2009–10 Moldovan National Division

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

The Moldovan National Division 2009–10 (Romanian: Divizia Naţională) 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, FC Tiligul-Tiras Tiraspol announced that the club would dissolve, citing a lack of funds as the reason.^[1] As a consequence, Academia Chişinău were spared from relegation. The 2008–09 season had already been absolved with only eleven teams after FC Politehnica Chişinău 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

Chisinau

Chisinau teams:
Academia
Dacia
Zimbru

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Location of teams in National Division 2009–10

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
FC Academia UTM	Chişinău	Dinamo Stadium	2,692
CSCA-Rapid Chişinău	Ghidighici	Ghidighici Stadium	784
FC Dacia	Chişinău	Dinamo Stadium	2,692
FC Dinamo	Bender	Selkovic Stadium	5,061
FC Iskra-Stali	Rîbniţa	Orăşănesc Stadium	4,500
FC Nistru	Otaci	Călărăseuca Stadium	2,000
FC Olimpia	Bălţi	Olimpia Bălţi 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
Viitorul	Orhei	Orhei Stadium	2,539
FC Zimbru	Chişinău	Zimbru Stadium	10,600

Managers and captains

Club	Coach	Captain	Replaced coach(es)
FC Academia UTM	Igor Dobrovolskiy	Eugeniu Gorceac
CSCA-Rapid Chişinău	Eugen Marcoci
FC Dacia	Veaceslav Semionov
FC Dinamo	Iuri Hodichin
FC Iskra-Stali	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
Viitorul Orhei	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 Rîbniţa	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 Chişinău	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 Bendery	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 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 Chişinău	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 Bendery	1–4	2–1	2–3		2–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–5	2–1	1–0	3–1
Iskra - Stal Rîbniţa	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 Chişinău	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 Bendery		0–4			1–1		0–0	5–3			1–0
Iskra - Stal Rîbniţa	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

Final classification.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Alexandr Maximov	Viitorul Orhei	13
1	Jymmy França	Sheriff Tiraspol	13
3	Oleksandr Zgura	Dacia Chişinău	12
4	Alexandr Erokhin	Sheriff Tiraspol	11
5	Daniil Nikolaev	FC Academia UTM	10
6	Gheorghe Ovseannicov	Olimpia Bălţi	9
	Eric Sackey	FC Dacia	9
	Alexandru Popovici	FC Iskra-Stal	9
	Nicolai Rudac	FC Iskra-Stal	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 Chişinău	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	0–6	10 July 2009
Gheorghe Ovseannicov	FC Nistru Otaci	FC Olimpia	0–6	11 July 2009
Aliaksei Kuchuk	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	FC Tighina	5–0	7 September 2009
Eric Sackey	Viitorul	FC Dacia Chişinău	1–5	29 July 2009
Eric Sackey⁴	FC Dacia Chişinău	CSCA-Rapid Chişinău	4–0	9 August 2009
Gheorghe Ovseannicov	FC Zimbru Chişinău	FC Olimpia	1–4	18 October 2009
Alexandru Cucu	FC Sfîntul Gheorghe	Viitorul Orhei	0–7	17 March 2010
Vladimir Volkov	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	FC Nistru Otaci	5–0	17 March 2010
Jymmy Dougllas França	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	FC Nistru Otaci	4–0	10 March 2010

Clean sheets

As of 11 May 2013

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

Disciplinary