1990 Soviet Second League, Zone West

Second League
Season1990
ChampionsBukovina Chernovtsy
PromotedBukovina Chernovtsy, Daugava Riga
Relegated5 teams
1991

1990 Soviet Second League, Zone West was part of the season of association football competition of the Soviet Second League. The Zone West of the Second League was established as part of reorganization of the whole Second League when it was split into upper Second League (with three zones) and lower Second League (with ten zones). The competition was won by Bukovina Chernovtsy.

The games in the group started on April 7, 1990 with 8 match ups and finished on November 8, 1990 with final 11 matches.

Teams

The Second League was restructured reducing number of zones from 9 to 3.

Admitted teams

  • 1989 Zone 6 - top nine teams (Volyn Lutsk, Bukovina Chernovtsy, Niva Ternopil, Zaria Luhansk, Niva Vinnitsa, Kremen Kremenchug, SKA Odesa, Vorskla Poltava, Zakarpatie Uzhhorod)
  • 1989 Zone 5 - six teams (Karpaty Lviv, Baltika Kaliningrad, Dinamo Brest, Dnepr Mogilev, Khimir Grodno, Zaria Beltsy)
  • 1989 Zone 3 - three teams (Lori Kirovokan, Spartak Nalchik, Shirak Leninakan)
  • 1989 Zone 2 - a team (Start Ulyanovsk)
  • 1989 Zone 1 - a team (Iskra Smolensk)

None

Relegated teams

Renamed teams

  • Prior to the start of the season SKA-Karpaty Lviv was renamed to Galichina and moved to city of Drogobich (Drohobych).

Final standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Bukovina Chernovtsy (C, P) 42 23 12 7 69 27 +42 58 Promoted
2 Daugava Riga (P) 42 22 12 8 67 37 +30 56
3 Karpaty Lviv 42 23 9 10 61 36 +25 55
4 Nyva Ternopil 42 22 11 9 70 51 +19 55
5 Niva Vinnitsa 42 17 16 9 56 29 +27 50
6 SKA Odesa 42 21 7 14 59 32 +27 49
7 Zaria Luhansk[a] 42 20 9 13 72 44 +28 49
8 Spartak Nalchik 42 20 7 15 55 46 +9 47
9 Dinamo Brest 42 15 15 12 49 39 +10 45
10 Kremen Kremenchug 42 16 11 15 49 45 +4 43
11 Zaria Beltsy 42 15 12 15 52 52 0 42
12 Vorskla Poltava 42 15 11 16 47 51 −4 41
13 Dnepr Mogilev 42 17 6 19 58 54 +4 40
14 Galichina Drogobich 42 12 15 15 52 50 +2 39
15 Khimik Grodno 42 16 6 20 46 52 −6 38
16 Start Ulyanovsk 42 12 13 17 34 45 −11 37 transferred to Zone Center
17 Volyn Lutsk 42 14 7 21 42 61 −19 35
18 Lori Kirovokan 42 15 4 23 42 79 −37 34 transferred to Zone Center
19 Iskra Smolensk (R) 42 11 10 21 46 66 −20 32 Relegated
20 Zakarpatie Uzhhorod (R) 42 12 7 23 42 70 −28 31
21 Baltika Kaliningrad (R) 42 7 13 22 32 64 −32 27
22 Shirak Leninakan (R) 42 9 3 30 33 104 −71 21
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ The city of Voroshylovgrad was renamed into Luhansk.

Representation by Republic

Top goalscorers

The following were the top ten goalscorers.

# Scorer Goals
(Pen.)
Team