2007–08 Ukrainian Second League

Ukrainian Second League
Season	2007–08
Champions	FC Knyazha Schaslyve FC Komunalnyk Luhansk
Relegated	5 withdrew
Top goalscorer	(20) - Andriy Budnyi (Obolon-2 Kyiv), Viktor Arefyev (Olimpik Donetsk), Yevhen Arbuzov (Titan Armyansk)
← 2006-07 2008-09 →

The 2007–2008 Ukrainian Second League is the 17th season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. The competitions are divided into two groups – A and B.

Group A

Team changes

Newly admitted

FC Arsenal Bila Tserkva – (debut)
FC Korosten – (debut)
FC Nyva-Svitanok Vinnytsia – (debut)
FC Podillya-Khmelnytskyi – (returning after an absence of four seasons)

Relegated from the First League

none (FC Krasyliv and FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk withdrew right before the start)

Location map

Enerhiya

Nyva-Svitanok

Podillya-Khmelnytskyi

Locations of team home grounds in Ukrainian Second League 2008–09 (Group A)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Comments
1	FC Knyazha Schaslyve	30	24	5	1	70	13	+57	77	Champions First League
2	FC Nyva Ternopil	30	18	10	2	52	15	+37	64
3	FC Podillya-Khmelnytskyi	30	17	7	6	47	28	+19	58	(+) new
4	FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi	30	17	6	7	43	25	+18	57
5	FC Obolon-2 Kyiv	30	15	6	9	50	36	+14	51
6	FC Yednist' Plysky	30	14	6	10	34	32	+2	48
7	FC Arsenal Bila Tserkva	30	13	7	10	28	31	−3	46	(+) new
8	FC Korosten Korosten	30	11	11	8	26	22	+4	44	(+) new
9	FC Nyva-Svitanok Vinnytsia	30	10	5	15	23	40	−17	35	(+) new
10	FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv	30	9	5	16	30	43	−13	32	Withdrew¹
11	FC Ros' Bila Tserkva	30	8	6	16	28	49	−21	30
12	FC Enerhiya Yuzhnoukrainsk	30	7	9	14	22	47	−25	30	Withdrew²
13	FC Nafkom Brovary	30	7	8	15	33	46	−13	29
14	FC Veres Rivne	30	7	8	15	25	44	−19	29
15	FC Karpaty-2 Lviv	30	7	3	20	33	53	−20	24
16	FC Naftovyk Dolyna	30	4	2	24	13	33	−20	14	Withdrew³

^1 FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv withdrew out of courtesy before the start of the next season to allow MFK Mykolaiv to enter the competition.
^2 FC Enerhiya Yuzhnoukrainsk withdrew from the PFL at the end of the season citing financial difficulties. However, the team indicated that they will return to the PFL in the 2009-10 season.^[1] They did not hold to their promise.
^3 FC Naftovyk Dolyna withdrew after the first half of the season. Technical victories were awarded to their opponents in the second half of the season.^[2]
^4 FC Podillya-Khmelnytskyi, FC Nyva-Svitanok Vinnytsia, FC Korosten and FC Arsenal Bila Tserkva enter the competition.

Top goalscorers

Scorer	Goals	Team
Andriy Budnyi	20 (2)	FC Obolon-2 Kyiv
Oleksandr Mandzyuk	15 (2)	FC Kniazha Schaslyve
Maksym Ilyuk	11	FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi
Serhiy Makoviychuk	11	FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi
Oleksandr Kurnevych	11	FC Kniazha Schaslyve

Group B

Team changes

Newly admitted

FC Komunalnyk Luhansk – (debut)
FC Olimpik Kirovohrad – (debut)
FC Poltava – (debut)
FC Tytan Donetsk – (debut)
FC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk – (returning after an absence of 12 seasons)

