2003–04 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha
Season	2003–04
Champions	Dynamo Kyiv 11th title
Relegated	Metalist Kharkiv Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriia
Champions League	Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk
UEFA Cup	Metalurh Donetsk Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Illychivets Mariupol
Matches played	240
Goals scored	557 (2.32 per match)
Top goalscorer	(18) Georgi Demetradze (Metalurh Donetsk)
Biggest home win	Dynamo - Kryvbas 6:0
Biggest away win	Arsenal - Dynamo 1:6
Highest scoring	Arsenal - Dynamo 1:6
Average attendance	7,725
← 2002–03 2004–05 →

The 2003–04 Vyshcha Liha season was the 13th since its establishment. The season began on 12 July 2003 with seven games of the first season round.^[1] FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions, having won their 11th league title in the 2002–03 season and they successfully defended their title by winning the championship in the last round of the competition.

A total of sixteen teams participated in the league, the best fourteen sides of the 2002–03 season and two promoted clubs from the 2002–03 Ukrainian First League.

The competition had a winter break which began on 11 November 2003 and the season resumed on 14 March 2004. The season concluded on 19 June 2004.^[1]

Teams

Promotions

Zirka Kirovohrad, the winners of the 2002–03 Ukrainian First League – (returning after absence of 3 seasons)
Borysfen Boryspil, the runners-up of the 2002–03 Ukrainian First League – (debut)

Renamed

Vorskla Poltava changed its name to FC Vorskla-Naftohaz Poltava before the start of the season.
On February 10–17, 2004 Metalurh Zaporizhya carried the name of FC Metalurh-Zaporizhya Zaporizhya.

Location

Borysfen

Chornomorets

Dnipro

Dynamo
Arsenal
Obolon

Locations of teams home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 1996-97

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	30	23	4	3	68	20	+48	73	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	22	4	4	62	19	+43	70	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	16	9	5	44	23	+21	57	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4	Metalurh Donetsk	30	14	10	6	51	34	+17	52	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
5	Chornomorets Odesa	30	11	12	7	38	33	+5	45
6	Obolon Kyiv	30	11	8	11	34	35	−1	41
7	Borysfen Boryspil	30	11	8	11	25	29	−4	41
8	Illichivets Mariupol	30	10	10	10	34	36	−2	40	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
9	Arsenal Kyiv	30	10	7	13	38	44	−6	37
10	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	30	10	6	14	26	41	−15	36
11	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	30	8	8	14	26	40	−14	32
12	Tavriya Simferopol	30	7	11	12	22	28	−6	32
13	Volyn Lutsk	30	7	8	15	25	44	−19	29
14	Vorskla-Naftohaz Poltava	30	6	9	15	26	49	−23	27
15	Karpaty Lviv (R)	30	6	8	16	22	39	−17	26	Relegated to Ukrainian First League
16	Zirka Kirovohrad (R)	30	3	8	19	16	43	−27	14	Relegated to Ukrainian Second League

Source: uafootball.net.ua
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ARK	BOR	CHO	DNI	DYN	ILL	KAR	KRY	MDO	MZA	OBO	SHA	TAV	VOL	VOR	ZIR
Arsenal Kyiv	—	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–6	0–2	2–3	2–0	2–3	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	3–1
Borysfen Boryspil	0–2	—	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0
Chornomorets Odesa	1–1	1–0	—	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–0
Dnipro	0–0	0–1	1–0	—	1–0	2–0	4–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	5–1	2–1	1–0
Dynamo Kyiv	3–0	3–0	4–2	2–1	—	2–0	1–0	6–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	5–1	2–1	2–0
Illichivets Mariupol	2–1	0–0	1–2	3–1	0–1	—	2–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0
Karpaty Lviv	0–0	2–3	1–1	0–0	3–4	1–1	—	4–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	1–1	1–0	3–3	1–2	0–1	0–3	0–2	—	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–0
Metalurh Donetsk	4–2	2–0	2–1	3–1	0–3	5–1	0–0	1–2	—	4–2	0–0	1–3	1–1	1–0	2–2	1–0
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–4	—	3–2	0–3	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–1
Obolon Kyiv	3–1	3–3	1–0	2–2	0–4	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	—	3–4	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0
Shakhtar Donetsk	2–1	1–0	4–1	1–1	2–4	2–0	5–0	0–0	2–0	5–0	2–0	—	2–0	3–1	4–0	3–0
Tavriya Simferopol	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	—	1–0	3–1	2–0
Volyn Lutsk	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–2	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–3	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	—	0–1	3–1
Vorskla-Naftohaz Poltava	4–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–3	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–2	0–3	0–0	2–2	—	1–1
Zirka Kirovohrad	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	0–1	2–2	3–0	0–1	0–2	1–3	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	—

