2008–09 Ukrainian Second League

Ukrainian Second League

Season	2008–09
Champions	Nyva Ternopil Zirka Kirovohrad
Relegated	6 withdrew, 2 expelled
Top goalscorer	22 - Ihor Bezdolny (Tytan Armyansk)
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 Ukrainian Second League was the 18th season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. The competitions were divided into two groups – A and B.

Competition information

Note: Relegation from the League is not covered by the current regulations.[1] The placing of teams in the table is done in the following order:

• number of accumulated points
• number of wins
• difference(GD) between goals for(GF) and goals allowed(GA)
• number of goals for
• The League Fair-play ranking

The next tie-break is a simple draw.

Team changes

Admitted teams

The following teams were promoted from the 2008 Ukrainian Football Amateur League:

• FC Bastion Illichivsk – first group stage participant (debut)
• FC Desna-2 Chernihiv – first group stage participant (debut)
• FC Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk – first group stage participant (debut)

Also, two more reserve teams were admitted:

• FC Knyazha-2 Schaslyve – (debut)
• PFC Sevastopol-2 – (debut)

Also, one team was re-admitted:

• MFC Mykolaiv was admitted to the Second League in expense of FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv.

Relegated teams

The following teams were relegated from the 2007–08 Ukrainian First League:

• MFC Mykolaiv – 10th place (returning after an absence of two seasons)
• FC Dnipro Cherkasy – 18th place (returning after an absence of two seasons)
• FC CSKA Kyiv – 19th place (returning after an absence of 12 seasons)
  • Originally promoted to the First League as a second team of FC CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv.
• FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk – 20th place (returning after an absence of four seasons)

Renamed teams

• A teams swap de facto took place when FC Olimpik Kirovohrad was renamed into FC Zirka Kirovohrad and reorganized. Previously in 2007 both Olimpik and Zirka played in the Amateur League. Following reorganization Olimpik continued its participation at amateur level, while Zirka started to play at professional level.
• Nyva-Svitanok Vinnytsia renamed themselves prior to the start of the season to Nyva Vinnytsia.
• FC Podillya-Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytskyi renamed themselves to Dynamo Khmelnytskyi on March 2, 2009 (during the season).
• FC Yavir Krasnopillya changed their name to FC Sumy on September 11, 2008 (during the season).

Withdrawn (expelled) teams

• FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv withdrew out of courtesy before the start of the season to allow MFK Mykolaiv to enter the competition.
• FC Khimik Krasnoperekopsk did not submit a license for the season and withdrew from the PFL.
• FC Enerhiya Yuzhnoukrainsk withdrew from the PFL before the start of the season citing financial difficulties.
• FC Desna-2 Chernihiv did not arrive On October 25, 2008 for the match against their opponent FC Knjazha-2 Schaslyve and subsequently withdrew from the PFL on October 29, 2008.
• FC Obolon-2 Kyiv withdrew after the winter-break.
• FC Knyazha-2 Shchaslyve withdrew after the winter-break.
• PFC Sevastopol-2 withdrew after the winter-break.
• FC Korosten was expelled from the PFL after the 22nd round for not arriving to a scheduled game for the second time in the 2008–09 season.
• FC Dnipro Cherkasy was expelled from the competition after the 28th round.

Location map

Bastion

Nyva V

Dynamo

Bukovyna

Mykolaiv

CSKA
Obolon-2

Ros'
Arsenal

Nyva T

FC Karpaty-2

Veres

Yednist

Nafkom

Dnipro

Korosten

Knyazha-2

Desna-2

Tytan A

Kremin

Poltava

Stal

Olimpik
Shakhtar-3
Tytan D

Sumy

Hirnyk-Sport

Hirnyk

Shakhtar

Olkom

Illichivets-2

Dnipro-75

Metalurh-2

Zirka

Sevastopol-2

Arsenal

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Locations of team home grounds in Ukrainian Second League 2008–09

