Russian Second Division
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The Russian Second Division is the third level of Russian professional football
.
In 1998–2010, it was run by the Professional Football League.
The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zones: West (Northwestern European Russia
), Centre (Northern and Eastern European Russia), South (Southern European Russia), Ural-Povolzhye (Southern Urals
and Western Siberia
), and East (Rest of Siberia). The number of clubs in each zone varies between years. At the start of the 2011–12 season, there are 75 clubs in the division.
The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the National League Championship
(known as the First Division before 2011). The bottom finishers of each zone lose professional status and are relegated into the Amateur Football League. In the lowest populated East zone, each club plays each opponent three times, while in all other zones traditional home-and-away scheme applies.
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
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In 1998–2010, it was run by the Professional Football League.
The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zones: West (Northwestern European Russia
European Russia
European Russia refers to the western areas of Russia that lie within Europe, comprising roughly 3,960,000 square kilometres , larger in area than India, and spanning across 40% of Europe. Its eastern border is defined by the Ural Mountains and in the south it is defined by the border with...
), Centre (Northern and Eastern European Russia), South (Southern European Russia), Ural-Povolzhye (Southern Urals
Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan. Their eastern side is usually considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia...
and Western Siberia
Siberia
Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...
), and East (Rest of Siberia). The number of clubs in each zone varies between years. At the start of the 2011–12 season, there are 75 clubs in the division.
The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the National League Championship
Football Championship of the National League
The Football Championship of the National League , formerly called Russian First Division is the second level of Russian professional football....
(known as the First Division before 2011). The bottom finishers of each zone lose professional status and are relegated into the Amateur Football League. In the lowest populated East zone, each club plays each opponent three times, while in all other zones traditional home-and-away scheme applies.
Winners
| Year | Zone 4 | Zone 1 | Zone 2 | Zone 3 | Zone 5 | Zone 6 | ||||
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| 1992 Russian Second League 1992 The Russian Second League 1992 was the 1st edition of Russian Second Division. There were 6 zones with 115 teams in total.- Standings :Note: FC Dynamo Izobilny, FC Altair-Khelling Derbent, FC Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody and FC Vaynakh Shali did not participate in any national-level competitions in... |
FC Baltika Kaliningrad FC Baltika Kaliningrad Baltika is an association football club based in Kaliningrad, Russia. Currently the club plays in the Football Championship of the National League.-History:The club was founded on 22 December 1954 as Pishchevik Kaliningrad... |
FC Erzu Grozny FC Erzu Grozny FC Erzu Grozny was a Russian football team from Grozny. It was founded in 1992 and played professionally until 1994, including two seasons in the second-highest-level Russian First Division. It was dissolved at the beginning of the First Chechen War.-External links:... |
FC Avtodor-Olaf Vladikavkaz | FC Spartak-d Moscow | FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk is an association football club from Nizhnekamsk, Russia, founded in 1991. It played on the second-highest level in the Russian First Division in 1993-1998 and 2001-2004.... |
FC Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky FC Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky FC Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky is a Russian football team from Leninsk-Kuznetsky. It played professionally from 1990 to 1999 and from 2005 to 2007, including 5 seasons in the second-highest Russian First Division.... |
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| Year | Zone 5 | Zone 1 | Zone 2 | Zone 4 | Zone 3 | Zone 6 | Zone 7 | |||
