The Ukrainian Premier League or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. Originally known as the Vyshcha Liha it was formed in 1991 during 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.
Anatoliy Vasilyovych Demyanenko, sometimes referred to as Anatoli Demianenko, is a Ukrainian football coach and former player. As a player, he was deployed at left-back and notably represented Dynamo Kyiv and the USSR national team.
Anatoliy Fyodorovich Byshovets is a Soviet and Russian football manager of Ukrainian origin and former Soviet international striker. He played his entire professional career with club side Dynamo Kyiv. He won Olympic gold medal as a coach with the Soviet team at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was also a manager of the USSR, Russia, and South Korea national teams. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he managed the South Korean U-23 team. He is one of the most successful modern Russian coaches.
1992 Ukrainian First League was the first Ukrainian First League season with the record number of teams participating in the league at 28 divided into groups. The season started on March 14 and finished July 5, 1992.
Like the championship, the first edition of the Cup had a tight schedule as the Football Federation of Ukraine was given just several months in order to switch to the European seasonal format with the minimum required matches played.
Serhiy Heorhiyovych Diryavka is a Ukrainian professional soccer coach and a former player.
Anatoli Viktorovich Kretov is a retired Russian football midfielder. He also holds Ukrainian citizenship.
Artem Andriyovych Fedetskyi is a former Ukrainian football right defender.
The 2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League season was the eighteenth since its establishment. The league was restructured and split off from the Professional Football League of Ukraine. It was officially named as the EpiCentre Championship of Ukraine in football.
Yuriy Mykolayovych Vernydub is a Ukrainian professional football coach and former player.
Ihor Hryhorovych Nychenko is a Ukrainian former professional football coach and former player who played as a forward.
Dmytro Viktorovych Kolodin is a former Ukrainian football midfielder.
Vladyslav Sukhomlynov is a retired footballer who played as a midfielder for clubs in Ukraine, Greece and Kazakhstan.
The 2011–12 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 21st since its establishment and fourth since its reorganisation. The season began on 8 July 2011 when newly promoted PFC Oleksandria visited FC Vorskla Poltava. FC Shakhtar Donetsk were the defending champions, having won their 6th league title in the 2010–11 season and they successfully defended their title by winning the championship in the last round of the competition.
The 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 22nd since its establishment in 1991 and fifth since its reorganisation.
Anatoliy Mykolayovych Kroshchenko is a Soviet football player and coach out of Ukraine.
Mykhailo Vilkhovyi is a Ukrainian football manager.
Anatoly Sanin is a Ukrainian retired footballer.
Taras Oleksandrovych Hrebenyuk is a Ukrainian retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. In 2004 he became a goalkeeping coach. Since 2007, he has served as the goalkeeping coach at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. In 2020 he took a short caretaking role at FC Lviv.
