2007 Russian Second Division Explained

Competition:	Russian Second Division
Season:	2007
Prevseason:	2006
Nextseason:	2008

The 2007 Russian Second Division was the third strongest Division in Russian football. The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zones. The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the First Division. The bottom finishers of each zone lose professional status and are relegated into the Amateur Football League.

South

Standings

Top scorers

22 goals

• Karen Sargsyan (FC Dynamo Stavropol)

17 goals

• Ivan Luzhnikov (FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk)

16 goals

• Vladimir Shipilov (FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk)

14 goals

• Vladimir Serov (FC Rotor Volgograd)
• Georgi Smurov (FC Taganrog)

13 goals

• Ivan Grinyuk (FC Bataysk-2007)
• Dmitry Mezinov (FC Bataysk-2007)

12 goals

• Zhumaldin Karatlyashev (FC Kavkaztransgaz-2005 Ryzdvyany)
• Ilya Kokorev (FC Sochi-04)

11 goals

• Mikhail Surshkov (FC Druzhba Maykop)

West

Standings

Top scorers

16 goals

• Aleksei Baranov (FC Torpedo-RG Moscow)

14 goals

• Maksim Protserov (FC Spartak Shchyolkovo)
• Ruslan Suanov (FC Dynamo St. Petersburg / FC Sportakademklub Moscow)

13 goals

• Ruslan Elderkhanov (FC Reutov)

11 goals

• Maksim Andreyev (FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg)

10 goals

• Grigory Gnedov (FC Sheksna Cherepovets)
• Azamat Gonezhukov (FC Nara-Desna Naro-Fominsk)
• Dmitry Kalinin (FC Sheksna Cherepovets)
• Valeri Malyshev (FC Torpedo Vladimir)

9 goals

• Igor Vekovishchev (FC Zelenograd)
• Sergei Rodin (FC Sportakademklub Moscow)
• Artur Sarkisov (FC Reutov)

Center

Standings

Top scorers

17 goals

• Denis Zhukovskiy (FC Metallurg Lipetsk)

15 goals

• Roman Grigoryan (FC Vityaz Podolsk)

12 goals

• Sergei Anokhin (FC Vityaz Podolsk)
• Vladislav Mayorov (FC Ryazan)

11 goals

• Aleksei Antonnikov (FC Lukhovitsy)
• Vladimir Konstantinov (FC Lokomotiv Liski)
• Aleksandr Kutyin (FC Yelets)

10 goals

• Dmitri Bayda (FC Metallurg Lipetsk)
• Dmitri Chesnokov (FC Vityaz Podolsk)
• Andrei Meshchaninov (FC Saturn Yegoryevsk / FC Zvezda Serpukhov)
• Fyodor Milovanov (FC Dynamo Voronezh)
• Rafael Zangionov (FC Metallurg Lipetsk)

Ural-Povolzhye

Standings

Top scorers

17 goals

• Dmitri Ryzhov (FC Krylia Sovetov-SOK Dimitrovgrad)

15 goals

• Vladimir Morozov (FC Zenit Chelyabinsk)

14 goals

• Mikhail Tyufyakov (FC Dynamo Kirov)

12 goals

• Marat Shogenov (FC Gazovik Orenburg)
• Dmitri Zarva (FC Tyumen)

11 goals

• Konstantin Kaynov (FC Lada Togliatti / FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod)

10 goals

• Sergei Yevin (FC Lada Togliatti / FC Volga Ulyanovsk)

9 goals

• Dmitri Bushmanov (FC Zenit Chelyabinsk)
• Sergei Perednya (FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod)

8 goals

• Valeri Lobanovskiy (FC Zenit Chelyabinsk)
• Stanislav Prokofyev (FC Tyumen)
• Maksim Samoylov (FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk)

East

Standings

Top scorers

19 goals

• Yevgeni Ragoza (FC Dynamo Barnaul)

14 goals

• Aleksei Tikhonkikh (FC Chita)

12 goals

• Anton Bagayev (FC Irtysh-1946 Omsk)
• Yevgeni Nosov (FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure)
• Anton Sidelnikov (FC Chita)

11 goals

• Vladislav Aksyutenko (FC Dynamo Barnaul)
• Nikolai Sergiyenko (FC Amur Blagoveshchensk)

9 goals

• Aleksei Bazanov (FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk)

8 goals

• Yevgeni Kachan (FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk)
• Andrei Smyshlyayev (FC Sibiryak Bratsk)
• Vitali Trofimov (FC Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky)