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2016–17 Ukrainian Second League

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Season
  
2016–17

Goals scored
  
476 (3.05 per match)

Matches played
  
156

2016–17 Ukrainian Second League

Top goalscorer
  
15 goals – Palamar (Zhemchuzhyna)

Biggest home win
  
6 – Rukh 6–0 Illichivets-2 (Round 1)

Biggest away win
  
7 – Arsenal-Kyivshchyna 0–7 Krystal (Round 11)

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 competition is currently on winter recess and the spring session is to start 18 March 2017 with the competition ending on 27 May 2017. The fixtures were announced on 16 July 2016.

Contents

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 eighteen teams.

Admitted teams

The following teams were admitted by the PFL after passing attestation which continued until 15 July.

  • Balkany Zorya – (debut)
  • Illichivets-2 Mariupol (returning after an absence of five seasons)
  • Inhulets-2 Petrove – (debut)
  • Podillya Khmelnytskyi – (returning after an absence of eight seasons, however in the 2013–14 Ukrainian Second League season Dynamo represented the city of Khmelnytskyi)
  • Metalurh Zaporizhya – (debut)
  • Nyva-V Vinnytsia – (returning after an absence of seven seasons)
  • Rukh Vynnyky – (debut)
  • Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv – (debut)
  • Teplovyk Ivano-Frankivsk – (debut)
  • Zhemchuzhyna Odesa – (debut)

    • Withdrawn teams

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

    • Relegated teams

    No teams were relegated from the Ukrainian First League

    Location map

    The following displays the location of teams.

    Stadiums

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

    League table

    As of 19 November 2016

    Notes:

  • ^(5) During the winter break the club renamed themselves from Teplovyk Ivano-Frankivsk to Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk

    • Results

    As of 20 November 2016

    Updated to games played on 19 November 2016.
    Source: (Ukrainian)
    1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Notes:

  • ^(10) Round 12 match between Podillya and Inhulets-2 was not played due to construction of the running track at the Podillya's Stadium.
    Control-Disciplinary Committee of the FFU awards a 3–0 technical victory to Inhulets-2. (1 November 2016)
  • ^(11) Podillya played their Round 10 home fixture at Rukh's Bohdan Markevich Stadium due to construction of the running track at the Podillya's Stadium.
  • ^(12) Round 13 match between Enerhiya and Zhemchuzhyna postponed due to torrential rain that flooded the pitch. Match was played after Round 15.
  • ^(13) Round 19 matches postponed due to heavy snowfalls that made the pitches unplayable.
  • ^(14) Round 19 match between Podillya and Zhemchuzhyna rescheduled for the next day due to heavy snowfall.

    • Top goalscorers

    As of 19 November 2016

    Notes:

    References

    2016–17 Ukrainian Second League Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA