2021–22 Moldovan "A" Division

Divizia A
Season	2021–22
Dates	30 July 2021 – 13 May 2022
Champions	Sheriff-2
Promoted	Buiucani
Relegated	Iskra
Matches played	132
Goals scored	424 (3.21 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nicolae Porojniuc (12 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Nicolae Garanovschi (8 clean sheets)
Biggest home win	Spartanii 6–0 Real Succes; (22 April 2022)
Biggest away win	Sucleia 1–7 Buiucani; (2 April 2022)
Highest scoring	Sucleia 1–7 Buiucani; (2 April 2022)
Longest winning run	9 matches; Victoria
Longest unbeaten run	12 matches; Buiucani
Longest winless run	22 matches; Cahul-2005
Longest losing run	18 matches; Cahul-2005
	← 2020–21 2022–23 →

The 2021–22 Moldovan "A" Division (Romanian: Divizia A) was the 31st season of Moldovan football's second-tier league. The season started on 30 July 2021 and ended on 13 May 2022.^[1]

Teams

Chișinău

Chișinău teams:
Dacia Buiucani
Real Succes

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Location of teams in 2021–22 Divizia A

Club	Location
Cahul-2005	Cahul
Dacia Buiucani	Chișinău
Iskra	Rîbnița
Olimp	Comrat
Real Succes	Chișinău
Sheriff-2	Tiraspol
Spartanii	Selemet
Speranța	Drochia
Sporting	Valea-Trestieni
Sucleia	Sucleia
FCM Ungheni	Ungheni
Victoria	Bardar

Season summary

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Sheriff-2 Tiraspol (C)	22	15	4	3	49	15	34	49^[a]	Ineligible for promotion
2	Victoria Bardar^[b]	22	15	4	3	51	24	27	49^[a]
3	Dacia Buiucani (P)	22	14	6	2	58	15	43	48	Promotion to Super Liga
4	Spartanii Selemet	22	13	5	4	46	26	20	44	Qualification to Promotion play-off
5	Sporting Trestieni	22	12	0	10	31	31	0	36
6	Olimp Comrat	22	10	5	7	41	36	5	35
7	Sucleia	22	8	3	11	34	40	−6	27
8	Iskra Rîbnița (R)	22	7	4	11	28	44	−16	25	Relegation to Liga 2^[c]
9	FCM Ungheni	22	6	6	10	38	42	−4	24
10	Real Succes	22	5	3	14	22	45	−23	18
11	Speranța Drochia^[d]	22	4	4	14	20	48	−28	16
12	Cahul-2005	22	0	2	20	6	58	−52	2	withdrew^[e]

Source: FMF, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head away goals scored; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Matches won; 7) Goal difference; 8) Goals scored; 9) Less red cards; 10) Less yellow cards.^[4]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Sheriff-2 ahead of Victoria on goal difference:Sheriff-2 : 34, Victoria : 27.
^ Victoria Bardar were refused the necessary licence to compete in the 2022–23 Super Liga season.^[2]
^ Iskra Rîbnița have been relegated voluntarily.
^ Speranța Drochia spared relegation due to lack of teams.
^ Cahul-2005 withdrew from the league after round 11. All remaining fixtures are awarded 0–3 against them.^[3]

Results

Teams will play each other twice (once home, once away).

Home \ Away	CAH	DAC	ISK	OLI	REA	SHE	SPA	SPE	SPO	SUC	UNG	VIC
Cahul-2005	—	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	0–3	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	0–1
Dacia Buiucani	2–0	—	3–1	3–0	1–0	0–0	5–0	6–1	3–2	5–1	2–2	1–2
Iskra Rîbnița	3–1	0–5	—	1–1	1–1	0–3	0–3	3–3	2–0	2–3	3–1	1–1
Olimp Comrat	2–2	0–3	1–2	—	4–2	1–2	1–3	2–0	2–0	3–2	4–1	1–2
Real Succes	4–0	0–2	1–3	1–1	—	0–3	0–3	3–2	0–2	0–0	1–3	1–0
Sheriff-2 Tiraspol	3–0^[a]	1–1	3–1	3–3	2–0	—	4–1	4–0	0–1	2–1	4–0	2–1
Spartanii Selemet	3–0^[a]	1–1	1–0	2–2	6–0	1–0	—	0–0	5–1	1–1	1–0	2–2
Speranța Drochia	3–0^[a]	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	2–5	1–4	—	0–2	2–4	2–1	0–2
Sporting Trestieni	3–0^[a]	1–0	2–0	1–2	0–2	0–3	2–4	3–0	—	2–1	2–1	0–4
Sucleia	2–0	1–7	1–0	1–2	3–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	—	1–3	2–5
FCM Ungheni	3–3	0–3	5–0	2–3	3–2	0–0	4–1	0–0	1–3	2–2	—	2–2
Victoria Bardar	3–0^[a]	2–2	5–1	3–2	4–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	0–2	2–1	3–1	—

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Technical wins/losses

Results by round

The following table represents the teams game results in each round.^[5]

