# 2008 Russian Second Division

The 2008 Russian Second Division was the third strongest Division in Russian football. The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zones. The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the First Division. The bottom finishers of each zone lose professional status and are relegated into the Amateur Football League.

## South

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Volgar-Gazprom-2 Astrakhan (C, P) | 34 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 72 | 17 | +55 | 83 | Promotion to First Division |
| 2 | Bataysk-2007 | 34 | 24 | 4 | 6 | 73 | 31 | +42 | 76 | |
| 3 | Krasnodar (P) | 34 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 60 | 23 | +37 | 72 | Promotion to First Division |
| 4 | Olimpia Volgograd | 34 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 71 | 31 | +40 | 71 | |
| 5 | Dynamo Stavropol | 34 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 55 | 47 | +8 | 59 | |
| 6 | Zhemchuzhina-Sochi | 34 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 48 | 30 | +18 | 54 | |
| 7 | Dagdizel Kaspiysk | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 35 | 45 | −10 | 46 | |
| 8 | Kavkaztransgaz-2005 Ryzdvyany | 34 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 38 | 41 | −3 | 44 | |
| 9 | Energiya Volzhsky | 34 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 44 | 48 | −4 | 42 | |
| 10 | Druzhba Maykop | 34 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 39 | 57 | −18 | 42 | |
| 11 | Nika Krasny Sulin | 34 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 35 | 60 | −25 | 36 | |
| 12 | Taganrog | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 34 | 42 | −8 | 36 | |
| 13 | Rotor Volgograd | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 40 | 62 | −22 | 35 | |
| 14 | Sudostroitel Astrakhan | 34 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 31 | 56 | −25 | 33 | |
| 15 | Krasnodar-2000 | 34 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 35 | 53 | −18 | 33 | |
| 16 | Sochi-04 | 34 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 27 | 55 | −28 | 32 | |
| 17 | Spartak-UGP Anapa | 34 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 29 | 50 | −21 | 30 | |
| 18 | Avtodor Vladikavkaz | 34 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 39 | 57 | −18 | 30 | |

### Top scorers
#### 27 goals

* Mikhail Markosov (FC Dynamo Stavropol)

#### 17 goals

* Dmitry Mezinov (FC Bataysk-2007)
* Vladimir Serov (FC Rotor Volgograd)
* Artur Yelbayev (FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz)

#### 16 goals

* Ivan Gerasimov (FC Olimpia Volgograd)

#### 15 goals

* Dmitri Pinchuk (FC Olimpia Volgograd / FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi)

#### 14 goals

* Yevgeni Losev (FC Volgar-Gazprom-2 Astrakhan)

#### 12 goals

* Nizar Al-Taravna (FC Bataysk-2007)
* Denis Dorozhkin (FC Krasnodar)
* Dmitri Kovalenko (FC Olimpia Volgograd)

## West

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | MVD Rossii Moscow (C, P) | 36 | 25 | 4 | 7 | 70 | 36 | +34 | 79 | Promotion to First Division |
| 2 | Torpedo Vladimir | 36 | 24 | 7 | 5 | 54 | 14 | +40 | 79 | |
| 3 | Sheksna Cherepovets | 36 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 46 | 26 | +20 | 68 | |
| 4 | Spartak Kostroma | 36 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 65 | 29 | +36 | 66 | |
| 5 | Volga Tver | 36 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 46 | 32 | +14 | 56 | |
| 6 | Sever Murmansk | 36 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 49 | 45 | +4 | 56 | |
| 7 | Dynamo St. Petersburg | 36 | 15 | 8 | 13 | 55 | 45 | +10 | 53 | |
| 8 | Dmitrov | 36 | 14 | 7 | 15 | 40 | 42 | −2 | 49 | |
| 9 | Reutov | 36 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 39 | 47 | −8 | 48 | |
| 10 | Pskov-747 Pskov | 36 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 32 | 33 | −1 | 47 | |
| 11 | Spartak Shchyolkovo | 36 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 46 | |
| 12 | Zelenograd | 36 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 47 | 51 | −4 | 44 | |
| 13 | Volochanin-Ratmir Vyshny Volochyok | 36 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 32 | 46 | −14 | 40 | |
| 14 | Torpedo-RG Moscow | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 41 | 47 | −6 | 39 | |
| 15 | Istra | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 37 | 60 | −23 | 39 | |
| 16 | Dynamo Vologda | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 42 | 58 | −16 | 39 | |
| 17 | Nara-ShBFR Naro-Fominsk | 36 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 36 | 59 | −23 | 36 | |
| 18 | Tekstilshchik Ivanovo | 36 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 35 | 58 | −23 | 34 | |
| 19 | Zenit-2 St. Petersburg (R) | 36 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 38 | 76 | −38 | 24 | Relegation to Amateur Football League |

