Russian Second League
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The Russian Second League (Template:Langx), formerly the Russian Professional Football League, are both the third (Division A) and fourth level (Division B) of Russian professional football.
History
In 1998–2010, it was run by the Professional Football League. The 2011–12 season was run by the Department of Professional Football of the Russian Football Union (Template:Langx).[1] From 2013 to 2021 season the league was again run by the Professional Football League and the name Second Division was no longer used, the league was just called PFL. Before the 2021–22 season, the league was merged organizationally with the second-tier First League and renamed to FNL2.[2] Before the 2022–23 season, its short name was changed again, to a historical name "Russian Second League", even though the league's full title ("Second Division of the Football National League") remained the same.[3]
The Second League was geographically divided into 4 zones:[4] 1 (ex-South - Southern European Russia), 2 (ex-West - Western European Russia and Eastern Siberia), 3 (ex-Centre - Northern and Eastern European Russia and Sakhalin), 4 (ex-Ural-Povolzhye - Southern Urals and Western Siberia). The number of clubs in each zone varied between years. In the 2020–21 season, there were 64 clubs in the division.[5]
The winners of each zone were automatically promoted to the Russian First League (known before 2011 as the First Division and from 2011 to 2022 as Russian Football National League). The bottom finishers of each zone lost professional status and were relegated to the Russian Amateur Football League. The teams typically could avoid relegation as long as they still have necessary financing to stay in the FNL2. Each club plays its opponents twice home and away.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
For the 2023–24 season, the league was reorganized once again and split into two tiers - third-tier Russian Second League Division A and fourth-tier Russian Second League Division B.[6]
Division A consists of two groups of 10 teams each - Gold Group and Silver Group. In the first stage of the season (summer/autumn), each team in the Gold and Silver groups plays each other team in the same group twice, home-and-away, for 18 games in total for each team.
For the second stage of the season (spring/summer), Groups are re-constituted. Gold Group now includes the top 6 first-stage Gold Group teams and top 4 first-stage Silver Group teams. Silver Group includes bottom 4 first-stage Gold Group teams, 5th and 6th-placed first-stage Silver Group teams and four winners of the Division B groups. Bottom 2 first-stage Silver Group teams are relegated to Division B. 7th and 8th first-stage Silver Group teams play in relegation play-offs against the previous season's bottom two second-stage Silver Group teams, with the losers of the play-offs relegated to Division B and the winners remaining in Division A Silver Group for the second stage. The teams in re-constituted groups play each other twice more for 18 more games. Top 2 Gold Group teams at the end of the season are promoted to the Russian First League for the next season. The 3rd-placed Gold Group team plays in promotion play-offs (two games, home-and-away) against the team that finishes first in the Gold Group in the first stage of the season (or second-placed first-stage team if the first-place first-stage team finishes in the top 2 or the bottom 4 in the second stage, or third-placed first-stage team if the second-place first-stage team also finishes in the top 2 or the bottom 4 in the second stage), the winner of those play-offs is also promoted to the Russian First League. The bottom four teams in the Gold Group at the end of the season are moved to Silver Group for the next season, and the top four teams in the Silver Group are moved to the Gold Group.[7]
Division B consists of four groups, mostly based on geography (1, 2, 3, 4). The winners of groups 1, 2, 3 and 4 are promoted to the Division A Silver Group for the spring/summer part of the Division A season. Division B switched to the spring-to-autumn cycle, the season is played from March to November.
The rotation between Division A and Division B happens in the winter, as described above.
Current Teams
Second League A[8]
| Team | Home City | Stadium | Capacity | Head Coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FK Dinamo Bryansk | Bryansk | Stadion Dinamo | 10,100 | Template:Flagicon Konstantin Sineokov |
| FK Irtysh Omsk | Omsk | Stadion Krasnaya Zvezda | 4,655 | Template:Flagicon Maksim Mishatkin |
| FK Khimik Dzerzhinsk | Dzerzhinsk | Stadion Khimik | 5,266 | Template:Flagicon Sergey Perednya |
| FK Krasnodar II | Krasnodar | Stadion Akademii FK Krasnodar | 4,371 | Template:Flagicon Ilya Valiev |
| FK Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk | Pyatigorsk | Central'nyj Stadion Mashuk | 10,365 | Template:Flagicon Artur Sadirov |
| FK Metallurg Lipetsk | Lipetsk | Stadion Metallurg | 14,940 | Template:Flagicon Maksim Romashchenko |
| FK Murom | Murom | Stadion Park 50 | 3,000 | Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Kulchiy |
| FK Rodina Moskva II | Moscow | Stadion Rodina | 10,033 | Template:Flagicon Filipp Sokolinskiy |
| FK Torpedo Miass | Miass | Stadion Trud | 5,000 | Template:Flagicon Vladimir Fedorov |
| FK Volga Ulyanovsk | Ulyanovsk | Stadion Trud | 15,000 | Template:Flagicon Mikhail Belov |
Second League B Group 1[9]
