2025-26 PariMatch Premier League

“Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed club officials, players, coaches, and fans of Ukrainian football, Today is a historic day for our league. Over the past three seasons, since the return of full competition in 2024–25, the Ukrainian Premier League has not on...

Today, the UAF have approved the dates of the Ukrainian Premier League (PariMatch PL) ahead of the 2026/27 season. The season will begin on Friday 14 August 2026 (base date 15 August 2026), one week ahead of the expected start because of the FIFA World Cu...

Today, the UEFA Champions League league phase draw took place - where four Ukrainian clubs learned their eight opponents for the 2025/26 league phase. Shakhtar Donetsk, Dynamo Kyiv, Zorya Luhansk and Oleksandryia have all learned their four home games and...

The Ukrainian Premier League have announced the Matchday 5 schedule, the first matchday after the September international break. Here is an updated Matchday 5 schedule: Saturday 13 September: FC Mariupol vs Dynamo Kyiv - 13:00 EET (UPL TV) FC Mynai vs Po...

Zorya Luhansk managed to pass the third qualifying round after beating Greek side Panathiniakos 4-2 on aggregate and will face Feyenoord in the play-off round of the UEFA Champions League with the first leg being played on Wednesday 20 August at De Kuip in...

Zorya Luhansk secured UEFA Champions League play-off round and at least UEFA Europa League after winning 2-1 against Greek side Panathinaikos to win 4-2 on aggregate. Before the game at the Zorya Stadium, a minute silence was held to once again honour Vol...

Tavriya Simferopol 0-2 Dynamo Kyiv - ATT: 20,146 (1,400 away) Oleksandryia 1-3 Polissya Zhytomyr - ATT: 19,846 (1,386 away) LNZ Cherkasy 1-1 Rukh Lviv - ATT: 11,846 (1,146 away) Obolon Kyiv 3-0 Inhulets Petrove - ATT: 24,846 (1,142 away) Epicenter 0-1 FC ...

Review of Matchday 1 of the 2025/26 PariMatch Premier League season.

Everyone in the Ukrainian Premier League are devastated and heartbroken to learn about the tragic passing of Volodymyr Bilotserkovets who played as a midfielder for Zorya Luhansk. Volodymyr Bilotserkovets was adored by everyone at Zorya Luhansk, includin...

Zorya Luhansk became the first Ukrainian team to compete in a European competition for the 2025/26 season when they faced Greek side Panathinaikos and secured a 2-1 victory in the first leg of the game. The Greek side initially took the lead just before ...

Dynamo Kyiv have spent the majority of the clubs history at the national stadium, NSC Olimpisky. A couple of exceptions, with playing at alternative venues such as the Dynamo stadium which they own. However, they feel like the Dynamo stadium is too low cap...

The first transfer window of the 2025/26 season has come to a close after ten days. During those ten days, most of the eighteen UPL clubs of the 2025/26 season have begun their summer business and will look to continue their business later on in the month ...

On 4 June, the UPL board and the representitives of the 18 clubs competing for the 2025/26 met at the House of Football in Kyiv to discuss the plans for the 2025/26 season. The first order of business was to confirm the reset of the Ukrainian Premier Lea...

David de Gea joined Karpaty Lviv at the beginning of the 2024/25 campaign on a 1-year deal initially, which was to expire at the end of this month. After Karpaty being silent about the situation for so long, they've announced today that de Gea has agreed a...

Shakhtar Donetsk continue to look in the market for players as they prepare for their 2025 FIFA Club World Cup campaign have signed a former player of the club, Willian. Willian played for Shakhtar Donetsk from 2007 to 2013 and scored a total of 26 goals a...

Newly promoted debutants Epicenter play at Tonkocheyev Stadium, which doesn't meet the Ukrainian Premier League requirements. The stadium holds a capacity of 8,000, which is 2,000 less than the minimum capacity requirement of 10,000. Furthermore, the stadi...

On June 1, the UAF confirmed the official schedule for the Ukrainian Premier League, where they confirmed each matchday's main date and announced the official timings of the winter break. We have already known for a while that the Ukrainian Premier League...

It hasn't taken long for the newly promoted sides to start their business in the transfer window. And Volyn Lutsk have successfully made a move for Brazillian left winger Taison after signing him from PAOK for a total of £4m transfer sum and £2m in addons,...

Dynamo Kyiv have confirmed their replacement for ex-star Andriy Yarmolenko, who will be leaving the club after his final testominal game against Obolon Kyiv on 6 July 2025. And it is no other than Artem Dovbyk, a huge name. Initially a race between Dynam...

Shakhtar Donetsk made their first summer signing of the 2025/26 season ahead of their 2025 FIFA Club World Cup campaign and signed Ukrainian star left back Oleksandr Zinchenko from Arsenal. The fee was confirmed to be £20.5m and £2.5m in add-ons, making a ...

Now we know all 18 teams that are competing in the top flight of Ukraine in 2025-26, the next event to happen is the release of the fixtures. Well, we have that answer to your question! The fixtures for the 2025-26 PariMatch Premier League season will be ...

For the 2025-26 season, SEVEN, yes SEVEN teams will be representing Ukraine in the 2025-26 European competitions. In the UEFA Champions League - Dynamo Kyiv, Oleksandryia and Shakhtar Donetsk all qualified directly to the league phase of the competition an...

Following Epicenter's 1-0 victory over Metalist Kharkiv in the Ukrainian First League play-off final, we now know all the 18 teams participating in the top flight of Ukrainian football next season, and it sure will be an interesting one! Dynamo Kyiv going...

On Saturday 31 May at 18:00 EET at the NSC Olimpisky, Epicenter and Metalist Kharkiv will play each other in the 2025 Ukrainian First League play-off final. The winner gets the golden ticket and final place in the 2025/26 Ukrainian Premier League season. ...

Ukraine jumped up from France during the 2023/24 campaign, where Ukraine gained 2 points more than France (rounded to nearest interger) and this season they have maintained it as they gained a total of 23.036 points for the 2024/25 campaign compared to Fra...

After the withdrawal of Tavryia in 2014, it felt like the club would never return to the top flight of Ukrainian football as it entered Crimean competitions. However, since 2016-17, Tavryia have returned to Ukrainian competitions!

Read how Volyn Lutsk achieved promotion and broke several records in the Ukrainian First League to return to the top flight for the first time in nine years.

The dates for the upcoming season of the Ukrainian Premier League having been confirmed, with a later start but a shortened winter break.