### Top scorers
#### 18 goals

* Aleksei Baranov (FC Torpedo-RG Moscow / FC MVD Rossii Moscow)

#### 17 goals

* Ramaz Dzhabnidze (FC Dmitrov / FC Zelenograd)

#### 16 goals

* Andrei Opanasyuk (FC Spartak Kostroma)

#### 15 goals

* Yuri Kapusta (FC Nara-ShBFR Naro-Fominsk)
* Vadim Klass (FC Sever Murmansk)

#### 13 goals

* Grigory Gnedov (FC Spartak Kostroma)

#### 12 goals

* Dmitri Vyazmikin (FC Torpedo Vladimir)

#### 10 goals

* Andrei Bubchikov (FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo)
* Andrei Dyomkin (FC Sheksna Cherepovets / FC MVD Rossii Moscow)
* Kirill Makarov (FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg)
* Andrei Smirnov (FC Torpedo Vladimir)
* Ivan Stolbovoy (FC Volga Tver)
* Ruslan Usikov (FC Dynamo St. Petersburg / FC MVD Rossii Moscow)
* Aleksei Zhelatin (FC Pskov-747)

## Center

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Metallurg Lipetsk (C, P) | 34 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 58 | 16 | +42 | 76 | Promotion to First Division |
| 2 | Avangard Kursk | 34 | 23 | 6 | 5 | 48 | 18 | +30 | 75 | |
| 3 | Lukhovitsy | 34 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 52 | 29 | +23 | 67 | |
| 4 | Gubkin | 34 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 62 | 28 | +34 | 67 | |
| 5 | Zvezda Serpukhov | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 64 | 32 | +32 | 65 | |
| 6 | Dynamo-Voronezh | 34 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 53 | 29 | +24 | 62 | |
| 7 | Mordovia Saransk | 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 46 | 38 | +8 | 56 | |
| 8 | Ryazan | 34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 39 | 34 | +5 | 47 | |
| 9 | Yelets | 34 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 44 | 51 | −7 | 46 | |
| 10 | Zenit Penza | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 33 | 44 | −11 | 43 | |
| 11 | Lokomotiv Liski | 34 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 44 | 45 | −1 | 42 | |
| 12 | Spartak Tambov | 34 | 11 | 5 | 18 | 34 | 46 | −12 | 38 | |
| 13 | Rusichi Oryol | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 32 | 41 | −9 | 38 | |
| 14 | Zodiak Stary Oskol | 34 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 31 | 50 | −19 | 32 | |
| 15 | Saturn Moscow Oblast | 34 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 31 | 51 | −20 | 31 | |
| 16 | Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo | 34 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 30 | 54 | −24 | 29 | |
| 17 | Nika Moscow | 34 | 7 | 2 | 25 | 23 | 77 | −54 | 23 | |
| 18 | FCS-73 Voronezh (R) | 34 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 25 | 66 | −41 | 18 | Relegation to Amateur Football League |

### Top scorers
#### 17 goals

* Andrei Meshchaninov (FC Zvezda Serpukhov)

#### 16 goals

* Artur Grigoryan (FC Lokomotiv Liski)

#### 14 goals

* Oleg Shchyotkin (FC Zenit Penza)

#### 13 goals

* Anzour Nafash (FC Lukhovitsy)
* Denis Zhukovskiy (FC Dynamo-Voronezh Voronezh)

#### 11 goals

* Sergei Faustov (FC Gubkin)
* Andrei Meshcheryakov (FC Lokomotiv Liski)

#### 10 goals

* Kirill Kurochkin (FC Mordovia Saransk)
* Sergei Mikhailov (FC Avangard Kursk)
* Anton Sereda (FC Yelets)
* Vasili Shatalov (FC Saturn-2 Moscow Oblast)
* Denis Snimshchikov (FC Mordovia Saransk)

