Vast Mykolaiv → Mykolaiv 1920, on 28 June 2023 the Vast's Instagram page appeared to announce that club changes its name to Mykolaiv 1920.[2] The internet news website "Ukrainskyi futbol" asked for commentary from the Chairman of the Board ofMFC Mykolaiv Serhiy Kantor who stated that everything must be done by the law and Vast Mykolaiv at the PFL Annual Conference was certified as Vast Mykolaiv.[3]
On 26 October 2023 Vast Mykolaiv was expelled from the 2023–24 Ukrainian Second League (Druha Liha) teams' competitions by the UAF CDC for failing to appear for a scheduled match for second time.[4][5] The club played 10 matches with a record of 1 win, 1 tie, 8 losses and goal difference 8 scored, 40 allowed.
On 5 January 2024Metalurh Zaporizhzhia announced that it already started process of liquidation of its second team due to change of financing of the club.[6] Upon withdrawal the Metalurh's second team was placing 10th playing 16matches with a record of 5 wins, 1 tie, 10 losses and goal difference 17 scored 44 allowed.
Source:PFL.ua Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference in all games; 6) Goals scored in all games(Note: calculation by criteria indicated in rules 2, 3, 4 is conducted with consideration of all teams that have equal number of tournament points at the moment of calculation and not only among those which after preliminary criteria have appeared more successful). (C) Champions;(O) Play-off winners;(P) Promoted Notes:
Source:pfl.ua(in Ukrainian) Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. Notes:
^The three of the Second League Round 17 matches on 11 November 2023 were postponed due to mass ballistic missile attack across Ukraine by the Russian Forces. The match was played the next day.
^The Round 14 match (October 21) did not take place. Vast Mykolaiv announced that it withdraws from competitions.[42] On 26 October 2023 the UAF CDC adopted decision to award technical victory (3:0) to Metalurh and technical loss (0:3) to Vast after Vast failed to appear for the schedule match.[4]
^The three of the Second League Round 17 matches on 11 November 2023 were postponed due to mass ballistic missile attack across Ukraine by the Russian Forces. The match was played the next day.
^The match was postponed from August 20 (Round 3) to September 27 (after Round 9).
^The three of the Second League Round 17 matches on 11 November 2023 were postponed due to mass ballistic missile attack across Ukraine by the Russian Forces. The match has been scheduled to be played on 27 November 2023.[43]
^The match did not take place at scheduled time on 27 August 2023 and reason was not disclosed.[44] Later it became known that the game was postponed on the initiative of visiting team due to shortage of available players.[45] No later than 6 October 2023, the PFL updated its calendar showing the match result as 3–0 (before Round 11).[46]
^Zviahel requested to have the Round 13 match Zviahel – Rukh-2 to be postponed as many players of Zviahel are out due to injuries and illnesses (URTI).[47] On 18 October 2023 the PFL announced that the match will take place on 15 November 2023 (after Round 17).[48]
Additional notes:
The Round 4 match (Vast–Karpaty-2) did not take place on scheduled date 3 September 2023 as Vast was not able to provide playing grounds being a home team.[49]
The Round 12 match (UCSA–Vast) did not take place on scheduled date 11 October 2023 due to financial struggle of Vast.[50] The match was rescheduled for 1 November 2023 (after Round 15).[46] Later Vast director explained that the club has no issues with financing, but rather with shortage of players and working to resolve this problem.[46]
The Round 14 match (October 27, Zviahel–Vast) did not take place since the UAF CDC has officially announced on October 26 that Vast was removed from Ukrainian professional football competitions.
Metalurh Zaporizhia withdrew its second team from competitions, all matches of its team starting from the Round 17 are forfeited. The rest of the Metalurh's matches were awarded technical losses (marked '-'), to its opponents' technical victory ('+').
Kremin-2 Kremenchuk by winning over Trostianets on 4 May 2024 in the Round 27 set a new anti-record of 38 matches without win, a streak which was ongoing since 17 September 2022. The previous record of 35 matches existed since 2006.[51]
Following the league season (double round-robin tournament), the runner-up and third placed teams are expected to meet with the2023–24 First League's 16th and 18th placed teams to contest the 2023–24 Second League promotion.
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