Russian Professional Football League

The 2nd Division until 1997: 2nd league, is the third Russian professional football league, and is organized by the Russian Football League. The league is geographically divided roughly into five zones: the west ( north-western part of European Russia ), center (northern / eastern part of European Russia ), south (southern part of European Russia ), Ural - Povolzhye (southern Urals and western Siberia) and East (the rest of Siberia ).

Depending on the year will change the number of teams in the 2nd Division, also varies the number of teams even during the current season so far always as always clubs have been excluded from the game. So began the 2009 season with 81 participants, of which but a total of six during the season for violations of the rules of the league - were excluded - not started to away games, no salary payments or referee bribery. The group winners automatically advance to the 1st Division, while the last group relegated to the amateur league and lose their professional status. 1994-1997 there was then under the second league briefly another semi-professional playing level, the 3rd league.

The classification of the groups are roughly oriented to the geographic conditions, boundary clubs can be classified into different scales depending on the participants of the different seasons, the clubs from Moscow and surrounding areas are distributed over the seasons West and center.

Participants 2013/14

The following clubs are 2013/14 represented in the 2nd Division:

West ( 17 clubs)

FK Khimki
FK Dolgoprudny
Tekstilschtschik Ivanovo
FK Kolomna
Spartak Kostroma
Lokomotiv Moscow 2
Strogino Moscow
Sewer Murmansk
Znamya Truda Orekhovo- Zuyevo
FK Pskov -747
Rus Saint Petersburg
Zenit- 2 Saint Petersburg
Dnepr Smolensk
FK Tosno
Volga Tver
Torpedo Vladimir
FK Vologda

Center (16 clubs)

Dynamo Bryansk
FK Kaluga
Avangard Kursk
Metallurg Lipetsk
Locomotive Liski
Spartak Moscow 2
FK Oryol
Zenit Penza
Podolje Podolsk
Vityaz Podolsk
Zvezda Ryazan
Sokol Saratov
Metallurg- Oskol Stary Oskol
FK Tambov
Fakel Voronezh
Metallurg Vyksa

South ( 18 clubs )

Torpedo Armavir
FK Astrakhan
Wolgar - Gazprom Astrakhan
Terek Grozny -2
Dagdiesel Kaspijsk
FK Krasnodar -2
Vityaz Krymsk
Druzhba Maikop
Chernomorets Novorossiysk
MITOS Novocherkassk
Maschuk - KMW Pyatigorsk
Biolog- Nowokubansk Progress
SKA Rostov
Kawkastransgas -2005 Rysdwjany
FK Taganrog
Alania Vladikavkaz d
Olimpija Volgograd
Energia Wolschski

Ural - Povolzhye (12 clubs)

Zenit Izhevsk
Spartak Yoshkar -Ola
Rubin-2 Kazan
Dynamo Kirov
KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny
Nosta Novotroitsk
Octane Perm
FK Sysran 2003
FK Tyumen
Lada Togliatti
FK Chelyabinsk
Volga Ulyanovsk

East ( 9 clubs)

Amur-2010 Blagoveshchensk
Sibirjak Bratsk
Baikal Irkutsk
Yakutia Yakutsk
Sakhalin Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk
Smena Komsomolsk -na- Amure
Sibir-2 Novosibirsk
Irtysh Omsk
FK Chita

Master

( Running is always the old name, linked to the current or last name of the club )

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