# 2009–10 Ukrainian Second League

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

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 20 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 35 | 12 | +23 | 48 | Promoted to First League |
| 2 | PFC Nyva Vinnytsia | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 43 | 16 | +27 | 40 | Playoff game winner Promoted to First League |
| 3 | FC Bastion Illichivsk | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 44 | 20 | +24 | 40 | |
| 4 | MFK Mykolaiv | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 30 | 13 | +17 | 39 | |
| 5 | FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 16 | +12 | 33 | |
| 6 | FC Yednist' Plysky | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 21 | +1 | 29 | |
| 7 | FC Ros Bila Tserkva | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 30 | −12 | 21 | |
| 8 | FC Lviv-2 | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 25 | −12 | 19 | Withdrew |
| 9 | FC Veres Rivne | 20 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 41 | −25 | 16 | |
| 10 | FC Karpaty-2 Lviv | 20 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 17 | 43 | −26 | 16 | Withdrew |
| 11 | FC Skala Morshyn | 20 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 40 | −29 | 6 | Name change |
* 1 2 Karpaty-2 Lviv and FC Lviv-2 did not renew their license after the season.
* ↑ FC Skala Morshyn renamed themselves from FC Morshyn during the winter break.

#### Withdrawn teams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

| Scorer | Goals (Pen.) | Team |
| Vladyslav Korobkin | 14 (3) | Bukovyna Chernivtsi |
| Oleksandr Nechyporuk | 13 (5) | Bastion Illichivsk |
| Serhiy Ditkovsky | 12 (2) | Dynamo Khmelnytskyi |
| Yevhen Santrapinskykh | 10 | Bastion Illichivsk |
| Oleksiy Kolesnykov | 9 (1) | Dynamo Khmelnytskyi |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Tytan Armyansk | 26 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 50 | 20 | +30 | 66 | Promoted to First League |
| 2 | Kremin Kremenchuk | 26 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 41 | 21 | +20 | 54 | Playoff game |
| 3 | FC Poltava | 26 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 34 | 16 | +18 | 54 | |
| 4 | Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 38 | 23 | +15 | 51 | |
| 5 | Olimpik Donetsk | 26 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 45 | 28 | +17 | 49 | |
| 6 | Shakhtar Sverdlovsk | 26 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 26 | 15 | +11 | 46 | |
| 7 | Shakhtar-3 Donetsk | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 33 | 29 | +4 | 36 | |
| 8 | FC Sumy | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 32 | 34 | −2 | 36 | |
| 9 | Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih | 26 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 29 | 43 | −14 | 28 | |
| 10 | Olkom Melitopol | 26 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 31 | 42 | −11 | 26 | |
| 11 | Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk | 26 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 35 | −14 | 22 | |
| 12 | Illichivets-2 Mariupol | 26 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 40 | −24 | 15 | |
| 13 | Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk | 26 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 21 | −2 | 14 | Expelled |
| 14 | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 26 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 18 | 66 | −48 | 10 | |
* ↑ Sumy completed the season but failed license attestation from the Professional Football League of Ukraine for the next season due to various administrative and financial issues.
* ↑ Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk deducted 3 points by the PFL on August 27, 2009 due to failure of payment of league dues.

#### 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

| Scorer | Goals (Pen.) | Team |
| Vasyl Klimov | 13 (2) | Kremin Kremenchuk |
| Kostyantyn Vizyonok | 12 (3) | Tytan Armyansk |
| Vadym Shavrin | 9 (3) | Olimpik Donetsk |
| Dmytro Kryviy | 9 (4) | Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk |
| Serhiy Savchenko | 8 | Olkom 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 |
| 1 | Shakhtar Stadium | 31,718 | Shakhtar-3 Donetsk |
| 2 | Yuvileyny Stadium | 25,800 | Sumy |
| 3 | Meteor Stadium | 24,361 | Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk |
| 4 | CMS Vinnytsia | 24,000 | FC Nyva Vinnytsia |
| 5 | Army Stadium (SKA) | 16,724 | FC Karpaty-2 Lviv |
| 6 | Stadion Trudovi Rezervy | 13,500 | FC Ros Bila Tserkva |
| 7 | Bukovyna Stadium | 12,000 | FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi |
| 8 | Polytechnic Stadium | 11,300 | FC Kremin Kremenchuk |
| 9 | Horiushkin Memorial Stadium | 10,000 | FC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk |
| 10 | SC Podillia | 8,000 | FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi |
| 11 | Sokil Stadium | 6,000 | Morshyn Stryi |
| 12 | Stadion Khimik | 5,000 | FC Titan Armyansk |
| 13 | Spartak Stadium (Nizhyn) | 5,000 | Yednist Plysky |
| 14 | Stadion Avanhard | 4,500 | FC Veres Rivne |
| 15 | SC Khimik | 3,600 | FC Nyva Vinnytsia |
| 16 | Zakhidnyi Stadium | 3,206 | FC Illichivets-2 Mariupol |
| 17 | Central Stadium (Makariv) | 3,100 | Ros Bila Tserkva |
| 18 | Metalurh Stadium | 2,900 | FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk |
| 19 | Dynamo Training Center | 2,700 | CSCA Kyiv |
| 20 | Nad Buhom Stadium | 2,660 | Lviv-2 Kamyanka-Buzka |
| 21 | Stadion Lokomotyv | 2,500 | FC Poltava |
| 22 | Zhovtneva Mine Stadium | 2,500 | Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih |
| 23 | Yunist Stadium | 2,500 | FC Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk |
| 24 | Obukhiv Raion Stadium | 2,064 | Yednist / Ros |
| 25 | Oleksenko Spartak Stadium | 2,000 | FC Olkom Melitopol |
| 26 | Tytan Stadium | 2,000 | FC Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia |
| 27 | Azovets Stadium | 1,660 | FC Illichivets-2 Mariupol |
| 28 | CMS Mykolaiv | 1,500 | MFK Mykolaiv |
| 29 | Suputnyk Stadium | 1,500 | Yednist Plysky |
| 30 | School Stadium | 1,500 | Bastion Illichivsk |
| 31 | Kirsha Training Center | 1,500 | Shakhtar-3 Donetsk |
| 32 | Yednist Stadium | 1,050 | FC Yednist' Plysky |
| 33 | SC Olimpik | 680 | FC Olimpik Donetsk |
| 34 | Metalist Academy Stadium | 400 | FC Kremin Kremenchuk |
| 35 | Metalurh Training Center | ? | FC Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia |
| 36 | Budivelnyk Stadium | ? | Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih |
Notes:
* ^(17) 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)
* ^(20) Yednist Plysky also played at SKOR Stadium in Obukhiv, Kyiv Oblast (province) and Spartak Stadium in Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast.