# 2000–01 Vyshcha Liha

The 2000–01 Vyshcha Liha season was the 10th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

## Teams
### Promotions

* Stal Alchevsk, the runners-up of the 1999–2000 Ukrainian First League – (debut)
Note: the 1999–2000 Ukrainian First League was won by the second team of Dynamo Kyiv, FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv, which could not be promoted.

### Location
## Managers

| Club | Coach | Replaced coach | Home stadium |
| FC Dynamo Kyiv | Valery Lobanovsky | | Dynamo Stadium |
| FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Viktor Prokopenko | | Shakhtar Stadium |
| FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | Mykola Fedorenko | | Meteor Stadium |
| FC Metalurh Mariupol | Mykola Pavlov | | Azovstal Stadium |
| FC Metalurh Donetsk | Semen Altman | | Metalurh Stadium |
| FC CSCA Kyiv | Mykhailo Fomenko | | CKS ZSU Stadium |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | Valeriy Petrov | Oleksandr Ischenko 24 games | Lokomotyv Stadium |
| FC Metalurh Zaporizhia | Volodymyr Atamaniuk | Myron Markevych 24 games | Metalurh Stadium |
| FC Metalist Kharkiv | Viktor Udovenko | Leonid Tkachenko the first half Valeriy Shalychev 12 games | Metalist Stadium |
| FC Karpaty Lviv | Stepan Yurchyshyn | Lev Brovarskyi 24 games | Ukraina Stadium |
| FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | Hennadiy Litovchenko | Oleh Taran 8 games | Metalurh Stadium |
| FC Vorskla Poltava | Serhiy Sobetskyi | Anatoliy Konkov 7 games Serhiy Morozov 18 games | Vorskla Stadium |
| FC Stal Alchevsk | Anatoliy Volobuev | | Stal Stadium |
| FC Nyva Ternopil | Ihor Biskup | Valeriy Bohuslavskyi 8 games Ihor Yavorskyi 7 games | City Stadium |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing head coach | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment | Table |
| FC CSCA Kyiv | Volodymyr Bezsonov | | pre-season | Mykhailo Fomenko | | pre-season |
| FC Metalist Kharkiv | Mykhailo Fomenko | | pre-season | Leonid Tkachenko | | pre-season |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | Volodymyr Muntian | | pre-season | Oleksandr Ischenko | | pre-season |
| FC Vorskla Poltava | Anatoliy Konkov | August | | Serhiy Morozov | August | |
| FC Nyva Ternopil | Valeriy Bohuslavsky | August | | Ihor Yavorsky | September | |
| FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | Oleh Taran | September | | Hennadiy Litovchenko | October | |
| FC Metalist Kharkiv | Leonid Tkachenko | November | | Valeriy Shalychev | March | |
| FC Nyva Ternopil | Ihor Yavorsky | March | | Ihor Biskup | April | |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | Oleksandr Ischenko | May | | Valeriy Petrov | June | |
| FC Metalurh Zaporizhia | Myron Markevych | May | | Volodymyr Atamaniuk | June | |
| FC Karpaty Lviv | Lev Brovarsky | May | | Stepan Yurchyshyn | June | |
| FC Metalist Kharkiv | Valeriy Shalychev | June | | Viktor Udovenko | June | |
| FC Vorskla Poltava | Serhiy Morozov | June | | Serhiy Sobetsky | June | |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Dynamo Kyiv (C) | 26 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 58 | 17 | +41 | 64 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 26 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 71 | 21 | +50 | 63 | Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 26 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 18 | +19 | 55 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Metalurh Mariupol | 26 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 35 | 26 | +9 | 43 | |
| 5 | Metalurh Donetsk | 26 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 30 | 24 | +6 | 42 | |
| 6 | CSKA Kyiv | 26 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 30 | 23 | +7 | 40 | Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round |
| 7 | Tavriya Simferopol | 26 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 24 | 31 | −7 | 33 | Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round |
| 8 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 27 | 31 | −4 | 32 | |
| 9 | Metalist Kharkiv | 26 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 27 | 37 | −10 | 31 | |
| 10 | Karpaty Lviv | 26 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 33 | 42 | −9 | 30 | |
| 11 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 22 | 36 | −14 | 24 | |
| 12 | Vorskla Poltava | 26 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 29 | −13 | 23 | |
| 13 | Stal Alchevsk (R) | 26 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 49 | −30 | 15 | Relegated to Ukrainian First League |
| 14 | Nyva Ternopil (R) | 26 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 20 | 65 | −45 | 9 | Relegated to Ukrainian First League |
* 1 2 Participant of the 2001 Ukrainian Cup Final

## Results

| Home \ Away | CSK | DNI | DYN | KAR | KRY | MET | MDO | MTM | MZA | NVT | SHA | STA | TAV | VOR |
| CSKA Kyiv | — | 1–1 | 1–5 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| Dnipro | 2–0 | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–4 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 1–0 | 2–1 | — | 1–1 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 6–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 |
| Karpaty Lviv | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 |
| Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 5–2 | — | 2–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 0–0 | -:+ |
| Metalist Kharkiv | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 |
| Metalurh Donetsk | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | — | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Metalurh Mariupol | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | — | 3–1 | 5–1 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | -:+ | — | 2–0 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 0–0 |
| Nyva Ternopil | 1–3 | 0–2 | 3–7 | 5–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | — | 0–7 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–3 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 8–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | — | 3–1 | 5–0 | 1–0 |
| Stal Alchevsk | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–5 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–5 | — | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Tavriya Simferopol | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | — | 2–1 |
| Vorskla Poltava | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | — |

## Top goalscorers

| Andriy Vorobei | Shakhtar Donetsk | 21 (4) |
| Ivan Hetsko | Metalist Kharkiv / Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 14 (4) |
| Serhiy Atelkin | Shakhtar Donetsk | 11 |
| Oleksandr Rykun | Metalurh Mariupol | 11 (3) |
| Olexandr Melashchenko | Dynamo Kyiv / Vorskla Poltava | 10 |
| Stepan Molokutsko | Metalurh Mariupol | 9 (1) |
| Hennady Zubov | Shakhtar Donetsk | 9 (1) |
| Vasyl Shved | Karpaty Lviv | 8 |
| Georgi Demetradze | Dynamo Kyiv | 8 (1) |
| Julius Aghahowa | Shakhtar Donetsk | 7 |
| Valentin Belkevich | Dynamo Kyiv | 7 |
| Serhiy Popov | Shakhtar Donetsk | 7 |
| Artem Yashkin | Dynamo Kyiv | 7 |
| Serhiy Zakarlyuka | CSCA Kyiv | 7 |

### Notable Transfers

* Georgi Demetradze, FC Dynamo Kyiv to Real Sociedad
* Serhiy Zakarlyuka, CSCA Kyiv to FC Metalurh Donetsk