Season trivia for Premjer-Liha 2020/2021
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2020/2021 Premjer-Liha season in Ukraine.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2020/2021 season were the players Júnior Moraes - Alan Patrick (Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Karavayev - Vitaliy Buyalskyi (Dynamo Kiev), Vladyslav Kalytvyntsev - Pylyp Budkivskyi (Desna Chernihiv), Andriy Kulakov - Dmytro Topalov (Mariupol), Oleksandr Nazarenko - Ihor Kohut (SK Dnipro-1), Kyrylo Kovalets - Yevhen Banada (Oleksandriya) and Renan Oliveira - Álvaro Vieira (FC Lviv). Together they scored 3 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2020/2021 season:
Fastest hat-trick
All of these players managed to score a hat-trick, that is, three goals in the same match, within 25 minutes:
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2020/2021 was 4 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Manor Solomon (Shakhtar Donetsk) - March 2021
Mario Cuze (SK Dnipro-1) - April 2021
Vladyslav Kulach (Vorskla) - April 2021
Júnior Moraes (Shakhtar Donetsk) - April 2021
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored 3 times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Artem Hromov (Zorya Luhansk)
Anatoliy Nuriyev (Mynai)
Vladyslav Kulach (Vorskla)
Oleksandr Hladkyy (Zorya Luhansk)
Most first goals in a match
The first goal of a match means a lot, and these players each scored it in a total of 5 matches during the season:
Anatoliy Nuriyev (Mynai)
Mladen Bartulovic (Inhulets Petrove)
Most last goals in a match
In total, there were 3 players who scored the last goal of the match the most times, 4 times to be precise, and the players who did it were these:
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2020/2021 season was Anatoliy Nuriyev, in total he scored 6 penalties for his Mynai.
Most penalty goals by team
Kolos Kovalivka was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2020/2021 season, in total they scored 10 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
Allahyar Sayyadmanesh was the player who scored the most stoppage time goals during the 2020/2021 season, in total he scored 3 stoppage time goals for his Zorya Luhansk.
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was 5 goals, which 2 teams managed to do, and these were SK Dnipro-1 and Zorya Luhansk.
Most own goals by team
Mynai scored 4 own goals in all their matches, making them the best at it in the entire league during the 2020/2021 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
There were 6 players who scored in 3 consecutive matches during the 2020/2021 season, and the players who achieved this were:
Viktor Tsyhankov (Dynamo Kiev)
Vladyslav Kocherhin (Zorya Luhansk)
Ruslan Stepanyuk (Vorskla)
Vladyslav Kulach (Vorskla)
Viktor Kovalenko (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Dmytro Ivanisenya (Zorya Luhansk)
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
Viktor Tsyhankov in Dynamo Kiev scored or assisted in 6 consecutive matches during the 2020/2021 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
The players with the most goals in the first half of the match scored 9 goals, and the players who did this were Anatoliy Nuriyev (Mynai) and Vladyslav Kulach (Vorskla).
Players with most goals in the second half
Viktor Tsyhankov in Dynamo Kiev scored a total of 8 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Premjer-Liha during the 2020/2021 season.
Most consecutive wins
Dynamo Kiev was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2020/2021 season, with a total of 9 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
Shakhtar Donetsk were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2020/2021 season, playing 15 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Olimpik Donetsk had a streak of 8 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Premjer-Liha during the 2020/2021 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Rukh Lviv managed the feat of not winning a single match in 12 consecutive matches during the 2020/2021 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Dynamo Kiev were best at during the 2020/2021 season, they came back to win 3 matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Oleksandriya have managed this in 4 matches during the 2020/2021 season, more than any other team in Premjer-Liha.
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