Competition: | Divizia Națională |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Sheriff |
Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Milsami Petrocub Speranța |
Matches: | 112 |
Total Goals: | 269 |
League Topscorer: | Vladimir Ambros (12 goals) |
Biggest Home Win: | |
Biggest Away Win: | |
Highest Scoring: | |
Longest Wins: | 6 matches Sheriff |
Longest Unbeaten: | 11 matches Sheriff |
Longest Winless: | 12 matches Dinamo-Auto |
Longest Losses: | 6 matches Dinamo-Auto |
Highest Attendance: | 5,500 (22 September 2018) |
Lowest Attendance: | 50 (20 May 2018) (27 June 2018) (1 September 2018) (22 September 2018) (10 November 2018) |
Attendance: | 91,220 |
Average Attendance: | 814 |
Prevseason: | 2017 |
Nextseason: | 2019 |
Season: | 2018 |
Winners: | Sheriff 17th title |
Best Goalkeeper: | Serghei Pașcenco (11 clean sheets) |
Relegated: | Zaria |
The 2018 Moldovan National Division (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Divizia Națională) was the 28th season of top-tier football in Moldova. The season started on 1 April 2018 and ended on 24 November 2018. Fixtures were announced on 19 March 2018. Sheriff Tiraspol were the defending champions. The winners of the league this season earned a spot in the first qualifying round of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, and the second, third and fourth placed clubs earned a place in the first qualifying round of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League.[1]
Region | Number of teams | Club(s) |
---|---|---|
Transnistria | 2 | Dinamo-Auto and Sheriff |
Bălți | 1 | Zaria |
Chișinău | Zimbru | |
Hîncești | Petrocub-Hîncești | |
Ialoveni | Sfîntul Gheorghe | |
Nisporeni | Speranța | |
Orhei | Milsami |
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment | |
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Dinamo-Auto | Veaceslav Semionov | End of caretaker spell | End of 2017 season[2] | Pre-season | Viorel Frunză | 20 January 2018[3] | |
Zimbru | Iurie Osipenco | Sacked | End of 2017 season[4] | Vladimir Aga | 23 February 2018[5] | ||
Zaria | Ștefan Stoica | Sacked | 13 December 2017[6] | Vlad Goian | 5 February 2018[7] | ||
Dinamo-Auto | Viorel Frunză | Demoted to assistant coach | 19 March 2018[8] | Igor Dobrovolski | 19 March 2018[9] | ||
Sfîntul Gheorghe | Serghei Secu | Resigned | 15 April 2018 | 8th | Serghei Cebotari | 15 April 2018[10] | |
Sheriff | Roberto Bordin | Resigned | 24 April 2018[11] | 1st | Victor Mihailov (interim) | 24 April 2018[12] | |
Victor Mihailov | End of caretaker spell | 7 June 2018 | 1st | Goran Sablić | 7 June 2018[13] | ||
Zimbru | Vladimir Aga | Removed from position | 12 June 2018 | 7th | Serghei Secu | 12 June 2018[14] | |
Serghei Secu | Sacked | 1 August 2018 | 5th | Sorin Colceag | 1 August 2018[15] | ||
Zaria | Vlad Goian | Sacked | 25 October 2018 | 8th | Alexandru Patraman (interim) | 25 October 2018[16] |
The following table represents the teams game results in each round.
W #FFFFCC;" | D #FFCCCC;" | L --> | Team | 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 |
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Dinamo-Auto | W | D | D | L | L | W | L | D | D | L | D | D | L | L | L | L | L | L | W | L | W | W | D | L | L | L | W | W | |||
Milsami Orhei | W | W | L | W | D | L | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | D | D | L | W | W | L | L | L | L | D | W | W | L | L | |||
Petrocub-Hîncești | L | L | W | W | D | L | D | W | L | W | D | D | W | W | W | D | L | D | W | W | D | D | W | D | W | W | L | L | |||
L | D | L | L | D | W | D | D | W | L | L | D | L | D | W | L | W | L | L | W | L | L | W | D | L | L | D | L | ||||
Sheriff Tiraspol | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | L | D | W | W | W | D | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | D | D | W | W | L | W | |||
D | L | D | D | D | W | D | L | D | D | D | L | W | D | D | L | W | W | L | W | W | L | D | W | L | L | W | W | ||||
Zaria Bălți | D | D | D | L | D | L | L | W | D | L | L | D | W | L | D | W | L | D | L | L | L | W | D | L | L | L | D | L | |||
Zimbru Chișinău | L | D | D | D | W | L | D | D | L | D | D | L | L | L | D | W | W | L | L | L | D | W | L | W | W | W | W | W |
Player | Home | Away | Result | Date | |
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Sheriff | 4–0 | ||||
Zaria | 3–4 |