Honored Teams
In European Football teams are especially honored for winning multiple league titles, after 10 league titles a representative star is placed above the teams badge to indicate 10 league titles. Dynamo Kyiv became the first Ukrainian team to achieve the prestigious honor of winning the Soviet Top League for the 10th time in 1981. Dynamo Kyiv after having entered the Ukrainian championship has become the same dominant leader as during the Soviet times by earning its 20th national title at the top level in 1999. No other club in Ukraine has come close to such an honour as of yet. Only four other clubs have ever been national champions: Shakhtar Donetsk (7, all Ukrainian titles), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2, all Soviet), and once Zorya Luhansk (Soviet Union) and Tavriya Simferopol (Ukraine).
The current (as of June 2012) officially sanctioned Premier League stars are:
- Dynamo Kyiv (26, the second received in 1999).
- Shakhtar Donetsk (7, all Ukrainian titles)
Read more about this topic: Ukrainian Premier League
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