UPL: Livyi bereh or Minaj will replace Dnipro-1 in 2024/25 season

Livyi bereh and Minaj will play in the decisive match to determine the replacement for Dnipro-1 in 2024/25 Ukrainian Premie League.

In the first semi-final Livyi bereh beat Metalist-1925 after a penalty shoot-out as Epitsentr defeated Minaj after a big 3-3 draw and another penalty shoot-out.

2024-25, Ukraine - Premier League

Livyi bereh - Metalist-1925 1:1 (0:0), shoot-out 5:4
Goals: Voytsekhovskyi, 46 (1:0); , 94 (1:1)

Livyi bereh: Mekhaniv; Dudarenko (Siddney, 94); Samar; Sokolov O.; Banada; Dedukh; Kohut M. (Kohut Iv., 66); Synytsia (Halas T., 66); Yakymiv; Voytsekhovskyi (Spivakov, 46); Sukhoruchko (Kolesnyk D., 72)
Bench: Fastov; Astakhov E.; Shvets; Bykov I.; Kulish; Fesenko A.; Lytovchenko O.
Yellow Cards: Samar 1; Voytsekhovskyi 14; Dedukh 33

Metalist-1925: Mozil; Imerekov; Kapinus (Bezuhlyi, 75); Kravets V.; Ari Moura; Garmash (Sydorov Ol., 63); Pasich Y.; Churko; Yurchenko Vl. (Panchenko M., 75); Boryachuk; Owusu R. (Kohut I., 63)
Bench: Potimkov; Kovalenko Ma.; Zhychykov; Kurylo; Smityukh; Sten
Yellow Cards: Sydorov Ol. 76; Imerekov 79

2024-25, Ukraine - Premier League

Epitsentr - Minaj 3:3 (1:1), shoot-out 3:5
Goals: Myronyuk, 12 (1:0); Vakula, 19 (1:1); Prikhna, 57 (1:2); Bendera, 66 (2:2); Kravchuk D., 77 (3:2); Remeniak, 87 (3:3)

Epitsentr: Chernobai; Zhmuyda (Savchuk H., 86); Moroz Vl.; Bezhenar A. (Polulyakh, 87); Krystin V.; Kristin S. (Klymets, 90); Lipovuz (Ravlyk, 62); Myronyuk (till 85); Zaporozhets E.; Protsiv (Bendera, 62); Kravchuk D.
Bench: Hryhorashchuk; Pavluchenko Andrii
Yellow Cards: Bezhenar A. 25; Krystin V. 70
Red cards: Myronyuk 85'

Minaj: Bandura; Dmytruk T.; Prokopchuk K.; Chuiev; Dvorovenko (Kysil Ya., 67); Prikhna; Vorobchak (Remeniak, 46); Gunichev (Shalfeyev, 59); Korablin; Matyushenko (Skyba, 80); Vakula (Demydenko, 80)
Bench: Rozhko Vit.; Rosul; Ryazantsev Y.; Tyshchuk
Yellow Cards: Dvorovenko 52