2009–10 Moldovan National Division

Moldovan National Division
Season	2009–10
Champions	Sheriff Tiraspol
Champions League	Sheriff Tiraspol
Europa League	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița; Olimpia Bălți; Dacia Chișinău
Matches played	198
Goals scored	477 (2.41 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alexandru Maximov; Jymmy França (13 goals)
Biggest home win	CSCA-Rapid 6–0 Nistru Otaci
Biggest away win	Sfîntul Gheorghe 0–7 Viitorul Orhei
Highest scoring	Dinamo Bender 5–3 Sfîntul Gheorghe
Average attendance	872
	← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The 2009–10 Moldovan National Division (Romanian: Divizia Națională) was the 19th season of top-tier football in Moldova. The season began on 5 July 2008, with the final round of matches played on 16 May 2009. Sheriff Tiraspol retained their title as defending champions.

Team changes

On 6 June 2009, Tiligul-Tiras Tiraspol announced that the club would dissolve, citing a lack of funds as the reason.^[1] As a consequence, Academia Chișinău were spared from relegation. The 2008–09 season had already been absolved with only eleven teams after FC Politehnica Chișinău withdrew their participation just days before the scheduled start.

The two vacant league spots were filled with 2008–09 Moldovan "A" Division champions Viitorul Orhei and 11th-placed Sfîntul Gheorghe, who bought their way into the top level.^{[citation needed]}

Stadia and locations

Chișinău

Chișinău teams:
Academia
Dacia
Zimbru

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Location of teams in National Division 2009–10

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
FC Academia UTM	Chișinău	Dinamo Stadium (Chișinău)	2,692
CSCA-Rapid Chișinău	Ghidighici	Ghidighici Stadium	784
FC Dacia	Chișinău	Dinamo Stadium (Chișinău)	2,692
FC Dinamo	Bender	Dinamo Stadium (Bender)	5,061
FC Iskra-Stal	Rîbnița	Orăşănesc Stadium	4,500
FC Nistru	Otaci	Călărăseuca Stadium	2,000
FC Olimpia	Bălți	Olimpia Bălți Stadium	5,953
FC Sfintul Gheorghe	Suruceni	Suruceni Stadium	2,000
FC Sheriff	Tiraspol	Sheriff Stadium	13,460
FC Tiraspol	Tiraspol	Sheriff Stadium	13,460
FC Viitorul	Orhei	CSR Orhei	2,539
FC Zimbru	Chișinău	Zimbru Stadium	10,600

Managers and captains

Club	Coach	Captain	Replaced coach(es)
FC Academia UTM	Igor Dobrovolskiy	Eugeniu Gorceac
CSCA-Rapid Chișinău	Eugen Marcoci
FC Dacia	Veaceslav Semionov
FC Dinamo	Iuri Hodichin
FC Iskra-Stal	Vlad Goian
FC Nistru	Lilian Popescu
FC Olimpia	Mykhailo Dunets
FC Sfintul Gheorghe	Sergiu Caraman	Vitalie Plămădeală
FC Sheriff	Andrei Sasnitski	Vazha Tarkhnishvili	Leonid Koutchouk
FC Tiraspol	Yuri Blonar
FC Viitorul	Vladimir Gherasimov
FC Zimbru	Ivan Tabanov

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sheriff Tiraspol (C)	33	27	3	3	75	8	+67	84	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	33	19	8	6	50	25	+25	65	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round^[a]
3	Olimpia Bălți	33	17	9	7	45	23	+22	60	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round^[a]
4	Zimbru Chișinău	33	17	8	8	47	29	+18	59
5	Dacia Chișinău	33	16	10	7	54	30	+24	58	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round^[a]
6	CSCA-Rapid Chișinău	33	12	9	12	40	39	+1	45
7	Academia Chișinău	33	11	9	13	36	37	−1	42
8	Viitorul Orhei	33	10	6	17	32	45	−13	36
9	Tiraspol	33	8	10	15	20	34	−14	34
10	Dinamo Bender	33	9	5	19	36	66	−30	32
11	Sfîntul Gheorghe	33	6	6	21	29	67	−38	24
12	Nistru Otaci	33	2	5	26	13	74	−61	11

Source: Moldovan Football Federation (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored; 6th number of wins; 7th Fair play competition
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c Since Sheriff, winners of the 2009–10 Moldovan Cup, also won the league, Dacia will enter the first and Iskra-Stal the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.

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 matches. 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.

Official schedule(in Romanian)

First and second round

Home \ Away	ACA	CRC	DAC	DIN	ISK	NIS	OLI	SFÎ	SHE	TIR	VIT	ZIM
Academia Chișinău		0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	2–2
CSCA-Rapid Chișinău	4–1		0–2	2–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–6	1–2	1–0	0–1
Dacia Chișinău	1–0	4–0		3–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–0
Dinamo Bender	1–4	2–1	2–3		2–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–5	2–1	1–0	3–1
Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	2–0	5–0	3–1	2–0		2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1
Nistru Otaci	1–2	0–0	0–6	0–1	1–2		0–6	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	0–0
Olimpia Bălți	2–2	0–2	0–1	3–1	0–1	3–0		4–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0
Sfîntul Gheorghe	1–3	0–3	0–0	2–1	0–1	3–0^[a]	0–0		2–5	2–0	0–7	0–1
Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0	1–0	0–0	5–0	5–0	5–0	2–0	2–0		2–0	3–0	3–0
Tiraspol	1–1	0–0	0–3	4–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0		0–0	1–0
Viitorul Orhei	2–0	2–2	1–5	3–2	0–3	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–3	1–0		0–3
Zimbru Chișinău	4–1	0–1	2–1	3–1	3–1	4–1	1–4	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1

Source: Moldovan Football Federation (in Romanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ The match originally finished 0-0, but was declared 3-0 due to Nistru's financial difficulties.^[2]

Third round

Key numbers for pairing determination:

23rd round	24th round	25th round	26th round	27th round	28th round
1 - 12	1 - 2	2 - 12	1 - 4	3 - 12	1 - 6
2 - 11	8 - 6	3 - 1	2 - 3	4 - 2	2 - 5
3 - 10	9 - 5	4 - 11	9 - 7	5 - 1	3 - 4
4 - 9	10 - 4	5 - 10	10 - 6	6 - 11	10 - 8
5 - 8	11 - 3	6 - 9	11 - 5	7 - 10	11 - 7
6 - 7	12 - 7	7 - 8	12 - 8	8 - 9	12 - 9

29th round	30th round	31st round	32nd round	33rd round
4 - 12	1 - 8	5 - 12	1 - 10	6 - 12
5 - 3	2 - 7	6 - 4	2 - 9	7 - 5
6 - 2	3 - 6	7 - 3	3 - 8	8 - 4
7 - 1	4 - 5	8 - 2	4 - 7	9 - 3
8 - 11	11 - 9	9 - 1	5 - 6	10 - 2
9 - 10	12 - 10	10 - 11	12 - 11	11 - 1

Home \ Away	ACA	CRC	DAC	DIN	ISK	NIS	OLI	SFÎ	SHE	TIR	VIT	ZIM
Academia Chișinău			3–1	1–0					0–1		3–0	0–2
CSCA-Rapid Chișinău	0–1				0–0	6–0	0–0	2–0		4–1
Dacia Chișinău		2–2		0–0		3–0	2–4		0–0		2–1
Dinamo Bender		0–4			1–1		0–0	5–3			1–0
Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	1–0		0–0			3–0		5–0		3–0		0–0
Nistru Otaci	0–2			1–3				1–3		0–1	0–1
Olimpia Bălți	1–0				2–1	3–0		2–0		1–0		1–0
Sfîntul Gheorghe	1–0		2–2						0–2	0–0		1–5
Sheriff Tiraspol		3–1		3–0	3–0	4–0	1–0				3–1
Tiraspol	0–0		0–2	2–0					0–2			0–2
Viitorul Orhei		1–0			1–3		2–0	3–3		0–0
Zimbru Chișinău		1–1	1–0	2–0		2–1			0–1		1–0

Source: Moldovan Football Federation (in Romanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Alexandru Maximov	Viitorul Orhei	13
1	Jymmy França	Sheriff Tiraspol	13
3	Oleksandr Zgura	Dacia Chișinău	12
4	Alexandr Erokhin	Sheriff Tiraspol	11
5	Daniil Nikolaev	Academia Chișinău	10
6	Gheorghe Ovseannicov	Olimpia Bălți	9
	Eric Sackey	Dacia Chișinău	9
	Alexandru Popovici	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	9
	Nicolai Rudac	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	9
	Vladimir Volkov	Sheriff Tiraspol	9

Hat-tricks

Key
⁴	Player scored four goals
⁵	Player scored five goals

Player	Home	Away	Result	Date
Alexandr Erokhin	CSCA-Rapid Chișinău	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–6	10 July 2009
Gheorghe Ovseannicov	Nistru Otaci	Olimpia Bălți	0–6	11 July 2009
Aliaksei Kuchuk	Sheriff Tiraspol	Dinamo Bender	5–0	7 September 2009
Eric Sackey	Viitorul Orhei	Dacia Chișinău	1–5	29 July 2009
Eric Sackey⁴	Dacia Chișinău	CSCA-Rapid Chișinău	4–0	9 August 2009
Gheorghe Ovseannicov	Zimbru Chișinău	Olimpia Bălți	1–4	18 October 2009
Alexandru Cucu	Sfîntul Gheorghe	Viitorul Orhei	0–7	17 March 2010
Vladimir Volkov	Sheriff Tiraspol	Nistru Otaci	5–0	17 March 2010
Jymmy Dougllas França	Sheriff Tiraspol	Nistru Otaci	4–0	10 March 2010

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Artiom Gaiduchevici	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	16
2	Ghenadie Moşneaga	Dacia Chișinău	13
3	Mihail Păiuş	Olimpia Bălți	10
4	Alexandru Melenciuc	Sheriff Tiraspol	9
	Alexandru Chirilov	CSCA-Rapid Chișinău	9
	Nicolae Calancea	Zimbru Chișinău	9
	Vladislav Stoyanov	Sheriff Tiraspol	9
8	Mykola Zbarakh	Olimpia Bălți	8
8	Sergiu Juric	FC Tiraspol	8
10	Eugen Matiughin	Dacia Chișinău	6