League Notes: Rank column shows the ranking of the league amongst members of UEFA. In bold are the league winners that also won the Ukrainian Cup (season double). ‡ – indicates a team that also won the Ukrainian Cup in the same season. Metalist Kharkiv had been stripped of their bronze award for 2007–08 season after the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne ruled against the game Karpaty – Metalist (19 April 2008). A citizen of Serbia, Marko Devich was granted the Ukrainian citizenship after the 2007–08 season. A citizen of Brazil, Júnior Moraes was granted the Ukrainian citizenship in March 2019. Performance by club Note: Defunct teams marked in Italics. Honored teams A representative star is placed above the team's badge to indicate 10 league titles. Dynamo Kyiv became the first Ukrainian team to achieve the prestigious honor of winning the Soviet Top League for the 10th time in 1981. Dynamo Kyiv after having entered the Ukrainian championship has become the same dominant leader as during the Soviet times by earning its 20th national title at the top level in 1999. The two stars were added to the club's logo in 2007. Earning its 10th national title in 2017, Shakhtar Donetsk has not yet adopted a star on its crest. Currently (as of 2020) the following clubs earned the star element to be added to their crest. Dynamo Kyiv (13 in Soviet Union; 16 in Ukraine). Shakhtar Donetsk (13 in Ukraine) Dnipro (2 in Soviet Union) Zorya Luhansk (1 in Soviet Union) Tavriya Simferopol (1 in Ukraine) Prestige trophy From 2016–17 to 2019–20 seasons, the league conducted season competition in two rounds, where after the first double round robin tournament the league is split in half into two groups of six teams. Then, top six play second double round robin for the title, while the bottom six play to determine teams to be relegated (and Europa League playoff participants in the 2019–20 season). The team that won the relegation group receives a consolation-type honorary award, the Prestige trophy. Premier League players Ex-Dynamo Kyiv strikers Maksim Shatskikh and Serhii Rebrov hold the record for most Ukrainian Premier League goals with 123, with Shatskikh winning the top single season scorer title twice in 1999–2000 and 2002–03, Rebrov once in 1997–98. Since the first Ukrainian Premier League season in 1992, 22 different players have won or shared the top scorer's title.