2010–11 Moldovan National Division

Moldovan National Division
Season	2010–11
Champions	Dacia Chişinău
Relegated	Gagauziya; Dinamo Bender
Champions League	Dacia Chişinău
Europa League	Sheriff Tiraspol; Milsami Orhei; Iskra-Stal
Matches played	273
Goals scored	684 (2.51 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gheorghe Boghiu (26 goals)
Biggest home win	Dacia 7–0 Sf. Gheorghe; Tiraspol 7–0 Dinamo
Biggest away win	Dinamo 0–8 Olimpia
Highest scoring	Gagauziya 5–4 Dinamo; Milsami 7–2 Dinamo
	← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 Moldovan National Division (Romanian: Divizia Naţională) was the 20th season of top-tier football in Moldova. Sheriff Tiraspol were the defending champions, having won their tenth Moldovan championship, all consecutively, the previous season. The competition began on 24 July 2010.

Teams

FC Costuleni and CF Gagauziya were promoted from the Moldovan "A" Division as champions and runners-up, respectively, to the National Division. None of the teams competing in the 2009–10 season were relegated, leaving 14 teams to contest the league, with one relegation place for the team finishing bottom.

Stadia and locations

2010–11 Moldovan National Division is located in Moldova

Chisinau

Chisinau teams:
Academia
Dacia
Zimbru

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Location of teams in National Division 2010–11

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Academia UTM Chişinău	Chişinău	Dinamo Stadium (Chişinău)	2,888
Costuleni	Costuleni	CSR Orhei	2,539
CSCA–Rapid Chişinău	Ghidighici	Ghidighici Stadium	1,500
Dacia Chişinău	Chişinău	Dinamo Stadium (Chişinău)	2,692
Dinamo Bender	Bender	Dinamo Stadium (Bender)	5,061
Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	Rîbnița	Orăşenesc Stadium	2,000
Gagauziya Comrat	Comrat	Suruceni Stadium	2,000
Milsami Orhei	Orhei	CSR Orhei	2,539
Nistru Otaci	Otaci	Călărăseuca Stadium	2,000
Olimpia Bălţi	Bălţi	Olimpia Bălţi Stadium	5,953
Sfîntul Gheorghe Suruceni	Suruceni	Suruceni Stadium	2,000
Sheriff Tiraspol	Tiraspol	Sheriff Stadium	13,460
FC Tiraspol	Tiraspol	Sheriff Stadium	13,460
Zimbru Chişinău	Chişinău	Zimbru Stadium	10,600

Managers and captains

Club	Coach	Captain	Replaced coach(es)
Academia UTM	Alexandru Cojuhari	Eugeniu Gorceac	Igor Dobrovolski
Costuleni	Ruslan Barburoş	Denis Orbu	Ilie Vieru
CSCA-Rapid	Serghei Sârbu
Dacia	Igor Dobrovolski	Ghenadie Orbu	Veaceslav Semionov
Dinamo	Iuri Hodichin	Pavel Martînenco
Gagauziya	Serghei Botnaraş
Iskra-Stal	Vlad Goian	Andrei Burcovski
Milsami	Ştefan Stoica		Vladimir Gherasimov
Nistru	Lilian Popescu	Dumitri Dolgov
Olimpia	Nicolai Bunea
Sfîntul Gheorghe	Sergiu Caraman
Sheriff	Vitali Rashkevich	Vazha Tarkhnishvili	Andrei Sasnitski
Tiraspol	Yuri Blonar
Zimbru	Ivan Tabanov	Victor Berco

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dacia Chișinău (C)	39	27	11	1	66	16	+50	92	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Sheriff Tiraspol	39	24	11	4	81	16	+65	83	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
3	Milsami Orhei	39	23	9	7	71	23	+48	78	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
4	Zimbru Chișinău	39	22	10	7	56	20	+36	76
5	Iskra - Stal Rîbnița	39	21	11	7	62	26	+36	74^[a]	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round^[b]
6	Olimpia Bălți	39	21	11	7	59	31	+28	74^[a]
7	Tiraspol	39	17	6	16	57	45	+12	57
8	CSCA – Rapid Chişinău	39	15	10	14	39	37	+2	55
9	Academia Chișinău	39	14	10	15	44	37	+7	52
10	Costuleni	39	7	6	26	23	68	−45	27
11	Nistru Otaci	39	7	4	28	33	75	−42	25^[c]
12	Sfîntul Gheorghe	39	6	7	26	30	83	−53	25^[c]
13	Gagauziya Comrat (R)	39	7	2	30	38	89	−51	23	Relegation to Division "A"^[d]
14	Dinamo Bendery (R)	39	6	4	29	25	118	−93	22	Relegation to Division "A"^[d]

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

^ ^a ^b ISK: 4 pts, +0 gl; OLI: 4 pts, +0 gl
^ As winners of the 2010–11 Moldovan Cup.
^ ^a ^b NIS: 4 pts, +0 gl; SFÎ: 4 pts, +0 gl
^ CF Gagauziya could not obtain a licence for participating in Moldovan National Division next season.