Source: uafootball.net.ua
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goal scorers

Georgi Demetradze	Metalurh Donetsk	18 (5)
Oleksandr Kosyrin	Chornomorets Odesa	14 (3)
Maksim Shatskikh	Dynamo Kyiv	10
Zvonimir Vukic	Shakhtar Donetsk	10
Andriy Vorobei	Shakhtar Donetsk	9
Valentin Belkevich	Dynamo Kyiv	9(1)
Oleh Venglinsky	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	9(1)
Kostantyn Balabanov	Chornomorets Odesa	8
Serhiy Shyschenko	Illychivets Mariupol	8
Yuriy Tselykh	Vorskla Poltava	8

References

^ ^a ^b "Сезон 2003-2004 (Season 2003-04)" (in Russian). Football from Dmitriy Troshchiy. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.

External links

ukrsoccerhistory.com - source of information

Ukrainian Premier League

List of Ukrainian football champions

Seasons

Vyshcha Liha	1992 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08
Premier League	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24

2023–24 teams

Former teams

Active (lower leagues)	Bukovyna Chernivtsi Desna Chernihiv Inhulets Petrove Karpaty Lviv Kremin Kremenchuk Metalist Kharkiv Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Nyva Ternopil Nyva Vinnytsia
Defunct (or amateur)	Arsenal Kyiv Borysfen Boryspil Dnipro Hoverla Uzhhorod Kharkiv Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (1959) Lviv Mariupol Metalurh Donetsk Mykolaiv Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka Odesa Olimpik Donetsk Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk Sevastopol Stal Alchevsk Stal Kamianske Tavriya Simferopol Temp Shepetivka Torpedo Zaporizhzhia Volyn Lutsk Zirka Kropyvnytskyi

Winners

Golden matches

Statistics

v t e 2003–04 in Ukrainian football
« 2002–03 2004–05 »
Domestic leagues	Premier League First League Second League Women's League '03 '04
Domestic cups	Ukrainian Cup Final
Club seasons
Premier League	Chornomorets Odesa Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Kyiv Hoverla Uzhhorod Illichivets Mariupol Karpaty Lviv Metalist Kharkiv Metalurh Donetsk Metalurh Zaporizhya Olimpik Donetsk Shakhtar Donetsk Volyn Lutsk Vorskla Poltava Zorya Luhansk
Summer 2003 transfers Winter 2003–04 transfers

v t e 2003–04 in European men's football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '03 '04 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '03 '04 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '03 '04 Faroe Islands '03 '04 Finland '03 '04 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '03 '04 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '03 '04 Latvia '03 '04 Lithuania '03 '04 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '03 '04 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '03 '04 Romania Russia '03 '04 San Marino Scotland Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '03 '04 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '03 '04 Finland '03 '04 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '03 '04 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '03 '04 Latvia '03 '04 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '03 '04 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '03 '04 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '03 '04 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England Finland '03 '04 France Germany Iceland '03 '04 Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland '03 '04 Scotland Wales
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying rounds, Group stage, Knockout stage, Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup

This page was last edited on 27 October 2023, at 09:19

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia