Pre-season Organization
The following teams were given the right to play in the first football championship of independent Ukraine:
| Team | Location | Venue | Capacity | League and position in 1991 | Coach | Replaced coach | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chornomorets | Odessa | Chornomorets | 34,362 | Soviet Top League | 4 | Viktor Prokopenko | |
| Dynamo Kyiv | Kiev | Republican, Kiev | 100,000 | 5 | Anatoliy Puzach | ||
| Dnipro | Dnipropetrovsk | Meteor | 24,381 | 9 | Mykola Pavlov | Yevhen Kucherevsky | |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | Donetsk | Shakhtar, Donetsk | 31,718 | 12 | Valery Yaremchenko | ||
| Metalurh Zaporizhia | Zaporizhia | Metalurh, Zaporizhia | 11,983 | 13 | Ihor Nadein | ||
| Metalist Kharkiv | Kharkiv | Metalist | 38,633 | 15 | Leonid Tkachenko | ||
| Bukovyna Chernivtsi | Chernivtsi | Bukovyna | 12,000 | Soviet First League | 5 | Yukhym Shkolnykov | |
| Tavriya Simferopol | Simferopol | Lokomotiv, Simferopol | 19,978 | 6 | Ishtvan Sekech | ||
| Karpaty Lviv | Lviv | Ukraina | 28,051 | Soviet Second League, West | 1 | Stepan Yurchyshyn | |
| Zorya-MALS Luhansk | Luhansk | Avanhard, Luhansk | 22,320 | 2 | Anatoliy Kuksov | ||
| Nyva Ternopil | Ternopil | Municipal, Ternopil | 12,750 | 4 | Leonid Koltun | ||
| Nyva Vinnytsia | Vinnytsia | Lokomotyv, Vinnytsia | 24,000 | 5 | Valery Petrov | Vyacheslav Hrozny | |
| Torpedo Zaporizhia | Zaporizhia | AutoZAZ | 15,000 | 7 | Yevhen Lemeshko | ||
| Volyn Lutsk | Lutsk | Avanhard, Lutsk | 10,792 | 8 | Myron Markevych | ||
| SC Odessa | Odessa | SKA, Odessa | 10 | Serhiy Marusyn | |||
| Kremin Kremenchuk | Kremenchuk | Dnipro | 11,300 | 13 | Volodymyr Lozynskyi | ||
| Evis Mykolaiv | Mykolaiv | Central, Mykolaiv | 25,175 | 15 | Ivan Balan | ||
| Naftovyk Okhtyrka | Okhtyrka | Naftovyk | 5,256 | Soviet Second League B, Zone 1 | 1 | Valery Dushkov | |
| Prykarpattya | Ivano-Frankivsk | Elektron | 7,000 | 2 | Yuriy Shuliatytskyi | Ivan Krasnetskyi | |
| Temp Shepetivka | Shepetivka | Temp | 9 | Ishtvan Sekech | |||
- Ukrainian Cup 1991 Holder: FC Temp Shepetivka (while placing only the 9th in the Soviet Second League B).
- Dynamo usually playing at the Republican Stadium, this season also played two (Nyva Ternopil and Odessa) out of its nine home games at its own club stadium of Dynamo.
Read more about this topic: 1992 Ukrainian Premier League
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