Sport Arena names the best in the First League of the 2022/23 season round after round in individual categories and provides exclusive statistics. Your attention – the best player, joker, young player, coach and hero of the tour, as well as the best goal, the main numbers and much more
Game program of the 8th round (report with video here)
| Champion group | Elimination group |
| Saturday, May 27 | Friday, May 26 |
| Epicenter – Flint – 3:1 | FC Chernihiv-ShVSM ‒ Prykarpattya – 0:2 |
| Karpaty – Obolon – 1:1 | SK Poltava – Dinaz – 1:2 |
| Niva (Ternopil) – Metallurg – 1:1 | Skoruk – Bukovina – 0:0 |
| Polissya – LNZ – 2:1 | Gornyak-Sport – FSK Mariupol – 1:0 |
Already traditional:
- read soon on our website the symbolic team of the next round
- interview with the hero of the tour, which the Sport Arena determines together with the PFL
And now – our individual nominations:
With significant personnel losses (injured defenders Gitchenko and Nesterov, the winter rookie Dzharja, who could be useful, given the losses in the center of defense, departed for the U-20 World Championship, the top scorer of the championship Budkovsky was disqualified), the Zhytomyr team beat the LNZ, which also claimed on a medal. Thus, for the first time in its history, Polissya became the champion of the First League of the Ukrainian football championship.
Analysis from the All-Ukrainian Association of Football Coaches – here.
In this round, goals from jokers are like from a cornucopia. Volsky from Ternopil saved Niva from defeat in the match with Flint, Kamenchan Chepelyuk from the transfer of another joker, V. Krystin, scored the last goal from Kremn, finally the LNZ goal in Zhytomyr – also from the assist of the player who came on as a substitute (Nechtia). However, all surpassed the Carpathians. In Chernihiv, both goals of the guests – after the successful substitutions of Rypan and Yatsurak. We celebrate Barchuk, because he opened the scoring just three minutes after entering the field, and then won the fight, which was important in the second scoring combination of the winners of the repechage tournament.
Sport Arena stats: 18 league matches, 4 goals.
This guy has only 51 minutes on the field for the entire championship. Of course, it was difficult for an 18-year-old striker to prove himself if he only had 10 minutes or more twice in the entire championship. This time, Volsky also came out for a short time, 5 minutes before the end of normal time, but he managed to open up on the flank feed of Gatala and scored against the Cossacks. We congratulate Daniil on his debut goal, and also note that he is in the top three of the youngest goalscorers of the current championship.
Sport Arena stats: 9 league matches, 1 goal.
17 goals in this tour – both beautiful aimed shots and close-range finishes after a draw to the right or from the standards. However, the best one is the obvious one. Quoting the report: “We had to regret these moments when the Lviv team played inattentively on the line of their own penalty area, Slobodian sightedly passed to the right – to Moroz, and Taras unloaded the cannon with his right foot almost to the very top nine – 1:1. The second goal in the championship with one assist for the “breakwater” of Kiev”.
Goal can be seen on video from 1:34:50
Read later on our website an interview with a player who, with his two goals, brought Dinaz a strong-willed away victory, thanks to which the club finished fourth in the repechage tournament.
Sport Arena stats: 18 league games, 4 goals, 2 assists.
President of FC Polissya (Zhytomyr) Gennady Butkevich, who celebrated two holidays – the championship of the club and the 65th anniversary – received a commemorative championship belt from the great boxer Oleksandr Usyk. Photo: t.me/fcpolissya
Polissya is the champion of the First League 2022/23, silver medals – Obolon, bronze – LNZ Cherkasy.
A few more interesting things:
- in the playoffs of the UPL, we have established the following pairs: Metallurg (4th place 1L) – 13th place in the UPL; LNZ Cherkasy (3rd place 1L) – 14th place UPL
- Filipp Budkovsky (Polesie) became the top scorer of the season – 14 goals, the best assistant – Dmitry Shcherbak (SK Poltava), 7 assists
- Bukovina tied for the 100th time in the First League, Skoruk for the 10th time
More interesting things – in the digital selection of the PFL, the information partner of which is Sport Arena.
