Donetsk’s Shakhtar extended their unbeaten streak in the opening matches of the UPL to 17 by defeating "Epicenter" (1:0) in the first round of the Ukrainian Championship yesterday. The last time the miners lost in an opening match was in 2008, when they were defeated away by "Lviv" with a score of 0:2.
Thus, the miners matched the record of the Ukrainian championships held by Kyiv’s Dynamo. Notably, while the "white-blue" had 12 wins and 5 draws during their streak from 2005 to 2021, the Donetsk team has achieved 16 wins and 1 draw in their 17 unbeaten matches.