The 2002–03 Ukrainian Second League was the 12th 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 LUKOR Kalush, FC Nafkom-Academia Irpin and FC Zorya Luhansk.
Team changes Promoted The following team was promoted from the 2002 Ukrainian Football Amateur League: FC Systema KKhP Chernyakhiv – (debut) FC Shakhtar Luhansk – (debut) FC Yavir Krasnopilya – (debut, reinstated in 2000 in place of FC Yavir–Sumy)
The 2001 Ukrainian Football Amateur League participant: FC Vuhlyk Dymytrov – (debut)
Also, one more club was admitted additionally: PFC Sevastopol – (debut, last season Sevastopol was represented by FC Chayka-VMS Sevastopol)
Relegated FC Nyva Ternopil – (debut, previously (11 seasons ago) played in the 1991 Soviet Second League as Nyva Ternopil) FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol – (debut, previously (13 seasons ago) played in the 1989 Soviet Second League as Kolos Nikopol) FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk – (returning after an absence of 2 seasons)
Withdrew FC Dynamo Lviv FC SKA-Orbita Lviv FC Zakarpattia-2 Uzhhorod FC Cherkasy FC Portovyk Illichivsk FC Mashynobudivnyk Druzhkivka FC Stal-2 Alchevsk
Renamed FC Krystal Kherson changed its name to SC Kherson. FC Metalurh-2 Mariupol changed its name to FC Illichivets-2 Mariupol.
Changed groups FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv moved from B to A FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia moved from C to B
Group A Location map
Final standings
Top goalscorers
ScorerGoals (Pen.)Team1Serhiy Sernetskyi21Nyva Ternopil2Bohdan Pavliuk16Enerhetyk Burshtyn3Serhiy Ruzhytskyi11Podillya Khmelnytskyi Ihor Stasyuk11Podillya Khmelnytskyi5Denys Poida10LUKOR Kalush
Group B Location map
Final standings
Top goalscorers
ScorerGoals (Pen.)Team1Serhiy Levchenko30Naftovyk-Akademia Irpin2Oleksiy Hryshchenko15Dynamo Simferopol3Volodymyr Skrypka13Olimpiya AES Yuzhnoukrayinsk 4Serhiy Mamonov12Dynamo SimferopolYevhen Sopyanychenko12Krystal Kherson
Group C Location map
Final standings
Top goalscorers
ScorerGoals (Pen.)Team1Kostyantyn Bublyk13Yavir Krasnopillia2Kostyantyn Pinchuk12Shakhtar Luhansk3Ihor Lytvynov11Zorya Luhansk Dmytro Mashchenko11Zorya Luhansk5Vladyslav Havrylov10Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk
External links 2002-03 season by Oleksiy Kobyzev