| 1993 Russian Second League 1993 The Russian Second League 1993 was the 2nd edition of Russian Second Division. There were 7 zones with 124 teams in total. In 1994 the Russian League system was reorganized, with First League reduced to one tournament instead of 3 zones and new professional Third League organized, where most of the... |
FC Vympel Rybinsk | FC Anzhi Makhachkala FC Anzhi Makhachkala FC Anzhi Makhachkala is a Russian football club based in Makhachkala, capital of the Republic of Dagestan, which plays in the Russian Premier League. The word "Anzhi" is part of Anzhi-Qala the old name of Makhachkala.-History:The club was founded in 1991 and has played in the Russian league since... |
FC Salyut Belgorod FC Salyut Belgorod FC Salyut Belgorod is a Russian association football club based in Belgorod. They play in the Russian Second Division.-History:The club was founded in 1960 and has been known as:*Tsementnik *Spartak... |
FC Torpedo-MKB Mytishchi | FC Torpedo Arzamas | FC Devon Oktyabrsky | FC Angara Angarsk | |||
| Year | West | Centre | Siberia | Far East | ||||||
| 1994 Russian Second League 1994 The Russian Second League 1994 was the 3rd edition of Russian Second Division. There were 4 zones with 62 teams starting the competition in total .-Overview:-Standings:... |
FC Fakel Voronezh FC Fakel Voronezh FC Fakel Voronezh is a Russian association football club based in Voronezh. Currently the club plays in the Russian First Division. The name of the club means "Torch" .... |
FC Torpedo Volzhsky | FC Chkalovets Novosibirsk | FC Dynamo Yakutsk | ||||||
| Year | West | Centre | East | |||||||
| 1995 Russian Second League 1995 The Russian Second League 1995 was the 4th edition of the Russian Second Division. It was the first season when 3 points were awarded for a win. There were 3 zones with 62 teams starting the competition .-Overview:... |
FC Spartak Nalchik | FC Gazovik-Gazprom Izhevsk | FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk is a Russian football club based in Krasnoyarsk. The club will play in the Russian First Division in 2011 after winning their zone of the Russian Second Division in 2010.-History:... |
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| 1996 Russian Second League 1996 The Russian Second League 1996 was the 5th edition of Russian Second Division. There were 3 zones with 60 teams starting the competition .-Overview:-Standings:Notes:... |
FC Metallurg Lipetsk FC Metallurg Lipetsk FC Metallurg Lipetsk is an association football club in Lipetsk, Russia, formed in 1966.-History:Their best result came in 1997 when they came 2nd in the Russian First Division.... |
FC Lada Dimitrovgrad | FC Irtysh Omsk | |||||||
| 1997 Russian Second League 1997 The Russian Second League 1997 was the 6th edition of the Second Division. There were 3 zones with 61 teams starting the competition . This was the last season that the professional Russian Third League existed... |
FC Arsenal Tula | FC Rubin Kazan FC Rubin Kazan FC Rubin Kazan is a Russian association football club based in the city of Kazan . Rubin won the Russian Premier League championship in 2008 and 2009.-History:... |
FC Tom Tomsk | |||||||
| Year | West | South | Centre | Volga | Urals | East | ||||
| 1998 Russian Second Division 1998 The Russian Second Division 1998 was the 7th edition of the Russian Second Division. The competition was renamed from Russian Second League to Russian Second Division this year. Russian Third League was dissolved this season and Second Division became once again the lowest level of professional... |
FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow | FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan is an association football club based in Astrakhan, Russia. In 2008, they won the Russian Second Division in the South Zone and were promoted to the Russian First Division for 2009.-History:... |
FC Spartak-Orekhovo Orekhovo-Zuyevo | FC Torpedo-Viktoriya Nizhny Novgorod | FC Amkar Perm FC Amkar Perm FC Amkar Perm is a professional football club playing in Russian Premier League.They are based in the city of Perm and are the easternmost football club in Europe playing in top national competition... |
FC Metallurg Novokuznetsk | ||||
| 1999 | FC Avtomobilist Noginsk | FC Kuban Krasnodar FC Kuban Krasnodar FC Kuban is a Russian football club based in Krasnodar. In 2011 will play in the Russian Premier League after having won the Russian First Division in 2010.... |
FC Spartak-Chukotka Moscow FC Spartak-Chukotka Moscow FC Spartak-Chukotka Moscow was a Russian football team from Moscow. It played professionally in 1999 and 2000 .-External links:... |
FC Lada Togliatti FC Lada Togliatti FC Lada Tolyatti was a Russian football club based in Tolyatti. In March 2010, the club was excluded from the Second Division, along with another Toylatti team, FC Togliatti, with Tolyatti now represented by FC Akademiya Togliatti.-History:... |
FC Nosta Novotroitsk FC Nosta Novotroitsk FC Nosta Novotroitsk is a Russian association football club. The club finished 16th in the Russian First Division in 2009 and was relegated to the Russian Second Division. In early 2010 it was announced that the club is dissolved due to lack of financing... |
FC Metallurg Novokuznetsk | ||||
| 2000 | FC Severstal Cherepovets | FC Kuban Krasnodar FC Kuban Krasnodar FC Kuban is a Russian football club based in Krasnodar. In 2011 will play in the Russian Premier League after having won the Russian First Division in 2010.... |
FC Khimki FC Khimki FC Khimki is a Russian association football club based in Khimki.-History:The team was formed in 1996 by merging two amateur clubs from Khimki, Rodina, and Novator. Khimki entered the amateur league and played their first official match on 17 May 1996. Of more than 150 amateur teams in the... |
FC Svetotekhnika Saransk | FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk is an association football club from Nizhnekamsk, Russia, founded in 1991. It played on the second-highest level in the Russian First Division in 1993-1998 and 2001-2004.... |
FC Metallurg Novokuznetsk | ||||
| 2001 | FC Dynamo-SPb Saint Petersburg | FC SKA Rostov-on-Don FC SKA Rostov-on-Don FC SKA Rostov-on-Don is a Russian association football club based in Rostov-on-Don. The club's rich history includes becoming runners-up of the Soviet Top League in 1966 and winning the Soviet Cup in 1981.-History:... |
FC Metallurg Lipetsk FC Metallurg Lipetsk FC Metallurg Lipetsk is an association football club in Lipetsk, Russia, formed in 1966.-History:Their best result came in 1997 when they came 2nd in the Russian First Division.... |
FC Svetotekhnika Saransk | FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg | FC SKA-Energia Khabarovsk FC SKA-Energia Khabarovsk SKA-Energiya is an association football club based in Khabarovsk, Russia. They have played in the Russian First Division since 2002.-History:The club was known under different names:*DKA *ODO *DO *OSK... |
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| 2002 | FC Baltika Kaliningrad FC Baltika Kaliningrad Baltika is an association football club based in Kaliningrad, Russia. Currently the club plays in the Football Championship of the National League.-History:The club was founded on 22 December 1954 as Pishchevik Kaliningrad... |
FC Terek Grozny FC Terek Grozny FC Terek Grozny is a Russian football club, currently playing in the Russian Premier League.... |
FC Metallurg Lipetsk FC Metallurg Lipetsk FC Metallurg Lipetsk is an association football club in Lipetsk, Russia, formed in 1966.-History:Their best result came in 1997 when they came 2nd in the Russian First Division.... |
FC Svetotekhnika Saransk | FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg | FC Metallurg-Zapsib Novokuznetsk | ||||
| Year | West | South | Centre | Urals-Volga | East | |||||
| 2003 | FC Arsenal Tula | FC Dynamo Makhachkala FC Dynamo Makhachkala FC Dynamo Makhachkala was a Russian football club based in Makhachkala.In the 2006 season Dynamo finished 16th in the Russian First Division. However, the club was denied the professional licence and thus relegated to amateur level.... |
FC Oryol | FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny KAMAZ is a Russian football club based in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan. The club is currently in the Russian First Division.Colours are all white. Light blue shirts, white shorts.-History:... |
FC Luch-Energia Vladivostok FC Luch-Energia Vladivostok FC Luch-Energiya is a Russian football club based in Vladivostok. In 2005, Luch-Energia won the Russian First Division and played in the Premier League from 2006 to 2008.... |
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| 2004 | FC Torpedo Vladimir FC Torpedo Vladimir Football Club Torpedo Vladimir is a Russian football club from Vladimir, founded in 1959. In 2011, they will play in the Russian First Division after winning their zone of the Russian Second Division in 2010. The club has been called Trud , Traktor and Motor . Their best historical result was 6th... |
FC Dynamo Stavropol | FC Fakel Voronezh FC Fakel Voronezh FC Fakel Voronezh is a Russian association football club based in Voronezh. Currently the club plays in the Russian First Division. The name of the club means "Torch" .... |
FC Ural Yekaterinburg | FC Chkalovets-1936 Novosibirsk | |||||
| 2005 | FC Baltika Kaliningrad FC Baltika Kaliningrad Baltika is an association football club based in Kaliningrad, Russia. Currently the club plays in the Football Championship of the National League.-History:The club was founded on 22 December 1954 as Pishchevik Kaliningrad... |
FC Angusht Nazran FC Angusht Nazran FC Angusht Nazran is a Russian association football club from Nazran. In 2006, the club played in the Russian First Division, the second level of Russian professional football. In 2011, they play in the Russian Second Division.... |
FC Salyut-Energia Belgorod | FC Sodovik Sterlitamak FC Sodovik Sterlitamak FC Sodovik Sterlitamak was a Russian association football club based in Sterlitamak.-History:FC Sodovik is a team owned by OAO Soda. The team played in the Republic of Bashkortostan championship, winning it three times in 1967, 1979, and 1991. In 1992, Sodovik replaced Kauchuk, another team from... |
FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk is a Russian football club based in Krasnoyarsk. The club will play in the Russian First Division in 2011 after winning their zone of the Russian Second Division in 2010.-History:... |
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| 2006 | FC Tekstilshchik-Telekom Ivanovo FC Tekstilshchik-Telekom Ivanovo FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo is a Russian association football club from Ivanovo. Currently the club plays in the Russian Second Division. It has played on the second-highest level in 1939, 1945 to 1962, 1965 to 1974, 1983, 1992, 1993, and 2007.-Team name history:*1937-1938 Spartak Ivanovo*1939-1943... |
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz FC Spartak Vladikavkaz FC Alania Vladikavkaz is a Russian football club based in Vladikavkaz , North Ossetia-Alania. In 2010, it replaced FC Moscow in the Russian Premier League, but was relegated back after one season on the top level.-History:By the collapse of the Soviet Union, Spartak Vladikavkaz were the only... |
FC Spartak-MZhK Ryazan FC Spartak-MZhK Ryazan FC Spartak-MZhK Ryazan was a Russian football club based in Ryazan.The club founded in 2004 was sponsored by "Mervinsky dwelling concern" . In 2004 season the team played in Amateur Football League, winning zone "Golden Ring" championship and cup. In 2005 season it played in Second Division... |
FC Nosta Novotroitsk FC Nosta Novotroitsk FC Nosta Novotroitsk is a Russian association football club. The club finished 16th in the Russian First Division in 2009 and was relegated to the Russian Second Division. In early 2010 it was announced that the club is dissolved due to lack of financing... |
FC Zvezda Irkutsk FC Zvezda Irkutsk FC Zvezda Irkutsk was a Russian football club based in Irkutsk. Zvezda finished first in the Russian Second Division East in 2006, winning promotion to the Russian First Division... |
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| 2007 Russian Second Division 2007 The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zonesThe winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the First Division. The bottom finishers of each zone lose professional status and are relegated into the Amateur Football League.-Standings:... |
FC Sportakademklub Moscow FC Sportakademklub Moscow FC Sportakademklub Moscow is a Russian professional association football club, based in Moscow.Despite finishing outside of the Russian First Division relegation zone in 2008 , the club could not afford to participate in the 2009 season in the division and volunteered to get relegated to the... |
FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk is a Russian association football club based in Novorossiysk. In 2011, the club will play in the Russian First Division after winning their zone of the Russian Second Division.... |
FC Vityaz Podolsk FC Vityaz Podolsk FC Vityaz Podolsk is a Russian football club based in Podolsk that played in the Russian First Division in 2009.The club was founded in 1996 as a non-professional team. The current team was formed in 2000 and in 2001 it turned professional. The uniforms are all black for home and away games... |
FC Volga Ulyanovsk FC Volga Ulyanovsk FC Volga Ulyanovsk is professional association football club based in Ulyanovsk, Russia. In 2008, they were relegated to the Russian Second Division 2009 after they finished 17th in Russian First Division... |
FC Dynamo Barnaul FC Dynamo Barnaul FC Dynamo Barnaul is the Russian professional club from Barnaul. Founded in 1957. Following the 2008 season, the club was relegated from the Russian First Division to the Russian Second Division.-Current squad:As of October 10, 2011, according to the .... |
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| 2008 Russian Second Division 2008 The Russian Second Division 2008 is the third strongest Division in Russian football. The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zones.The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the First Division... |
FC MVD Rossii Moscow FC MVD Rossii Moscow FC MVD Rossii is a Russian football club from Moscow, founded in 2007. It represents the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Historically the ministry was represented by FC Dynamo Moscow, but Dynamo is now not directly dependent on MVD. Still, several players on the 2008 FC MVD roster played for... |
FC Volgar-Gazprom-2 Astrakhan | FC Metallurg Lipetsk FC Metallurg Lipetsk FC Metallurg Lipetsk is an association football club in Lipetsk, Russia, formed in 1966.-History:Their best result came in 1997 when they came 2nd in the Russian First Division.... |
FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod is a Russian football club from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 1963. In 2008, FC Volga won the Ural-Povolzhye zone of the Russian Second Division and advanced to the Russian First Division. It finished First Division as 4th in 2009 and finished one as 2nd in 2010 and... |
FC Chita FC Chita FC Chita is a Russian association football club based in Chita that currently plays in the Russian Second Division.The club was founded in 2006 as a result of reorganization of FC Lokomotiv Chita which was excluded from the First Division. FC Chita was immediately admitted to the Second... |
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| 2009 | FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg is an association football club from Saint Petersburg, Russia. The club played in the Russian First Division in 2010 after winning the Western zone of the Russian Second Division in 2009. But, the club relegated back to the third level after finishing 16th in 2010... |
FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi | FC Avangard Kursk FC Avangard Kursk FC Avangard Kursk is an association football club based in Kursk, Russia. In 2011, it will once again play in the Russian Second Division after taking the last place in Russian First Division in 2010, where it spent one season.... |
FC Mordovia Saransk FC Mordovia Saransk FC Mordovia Saransk is a Russian association football club from Saransk, Republic of Mordovia. In its current state it was formed in 2005, through the merger of Biokhimik-Mordovia and Lisma-Mordovia.... |
FC Irtysh Omsk | |||||
| 2010 2010 Russian Second Division The 2010 Russian Second Division is the third strongest division in Russian football. The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zones.The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the First Division... |
FC Torpedo Vladimir FC Torpedo Vladimir Football Club Torpedo Vladimir is a Russian football club from Vladimir, founded in 1959. In 2011, they will play in the Russian First Division after winning their zone of the Russian Second Division in 2010. The club has been called Trud , Traktor and Motor . Their best historical result was 6th... |
FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk is a Russian association football club based in Novorossiysk. In 2011, the club will play in the Russian First Division after winning their zone of the Russian Second Division.... |
FC Torpedo Moscow FC Torpedo Moscow FC Torpedo Moscow is an association football club, based in Moscow, Russia. The club was founded in 1930. On March 19, 2009 it was denied membership of the Professional Football League and did not play in the professional competitions in 2009... |
FC Gazovik Orenburg FC Gazovik Orenburg FC Gazovik Orenburg is a Russian association football club from Orenburg, founded in 1976. In 2011, it will play in the second-highest Russian First Division after winning the 2010 Russian Second Division zone. It played professionally from 1976 to 1982 and from 1989 on... |
FC Metallurg-Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | |||||