2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League
The 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League season is the 25th top-level football competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the eighth since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. Because of sponsorship the league changed its title for 2015–16 season to League Parimatch. The competition commenced on 17 July when Metalurh Zaporizhzhia hosted Zorya Luhansk in Zaporizhzhia. The first sixteen rounds were played before the winter break which began 6 December 2015; the competition resumed on 5 March 2016. The season concluded on 15 May 2016. Dynamo Kyiv are the defending champions. With the continuation of the Ukrainian crisis in the oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk, the league remained at 14 teams after being cut from 16 in the 2013–14 season.
Season | 2015–16 |
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Champions | Dynamo Kyiv 15th title |
Champions League | Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk |
Europa League | Zorya Luhansk Vorskla Poltava FC Oleksandriya |
Matches played | 136 |
Goals scored | 365 (2.68 per match) |
Top goalscorer | 22 – Alex Teixeira (Shakhtar) |
Biggest home win | 8 – Volyn 9–1 Metalurh (Round 15) |
Biggest away win | 6 – Metalurh 0–6 Zorya (Round 1), Stal 0–6 Dnipro (Round 11), Zorya 1–7 Shakhtar (Round 12), Metalurh 0–6 Dynamo (Round 16) |
Highest scoring | 10 – Volyn 9–1 Metalurh (Round 15) |
Longest winning run | 12 – Shakhtar (Round 6–17) |
Longest unbeaten run | 10 – Dynamo (Round 1–10) |
Longest winless run | 16 – Metalurh (Round 1–16) |
Longest losing run | 8 – Metalurh (Round 9–16) |
Highest attendance | 32,794 – Dynamo–Shakhtar (Round 11) |
Lowest attendance | 300 – Olimpik–Volyn (Round 19) |
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All statistics correct as of 20 March 2016. |