2009–10 Segunda Divisão

The 2009–10 Segunda Divisão season was the 76th season of the competition and the 60th season of recognised third-tier football in Portugal.Fátima were the defending champions.

Summary

The league was contested by 47 teams in 3 divisions with FC Arouca, Moreirense FC and União da Madeira winning the respective divisional competitions and the former two teams gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by FC Arouca.

Zona Norte

Stadia and locations

League table

Zona Centro

Stadia and locations

League table

Zona Sul

Stadia and locations

League table

(P) = Play-offs, (R) = Relegated, Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
Source: zerozero.pt

Play-offs

The play-off for Liga de Honra, the teams play each other in a home and away round robin. However, they do not all start with 0 points. Instead, a weighting system applies to the teams standing at the start of the play-off mini-league.

2011–12 Segunda Divisão

The 2011–12 Segunda Divisão season was the 78th season since its establishment. União da Madeira were the defending champions.

Zona Norte

League table

Updated to games played on 29 April 2012.
Source: nifs.no
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Zona Centro

Stadia and locations

League table

Updated to games played on 29 April 2012.
Source: nifs.no
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Portuguese Second Division

The Segunda Divisão Portuguesa (English: Portuguese Second Division) was a football league in Portugal, situated at the third level of the Portuguese football league system. The division had previously been the second level of the Portuguese pyramid but with the creation of the Segunda Liga in 1990–91, it became the third level. The competition merged with the Portuguese Third Division at the end of the 2012–13 to form a new enlarged third level league, the Campeonato Nacional de Seniores.

Format

In its last season, the league was split into three zonal divisions: Norte (North), Centro (Center) and Sul (South). Each division was made up of 16 teams. The winners of each division were promoted.

The three regional divisions were the usual format of the league, but definition of the tier championship varied: Sometimes it was an elimination tournament with a final, and other times a final round-robin of the regional division winners. Other times there would be no single champion, and all three regional winners would be promoted without playing a final. This last option was used once the Segunda Divisão was no longer the actual second tier.

Second Division

In sport, the Second Division, also called Division 2 or Division II is usually the second highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Following the rise of Premier League style competitions, many leagues known as the Second Division have fallen to a lower tier in countries' football league system.

This list of Second Divisions in association football, divided by authority, includes country and actual level.

AFC

UEFA

First division (baseball)

First division is a term that has had various meanings, at various times, in the sport of baseball, but originally referred to the rankings within a league. Teams which ranked in the top half of the league standings table (e.g. the top 5 teams in a 10-team league) were said to have finished in the "first division", while teams in the bottom half of the standings were said to be in the "second division".

In the major leagues before 1969, players on teams finishing in the first division received monetary shares from the Players' Pool, which was funded by gate receipts from that year's World Series; specifically, prior to the aforementioned expansion, the team winning the World Series received 42% of this money, the team losing the World Series got 28%, with the second-, third- and fourth-place teams in each league being awarded 7½%, 5% and 2½% respectively. Concomitant with the expansion, 1% was taken from both of the World Series teams and given to each of the teams finishing in fifth place.

Scottish Football League Second Division

The Scottish Football League Second Division was the third tier of the Scottish football league system between 1975 and 2013.

History

The Second Division was created in 1975, as part of a wider reconstruction of the Scottish Football League (SFL). Prior to 1975, the SFL had been split into two divisions (Division One and Division Two). The effect of the reconstruction was to split these two divisions into three, with the top flight named the Premier Division, second tier the First Division, and a new third tier was created known as the Second Division. A fourth tier, known as the Third Division, was created in 1994.

In 1998, the Premier Division clubs broke away from the SFL to form the Scottish Premier League (SPL). The Second Division continued as before, but it was now the second level of the SFL. In 2013, the SFL and SPL merged to form the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). The SPFL named its third tier as Scottish League One, which effectively replaced the Second Division.