Donetsk “Shakhtar” in the match of the 29th round of the Premier League beat “Dnipro-1” and a round before the end of the national championship for the 14th time became the champion of Ukraine in football. The match at the “Arena-Lviv” ended with a score of 3:0, after which the wards of Igor Jovicevich became inaccessible to their opponents.
Artyom Bondarenko scored the winning goal in the 9th minute. For the Pitmen it was the 2000th goal in their history. At the beginning of the second half, Daniil Sikan doubled his lead, and after 4 minutes Taras Stepanenko brought the result to a devastating one.
In second place in the standings is Dnipro-1, which has the same number of points as Zorya Lugansk (64 each).
In the 30th round, Dnipro-1 will play with Kryvbas, while Zorya will go to Minai. Fourth place in any case will remain with the “Dynamo”. Fifth will be “Alexandria”.
Thus, Shakhtar will play in the Champions League group stage of the 2023/2024 season. Who will qualify for the Champions League and who will remain in the Europa League will be decided in the final round by Dnipro-1 and Zorya. Dynamo and Oleksandriya will take part in the qualification of the Conference League.
Recall that last year the championship of Ukraine was not completed due to the full-scale invasion of Russia. The final table, according to the results of which Shakhtar became the winner of the UPL, was fixed as of February 24.
Source: Obozrevatel
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