Relegated from the First League

none

Location map

Tytan A

Kremin

Poltava

Olimpik D
Shakhtar-3
Tytan D

Locations of team home grounds in Ukrainian Second League 2008–09 (Group B)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Comments
1	Komunalnyk Luhansk	34	22	7	5	56	26	+30	73	(+) new – Champions First League
2	Tytan Armyansk	34	22	5	7	74	39	+35	71
3	Arsenal Kharkiv	34	21	8	5	62	20	+42	71
4	Khimik Krasnoperekopsk	34	21	6	7	54	28	+26	69	Withdrew⁵
5	Shakhtar Sverdlovsk	34	20	6	8	46	27	+19	66	(+) new
6	Olimpik Donetsk	34	19	6	9	66	41	+25	63
7	Shakhtar-3 Donetsk	34	15	8	11	57	50	+7	53
8	Kremin Kremenchuk	34	14	8	12	49	46	+3	50
9	Olkom Melitopol	34	14	7	13	38	34	+4	49
10	Illichivets-2 Mariupol	34	12	8	14	43	62	−19	44
11	FC Poltava	34	11	10	13	36	51	−15	43	(+) new
12	Tytan Donetsk	34	11	7	16	44	52	−8	39	(+) new
13	Yavir Krasnopillya	34	10	7	17	36	62	−26	37
14	Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih	34	9	10	15	43	51	−8	37
15	Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk	34	9	7	18	38	59	−21	34
16	Olimpik Kirovohrad	34	7	4	23	34	68	−34	25	(+) new
17	Metalurh-2 Zaporizhya	34	6	7	21	33	66	−33	25
18	Hazovyk-KhGV Kharkiv	34	1	3	30	14	41	−27	6	Withdrew⁶

|} Updated to games played on June 30, 2008.
Source: Professional Football League of Ukraine, Second League Group B
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored

^5 FC Khimik Krasnoperekopsk did not submit a license for the next season and withdrew from the PFL.
^6 FC Hazovyk-KhGV Kharkiv withdrew after the first half of the season. Technical victories were awarded to their opponents in the second half of the season.^[3]
^7 FC Olimpik Kirovohrad, FC Poltava, FC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk, FC Komunalnyk Luhansk and FC Titan Donetsk enter the competition.

Top goalscorers

Scorer	Goals	Team
Viktor Arefyev	20 (3)	FC Olimpik Donetsk
Yevhen Arbuzov	20 (4)	FC Titan Armyansk
Yuriy Kudinov	20 (7)	FC Komunalnyk Luhansk

Results

Matches with Hazovyk shown in gray count as a win for the opposing team.

Home ╲ Away	Arsenal Kharkiv !ARK	Hazovyk !HAZ	Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih !HIR	Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk !HIS	Illichivets-2 Mariupol !IL2	Khimik !KHI	Komunalnyk Luhansk !KOM	Kremin Kremenchuk !KRE	Metalurh-2 Zaporizhya !ME2	Olimpik Donetsk !OLD	Olimpik Kirovohrad !OLK	Olkom Melitopol !OLM	FC Poltava !POL	Shakhtar-3 Donetsk !SH3	Shakhtar Sverdlovsk !SHS	Tytan Armyansk !TYA	Titan Donetsk !TID	FC Sumy !SUM
Arsenal Kharkiv !Arsenal Kharkiv		3–0	0–0	3–0	4–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–1	0–1	1–1	4–0	3–0	3–0	2–1	5–1
Hazovyk !Hazovyk	0–2		1–2	1–3	3–0					2–2	0–2	0–1			0–2		0–0	1–3
Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih !Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih	0–1			3–0	3–0	0–1	1–2	1–2	3–2	0–2	6–0	0–2	1–1	3–3	2–2	0–1	2–2	0–0
Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk !Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk	1–1		2–1		4–0	0–2	2–2	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–3	2–0
Illichivets-2 Mariupol !Illichivets-2 Mariupol	0–0		2–3	4–3		1–3	0–5	2–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–3	1–1	0–0	2–3	3–2	2–1
Khimik !Khimik	2–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	1–1		0–0	0–1	4–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–0
Komunalnyk Luhansk !Komunalnyk Luhansk	1–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	3–1	1–0		2–1	1–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	4–0
Kremin Kremenchuk !Kremin Kremenchuk	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–4	1–0		3–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	4–1	1–3	0–0	2–2	0–1	2–3
Metalurh-2 Zaporizhya !Metalurh-2 Zaporizhya	0–3	4–0	3–1	4–1	1–4	0–1	1–2	0–4		1–3	0–0	0–2	0–1	0–2	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–2
Olimpik Donetsk !Olimpik Donetsk	2–0		5–1	5–1	3–1	0–1	1–3	2–0	3–2		3–1	1–0	6–0	3–2	1–1	3–4	3–0	3–0
Olimpik Kirovohrad !Olimpik Kirovohrad	0–2		2–2	2–2	0–1	2–3	0–1	2–4	3–1	1–1		0–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–2	2–2
Olkom Melitopol !Olkom Melitopol	1–1		1–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–3	1–0		2–0	4–1	1–2	1–4	1–0	3–0
FC Poltava !FC Poltava	0–4	1–0	0–0	0–4	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	3–3	4–1	4–2	1–1		1–2	1–0	1–2	2–2	3–2
Shakhtar-3 Donetsk !Shakhtar-3 Donetsk	0–3	2–2	4–1	1–1	0–1	2–3	2–1	4–1	4–1	1–2	0–0	4–2	1–1		0–1	3–0	2–2	2–2
Shakhtar Sverdlovsk !Shakhtar Sverdlovsk	2–0		1–0	1–0	2–3	1–1	3–0	3–2	4–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–1		2–1	2–0	4–2
Tytan Armyansk !Tytan Armyansk	0–1	3–2	4–1	4–0	4–0	2–1	2–2	4–0	4–0	2–0	4–0	3–1	2–0	0–2	1–0		3–2	4–0
Titan Donetsk !Titan Donetsk	1–2	4–1	2–0	3–2	1–2	3–1	1–3	1–4	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–3		2–1
FC Sumy !FC Sumy	0–2		0–2	0–2	0–0	0–2	2–4	2–0	0–0	2–2	1–3	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	3–1

