2008 Russian Second Division Explained

Competition:	Russian Second Division
Season:	2008
Prevseason:	2007
Nextseason:	2009

The 2008 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

Top scorers

27 goals

• Mikhail Markosov (FC Dynamo Stavropol)

17 goals

• Dmitry Mezinov (FC Bataysk-2007)
• Vladimir Serov (FC Rotor Volgograd)
• Artur Yelbayev (FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz)

16 goals

• Ivan Gerasimov (FC Olimpia Volgograd)

15 goals

• Dmitri Pinchuk (FC Olimpia Volgograd / FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi)

14 goals

• Yevgeni Losev (FC Volgar-Gazprom-2 Astrakhan)

12 goals

• Nizar Al-Taravna (FC Bataysk-2007)
• Denis Dorozhkin (FC Krasnodar)
• Dmitri Kovalenko (FC Olimpia Volgograd)

West

Top scorers

18 goals

• Aleksei Baranov (FC Torpedo-RG Moscow / FC MVD Rossii Moscow)

17 goals

• Ramaz Dzhabnidze (FC Dmitrov / FC Zelenograd)

16 goals

• Andrei Opanasyuk (FC Spartak Kostroma)

15 goals

• Yuri Kapusta (FC Nara-ShBFR Naro-Fominsk)
• Vadim Klass (FC Sever Murmansk)

13 goals

• Grigory Gnedov (FC Spartak Kostroma)

12 goals

• Dmitri Vyazmikin (FC Torpedo Vladimir)

10 goals

• Andrei Bubchikov (FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo)
• Andrei Dyomkin (FC Sheksna Cherepovets / FC MVD Rossii Moscow)
• Kirill Makarov (FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg)
• Andrei Smirnov (FC Torpedo Vladimir)
• Ivan Stolbovoy (FC Volga Tver)
• Ruslan Usikov (FC Dynamo St. Petersburg / FC MVD Rossii Moscow)
• Aleksei Zhelatin (FC Pskov-747)

Center

Top scorers

17 goals

• Andrei Meshchaninov (FC Zvezda Serpukhov)

16 goals

• Artur Grigoryan (FC Lokomotiv Liski)

14 goals

• Oleg Shchyotkin (FC Zenit Penza)

13 goals

• Anzour Nafash (FC Lukhovitsy)
• Denis Zhukovskiy (FC Dynamo-Voronezh Voronezh)

11 goals

• Sergei Faustov (FC Gubkin)
• Andrei Meshcheryakov (FC Lokomotiv Liski)

10 goals

• Kirill Kurochkin (FC Mordovia Saransk)
• Sergei Mikhailov (FC Avangard Kursk)
• Anton Sereda (FC Yelets)
• Vasili Shatalov (FC Saturn-2 Moscow Oblast)
• Denis Snimshchikov (FC Mordovia Saransk)

Ural-Povolzhye

Top scorers

27 goals

• Mikhail Tyufyakov (FC Rubin-2 Kazan / FC Lada Togliatti)

23 goals

• Ilya Borodin (FC Nizhny Novgorod)

17 goals

• Stanislav Prokofyev (FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod)

15 goals

• Marat Shogenov (FC Gazovik Orenburg)

14 goals

• Yevgeni Yaroslavtsev (FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk)
• Dmitri Zarva (FC Tyumen)

13 goals

• Artyom Delkin (FC Togliatti)
• Vladimir Morozov (FC Zenit Chelyabinsk)
• Aleksandr Pavlov (FC Tyumen)

12 goals

• Yuri Budylin (FC Alnas Almetyevsk)
• Anatoli Zavyalov (FC Gornyak Uchaly)

East

Top scorers

14 goals

• Anton Bagayev (FC Irtysh-1946 Omsk)

13 goals

• Stanislav Goncharov (FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk)

12 goals

• Vyacheslav Chadov (FC Amur Blagoveshchensk)
• Andrei Lodis (FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure)
• Grigori Pogonyshev (FC Sibiryak Bratsk)

9 goals

• Roman Belyayev (FC Sibir-2 Novosibirsk)
• Aleksandr Shtyn (FC KUZBASS Kemerovo)
• Maksim Zhivnovitskiy (FC Chita)

8 goals

• Ilya Levin (FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure)
• Yevgeni Polyakov (FC Sibir-2 Novosibirsk)
• Artyom Rudovskiy (FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure)

References

• PFL
• Soccerway