Competitions

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	FC Nyva Ternopil (C, P)	32	21	8	3	50	26	+24	71	Promoted to First League
2	FC Arsenal Bila Tserkva (P)	32	21	4	7	51	31	+20	67	Playoff game winner Promoted to First League
3	PFC Nyva Vinnytsia	32	18	7	7	42	30	+12	61	Name change[a]
4	FC CSCA Kyiv	32	18	3	11	40	23	+17	57
5	FC Nafkom Brovary	32	16	4	12	45	33	+12	52	Withdrew
6	FC Bastion Illichivsk	32	16	4	12	36	40	−4	52
7	FC Dnipro Cherkasy	32	17	5	10	37	20	+17	50[b]	Expelled
8	FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi	32	14	5	13	32	38	−6	47	Name change[c]
9	FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi	32	14	2	16	29	39	−10	44
10	FC Ros Bila Tserkva	32	12	8	12	38	38	0	44
11	MFK Mykolaiv	32	11	10	11	28	27	+1	43	[d]
12	FC Yednist' Plysky	32	12	4	16	31	41	−10	40
13	FC Veres Rivne	32	11	6	15	24	32	−8	39
14	FC Karpaty-2 Lviv	32	9	7	16	28	45	−17	34
15	FC Korosten	32	8	2	22	24	42	−18	23[e]	Expelled
16	FC Obolon-2 Kyiv	32	5	4	23	20	30	−10	19	Withdrew
17	FC Knjazha-2 Schaslyve	32	4	2	26	15	35	−20	14	Withdrew

Source: ^[citation needed]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:

1. Nyva Vinnytsia renamed themselves from Nyva-Svitanok prior to the start of the season
2. FC Dnipro Cherkasy deducted 6 points by the Ukrainian Football Federation. Three points on November 2, 2008 and three points on March 26, 2009. The club failed to arrive for their 29th and 30th Round games and subsequently were expelled from the competition by the PFL.[2]
3. FC Podillya-Khmelnytskyi renamed themselves to Dynamo Khmelnytskyi on March 2, 2009.[3]
4. MFK Mykolaiv were readmitted into the PFL after dissolving at the end of the Persha Liha 2007–08 season at the expense of FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv who withdrew from the competition
5. FC Korosten deducted 3 points by the Ukrainian Football Federation on March 26, 2009. After not arriving for their 22nd-round game against Veres Rivne, the PFL expelled FC Korosten from the professional leagues.[4]

Withdrawn teams

Desna-2 Chernihiv

On October 25, 2008 FC Desna-2 Chernihiv did not arrive for the match against their opponent FC Knjazha-2 Schaslyve[5] and subsequently withdrew from the PFL on October 29, 2008. The PFL annulled all their results from the competition and adjusted the standings.[6] Desna-2 Chernihiv had a record of 2 wins, 1 draw and 12 losses scoring 7 goals and having 24 goals scored against them.

Obolon-2 Kyiv

Obolon-2 withdrew after the winter-break.[7] Obolon-2 Kyiv after 20 games had a record of 5 wins, 4 draws and 11 losses scoring 20 goals and having 31 goals scored against them and were in 16th place in the standings.

Knyazha-2 Schaslyve

Knyazha-2 withdrew after the winter-break.[7] FC Knjazha-2 Schaslyve after 20 games had a record of 4 wins, 2 draws and 14 losses scoring 15 goals and having 35 goals scored against them and were in 17th place in the standings.

Nafkom Brovary

Nafkom withdrew after the season completed failing to receive a professional license.[8] Most of its players joined Nyva Vinnytsia.

Expelled teams

FC Korosten

FC Korosten was expelled from the PFL after the 22nd round for not arriving to a scheduled game for the second time in the 2008–09 season.[4] FC Korosten after 21 games had a record of 8 wins, 2 draws and 11 losses scoring 24 goals and having 36 goals scored against them and were in 11th place in the standings.

Dnipro Cherkasy

Dnipro were expelled from the competition after the 28th round. The club failed to arrive for their 29th and 30th-round games.[2] Dnipro Cherkasy after 27 games had a record of 17 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses scoring 37 goals and having 14 scored against them and were in 3rd place in the standings.

