The 2001–02 Ukrainian Second League was the 11th season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine.
The competitions were divided into three groups according to geographical location in the country – A is western Ukraine, B is southern Ukraine and Crimea, and C is eastern Ukraine.
The groups were won respectively by FC Krasyliv, FC Systema-Boreks Borodianka and FC Sumy.
Team changes Promoted The following team was promoted from the 2001 Ukrainian Football Amateur League: FC Kovel-Volyn-2 – (debut) FC SKA-Orbita Lviv – (debut) FC Dnister Ovidiopol – (debut) FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk – (debut, previously (16 seasons ago) played in the 1985 Soviet Second League as Metalurh Dniprodzerzhynsk)
The 2000 Ukrainian Football Amateur League participant: FC Akademiya Irpin – (debut)
Also, eight more club was admitted additionally: FC Zakarpattia-2 Uzhhorod – (debut) FC Borysfen-2 Boryspil – (debut) FC Metalurh-2 Donetsk – (debut) FC Obolon-2 Kyiv – (returning after absence of a season) FC Chornohora Ivano-Frankivsk– (debut, replacing relegated FC Prykarpattia-2 Ivano-Frankivsk) FC Chaika-VMS Sevastopol – (returning after an absence of 6 seasons) FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia – (debut, previously (10 seasons ago) played in the 1991 Soviet Second League as Torpedo Zaporizhzhia) FC Dynamo Simferopol – (debut)
Relegated FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi – (returning after an absence of a season) FC Cherkasy – (returning after an absence of 8 seasons, previously as Dnipro Cherkasy) FC Spartak Sumy – (returning after an absence of 7 seasons, previously as Yavir Krasnopillia)
Withdrawn FC Adoms Kremenchuk, withdrew before the season FC Ternopil, being a farm team of FC Nyva Ternopil, it is forced relegation as Nyva was relegated to the league for the next season FC Dnipro-3 Dnipropetrovsk was forced into relegation due to relegation of FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk FC Chaika-VMS Sevastopol, was replaced for the next season with FC Sevastopol FC Frunzenets-Liha-99 Sumy was merged with FC Sumy FC Tsementnyk-Khorda Mykolaiv withdrew during winter break FC Dynamo Lviv, withdrew after the season FC SKA-Orbita Lviv, withdrew after the season FC Zakarpattia-2 Uzhhorod, withdrew after the season FC Portovyk Illichivsk, withdrew after the season FC Cherkasy, withdrew after the season FC Mashynobudivnyk Druzhkivka, withdrew after the season FC Oskil Kupyansk, withdrew after the relegation
Renamed / Relocated FC Kalush changed its name to FC Lukor Kalush FC Kovel-Volyn changed its name to FC Kovel-Volyn-2 FC Akademiya Irpin changed its name to FC Nafkom-Akademiya Irpin FC Ternopil-Nyva-2 changed its name to FC Ternopil FC Rihonda Bila Tserkva changed its name to FC Ros Bila Tserkva FC Spartak Sumy changed its name to FC Sumy FC Karpaty-2 changed its name to FC Karpaty-3 Lviv FC Lviv (1992) in the First League after merger changed to Karpaty-2 FC Hazovyk Komarno moved to Stryi and changed its name to FC Hazovyk-Skala Stryi
Group A
Location map
Final standings
Top goalscorers
ScorerGoals (Pen.)Team1Volodymyr Kryzhanivsky27LUKOR Kalush2Oleksiy Sendel23Krasyliv3Yuriy Sulymenko19Bukovyna Chernivtsi Serhiy Babiychuk19Podillya Khmelnytskyi5Oleh Teplyi15Sokil Zolochiv
Group B Location map
Final standings
Top goalscorers
ScorerGoals (Pen.)Team1Oleksandr Antonenko17Systema-Boreks Borodianka2Oleksandr Kapusta16Olkom MelitopolSerhiy Mamonov16Dynamo Simferopol 4Stanislav Popov15Dynamo-3 KyivOleksandr Sydorenko15Systema-Boreks Borodianka
Group C Location map
Final standings
Top goalscorers
ScorerGoals (Pen.)Team1Oleksiy Yakymenko17Frunzenets Sumy2Oleksandr Kozhemyachenko15Desna Chernihiv3Gela Gabisonia14Sumy Rais Terkulov14Mashynobudivnyk Druzhkivka5Agboh Patrick Umomo12Metalurh-2 Donetsk
External links 2001-02 season by Oleksiy Kobyzev