2015–16 FC Zorya Luhansk season
# 2015–16 FC Zorya Luhansk season

The 2014–15 Zorya Luhansk season is Zorya's sixteenth Ukrainian Premier League season, and their sixth season under manager Yuriy Vernydub. During the season Zorya Luhansk will compete in the Ukrainian Premier League, Ukrainian Cup and in the UEFA Europa League.

## Transfers

### In

**Summer**

| Position | Name | From | Type |
| - | - | - | - |
| MF | Kyrylo Doroshenko | Olimpik Donetsk | Transfer |
| DF | Mikhail Sivakow | Gabala FK | Transfer |
| DF | Vyacheslav Checher | Metalurh Donetsk | Transfer |
| DF | Oleg Borodai | Reserves | Promotion |
| FW | Artur Zahorulko | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan |
| MF | Dmytro Hrechyshkin | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan |
| DF | Vyacheslav Tankovskyi | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan |

**Winter**

| Position | Name | From | Type |
| - | - | - | - |
| DF | Artem Sukhotskyi | Oleksandriya | Transfer |
| FW | Paulinho | Corinthians | Transfer |
| DF | Yevhen Tkachuk | Vorskla Poltava | Transfer |
| DF | Rafael Forster | Unattached | |
| GK | Oleksiy Shevchenko | Dynamo Kyiv | Transfer |
| FW | Denys Bezborodko | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan |

### Out

**Summer**

| Position | Name | To | Type |
| - | - | - | - |
| GK | Rustam Khudzhamov | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan return |
| MF | Maksym Malyshev | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan return |
| DF | Oleksandr Hrytsay | | End of career |
| DF | Maksim Bilyi | Hajduk Split | Transfer |
| DF | Vitaliy Vernydub | Gabala FK | Transfer |
| MF | Dmytro Khomchenovskyi | Ponferradina | Transfer |

**Winter**

| Position | Name | To | Type |
| - | - | - | - |
| FW | Artur Zahorulko | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan return |
| MF | Ruslan Malinovskyi | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan return |
| MF | Ihor Kalinin | Unattached | Released |
| DF | Oleg Borodai | Unattached | Released |
| GK | Krševan Santini | Enosis Neon Paralimni | Transfer |
| GK | Andriy Poltavtsev | Guria Lanchkhuti | Loan |
| DF | Andriy Pylyavskyi | Rubin Kazan | Transfer |

## Squad

Squad is given according to the club's official site, and composed from players who playing in the main squad team as of 25 February 2016.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | GK | UKR | Oleksiy Shevchenko |
| 2 | DF | UKR | Artem Sukhotskyi |
| 3 | DF | BLR | Mikhail Sivakov |
| 4 | MF | UKR | Ihor Chaykovskyi |
| 5 | DF | UKR | Artem Hordiyenko |
| 6 | MF | UKR | Mykyta Kamenyuka (captain) |
| 8 | MF | UKR | Vyacheslav Tankovskyi (on loan from Shakhtar) |
| 10 | FW | GEO | Jaba Lipartia |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Paulinho |
| 12 | DF | BRA | Rafael Forster |
| 16 | DF | UKR | Hryhoriy Yarmash |
| 17 | FW | UKR | Yaroslav Kvasov |
| 20 | MF | UKR | Oleksandr Karavayev (on loan from Shakhtar) |
| 22 | MF | SRB | Željko Ljubenović |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | MF | UKR | Kyrylo Doroshenko |
| 24 | MF | UKR | Dmytro Hrechyshkin (on loan from Shakhtar) |
| 27 | DF | UKR | Yevhen Tkachuk |
| 28 | FW | UKR | Pylyp Budkivskyi (on loan from Shakhtar) |
| 29 | MF | UKR | Andriy Totovytskyi (on loan from Shakhtar) |
| 30 | GK | UKR | Mykyta Shevchenko (on loan from Shakhtar) |
| 34 | MF | UKR | Ivan Petryak (on loan from Shakhtar) |
| 39 | DF | UKR | Yevhen Opanasenko |
| 42 | DF | NGA | Dennis Emmanuel Bonaventure |
| 44 | DF | UKR | Vyacheslav Checher |
| 49 | FW | UKR | Dmytro Lukanov |
| 59 | FW | UKR | Denys Bezborodko (on loan from Shakhtar) |
| 91 | GK | UKR | Ihor Levchenko |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| — | GK | UKR | Andriy Poltavtsev (on loan to Guria Lanchkhuti) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | UKR | Mykhaylo Shershen (on loan to Kremin Kremenchuk) |
| — | MF | UKR | Maksym Banasevych (on loan to Desna Chernihiv) |

## Competitions

### Premier League

**League table**

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 26 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 76 | 25 | +51 | 63 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 26 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 50 | 22 | +28 | 53 | |
| 4 | Zorya Luhansk | 26 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 51 | 26 | +25 | 48 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 5 | Vorskla Poltava | 26 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 32 | 26 | +6 | 42 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
| 6 | FC Oleksandriya | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 29 | +1 | 38 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |

* ↑ Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup. However, since they already qualified for European competition based on their league position, the spot awarded to the cup winners was passed down the league.
* ↑ On 31 March 2016, the Adjudicatory Chamber of the UEFA Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) announced that Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk will be excluded from participating in the next UEFA club competition for which they would otherwise qualify in the next three (3) seasons (i.e. the 2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons).

**Results summary**

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |

**Results by round**

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | D | L | W | W | D | D | W | D | W | W | L | L | W | W | W | D | W | L | W | L | L | D | W | L | W |
| Position | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
