| Season: | 2022–23 |
| Dates: | 3 September 2022 – 27 May 2023 |
| League Topscorer: | Artur Zahorulko (14 goals) |
| Biggest Home Win: | Vast 5–0 Kremin-2 Nyva B 5–0 Rubikon |
| Biggest Away Win: | |
| Highest Scoring: | |
| Longest Wins: | Nyva B (9 games) |
| Longest Unbeaten: | Nyva B (9 games) |
| Longest Winless: | Kremin-2 (8 games) |
| Longest Losses: | Rubikon (7 games) |
| Updated: | 30 April 2023 |
The 2022–23 Ukrainian Second League was the 32nd since its establishment.
Due to Russo-Ukrainian War, the Professional Football League of Ukraine (PFL) lost some 24 clubs. Out of 31 teams of the last season, only 4 remained for this season. The Second League was replenished with some teams from national amateur competitions as well as some clubs added their reserve teams. Unlike the last season, this season consisted of a single group of 10 with a standard double round-robin tournament. The top team would receive a direct promotion, while the runner-up contest promotion with the second to the last from the First League.
With occupation of Kherson Oblast, the Russian occupational administration announced to create own club (Fregat) in place of FC Krystal Kherson.[1] However, after the 2022 Kherson counteroffensive, the story did not get any continuation.
Four teams have been promoted from the 2021–22 Ukrainian Football Amateur League:
One additional reserve team of the First League club and another amateur club were admitted to the league:
None, while 14 teams suspended their activities or dissolved.
| Team | Stadium | Position in 2021–22 |
|---|---|---|
| Nyva Vinnytsia | Tsentralnyi Miskyi Stadion | 8th, Group A |
| Chaika | Livyi Bereh, Kyiv | 12th, Group A |
| Rubikon Kyiv | OFK Piddubnoho | 13th, Group A |
| Real Pharma Odesa | Stadion Ivan | 14th, Group B |
| Nyva Buzova | Yuvileinyi Stadium, Bucha | Am |
| Zviahel | Avanhard | Am |
| Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | Slavutych-Arena | Am |
| Vast Mykolaiv | Dinaz Stadium, Demydiv | Am |
| Khust | Karpaty | — |
| Kremin-2 Kremenchuk | Kremin Arena | — |
| Club | Head coach[5] | Replaced coach |
|---|---|---|
 Denys Khomutov Ihor Lutsenko (acting) | ||
| Yuriy Chumak | ||
| Yuriy Kulish | ||
| Dmytro Nazarenko | ||
| Ruslan Skydan | ||
| Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vast Mykolaiv | Artem Chorniy | Undisclosed | July 2022 | Pre-season | Dmytro Nazarenko | July 2022 |
| Khust | Volodymyr Tsytkin | July 2022 | ||||
| Nyva Vinnytsia | Ihor Leonov | Resigned | spring 2022 | Oleh Ostapenko | 28 July 2022[6] | |
| Kremin-2 Kremenchuk | Yuriy Chumak | August 2022 | ||||
| Real Pharma Odesa | Artem Ryazantsev | Undisclosed | 8 September 2022 | Yuriy Kulish | 8 September 2022[7] [8] | |
| Kremin-2 Kremenchuk | Yuriy Chumak | Mutual consent | 10 November 2022[9] [10] | 9th | Yaroslav Zdyrko | 14 February 2023[11] |
| Real Pharma Odesa | Yuriy Kulish | Mutual consent | 18 November 2022 | 2nd | Andriy Parkhomenko | 18 November 2022[12] [13] |
| Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | Denys Khomutov | "Mutual consent" | 26 November 2022[14] | 3rd | Serhiy Syzykhin | 26 January 2023[15] |