Top goalscorers

Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
Pavlo Malyi	13	Nyva Ternopil
Kostiantyn Derevliov	13 (7)	Arsenal Bila Tserkva
Roman Pitsur	12	Arsenal Bila Tserkva
Serhiy Kushka	10 (3)	Nafkom Brovary
Maksym Ilyuk	7	Bukovyna Chernivtsi ^6
Dmytro Kozban	7	Knjazha-2 Schaslyve/Nafkom Brovary ^7
Mykola Tararov	7	Bastion Illichivsk
Vasyl Tovkatskyi	7	Nyva Ternopil/Arsenal Bila Tserkva ^8
Andriy Veretynskyi	7 (3)	Nyva Vinnytsia
Oleksiy Kolesnykov	7 (3)	Dynamo Khmelnytskyi

• ^6 Ilyuk signed with Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk (December 12, 2008)
• ^7 Kozban signed with Nafkom after Knjazha-2 withdrew from the competition and he was granted free agent status from the PFL
• ^8 Tovkatsky signed with Arsenal Bila Tserkva after the winter break

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Zirka Kirovohrad (C, P)	34	23	3	8	58	26	+32	72	Promoted to First League – Name Change[a]
2	FC Poltava	34	21	9	4	52	23	+29	72	Playoff game
3	Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	34	21	7	6	62	29	+33	70
4	Tytan Armyansk	34	19	7	8	55	31	+24	64
5	Shakhtar-3 Donetsk	34	17	7	10	66	44	+22	58
6	Olimpik Donetsk	34	16	9	9	55	32	+23	57
7	Olkom Melitopol	34	14	8	12	40	43	−3	50
8	Shakhtar Sverdlovsk	34	12	13	9	31	22	+9	46[b]
9	Tytan Donetsk	34	12	11	11	37	33	+4	44[b]	Withdrew
10	Illichivets-2 Mariupol	34	12	8	14	40	50	−10	44
11	Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih	34	15	5	14	46	56	−10	41[c][b]
12	Arsenal Kharkiv	34	11	10	13	36	47	−11	40[c]	Withdrew
13	Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk	34	9	8	17	28	45	−17	35
14	Kremin Kremenchuk	34	10	7	17	43	52	−9	34[d]
15	Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia	34	9	4	21	35	68	−33	31
16	Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk	34	8	6	20	28	56	−28	24[c]
17	FC Sumy	34	6	10	18	27	60	−33	22[c]	Name change[e]
18	PFC Sevastopol-2	34	2	4	28	17	39	−22	10	Withdrew

Source: ^[citation needed]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:

1. Prior to the start of the season FC Olimpik Kirovohrad changed back its name to Zirka, and Zirka that participated in amateur competitions became Olimpik.
2. FC Tytan Donetsk, FC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk, and FC Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih deducted three points on June 18, 2009.[9]
3. FC Arsenal Kharkiv, FC Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih, FC Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk, and FC Sumy were deducted three points for non-paying the participation fees; FC Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih, FC Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk, and FC Sumy were deducted additional three points for non-paying the participation fees for the second half of the season. The decision was officially declared by the Disciplinary Committee of PFL on May 28, 2009[10]
4. FC Kremin Kremenchuk deducted 3 points by the Ukrainian Football Federation March 26, 2008
5. FC Yavir Krasnopillya changed their name to FC Sumy on September 11, 2008

Withdrawn teams

PFC Sevastopol-2 Sevastopol

PFC Sevastopol-2 withdrew after the winter-break.[11] PFC Sevastopol-2 Sevastopol after 21 games had a record of 2 wins, 4 draws and 15 losses scoring 17 goals and having 39 goals scored against them and were in 17th place in the standings.

Arsenal Kharkiv

Arsenal withdrew after the season completed failing to receive a professional license.[8]

Tytan Donetsk

Tytan failed to pay license fees for the next season and subsequently the PFL withdrew their professional status in the league.[8]

Top goalscorers

Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
Ihor Bezdolnyi	22 (5)	Titan Armyansk
Denys Berezhnyi	17 (2)	Hirnyk/Stal^14
Ihor Melnyk	15 (2)	Illichivets-2 Mariupol^15
Vitaliy Ponomar	15 (2)	Shakhtar-3 Donetsk
Kostiantyn Dudchenko	12	Olkom Melitopol^15
Serhiy Yakovenko	12 (6)	Zirka Kirovohrad

• ^14 Berezhny signed with Stal' during the winter break
• ^15 Melnyk promoted to the main squad of FC Illichivets Mariupol after the winter break
• ^16 Dudchenko signed with Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv (January 9, 2009)

Playoff game

Due to FC Ihroservice Simferopol failing to pay their license dues for the 2009–10 Ukrainian First League season the PFL allowed an extra team to be promoted. The PFL determined that a playoff game between the 2nd placed teams Druha Liha – Arsenal Bila Tserkva and FC Poltava.[12]

Playoff game to determine promotion

July 12, 2009[12]

