2007–08 Moldovan National Division

The 2007–08 Moldovan National Division (Romanian: Divizia Națională) was the 17th season of top-tier football in Moldova. The season started on 4 July 2007.

Moldovan National Division

Season	2007–08
Champions	Sheriff Tiraspol
Relegated	Rapid Ghidighici
Champions League	Sheriff Tiraspol
UEFA Cup	Dacia Chișinău Nistru Otaci
Intertoto Cup	FC Tiraspol
Matches played	165
Goals scored	367 (2.22 per match)
Top goalscorer	Igor Picușceac (14 goals)
Biggest home win	Zimbru Chișinău 7–0 Olimpia Bălți
Biggest away win	Tiligul-Tiras 0–4 Sheriff Tiraspol
Highest scoring	Dinamo Bender 3–7 Dacia Chișinău
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

Overview

FC Sheriff Tiraspol won the league for the eighth consecutive season. The champions also qualified for the 2009 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup.

Rapid Ghidighici withdrew from the league in November after the conclusion of round 16.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sheriff Tiraspol (C)	30	26	3	1	68	8	+60	81	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Dacia Chișinău	30	19	5	6	60	28	+32	62	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Nistru Otaci	30	17	8	5	34	17	+17	59
4	Tiraspol	30	16	7	7	36	21	+15	55	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup first round
5	Zimbru Chișinău	30	13	13	4	43	21	+22	52
6	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	30	9	8	13	23	34	−11	35
7	Tiligul-Tiras	30	7	8	15	16	36	−20	29
8	Olimpia Bălți	30	7	6	17	24	46	−22	27
9	Dinamo Bender	30	7	5	18	30	57	−27	26
10	CSCA-Steaua Chișinău	30	5	3	22	21	55	−34	18
11	Politehnica Chișinău	30	3	6	21	7	39	−32	15
—	Rapid Ghidighici (R)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to Division "A"[a]

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Withdrew from league in November 2007. All results were annulled.

Results

The schedule consists of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 20 matches. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after the first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 30 games per team.

First and second round

Home \ Away	CSC	DAC	DIN	ISK	NIS	OLI	POL	SHE	TIL	TIR	ZIM
CSCA-Steaua Chișinău		0–3	3–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–4	0–1	0–1	0–3
Dacia Chișinău	1–0		5–1	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	0–1	2–1	4–0	1–5
Dinamo Bender	1–2	3–7		0–0	2–2	1–3	2–0	1–2	3–0	0–3	1–2
Iskra-Stal	1–1	1–3	0–1		1–2	2–0	1–0	0–3	1–0	1–0	0–0
Nistru Otaci	3–0	0–1	3–1	1–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–0
Olimpia Bălți	4–1	1–4	1–0	1–0	0–1		0–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	0–1
Politehnica Chișinău	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–0	0–2	0–0		0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1
Sheriff Tiraspol	3–0	2–0	5–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–0		3–0	0–0	0–1
Tiligul-Tiras	1–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–1		0–2	0–1
Tiraspol	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	3–1		0–0
Zimbru Chișinău	3–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	7–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1

Source: EU-Football.info
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third round

Home \ Away	CSC	DAC	DIN	ISK	NIS	OLI	POL	SHE	TIL	TIR	ZIM
CSCA-Steaua Chișinău		2–0		2–3		1–1	1–0				1–3
Dacia Chișinău			2–0		2–2		2–0		3–0	0–0
Dinamo Bender	2–1				1–2			0–2	1–0	0–2
Iskra-Stal		0–0	1–1				3–0		2–1		0–0
Nistru Otaci	2–1			1–0		2–0		0–1			2–0
Olimpia Bălți		1–3	1–0	3–2			2–2				1–1
Politehnica Chișinău			0–1		0–1			0–3	1–0	0–3
Sheriff Tiraspol	7–1	2–1		6–0		1–0					4–2
Tiligul-Tiras	0–0				0–0	2–1		0–4		1–1
Tiraspol	2–0			2–0	1–0	1–0		0–2
Zimbru Chișinău		3–2	3–3				0–0		3–0	0–0

Source: EU-Football.info
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Pos	Player	Scored for	Goals
1	Igor Picușceac	Sheriff Tiraspol, FC Tiraspol	14
2	Aliaksei Kuchuk	Sheriff Tiraspol	13
	Colins Ngaha Poungoue	Nistru Otaci
	Djaba Dvali	Dacia Chișinău
5	Alexei Zhdanov	Zimbru Chișinău	12

External links

• soccerway (in English)
• Pagină oficială (in Romanian)
• Divizia Nationala (in Romanian)