2012–13 Moldovan National Division

Moldovan National Division
Season	2012–13
Champions	Sheriff Tiraspol
Relegated	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița; Nistru Otaci
Champions League	Sheriff Tiraspol
Europa League	FC Dacia Chișinău; FC Tiraspol; Milsami Orhei
Matches played	191
Goals scored	500 (2.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gheorghe Boghiu; (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Academia 6–0 Nistru
Biggest away win	FC Speranţa Crihana Veche 9–8 Zimbru Chişinău
Highest scoring	FC Speranţa Crihana Veche 9–8 Zimbru Chişinău
Highest attendance	6,000; Zimbru 0–2 Sheriff (16 May 2013)
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 Moldovan National Division (Moldovan: Divizia Naţională) is the 22nd season of top-tier football in Moldova. The competition began on 13 July 2012 and will end in May 2013.

The league comprises 12 teams, 11 from the 2011–12 season and one promoted site from 2011–12 A Division.^[1] Sheriff Tiraspol are the defending champions.

Teams[]

CSCA–Rapid Chişinău and FC Costuleni were originally relegated on competitive grounds at the end of the 2011–12 season as they finished in the bottom two places of the league table. However, both clubs were eventually spared^{[citation needed]} after Sfintul Gheorghe Suruceni did not obtain a National Division licence for 2012–13^{[citation needed]} and only one team, runners-up Speranţa Crihana Veche, could be promoted from the top four 2011–12 A Division sides on the same grounds.^{[citation needed]}

In further changes, FC Academia UTM Chişinău were renamed FC Academia Chişinău.^[2]

Stadia and locations[]

Chişinău

Costuleni

Sheriff
FC Tiraspol

Rapid

Chişinău teams:
Academia
Dacia
Zimbru

Location of teams in National Division 2011–12

Personnel and sponsorship[]

Team	Home city	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Academia	Chişinău	Volodymyr Knysh	Radu Gînsari	Macron	-
Costuleni	Costuleni			Joma	Cavio
Rapid	Ghidighici	Sergiu Secu	Andrei Bugneac	Legea	-
Dacia	Chişinău	Igor Dobrovolski	Eugen Matiughin	Puma	-
Iskra-Stal	Rîbnița			Puma	AOMMZ
Milsami	Orhei	Ştefan Stoica	Valentin Furdui	Joma	Dufremol
Nistru	Otaci	Oleksandr Holokolosov		Legea	-
Olimpia	Bălţi	Albert Solomonov	Nicolae Orlovschi	Acerbis	Simtravel
Sheriff	Tiraspol	Mihai Stoichiță	Miral Samardžić	Adidas	IDC
Speranţa	Crihana Veche	Igor Ursachi	Ghenadie Ochincă	Jako	-
Tiraspol	Tiraspol	Vlad Goian	Vitalie Bulat	Adidas	Tirotex
Zimbru	Chişinău	Oleg Fistican	Oleg Şişchin	Puma	CFM

Promoted sides Speranţa Crihana Veche play their home matches in the nearby town of Cahul.

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Academia Chişinău	Chişinău	Dinamo Stadium	2,888
FC Costuleni	Costuleni	CSR Orhei	2,539
CSCA–Rapid Chişinău	Ghidighici	Ghidighici Stadium	1,500
Dacia Chişinău	Chişinău	Zimbru Stadium	10,600
Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	Rîbnița	Stadionul CPSM, Vadul lui Vodă	1,000
Milsami Orhei	Orhei	CSR Orhei	2,539
Nistru Otaci	Otaci	Călărăşăuca Stadium	2,000
Olimpia Bălţi	Bălţi	Olimpia Bălţi Stadium	5,953
Speranţa Crihana Veche	Crihana Veche	Stadionul CPSM	1,000
Sheriff Tiraspol	Tiraspol	Sheriff Stadium	13,460
FC Tiraspol	Tiraspol	Sheriff Stadium	13,460
Zimbru Chişinău	Chişinău	Zimbru Stadium	10,600

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sheriff Tiraspol (C)	33	25	5	3	66	16	+50	80	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Dacia Chişinău	33	18	12	3	47	19	+28	66	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round^[a]
3	FC Tiraspol	33	18	10	5	54	20	+34	64
4	Milsami Orhei	33	18	4	11	48	30	+18	58
5	Rapid Ghidighici	33	15	4	14	36	38	−2	49
6	Zimbru Chişinău	33	12	10	11	53	38	+15	46
7	Academia Chişinău	33	12	8	13	55	52	+3	44
8	Costuleni	33	9	11	13	38	48	−10	38
9	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița (D)	33	10	8	15	37	55	−18	38	Relegation to Division "B"^[b]
10	Olimpia Bălţi	33	10	5	18	31	50	−19	35
11	Speranţa Crihana Veche	33	4	7	22	35	70	−35	19
12	Nistru Otaci (R)	33	2	6	25	21	83	−62	12	Relegation to Division "A"

Source: Football Association of Moldova
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th number of goals scored; 7th Fair Play competition^[4]
(C) Champion; (D) Disqualified; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Since Tiraspol won the 2012–13 Moldovan Cup, 4th-placed team, Milsami Orhei, also qualified for UEFA Europa League.
^ Iskra-Stal was withdrawn on May 7, 2013 for not being present at 2 matches . According to decision of the FMF Competitions Committee in all remaining matches team will be given technical defeat (0-3).^[3]

Positions by round[]

The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition.

	Leader
	2nd place
	3rd place
	Relegation

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
Team ╲ Round
Sheriff Tiraspol	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Dacia Chișinău	5	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Tiraspol	4	5	6	6	3	4	3	3	3	5	4	5	6	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Milsami Orhei	3	2	4	4	4	3	4	4	7	4	3	6	8	5	6	5	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Rapid Ghidighici	10	6	7	5	7	6	6	7	6	6	5	7	3	7	8	8	9	8	6	8	6	5	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	5	5
Zimbru Chișinău	8	8	8	8	10	7	7	5	4	3	6	3	4	8	4	7	7	7	8	6	7	9	9	8	8	8	8	7	6	6	7	6	6
Academia Chișinău	9	11	12	12	9	10	8	8	5	7	7	4	5	3	5	4	5	4	4	5	5	6	7	7	7	7	6	6	7	7	5	7	7
Costuleni	12	10	9	11	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	8
Iskra - Stal Rîbnița	6	7	5	7	6	8	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	7	8	7	6	5	6	6	7	8	8	8	8	8	9
Olimpia Bălți	2	3	2	3	5	5	5	6	8	8	9	8	7	6	7	6	6	6	7	9	9	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10
Speranța Crihana Veche	7	9	10	9	11	12	11	11	12	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Nistru Otaci	11	12	11	10	12	11	12	12	11	12	12	12	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Updated to match(es) played on 31 May 2013. Source: kicker.de

Results[]

The schedule consists of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team plays each other once home and away for a total of 22 matches. The pairings of the third round will then be 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.

First and second round[]

Home \ Away	ACA	RAP	COS	DAC	ISK	MIL	NIS	OLI	SHE	SCV	TIR	ZIM
Academia Chișinău		5–0	1–1	0–4	3–2	3–1	6–0	1–2	1–4	3–5	1–0	2–2
Rapid Ghidighici	0–2		1–2	0–1	2–1	3–2	3–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	0–1	2–1
Costuleni	1–2	0–2		0–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	2–2	1–1	1–0
Dacia Chișinău	1–1	1–0	4–2		4–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	3–2
Iskra - Stal Rîbnița	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–2		3–3	5–2	1–0	2–2	4–3	0–0	2–3
Milsami Orhei	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–0		2–0	0–1	3–0	3–2	0–0	0–0
Nistru Otaci	1–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	2–1		0–3	1–7	1–1	0–0	2–0
Olimpia Bălți	1–1	1–3	0–1	0–1	2–3	0–2	2–0		0–1	2–0	2–0	0–0
Sheriff Tiraspol	3–0	0–0	5–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–0		3–0	2–0	1–0
Speranța Crihana Veche	1–3	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–2		0–2	1–2
Tiraspol	1–0	2–2	4–0	0–0	3–0	2–1	3–1	0–0	1–2	3–0		2–1
Zimbru Chișinău	4–0	1–0	3–3	1–1	0–1	2–1	4–0	4–3	0–1	1–1	0–1

Source: Football Association of Moldova
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third round[]

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 22 games):

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

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

Home \ Away	ACA	RAP	COS	DAC	ISK	MIL	NIS	OLI	SHE	SCV	TIR	ZIM
Academia Chișinău				1–2	0–2	2–1	5–1			2–2		0–1
Rapid Ghidighici	3–1		0–0					1–0	0–2	0–3	0–1
Costuleni	2–2			2–1		1–2	2–0	4–0
Dacia Chișinău		1–0			3–0		2–0			3–2	0–0	0–0
Iskra - Stal Rîbnița		0–3	0–3					0–1	0–3		0–3
Milsami Orhei		1–2		1–0	3–0		4–0			2–1		2–1
Nistru Otaci		0–2			2–2				1–2		0–3	0–3
Olimpia Bălți	0–3			1–3		0–1	3–1					2–2
Sheriff Tiraspol	1–1		2–1	0–0		1–2		3–0		2–1
Speranța Crihana Veche			1–4		0–1		4–2	3–1				1–8
Tiraspol	1–1		3–1			2–0		7–1	2–1	5–0
Zimbru Chișinău		4–2	1–1		0–0				0–2		2–0

