Sport Arena, round by round, names the best in the First League of the 2023/24 season in individual categories 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 12th round (video report here)
| Group A | Group B |
| Friday, October 13 | Friday, October 13 |
| Agribusiness – Epicenter – 1:1 | Gornyak-Sport – Metallurg – 1:0 |
| Saturday, October 14 | Victoria – Kremin – 3:0 |
| FC Khust – Bukovyna – 1:2 | Sunday, October 15 |
| Nyva (Ternopil) – Nyva (Buzovaya) – 2:0 | FC Chernigov ‒ Left Bank ‒ 0:3 |
| Sunday, October 15 | Dinaz ‒ Ingulets ‒ 0:2 |
| Carpathians – Prykarpattya ‒ 3:3 | Monday, October 16 |
| Podillya – Metalist ‒ 1:0 | SK Poltava – FSK Mariupol ‒ 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:
An away victory over the third team of the championship, won in Poltava, takes FSK Mariupol to the highest place since the start of the championship – fourth in Group “B”. Especially for such a strong opponent as SK Poltava, the visiting Azov team once again selected a modified tactical scheme. The functions of individual football players were creatively rethought. And the most experienced leaders played for the team, making a great contribution to this success. Additionally, we note that FSK Mariupol is becoming one of the most important rivals for the city residents, because in two trips to Poltava it scored six unanswered goals against them.
- Analysis from the All-Ukrainian Association of Football Coaches – Here.
This round has high quality replacements. Here are a few facts: both penalties in the second half in Sumy were scored by Victoria’s “jokers”, Galadei consolidated the Ternopil team’s advantage in the Nivov derby, and Demchenko scored the saving third goal for Karpaty. However, our laureate is part of the whole chain of successful replacements. The entire combination for the Khmelnytsky team’s winning goal was played out by the players whom Kostyshin sent on as a substitute. Kaverin connected Orobets, who conveniently and timely crossed from the left edge, and Nazarchuk made a great header. If we’re going to make replacements, then these are the ones!
- Sport Arena statistics: 11 league matches, 2 goals.
The forward of Prykarpattia recently turned 22 years old. Let’s just say that the age is Olympic – Rotan can take a pencil. And guess what? Despite all the problems of the Carpathians, Khoma is progressing at an impressive pace! In Lviv, the striker showed himself as a creative, proactive player. He was not afraid to take the game on himself and laid the foundation for a sensation with two goals.
- Sport Arena statistics: 12 matches in the championship, 8 goals, 1 assist.
There was a lot of beauty on this tour – Podlepenets (Karpaty), Khoma (Prykarpattya), Riznyk (Niva T) and Koltsov (Inhulets) will tell you. But what can we do if there is such a super goal. We quote the report: “Bodnya picked it up on the left flank and sent the ball into the goal with a cool shot.”. Let’s add, of course, that in this episode he helped his teammate Skotarenko a lot, competing for the first goal.
The goal can be seen on video at 1:43
Read later on our website an interview with the player who scored a hat-trick in the match in Chernigov.
- Sport Arena statistics: 11 championship matches, 4 goals, 1 assist.
Yan Kostenko is the Lion of the Month for FC Karpaty (Lviv) in September. The award excited the young winger so much that he took part in two of his team’s three goals in the match against Prykarpattya. Photo fckarpaty.org.ua
50th coaching match of Alexander Golovko in the First League: +12=13-25 goals 49:81.
A few more interesting things:
- Ternopil’s first victory under Oleksandr Stakhiv in the current championship – in the 4th game
- The 30th goal in the First League is scored by Vadim Shavrin (Victoria), the 15th by Vitaly Koltsov (Ingulets), the 5th by Denis Galenkov (Agribusiness), the 1st by Evgeniy Moroz (Gornyak-Sport, in the 11th game ), Anton Baidal (Victoria, in the 10th), Roman Bodnya (Bukovyna, in the 25th), Vadim Merdeev (Khust, in the 27th), Timofey Sukhar (Karpaty, in the 62nd)
- Alexander Batalsky (FSK Mariupol) scored 73 goals. He remains in 9th place in the historical list of top scorers in League One. One more goal to Kosyrin and 8th place
More interesting things can be found in the digital selection of the PFL, the information partner of which is Sport Arena.
