2012–13 Ukrainian Second League
The 2012–13 Ukrainian Second League was the 22nd season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. There are two groups of competition divided by region. The competition began on 13 July 2012 when Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk visited Sevastapol to play against FC Sevastopol-2 and lost 3–1.
Competition information
Stage details
The competition for the 2012–13 season has been changed from previous seasons 2 stages.The first stage will be a round robin competition similar to the previous seasons. The first stage of the competition will be played prior to the winter break. Each team will play with other teams two games.
The second stage will begin the spring of 2013. Teams will be divided into 4 groups. The first stage Groups A and B will be split into two pools one of teams playing for promotion to the First League, another of teams competing to remain in the Second League. Each team in a group will play with every other team two games in a round robin competition. The first two groups The top six teams of the first stage Groups A and B will advance. All points accumulated in the first stage will carry over. The champions of the Groups 1 and 2 will be directly promoted to the Ukrainian First League. The top teams of Groups 1 and 2 will also qualify for a championship play-off for the title of the Second League Champion as in the previous season.
The second place teams of both groups will qualify for a promotion/relegation play-off against the 15th and 16th placed teams of the 2012–13 Ukrainian First League. In the case of exclusion and/or withdrawal of teams from the First League during the season the format of the promotion/relegation play-off will change.
Teams will enter Groups 3 and 4 that are placed below the sixth place in Groups A and B in the first stage. Initially, These teams will play for the rights to remain in the Ukrainian Second League but due to the withdrawal for teams the competition was reformated for the second stage.
The Ukrainian Second League will be consolidated to twenty teams for the 2013–14 season.
Placing
The placing of teams in the table of all stages is done in the following order:- number of accumulated points
- difference between goals for and goals allowed
- number of goals scored
- head-to-head results among the teams that are tired after applying of the criteria above
- the League Fair-play ranking
Team changes
Admitted teams
The following teams were admitted by the PFL after playing in the 2012 Ukrainian Football Amateur League and passing attestation.- SKA Odesa – initial group stage '
- Obolon-2 Kyiv – UPL youth competitions '
- Zhemchuzhyna Yalta – initial group stage '
- FC Ternopil – initial group stage '
- * FC Ternopil is regarded as a successor of FC Nyva Ternopil-2.
- FC Poltava-2 Karlivka –
Omitted teams
Name changes
Last season FC UkrAhroKom Pryiutivka entered the PFL with the registered address of their parent company UkrAroKom in Pryiutivka. The club's home ground is located in Holovkivka. Prior to the start of the season the club changed its location with the PFL to Holovkivka.First stage
Group A
Location map
Final standings
Results
Group B
Location map
Final standings
Results
Second stage
The draw for the second stage of season took place on 19 February 2013 and only for the top six teams of each group from the first stage. The second stage will commence 6 April 2013.The Favbet tournament for Groups 3 and 4 was announced on 4 April 2013 for teams that did not qualify for Group 1 or Group 2.
Group 1
Final standings
Results
Top scorers
| Scorer | Goals | Team | |
| 1 |  Bohdan Semenets | 15 | FC Ternopil |
| 2 | Vasyl Prodan | 11 | Real Pharm Yuzhne |
| 2 | Petro Kondratyuk | 11 | Desna Chernihiv |
| 4 | Mykhaylo Serhiychuk | 9 | Slavutych Cherkasy |
| 4 | Vasyl Tsiutsiura | 9 | Skala Stryi |
| 6 | Yuriy Furta | 8 | Desna Chernihiv |
| 7 | Oleh Tarasenko | 7 | Slavutych Cherkasy |
| 8 | Vitaliy Bohdanov | 6 | FC Ternopil |
| 8 | Yevheniy Chepurnenko | 6 | Desna Chernihiv |
| 8 | Serhiy Kushka | 6 | Nyva Ternopil |
| 8 | Vadym Yavorskyi | 6 | SCA Odesa |
Group 2
Final standings
Results
Top scorers
| Scorer | Goals | Team | |
| 1 | Vladyslav Korobkin | 15 | Shakhtar Sverdlovsk |
| 1 | Andriy Draholyuk | 15 | Myr Hornostayivka |
| 3 | Denys Bezborodko | 13 | Shakhtar-3 Donetsk |
| 4 | Serhiy Bolbat | 12 | Shakhtar-3 Donetsk |
| 5 | Vitaliy Ponomar | 10 | Shakhtar Sverdlovsk |
| 5 | Yevhen Falkovskyi | 10 | UkrAhroKom Holovkivka |
| 7 | Dmytro Ivanisenya | 8 | Shakhtar-3 Donetsk |
| 7 | Vladyslav Savchenko | 8 | Myr Hornostayivka |
| 7 | Maksym Malyshev | 8 | Shakhtar-3 Donetsk |
| 7 | Oleksandr Ponomarenko | 8 | Poltava-2 Karlivka |
Notes:
Favbet tournament
Due to a number of withdrawals during the winter break it necessitated that the PFL change the competition structure for the Second Stage for Groups 3 and 4. On 4 April 2013 a draw took place for clubs that placed at bottom halves after the autumn half of season. For sponsorship purposes the tournament titled as the Favbet Tournament and as previously planned is composed of two groups. The changes were reviewed and accepted by the FFU Executive Committee on 3 April 2013. The four teams in Group 3 will not have their points transferred from the first stage of the competition, while the Group 4 teams will continue on with the points they gained in the first stage. The paragraph 17 of the Article 13 about relegation of teams from the Second League was suspended.Games in both Groups are scheduled to resume on 13 April 2013.
Group 3
Final standings
Results
Top scorers
| Scorer | Goals | Team | |
| 1 | Oleksandr Mukovozov | 4 | Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka |
| 2 | Vyacheslav Ozyum | 3 | Krystal Kherson |
| 2 | Artem Sitalo | 3 | Krystal Kherson |
| 4 | Ihor Chernomor | 2 | Krystal Kherson |
| 4 | Pavlo Chernyayev | 2 | Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka |
| 4 | Pavlo Haribyan | 2 | Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka |
| 4 | Yuri Komyahin | 2 | Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka |
| 4 | Dmytro Kryvyi | 2 | Krystal Kherson |
| 4 | Vitaliy Martynov | 2 | Zhemchuzhyna Yalta |
Group 4
Final standings
Results
Top scorers
| Scorer | Goals | Team | |
| 1 | Stanislav Kulish | 29 | Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk |
| 2 | Yuriy Kolomoyets | 16 | Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih |
| 3 | Hryhoriy Haranyan | 10 | Stal/Hirnyk |
| 4 | Andriy Misyailo | 9 | Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk |
| 5 | Denys Shevchuk | 8 | Makiyivvuhillya Makiyivka |
| 6 | Volodymyr Korol'kov | 7 | Zhemchuzhyna/Hirnyk-Sport |
| 7 | Seikhan Aliyev | 5 | Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk |
| 7 | Serhiy Dyachuk | 5 | Zhemchuzhyna/Hirnyk-Sport |
| 7 | Anatoliy Pashkovsky | 5 | Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih |
| 7 | Volodymyr Sechin | 5 | PFC Sevastopol-2 |
Notes:
Championship matches
The title of the Second League Champion will be played by the Group 1 and Group 2 winners at the end of the season. The matches will be played in a home and away series. The draw for the matches was made on 6 June 2013.First leg
Second leg
3–3 on aggregate. Desna Chernihiv won on away goals.Notes: