Sport Arena names the best in the First League of the 2023/24 season, round by round, and provides exclusive statistics. For your attention – the best player, wild card, young player, coach, as well as the best goal, main numbers and much more
Game program of the 16th round (video report here)
| Group A | Group B |
| Saturday, November 9 | Friday, November 8 |
| Agribusiness – Nyva (Ternopil) – 0:1 | Kremin – SK Poltava – 0:0 |
| Bukovyna – Metalist ‒ 2:1 | Victoria – Metalist 1925 ‒ 0:1 |
| Sunday, November 10 | Saturday, November 9 |
| Prykarpattya ‒ Epicenter – 0:1 | Dinaz ‒ YUKSA ‒ 0:2 |
| Podillya FC Minaj missed the tour | Sunday, November 10 |
| FC Kudrovka – FSK Mariupol ‒ 1:0 | |
| Metallurg missed the tour |
Already traditional:
- Read soon on our website the symbolic team of the next round
- interview with the hero of the tour, which Sport Arena determines together with the PFL
And now – our individual nominations:
The best coach of the 16th round of the first stage of the First League. Illustration pfl.ua
Niva came out of the game crisis with great difficulty, and until the 15th round she had to wait for Virtue’s first victory. However, as things went, so they went: on the reporting day of the game, the Ternopil team won an extremely important match away from the leader. Even though Agribusiness qualified ahead of schedule and did not have exceptional tournament motivation, even though the head coach himself was disqualified and his assistant Nikolai Lapko was in charge of the game from the technical area, but the team managed to cope. Team captain Riznyk scored for the third round in a row, Virt continued his unbeaten streak against Agribusiness, and Niva beat Volochishchan for the first time since the summer of 2021 – that is, the beginning of the full-scale phase of the war.
- Analysis from the All-Ukrainian Association of Football Coaches – Here.
We note again that the players coming off the bench are doing very well. Wendy Vavazinho secured the advantage of YUKSA in Demidov with her goal, and in the hero city of Bucha, the only and winning goal was scored by the players with whom Vasily Baranov guessed correctly. FC Kudrovka defeated FSK Mariupol thanks to a goal scored by Artem Legostaev from a pass from Vladislav Nekhtiy. Needless to say, forward Legostaev is playing a classic joker game this season. Artem has four effective actions – all after coming on as substitutes. The Kudrov team got 10 points in matches when Legostaev famously came off the bench.
- SportArena.com statistics: 15 league matches, 3 goals, 1 assist.
21-year-old Matus really helped his team out three times in the match against SK Poltava after shots from Streltsov, Marusich and Timenko. His contribution to the important draw with the recent group leader in the regional derby cannot be overestimated. Therefore, there is simply one fact: Kremen played for the second time in the championship without conceding goals, and it was Artem who chalked up the second “wedge-shield” in the current championship. Having gone through the Gornyak school, Matus, while still very young, attended such clubs as Agribusiness and Epicenter. But just these two seasons in Kremlin showed us that he is an already formed goalkeeper at the First League level who can be relied on.
- SportArena.com statistics: 7 matches in the championship, 11 goals conceded, 2 clean sheets.
On the tour we had goals with a fifth assist (that’s us, of course, about the most trending moment of the weekwhen Kharkov resident Yurchenko passed the ball for Boryachuk’s goal against Victoria). However, even against the backdrop of such beauty, there is room for special heads. We quote the report: “In the 33rd minute the visitors scored out of nowhere. Andrei Voloshin in the center of the field hit Sytnikov directly, from whom the ball flew to Debelko. An experienced striker from outside the penalty area threw it to Bandura, who did not have time to return to the goal.”
You can watch the goal on video from 1:08
Read later on our website an interview with the player who scored himself and earned a penalty in the match against Dinaz.
- SportArena.com statistics: 11 league matches, 2 goals, 1 assist.
We don’t know whether Danilo Golub gave the T-shirt to his personal fan, but he gave the assist – one of the best assists on the tour – / photo bukfc.com
All SC Poltava football players received summonses before the home game with Kudrovka, reports BurBuzz. When the Poltava players were traveling to the game on the team bus, the transport was stopped by the military, and later the entire team was sent to the recruitment center, according to the source. Winger Denis Galenkov was allegedly detained to resolve matters – the system showed that he was wanted. Both in this match and in the next one he was not included in the lineup. We would like to add that the club did not comment on the situation on official resources.
The most important – from Sport Arena: Metalist 1925 goalkeeper Daniil Varakuta has not conceded a goal for 487 minutes. This is the “dryest” series of the First League 2024/25 championship and it continues.
