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The 2nd Cyprus men's football category 2010-11 was the 38th edition of Cyprus' second-class football. The championship was won by Olympian Frenaru.

Operating system
5 teams participated in the 2010–11 second-class championship. The league 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. For the conquest of third place the notice provided for 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.

National Armed Cyprus participated outside the league.

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 2009-10
The 2010–11 league was not attended by the second-class champion 2009–10, Olympiad Neapolis, who had been promoted to the First-class 2010–11. Also, Prometheus Anthoupolis who left did not participate.

The Association of Youths Paralimni participated in the league which had been demoted from the First Division 2009-10.

Groups involved
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