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The second category of men's football 2008-09 was the 36th edition of the second category of football of Cyprus. The championship was won by the Renaissance Derenemy.

Operating system
5 teams participated in the 2008–09 second-class championship. It was held in two phases. In the first phase, all teams competed between them twice, once inside and one away.

The first four teams then gave play off matches for the champion's promotion, according to the first phase ranking series. In the semi-final phase of play off the teams competed as follows: 1st-4th and 2nd-3th. To qualify for the next round one team of each pair had to achieve 3 wins.

The winners of the two pairs of the semi-final phase competed with each other to promote the champion. To be declared a champion team had to achieve 3 wins. The league team was promoted to the First Division. The two losers competed for winning third place. To win the third place was held a single race at the headquarters of the team that had finished higher in Phase I.

All the rounds measured the wins the teams had achieved in the first phase of the league. The series of matches of each pair began at the team seat which finished higher at the end of the first phase of the league and continued alternately in the seats of the two teams until the completion of the phase.

Score system
Each win was scored by 2 points and every loss by 1 point.

Classification criteria Phase I
The teams were ranked based on the total number of points they won. In case of a tie in the total number of points won by two or more teams the ranking criteria were:
Higher ranked the team with the greatest difference between the victors and the lost sets.
If the teams had the same difference, the group was ranked higher with the largest fraction resulting from the division of the total winning sets with the total lost sets.
If the tie continued, account was taken of the results of the meetings (in order: points, sets, points).
If the tie continued, higher ranked the team with the largest fraction resulting from dividing the total earned points with the total missed points.
If the tie continued, a race was held on a neutral field designated by the Cyprus Football Federation.

Changes over the period 2007-08
The 2008–09 league was not attended by the second-class champion 2007–08, Olympian Frenaru, who had been promoted to the First-class 2008–09. Also, Marathon Kato Varosia and Achilles Kaimakli who suspended their operation during this period did not participate. The league was attended by the Renaissance Deryneia and the Olympiad Neapolis which had been demoted from the First Division 2007-08.

Groups involved
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