Round by round

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	34	35	36	37	38	39
Team ╲ Round
Dacia Chișinău	3	1	3	5	2	3	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	1	1	3	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Sheriff Tiraspol	1	4	2	4	6	6	6	5	7	6	5	4	3	3	3	4	1	4	5	3	3	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Milsami Orhei	4	2	5	2	3	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	1	1	1	2	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	5	5	5	3	3	5	3	3	3	3	3
Zimbru Chișinău	2	5	7	9	7	7	7	7	5	5	6	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	3	4	5	5	4	4
Iskra - Stal Rîbnița	3	3	4	3	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	4	4	4	3	2	5	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	3	3	4	5	6	6	6	6	5	5
Olimpia Bălți	3	6	1	1	1	1	3	4	3	3	2	3	1	1	2	2	4	3	3	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	3	4	4	5	6	4	5	4	4	6	6
Tiraspol	13	7	10	7	9	9	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	7
CSCA – Rapid Chişinău	8	12	9	10	10	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	8
Academia Chișinău	8	8	8	6	5	5	5	6	6	7	7	6	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	7	8	8	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Costuleni	5	9	6	8	8	8	9	10	10	10	10	11	13	13	13	11	10	10	11	11	10	10	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	10	10	10	10	10
Nistru Otaci	8	11	13	14	14	12	12	13	12	11	11	13	12	10	10	10	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	14	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	11
Sfîntul Gheorghe	13	14	12	13	12	13	13	11	11	12	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	14	14	12	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	12	13	12	12	13	12
Gagauziya Comrat	8	10	11	12	13	14	14	14	13	13	14	12	11	12	12	13	13	13	14	14	14	12	12	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	12	13
Dinamo Bendery	8	13	14	11	11	11	11	12	14	14	12	10	10	11	11	12	11	11	10	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	11	11	12	11	11	12	12	13	12	13	13	14	14

Source: kicker (in German)
= Leader; = 2nd place; = 3rd place; = Relegation

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 26 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 39 games per team.

First and second round

Home \ Away	ACA	CRC	COS	DAC	DIN	GAG	ISK	MIL	NIS	OLI	SFÎ	SHE	TIR	ZIM
Academia Chișinău		0–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	3–0	0–1
CSCA – Rapid Chişinău	2–0		1–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–0
Costuleni	1–5	1–2		1–2	0–0	2–1	1–3	0–7	2–1	0–1	0–3	0–0	1–2	0–2
Dacia Chișinău	3–1	1–0	3–1		5–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	7–0	0–0	2–0	1–1
Dinamo Bendery	1–5	0–1	1–0	0–2		0–4	0–1	0–3	3–2	0–8	0–2	0–7	0–3	1–0
Gagauziya Comrat	0–3	1–2	0–3	1–4	5–4		0–4	0–2	5–1	1–2	2–1	0–4	1–3	0–0
Iskra - Stal Rîbnița	0–0	1–0	5–0	1–2	4–0	1–0		0–1	1–1	0–0	4–0	0–1	4–2	2–1
Milsami Orhei	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–0		5–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	5–1	1–0
Nistru Otaci	0–1	0–4	1–0	1–1	0–2	3–0	0–1	0–1		0–2	1–0	0–3	4–2	1–5
Olimpia Bălți	3–2	3–0	4–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0		4–1	0–0	0–4	1–1
Sfîntul Gheorghe	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–2	1–2	2–2	2–2	0–4	2–1	0–2		1–1	0–2	0–3
Sheriff Tiraspol	1–1	4–0	1–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	4–0		3–0	1–0
Tiraspol	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	4–1	5–0	0–0	1–2	4–0	1–3	1–0	0–3		0–2
Zimbru Chișinău	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	6–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0

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

Third round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 26 games):

27th round	28th round	29th round	30th round	31st round	32nd round	33rd round
1 – 14	14 – 8	2 – 14	14 – 9	3 – 14	14 – 10	4 – 14
2 – 13	9 – 7	3 – 1	10 – 8	4 – 2	11 – 9	5 – 3
3 – 12	10 – 6	4 – 13	11 – 7	5 – 1	12 – 8	6 – 2
4 – 11	11 – 5	5 – 12	12 – 6	6 – 13	13 – 7	7 – 1
5 – 10	12 – 4	6 – 11	13 – 5	7 – 12	1 – 6	8 – 13
6 – 9	13 – 3	7 – 10	1 – 4	8 – 11	2 – 5	9 – 12
7 – 8	1 – 2	8 – 9	2 – 3	9 – 10	3 – 4	10 – 11

