1952 in Soviet football

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Football in the Soviet Union
Season1952
Men's football
Class A Spartak Moscow
Class B Lokomotiv Kharkov
Soviet Cup Torpedo Moscow
←  1951 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 1953  →

The 1952 Soviet football championship was the 20th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 14th among teams of sports societies and factories. Spartak Moscow won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the fourth time and the first after World War II, the Spartak's main rivals Dinamo again had a difficult season struggling only for the second.

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The defending champions CDSA were expelled from the league for the poor performance of the USSR national football team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. The Class A started late mid-summer consisting only of a single round-robin with almost all games played in Moscow.

Honours

CompetitionWinnerRunner-up
Class A Spartak Moscow (4) Dinamo Kiev
Class B Lokomotiv Kharkov Spartak Vilnius
Soviet Cup Torpedo Moscow (2) Spartak Moscow

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Soviet Union football championship

Class A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1937-1954).svg Spartak Moscow (C)139222612+1420League champions
2 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg Dynamo Kiev 137332614+1217
3 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1937-1954).svg Dynamo Moscow 137332414+1017
4 Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg Dynamo Tbilisi 135621912+716
5 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1937-1954).svg Dynamo Leningrad 135531717015
6 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1937-1954).svg Kalinin 135441919014
7 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1937-1954).svg Zenit Leningrad 136252021−114
8 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1937-1954).svg Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev 135351614+213
9 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1937-1954).svg Lokomotiv Moscow 135261921−212
10 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1937-1954).svg Torpedo Moscow 133641115−412
11 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1937-1954).svg VVS Moscow (R)132651114−310Relegation to Class B
12 Flag of Latvian SSR (1940).svg Daugava Riga (R)132561014−49
13 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg Shakhtyor Stalino (R)131661426−128
14 Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1951-1991).svg Dinamo Minsk (R)131391029−195
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Class B (second stage)

For places 1-9

PosRepTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion
1UKRLokomotiv Kharkov169342111+1021Promoted
2LTUSpartak Vilnius166732320+319
3GEODO Tbilisi166552415+917 [lower-alpha 1]
4RUSKrasnoye Znamya Ivanovo168172425−117
5RUSVMS Leningrad [lower-alpha 2] 166461915+416 [lower-alpha 3]
6RUSTorpedo Gorkiy164841619−316 [lower-alpha 3]
7AZENeftyanik Baku165562021−115
8MDABurevestnik Kishinev166372127−615
9KAZDinamo Alma-Ata161691328−158
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]
13RUSKrasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk84131816+29
14UKRDO Kiev (O, R)8404139+48 [lower-alpha 1] Relegation play-off
15ESTKalev Tallinn84041012−28
16UZBDO Tashkent83141017−77
17TJKDinamo Stalinabad83051120−96
18TKMSpartak Ashkhabad8008220−180
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

Top goalscorers

Class A

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