17:00 UTC+3

Arsenal Bila Tserkva	1 – 0	FC Poltava
Derevliov 60'	Report

Central Stadium, Cherkasy

Attendance: 300

Referee: Vitaliy Hodulian (Odesa)

Stadia

Rank	Stadium	Capacity	Club
1	CMS^17 Vinnytsia	25,000	FC Nyva Vinnytsia
2	Army Stadium (SKA)	23,040	FC Karpaty-2 Lviv
3	Stadion Avanhard[13]	20,000	FC Veres Rivne
4	Zirka Stadium	20,000	FC Zirka Kirovohrad
5	Bukovyna Stadium	17,000	FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi
6	Nyva Stadion	14,000	FC Nyva Vinnytsia
7	CMS Ternopil	12,750	FC Nyva Ternopil
8	Stadion CSK ZSU	12,000	CSCA Kyiv
9	Polytechnic Stadium	11,400	FC Kremin Kremenchuk
10	CMS Cherkasy	10,321	FC Dnipro Cherkasy
11	N.I. Horiushkin Memorial Stadium	10,000	FC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk
12	SC^18 Podillya	10,000	FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi
13	OOM^19 Stadion Spartak	6,800	FC Olkom Melitopol
14	SC^17 Sevastopol	6,000	PFC Sevastopol-2
15	Spartak-ZIGMU Stadium	6,000	FC Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia
16	Stadion Khimik	5,000	FC Titan Armyansk
17	Trudovi Rezervy (Labor Reserves)	5,000	FC Ros Bila Tserkva
18	Stadion Lokomotyv	5,000	FC Poltava
19	Stadion Kolos	3,000	FC Yavir Krasnopilya
20	Metalurh Stadium	2,900	FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk
21	Arsenal-Bavaria	2,300	FC Arsenal Kharkiv
22	CMS Mykolaiv	1,500	MFK Mykolaiv
23	Olimpik Stadium	1,000	FC Olimpik Donetsk
24	Yunist Stadium	?	FC Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk
25	Zapadnyi Stadium	?	FC Illichivets-2 Mariupol

Notes:

• ^17 CMS stands for Central Municipal Stadium, the name of a stadium that doesn't carry any official names, and followed by the city's name where the stadium is located. Usually such stadiums are the property of the city with a generic name "Tsentralnyi" (Central, in Ukrainian)
• ^18 SC stands for Sport Complex abbreviation
• ^19 OOM stands for Oleh Oleksenko Memorial

See also

• 2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League
• 2008–09 Ukrainian First League
• 2008–09 Ukrainian Cup

References

1. 2008-09 Competition regulations Archived 2009-03-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian)
2. (in Ukrainian) Professional Football League 2009 Official Meetings Minutes No. 14 (FC Dnipro Cherkasy expelled from PFL)^[permanent dead link]
3. "Professional Football League 2009 Official Meetings Minutes No. 3 (Renaming to Dynamo Khmelnytskyi)" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
4. "Professional Football League 2009 Official Meetings Minutes No. 8 (FC Korosten' expelled from PFL)" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
5. "FFU – Друга ліга втрачає "Десну-2"? (Second league losing Desna-2)" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
6. "Professional Football League – 2008-09 Official Meetings Minutes No. 26 (Desna-2 results annulled)" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
7. (in Ukrainian) Professional Football League 2009 Official Meetings Minutes No. 6 (Obolon-2 & Knyazha-2 withdraws)^[permanent dead link]
8. "Кількісний склад ПФЛ зменшився (Several clubs leave the PFL))" (in Ukrainian). PFL. 2009-07-08. Archived from the original on 2009-07-16. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
9. Супрун, Богдан (2009-06-20). "Вторая лига: еще с трех команд сняты очки (Second league: And again in 3 teams points deducted))" (in Russian). turnir.com.ua. Retrieved 2009-06-23.^[permanent dead link]
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11. (in Ukrainian) Professional Football League 2009 Official Meetings Minutes No. 5 (Sevastopol-2 withdraws) ^[permanent dead link]
12. ""Полтава" и белоцерковский "Арсенал" разыграют путевку в первую лигу ("Poltava" and "Arsenal" playoff to determine promotion to Persha Liha))" (in Russian). ua.football. 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
13. "World Stadiums - Stadiums in the Ukraine". Archived from the original on 2012-11-23. Retrieved 2008-07-08.