Season trivia for Premjer-Liha 2025/2026
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 2025/2026 Premjer-Liha season in Ukraine.
Note that the season is not finished yet, and therefor the information below is not necessarily the final version.
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 Gleiker Mendoza and Yehor Tverdokhlib. Together they were behind 4 goals for Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih in the 2025/2026 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2025/2026 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Gleiker Mendoza, playing for Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 21 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih-Dynamo Kiev.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In March 2026, Nemanja Andjusic (Zorya Luhansk) scored 5 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2025/2026 season.
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored three times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Gleiker Mendoza (Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih)
Andriy Storchous (Kudrivka)
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 five matches during the season:
Mykola Hayduchyk (Polissya Zhytomyr)
Oleksiy Hutsulyak (Polissya Zhytomyr)
Denys Ustymenko (Obolon Kyiv)
Pylyp Budkivskyi (Zorya Luhansk)
Prosper Obah (Shakhtar Donetsk/LNZ Cherkasy)
Andriy Storchous (Kudrivka)
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Baboucarr Faal in Karpaty Lviv/Rukh Lviv during the 2025/2026 season, in total he did this five times.
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2025/2026 season was Joaquinete, in total he scored six penalties for his Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi.
Most penalty goals by team
Dynamo Kiev was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2025/2026 season, in total they scored seven of their goals from penalties.
Most own goals by team
Rukh Lviv scored four own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2025/2026 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Matviy Ponomarenko in Dynamo Kiev scored in 7 consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
It was Oleksandr Pikhalyonok in Dynamo Kiev who had the longest streak of matches in a row with at least one assist, achieving this in 4 consecutive matches.
Players with most goals in the first half
The players with the most goals in the first half of the match scored 8 goals, and the players who did this were Gleiker Mendoza (Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) and Andriy Storchous (Kudrivka).
Players with most goals in the second half
Pylyp Budkivskyi in Zorya Luhansk scored a total of 7 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Premjer-Liha during the 2025/2026 season.
Most consecutive wins
There were two teams that had 7 consecutive wins in the 2025/2026 season, and those teams were Dynamo Kiev and Shakhtar Donetsk.
Most matches in a row without losing
Shakhtar Donetsk were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2025/2026 season, playing 21 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
SC Poltava had a streak of 7 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Premjer-Liha during the 2025/2026 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Oleksandriya managed the feat of not winning a single match in 21 consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 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 2025/2026 season, they came back to win five matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Rukh Lviv, Zorya Luhansk, Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi, Obolon Kyiv and Polissya Zhytomyr were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in two different matches during the 2025/2026 season.