# 1995–96 Vyshcha Liha

The 1995–96 Vyshcha Liha season was the 5th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.

## Teams
### Promotions

* Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad, the champion of the 1994–95 Ukrainian First League – (debut)
* CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv, the runner-up of the 1994–95 Ukrainian First League – (debut)

### Renamed

* Before the start of the season Zorya-MALS Luhansk changed its name to Zorya Luhansk.

### Location
## Managers

| Club | Coach | Replaced Coach | Home stadium |
| FC Dynamo Kyiv | Yozhef Sabo | | Republican Stadium Dynamo Stadium |
| FC Chornomorets Odesa | Leonid Buriak | | Black Sea Shipping Stadium |
| FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | Bernd Stange | | Meteor Stadium |
| FC CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv | Viktor Chanov | Mykhailo Fomenko 29 games | CSK ZSU Stadium |
| FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | Oleksandr Tomakh | | Metalurh Stadium |
| FC Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad | Oleksandr Ischenko | | Zirka Stadium |
| FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | Ihor Nadein | | AvtoZAZ Stadium |
| FC Karpaty Lviv | Volodymyr Zhuravchak | | Ukraina Stadium |
| FC Kremin Kremenchuk | Valery Yaremchenko | Tiberiy Korponay 13 games Anatoliy Skurskyi 4 games | Dnipro Stadium |
| FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Valeriy Rudakov | Vladimir Salkov 6 games | Shakhtar Stadium |
| FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | Ihor Yurchenko | | Elektron Stadium |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | Anatoliy Zayaev | Yuriy Kerman 17 games | Lokomotyv Stadium |
| FC Nyva Ternopil | Ihor Yavorskyi | | City Stadium |
| FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | Myron Markevych | Yuriy Koval 12 games Yuriy Hruznov 3 games | Metalurh Stadium |
| FC Nyva Vinnytsia | Serhiy Morozov | | Central City Stadium |
| SC Mykolaiv | Yevhen Kucherevskyi | | Central City Stadium |
| FC Volyn Lutsk | Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi | Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi 22 games Oleksiy Yeschenko 1 game | Avanhard Stadium |
| FC Zorya-MALS | Viktor Aristov | Oleksandr Zhuravliov 14 games Anatoliy Korshykov 3 games | Avanhard Stadium |

### Changes

| Team | Outgoing head coach | Table | Incoming head coach | Table |
| FC Dynamo Kyiv | Mykola Pavlov | pre-season | Yozhef Szabo | pre-season |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | Pavlo Kostin | pre-season | Yuriy Kerman | pre-season |
| CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv | ? | pre-season | Mykhailo Fomenko | pre-season |
| FC Karpaty Lviv | Myron Markevych | pre-season | Volodymyr Zhuravchak | pre-season |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Dynamo Kyiv (C) | 34 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 65 | 17 | +48 | 79 | Qualification to Champions League qualifying round |
| 2 | Chornomorets Odesa | 34 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 56 | 25 | +31 | 73 | Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round |
| 3 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 34 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 65 | 34 | +31 | 63 | |
| 4 | CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv | 34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 47 | 27 | +20 | 56 | |
| 5 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 34 | 16 | 4 | 14 | 49 | 42 | +7 | 52 | |
| 6 | Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 37 | 33 | +4 | 50 | |
| 7 | Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | 34 | 15 | 3 | 16 | 40 | 46 | −6 | 48 | |
| 8 | Karpaty Lviv | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 39 | 39 | 0 | 46 | |
| 9 | Kremin Kremenchuk | 34 | 14 | 4 | 16 | 46 | 56 | −10 | 46 | |
| 10 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 34 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 44 | 43 | +1 | 45 | Qualification to Intertoto Cup group stage |
| 11 | Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 49 | 49 | 0 | 44 | |
| 12 | Tavriya Simferopol | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 46 | 46 | 0 | 44 | |
| 13 | Nyva Ternopil | 34 | 13 | 3 | 18 | 37 | 42 | −5 | 42 | |
| 14 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 43 | 52 | −9 | 42 | |
| 15 | Nyva Vinnytsia | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 28 | 36 | −8 | 40 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round |
| 16 | SC Mykolaiv (R) | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 37 | 53 | −16 | 38 | Relegated to Ukrainian First League |
| 17 | Volyn Lutsk (R) | 34 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 34 | 58 | −24 | 34 | Relegated to Ukrainian First League |
| 18 | Zorya Luhansk (R) | 34 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 16 | 80 | −64 | 16 | Relegated to Ukrainian First League |
* 1 2 Participant of the 1996 Ukrainian Cup Final

## Results

| Home \ Away | CHO | CSK | DNI | DYN | KAR | KRE | KRY | MZA | MYK | NVT | NYV | PRY | SHA | TAV | TZA | VOL | ZIR | ZOR |
| Chornomorets Odesa | — | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 2–0 | 4–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 4–3 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 4–0 |
| Dnipro | 0–2 | 2–0 | — | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 5–0 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 3–0 | 0–0 | 5–1 | — | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 5–1 | 1–0 |
| Karpaty Lviv | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | — | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| Kremin Kremenchuk | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 6–1 | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 2–1 | — | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 5–1 | 5–4 | 2–0 |
| Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | — | 3–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 5–0 |
| SC Mykolaiv | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 4–1 |
| Nyva Ternopil | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | — | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 |
| Nyva Vinnytsia | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | — | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 5–0 |
| Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 5–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | — | 2–0 | 4–3 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 2–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–4 | 1–2 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| Tavriya Simferopol | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–3 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 5–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–3 | — | 2–0 | +:- | 0–0 | 3–0 |
| Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–3 | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| Volyn Lutsk | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–5 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 3–1 |
| Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | — | 2–0 |
| Zorya Luhansk | 0–3 | 1–5 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–5 | 0–0 | +:- | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | — |

## Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals (Pen.) |
| 1 | Timerlan Huseinov | Chornomorets Odesa | 20 (1) |
| 2 | Andriy Shevchenko | Dynamo Kyiv | 16 (2) |
| 3 | Oleksandr Palyanytsia | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 13 |
| 3 | Andriy Pokladok | Karpaty Lviv | 13 (1) |
| 3 | Oleh Matviiv | Shakhtar / Kremin | 13 (5) |
| 6 | Volodymyr Mozolyuk | Volyn Lutsk | 12 (3) |
| 7 | Volodymyr Sharan | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 11 |
| 7 | Ivan Korponay | Kremin Kremenchuk | 11 (1) |
| 9 | Serhiy Borysenko | Zirka-NIBAS Kirovohrad | 10 |
| 9 | Mikhail Potskhveria | Metalurh / Shakhtar | 10 |
| 9 | Oleh Yaschuk | Nyva Ternopil | 10 |
| 9 | Roman Hryhorchuk | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 10 (6) |
| 9 | Yuriy Vernydub | Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | 10 (8) |