2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League
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| Season | 2016–17 |
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| Matches played | 107 |
| Goals scored | 274 (2.56 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | 10 – Júnior Moraes (Dynamo) |
| Biggest home win | 5 – Dnipro 5–0 Volyn (Round 1) |
| Biggest away win | 3 – Olimpik 0–4 Dynamo (Round 9) |
| Highest scoring | 6 – Dynamo 3–4 Shakhtar (Round 18) |
| Longest winning run | 6 – Shakhtar (Round 1–6) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 18 – Shakhtar (Round 1–18) |
| Longest winless run | 12 – Karpaty (Round 2–13) |
| Longest losing run | 4 – Zirka (Round 3–6) Karpaty (Round 4–7) |
| Highest attendance | 39,677 – Shakhtar–Dynamo (Round 7) |
| Lowest attendance | 0 – 2 games |
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← 2015–16
2017–18 →
All statistics correct as of 28 December 2016.
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The 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League season is the 26th top level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the ninth since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. The league is scheduled to play its first 18 rounds before the winter break (10 December 2016 – 25 February 2017) finishing its first stage of tournament in March. The second stage is schedule to start on 1 April 2017 and finish on 31 May 2017.
The league's title sponsor for 2016–17 season as for the previous season is a bookmaking company Pari-Match, the title of which is displayed on the season shield.
With the continuation of the military conflict in the eastern oblasts (regions) of Ukraine since 2014 and the Russian occupation of Crimea (see the map), the league was forced to change its format again and will now be contested by 12 teams after being cut from 14 in the 2015–16 season.
Dynamo Kyiv are the defending champions.
On 29 February 2016, the Ukrainian Premier League administration announced that there will be changes to the competition format for the 2016–17 season. It was confirmed that the championship would be played in two different phases, the first phase will be using a standard double round-robin tournament system and the second phase will be broken in to two groups one from 1st to 6th place which will play for the championship and the European spots and the second group made up of teams from 7th place to 12th which will play to avoid relegation. The bottom two teams will be relegated and would be replaced by the champion and the runner-up of the 2016–17 Ukrainian First League. The points gained in the first stage are passed on to the second stage.
The new format was to be presented by the FFU Executive Committee. On 29 April 2016, the FFU Executive Committee approved the changes to the new UPL format for 2016–17 season. The fixtures were announced on 7 June 2016. The competition commenced on 21 July when Shakhtar Donetsk hosted Zirka Kropyvnytskyi in Lviv. The first eighteen rounds will be played before winter break which will begin after 10 December 2016. The competition is to resume 25 February 2017. The first phase will end on 18 March 2017 after which the league will split according to the first phase final standings with the second phase starting on 1 April 2017. The season will be concluded on 31 May 2017.
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