Sport Arena names the best in the First League of the 2023/24 season, round by round, and provides exclusive statistics. The best player, wild card, young player, coach and hero of the tour, as well as the best goal, main numbers and much more
Game program of the 7th round (video report here)
Group “Champion” | Elimination Group |
Friday, May 3 | Friday, May 3 |
Victoria – Karpaty – 0:0 | Metallurg – Metalist ‒ 0:3 |
Agribusiness – Left Bank ‒ 0:2 | Kremin – Podolia – 1:1 |
Saturday, May 4 | Saturday, May 4 |
Epicenter – SK Poltava – 3:2 | FC Chernihiv ‒ Bukovyna – 1:5 |
Kudrovka-Niva – Ingulets ‒ 0:3 | Dinaz ‒ Nyva (Ternopil) – 2:0 |
Prykarpattya ‒ FSK Mariupol ‒ 1:0 | Gornyak-Sport – FC Khust – 0:2 |
Already traditional:
- Read soon on our website the symbolic team of the next round
- interview with the hero of the tour, whom Sport Arena determines together with the PFL
And now – our individual nominations:

Actually, Tsytkin surprises for the second season in a row. First – when in his debut season in the PFL he led FC Khust to medals and promotion through the playoffs with solid competition from Chaika, Zvyagel and Niva (Vinnitsa). Now – when in the “Knockout” group, he leads the team to maintain its registration in the First League. In 2019, only Karpaty and Inhulets scored more points than the Transcarpathians – 16 each, while FC Khust received 15 points in six matches. Playing quite stylish football with a tactical scheme unique to the PFL 4-4-2/4-4-1-1, Tsytkin proves in practice that it is possible to assemble a playing ensemble with modest resources and achieve progress for those football players who believe in his coaching philosophy . and opinion. The key match in Gorishni Plavny was won thanks to Prikhodko’s double, whom Vladimir Borisovich found at the deep amateur-student level. This is the personification of the great work that FC Khust has done to level out the gap from all other championship participants in finance, team experience and staffing capabilities.
- Analysis from the All-Ukrainian Association of Football Coaches – Here.

Somehow it turns out in the spring that the Kohut brothers did not play at the same time so often. So in Volochisk, against former teammates, we played together for only a little more than 20 minutes (from Nikolai’s exit to Ivan’s replacement). However, what a big role they played in the victory of the Left Bank! Nikolai Kogut, coming on as a substitute for Mysik in the 62nd minute, managed to score himself and earn a penalty for the second goal. That is, both goals scored in the match in the Khmelnytsky region were created by the efforts of this “joker”. Other successful substitutions – Kaidalov with an assist for the third goal of Metalist, Kvasov with the third goal of Ingulets, Kost with an assist for Khoma in the victory of Prykarpattya, Borisenko with Dinaz with the final second goal – also earned our kind word with their play.
- Sport Arena statistics: 23 league matches, 2 goals, 2 assists.

A hat-trick and an assist are an excellent indicator for one match, Andreychuk scored it in Chernigov. In total, in seven matches after joining Bukovina, Andrei scored six effective actions. A graduate of Prykarpattya, Andreychuk, who went through the school of FC Alexandria, demonstrates good football in the Chernivtsi club and at his age (21 years old) will definitely continue to improve and progress.
- Sport Arena statistics: 7 league matches, 5 goals, 1 assist.
Why? Those are meager rounds when there’s simply nothing to choose from, but here we have such goals – it’s all like a selection! Great goals from Sitalo and Kvasov from Ingulets – right-hand volleys after passing the ball like a carbon copy. Luxurious free kick from Khustyan Prikhodko. Finally, a direct kick from the corner by Degtyar from Metalist. Each of these goals deserves to be included in the list of the best of the season! However, we have a surprise winner from the master of long shots. We quote the report: “The hosts did not give up and very quickly reduced the gap in the score. Osipenko made the pass, and Mironenko hit the far corner with a superb dribbling shot.”.
You can watch the goal on video

