During the last Ukrainian championship, the referees had to show the players red cards 75 (!) times: 21 to the home team and 54 to the away team.
In terms of the number of all sent-offs, the 2023/2024 Ukrainian Championship ranked third in the 32-year history of all-Ukrainian competitions, and first (!) in terms of the number of sent-offs of visiting team players. Footballers were sent off the field by 23 referees, and the most frequently red carded players were Maksym Kozyryatskyi (Zaporizhzhia) and Vitalii Romanov (Dnipro) - 6 times each.
None of the sixteen clubs did without red cards, and Polissya players most often finished matches in the minority - 9 times. Among the 66 UPL players sent off, Anderson Jordan (Zorya) had the highest number of red cards - 3.
Ukrainian championships with the largest number of player suspensions (1992 - 07.06.2024)
Season | Removals (home + away) | From which clubs were the most removed - cards |
2011/2012 | 85 (39+46) | "Dnipro - 11 |
2019/2020 | 79 (42+37) | "Kolos, Lviv - 10 each |
2023/2024 | 75 (21+54) | "Polissia - 9 |
2022/2023 | 74 (33+41) | "Metalist, Rukh - 8 each |
2012/2013 | 72 (34+38) | "Karpaty - 8 |
2020/2021 | 71 (32+39) | "Vorskla - 8 |
1995/1996 | 59 (12+47) | "Mykolaiv - 9 |
2006/2007 | 56 (21+35) | "Dnipro - 9 |
2017/2018 | 53 (23+30) | "Chornomorets - 8 |
2013/2014 | 52 (22+30) | "Volyn - 8 |
2015/2016 | 52 (21+31) | "Olimpik - 8 |
All suspensions of the Ukrainian Championship - 2023/2024
К | Club | Players who were sent off most often - cards |
9 | "Polissya" | Kushnirenko - 2 |
8 | "Metalist 1925 | Kurylo - 2 |
8 | "Obolon | Vovkun, Moroz - 2 each |
7 | "Shakhtar | Bondarenko - 2 |
6 | "Dynamo | Vanat, Voloshyn, Karavaev, Popov, Syrota, Tymchyk - one each |
6 | "Zorya" | Anderson Jordan - 3 |
6 | "Chernomorets" | Saluk - 2 |
5 | "Vorskla | Khrypchuk - 2 |
5 | "Kryvbas. | Beskorovainyi, Vakulko, Ilic, Semotiuk, Khomchenovvskyi - 1 each |
4 | "Veres | Balan, Marusych, Mrvalevych, V. Sharay - 1 each |
3 | "Minaj" | Bandura, Korniychuk, Melnyk |
2 | "Kolos" | Zolotov, Popov - 1 each |
2 | LNZ | Bar, Lopyryonok - 1 each |
2 | "Alexandria" | Campos, Kovalets - 1 each |
1 | "Dnipro-1 | Sarapiy |
1 | "Rukh" | Roman |
Notes: K - number of seizures