2003–04 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha
Season 2003–04
Champions Dynamo Kyiv
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

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

Renamed

Location

Final standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Comments
1Dynamo Kyiv (C) 3023436820+4873CL 3rd Qualifying Round
2Shakhtar Donetsk 3022446219+4370CL 2nd Qualifying Round
3Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 3016954423+2157UC 2nd Qualifying Round
4Metalurh Donetsk 30141065134+1752UC 2nd Qualifying Round
5Chornomorets Odessa 30111273833+545
6Obolon Kyiv 30118113435141
7Borysfen Boryspil 30118112529441
8Illychivets Mariupol 301010103436240UC 1st Qualifying Round
9Arsenal Kyiv 30107133844637
10Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 301061426411536
11Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 30881426401432
12Tavriya Simferopol 30711122228632
13Volyn Lutsk 30781525441929
14Vorskla-Naftohaz Poltava 30691526492327
15Karpaty Lviv (R) 30681622391726 Persha Liha
16Zirka Kirovohrad (R) 30381916432714 Druha Liha

Top goal scorers

Georgia (country) Georgi Demetradze Metalurh Donetsk 18 (5)
Ukraine Oleksandr Kosyrin Chornomorets Odessa 14 (3)
Uzbekistan Maksim Shatskikh Dynamo Kyiv 10
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zvonimir Vukic Shakhtar Donetsk 10
Ukraine Andriy Vorobei Shakhtar Donetsk 9
Belarus Valentin Belkevich Dynamo Kyiv 9(1)
Ukraine Oleh Venglinsky Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 9(1)
Ukraine Kostantyn Balabanov Chornomorets Odessa 8
Ukraine Serhiy Shyschenko Illychivets Mariupol 8
Ukraine Yuriy Tselykh Vorskla Poltava 8

References

  1. 1 2 "Сезон 2003-2004 (Season 2003-04)" (in Russian). Football from Dmitriy Troshchiy. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.

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