2024 Russian Second League Division B

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Russian Second League Division B
Season2024
Dates30 March 2024 – 16 November 2024
2023
2025

The 2024 Russian Second League Division B is the second season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 30 March 2024 and will end on 16 November 2024. There is a three-week break in July after half of the games have been played.

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Overview

In the summer of 2023, the Russian Second League was reorganized and split into two tiers - third-tier Russian Second League Division A and fourth-tier Russian Second League Division B. [1] Division B also switched to the spring-to-autumn, March-to-November schedule. 2023 was a transitional half-year season. [2] 2024 season is the first full-length season.

Division B is split into 4 groups, mostly based on geographical location. At the end of the year, four winners of their groups will be promoted into the Division A Second Stage Silver Group. Four bottom teams from the Division A First Stage Silver Group will be relegated to 2025 Division B.

Team movement

At the end of the 2023 season, Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk, Khimik Dzerzhinsk, Kaluga and Torpedo Miass were promoted to Division A as winners of their Division B groups. Forte Taganrog, Amkar Perm, Chertanovo Moscow and Salyut Belgorod were relegated to Division B from Division A.

Torpedo-2 and Peresvet Domodedovo were relegated from Division B. SKA Rostov-on-Don and Zorkiy Krasnogorsk voluntarily dropped out. [3] [4] Sakhalinets Moscow and Khimik-Avgust Vurnary dissolved their professional squads. [5] [6] Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk failed licensing for the season. [7]

Elektron Veliky Novgorod moved to Nizhny Novgorod and was renamed to Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. [8]

Pobeda Khasavyurt, Dynamo Stavropol, Kolomna, Orenburg-2 and Akron-2 Tolyatti, which finished the 2023 season in relegation spots, were kept in the league because of the other teams dropping out.

New teams were Angusht Nazran, Lada-Tolyatti, Nart Cherkessk, Oryol, Sokol Kazan and Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (promoted from the Russian Amateur Football League), Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara, Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-2 and Spartak-2 Moscow (farm clubs of the Russian Premier League teams). [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Group 1

Group 1 includes 17 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 30 March 2024 to 16 November 2024. [15] The opening games that were initially scheduled for 23 March 2024 were postponed due to the Crocus City Hall attack. [16] The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Rostov-2 1610243717+2032Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Forte Taganrog 159332614+1230
3 Astrakhan 159332112+930
4 Legion Makhachkala 169342610+1630
5 Dynamo Stavropol 167632316+727
6 Sevastopol 15753199+1026
7 Rubin Yalta 168261815+326
8 Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky 167452119+225
9 Angusht Nazran 165741512+322
10 Spartak Nalchik 165562421+320
11 Nart Cherkessk 1654716261019
12 Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya 165471720319
13 Biolog-Novokubansk 165382126518
14 Pobeda Khasavyurt 163671925615
15 Druzhba Maykop 154291623714
16 Alania-2 Vladikavkaz 16331014402612Relegation to the
Russian Amateur Football League
17 Dynamo-2 Makhachkala 1612131038285
Updated to match(es) played on 6 July 2024. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway

Group 2

Group 2 includes 16 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 6 April 2024 to 3 November 2024. [17] The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Dynamo-2 Moscow 1512123510+2537Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Spartak-2 Moscow 151140348+2637
3 Chertanovo Moscow 159333219+1330
4 Baltika-BFU Kaliningrad 159332921+830
5 Leon Saturn Ramenskoye 157442819+925
6 Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg 157352419+524
7 Dynamo Vologda 155552018+220
8 Rodina-M Moscow 155552320+320
9 Dynamo Saint Petersburg 156272526120
10 Irkutsk 155551725820
11 Torpedo Vladimir 156272319+420
12 Tver 154471722516
13 Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo 1542915301514
14 Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki 152498211310
15 Zvezda Saint Petersburg 1513111341286Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
16 Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk 1512121035255
Updated to match(es) played on 7 July 2024. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway

Group 3

Group 3 includes 15 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 7 April 2024 to 3 November 2024. [17] The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Dynamo Vladivostok 1411122110+1134Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Kompozit Pavlovsky Posad 1410132416+831
3 Kosmos Dolgoprudny 149142414+1028
4 Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 148241610+626
5 Khimki-M 147251816+223
6 Arsenal-2 Tula 146351913+621
7 Salyut Belgorod 145541817+120
8 Spartak Tambov 145452221+119
9 Ryazan 145361412+218
10 Zenit Penza 144461618216
11 Oryol 144371619315
12 Strogino Moscow 144281722514
13 Kvant Obninsk 1434715291413
14 SKA-Khabarovsk-2 142481923410Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
15 Kolomna 140591029195
Updated to match(es) played on 7 July 2024. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway

Group 4

Group 4 includes 14 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 13 April 2024 to 19 October 2024. [18] The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Dynamo Kirov 131021288+2032Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Amkar Perm 13931216+1530
3 Sokol Kazan 138412918+1128
4 Rubin-2 Kazan 13652158+723
5 Ural-2 Yekaterinburg 136431511+422
6 Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara 133821113217
7 Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil 134451216416
8 Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 134361616015
9 Nosta Novotroitsk 134271922314
10 Dynamo Barnaul 133371823512
11 Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod 1325610211111
12 Orenburg-2 1332818281011
13 Lada-Tolyatti 13238132299Relegation to the
Russian Amateur Football League
14 Akron-2 Tolyatti 133010821139
Updated to match(es) played on 6 July 2024. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway

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