2016–17 Ukrainian Second League

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Kremin Kremenchuk
Balkany Zorya
RelegatedIllichivets-2 (withdrew)
Krystal (withdrew)
Matches played257
Goals scored788 (3.07 per match)
Top goalscorer25 goals – Ihor Khudobyak (
Teplovyk-Prykarpattia)
Biggest home win8 – Zhemchuzhyna 8–0 Metalurh (Round 34)
Biggest away win12 – Metalurh 1–13 Enerhiya NK (Round 27)
Highest scoring14 – Metalurh 1–13 Enerhiya NK (Round 27)
Longest winning run13 – Zhemchuzhyna (Round 6–18)
Longest unbeaten run21 – Zhemchuzhyna (Round 5–19, 22–27)
Longest losing run6 – Sudnobudivnyk (Round 28–32, 34)
Highest attendance6,300 – Podillya–Metalurh (Round 3)
Lowest attendance90 – Arsenal-Kyivshchyna–Zhemchuzhyna (Round 27)
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All statistics correct as of 2 June 2017.

The 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League is the 26th season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. The competition commenced on 23 July 2016 with one match from Round 1. The spring session started on 18 March 2017 with the competition ending on 2 June 2017.[1] The fixtures were announced on 16 July 2016.[2]

Team changes

Prior to the season commencing at the Conference of the PFL in preparation for the season the committee decided to expand the competition to 17 teams.[3]

Admitted teams

The following 10 teams were admitted by the PFL after participating in the 2016 Ukrainian Football Amateur League and passing attestation which continued until 15 July.[4][5]

Withdrawn teams

  • Barsa Sumy withdrew from the PFL before the start of the 2016–17 season.[7]

Relegated teams

No teams were relegated from the Ukrainian First League

Location map

The following displays the location of teams.

Teplovyk-Prykarpattia
Zhemchuzhyna
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Home venues of teams in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League.

Stadiums

The following stadiums are considered home grounds for the teams in the competition.

Rank Stadium Capacity Club
1 Arena Lviv[a] 34,915
Rukh Vynnyky
2 Central Stadium 14,623 Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
3 Slavutych-Arena 12,000 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
4
SC Podillya
 10,031 Podillya Khmelnytskyi
5 Trudovi Reservy Stadium 10,000 Arsenal-Kyivshchyna Bila Tserkva
6 MCS Rukh 6,500
Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
7 Spartak Stadium 5,000 Zhemchuzhyna Odesa
Real Pharma Odesa
8 Krystal Stadium 3,400 Krystal Kherson
9 SC Nyva 3,150
Nyva-V Vinnytsia
10 Zakhidnyi Stadium 3,206 Illichivets-2 Mariupol
11 Enerhiya Stadium 3,000 Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka
12 Boris Tropaneț Stadium 1,854 Balkany Zorya
13 Inhulets Stadium 1,720 Inhulets-2 Petrove
14 Kremin-Arena 1,566
Kremin Kremenchuk
15 Elektrometalurh Stadium 1,500 FC Nikopol
16 Zatys 1,250 Myr Hornostayivka
17 Bohdan Markevych Stadium 900
Rukh Vynnyky
  1. ^ Rukh Vynnyky played their Round 21 home match against Metalurh at Arena Lviv

Managers

Club Head coach Replaced coach
Arsenal-Kyivshchyna Bila Tserkva Ukraine Oleksandr Akimov Ukraine Mykola Lytvyn (caretaker)
Ukraine Andriy Ushchapovskyi
Balkany Zorya Ukraine Andriy Parkhomenko
Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka Ukraine Oleh Fedorchuk
Illichivets-2 Mariupol Ukraine Oleksandr Volkov
Inhulets-2 Petrove Ukraine Andriy Kononenko
Kremin Kremenchuk
 Ukraine Serhiy Yashchenko
Krystal Kherson Ukraine Oleksiy Yakymenko Ukraine Serhiy Shevtsov
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Viktor Zhuk (caretaker) Ukraine Illya Blyznyuk
Myr Hornostayivka Ukraine Viktor Bohatyr
Nikopol Ukraine Hryhoriy Varzhelenko
Nyva-V Vinnytsia
 Ukraine Volodymyr Horilyi Ukraine Yuriy Solovyenko
Podillya Khmelnytskyi Ukraine Arkadiy Batalov Ukraine Vitaliy Balytskyi
Real Pharma Odesa
Oleksandr Bondarenko
Rukh Vynnyky
 Ukraine Ruslan Mostovyi Ukraine Roman Hdanskyi
Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv United States Dennis Lukens
Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
 Ukraine Volodymyr Kovalyuk
Zhemchuzhyna Odesa Ukraine Denys Kolchin

