2016–17 Ukrainian Second League

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]

Ukrainian Second League

Season	2016–17
Champions	Zhemchuzhyna
Promoted	Zhemchuzhyna Odesa Rukh Vynnyky Kremin Kremenchuk Balkany Zorya
Relegated	Illichivets-2 (withdrew) Krystal (withdrew)
Matches played	257
Goals scored	788 (3.07 per match)
Top goalscorer	25 goals – Ihor Khudobyak (Teplovyk-Prykarpattia)
Biggest home win	8 – Zhemchuzhyna 8–0 Metalurh (Round 34)
Biggest away win	12 – Metalurh 1–13 Enerhiya NK (Round 27)
Highest scoring	14 – Metalurh 1–13 Enerhiya NK (Round 27)
Longest winning run	13 – Zhemchuzhyna (Round 6–18)
Longest unbeaten run	21 – Zhemchuzhyna (Round 5–19, 22–27)
Longest losing run	6 – Sudnobudivnyk (Round 28–32, 34)
Highest attendance	6,300 – Podillya–Metalurh (Round 3)
Lowest attendance	90 – Arsenal-Kyivshchyna–Zhemchuzhyna (Round 27)
← 2015–16 2017–18 → All statistics correct as of 2 June 2017.

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]

• Balkany Zorya – champion (debut)
• Illichivets-2 Mariupol – reserve competitions (returning after an absence of five seasons)
• Inhulets-2 Petrove – group stage (debut)
• Metalurh Zaporizhzhia^[6] – group stage (debut)
• Nyva-V Vinnytsia – group stage (returning after an absence of seven seasons)
• Podillya Khmelnytskyi – group stage (returning after an absence of eight seasons, however in the 2013–14 Ukrainian Second League season Dynamo represented the city of Khmelnytskyi)
• Rukh Vynnyky – finalist (previous season) (debut)
• Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv – group stage (debut)
• Teplovyk Ivano-Frankivsk – group stage (debut)
• Zhemchuzhyna Odesa – quarterfinals (debut)

Withdrawn teams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.

Arsenal-Kyivshchyna

Balkany

Enerhiya NK

Illichivets-2

Inhulets-2

Kremin

Krystal

Podillya

Metalurh

Nyva-V

Real Pharma

Myr

FC Nikopol

Rukh

Sudnobudivnyk

Teplovyk-Prykarpattia

Zhemchuzhyna

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

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Table
Podillya Khmelnytskyi	Vitaliy Balytskyi	Sacked	26 September 2016		Arkadiy Batalov	26 September 2016[8]
Arsenal-Kyivshchyna Bila Tserkva	Mykola Lytvyn	Sacked	13 October 2016		Andriy Ushchapovskyi	13 October 2016[9]
Krystal Kherson	Serhiy Shevtsov	Resigned	31 October 2016[10]		Oleksiy Yakymenko	3 November 2016[11]
Rukh Vynnyky	Roman Hdanskyi	Health issues	10 November 2016		Ruslan Mostovyi	10 November 2016[12]
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	Illya Blyznyuk	Resigned	11 February 2017		Viktor Zhuk (caretaker)	11 February 2017[13]
Nyva-V Vinnytsia	Yuriy Solovyenko	Sacked	11 March 2017		Volodymyr Horilyi	11 March 2017[14]
Arsenal-Kyivshchyna Bila Tserkva	Andriy Ushchapovskyi	unknown	April 2017		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. FC Illichivets announced that their second team, Illichivets-2, will not complete in the 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League, instead they will play in the 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. 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. 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. Round 12 match between Podillya and Inhulets-2 was not played due to construction of the running track at the Podillya's Stadium.^[29]
   Control-Disciplinary Committee of the FFU awards a 3–0 technical victory to Inhulets-2.^[30] (1 November 2016)
8. 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.^[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. 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 ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Zhemchuzhyna Odesa	3	10	11	13	12	8	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	1	1	2	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1
Rukh Vynnyky	2	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	3	2	2	3	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2
Kremin Kremenchuk	11	9	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	3	3	1	2	1	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Balkany Zorya	10	3	6	4	6	5	8	8	8	7	5	6	5	4	4	4	5	5	6	6	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	5	6	5	5	5	5	4
Real Pharma Odesa	13	8	7	9	5	9	6	7	6	5	9	10	7	6	5	7	6	6	5	5	6	6	6	5	5	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	5
Inhulets-2 Petrove	4	2	1	2	2	2	1	1	3	3	3	4	4	5	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	4	6	6	6	6	6
Nyva-V Vinnytsia	7	4	9	10	7	6	9	10	9	9	6	7	9	7	8	8	9	10	10	10	11	9	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	8	12	8	5	9	10	7	9	11	11	11	12	12	12	13	10	10	9	9	8	8	8	9	10	10	9	8	9	9	8	8	8	8	8
Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	1	7	5	8	11	12	11	6	5	8	10	11	8	9	10	11	12	11	11	11	10	12	10	9	9	10	10	10	8	10	9	9	10	9
Myr Hornostayivka	9	6	3	7	4	4	4	4	7	6	8	5	6	8	7	6	7	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	9	8	10	9	10	10	9	10
Nikopol	15	13	15	11	13	14	15	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	11	12	13	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Illichivets-2 Mariupol	17	16	16	16	10	7	10	12	10	10	7	8	10	11	12	13	11	12	13	13	12	11	12	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Krystal Kherson	6	5	10	6	8	11	12	11	12	12	12	9	11	10	9	9	8	7	7	9	9	10	11	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Podillya Khmelnytskyi	5	11	14	15	16	16	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	17	17	16	16	14	16	14
Arsenal-Kyivschyna Bila Tserkva	16	17	17	17	17	17	13	15	15	15	15	16	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	17	17	17	15	14	14	14	15	14	15
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	12	14	12	14	15	15	17	17	17	16	16	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	14	14	15	15	16	15	15	15	16	15	16
Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv	14	15	13	12	14	13	14	13	13	13	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	14	14	14	16	17	17	17	17	17