| Vast Mykolaiv | Dmytro Nazarenko | Role change | 28 December 2022 | 7th | Ihor Yermakov | 28 December 2022[16] |
Notes:
| Rank | Scorer | Team | Goals (Pen.) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center rowspan=1 | 1 | Artur Zahorulko | Nyva Vinnytsia | 14 (5) |
| align=center rowspan=1 | 2 | 2 player(s) | 12 | |
| align=center rowspan=2 | 2 | Oleksiy Lytovchenko | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | 12 (2) |
| Ivan Somov | Nyva Buzova | 12 (2) | ||
| align=center rowspan=1 | 4 | 1 player(s) | 10 | |
| Vasyl Lutsiv | Khust | 10 (0) | ||
| align=center rowspan=1 | 5 | 3 player(s) | 8 | |
| Artur Vashchyshyn | Zviahel | 8 (0) | ||
| Serhiy Barsukov | Real Pharma Odesa | 8 (1) | ||
| Maksym Averyanov | Zviahel | 8 (4) | ||
| 7 | 1 player(s) | 7 | ||
| Artur Vashchyshyn | Zviahel | 8 (0) | ||
| 8 | 1 player(s) | 6 | ||
| align=center rowspan=1 | 4 | Petro Lutsiv | Khust | 6 (2) |
| 9 | 4 players | 5 | ||
| align=center rowspan=10 | 4 | Andriy Holovatenko | Nyva Buzova | 5 (0) |
| Dmytro Humenyak | Vast Mykolaiv | 5 (0) | ||
| Volodymyr Tymenko | Nyva Buzova | 5 (0) | ||
| Zlat Zlatyev | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 5 (0) | ||
| 13 | 6 players | 4 | ||
| align=center rowspan=10 | 4 | Oleksandr Huskov | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | 4 (0) |
| Vadym Merdieyev | Khust | 4 (0) | ||
| Denys Ndukve | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | 4 (0) | ||
| Bohdan Semenets | Nyva Buzova | 4 (0) | ||
| Oleksiy Shvets | Nyva Vinnytsia | 4 (0) | ||
| Anatoliy Taran | Nyva Buzova | 4 (0) | ||
| 19 | 16 players | 3 | ||
| align=center rowspan=20 | 5 | Yuriy Bambolia | Zviahel | 3 (0) |
| Vladyslav Borysenko | Khust | 3 (0) | ||
| Andriy Fesenko | Zviahel | 3 (0) | ||
| Anton Kalaytan | Rubikon Kyiv | 3 (0) | ||
| Vadym Khokhlov | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | 3 (0) | ||
| Oleh Kramarenko | Vast Mykolaiv | 3 (0) | ||
| Valeriy Nikitchuk | Zviahel | 3 (0) | ||
| Denys Skepskyi | Nyva Buzova | 3 (0) | ||
| Mykola Stetsenko | Vast / Chaika | 3 (0) | ||
| Hlib Tolok | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 3 (0) | ||
| Mykyta Zhukov | Nyva Vinnytsia | 3 (0) | ||
| Yan Karanha | Vast Mykolaiv | 3 (1) | ||
| Vitaliy Koltsov | Nyva Vinnytsia | 3 (1) | ||
| Serhiy Platunov | Real Pharma Odesa | 3 (1) | ||
| Dmytro Pudy | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | 3 (1) | ||
| Dmytro Yarchuk | Vast Mykolaiv | 3 (1) | ||
| Stanislav Rokotyanskyi | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 3 (2) | ||
| 36 | 15 players | 2 | ||
| align=center rowspan=20 | 6 | Oleksandr Faber | Real Pharma Odesa | 2 (0) |
| Mykhaylo Flyashko | Khust | 2 (0) | ||
| Nazar Havrylyuk | Zviahel | 2 (0) | ||
| Vadym Hranchar | Real Pharma Odesa | 2 (0) | ||
| Heorhiy Kovalskyi | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 2 (0) | ||
| Maksym Kucherenko | Kremin-2 Kremenchuk | 2 (0) | ||
| Vladyslav Kulakevych | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | 2 (0) | ||
| Mykyta Lapko | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 2 (0) | ||
| Bohdan Pavlych | Khust | 2 (0) | ||