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming head coach Date of appointment Table
Podillya Khmelnytskyi Ukraine Vitaliy Balytskyi Sacked 26 September 2016 Ukraine Arkadiy Batalov 26 September 2016[8]
Arsenal-Kyivshchyna Bila Tserkva Ukraine Mykola Lytvyn Sacked 13 October 2016 Ukraine Andriy Ushchapovskyi 13 October 2016[9]
Krystal Kherson Ukraine Serhiy Shevtsov Resigned 31 October 2016[10] Ukraine Oleksiy Yakymenko 3 November 2016[11]
Rukh Vynnyky
 Ukraine Roman Hdanskyi Health issues 10 November 2016 Ukraine Ruslan Mostovyi 10 November 2016[12]
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Illya Blyznyuk Resigned 11 February 2017 Ukraine Viktor Zhuk (caretaker) 11 February 2017[13]
Nyva-V Vinnytsia
 Ukraine Yuriy Solovyenko Sacked 11 March 2017 Ukraine Volodymyr Horilyi 11 March 2017[14]
Arsenal-Kyivshchyna Bila Tserkva Ukraine Andriy Ushchapovskyi unknown April 2017 Ukraine Oleksandr Akimov April 2017[15]

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 Zhemchuzhyna Odesa (C, P) 32 24 4 4 75 22 +53 76 Promotion to Ukrainian First League
2
Rukh Vynnyky
(P) 		32 23 5 4 68 24 +44 74
3
Kremin Kremenchuk
(P) 		32 21 5 6 67 29 +38 68
4 Balkany Zorya (P) 32 16 9 7 54 32 +22 57 Qualification to promotion play-offs
5 Real Pharma Odesa 32 16 9 7 50 31 +19 57
6 Inhulets-2 Petrove[a] 32 14 8 10 50 33 +17 50
7
Nyva-V Vinnytsia
 32 14 8 10 42 33 +9 50
8 Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka 32 14 6 12 62 46 +16 48
9 Myr Hornostayivka 32 13 9 10 39 31 +8 48
10
Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk[b]
 32 14 4 14 51 35 +16 46
11 FC Nikopol[c] 32 12 5 15 40 49 −9 41
12 Illichivets-2 Mariupol[d] 32 11 1 20 42 56 −14 34 Withdrawn after the season
13 Krystal Kherson[e] (D) 32 7 5 20 31 24 +7 26 Withdrawn during the season
14 Podillya Khmelnytskyi 32 7 4 21 29 68 −39 25
15 Arsenal-Kyivshchyna Bila Tserkva 32 7 4 21 29 82 −53 25
16 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 32 7 2 23 35 104 −69 23
17 Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv 32 6 4 22 19 84 −65 22
Source: PFL.ua
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Fair play; 8) Draw or play-off.[22]
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted
Notes:
  1. ^ Ineligible for promotion.[16]
  2. ^ During the winter break the club renamed themselves from Teplovyk Ivano-Frankivsk to Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk.[17]
  3. ^ During the winter break the club renamed themselves from FC Nikopol-NPHU to FC Nikopol.[18]
  4. Ukrainian Premier League Reserves competition.[19]
  5. ^ On 30 March 2017, Krystal Kherson informed the PFL that they are withdrawing from the competition due to the club's economic and political situation.[20] On 10 April 2017, the FFU formally expelled the club, and awarded technical victories to their opponents.[21]

