On Tuesday, August 23, the new season of the Ukrainian Premier League (UPL) will begin. The leader of the last season, Shakhtar, who ended ahead of schedule, will open the UPL season with a match against Kharkiv Metalist 1925.

In anticipation of the start of the tournament, TSN Prosport writes about the innovations that footballers, coaches and referees will face due to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and also talks about the most expensive club and player in the league.

Security protocol Matches will be played in stadiums approved by the respective military administrations without spectators. A limited number of accredited persons will be allowed into the arenas - football players, coaches, referees, staff, match officials, representatives of accredited media, medical service, State Emergency Service, National Police.

The stadium must have an evacuation and shelter plan, which must accommodate the full composition of the players in the game and comply with safety standards. Covers must be located no further than 500 m from the arena.

In the event of an air raid, the announcer in the stadium must announce: \! Air Raid! We ask everyone to follow the shelter" The referee of the match immediately stops the game and goes into cover with the teams.

Note that the match of the championship of Ukraine U-19 has already been suspended due to the threat of a missile attack.

The cost of the clubs of the championship of Ukraine The most expensive team of the tournament is Kiev " This is the only club whose players are worth more than 100 million (106.2 million euros) in total.. The White-Blues beat last season's UPL leader by more than 30 million euros - the total cost of the Pitmen's players is 72.8 million euros.

In sum, the price of Dynamo and Shakhtar players is about 63% of the total cost of the UPL.

Rating of the most expensive clubs in the championship of Ukraine:.

Dynamo - 106.2 million euros Shakhtar - 72.8 million euros Dnipro-1 - 19.5 million euros Zorya - 12.4 million euros Vorskla - 10.7 million euros Oleksandriya. And the giants of Ukrainian football have three foreigners.

The most expensive UPL players The most expensive UPL player is still Dynamo winger Viktor Tsygankov. His transfer fee is estimated at 25 million euros..

The top 10 includes four Dynamo players and six representatives of Shakhtar.

Rating of the most expensive players of the championship:.

Viktor Tsygankov (Dynamo) – 25 million euros Ilya Zabarny (Dynamo) – 15 million euros Nikolay Matvienko (Shakhtar) – 11 million euros Nikolay Shaparenko (Dynamo) – 10 million euros Mikhail Mudrik (Shakhtar). In this regard, Desna Chernihiv and Mariupol will not be able to take part in the new UPL season..