Preview

June 4, Poltava, Oleksii Butovskyi Vorskla stadium, 15:00
Live stream – Setanta Sports OTT platform

Match build-up

Shakhtar will play the final match of the season already in the status of the champions of Ukraine. The Miners won the title in the penultimate round, defeating their main competitors Dnipro-1 (3-0) at Arena Lviv a week ago. Currently, Shakhtar have 72 points and they are out of reach for their opponents. On Tuesday, executives, coaching staff and players of Shakhtar received gold medals and the trophy of the 2022/23 season.

Several statistical points should be noted: the Orange-and-Blacks are the leaders in the number of victories in the matches of the current UPL (22 with 6 draws and 1 loss), have the best goal difference (68–19). The team's league scoring streak, which already includes 28 games, continues, as well as their 17-game unbeaten run. The top goalscorers of the Miners in the Premier League are Danylo Sikan (9 goals, 1 assist) and Artem Bondarenko (8 goals, 5 assists).

Opponents

Vorskla continue the fight for 5th spot in the table, which gives the right to play in the UEFA Conference League in the next season. After 29 rounds, Poltava team are in sixth spot with 42 points (goal difference: 36–36), one point behind Oleksandriia (43 points) and one point ahead of Kryvbas (41).

Viktor Skrypnyk's team managed to intervene in the allocation of places in the European competitions after a successful May part of the championship, having won 4 victories in the last 4 matches – over Lviv (2-0), Kryvbas (1-0), Dnipro-1 (2-1) and Kolos (2-0). The main character of these matches was 32-year-old midfielder Oleksandr Skliar, who scored 3 goals and made 1 assist. And the top goalscorer of the team in the UPL is Albanian forward Taulant Seferi (12 goals).

Match background

Shakhtar and Vorskla played 54 games in the Ukrainian League: the Orange-and-Blacks won 41 matches, 10 matches ended in draw, and Poltava team won 3 times. Total goal difference: 111–32 in favour of Shakhtar.

Previous match

On November 23, 2022, in the first round, Shakhtar and Vorskla played one of the most spectacular matches of the season at Arena Lviv. The Miners opened the scoring in the 29th minute, when Heorhii Sudakov scored a goal, and at the beginning of the second half, Dmytro Kryskiv doubled the host team's lead. However, Poltava team did not give up and, first, scored thanks to Taulant Seferi's well-placed kick, and in the 75th minute they equalized the score after Artem Cheliadin's goal. And yet Igor Jovicevic's team had the last word: in the 86th minute, Mykhailo Mudryk brought victory to Shakhtar – 3-2.