A few more interesting things:
- Bukovina, FC Kudrovka, YUKSA, SK Poltava and Metalist 1925 also received tickets to the championship group.
- Dinaz missed the 100th goal in the First League (1st goal in the game with YUKSA)
- Prykarpattya suffered its 280th defeat in the First League, including the 100th at home
- 70th in the First League the removal of Prykarpattya players. Only Akhtyrsky Neftyanik has more red cards in history – 83
- 40th coaching match of Andrey Anishchenko (Metalist) in the First League: +11=13-16 goals 42-44
- The 110th match in the First League was played by assistant referee Vladimir Shlanchak (Cherkasy region), becoming the 19th linesman to conquer this guard line
- The 200th match in the First League was played by Valery Rogozinsky (Kudrovka), the 50th by Ivan Melnichenko (Mariupol), the 1st by Mikhail Latuta (Dinaz), Nikita Kononov (YUKSA)
- The 20th goal in the First League is scored by Vitaliy Koltsov (Bukovina), the 10th by Roman Debelko (YUKSA), the 5th by Vladislav Moroz (Epicenter)
- In his second First League club, Bohdan Boychuk (Bukovina) opened the scoring, having previously scored against Rukh’s opponents.
- The goal streak of Ari Moura (Metalist 1925), which lasted 5 games in the championship – 6 goals, ended
More interesting things in the PFL digital selection, whose information partner is Sport Arena.
- Tournament table after the 16th round
- Group A
- Group B
- Bombers
| Player | Team | Goals | Pen. |
| Kravchuk Daniil | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsky) | 8 | (1) |
| Moura Ari | Metalist 1925 (Kharkov) | 7 | (1) |
| Wendy Vawa | YUKSA (Tarasovka) | 6 | (2) |
| Castro Paraguay Pablo | YUKSA (Tarasovka) | 5 | |
| Riznyk Andrey | Niva (Ternopil) | 5 | |
| Remenyak Arthur | FC Minaj | 5 | |
| Galadey Dmitry | Niva (Ternopil) | 5 | (1) |
| Tsyutsyura Vasily | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | 5 | (2) |
| Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | 5 | (3) |
| Palamar Ruslan | Victoria (Sumy) | 5 | (4) |
| Storchous Andrey | FC Kudrovka | 4 | |
| Yurchenko Vladlen | Metalist 1925 (Kharkov) | 4 | |
| Voytikhovsky Maxim | Agribusiness (Volochisk) | 4 | (1) |
| Zubkov Ilya | FSK Mariupol | 4 | (1) |
- Assistants
| Player | Team | Passes |
| Gabriel Goulart | YUKSA (Tarasovka) | 6 |
| Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | 5 |
| Kuharuk Andrey | Niva (Ternopil) | 4 |
| Lutsiv Peter | Metallist (Kharkov) | 4 |
| Evdokimov Anton | YUKSA (Tarasovka) | 3 |
| Voytikhovsky Maxim | Agribusiness (Volochisk) | 3 |
| Korokhov Evgeniy | Victoria (Sumy) | 3 |
| Lebedenko Alexander | Victoria (Sumy) | 3 |
| Litovchenko Alexey | FC Kudrovka | 3 |
| Novikov Andrey | Dinaz (Vyshgorod) | 3 |
| Odaryuk Vladimir | SK Poltava | 3 |
| Savin Anton | FSK Mariupol | 3 |
| Yurchenko Vladlen | Metalist 1925 (Kharkov) | 3 |
- Goal+ass
| Player | Team | Goal+Pass | Goals | Passes |
| Kravchuk Daniil | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsky) | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | 10 | 5 | 5 |
| Moura Ari | Metalist 1925 (Kharkov) | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| Wendy Vawa | YUKSA (Tarasovka) | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Palamar Ruslan | Victoria (Sumy) | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Voytikhovsky Maxim | Agribusiness (Volochisk) | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Yurchenko Vladlen | Metalist 1925 (Kharkov) | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Lutsiv Peter | Metallist (Kharkov) | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| Castro Paraguay Pablo | YUKSA (Tarasovka) | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| Litovchenko Alexey | FC Kudrovka | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| Gabriel Goulart | YUKSA (Tarasovka) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Galadey Dmitry | Niva (Ternopil) | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Riznyk Andrey | Niva (Ternopil) | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Remenyak Arthur | FC Minaj | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Tsyutsyura Vasily | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Storchous Andrey | FC Kudrovka | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Bendera Ivan | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsky) | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Plakhtyr Dmitry | SK Poltava | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Tolochko Roman | Agribusiness (Volochisk) | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Novikov Andrey | Dinaz (Vyshgorod) | 5 | 2 | 3 |
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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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