- Dear Shakhtar supporters!
- Retrospective of Shakhtar – Dynamo league confrontation
- Sergiy Atelkin recovers from heart attack
- Darijo Srna – Shakhtar’s best foreign player
- Dear friends, dear Shakhtar supporters!
- Mircea Lucescu: Happy New Year!
- Happy New Year! Truthfully yours, the captain
- Shakhtar legends honoured
- Mircea Lucescu: We’ve got to alter some of our plans
- Pyatov – fans’ choice No 1
| FC Barcelona | 2 : 3 | FC Shakhtar | 09.12.08 |  |
| FC Shakhtar | 1 : 0 | Karpaty | 30.11.08 | |
| FC Shakhtar | 5 : 0 | FC Basel | 26.11.08 | |
| FC Shakhtar | 2 : 0 | FC Lviv | 21.11.08 | |
| FC Shakhtar | 1 : 0 | Dynamo | 16.11.08 | |
| Olexandriya | 1 : 2 | FC Shakhtar | 11.11.08 | |
| Tavriya | 0 : 2 | FC Shakhtar | 08.11.08 | |
| P | Team | Pld | W | D | L | F:A | Pts |
| 1 | Dynamo | 17 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 42:11 | 43 |
| 2 | Metalist | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 29:12 | 37 |
| 3 | Metalurh D | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 23:12 | 33 |
| 4 | Vorskla | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 19:10 | 33 |
| 5 | FC Shakhtar | 17 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 25:12 | 31 |