Results

Home \ Away AKB BAZ ENK IP2 IL2
KRE
 KRK MZA MYH NIK
NYV
 POK RPO
RUV
 SBM PIF ZEO
Arsenal-Kyivschyna Bila Tserkva 0–0 0–5 1–0 0–2 2–6 0–7 1–0 3–1 0–2 2–1 3–0 0–2 0–2 4–1 0–6 1–1
Balkany Zorya 4–2 2–4 5–0 1–1 1–0 2–2 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 5–1 1–1 1–1 5–0 1–1 0–1
Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka 4–0 1–2 0–3 3–0 1–1 +:- 0–0 1–3 4–1 2–1 4–2 0–0 2–1 5–1 1–0 0–2[a]
Inhulets-2 Petrove 3–0 3–1 3–1 3–0 0–1 +:- 2–2 0–0 3–0 0–0 2–0 3–1 1–3 3–0 0–2 2–3
Illichivets-2 Mariupol 4–2 1–3 3–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 4–1 1–3 1–2 1–2 3–2 3–1 1–2 4–0 2–0 0–2
Kremin Kremenchuk
 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–2 2–0 5–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 2–2 4–1 3–0 1–2 3–0 1–0 2–0
Krystal Kherson -:+ -:+ 1–1 1–2 -:+ 0–1 2–1 0–1 0–1 -:+ -:+ -:+ 1–1 2–0 2–0 -:+[b]
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 3–2 2–6 1–13[c] 0–6 0–5 2–1 1–6 0–1 1–3 0–4 2–1 1–4 3–4 3–0 0–3 0–1
Myr Hornostayivka 4–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 3–1 +:-[b] 0–3[d] 3–1 0–0 3–1 0–2 0–0 6–0 1–0 0–0
Nikopol 2–1 1–3 3–1 0–0 2–1 2–3 1–1 2–1 1–4 0–1 3–0 2–2 1–1 4–1 2–1 1–2
Nyva-V Vinnytsia
 1–1 0–2 2–2 2–1 3–1[e] 0–2 1–0 4–2 2–0 2–0 4–0 1–1 2–0 0–2 2–1 0–2
Podillya Khmelnytskyi 3–2 1–0[f] 0–2 0–3[g] 1–0 0–2 1–1 1–2 2–2 1–1 0–0 3–0 0–2[h] 2–0 2–1 1–3
Real Pharma Odesa 4–0 0–0 4–1 1–1 2–0 0–1 2–0 3–1 1–0 2–0 2–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–2 1–1
Rukh Vynnyky
 5–1 2–1 5–0 3–2 6–0 4–1 +:- 6–1[i] 1–0 1–0 3–0 3–1 1–0 4–0[e] 1–0 0–1
Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv 1–0 1–2 1–0 0–0 1–0[j] 0–7 +:- 0–2 2–2 0–1 0–0 2–1 1–3[j] 0–1 2–2 1–2
Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk 3–0 3–1 3–1 1–1 0–1 1–0 +:- 7–0 1–0 1–0 0–2 2–1 0–4 0–1 6–0 3–4
Zhemchuzhyna Odesa 4–0 2–0 0–1 2–0 3–1 2–2 2–3 8–0 5–0 3–0 3–1 5–0 2–0 2–1 7–0 0–1
Updated to match(es) played on 2 June 2017. Source: (in Ukrainian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ Round 13 match between Enerhiya and Zhemchuzhyna postponed due to torrential rain that flooded the pitch.[23] Match was played after Round 15.[24]
  2. ^ a b Initially the PFL postponed the Round 21 match between Krystal and Zhemchuzhyna for a later date due to Krystal's economic instability at the club after the winter break[25] giving the club two weeks to stabilize their situation. However, the club informed the PFL prior to their Round 23 match against Myr that they are withdrawing from the competition.[20]
  3. ^ Fourteen goals scored in the match created a new record[26] surpassing the 12–0 victory by Desna Chernihiv over Boyarka-2006 Bojarka in the 2005–06 Ukrainian Second League season.
  4. ^ Owner of Myr decided to protect the team's pitch due to inclement weather and not allow his team to play the Round 19 match. Technical victory awarded to Metalurh.[27]
  5. ^ a b Round 19 matches postponed due to heavy snowfalls that made the pitches unplayable.[28] Matches were played in the spring session after Round 24.
  6. ^ Round 19 match between Podillya and Zhemchuzhyna rescheduled for the next day due to heavy snowfall.[28]
  7. FFU awards a 3–0 technical victory to Inhulets-2.[30]
    (1 November 2016)
  8. Stadium.[31]
  9. ^ Rukh Vynnyky played their Round 21 home match against Metalurh at Arena Lviv since their home ground Bohdan Markevych Stadium was not in ideal playing condition after the winter break.[32]
  10. ^ a b Sudnobudivnyk's Round 24[33] and Round 26[34] home match was moved to Ivan Stadium in Odesa due to the administration of the Municipal Stadium of Mykolaiv wanting to have the pitch in good order for the Ukrainian Cup semi final.

Position by round

Team ╲ Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
Nyva-V Vinnytsia
7491076910996797889101010119888877777777
Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka81285910791111111212121310109988891010989988888
Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk17581112116581011891011121111111012109910101081099109
Myr Hornostayivka96374444768568767887777777981091010910
Nikopol15131511131415141414131313131112131312121313131313111111111111111111
Illichivets-2 Mariupol17161616107101210107810111213111213131211121111121212121212121212
Krystal Kherson65106811121112121291110998779910111212131313131313131313
Podillya Khmelnytskyi5111415161616161617171717171717171717171717171716161617171616141614
Arsenal-Kyivschyna Bila Tserkva16171717171713151515151614141414141415151616161617171715141414151415
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia12141214151517171716161516161616161616161515151414151516151515161516
Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv14151312141314131313141415151515151514141414141515141414161717171717
Updated to match(es) played on 2 June 2017. Source: pfl.ua