| Team | Home City | Stadium | Capacity | Head Coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaniya Vladikavkaz II | Grozny | Republican Spartak Stadium | 32,364 | Template:Flagicon Aslan Zaseev |
| Angusht Nazran | Nezran | Stadion Central'nyj im. Rashida Ausheva | 3,200 | Template:Flagicon Umar Markhiev |
| FK Astrakhan | Astrakhan | Stadion imeni Kolosova | 5,000 | Template:Flagicon Artem Kulikov |
| Biolog Novokubansk | Progress | Stadion Biolog | 2,300 | - |
| Dinamo Dagestan | Makhachkala | - | - | Template:Flagicon Artem Kashuba |
| Dinamo GTS Stavropol | Stavropol | Stadion Dinamo | 15,982 | Template:Flagicon Ashamaz Shakov |
| Druzhba Maikop | Maykop | Adygeyskiy Respublikanskiy Stadion Druzhba | 15,000 | Template:Flagicon Sergey Miroshnichenko |
| Forte Taganrog | Taganrog | Forte Arena Taganrog | 16,500 | Template:Flagicon Eduard Sarkisov |
| Kuban Kholding | Pavlovskaya | Stadion Urozhay | 3,500 | Template:Flagicon Dmitri Fomin |
| Legion Makhachkala | Machačkala | Stadion Dinamo | 16,100 | Template:Flagicon Akhmad Magomedkamilov |
| Nark Cherkessk | Cherkessk | - | - | Template:Flagicon Arslan Khalimbekov |
| FK Pobeda | Khasavyurt | - | - | - |
| FK Rostov II | Rostov-na-Donu | - | - | Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Abroskin |
| Rubin Yalta | Yalta | Stadion Avanhard | 4,000 | Template:Flagicon Aleksey Grachev |
| FC Sevastopol | Sevastopol | SKS Arena | 5,864 | Template:Flagicon Stanislav Gudzikevich |
| Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy | Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy | - | - | Template:Flagicon Aleksey Korobchenko |
| Spartak Nal'chik | Nal'chik | Stadion Spartak | 14,384 | Template:Flagicon Timur Bitokov |
Second League B Group 2[10]
| Team | Home City | Stadium | Capacity | Head Coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki | Velikiye Luki | Stadion Ekspress | 3,500 | Template:Flagicon Sergey Osadchuk |
| Baltika BFU imeni Immanuila Kanta | Kaliningrad | - | - | Template:Flagicon Anver Koneev |
| Chertanovo Moskva | Moscow | Arena Chertanovo | 4,000 | Template:Flagicon Sergey Chikishev |
| Dinamo Moskva II | Moscow | UTB Novogorsk-Dynamo | 1,500 | Template:Flagicon Pavel Alpatov |
| Dinamo St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg | Malaya Sportivnaya Arena | 3,018 | Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Fomichev |
| Dinamo Vologda | Vologda | Stadion Dinamo | 8,460 | Template:Flagicon Rudolf Chesalov |
| FK Irkutsk | Irkutsk | - | - | Template:Flagicon Konstantin Dzutsev |
| FK Rodina-m | Moscow | - | - | Template:Flagicon Aleskandr Pavlenko |
| Saturn Moskovskaya Oblast | Ramenskoe | Leon Arena | 16,726 | Template:Flagicon Vladimir Korytko |
| FK Spartak Moskva II | Moscow | Futbol'noe pole 4 Akademiya Spartak im. F. Cherenkova | 4,000 | Template:Flagicon Dmitri Kombarov |
| Torpedo Vladimir | Vladimir | Stadion Torpedo | 19,700 | Template:Flagicon Denis Evsikov |
| FK Tver | Tver | Stadion Junost' | 650 | Template:Flagicon Vladislav Ternavskiy |
| FK Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | Krasnoyarsk | Central'nyj Stadion | 32,500 | Template:Flagicon Aleskandr Kishinevskiy |
| Zenit St. Petersburg II | St. Petersburg | Malaya Sportivnaya Arena | 3,018 | Template:Flagicon Andrey Pocheptsov |
| Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo | Orekhovo-Zuyevo | Sportkompleks Znamja Truda | 5,500 | Template:Flagicon Vyacheslav Lugovkin |
| Zvezda St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg | Stadion Nova Arena | 2,000 | - |
Second League B Group 3[11]
| Team | Home City | Stadium | Capacity | Head Coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenal-2 Tula | Kosaya Gora | DYuSSh Arsenal Stadium | 1,000 | Template:Flagicon Andrey Kozlov |
| Dynamo Vladivostok | Vladivostok | - | - | Template:Flagicon Mikhail Salnikov |
| Spartak Tambov | Tambov | Stadion Spartak | 8,000 | Template:Flagicon Mikhail Pilipko |
| FK Khimki II | Khimki | Stadion Novye Khimki | 3,066 | Template:Flagicon Branimir Petrović |
| FK Kolomna | Kolomna | Stadion Trud | 3,200 | Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Kuranov |
| Kompozit Pavlovsky Posad | Pavlovsky Posad | - | - | Template:Flagicon Igor Rudoy |
| Kosmos Dolgoprudny | Dolgoprudny | - | - | Template:Flagicon Andrey Proshin |
| Kvant Obninsk | Obninsk | Stadion Trud | 4,000 | Template:Flagicon Oleg Morozov |
| FK Orel | Orel | Stadion Central'nyj im. V.I. Lenina | 15,292 | Template:Flagicon Evgeni Polyakov |
| FK Ryazan | Ryazan | Central'nyj Sportivn'yj Kompleks | 20,000 | Template:Flagicon Yuri Kuleshov |
| Sakhalin Sakhalinsk | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | Stadion Spartak | 4,200 | Template:Flagicon Yuri Drozdov |
| Salyut Belgorod | Belgorod | Stadion Salyut Belgorod | 11,456 | Template:Flagicon Viktor Navochenko |
| SKA-Khabarovsk II | Khabarovsk | Stadion imeni V.I. Lenina zapasnoe pole | 1,000 | Template:Flagicon Marat Khoziev |
| Strogino Moskva | Moscow | Stadion Rublevo | 2,000 | Template:Flagicon Sergey Zagidullin |
| Zenit Penza | Penza | Stadion Pervomayskiy | 4,000 | - |
Second League B Group 4[12]
Winners
References
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External links
- Template:In lang Professional Football League official website
- Template:In lang Department of professional football of the Russian Football Union
- Template:In lang Russian Professional Football League summary (Soccerway)
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