Premier League Players
Rank | Player | Games | |
1 | Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi | 401 | |
2 | Oleh Shelayev | 395 | |
3 | Oleksandr Shovkovskiy | 368 | |
4 | Serhiy Shyshchenko | 363 | |
5 | Ruslan Kostyshyn | 359 | |
6 | Serhiy Zakarlyuka | 356 | |
7 | Oleksandr Zotov | 351 | |
8 | Ihor Shukhovtsev | 348 | |
9 | Oleksandr Horyainov | 348 | |
10 | Vladyslav Vashchuk | 343 | |
Rank | Player | Goals | Games |
1 | Serhiy Rebrov | 123 | 261 |
2 | Maksim Shatskikh | 113 | 280 |
3 | Andriy Vorobey | 105 | 314 |
4 | Oleksandr Haydash | 95 | 263 |
5 | Serhiy Mizin | 90 | 344 |
6 | Tymerlan Huseynov | 85 | 215 |
7 | Andriy Shevchenko | 83 | 172 |
8 | Oleksandr Kosyrin | 83 | 230 |
9 | Oleh Matveyev | 81 | 210 |
10 | Oleksandr Palyanytsya | 79 | 260 |
Ex-Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv striker Serhiy Rebrov holds the record for most Ukrainian Premier League goals with 123, despite winning the top single season scorer title only once.
Since the first Ukrainian Premier League season in 1992, 20 different players have won or shared the top scorer's title. Only three players have won the title more than once, Tymerlan Huseynov, Maksim Shatskikh and Yevhen Seleznyov. Serhiy Rebrov and Maksim Shatskikh hold the record for most goals in a season (22) and are the only two players to score at least 20 goals twice. The most prolific single season scorers are Ivan Hetsko and Andriy Shevchenko, respectively attaining 0.59 and 0.51 goals per game.
Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk are the only teams to have scored 1,000 goals in the Ukrainian Premier League having achieved the feat in the 2006–07 season and 2007–08 season, respectively.
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