Read later on our website an interview with the player who scored twice in the hero city of Bucha and helped his team secure medals ahead of schedule.
- Sport Arena statistics: 21 league matches, 8 goals, 4 assists.
In the first half of the match Epicenter – SK Poltava alone, the teams scored five goals, and in the second they were satisfied with the preserved result / photo: fcepicentr.com.ua
Ingulets has reached the lead that allows us to state that the team will not fall below third place, medals are guaranteed, now we need to work on their quality and nobility.
A few more highlights:
- Prykarpattya won its 200th victory in the First League
- Karpaty played for the first time with the result 0:0
- 280th match of Gornyak-Sport in the First League: +93=64-123 goals 308:388, 150th – Ingulets: +76=36-38 goals 213:134
- Alexander Baranyuk, Dmitry Gumenyak (both Metallurg), Stanislav Kozlov (Gornyak-Sport) made their debut in the First League
- The 20th goal in the First League was scored by Andriy Khoma (Prykarpattya), the 10th by Evgeniy Ryazantsev (Metalist),
- 5th – Petro Lutsiv (Metalist), Andrey Andreychuk (Bukovyna, 3rd goal in the game), 1st – Anton Fedorov (Podolia, in the 6th game), Ivan Borisenko (Dinaz, in the 5th)
More interesting things in the PFL digital selection, whose media partner is Sport Arena.
Such stands in Kamenets-Podolsky / photo fcepicentr.com.ua
- Tournament table
- Group “Champion”
- Elimination Group
- Bombers
Player | Team | Group | Goals |
Khoma Andrey | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | 14 | |
Palagnyuk Vasily | Bukovina (Chernivtsi) | 14 | (5) |
Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | 13 | (4) |
Spivakov Andrey | Left Bank (Kyiv) | eleven | (5) |
Ryazantsev Evgeniy | Metallist (Kharkov) | 10 | |
Igor Neves Alves | Carpathians (Lviv) | 10 | (1) |
Koltsov Vitaly | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 10 | (6) |
Kozak Alexander | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 9 | |
Kravchuk Daniil | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsky) | 9 | |
Sukhoruchko Daniil | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 9 | |
Sitalo Artem | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 8 | |
Bogunov Yaroslav | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 7 | (1) |
Garden Valery | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 7 | (3) |
Palamar Ruslan | Dinaz (Vyshgorod) | 7 | (4) |
- Assistants
Player | Team | Passes |
Shmigelsky Bogdan | SK Poltava | 10 |
Zaporozhets Evgeniy | ***Ingulets (Petrovo)*** | 8 |
Kogut Ivan | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 7 |
Prikhodko Nazar | FC Khust | 7 |
Astakhov Ernest | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 6 |
Kostenko Yan | Carpathians (Lviv) | 6 |
Podlepenets Evgeniy | Carpathians (Lviv) | 6 |
Tsyutsyura Vasily | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | 6 |
Lyashenko Andrey | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsky) | 5 |
Orobets Ivan | Podolia (Khmelnitsky) | 5 |
Ulyanov Dmitry | Victoria (Nikolaevka) | 5 |
Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | 5 |
- Goal+ass
Player | Team | Goal+Pass | Goals | Passs |
Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | 18 | 13 | 5 |
Palagnyuk Vasily | Bukovina (Chernivtsi) | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Khoma Andrey | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Shmigelsky Bogdan | SK Poltava | 14 | 4 | 10 |
Siivakov Andrey | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 12 | eleven | 1 |
Igor Neves Alves | Carpathians (Lviv) | 12 | 10 | 2 |
Ryazantsev Evgeniy | Metallist (Kharkov) | 12 | 10 | 2 |
Kravchuk Daniil | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsky) | 12 | 9 | 3 |
Sitalo Artem | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 12 | 8 | 4 |
Kostenko Yan | Carpathians (Lviv) | 12 | 6 | 6 |
Prikhodko Nazar | FC Khust | 12 | 5 | 7 |
Koltsov Vitaly | Ingulets (Petrovo) | eleven | 10 | 1 |
Kozak Alexander | Ingulets (Petrovo) | eleven | 9 | 2 |
Garden Valery | Ingulets (Petrovo) | eleven | 7 | 4 |
Podlepenets Evgeniy | Carpathians (Lviv) | eleven | 5 | 6 |
Sukhoruchko Daniil | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 10 | 9 | 1 |
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All calculations by Arthur Valerko, SportArena.com. The material was written by the author in Ukrainian.
Source: Sportarena

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