2004–05 Ukrainian First League

Ukrainian First League

Season	2004–05
Champions	Stal Alchevsk
Promoted	Stal Alchevsk Arsenal Kharkiv
Relegated	Nafkom Brovary MFK Mykolaiv Polissya Zhytomir
Top goalscorer	16 - Oleksandr Aliyev (Dynamo-2) Roman Pakholiuk (Nyva)
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The 2004–05 Ukrainian First League was the 14th since its establishment. Eighteen teams competed in the competition.

The competition began on July 17, 2004 with six matches. The competition had a winter break and resumed March 19, 2005.

Teams

Promoted teams

Two clubs promoted from the 2003-04 Ukrainian Second League.

Group A

• FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi – champion (debut)

Group B

• FC Dynamo-Ihroservis Simferopol – champion (debut)

Group C

• FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk – champion (debut)

Relegated teams

One club was relegated from the 2003-04 Ukrainian Top League:

• FC Karpaty Lviv – 15th place (debut)

Renamed teams

• Before the start of season, FC Krasyliv-Obolon Krasyliv merged with lower league FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi and changed its name to FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi, while the lower league clubs was dissolved.
• Before the start of season, FC Nafkom-Akademia Irpin was relocated and changed its name to FC Nafkom Brovary.
• Before the start of season, FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka changed its name to FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka.
• At the end of season, FC Spartak-Horobyna Sumy changed its name to FC Spartak Sumy.

Location

In 2004-05 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Shakhtar-2

Zoria

Dynamo-2
CSKA

Nafkom

Karpaty

Stal A.

Naftovyk

Spartak IF

Dynamo

Arsenal

Hazovyk

Polissia

Spartak S

Podillya

Stal D.

Nyva

Mykolaiv

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Locations of teams in First League

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Stal Alchevsk (C, P)	34	22	11	1	60	24	+36	77	Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
2	Arsenal Kharkiv (P)	34	23	4	7	47	24	+23	73
3	Zorya Luhansk	34	19	9	6	54	21	+33	66
4	Dynamo-2 Kyiv	34	16	6	12	48	33	+15	54
5	Nyva Vinnytsia (D)	34	15	8	11	49	38	+11	53	Withdrew after the season
6	Karpaty Lviv	34	15	7	12	39	35	+4	52
7	CSKA Kyiv	34	15	6	13	28	38	−10	51
8	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	34	15	5	14	34	33	+1	50
9	Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	34	14	7	13	42	47	−5	49
10	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	34	13	10	11	37	26	+11	49
11	Shakhtar-2 Donetsk	34	13	5	16	45	53	−8	44
12	Hazovyk-Skala Stryi	34	12	7	15	34	39	−5	43
13	Podillya Khmelnytskyi	34	12	7	15	45	54	−9	43
14	Dynamo-Ihroservice Simferopol	34	12	5	17	38	57	−19	41
15	Spartak-Horobyna Sumy	34	9	12	13	34	41	−7	39
16	Nafkom Brovary (R)	34	9	10	15	26	38	−12	37	Relegated to Second League
17	Mykolaiv (R)	34	8	7	19	15	40	−25	31
18	Polissya Zhytomyr (D)	34	0	2	32	5	39	−34	2	Dissolved

Source: www.uafootball.net.ua
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

• FC Polissya Zhytomyr became insolvent during the mid-season winter break and the UFF awarded technical victories against them in the second half of the season.
• FC Nyva Vinnytsia withdrew before the start of the next season yielding its place to its farm club FC Bershad which was playing in the lower tier.

Persha Liha 2004-05 Winners
FC Stal Alchevsk First title

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.

Scorer	Goals (pen.)	Team
Roman Pakholiuk	17 (2)	Nyva Vinnytsia
Oleksandr Aliyev	16 (3)	Dynamo-2 Kyiv
Petro Kondratiuk	13 (2)	Nyva Vinnytsia
Maksym Feschuk	12 (1)	Karpaty Lviv
Vladyslav Holopyorov	12 (4)	Shakhtar-2 Donetsk
Oleksiy Yakymenko	12 (6)	Zoria Luhansk
Serhiy Sernetskyi	11 (3)	Stal Alchevsk
Ara Hakobyan	11 (4)	Stal D. / Stal A.
Oleksiy Hryshchenko	11 (6)	Dynamo-Ihroservis Simferopol
Andriy Danayev	10	Stal Alchevsk

External links

• (in Ukrainian) Persha Liha at Official Site of the Professional Football league of Ukraine