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.

Ukrainian Premier League
Season2015–16
ChampionsDynamo Kyiv
15th title
Champions LeagueDynamo Kyiv
Shakhtar Donetsk
Europa LeagueZorya Luhansk
Vorskla Poltava
FC Oleksandriya
Matches played136
Goals scored365 (2.68 per match)
Top goalscorer22 Alex Teixeira (Shakhtar)
Biggest home win8 Volyn 91 Metalurh (Round 15)
Biggest away win6 Metalurh 06 Zorya (Round 1),
Stal 06 Dnipro (Round 11),
Zorya 17 Shakhtar (Round 12),
Metalurh 06 Dynamo (Round 16)
Highest scoring10 Volyn 91 Metalurh (Round 15)
Longest winning run12 Shakhtar (Round 617)
Longest unbeaten run10 Dynamo (Round 110)
Longest winless run16 Metalurh (Round 116)
Longest losing run8 Metalurh (Round 916)
Highest attendance32,794 DynamoShakhtar (Round 11)
Lowest attendance300 OlimpikVolyn (Round 19)
All statistics correct as of 20 March 2016.
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