2007–08 Vyshcha Liha
17th season of top-tier football league in Vyshcha Liha
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The 2007–08 Vyshcha Liha season was the seventeenth since its establishment. This season of the championship was sponsored by Biola which became the title sponsor replacing Soyuz-Viktan. The competition began on 17 July 2007 and ended on 18 May 2008. 16 teams participated in the competition, 14 of which contested in the 2006–07 season, and two of which (Zakarpattia Uzhhorod and Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka) were promoted from the Ukrainian First League (the league immediately below the Ukrainian Premier League). Dynamo Kyiv was the defending champions. Also, it was the last season of the top tier being part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine before separating into the Ukrainian Premier League and rebranding from Vyshcha Liha (Higher League).
| Season | 2007–08 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Shakhtar Donetsk 4th title |
| Runner up | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Relegated | Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka, Zakarpattia Uzhhorod |
| Champions League | Shakhtar Donetsk (3rd Qualifying Round) Dynamo Kyiv (2nd Qualifying Round) |
| UEFA Cup | Metalist Kharkiv (1st Round) Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd Qualifying Round) |
| Intertoto Cup | Tavriya Simferopol (2nd Round) |
| Matches | 240 |
| Goals | 581 (2.42 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Marko Dević (19) (Metalist Kharkiv) |
| Biggest home win | Arsenal - Zakarpattia 7:0 |
| Biggest away win | numerous games 0:3 and 1:4 |
| Highest scoring | Dynamo - Karpaty 7:3 |
← 2006–07 2008–09 → | |
The winner of the competition became Shakhtar Donetsk with 74 points, followed by Dynamo Kyiv with 71 points. Metalist, which placed right behind Shakhtar and Dynamo, had its awards stripped for match fixing.[a] The top goalscorer of the season was Marko Dević from Metalist Kharkiv with 19 goals, 6 of which were penalties. The spot for the second highest goalscorer with 17 goals was a three-way tie between Oleksandr Hladky from Shakhtar Donetsk, Yevhen Seleznyov from Arsenal Kyiv (on loan from Shakhtar), and Oleksandr Kosyrin from Metalurh Donetsk.
Teams
Promoted
Two teams were promoted from the 2006-07 Ukrainian First League.
- Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka, champion – (returning after absence of 15 seasons)
- Zakarpattya Uzhhorod, runner-up – (returning after absence of a seasons)
Naftovyk and Zakarpattia replaced Illichivets Mariupol (after a 10-year topflight spell) and Stal Alchevsk (a couple of seasons), both of which were relegated to the 2007-08 Ukrainian First League.
Location map
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Managers
Managerial changes
| Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment | Table |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chornomorets |  Vitaliy Shevchenko |
27 June 2007[1] | Pre-season | ||||
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shakhtar Donetsk (C) | 30 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 75 | 24 | +51 | 74 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 30 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 65 | 26 | +39 | 71 | Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round |
| 3 | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 51 | 27 | +24 | 63 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round | |
| 4 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 30 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 40 | 27 | +13 | 59 | Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round |
| 5 | Tavriya Simferopol | 30 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 38 | 40 | −2 | 47 | Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round |
| 6 | Arsenal Kyiv | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 42 | 36 | +6 | 42 | |
| 7 | Chornomorets Odesa | 30 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 27 | 33 | −6 | 38 | |
| 8 | Vorskla Poltava | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 28 | 30 | −2 | 36 | |
| 9 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 24 | 32 | −8 | 36 | |
| 10 | Karpaty Lviv | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 29 | 41 | −12 | 33 | |
| 11 | Zorya Luhansk | 30 | 9 | 4 | 17 | 24 | 43 | −19 | 31 | |
| 12 | Metalurh Donetsk | 30 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 34 | 39 | −5 | 31 | |
| 13 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 30 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 29 | 39 | −10 | 30 | |
| 14 | FC Kharkiv | 30 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 20 | 32 | −12 | 27 | |
| 15 | Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka (R) | 30 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 38 | −20 | 26 | Relegation to the Ukrainian First League |
| 16 | Zakarpattia Uzhhorod (R) | 30 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 17 | 54 | −37 | 18 |
- The court ruling however came later in 2013. No further sanctions were awarded to the club.
- Metalist Kharkiv was stripped of their bronze award for this season by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne in August 2013 for fixing of the match Karpaty Lviv – Metalist (of 19 April 2008).[2][3][4]
Results
Top goalscorers
Stadia
The following stadiums were used as home grounds during the season: