{{Short description|Sports league division}} {{Unreferenced|date=July 2025|bot=noref (GreenC bot)}} {{other uses|Second division (baseball)|2nd Division (disambiguation)|Division II (disambiguation)}}
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== * K League Challenge, South Korea (second tier) * J. League Division 2, Japan (second tier) * I League 2, India (second tier)
==UEFA== * Albanian Second Division, Albania (third tier) * Segona Divisió, Andorra (second tier) * Belarusian Second League, Belarus (third tier) * Belgian Second Division, Belgium (second tier) * Second League of the Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina (third tier) * Czech 2. Liga, Czech Republic (second tier) * Cypriot Second Division, Cyprus (second tier) * Druga HNL, Croatia (second tier) * Danish 2nd Division, Denmark (third tier) * England: ** Football League Second Division (1892–1992; second tier, re-branded as Football League First Division after creation of top-level FA Premier League) ** EFL Championship, (second tier) ** Isthmian League Second Division, (ninth tier) * Second League of Estonia (third tier) * 2. deild, Faroe Islands (third tier) * Kakkonen, Finland (third tier) * Ligue 2, France (second tier) * Second Macedonian Football League (Macedonian Vtora Liga), Republic of Macedonia (second tier) * Meore Liga, Georgia (third tier) * 2. Fußball-Bundesliga, Germany (second tier) * Football League (Greece) (formerly Beta Ethniki, Greece (second tier) * Nemzeti Bajnokság II (Hungarian National Championship II), Hungary (second tier) * 2. deild karla, Iceland (third tier) * Italy: ** Serie B, (second tier) ** Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (fourth tier) * Maltese Second Division, Malta (third tier) * Montenegrin Second League, Montenegro (second tier) * Norwegian Second Division (2. divisjon), Norway (third tier) * II liga (Poland) (Polish Second League), Poland (third tier) * Portugal: ** Liga de Honra, formerly "Segunda Divisão de Honra", (second tier) ** Segunda Divisão (Portuguese Second Division), (third tier) * Liga II, Romania * Russian Second Division, Russia (third tier) * Scottish Football League Second Division, Scotland (third tier) * 2. Liga (Slovakia) (Slovak Second League), Slovakia (second tier) * Slovenian Second League, Slovenia (second tier) * Segunda División de La Liga, Spain * Swedish football Division 2, Sweden (fourth tier) * TFF Second League, Turkey (third tier) * Ukrainian Second League, Ukraine (third tier) * V.League 3, Vietname (third tier) * Welsh Football League Division Two, Wales (second tier)
==CONCACAF== {{updated|August 30, 2017}} * Aruban Division Uno, Aruba (second tier) * Barbados Division One, Barbados (second tier) * Segunda División de Costa Rica, Costa Rica (second tier) * Segunda División de El Salvador, El Salvador (second tier) * GFA First Division, Grenada (second tier) * Primera División de Ascenso, Guatemala (second tier) * Honduran Liga Nacional de Ascenso, Honduras (second tier) * Jamaica: ** Eastern Confederation Super League (second tier) ** KSAFA Super League (second tier) ** South Central Confederation Super League (second tier) ** Western Confederation Super League (second tier) * Mexico: ** Ascenso MX (second tier) ** Segunda División de México (formerly Segunda División Profesional) (third tier) * Segunda División de Nicaragua, Nicaragua (second tier) * Liga Nacional de Ascenso, Panama (second tier) * SKNFA Division 1, Saint Kitts and Nevis (second tier) * SLFA Second Division, St. Lucia (second tier) * SVB Hoofdklasse, Suriname (second tier) * National Super League, Trinidad and Tobago (second tier) * United States: ** United Soccer League (second tier) ** North American Soccer League (second tier)
==CONMEBOL== * Primera B Nacional, Argentina (second tier) * Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, Brazil (second tier) * Ecuadorian Serie B, Ecuador (second tier) * Paraguayan Segunda División, Paraguay (second tier) * Peruvian Segunda División, Peru (second tier) * Uruguayan Segunda División, Uruguay (second tier) * Venezuelan Segunda División, Venezuela (second tier)
==See also== * B Division (disambiguation)
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