Soviet Class B
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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).

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

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[a]
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:
  1. ^ -

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[a]
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:
  1. ^ +

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[a]
4 RUS DO Sverdlovsk 4 1 1 2 4 5 −1 3[b]
5 UKR DO Kiev 4 0 3 1 2 4 −2 3[b]
Source: rsssf.com
Notes:
  1. ^ -
  2. ^ a b +

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[a]
4 RUS Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo 16 8 1 7 24 25 −1 17
5 RUS VMS Leningrad[b] 16 6 4 6 19 15 +4 16[c]
6 RUS Torpedo Gorkiy 16 4 8 4 16 19 −3 16[c]
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. ^ a b -

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[a] 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[a] 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:
  1. ^ a b +

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 SFSR VMS Moscow
FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Torpedo Stalingrad, FC Torpedo Gorkiy, DO Sverdlovsk
2  Ukrainian SSR FC Lokomotiv Kharkov, DO Kiev
1  Lithuanian SSR FC Spartak Vilnius
1  Uzbek SSR DO Tashkent
1  Karelo-Finnish SSR FC Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk
1  Turkmen SSR FC Spartak Asgabat
1  Georgian SSR DO Tbilisi
1  Kazakh SSR FC Dinamo Alma-Ata
1  Estonian SSR FC Kalev Tallinn
1  Armenian SSR FC Dinamo Yerevan
1  Azerbaijan SSR FC Neftianik Baku
1  Moldavian SSR FC Burevestnik Kishinev
1  Tajik SSR FC Dinamo Stalinobad

See also

References

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