The 2009–10 Ukrainian Second League was the 19th season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. The competitions were divided into two groups according to geographical location in the country – A is western Ukraine and B is eastern Ukraine. Due to the 2009 flu pandemic which affected Ukraine in late October the PFL decide to break for winter earlier than they originally scheduled. The second half of the season began March 14, 2009.
Competition information Note: Relegation from the League is not covered by the current regulations
The placing of teams in the table is done in the following order: number of accumulated points 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 team was promoted from the 2009 Ukrainian Football Amateur League: FC Morshyn – first group stage participant (debut)
Also, one reserve team was admitted: FC Lviv-2 – (debut)
Relegated teams No teams were relegated from the 2008–09 Ukrainian First League due to team withdrawal.
Location map
Competitions Group A
Withdrawn teams
CSCA Kyiv
CSCA Kyiv ceased its operation and withdrew from the League after the 5th Round on September 4, 2009 due to financial hardship. All of their results were annulled. They played three games in the League and had a record of 1 win and 2 losses with 6 goals scored and 6 allowed. The club was also docked 3 points by the PFL on August 27, 2009 due to failure of payment of league dues.
Top goalscorers
ScorerGoals (Pen.)Team Vladyslav KorobkinBukovyna Chernivtsi Oleksandr NechyporukBastion Illichivsk Serhiy DitkovskyDynamo Khmelnytskyi Yevhen SantrapinskykhBastion Illichivsk Oleksiy KolesnykovDynamo Khmelnytskyi
Group B
Expelled teams
Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk was expelled from the League just prior to the 16th Round on March 18, 2010 due to the inability to pay the spring season dues. All of their spring fixtures are considered technical losses. The club played fifteen games in the League and had a record of 4 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses with 19 goals scored and 21 allowed. Stanislav Kulish was the top scorer with 6 goals of which 3 were scored from the penalty spot.
Top goalscorers
ScorerGoals (Pen.)Team Vasyl KlimovKremin Kremenchuk Kostyantyn VizyonokTytan Armyansk Vadym ShavrinOlimpik Donetsk Dmytro KryviyStal Dniprodzerzhynsk Serhiy SavchenkoOlkom Melitopol/FC Sumy
Playoff game At the meeting of the Professional Football League of Ukraine after the season, it was confirmed that Ukrainian First League team FC Desna Chernihiv failed attestation and hence would have their license withdrawn. To allow an extra team to be promoted, the PFL determined that a playoff game between the 2nd placed teams from Druha Liha – Kremin Kremenchuk and Nyva Vinnytsia would determine the vacancy created. This playoff game was played June 28, 2010.
Stadia Rank Stadium Capacity Club 1Shakhtar Stadium31,718Shakhtar-3 Donetsk2Yuvileyny Stadium25,800Sumy3Meteor Stadium24,361Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk4CMS Vinnytsia24,000FC Nyva Vinnytsia5Army Stadium (SKA)16,724FC Karpaty-2 Lviv6Stadion Trudovi Rezervy13,500FC Ros Bila Tserkva7Bukovyna Stadium12,000FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi8Polytechnic Stadium11,300FC Kremin Kremenchuk9Horiushkin Memorial Stadium10,000FC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk10SC Podillia8,000FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi11Sokil Stadium6,000Morshyn Stryi12Stadion Khimik5,000FC Titan Armyansk13Spartak Stadium (Nizhyn)5,000Yednist Plysky14Stadion Avanhard4,500Avanhard is under reconstruction (20,000)FC Veres Rivne15SC Khimik3,600FC Nyva Vinnytsia16Zakhidnyi Stadium3,206FC Illichivets-2 Mariupol17Central Stadium (Makariv)3,100Ros Bila Tserkva18Metalurh Stadium2,900FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk19Dynamo Training Center2,700CSCA Kyiv20Nad Buhom Stadium2,660Lviv-2 Kamyanka-Buzka21Stadion Lokomotyv2,500FC Poltava22Zhovtneva Mine Stadium2,500Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih23Yunist Stadium2,500FC Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk24Obukhiv Raion Stadium2,064Yednist / Ros25Oleksenko Spartak Stadium2,000FC Olkom Melitopol26Tytan Stadium2,000FC Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia27Azovets Stadium1,660FC Illichivets-2 Mariupol28CMS Mykolaiv1,500CMS under reconstruction (16,700)MFK Mykolaiv29Suputnyk Stadium1,500Yednist Plysky30School Stadium1,500Bastion Illichivsk31Kirsha Training Center1,500Shakhtar-3 Donetsk32Yednist Stadium1,050FC Yednist' Plysky33SC Olimpik680FC Olimpik Donetsk34Metalist Academy Stadium400FC Kremin Kremenchuk35Metalurh Training Center?FC Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia36Budivelnyk Stadium?Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih
Notes: 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) Yednist Plysky also played at SKOR Stadium in Obukhiv, Kyiv Oblast (province) and Spartak Stadium in Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast.
See also 2009–10 Ukrainian Premier League 2009–10 Ukrainian First League 2009–10 League Cup (Ukraine)
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