- Tournament table after the 8th round
- Champion Group
| M | Team | AND | IN | H | P | goals | ABOUT | |
| 1 | – | Polissya | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 25-9 | 32 |
| 2 | – | Obolon | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 19-8 | 29 |
| 3 | – | LNZ Cherkasy | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 19-12 | 22 |
| 4 | – | Metallurgist | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 18-16 | 21 |
| 5 | – | Carpathians | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 12-16 | 18 |
| 6 | – | Epicenter | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12-17 | 15 |
| 7 | ↑1 | Niva | 14 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 10-17 | 8 |
| 8 | ↓1 | Flint | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11-31 | 7 |
- Elimination group
| M | Team | AND | IN | H | P | goals | ABOUT | |
| 1 | ↑1 | Prykarpattya | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 21-11 | 24 |
| 2 | ↓1 | Skoruk | 14 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 18-9 | 23 |
| 3 | – | Bukovina | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 18-14 | 21 |
| 4 | ↑1 | Dinaz | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16-17 | 21 |
| 5 | ↓1 | FC Chernihiv-SHVSM | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 15-16 | 19 |
| 6 | – | SK Poltava | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16-22 | 16 |
| 7 | – | FSK Mariupol | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 18-23 | 12 |
| 8 | – | Gornyak-Sport | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 12-22 | eleven |
- scorers
| Player | Team | Group | goals | Pen. |
| Budkovsky Philip | Polissya (Zhytomyr) | A+h | 14 | |
| Galata Denis | Flint (Kremenchug) | B+h | eleven | (1) |
| Tishchenko Ivan | LNZ (Cherkasy) | B+h | eleven | (2) |
| Sidorov Alexey | Metallurg (Zaporozhye) | B+h | eleven | (3) |
| Bykovsky Igor | FSK Mariupol | A+B | 8 | (1) |
| Gorny Maxim | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsk) | A+h | 8 | (3) |
| Palahnyuk Vasily | Bukovina (Chernivtsi) | A+B | 8 | (3) |
| Gritsuk Vasily | Polissya (Zhytomyr) | A+h | 8 | (8) |
| Streltsov Evgeny | SK Poltava | B+c | 7 | |
| Kushnirenko Bogdan | Polissya (Zhytomyr) | A+B | 7 | (1) |
| Tsyutsyura Vasily | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | A+B | 7 | (2) |
- assistants
| Player | Team | Group | Passes |
| Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | B+c | 7 |
| Kozhanov Denis | Carpathians (Lviv) | A+h | 6 |
| Kozak Artem | Polissya (Zhytomyr) | A+h | 6 |
| Shmigelsky Bogdan | Skoruk (Nikopol district) | B+c | 6 |
| Bezhenar Andrey | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsk) | A+h | 5 |
| Gritsuk Vasily | Polissya (Zhytomyr) | A+h | 5 |
| Savin Anton | LNZ (Cherkasy) | B+h | 5 |
| Skripnik Ilya | Bukovina (Chernivtsi) | A+B | 5 |
| Tishchenko Ivan | LNZ (Cherkasy) | A+B | 5 |
| Tsyutsyura Vasily | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | A+B | 5 |
- Goal+pass
| Player | Team | Group | Goal + Pass | goals | Passes |
| Budkovsky Philip | Polissya (Zhytomyr) | A+h | 17 | 14 | 3 |
| Tishchenko Ivan | LNZ (Cherkasy) | B+h | 16 | eleven | 5 |
| Galata Denis | Flint (Kremenchug) | B+h | 15 | eleven | 4 |
| Sidorov Alexey | Metallurg (Zaporozhye) | B+h | 13 | eleven | 2 |
| Gritsuk Vasily | Polissya (Zhytomyr) | A+h | 13 | 8 | 5 |
| Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | B+c | 13 | 6 | 7 |
| Tsyutsyura Vasily | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | A+B | 12 | 7 | 5 |
| Shmigelsky Bogdan | Skoruk (Nikopol district) | B+c | 12 | 6 | 6 |
| Pear Vitaly | Obolon (Kyiv) | B+h | 10 | 6 | 4 |
| Kozhanov Denis | Carpathians (Lviv) | A+h | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| Kozak Artem | Polissya (Zhytomyr) | A+h | 10 | 4 | 6 |
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All calculations – Artur Valerko, SportArena.com. The material is written by the author in Ukrainian.
Source: Sportarena
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