# 2002–03 Ukrainian Second League

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
### Final standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | LUKOR Kalush (C) | 28 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 56 | 25 | +31 | 65 | |
| 2 | Enerhetyk Burshtyn | 28 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 44 | 23 | +21 | 59 | |
| 3 | Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 28 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 45 | 16 | +29 | 58 | |
| 4 | Naftovyk Dolyna | 28 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 35 | 16 | +19 | 54 | |
| 5 | Dynamo-3 Kyiv | 28 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 30 | 22 | +8 | 50 | |
| 6 | Kovel-Volyn-2 Kovel (W) | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 29 | 31 | −2 | 39 | Withdrew |
| 7 | Veres Rivne | 28 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 28 | 39 | −11 | 36 | |
| 8 | Nyva Ternopil | 28 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 29 | 36 | −7 | 35 | |
| 9 | Hazovyk-Skala Stryi | 28 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 23 | −8 | 33 | |
| 10 | Karpaty-3 Lviv | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 33 | −9 | 32 | |
| 11 | Tekhno-Centre Rohatyn | 28 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 35 | −12 | 28 | |
| 12 | Systema-KKhP Cherniakhiv (W) | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 34 | −10 | 27 | Withdrew |
| 13 | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 28 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 39 | −19 | 24 | |
| 14 | Chornohora Ivano-Frankivsk | 28 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 19 | 32 | −13 | 23 | |
| 15 | Halychyna Drohobych (R) | 28 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 22 | 39 | −17 | 22 | Relegated |

### Top goalscorers

| | Scorer | Goals (Pen.) | Team |
| 1 | Serhiy Sernetskyi | 21 | Nyva Ternopil |
| 2 | Bohdan Pavliuk | 16 | Enerhetyk Burshtyn |
| 3 | Serhiy Ruzhytskyi | 11 | Podillya Khmelnytskyi |
| 3 | Ihor Stasyuk | 11 | Podillya Khmelnytskyi |
| 5 | Denys Poida | 10 | LUKOR Kalush |

## Group B
### Final standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Nafkom-Academia Irpin (C, P) | 30 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 69 | 20 | +49 | 67 | Promoted |
| 2 | Dynamo Simferopol | 30 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 53 | 27 | +26 | 61 | |
| 3 | Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol | 30 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 37 | 20 | +17 | 61 | |
| 4 | Olkom Melitopol | 30 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 45 | 27 | +18 | 59 | |
| 5 | Dnister Ovidiopol | 30 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 27 | 23 | +4 | 47 | |
| 6 | Chornomorets-2 Odesa | 30 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 42 | 25 | +17 | 46 | |
| 7 | Krystal Kherson | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 35 | 38 | −3 | 42 | |
| 8 | Olimpia AES Yuzhnoukrainsk | 30 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 41 | 41 | 0 | 40 | |
| 9 | Sevastopol | 30 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 31 | 36 | −5 | 40 | |
| 10 | Ros Bila Tserkva | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 24 | 32 | −8 | 39 | |
| 11 | Obolon-2 Kyiv | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 41 | 45 | −4 | 37 | |
| 12 | Tytan Armyansk | 30 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 30 | 48 | −18 | 29 | |
| 13 | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 33 | 44 | −11 | 29 | |
| 14 | Borysfen-2 Boryspil | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 23 | 51 | −28 | 28 | |
| 15 | Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk | 30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 27 | 48 | −21 | 27 | |
| 16 | Torpedo Zaporizhzhia (R) | 30 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 19 | 52 | −33 | 19 | Relegated |

### Top goalscorers

| | Scorer | Goals (Pen.) | Team |
| 1 | Serhiy Levchenko | 30 | Naftovyk-Akademia Irpin |
| 2 | Oleksiy Hryshchenko | 15 | Dynamo Simferopol |
| 3 | Volodymyr Skrypka | 13 | Olimpiya AES Yuzhnoukrayinsk |
| 4 | Serhiy Mamonov | 12 | Dynamo Simferopol |
| 4 | Yevhen Sopyanychenko | 12 | Krystal Kherson |

## Group C
### Final standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Zorya Luhansk (C, P) | 28 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 62 | 17 | +45 | 71 | Promoted |
| 2 | Shakhtar Luhansk (W) | 28 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 49 | 15 | +34 | 65 | Withdrew |
| 3 | Desna Chernihiv | 28 | 19 | 1 | 8 | 36 | 25 | +11 | 58 | |
| 4 | Shakhtar-3 Donetsk | 28 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 37 | 20 | +17 | 57 | |
| 5 | Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk | 28 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 35 | 22 | +13 | 52 | |
| 6 | Metalurh-2 Donetsk | 28 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 37 | 38 | −1 | 43 | |
| 7 | Metalist-2 Kharkiv | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 32 | 24 | +8 | 37 | |
| 8 | Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk | 28 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 28 | 34 | −6 | 34 | |
| 9 | Avanhard Rovenky | 28 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 26 | 39 | −13 | 32 | |
| 10 | Yavir Krasnopillia | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 27 | 41 | −14 | 32 | |
| 11 | Illichivets-2 Mariupol | 28 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 24 | 42 | −18 | 30 | |
| 12 | Vorskla-2 Poltava | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 30 | 44 | −14 | 27 | |
| 13 | Elektron Romny | 28 | 7 | 2 | 19 | 17 | 41 | −24 | 23 | |
| 14 | Vuhlyk Dymytrov | 28 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 12 | 37 | −25 | 23 | |
| 15 | Stal-2 Alchevsk (R, W) | 28 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 9 | 22 | −13 | 11 | Relegated |

### Top goalscorers

| | Scorer | Goals (Pen.) | Team |
| 1 | Kostyantyn Bublyk | 13 | Yavir Krasnopillia |
| 2 | Kostyantyn Pinchuk | 12 | Shakhtar Luhansk |
| 3 | Ihor Lytvynov | 11 | Zorya Luhansk |
| 3 | Dmytro Mashchenko | 11 | Zorya Luhansk |
| 5 | Vladyslav Havrylov | 10 | Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk |
* Druha Liha 2002-03 winners
* FC LUKOR Kalush 1st title
* Druha Liha 2002-03 winners
* Nafkom-Academia Irpin 1st title
* Druha Liha 2002-03 winners
* Zorya Luhansk 1st title