Season trivia for Premjer-Liha 2023/2024
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 2023/2024 Premjer-Liha season in Ukraine.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Vladyslav Vanat and Vitaliy Buyalskyi. Together they were behind 5 goals for Dynamo Kiev in the 2023/2024 season.
Fastest goalscorer
The fastest goal scorers during the season 2023/2024 were these players, all of whom scored in minute 2 of any match of the season:
Fastest hat-trick
Marlon Gomes, playing for Shakhtar Donetsk, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 39 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Chornomorets Odesa-Shakhtar Donetsk.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2023/2024 was 4 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Danylo Sikan (Shakhtar Donetsk) - April 2024
Mykola Mykhaylenko (Oleksandriya) - May 2024
Marlon Gomes (Shakhtar Donetsk) - May 2024
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored 2 times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Dmytro Kryskiv (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Eduardo Guerrero (Zorya Luhansk)
Mykola Mykhaylenko (Oleksandriya)
Vladyslav Vanat (Dynamo Kiev)
Oleh Kozhushko (Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih)
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2023/2024 season was Oleksandr Filippov in SK Dnipro-1, in total he did it 9 times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Ruslan Stepanyuk in Vorskla during the 2023/2024 season, in total he did this 4 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2023/2024 was shared between 3 players, all of whom scored 3 penalties each, and these were
Most penalty goals by team
Dynamo Kiev was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2023/2024 season, in total they scored 8 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
Denys Oliynyk was the player who scored the most stoppage time goals during the 2023/2024 season, in total he scored 2 stoppage time goals for his LNZ Cherkasy.
Most stoppage time goals by team
When it comes to stoppage time goals, LNZ Cherkasy was the best team, in total they scored 4 goals in the final minutes of the match.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2023/2024 season was Yevhen Pavlyuk, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Premjer-Liha, which he did 2 times.
Most own goals by team
Veres Rivne scored 4 own goals in all their matches, making them the best at it in the entire league during the 2023/2024 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
There were 3 players who scored in 4 consecutive matches during the 2023/2024 season, and the players who achieved this were:
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Vladyslav Vanat in Dynamo Kiev who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 10 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Vitaliy Buyalskyi in Dynamo Kiev scored a total of 7 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Premjer-Liha during the 2023/2024 season.
Most consecutive wins
Shakhtar Donetsk was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2023/2024 season, with a total of 15 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
The longest unbeaten streak belonged to Dynamo Kiev and Shakhtar Donetsk, who had 17 consecutive matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv had a streak of 7 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Premjer-Liha during the 2023/2024 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Mynai managed the feat of not winning a single match in 16 consecutive matches during the 2023/2024 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The teams that were best at trailing and then eventually winning the match were Rukh Lviv and Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, and these teams turned the game around 4 times in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Zorya Luhansk have managed this in 4 matches during the 2023/2024 season, more than any other team in Premjer-Liha.
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