Zary head coach Yuri Vernidub spoke against raising the number of Premier League clubs to sixteen.

According to the expert, the current format of the tournament with 12 teams is the best.

"It’s pointless to increase the number of participants in the Premier League. Of course, we can talk about sixteen teams in the elite. For example, Dnipro-1, Volyn, Metalist 1925 and Obolon-Brovar will enter the top division..

This is what I called the teams, which in their infrastructure correspond to the Premier League. But who then replace the two losers?.

Now in the Premier League, the optimal number of participants, with an interesting format of the competition, "- said the coach of Lugansk.

At the beginning of November, at the next meeting of the UPL, it did not reach agreement on increasing the number of participants in the championship to 16 clubs..

The last time the UPL was represented by 16 teams in the 2013/14 season. After that there were two seasons when 14 teams played.. Since the 2016/17 season, UPL is represented by 12 clubs..