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unusual facts about Ukrainian Premier League



Adolphe Teikeu

Adolphe Teikeu Kamgang (born 23 June 1990 in Bandjoun) is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for FC Metalurh Zaporizhya of the Ukrainian Premier League.

Ahmed Januzi

Ahmed Januzi (born 8 July 1988 in Vučitrn) is a professional Albanian footballer playing for FC Vorskla Poltava in Ukrainian Premier League and the Albania national team.

Betegy

In the summer of 2013, the amount of leagues were extended to 12; as they introduced a few more: UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, FIFA World Cup, Eredivisie (Holland), Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A (Brazil), Major League Soccer (United States), Tippeligaen (Norway), Primera A (Argentina), Allsvenskan (Sweden), J-league (Japan), K League (South Korea), Primeira Liga (Potugal), Superliga Denmark, Ukrainian Premier League.

Denys Sokolovskyi

Denys Sokolovskyi (born 26 March 1979 in Donetsk) is a retired Ukrainian professional football player who played for several clubs in Europe, including FC Metalurh Donetsk and FC Vorskla Poltava in the Ukrainian Premier League, Panionios FC in the Greek Superleague and Pogoń Szczecin the Polish Ekstraklasa.

Dmytro Nazarenko

He would next spend 2.5 years with his hometown club FC Metalurh Donetsk, appearing in two Ukrainian Premier League and a few UEFA Cup matches.

Jajá

In 2008 he became the second foreigner that ever won the annual League MVP award established by the sport newspaper Komanda, the other one was the former captain of FC Dynamo Kyiv Valyantsin Byalkevich from Belarus.

Parid Xhihani

During the 2008–09 summer transfer season, he transferred to Zorya in the Ukrainian Premier League from Albanian Premier League side KS Besa Kavajë.

Serhiy Atelkin

He was also notable for joining Oleh Matveyev as one of the better forward duets in 90's in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Volodymyr Homenyuk

Volodymyr Homenyuk (born 19 July 1985 in Bokiyma, Rivne oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian football forward for Metalist Kharkiv in the Ukrainian Premier League.


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Đorđe Lazić

At the end of 2008, B92's sports section announced that Lazić was moving to Ukrainian Premier League club Metalurh Donetsk with a transfer fee of 500,000 euros.

Maksym Kalynychenko

After playing an away match on Saturday, 16 August 2008, against rivals Illychivets Mariupol during which Maksym Kalynychenko scored the winning goal in the 66th minute – helping Dnipro win 2:1, he was named by UA-Football as the of the two best attacking midfielders along with Constantinos Makrides of Metalurh Donetsk, of the fifth round in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Puchkov

Serhiy Puchkov (born 1962), former midfielder, currently head-coach of SC Tavriya Simferopol in the Ukrainian Premier League

Serhiy Nazarenko

On 29 July, scoring two goals against FC Metalurh Donetsk, he became the top Dnipro's goalscorer in Ukrainian Premier League of all time with 32 goals, overtaking Oleh Venglinsky with 31.