 3–1 | 4–0 |
| Karpaty Lviv | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 4–3 |
| Kremin Kremenchuk | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 5–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 |
| Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 6–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 |
| Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | — | 4–1 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–5 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 |
| SC Mykolaiv | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–5 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | — | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–6 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Nyva Ternopil | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 0–2 | 1–6 | 2–0 | — | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 |
| Nyva Vinnytsia | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 |
| Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 3–1 | — | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | — | 0–2 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Tavriya Simferopol | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | — | 3–1 | 3–1 | 7–0 | 6–0 | 1–1 |
| Temp Shepetivka | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | — | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 |
| Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | — | 4–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 |
| Veres Rivne | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–3 | — | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| Volyn Lutsk | 1–2 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | — | 3–1 |
| Zorya-MALS Luhansk | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | — |

## Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals (Pen.) |
| 1 | Arsen Avakov | Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | 21 (6) |
| 2 | Oleksiy Antyukhin | Tavriya Simferopol | 18 |
| 3 | Oleksandr Haidash | Tavriya Simferopol | 17 |
| 3 | Victor Leonenko | Dynamo Kyiv | 17 (1) |
| 5 | Ihor Petrov | Shakhtar Donetsk | 14 (5) |
| 6 | Mikhail Potskhveria | Zorya / Metalurh | 13 |
| 7 | Timerlan Huseinov | Chornomorets Odesa | 12 |
| 7 | Andrei Fedkov | Kremin Kremenchuk | 12 (1) |
| 9 | Ruslan Zabranskyi | Mykolaiv | 11 (1) |
| 10 | Ivan Korponay | Kremin Kremenchuk | 10 |

## Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
* 1. FC Dynamo Kyiv
* Goalkeepers: Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (25 / -15), Valeriy Vorobiov (7 / -8), Andriy Kovtun (3 / -1).
* Defenders: Vladyslav Vashchuk (31 / 3), Oleh Luzhnyi (24 / 4), Serhiy Lezhentsev (24), Andriy Khomyn (21 / 2), Yuriy Dmytrulin (17 / 1), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (14), Serhiy Bezhenar (13 / 1), Andriy Annenkov (3).
* Midfielders: Vitaliy Kosovsky (27 / 6), Dmytro Mykhailenko (25 / 5), Serhiy Mizin (20 / 5), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (17 / 3), Serhiy Kovalets (17 / 2), Yuriy Kalitvintsev (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (11 / 5), Volodymyr Sharan (11 / 2), Dmytro Topchiyev (2), Maksim Demenko (1), Vladyslav Prudius (1).
* Forwards: Serhii Rebrov (24 / 8), Pavlo Shkapenko (24 / 8), Viktor Leonenko (20 / 17), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 5), Andriy Shevchenko (17 / 1), Serhiy Skachenko (16 / 3), Oleksandr Pryzetko (13 / 1), Mikheil Jishkariani (8 / 3), Naser al-Sohi (1).
* Manager: Yozhef Sabo (first half), Volodymyr Onyshchenko, Mykola Pavlov (second half).
* Transferred out during the season: Oleksandr Pryzetko (to Dinamo-Gazovik), Maksim Demenko (to Lada Togliatti), Serhiy Kovalets (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Volodymyr Sharan (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Mikheil Jishkariani (to CSKA-Borysfen), Valeriy Vorobiov (to CSKA-Borysfen), Dmytro Topchiyev (to CSKA-Borysfen), Vladyslav Prudius (to CSKA-Borysfen).
* 2. FC Chornomorets Odesa
* Goalkeepers: Oleh Suslov (34 / -27), Vadym Vinokurov (2 / -2).
* Defenders: Yuriy Bukel (29), Andriy Telesnenko (28 / 1), Vladislav Ternavsky (16 / 1), Yuriy Smotrych (10), Denys Kolchyn (8), Vitaliy Skysh (5), Oleksiy Cherednyk (3), Serhiy Bulyhin-Shramko (2).
* Midfielders: Dmytro Parfyonov (33 / 6), Ihor Zhabchenko (32 / 7), Yuriy Sak (23 / 5), Vitaliy Kolesnychenko (21 / 2), Andrei Gashkin (20 / 5), Oleksandr Spivak (19), Oleksandr Horshkov (18), Ihor Korniyets (16 / 1), Yuriy Seleznyov (13 / 2), Ruslan Romanchuk (12 / 2), Oleksandr Nikiforov (9), Oleksandr Zotov (8 / 3), Vyacheslav Yeremeyev (7), Viktor Yablonskyi (5 / 1), Vladyslav Zubkov (4), Viktor Bohatyr (3).
* Forwards: Tymerlan Huseinov (29 / 12), Volodymyr Musolitin (19 / 3), Vitaliy Parakhnevych (13 / 4), Vasyl Kardash (13 / 2), Oleh Mochulyak (8 / 2), Kostyantyn Kulyk (5 / 2).
* Manager: Leonid Buriak.
* Transferred out during the season: ?.
* 3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
* Goalkeepers: Mykola Medin (19 / -13), Svyatoslav Syrota (16 / -17), Konstantin Ledovskikh (1 / -3).
* Defenders: Viktor Skrypnyk (31 / 8), Volodymyr Bahmut (30 / 1), Volodymyr Horily (25), Serhiy Diryavka (19), Serhiy Bezhenar (17 / 3), Dmytro Yakovenko (17), Oleksandr Chervonyi (7), Hennadiy Kozar (7), Yevhen Dmitriyev (6), Andriy Yudin (6), Oleksiy Kuptsov (3), Albert Shakhov (2), Serhiy Bilokin (1), Serhiy Zadorozhnyi (1).
* Midfielders: Andriy Polunin (31 / 7), Aleksandr Zakharov (25 / 1), Valentyn Moskvyn (17 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (15 / 3), Dmytro Topchiyev (15 / 3), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (15 / 2), Ihor Plotko (15 / 1), Volodymyr Sharan (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (13 / 4), Serhiy Dumenko (9 / 1), Serhiy Chornyi (3).
* Forwards: Borys Finkel (29 / 9), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 3), Oleksandr Palyanytsia (13 / 6), Oleh Taran (7 / 1), Andriy Kotyuk (6), Andreas Sassen (6), Serhiy Chuichenko (4).
* Manager: Mykola Pavlov (first half), Oleksandr Lysenko, Bernd Stange (second half).
* Transferred out during the season: Serhiy Bezhenar (to Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Konovalov (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yuriy Maksymov (to Dynamo Kyiv).
Note: Players in italic are whose playing position is uncertain.