34th round	35th round	36th round	37th round	38th round	39th round
14 – 11	5 – 14	14 – 12	6 – 14	14 – 13	7 – 14
12 – 10	6 – 4	13 – 11	7 – 5	1 – 12	8 – 6
13 – 9	7 – 3	1 – 10	8 – 4	2 – 11	9 – 5
1 – 8	8 – 2	2 – 9	9 – 3	3 – 10	10 – 4
2 – 7	9 – 1	3 – 8	10 – 2	4 – 9	11 – 3
3 – 6	10 – 13	4 – 7	11 – 1	5 – 8	12 – 2
4 – 5	11 – 12	5 – 6	12 – 13	6 – 7	13 – 1

Home \ Away	ACA	CRC	COS	DAC	DIN	GAG	ISK	MIL	NIS	OLI	SFÎ	SHE	TIR	ZIM
Academia Chișinău			1–0			1–0				0–2		1–0	1–1	0–2
CSCA – Rapid Chişinău	4–2			0–0	2–0		1–2	0–1	3–2		1–3
Costuleni		0–0		0–1			0–1	0–3	2–0				0–0
Dacia Chișinău	2–0				3–1				2–0	2–0	3–0	1–1		1–0
Dinamo Bendery	1–1		0–1			1–0				0–2		0–7		1–6
Gagauziya Comrat		1–3	2–1	0–2			0–3	0–3					1–2
Iskra - Stal Rîbnița	3–2			0–1	6–1			2–2	2–1		3–1			0–0
Milsami Orhei	1–0			0–0	7–2				1–2	2–1	4–0			1–2
Nistru Otaci	1–0				4–0	1–2				0–3		1–3		2–4
Olimpia Bălți		2–1	0–0			4–2	2–1				1–1	1–0	0–3
Sfîntul Gheorghe	0–2		2–0		2–0	1–3			1–1				0–1
Sheriff Tiraspol		2–1	4–0			5–1	2–1	2–1			6–0		0–0
Tiraspol		0–0		0–1	7–0		1–2	0–1	1–0
Zimbru Chișinău		1–0	2–1			3–1				0–0	3–0	1–0	1–0

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

Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 22 May 2011; Source: Soccerway

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gheorghe Boghiu	Milsami Orhei	26
2	Ghenadie Orbu	Dacia Chişinău	21
3	Mahai Cojusea	Gagauziya Comrat	19
4	Alexandru Popovici	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	16
5	Levan Korgalidze	Dacia Chişinău	13
5	Amath Diedhiou	Sheriff Tiraspol	13
7	Radu Gînsari	Academia UTM Chişinău	12
7	Volodymyr Kilikevych	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	12
8	Edgars Gauračs	Sheriff Tiraspol	10
9	Oleg Andronic	Zimbru Chişinău	9
	Daniil Nikolaev	Academia UTM Chişinău	9
	Gheorghe Ovseannicov	Olimpia Bălţi	9
	Oleksandr Suchu	Iskra-Stal Rîbnița	9

8 goals (4 players)

7 goals (2 players)

6 goals (10 players)

5 goals (16 players)

4 goals (13 players)

3 goals (30 players)

2 goals (39 players)

1 goals (87 players)

Hat-tricks

Key
⁴	Player scored four goals
⁵	Player scored five goals

Player	Home	Away	Result	Date
Daniil Nikolaev	FC Costuleni	FC Academia Chişinău	1–5	15 August 2010
Daniil Nikolaev	FC Academia Chişinău	CF Gagauziya	3–0	21 August 2010
Gheorghe Boghiu⁴	FC Costuleni	FC Milsami	0–7	26 September 2010
Edgars Gauračs	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	FC Sfîntul Gheorghe	4–0	26 September 2010
Levan Korgalidze	CF Gagauziya	FC Dacia Chişinău	1–4	31 October 2010
Ghenadie Orbu	FC Dacia Chişinău	FC Academia Chişinău	3–1	14 November 2010
Ghenadie Orbu	FC Dacia Chişinău	FC Sfîntul Gheorghe	7–0	12 December 2010
Edgars Gauračs⁵	FC Tighina	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	0–7	18 December 2010
Mahai Cojusea⁴	CF Gagauziya	FC Tighina	5–4	17 February 2011
Sergiu Zacon	CF Gagauziya	FC Tighina	5–4	17 February 2011
Amath Diedhiou	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	CF Gagauziya	5–1	12 March 2011
Gheorghe Boghiu⁴	FC Milsami	FC Sfîntul Gheorghe	4–0	6 April 2011
Sergiu Grițuc	FC Nistru Otaci	FC Tighina	4–0	23 February 2011
Wilfried Benjamin Balima	FC Tighina	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	0–7	13 May 2011
Amath Diedhiou⁴	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	FC Costuleni	4–0	17 May 2011
Gheorghe Boghiu	FC Milsami	FC Tighina	7–2	17 May 2011

