2017–18 Montenegrin Second League Explained

Competition:Montenegrin Second League
Season:2017–18
Winners:Mornar
Promoted:Mornar
Lovćen
Relegated:Ibar
Cetinje
Čelik
League Topscorer:Elie Matuoke
(Mladost Lješkopolje)
Biggest Home Win:
Biggest Away Win:

Highest Scoring:
Matches:198
Total Goals:488
Prevseason:2016–17
Nextseason:2018–19

The 2017–18 Montenegrin Second League was the 12th season since the establishment of the Montenegrin Second League. The season ran from 13 August 2017 to 26 May 2018.

Format of competition

A total of 12 teams participated in this edition of the Second League. The new members were FK Lovćen, FK Jedinstvo and FK Bokelj who was relegated from 2016–17 Montenegrin First League, and winners of Montenegrin Third League playoffs - OFK Mladost Lješkopolje.
This was the last season of Second CFL with 12 participants, as the participants would be reduced to 10. At the end of the season, three worst-placed teams on the table would be directly relegated to the Montenegrin Third League.

Teams

The following 12 clubs competed in this season.[1]

Club
Citydata-sort-type="number"Finishing
in 2016–17
Stadium
Berane6thGradski stadion (11,000)
KotorStadion pod Vrmcem (2,000)
Cetinje7thSveti Petar Cetinjski (5,192)
Nikšić9thStadion Željezare (2,000)
Rožaje2ndBandžovo brdo (4,000)
Igalo8th Solila (1,000)
Bijelo PoljeGradski Stadion (5,000)
Plav5th Stadion pod Racinom (5,000)
CetinjeSveti Petar Cetinjski (5,192)
LješkopoljeStari Ribnjak Stadium (1,200)
Bar4th Topolica (2,500)
Ulcinj3rdStadion Olympic (1,500)

League table

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 22 games. 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 33 games per team.

Third round

Promotion play-offs

The 3rd-placed team (against the 10th-placed team of the First League) and the runners-up (against the 11th-placed team of the First League) will both compete in two-legged promotion play-offs after the end of the season.

Matches

Lovćen won 2–1 on aggregate.----Petrovac won 5–2 on aggregate.

Top scorers

RankScorerClubGoals
1 Elie MatuokeMladost Lješkopolje23
2 Mehmed DivanovićOtrant-Olympic14
Dejan PepićBokelj
4 Denis DžanovićOtrant-Olympic12
Ivan JablanLovćen
6 Ivan AsanovićBerane11
Denis BandaJedinstvo
Milivoje MrdakJedinstvo
Goran VujovićLovćen
10 Ivan BulatovićBokelj10
Filip KalačevićMornar

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Druga liga Crne Gore 17/18 - Fudbalski savez Crne Gore . 2017-08-11 . 2019-04-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190420000930/http://online.fscg.me/competitions/druga-liga-1718-768510/ . dead .