2001–02 Ukrainian First League

Ukrainian First League
Season	2001–02
Champions	Volyn-1 Lutsk
Promoted	Volyn-1 Lutsk, Chornomorets Odesa, Obolon Kyiv
Relegated	Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol, Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk, Nyva Ternopil
Top goalscorer	(17) Vasyl Sachko (Volyn Lutsk) and Viktor Arefyev (Stal Alchevsk)
	← 2000–01 2002–03 →

The 2001–02 Ukrainian First League was the eleventh season of the Ukrainian First League which was won by SC Volyn-1 Lutsk. The season started on July 17, 2001, and finished on June 16, 2002.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted teams

Three clubs promoted from the 2000–01 Ukrainian Second League.

Group A

FC Polissya Zhytomyr – champion (returning after a season)

Group B

FC Obolon Kyiv – champion (returning after a season)

Group C

FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka – champion (returning after a season)

Relegated teams

Two clubs were relegated from the 2000-01 Ukrainian Top League:

FC Stal Alchevsk – 14th place (returning after a season)
FC Nyva Ternopil – 15th place (debut)

Renamed teams

FC Lviv merged with Karpaty becoming their farm team and changed its name to FC Karpaty-2 Lviv before the season.
FC Metalurh Nikopol changed its name to FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol before the season.
Due to reorganization of FC Arsenal Kyiv, FC CSKA-2 Kyiv changed its name back to FC CSKA Kyiv during winter break.

Teams

In 2001-02 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Locations of teams in First League

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Volyn-1 Lutsk (C, P)	34	25	3	6	56	24	+32	78	Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
2	Chornomorets Odesa (P)	34	21	4	9	48	21	+27	67
3	Obolon Kyiv (P)	34	18	8	8	49	26	+23	62
4	Polissia Zhytomyr	34	16	10	8	41	32	+9	58^[a]	Qualification for promotion play-off
5	Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	34	15	8	11	41	27	+14	53
6	Stal Alchevsk	34	14	8	12	42	34	+8	50
7	Naftovyk Okhtyrka	34	13	10	11	35	32	+3	49
8	Dynamo-2 Kyiv	34	11	14	9	42	32	+10	47
9	Zirka Kirovohrad	34	11	13	10	29	28	+1	46
10	SC Mykolaiv	34	12	10	12	37	44	−7	46
11	Shakhtar-2 Donetsk	34	13	7	14	50	46	+4	46
12	Karpaty-2 Lviv	34	12	6	16	41	52	−11	42
13	Borysfen Boryspil	34	10	10	14	43	45	−2	40^[a]
14	CSKA Kyiv	34	10	9	15	32	39	−7	39
15	Nyva Vinnytsia	34	10	8	16	35	52	−17	38
16	Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopil (R)	34	10	7	17	30	41	−11	37	Relegated to Second League
17	Dnipro-2 Dniproperivsk (R)	34	8	7	19	29	48	−19	31
18	Nyva Ternopil (R)	34	3	4	27	20	77	−57	13

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b The result of the 25th round match Borysfen Boryspil - FC Polissya Zhytomyr (1:2) was annulled and replaced with such -:-, with no points added to either team.

Persha Liha 2001-02 Winners
FC Volyn Lutsk First title

Promotion play-off

2002-06-16

17:00 LST

Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya	1 – 0	Polissya Zhytomyr
Babych 45+2' Martynenko 30' 78'	Report

CSK ZSU Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Serhiy Shebek (Kyiv)

FC Polissya Zhytomyr failed to obtain a berth in the 2002–03 Vyshcha Liha.

Top scorers

Statistics are taken from here.^[1]

	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	Vasyl Sachko	17 (1)	Volyn-1 Lutsk
1	Viktor Arefyev	17 (5)	Stal Alchevsk
3	Vyacheslav Tereschenko	16 (1)	Obolon Kyiv
4	Pavlo Parshyn	14 (4)	Polissya Zhytomyr
5	Volodymyr Skrypka	13	SC Mykolaiv
6	Pavlo Onysko	12	Karpaty-2 Lviv
7	Volodymyr Hashchyn	11 (3)	Volyn-1 Lutsk
8	Kostiantyn Balabanov	10	Chornomorets Odesa
8	Pavlo Zakharov	10 (7)	Naftovyk Okhtyrka
10	Oleksandr Sobkovych	7 (4)	Obolon Kyiv

References

^ Statistics (in Russian)

[table_hth_BBO0.45477796273994-1] The result of the 25th round match Borysfen Boryspil - FC Polissya Zhytomyr (1:2) was annulled and replaced with such -:-, with no points added to either team.

[2] Statistics (in Russian)

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