[1][2] The first official second division championship was held in the 1953–54 season, after the unification of Cypriot Football, without the presence of the reserve teams.
Pezoporikos Larnaca and Trust were also two teams that never played to Second Division but both do not exist anymore.
Çetinkaya Türk also never participated in Second Division but the team withdrew from CFA in 1954.
Many teams with multiple participations in the Cypriot First Division had also played in the Second Division, like AEL Limassol, Nea Salamis Famagusta, Apollon Limassol, Olympiakos Nicosia, AEK Larnaca, Enosis Neon Paralimni and EPA Larnaca.
[1] Anorthosis Famagusta also participated in the Second Division during 1945–46 season (unofficial competition), because they withdrew from CFA eight years earlier and disbanded their football team.
In some seasons during the 1960s and 1970s only the leading teams of the Second Division took part (some times only the champion) in the competition.
No Second Division team ever reach the final but they qualified for the semi-finals four times (Nea Salamis Famagusta in 1953–54, Orfeas Nicosia in 1983–84, PAEEK in 1984–85 and AEP Paphos in 2005–06).
From 1953–54 until 1967–68 the championship was split to two or three geographical groups, depending from Districts of Cyprus each participated team came from.
Exceptions were: Sixteen clubs are competing in the league, playing each other twice, once at home and once away for a total of 30 games per team.
Most teams have undertaken national project by collecting money and clothing to be sent to Greece in order to assist the Greek people and the army.
Due to the prevailed war conditions the CFA decided to suspend all the competitions.
Second Division Champions of that season was considered the winner of Group B1, Ayia Napa.
3The 1974–75 season, due to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus which forced many teams that had their headquarters to the north Cyprus to be closed temporarily or permanently, CFA decide to have a Special mixed championship of Second & Third Division.