2004–05 Ukrainian First League

Ukrainian First League
Season	2004–05
Champions	Stal Alchevsk
Promoted	Stal Alchevsk ; Arsenal Kharkiv
Relegated	Nafkom Brovary ; MFK Mykolaiv ; Polissya Zhytomir
Top goalscorer	16 - Oleksandr Aliyev (Dynamo-2); Roman Pakholiuk (Nyva)
	← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The 2004–05 Ukrainian First League was the 14th since its establishment. Eighteen teams competed in the competition.

The competition began on July 17, 2004 with six matches. The competition had a winter break and resumed March 19, 2005.

Teams

One club was relegated from the 2003-04 Ukrainian Top League:

Before the start of season, FC Krasyliv-Obolon Krasyliv merged with lower league FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi and changed its name to FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi, while the lower league clubs was dissolved.
Before the start of season, FC Nafkom-Akademia Irpin was relocated and changed its name to FC Nafkom Brovary.
Before the start of season, FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka changed its name to FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka.
At the end of season, FC Spartak-Horobyna Sumy changed its name to FC Spartak Sumy.

In 2004-05 season, the Ukrainian First League consists of the following teams:

Locations of teams in First League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Stal Alchevsk (C, P)	34	22	11	1	60	24	+36	77	Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
2	Arsenal Kharkiv (P)	34	23	4	7	47	24	+23	73	Promoted to Vyshcha Liha
3	Zorya Luhansk	34	19	9	6	54	21	+33	66
4	Dynamo-2 Kyiv	34	16	6	12	48	33	+15	54
5	Nyva Vinnytsia (D)	34	15	8	11	49	38	+11	53	Dissolved
6	Karpaty Lviv	34	15	7	12	39	35	+4	52
7	CSKA Kyiv	34	15	6	13	28	38	−10	51
8	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	34	15	5	14	34	33	+1	50
9	Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	34	14	7	13	42	47	−5	49
10	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka	34	13	10	11	37	26	+11	49
11	Shakhtar-2 Donetsk	34	13	5	16	45	53	−8	44
12	Hazovyk-Skala Stryi	34	12	7	15	34	39	−5	43
13	Podillya Khmelnytskyi	34	12	7	15	45	54	−9	43
14	Dynamo-Ihroservice Simferopol	34	12	5	17	38	57	−19	41
15	Spartak-Horobyna Sumy	34	9	12	13	34	41	−7	39
16	Nafkom Brovary (R)	34	9	10	15	26	38	−12	37	Relegated to Second League
17	Mykolaiv (R)	34	8	7	19	15	40	−25	31	Relegated to Second League
18	Polissya Zhytomyr (D)	34	0	2	32	5	39	−34	2	Dissolved

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

FC Polissya Zhytomyr became insolvent during the mid season winter break and the UFF awarded technical victories against them in the second half of the season.

Persha Liha 2004-05 Winners
FC Stal Alchevsk First title

Statistics are taken from here.^[1]

Scorer	Goals (pen.)	Team
Roman Pakholiuk	17 (2)	Nyva Vinnytsia
Oleksandr Aliyev	16 (3)	Dynamo-2 Kyiv
Petro Kondratiuk	13 (2)	Nyva Vinnytsia
Maksym Feschuk	12 (1)	Karpaty Lviv
Vladyslav Holopyorov	12 (4)	Shakhtar-2 Donetsk
Oleksiy Yakymenko	12 (6)	Zoria Luhansk
Serhiy Sernetskyi	11 (3)	Stal Alchevsk
Ara Hakobyan	11 (4)	Stal D. / Stal A.
Oleksiy Hryshchenko	11 (6)	Dynamo-Ihroservis Simferopol
Andriy Danayev	10	Stal Alchevsk