The 2011–12 Ukrainian First League was the 21st since its establishment. Eighteen teams competed in the competition. Two teams were promoted from the

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. Two teams were relegated from the

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The competition began on July 16, 2011 with seven matches. The competition had a winter break starting on November 22, 2011 and the competition resumed on March 24, 2012 and completed on May 30, 2012.

Team changes

Promoted teams

These two teams were promoted from the

;Group A * MFK Mykolaiv – Second League champion ''(returning after three seasons)'' ;Group B *

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– Second League champion ''(debut)''

Relegated teams

Two teams were relegated from the

* FC Sevastopol – 15th place ''(returning after a season)'' *

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– 16th place ''(debut)''

Renamed teams

* Dnister Ovidiopol moved their operations to Odesa and renamed themselves to FC Odesa. * Zakarpattia Uzhhorod was renamed to Hoverla-Zakarpattia Uzhhorod.

Team locations

Map

The following displays the location of teams.

Stadiums

The following stadiums were used during the season.

Managers

Managerial changes

League table

Withdrawn Teams

Enerhetyk Burshtyn

On 22 May the president of

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informed that the Round 32 match in Vinnytsia was the last match as a professional club and that the will not be competing in the last two games of the season. The rest of Enerhetyk's fixtures (2 games) are considered technical losses. The club played 32 games in the League and had a record of 5 wins, 4 draws and 23 losses with 26 goals scored and 72 against.

FC Lviv

Prior to the start of the

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season the Sporting Director of the club informed the

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that they are withdrawing from the league due to termination of their financial sponsor.

Nyva Vinnytsia

The club originally informed the PFL that they were to withdraw from the league when the draw for the

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season was made due to insufficient funds.''(5 July 2012)'' However, the city and the oblast administration informed the PFL guaranteeing sufficient funds for the next season.''(10 July 2012)'' The club was to participate in the

competition after readmission to the PFL but was dissolved not submitting proper documentation or license fees and was omitted from the competition.''(13 July 2012)''

Relegation playoff

The relegation playoff match was played between the 16th place team of the First League and the winner of another playoff game between the second placed clubs from each group of the Second League. ''MFK Mykolaiv remain in the First League''

Results

Top scorers

References

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