The 2010–11 Ukrainian Second League was the 20th 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 and northern Ukraine and B is eastern and southern Ukraine.
The first game of the season was played on July 23, 2010 in Group A between Chornomorets-2 Odesa and Desna Chernihiv.
The competition had a winter break and resumed April 9, 2011 with a rescheduled match in Group B that was moved forward from its originally scheduled date of April 22, 2011.
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 2010 Ukrainian Football Amateur League: Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka – first group stage participant (debut)
Also, two reserve teams were admitted: Chornomorets-2 Odesa – reviving (returning after an absence of six seasons) Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk – reviving (returning after an absence of six seasons) Last season FC Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk was expelled from the league
Also, two teams were re-admitted: FC Sumy (readmitted) Desna Chernihiv (readmitted)
Relegated teams The following teams were relegated from the 2009–10 Ukrainian First League: Desna Chernihiv – (returning after an absence of four seasons) Nyva Ternopil – (returning after an absence of a season) Notes
Location map
Group A
Expelled teams
Veres Rivne
On April 29, 2011, after trying to find financial solvency Veres Rivne were unable to find a financial sponsor, the PFL had no alternative but to expel the club from the PFL. The club was in 12th place and had lost all of their 15 games, including a technical 3–0 loss during the season. All of their spring fixtures were considered technical losses.
Renamed Teams
Skala Stryi
After playing their home games the first half of the season in Stryi, prior to the start of the spring season Skala Morshyn changed their name to Skala Stryi.
Results
Top goalscorers
ScorerGoals (Pen.)Team1 Said BelmokhtarBastion Illichivsk/FC Sumy Oleksandr KozhemyachenkoDesna Chernihiv3 Yevhen FalkovskyiEnerhiya Nova Kakhovka Bohdan PolyakhovBastion Illichivsk Andriy MarushchukYednist Plysky
Group B
Withdrawn teams
Olkom Melitopol
On 7 February Olkom Melitopol informed the PFL that they ceased their operations and withdrew from the League during the mid-winter break (after Round 13). All of their spring fixtures are considered technical losses. The club played fourteen games in the League and had a record of 5 wins, 2 draws and 7 losses with 21 goals scored and 22 allowed.
Results
Top goalscorers
ScorerGoals (Pen.)Team1 Vadym ShavrinOlimpik Donetsk2 Serhiy StepanchukKremin Kremenchuk3 Anatoliy PashkovskyiHirnyk Kryvyi Rih Kostyantyn MarchenkoFC Poltava 5 Yevheniy KonkovMetalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia Dmytro HunchenkoIllichivets-2 Mariupol
Promotion play-off
A playoff between the two second placed teams was played with the winner participating in another playoff game between the 16th placed team of the First League for a place in the 2011–12 Ukrainian First League competition.
First game
Second game
Stadia Rank Stadium Capacity Club 1Shakhtar Stadium31,718Shakhtar-3 Donetsk2RSC Olimpiyskiy26,100Shakhtar Sverdlovsk3Yuvileiny Stadium25,800Sumy4Meteor Stadium24,381Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk5Stadion Trudovi Rezervy13,500FC Ros Bila Tserkva6Gagarin Stadium12,060Desna Chernihiv7City Stadium11,700Nyva Ternopil8Polytechnic Stadium11,300FC Kremin Kremenchuk9Horiushkin Memorial Stadium10,000FC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk10SC Podillya8,000FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi11Enerhiya Stadium6,000Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka12Sokil Stadium6,000Morshyn Stryi13Naftovyk Stadium5,265Sumy14Yunist Stadium5,000FC Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk15Stadion Avanhard4,500Avanhard is under reconstruction, capacity is reduced (20,000)FC Veres Rivne16Spartak Stadium (Odesa)4,000Chornomorets-2 Odesa17Zakhidnyi Stadium3,206FC Illichivets-2 Mariupol18Central Stadium (Makariv)3,100FC Ros Bila Tserkva19Metalurh Stadium2,900FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk20Zhovtneva Mine Stadium2,500Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih21Stadion Lokomotyv2,500FC Poltava22Oleksiyenko Spartak Stadium2,000FC Olkom Melitopol23Tytan Stadium2,000FC Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia24Azovets Stadium1,600Illichivets-2 Mariupol25Kirsha Training Center1,500Shakhtar-3 Donetsk26School Stadium1,500Bastion Illichivsk27Yednist Stadium1,500Yednist Plysky28CMS Mykolaiv1,500MFK Mykolaiv29SC Kremin1,500FC Kremin Kremenchuk30Yednist Stadium1,050FC Yednist' Plysky31Olimpik Stadium680FC Olimpik Donetsk32SC Lustdorf500Chornomorets-2 Odesa
See also 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League 2010–11 Ukrainian First League 2010–11 Ukrainian Cup
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