Clean sheets

As of 5 May 2013

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Nicolae Calancea	FC Zimbru Chișinău	20
2	Artiom Gaiduchevici	FC Iskra & FC Dacia Chișinău	19
3	Mihai Moraru	FC Milsami Orhei	18
4	Eugen Matiughin	FC Dacia Chișinău	16
5	Dumitru Stajila	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	13
5	Denis Rusu	FC Rapid Ghidighici	13
7	Serghei Pașcenco	FC Olimpia	11
7	Alexandru Zveaghințev	FC Tiraspol	11
9	Vladislav Stoyanov	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	10
10	Maxim Copeliciuc	FC Academia	9

Top Foreigns

Place	Country	Goals	Players	Leading Goalscorers (Goals)Club
1.	Ukraine	46	16	Volodymyr Kilikevych (12) FC Iskra-Stal
2.	Russia	38	13	Daniil Nikolaev (9) FC Academia Chişinău
3.	Romania	28	10	Adrian Grigoruţă (8) FC Milsami
4.	Georgia	24	6	Levan Korgalidze (13) FC Dacia Chişinău
5.	Nigeria	22	7	Julius Adaramola (8) FC Olimpia
6.	Brazil	15	3	Ademar Xavier (8) FC Milsami
7.	Senegal	13	1	Amath Diedhiou (13) FC Sheriff Tiraspol
8.	Latvia	10	1	Edgars Gauračs (10) FC Sheriff Tiraspol
9.	Ghana	9	4	Razak Salifu (4) FC Zimbru Chişinău
10.	Serbia	8	3	Aleksandar Pešić (5) FC Sheriff Tiraspol
11.	Burkina Faso	6	1	Wilfried Benjamin Balima (6) FC Sheriff Tiraspol
11.	Slovenia	6	2	Dalibor Volaš (4) FC Sheriff Tiraspol
13.	Haiti	5	1	Jean-Robens Jerome (5) FC Olimpia
13.	Montenegro	5	2	Vladimir Volkov (2) FC Sheriff Tiraspol
15.	Spain	3	1	Caio Suguino (3) FC Milsami
15.	Guinea	3	2	Thomas Kourouma (2) FC Olimpia
17.	Kazakhstan	2	1	Victor Berco (2) FC Zimbru Chişinău
17.	United States	2	1	Christian Camacho (2) FC Sfîntul Gheorghe
17.	Belarus	2	1	Vitaly Ledenev (2) FC Dacia Chişinău
20.	Cameroon	1	1	Titi Belle (1) FC Nistru Otaci
20.	Armenia	1	1	Artem Khachaturov (1) FC Sheriff Tiraspol
20.	Mexico	1	1	Carlos Santos de la Vega (1) FC Olimpia
20.	Sierra Leone	1	1	Abu Tommy (1) FC Sheriff Tiraspol
20.	Ivory Coast	1	1	Ousmane Traore (1) FC Milsami

Moldova vs Rest of World

Country	Goals
Moldova	432
Rest of World	252

Disciplinary

Final classification.

Rank	Player	Club	Yellow Cards	Red Cards	Points
1	Andrei Tcaciuc	FC Olimpia	10	2	16
1	Oleksandr Feshchenko	FC Iskra-Stal	10	2	16
1	Alexandru Cheltuială	FC Olimpia	13	1	16

References

^ REGULAMENTUL CAMPIONATULUI R. MOLDOVA LA FOTBAL EDIŢIA 2010-2011 Archived 2010-11-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Romanian)

External links

Official website (in Romanian)
Divizia Nationala (in Romanian)

[table_hth_ISK0.36259847337501-1] ISK: 4 pts, +0 gl; OLI: 4 pts, +0 gl

[table_note_res_EL2b0.36259847337501-2] As winners of the 2010–11 Moldovan Cup.

[table_hth_NIS0.36259847337501-3] NIS: 4 pts, +0 gl; SFÎ: 4 pts, +0 gl

[table_note_res_R0.36259847337501-4] CF Gagauziya could not obtain a licence for participating in Moldovan National Division next season.

[5] REGULAMENTUL CAMPIONATULUI R. MOLDOVA LA FOTBAL EDIŢIA 2010-2011 Archived 2010-11-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Romanian)

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