Statistics of

Second Division Football Tournament The FAM Second Division is a association football, football league in the Maldives, organized by the Football Association of Maldives. It is the second division of Maldivian football. Structure Changes were brought to the second division league s ...

in the 2020 season. 2018 Third Division Football Tournament champions Rock Street Sports Club decided not to play in second division despite promotion, relegating them to

Maldivian Third Division Football Tournament Third Division Football Tournament is the third division of the Maldives, Maldivian football league system, organized by the Football Association of Maldives. A new structure for the Third Division Football Tournament was introduced for the 2015 ...

. On 13 October 2019, President of

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, Bassam Adeel Jaleel announced that Maldives Under 19 will compete in the Second Division Football Tournament from 2020 season onward. The winners of the semi-finals;

Club Valencia Club Valencia is a Republic of the Maldives, Maldivian professional football (soccer), football club based in Malé. Nicknamed ''The Sunrisers'', the club most recently competed in the Dhivehi Premier League, the top tier of Football in Maldives ...

and

Super United Sports Super United Sports, commonly known as ''SUS'' or ''Suspatis'', is a Maldivian professional football club based in Machchangolhi in the city of Malé. Club history Youth football enthusiasts from Kaaminee Magu of Machchangolhi, Malé, formed a g ...

advance to the final, with gaining automatic promotionValencia makes a comeback to First Division
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for the following season, as New Radiant Sports Club and

Victory Sports Club Victory Sports Club is a Maldivian sports club based in Malé, founded 3 July 1971. Victory is one of the most successful football clubs in Maldives, winning a record 21 national championships. They have also won the Dhivehi Premier League tw ...

both teams being suspended. Both New Radiant and Victory will have to play in the

even if their suspension cast aside.

Teams

A total of nine teams compete in the league.2nd Division 2020 starts this afternoon
(in Dhivehi). Boalha.mv

Personnel and sponsoring

Group stage

From each group, the top two teams will be advanced for the

Semi-finals A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, ...

. ''All times listed are Maldives Standard Time.'' UTC+05:00

Group 1

Group 2

Semi-finals

Final

Awards

Final ranking

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in

extra time Overtime (OT) or extra time (ET) is an additional period of play to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only if the game is required t ...

are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by

penalty shoot-out The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...

are counted as draws.

References

{{Second Division Football Tournament seasons Maldivian Second Division Football Tournament seasons

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