Updated to match(es) played on 2 June 2017. Source: pfl.ua

Promotion play-off

The draw for promotion play-off scheduling was held on 3 June 2017.^[35]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PFC Sumy	3–1	FC Balkany Zorya	2–0	1–1

First leg

PFC Sumy	2–0	FC Balkany Zorya
Oliynyk 36' Yarovenko 60' (pen.)	Report

6 June 2017 (2017-06-06)

17:00 UTC+3

Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy

Referee: Serhiy Boyko (Kyiv Oblast)

Second leg

FC Balkany Zorya	1–1	PFC Sumy
Raichev 40'	Report	Bohachov 84' (pen.)

10 June 2017 (2017-06-10)

17:00 UTC+3

Boris Tropaneț Stadium, Zorya, Sarata Raion, Odesa Oblast

Referee: Mykola Kryvonosov (Kyiv)

PFC Sumy wins 3–1 on aggregate and remains in First League. FC Balkany Zorya loses but later was promoted to the 2017–18 Ukrainian First League, due to sanctions against FC Dnipro.

Top goalscorers

The season top goalscorers were:^[36]

Rank	Scorer	Team	Goals (Pen.)
1	Ihor Khudobyak	Teplovyk-Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk	25 (1)
2	Roman Bochak	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	22
	Artem Kozlov	Kremin Kremenchuk	22 (2)

Awards

Round awards

Round	Player			Coach
	Player	Club	Reference	Coach	Club	Reference
Round 21	Yuriy Habovda	Rukh Vynnyky	[37]	Viktor Bohatyr	Myr Hornostayivka	[38]
Round 22	Mykhailo Shestakov	Zhemchuzhyna Odesa	[39]	Hryhoriy Varzhelenko	FC Nikopol	[40]
Round 23	Yevhen Bokhashvili	Rukh Vynnyky	[41]	Ruslan Mostovyi	Rukh Vynnyky	[42]
Round 24	Artur Kaskov	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	[43]	Denys Kolchin	Zhemchuzhyna Odesa	[44]
Round 25	Ihor Khudobyak	Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	[45]	Serhiy Yashchenko	Kremin Kremenchuk	[46]
Round 26	Dmytro Shastal	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	[47]	Oleh Fedorchuk	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	[48]
Round 27	Roman Bochak	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	[49]	Volodymyr Kovalyuk	Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	[50]
Round 28	Levan Koshadze	Kremin Kremenchuk	[51]	Volodymyr Kovalyuk	Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	[52]
Round 29	Ihor Malyarenko	Nyva-V Vinnytsia	[53]	Volodymyr Horilyi	Nyva-V Vinnytsia	[54]
Round 30	Serhiy Ursulenko	Balkany Zorya	[55]	Oleh Fedorchuk	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	[56]
Round 31	Volodymyr Boryshkevych	Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	[57]	Andriy Parkhomenko	Balkany Zorya	[58]
Round 32	Oleksandr Muzychuk	Podillya Khmelnytskyi	[59]	Arkadiy Batalov	Podillya Khmelnytskyi	[60]
Round 33	Roman Bochak	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	[61]	Denys Kolchin	Zhemchuzhyna Odesa	[62]
Round 34	Stanislav-Nuri Malysh	Zhemchuzhyna Odesa	[63]	Denys Kolchin	Zhemchuzhyna Odesa	[64]

Season awards

The laureates of the 2016–17 season were:^[65]

• Best player: Ihor Khudobyak (Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk)
• Best coach: Denys Kolchin (Zhemchuzhyna Odesa)
• Best goalscorer: Ihor Khudobyak (Teplovyk-Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk)

See also

• 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League
• 2016–17 Ukrainian First League
• 2016–17 Ukrainian Cup

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