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Cahul-2005	L	L	D	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L^[a]	L^[a]	L^[a]	L^[a]	L^[a]	L^[a]	L^[a]	L^[a]	L^[a]	L^[a]	L^[a]
Dacia Buiucani	W	L	W	D	W	D	W	D	D	W	W	W^[b]	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	D	D	W
Iskra Rîbnița	W	D	L	L	W	W	L	L	D	L	L	D	W	L	L	D	W^[b]	W	W	L	L	L
Olimp Comrat	D	W	D	W	L	L	W	D	W	W	L	L	W	W^[b]	W	D	L	W	L	D	W	L
Real Succes	L	L	D	L	L	W	L	L	L	W	W	D	W	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	W^[b]	L
Sheriff-2 Tiraspol	W	W	W	W	D	L	D	W	L	W	L	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W^[b]	W	D	W
Spartanii Selemet	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	L	W	W	W^[b]	W	W	L	D	L	W	W	D	L
Speranța Drochia	L	D	L	L	L	L	W	D	D	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	W^[b]
Sporting Trestieni	W	W	L	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	L	L	L	W^[b]	W	L	L	L	L	W
Sucleia	L	D	W	L	L	L	W	L	W	L	D	W	L	L	W	L	D	L	W^[b]	W	W	L
FCM Ungheni	W	L	L	D	W	L	L	W	D	D	L	D	L	D	W^[b]	W	L	D	L	L	L	W
Victoria Bardar	L	W	W	D	D	W	W	L	D	D	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W^[b]	W	W	W	W

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[6]
1	Nicolae Porojniuc	FCM Ungheni	12
2	Ghenadie Orbu	Victoria	10
2	Marin Stan	Victoria	10
4	Sorin Chele	Real Succes	8
	Oleg Molla	Victoria
	Eugeniu Gliga	Sheriff-2
7	Vasile Bîtlan	Buiucani	7
	Constantin Iavorschi	Sporting
	Ion Mamaliga	Spartanii
	Nicu Namolovan	Buiucani
	Octavian Onofrei	Spartanii
	Abdullahi Shuaibu	Sucleia

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets^[7]
1	Nicolae Garanovschi	Spartanii	8
2	Victor Colibă-Verde	Sporting	7
3	Dumitru Coval	Buiucani (4) & Real Succes (2)	6
3	Victor Dodon	Buiucani	6
5	Ivan Marcov	Sucleia	5
5	Serghei Savocica	Sheriff-2	5
7	Sergiu Nicolaev	Speranța	4
8	Mihail Cioban	Sheriff-2	3
8	Victor Secrieru	FCM Ungheni	3
10	Dmitri Burac	Victoria	2
	Roman Dumenco	Sheriff-2
	Andrei Vicol	Victoria
	Dmitri Cîlcic	Olimp
	Anatolie Cebotari	Iskra

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Technical loss
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Technical win

References

^ "Divizia A va demara pe 30 iulie". fmf.md.
^ "Licențiere. Decizia organului directiv" (in Romanian). Moldovan Football Federation. 18 May 2022.
^ "Retragerea echipei Cahul-2005". fmf.md (in Romanian). Retrieved 2021-10-26.
^ "Regulamentul campionatului R. Moldova la fotbal ediția 2021-22" [Rules Football Championship Edition 2021-22 Moldova] (PDF). fmf.md (in Romanian). Moldovan Football Federation.
^ "Results by round". Soccerway.
^ "Goalscorers - Divizia A - Moldova" (in Romanian). Divizia-A.md.
^ "Clean sheets". divizia-a.md.

External links

Divizia A - Moldova - Results, fixtures, tables and news - divizia-a.md

[table_hth_SHE0.63332221733095-2] Sheriff-2 ahead of Victoria on goal difference:Sheriff-2 : 34, Victoria : 27.

[table_note_VIC0.63332221733095-4] Victoria Bardar were refused the necessary licence to compete in the 2022–23 Super Liga season.^[2]

[table_note_res_REL0.63332221733095-5] Iskra Rîbnița have been relegated voluntarily.

[table_note_SPE0.63332221733095-6] Speranța Drochia spared relegation due to lack of teams.

[table_note_res_W0.63332221733095-8] Cahul-2005 withdrew from the league after round 11. All remaining fixtures are awarded 0–3 against them.^[3]

[table_note_1_CAH_DAC0.96603091990856-10] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Technical wins/losses

[Technical_loss-12] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Technical loss

[Technical_win-13] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Technical win

[Kassies-1] "Divizia A va demara pe 30 iulie". fmf.md.

[3] "Licențiere. Decizia organului directiv" (in Romanian). Moldovan Football Federation. 18 May 2022.

[7] "Retragerea echipei Cahul-2005". fmf.md (in Romanian). Retrieved 2021-10-26.

[MoldovaRules-9] "Regulamentul campionatului R. Moldova la fotbal ediția 2021-22" [Rules Football Championship Edition 2021-22 Moldova] (PDF). fmf.md (in Romanian). Moldovan Football Federation.

[11] "Results by round". Soccerway.

[14] "Goalscorers - Divizia A - Moldova" (in Romanian). Divizia-A.md.

[15] "Clean sheets". divizia-a.md.

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