Football - Ukrainian Premier League

The championship of Ukraine came into existence in 1992, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, as the Top League. In 2008 the competition was rebranded as the Ukrainian Premier League. The league runs from Summer to Spring, apart from the inaugural competition which was concluded only in 1992. The title has been won by one by the dominant forces of Ukrainian football, Dynamo Kiev and Shakhtar Donetsk, on all bar one occasion, the first staging, which went to Tavriya from the city of Simferopol.
The 2021-22 season was declared uncompleted due to all professional football being cancelled in Ukraine due to the conflict with Russia but the 2022-23 camaign wa splayed despiet the ongoing war.

YEAR WINNERS SECOND THIRD
1992
TAVRIYA D Kiev Dnipro
1993
DYNAMO KIEV Dnipro C Odessa
1994
DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk C Odessa
1995
DYNAMO KIEV C Odessa Dnipro
1996
DYNAMO KIEV C Odessa Dnipro
1997
DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk V Poltava
1998
DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk K Lviv
1999
DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk K Kryvyi R
2000
DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk K Kryvyi R
2001
DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk Dnipro
2002
SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev M Donetsk
2003
DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk M Donetsk
2004
DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk Dnipro
2005
SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev M Donetsk
2006
SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev C Odessa
2007
DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk M Kharkiv
2008
SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev *Dnipro
2009
DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk M Kharkiv
2010
SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev M Kharkiv
2011 SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev M Kharkiv
2012 SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev M Kharkiv
2013 SHAKHTAR DONETSK M Kharkiv D Kiev
2014 SHAKHTAR DONETSK Dnipro M Kharkiv
2015 DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk Dnipro
2016 DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk Dnipro
2017 SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev Z Luhansk
2018 SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev V Poltava
2019 SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev Olek'dria
2020 SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev Z Luhansk
2021 DYNAMO KIEV S Donetsk Z Luhansk
2022 Not completed - -
2023 SHAKHTAR DONETSK Dnipro Z Luhansk
2024 SHAKHTAR DONETSK D Kiev Kryvbas

*Metalist Kharkiv stripped of third place for match-fixing. Dnipro finished foruth ion the table in 2007/08.

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