Soviet Class B
Season1952
1951
1953

The 1952 Soviet Class B football championship.

FC Lokomotiv Kharkov winning the championship.

Teams

Relegated teams

Two teams were relegated from the 1951 Soviet Class A (top tier).

  • VMS Moscow (return after a year absence)
  • FC Torpedo Gorkiy (return after a year absence)

Two teams received direct promotion. One team were promoted from republican competitions through last year post-season playoffs.

  • DO Tbilisi – Winner of the 1951 Football Championship of the Georgian SSR (return after a two-year absence)
  • DO Sverdlovsk – Winner of the 1951 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (return after a two-year absence)
  • DO Kiev – Winner of the 1951 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and promotion play-off (return after a two-year absence)

First stage

Group Kharkov

Pos Rep Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 LTU Spartak Vilnius 5 3 2 0 6 1 +5 8
2 UKR Lokomotiv Kharkov 5 2 3 0 5 1 +4 7
3 RUS VMS Moskva 5 2 2 1 10 4 +6 6[lower-alpha 1]
4 UZB DO Tashkent 5 2 0 3 8 11 3 4
5 KAR Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk 5 0 3 2 6 10 4 3
6 TKM Spartak Ashkhabad 5 0 2 3 4 12 8 2
Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

Group Ivanovo

Pos Rep Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 GEO DO Tbilisi 5 3 2 0 9 3 +6 8[lower-alpha 1]
2 RUS Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo 5 2 3 0 9 5 +4 7
3 KAZ Dinamo Alma-Ata 5 2 2 1 4 3 +1 6
4 EST Kalev Tallinn 5 2 2 1 3 4 1 6
5 ARM Dinamo Yerevan 5 1 0 4 5 11 6 2
6 RUS Torpedo Stalingrad 5 0 1 4 7 11 4 1
Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

Group Baku

Pos Rep Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 AZE Neftyanik Baku 4 3 0 1 6 3 +3 6
2 MDA Burevestnik Kishinev 4 1 2 1 4 4 0 4
3 RUS Torpedo Gorkiy 4 1 2 1 5 5 0 4[lower-alpha 1]
4 RUS DO Sverdlovsk 4 1 1 2 4 5 1 3[lower-alpha 2]
5 UKR DO Kiev 4 0 3 1 2 4 2 3[lower-alpha 2]
Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

Second stage

For places 1-9

Pos Rep Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion
1 UKR Lokomotiv Kharkov 16 9 3 4 21 11 +10 21 Promoted
2 LTU Spartak Vilnius 16 6 7 3 23 20 +3 19
3 GEO DO Tbilisi 16 6 5 5 24 15 +9 17[lower-alpha 1]
4 RUS Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo 16 8 1 7 24 25 1 17
5 RUS VMS Leningrad[lower-alpha 2] 16 6 4 6 19 15 +4 16[lower-alpha 3]
6 RUS Torpedo Gorkiy 16 4 8 4 16 19 3 16[lower-alpha 3]
7 AZE Neftyanik Baku 16 5 5 6 20 21 1 15
8 MDA Burevestnik Kishinev 16 6 3 7 21 27 6 15
9 KAZ Dinamo Alma-Ata 16 1 6 9 13 28 15 8
Source: rsssf.com
Notes:
  1. +
  2. VMS Moskva relocated to Leningrad.
  3. 1 2 -

For places 10-18

Played in Rostov-na-Donu

Pos Rep Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
10 ARM Dinamo Yerevan 8 7 0 1 18 3 +15 14
11 RUS Torpedo Stalingrad 8 5 1 2 16 7 +9 11
12 RUS DO Sverdlovsk 8 4 1 3 14 8 +6 9[lower-alpha 1] Relegation
13 RUS Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk 8 4 1 3 18 16 +2 9
14 UKR DO Kiev (O, R) 8 4 0 4 13 9 +4 8[lower-alpha 1] Relegation play-off
15 EST Kalev Tallinn 8 4 0 4 10 12 2 8 Relegation
16 UZB DO Tashkent 8 3 1 4 10 17 7 7
17 TJK Dinamo Stalinabad 8 3 0 5 11 20 9 6
18 TKM Spartak Ashkhabad 8 0 0 8 2 20 18 0
Source: rsssf.com
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Relegation play-off

To the play-off qualified the champion of the 1952 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and the worst Ukrainian team of masters of the 1952 Soviet Class B.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
ODO Kiev 6–1 Metallurg Zaporozhie 3–0 3–1

Number of teams by republics

Number Union republics Team(s)
5  Russian SFSRVMS Moscow
FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Torpedo Stalingrad, FC Torpedo Gorkiy, DO Sverdlovsk
2  Ukrainian SSRFC Lokomotiv Kharkov, DO Kiev
1  Lithuanian SSRFC Spartak Vilnius
1  Uzbek SSRDO Tashkent
1  Karelo-Finnish SSRFC Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk
1  Turkmen SSRFC Spartak Asgabat
1  Georgian SSRDO Tbilisi
1  Kazakh SSRFC Dinamo Alma-Ata
1  Estonian SSRFC Kalev Tallinn
1  Armenian SSRFC Dinamo Yerevan
1  Azerbaijan SSRFC Neftianik Baku
1  Moldavian SSRFC Burevestnik Kishinev
1  Tajik SSRFC Dinamo Stalinobad

See also

References

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