Updated to games played on June 30, 2008.
Source: Second League Group B
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Stadia

Rank	Stadium	Capacity	Club
1	CMS Vinnytsia	25,000	FC Nyva Vinnytsia
2	Army Stadium Lviv (SKA)	23,040	FC Karpaty-2 Lviv
3	Stadion Avanhard^[4]	20,000	FC Veres Rivne
4	CMS Termopil	18,500	FC Nyva Ternopil
5	Stadion Bukovyna	17,000	FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi
6	Politechnik	11,400	FC Kremin Kremenchuk
7	Stadion Khimik	5,000	FC Titan Armyansk
8	Stadion Lokomotyv	5,000	FC Poltava
9	Dynamo's auxiliary field Koncha Zaspa	3,000	FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv
10	Stadion Kolos	3,000	FC Yavir Krasnopilya
11	OOM Stadion Spartak	?	FC Olkom Melitopol

Notes:

CMS stands for Central Municipal Stadium, the name of each stadium that doesn't carry any official names, and is 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).
OOM stands for Oleh Oleksenko Memorial

References

↑ (Ukrainian) PFL meeting minutes explaining Enerhiya's predicament.
↑ (Ukrainian)Report that includes the withdrawal of Naftovyk Dolyna
↑ (Ukrainian)Report that includes the withdrawal of Hazovyk-KhGV Kharkiv
↑ World Stadiums - Stadiums in the Ukraine

Ukrainian Second League seasons

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Football in Ukraine

Governing bodies

Football Federation of Ukraine
- Ukrainian SSR
Ukrainian Premier League
Professional Football League
National Youth Football League
Ukrainian Football Amateur Association
Regional football federations
FFU Committee of Referees
Ukrainian Football Association of Students
Football Association of Handicapped
Association of Football Veterans
Trade Union of Footballers

National teams

Men	National team U-21 U-19 U-18 U-17 U-16 Beach soccer team Futsal team

Women	National team

League system

Men	Premier League First League Second League Third League (defunct) Amateur League Regional championships Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (defunct)

Women	Ukrainian Women's League

Youth	UPL (U-21 & U-19) Ukrainian Youth Football League (U-17, U-16, U-15, U-14) Ukrainian Students' League (Universities) Leather Ball Club (U-13, U-12, U-11)

Domestic cups

Men	Ukrainian Cup Ukrainian Super Cup Ukrainian Amateur Cup FFU Regions Cup Ukrainian Second League Cup (defunct) Ukrainian League Cup (defunct) Cup of Ukrainian PFL (defunct) Cup of the Ukrainian SSR (defunct)

Women	Women's Cup

International	Valeriy Lobanovskyi Memorial Tournament Viktor Bannikov Memorial Tournament

Awards

Lists

2007–08 Ukrainian Second League

Group A

Team changes

Newly admitted

Relegated from the First League

Location map

Standings

Top goalscorers

Group B

Team changes

Newly admitted

Relegated from the First League

Location map

Standings

Top goalscorers

Results

Stadia

See also

References