Group B
Season1937
DatesJuly 23 – October 18
ChampionsFC Spartak Leningrad
RelegatedFC Dinamo Kazan
Matches played42
Goals scored122 (2.9 per match)
Top goalscorerViktor Smagin
7 goals
Biggest home winTemp 6–0 Dinamo Kz (August 13)
Biggest away winDinamo Kz 2–5 Stalinets L. (August 30)
Torpedo 1–4 Dinamo R/D (September 24)
Highest scoringStalinets M. 5–4 Stalinets L. (October 1)
1939 →

The 1937 Gruppa B was third season of the Soviet (second tier) professional football competitions.

Unlike the previous season that was split into two halves, this one was played as a double round-robin among seven teams. The tournament was won by Spartak Leningrad that according to pre-season regulation was to be promoted to the Gruppa A for 1938 season, however later arrangements for the next season were changed and all participants except for the last placed Dinamo Kazan gained promotion.

Also, after only playing 3 of its scheduled games and winning only one of them, CSKA Moscow was transferred to Gruppa A mid-season.[1]

Teams

No teams were relegated to the Gruppa B.

One team was promoted from the 1936 Gruppa V fall tournament.

  • Dinamo Kazan – (debut)

League standings

Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1  Russian SFSR Spartak Leningrad (P) 12 6 2 4 19 13 1.462 26
2  Russian SFSR FC Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu (P) 12 6 2 4 19 14 1.357 26
3  Azerbaijan SSR Temp Baku (P) 12 6 1 5 19 14 1.357 25
4  Russian SFSR Stalinets Leningrad (P) 12 5 3 4 22 18 1.222 25
5  Russian SFSR FC Stalinets Moscow (P) 12 5 3 4 16 17 0.941 25
6  Russian SFSR FC Torpedo Moscow (P) 12 4 4 4 16 18 0.889 24
7  Russian SFSR FC Dynamo Kazan 12 1 3 8 11 28 0.393 17
8  Russian SFSR CDKA Moscow[lower-alpha 1] 2 1 1 0 3 2 1.500 5
Source:
(P) Promoted
Notes:
  1. ↑ CDKA was returned during the season to the Soviet Top League after playing two games in the season. Their results were scratched for this League this season.

Top scorers

Rank Scorer Team Goals
(Pen.)
1 Viktor Smagin Stalinets Leningrad 7
2 Arkadiy Amirjanov Temp Baku 6
Vladimir Kuskov Spartak Leningrad 6
4 Sergei Ivanov Stalinets Moscow 5
Timofei Rudov Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu 5
Yefim Semyonov Torpedo Moscow 5
7 Ivan Bibko Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu 4
Ilya Bizyukov Spartak Leningrad 4
Veniamin Sarkisov Temp Baku 4
Konstantin Sazonov Stalinets Leningrad 4
Aleksei Shumov Stalinets Moscow 4

See also

References

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