| Nazar Prykhodko | Khust | 2 (0) | ||
| Artem Pyatybrat | Kremin-2 Kremenchuk | 2 (0) | ||
| Vladyslav Shkinder | Vast Mykolaiv | 2 (0) | ||
| Valeriy Skydan | Zviahel | 2 (0) | ||
| Ivan Stankovych | Khust | 2 (0) | ||
| Andriy Varenyk | Real Pharma Odesa | 2 (0) | ||
| 51 | 37 players | 1 | ||
| align=center rowspan=40 | 5 | Stanislav Badetskyi | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 1 (0) |
| Volodymyr Blyznyuk | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 1 (0) | ||
| Dmytro Borodenko | Rubikon Kyiv | 1 (0) | ||
| Oleksandr Boryachuk | Nyva Vinnytsia | 1 (0) | ||
| Denys Chervinskyi | Zviahel | 1 (0) | ||
| Herman Dmytriyev | Real Pharma Odesa | 1 (0) | ||
| Maksym Ihumenov | Real Pharma Odesa | 1 (0) | ||
| Stepan Klymenko | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | 1 (0) | ||
| Oleksiy Kolesnykov | Real Pharma Odesa | 1 (0) | ||
| Yevhen Kostyuk | Nyva Vinnytsia | 1 (0) | ||
| Maksym Kovalenko | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 1 (0) | ||
| Mykyta Kuralekh | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 1 (0) | ||
| Valentyn Kuzmovych | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 1 (0) | ||
| Mykyta Ladyka | Real Pharma Odesa | 1 (0) | ||
| Ihor Lutsenko | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | 1 (0) | ||
| Artem Makhonin | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | 1 (0) | ||
| Yevhen Misyura | Nyva Buzova | 1 (0) | ||
| Vladyslav Molko | Kremin-2 Kremenchuk | 1 (0) | ||
| Yevhen Moroz | Nyva Vinnytsia | 1 (0) | ||
| Anton Muzychenko | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka | 1 (0) | ||
| Vitaliy Myachyn | Real Pharma Odesa | 1 (0) | ||
| Yevhen Mykolayuk | Nyva Buzova | 1 (0) | ||
| Kostiantyn Parkhomenko | Real Pharma Odesa | 1 (0) | ||
| Mykhailo Popov | Real Pharma Odesa | 1 (0) | ||
| Volodymyr Shevchuk | Nyva Vinnytsia | 1 (0) | ||
| Ivan Sklyarenko | Nyva Buzova | 1 (0) | ||
| Vadym Strashkevych | Nyva Vinnytsia | 1 (0) | ||
| Vyacheslav Studenko | Vast Mykolaiv | 1 (0) | ||
| Rudolf Sukhomlynov | Rubikon Kyiv | 1 (0) | ||
| Ruslan Tovstonoh | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 1 (0) | ||
| Oleksiy Tyshchenko | Vast Mykolaiv | 1 (0) | ||
| Vladyslav Tymoshevskyi | Real Pharma Odesa | 1 (0) | ||
| Yevhen Vitenko | Vast Mykolaiv | 1 (0) | ||
| Oleksandr Vivdych | Kremin-2 Kremenchuk | 1 (0) | ||
| Mykyta Yudin | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 1 (0) | ||
| Oleksiy Zhdanovych | Kremin-2 Kremenchuk | 1 (0) | ||
| Tymofiy Khussin | Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 1 (1) | ||
| Maksym Tyshchenko | Rubikon Kyiv | 1 (1) | ||
| Number | Region | Team(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka and Nyva Buzova | |
| 1 | Rubikon Kyiv | |
| Vast Mykolaiv | ||
| Real Pharma Odesa | ||
| Kremin-2 Kremenchuk | ||
| Nyva Vinnytsia | ||
| Zviahel | ||
| Khust | ||
| Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia |
Following the league season (double round-robin tournament), the runner-up is expected to meet with the 2022–23 First League's 15th placed team to contest the 2022–23 Second League promotion.