Source: Football Association of Moldova
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers[]

Updated to matches played on 1 June 2013.^[5]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gheorghe Boghiu	Milsami	16
2	Vadim Crîcimari	FC Speranţa Crihana Veche	14
3	Radu Gînsari	FC Academia Chişinău	12
3	Vadim Cemîrtan	FC Nistru Otaci (5) & FC Costuleni (7)	12
5	Anatolie Doroş	Rapid Ghidighici	10
5	Guilherme de Paula Lucrécio	FC Milsami	10
7	Alexandru Pașcenco	Sheriff Tiraspol	9
	Ghenadie Orbu	FC Dacia Chişinău	9
	Volodymyr Kilikevych	FC Iskra-Stal	9
	Oleg Molla	Zimbru Chișinău (8) & FC Dacia Chișinău (1)	9
	Alexandru Sergiu Grosu	FC Tiraspol	9

8 goals (1 players)

7 goals (4 players)

6 goals (6 players)

5 goals (9 players)

4 goals (12 players)

3 goals (22 players)

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2 goals (37 players)

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1 goals (69 players)

Hat-tricks[]

Key
⁴	Player scored four goals
⁵	Player scored five goals

Player	Home	Away	Result	Date
Radu Gînsari⁴	FC Academia Chişinău	Rapid Ghidighici	5–0	11 November 2012
Vitalie Zlatan	FC Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	FC Speranța Crihana Veche	4–3	9 March 2013
Georgi Karaneychev	FC Tiraspol	FC Speranța Crihana Veche	5–0	21 April 2013
Sergey Tsyganov	FC Speranța Crihana Veche	FC Zimbru Chişinău	1–8	26 April 2013

Clean sheets[]

As of 1 June 2013

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Georgi Georgiev	FC Tiraspol	17
2	Andrian Negai	FC Milsami	15
3	Eugen Matiughin	FC Dacia Chișinău	10
	Artiom Gaiduchevici	FC Dacia Chișinău	10
	Nicolae Calancea	FC Zimbru Chișinău	10
6	Alexandru Zveaghințev	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	9
7	Vladislav Stoyanov	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	8
8	Denis Cristofovici	FC Olimpia	7
9	Serghei Juric	FC Iskra-Stal	6
		CSCA–Rapid Chișinău	6
		FC Costuleni	6

Disciplinary[]

Final classification.

Rank	Player	Club	Yellow Card's	Red Card's	Point's
1	Dumitru Bogdan	FC Academia Chișinău	12	1	15
2	Alexandru Vremea	FC Academia Chișinău	8	2	14
2	Valerian Gârlă	FC Milsami	8	2	14

References[]

^ "Comitetul Executiv" (in Romanian). Moldovan Football Federation. Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
^ "Academia se debaraseaza de sigla "UTM"". DiviziaNationala.com. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
^ "Comitetul de Competiţii al FMF examinând în şedinţa din 7 mai 2013" (in Romanian). 7 May 2013. Archived from the original on 11 May 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
^ "Regulamentul Campionatului R. Moldova la fotbal ediţia 2011-2012" (PDF) (in Romanian). FMF.md. 18 July 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^ "Players - Divizia Națională - Moldova". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 29 July 2012.

External links[]

Official website

[table_note_res_EL10.4747769220149-3] Since Tiraspol won the 2012–13 Moldovan Cup, 4th-placed team, Milsami Orhei, also qualified for UEFA Europa League.

[table_note_res_RB0.4747769220149-5] Iskra-Stal was withdrawn on May 7, 2013 for not being present at 2 matches . According to decision of the FMF Competitions Committee in all remaining matches team will be given technical defeat (0-3).^[3]

[1] "Comitetul Executiv" (in Romanian). Moldovan Football Federation. Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2012.

[2] "Academia se debaraseaza de sigla "UTM"". DiviziaNationala.com. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2012.

[4] "Comitetul de Competiţii al FMF examinând în şedinţa din 7 mai 2013" (in Romanian). 7 May 2013. Archived from the original on 11 May 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.

[6] "Regulamentul Campionatului R. Moldova la fotbal ediţia 2011-2012" (PDF) (in Romanian). FMF.md. 18 July 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2013.

[7] "Players - Divizia Națională - Moldova". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 29 July 2012.

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