1996–97 Ukrainian Second League

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The 1996–97 Ukrainian Second League is the sixth season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. The competition commenced on 10 August 1996 and ended on 21 June 1997.

Teams

Six teams have been promoted from the 1995–96 Ukrainian Football Amateur League:

  • Pokuttya Kolomyia
    - Group 1 winner (debut)
  • Papirnyk Malyn - Group 3 winner (debut)
  • Fakel Varva - Group 4 winner (debut)
  • Lokomotyv Smila - Group 3 runner-up (debut)
  • Avanhard Merefa
    - Group 4 third (debut)
  • Portovyk Kerch
    - Group 6 winner (debut)

Two teams were added also without participation in the Ukrainian Football Amateur League:

  • Nyva Bershad - undetermined (debut), supposedly instead of Sportinvest Kryvyi Rin[1][2] (withdrew at the last season winter break, yet placed above the 18th position)
  • FC Petrivtsi
    - undetermined (debut)

Relegated teams

Two teams have been relegated from the 1995–96 Ukrainian First League:

  • Ratusha Kamyanets-Podilskyi – 21st place (debut)
  • Skala Stryi – 22nd place (debut)

Withdrawn teams

Merged and renamed teams

Location map

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Locations of team home grounds in Ukrainian Second League 1996-97

Group A

Final standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Desna Chernihiv (C, P) 30 20 6 4 39 12 +27 66 Promoted to Persha Liha
2 Fakel Varva 30 18 7 5 40 20 +20 61
3
Tysmenytsia
 30 17 7 6 41 21 +20 58
4 Obolon-PPO Kyiv 30 15 11 4 34 17 +17 56
5 Karpaty Mukacheve 30 15 7 8 43 24 +19 52
6 Halychyna Drohobych 30 12 10 8 34 27 +7 46
7 Pokuttia Kolomyia 30 12 8 10 21 29 −8 44
8 Systema-Boreks Borodianka 30 11 8 11 28 31 −3 41
9 Nyva Bershad 30 11 6 13 31 36 −5 39 second team of Nyva Vinnytsia
10 Haray Zhovkva 30 10 7 13 29 28 +1 37
11
Kalush
 30 9 8 13 32 29 +3 35
12 Hazovyk Komarno 30 9 7 14 23 26 −3 34
13 Papirnyk Malyn 30 8 7 15 16 32 −16 31
14
Nerafa Slavutych
 30 8 3 19 24 56 −32 27
15
Ros Bila Tserkva
 30 6 4 20 14 49 −35 22 Avoided relegation[a]
16 Keramik Baranivka (D) 30 4 4 22 15 27 −12 16 Withdrew[b]
Source: uafootball.net.ua
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted
Notes:
  1. ^ FC Ros Bila Tserkva was allowed to stay, but was reformed into FC Ryhonda for the next season.
  2. ^ FC Keramik Baranivka stopped its participation after the first half.

Top goalscorers

Scorer Goals (Pen.) Team
1 Orest Atamanchuk 11 (3)
Tysmenytsia
2 Volodymyr Kryzhanivsky 10 Kalush
Yuriy Ovcharenko 10 Ros / Desna
4 Valeriy Sanytsky 9 Fakel Varva
5 Vasyl Klymko 8 Halychyna Drohobych
Petro Pylypeiko 8 Desna Chernihiv
Oleksandr Shevchenko 8 Nyva Bershad

Group B

Final standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1
Avanhard-Industria Rovenky
(C, P) 		32 24 4 4 50 17 +33 76 Promoted to Persha Liha
2
Tytan Armyansk
 32 17 6 9 51 29 +22 57
3 Oskil Kupiansk 32 15 10 7 38 23 +15 55
4 Petrivtsi 32 15 8 9 46 36 +10 53
5 Metalurh Novomoskovsk 32 15 5 12 52 34 +18 50
6 Krystal Kherson 32 13 8 11 44 34 +10 47
7
Shakhtar Stakhanov
 32 14 4 14 42 42 0 46
8
Viktor Zaporizhzhia
 32 12 8 12 46 48 −2 44
9 Shakhtar-2 Donetsk 32 10 11 11 43 39 +4 41
10
Torpedo Melitopol
 32 9 14 9 26 32 −6 41
11 Portovyk Illichivsk 32 11 7 14 27 28 −1 40
12 Olimpia FC AES 32 9 12 11 25 33 −8 39
13 Lokomotyv Smila 32 9 10 13 29 37 −8 37
14
Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk
 32 10 6 16 20 32 −12 36
15 Avanhard-Metalist Merefa[a] 32 9 6 17 24 49 −25 33
16 Dynamo Saky (R) 32 8 8 16 23 43 −20 32 Relegated
17
Portovyk Kerch
(D) 		32 6 5 21 27 57 −30 23 Dissolved[b]
Source: uafootball.net.ua
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Avanhard-Metalist Merefa in the first half of the season was called Avanhard Merefa.
  2. Portovyk Kerch
    became the third post Soviet club that was relegated to amateurs.

Top goalscorers

Scorer Goals (Pen.) Team
1 Ihor Tolstov 15 (3)
Hirnyk-Sport / Petrivtsi
2 Oleh Pokusa 13 Metalurh Novomoskovsk
3 Kostyantyn Vizyonok 12 (1)
Tytan Armyansk
4 Oleksandr Kryvoruchko 11 Oskil Kupiansk
Oleksandr Lyubynsky 11 (5) Krystal Kherson

See also

References

  1. ^ Клуби, які зникли. Ч.1. sport.ua. 1 October 2010
  2. ^ Чемпионат Украины 1996/97 - Вторая лига. odesskiy.com.

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