1952 Soviet Class B

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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).

Contents

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

First stage

Group Kharkov

PosRepTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1LTUSpartak Vilnius532061+58
2UKRLokomotiv Kharkov523051+47
3RUSVMS Moskva5221104+66 [lower-alpha 1]
4UZBDO Tashkent520381134
5KARKrasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk503261043
6TKMSpartak Ashkhabad502341282
Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

Group Ivanovo

PosRepTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1GEODO Tbilisi532093+68 [lower-alpha 1]
2RUSKrasnoye Znamya Ivanovo523095+47
3KAZDinamo Alma-Ata522143+16
4ESTKalev Tallinn52213416
5ARMDinamo Yerevan510451162
6RUSTorpedo Stalingrad501471141
Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

Group Baku

PosRepTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1AZENeftyanik Baku430163+36
2MDABurevestnik Kishinev41214404
3RUSTorpedo Gorkiy41215504 [lower-alpha 1]
4RUSDO Sverdlovsk41124513 [lower-alpha 2]
5UKRDO Kiev40312423 [lower-alpha 2]
Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

Second stage

For places 1-9

PosRepTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion
1UKRLokomotiv Kharkov169342111+1021Promoted
2LTUSpartak Vilnius166732320+319
3GEODO Tbilisi166552415+917 [lower-alpha 1]
4RUSKrasnoye Znamya Ivanovo168172425117
5RUSVMS Leningrad [lower-alpha 2] 166461915+416 [lower-alpha 3]
6RUSTorpedo Gorkiy164841619316 [lower-alpha 3]
7AZENeftyanik Baku165562021115
8MDABurevestnik Kishinev166372127615
9KAZDinamo Alma-Ata161691328158
Source: rsssf.com
Notes:
  1. +
  2. VMS Moskva relocated to Leningrad.
  3. 1 2 -

For places 10-18

Played in Rostov-na-Donu

PosRepTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
10ARMDinamo Yerevan8701183+1514
11RUSTorpedo Stalingrad8512167+911
12RUSDO Sverdlovsk8413148+69 [lower-alpha 1] Relegation
13RUSKrasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk84131816+29
14UKRDO Kiev (O, R)8404139+48 [lower-alpha 1] Relegation play-off
15ESTKalev Tallinn8404101228Relegation
16UZBDO Tashkent8314101777
17TJKDinamo Stalinabad8305112096
18TKMSpartak Ashkhabad8008220180
Source: rsssf.com
(O) Play-off winner; (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. Team 21st leg2nd leg
ODO Kiev 6–1 Metallurg Zaporozhie 3–03–1

Number of teams by republics

Number Union republics Team(s)
5Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg  Russian SFSR VMS Moscow
FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Torpedo Stalingrad, FC Torpedo Gorkiy, DO Sverdlovsk
2Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg  Ukrainian SSR FC Lokomotiv Kharkov, DO Kiev
1Flag of Lithuanian SSR.svg  Lithuanian SSR FC Spartak Vilnius
1Flag of the Uzbek SSR.svg  Uzbek SSR DO Tashkent
1Flag of the Karelo-Finnish SSR.svg  Karelo-Finnish SSR FC Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk
1Flag of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.svg  Turkmen SSR FC Spartak Asgabat
1Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg  Georgian SSR DO Tbilisi
1Flag of the Kazakh SSR.svg  Kazakh SSR FC Dinamo Alma-Ata
1Flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg  Estonian SSR FC Kalev Tallinn
1Flag of Armenian SSR.svg  Armenian SSR FC Dinamo Yerevan
1Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1956-1991).svg  Azerbaijan SSR FC Neftianik Baku
1Flag of Moldavian SSR.svg  Moldavian SSR FC Burevestnik Kishinev
1Flag of Tajik SSR.svg  Tajik SSR FC Dinamo Stalinobad

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