page_title: Ukrainian Premier League
section_title: Premier League managers
hierarchical_section_title: Ukrainian Premier League / Premier League managers
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Динамо - Шахтер
context_page_description: The Ukrainian Premier League or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha it was formed in 1991 as part of the 1992 Ukrainian football championship upon discontinuation of the 1991 Soviet football championship and included the Ukraine-based clubs that competed previously in the Soviet top three tiers competitions as well as better clubs of the Ukrainian republican competitions. The initial season of the league featured six former Soviet Top League clubs among which were Dynamo, Shakhtar, Chornomorets, Dnipro, Metalist, Metalurh as well as four more clubs that previously also competed at the top league.
  In 1996 along with the other professional football leagues of Ukraine, the Top League became a member of the Professional Football League of Ukraine. In 2008 it was withdrawn from Professional Football League of Ukraine and reformed into a separate self governed entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine, officially changing its name to the current one. Its rank was 10th highest in Europe as rated by UEFA as of 2019.
context_section_description: The league's record holder for winnings is Mircea Lucescu.
  The league's record holder for games in the league is Myron Markevych. 
  Among other coaches who stayed in the league the longest, there are Nikolay Kostov (139), Vasyl Sachko (137), Oleksandr Zavarov (134), Oleksandr Babych (130), Roman Pokora (129), Oleksandr Sevidov (129), Roman Sanzhar (125), Ivan Balan (123), Roman Hryhorchuk (119), and Yuriy Maksymov (116).
caption: Former Shakhtar Donetsk manager Mircea Lucescu is the most successful manager in Ukrainian Premier League history with 8 championships.
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