The 2004–2005 Ukrainian Second League was the 14th 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.
Numerous clubs withdrew their second teams from the competition and admitting them to the Ukrainian Premier Reserve League:
Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk
Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih
Metalurh-2 Donetsk
Chornomorets-2 Odesa
Group A
Karpaty-2 Lviv
Osvita Borodyanka (previously as Boreks-Borysfen)
Group B
Zirka Kirovohrad (readmitted, Ukrainian Top League)
Group A
FC Bershad
Fakel Ivano-Frankivsk
Group B
Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih
PFC Oleksandria
Real Odessa
Group C
Molniya Severodonetsk
MFC Oleksandria
Olimpik Donetsk
Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk from Group B to C
FC Cherkasy from Group B to C
Final Standings
Notes:
^(1) Rava Rava-Ruska were denied promotion to the First League by the PFL due to inadequate finances. Instead the PFL promoted Enerhetyk Burshtyn.
^(2) FC Bershad merged their operations with FC Nyva Vinnytsia and were promoted to the First League.
^(3) Tekhno-Center Rohatyn completed the season but withdrew from the PFL prior to the start of the next season.
^(4) Spartak-2 Kalush were expelled from the competition on March 29, 2005 after failing to pay license fees for the second half of the season. The rest of its matches were considered for technical losses.
On March 29, 2005 Spartak-2 Kalush after failing to pay license fees for the second half of the season the PFL expelled them from the competition. Their record at that time was 6 wins, 2 draws, 6 losses, and 17-12 goal difference.
Final Standings
Notes:
^(5) Both Palmira Odesa and Real Odesa completed the season but failed to submit a license for the next season and subsequently withdrew from the PFL.
^(6) Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol completed the season but failed to find a sponsor for the next season and became insolvant, withdrawing from the PFL before the start of the next season.
Final Standings
Notes:
^(7) FK Cherkasy, competed in the 2003–04 Ukrainian Second League were moved to Group C due to geographic alignment. The club renamed themselves to Dnipro Cherkassy during the mid-season winter break.
^(8) Molniya Sieverodonetsk completed the season, but withdrew from the league before the start of the next season citing financial difficulties. (4 August 2005)
^(9) Vuhlyk Dymytrov renamed themselves prior to the start of the season to Uholyok Dymytrov. The club completed the season but prior to the start of the next season failed to get sponsorship and became insolvant.
^(10) The main clubs of both Metalist-2 Kharkiv and Vorskla-2 Poltava consolidated their reserve club operations not entering their clubs in the next season, since they both had reserve clubs in the Ukrainian Premier Reserve League which began its inaugural season in the 2004.