- Tournament table after the 12th round
- Groupa A
| M | Team | AND | IN | N | P | Mz | MP | +/- | ABOUT | |
| 1 | ‒ | Carpathians (Lviv) | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 7 | +14 | thirty |
| 2 | ‒ | Niva (Buzovaya) | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 | eleven | +5 | 22 |
| 3 | ↑1 | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsky) | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 17 |
| 4 | ↑1 | Bukovina (Chernivtsi) | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 17 |
| 5 | ↓2 | Agribusiness (Volochisk) | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | eleven | 9 | +2 | 17 |
| 6 | ‒ | Niva (Ternopil) | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | eleven | -2 | 15 |
| 7 | ↑1 | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 13 | +5 | 13 |
| 8 | ↑1 | Podolia (Khmelnitsky) | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -2 | 12 |
| 9 | ↓2 | FC Khust | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | eleven | 21 | -10 | eleven |
| 10 | ‒ | Metallist (Kharkov) | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 18 | -12 | 6 |
- Group B
| M | Team | AND | IN | N | P | Mz | MP | +/- | ABOUT | |
| 1 | ‒ | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 12 | eleven | 1 | 0 | 34 | 7 | +27 | 34 |
| 2 | ‒ | Victoria (Nikolaevka) | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 22 |
| 3 | ↑1 | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 28 | eleven | +17 | 20 |
| 4 | ↑2 | FSK Mariupol | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 18 |
| 5 | ↓2 | SK Poltava | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 19 | +3 | 18 |
| 6 | ↓1 | Metallurg (Zaporozhye) | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 14 | +3 | 17 |
| 7 | ↑2 | Gornyak-Sport (Horishni Plavni) | 12 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 19 | -10 | 12 |
| 8 | ↓1 | FC Chernigov | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 31 | -18 | 9 |
| 9 | ↓1 | Dinaz (Vyshgorod) | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | eleven | 20 | -9 | 9 |
| 10 | ‒ | Kremen (Kremenchuk) | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 27 | -21 | 8 |
- Bombers
| Player | Team | Group | Goals | Pen. |
| Khoma Andrey | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | A | 8 | |
| Koltsov Vitaly | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 8 | (5) |
| Kozak Alexander | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 6 | |
| Sukhoruchko Daniil | Left Bank (Kyiv) | B | 6 | |
| Spivakov Andrey | Left Bank (Kyiv) | B | 6 | (5) |
| Sitalo Artem | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 5 | |
| Igor Neves Alves | Carpathians (Lviv) | A | 5 | (1) |
| Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | B | 5 | (1) |
| Palamar Ruslan | Niva (Buzovaya) | A | 5 | (3) |
| Garden Valery | Metallurg (Zaporozhye) | B | 5 | (3) |
- Assistants
| Player | Team | Gruapa | Passes |
| Zaporozhets Evgeniy | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 8 |
| Shmigelsky Bogdan | SK Poltava | B | 6 |
| Dvorovenko Vladislav | Niva (Buzovaya) | A | 4 |
| Kogut Ivan | Left Bank (Kyiv) | B | 4 |
- Goal+ass
| Player | Team | Group | Goal+Pass | Goals | Passes |
| Shmigelsky Bogdan | SK Poltava | B | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| Khoma Andrey | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | A | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| Koltsov Vitaly | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Sitalo Artem | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| Zaporozhets Evgeniy | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Kozak Alexander | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Spivakov Andrey | Left Bank (Kyiv) | B | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Sukhoruchko Daniil | Left Bank (Kyiv) | B | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Garden Valery | Metallurg (Zaporozhye) | B | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | B | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Voitsekhovsky Vladislav | Left Bank (Kyiv) | B | 7 | 4 | 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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