## Ural-Povolzhye

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Volga Nizhny Novgorod (C, P) | 34 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 73 | 23 | +50 | 78 | Promotion to First Division |
| 2 | Gazovik Orenburg | 34 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 64 | 29 | +35 | 71 | |
| 3 | Nizhny Novgorod (P) | 34 | 22 | 3 | 9 | 78 | 39 | +39 | 69 | Promotion to First Division |
| 4 | Gornyak Uchaly | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 65 | 32 | +33 | 60 | |
| 5 | Lada-Togliatti | 34 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 44 | 30 | +14 | 57 | |
| 6 | Khimik Dzerzhinsk | 34 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 51 | 39 | +12 | 57 | |
| 7 | Zenit Chelyabinsk | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 49 | 31 | +18 | 55 | |
| 8 | Togliatti | 34 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 63 | 55 | +8 | 54 | |
| 9 | Rubin-2 Kazan | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 58 | 43 | +15 | 53 | |
| 10 | Tyumen | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 71 | 57 | +14 | 50 | |
| 11 | SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk | 34 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 56 | 57 | −1 | 45 | |
| 12 | Sokol-Saratov | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 49 | 44 | +5 | 41 | |
| 13 | Alnas Almetyevsk | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 51 | 53 | −2 | 40 | |
| 14 | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 39 | 44 | −5 | 38 | |
| 15 | Dynamo Kirov | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 30 | 41 | −11 | 37 | |
| 16 | Energetik Uren | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 30 | 48 | −18 | 35 | |
| 17 | Yunit Samara | 34 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 21 | 140 | −119 | 8 | |
| 18 | Akademiya Dimitrovgrad | 34 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 20 | 107 | −87 | 3 | |

### Top scorers
#### 27 goals

* Mikhail Tyufyakov (FC Rubin-2 Kazan / FC Lada Togliatti)

#### 23 goals

* Ilya Borodin (FC Nizhny Novgorod)

#### 17 goals

* Stanislav Prokofyev (FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod)

#### 15 goals

* Marat Shogenov (FC Gazovik Orenburg)

#### 14 goals

* Yevgeni Yaroslavtsev (FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk)
* Dmitri Zarva (FC Tyumen)

#### 13 goals

* Artyom Delkin (FC Togliatti)
* Vladimir Morozov (FC Zenit Chelyabinsk)
* Aleksandr Pavlov (FC Tyumen)

#### 12 goals

* Yuri Budylin (FC Alnas Almetyevsk)
* Anatoli Zavyalov (FC Gornyak Uchaly)

## East

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Chita (C, P) | 27 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 53 | 22 | +31 | 60 | Promotion to First Division |
| 2 | Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure | 27 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 51 | 21 | +30 | 54 | |
| 3 | Irtysh-1946 Omsk | 27 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 46 | 30 | +16 | 49 | |
| 4 | Sibir-2 Novosibirsk | 27 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 36 | 40 | −4 | 40 | |
| 5 | Sibiryak Bratsk | 27 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 34 | 37 | −3 | 35 | |
| 6 | Metallurg Krasnoyarsk | 27 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 38 | 34 | +4 | 34 | |
| 7 | Okean Nakhodka | 27 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 22 | 28 | −6 | 34 | |
| 8 | KUZBASS Kemerovo | 27 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 27 | 49 | −22 | 25 | |
| 9 | Amur Blagoveshchensk | 27 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 29 | 45 | −16 | 25 | |
| 10 | Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 27 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 48 | −30 | 15 | |

### Top scorers
#### 14 goals

* Anton Bagayev (FC Irtysh-1946 Omsk)

#### 13 goals

* Stanislav Goncharov (FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk)

#### 12 goals

* Vyacheslav Chadov (FC Amur Blagoveshchensk)
* Andrei Lodis (FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure)
* Grigori Pogonyshev (FC Sibiryak Bratsk)

#### 9 goals

* Roman Belyayev (FC Sibir-2 Novosibirsk)
* Aleksandr Shtyn (FC KUZBASS Kemerovo)
* Maksim Zhivnovitskiy (FC Chita)

#### 8 goals

* Ilya Levin (FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure)
* Yevgeni Polyakov (FC Sibir-2 Novosibirsk)
* Artyom Rudovskiy (FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure)