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 was the second season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 30 March 2024 and ended on 16 November 2024. There was 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 was 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 were promoted into the Division A Second Stage Silver Group. Four bottom teams from the Division A First Stage Silver Group were 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 included 17 teams that played 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 were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were qualified to be relegated from Division B.

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Forte Taganrog 3222556830+3871Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Rubin Yalta 3220484826+2264
3 Dynamo Stavropol 3218955431+2363
4 Legion Makhachkala 3218685726+3160
5 Rostov-2 32193105733+2460
6 Sevastopol 3217784730+1758
7 Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky [a] 32139104434+1048
8 Astrakhan 32145134042247
9 Nart Cherkessk 32135144347444
10 Druzhba Maykop 32133164142142
11 Angusht Nazran 32814102227538
12 Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya 32910132937837
13 Spartak Nalchik 32107154750337
14 Biolog-Novokubansk [b] 32861841561530Dissolved after the season
15 Pobeda Khasavyurt 32791636491330
16 Alania-2 Vladikavkaz 32452324876317Relegation to the
Russian Amateur Football League
17 Dynamo-2 Makhachkala [c] 32352419705114
Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway
Notes:
  1. Stroitel was purchased by a new owner in February 2025 and relocated to Tomsk as FC KDV Tomsk. [17]
  2. Biolog-Novokubansk was dissolved in early 2025. [18]
  3. Dynamo-2 was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B. [19]

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1Magomed Abakarov Forte Taganrog 17
Vadim Zubavlenko Rubin Yalta
3Aleksandr Olenev Legion Makhachkala 14
Alan Khachirov Spartak Nalchik
5Makhach Abdulkhamidov Dynamo Stavropol 12
6 Islam Tlupov Spartak Nalchik 11
Bekkhan Aliyev Angusht Nazran
8Anar Panayev Legion Makhachkala 10
Gadzhimurad Abdullayev Druzhba Maykop
Stanislav Ruban Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky

Group 2

Group 2 included 16 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 6 April 2024 to 3 November 2024. [20] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Dynamo-2 Moscow 3022446628+3870Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Spartak-2 Moscow 3019566733+3462
3 Leon Saturn Ramenskoye [a] 3017766843+2558
4 Irkutsk 3017674335+857
5 Chertanovo Moscow 3017495438+1655
6 Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg 3014974530+1551
7 Dynamo Vologda 3015694531+1451
8 Baltika-BFU Kaliningrad [b] 3014885045+550
9 Dynamo Saint Petersburg 30116135450+439
10 Torpedo Vladimir 30116134340+339
11 Rodina-M Moscow 3097145148+334
12 Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo 30941727522531
13 Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki 30771624411728
14 Tver 30671730572725
15 Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk [c] 30352226664014
16 Zvezda Saint Petersburg [d] 3015242480568
Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway
Notes:
  1. Leon Saturn was renamed back to Saturn at the end of 2024. [21]
  2. The team was renamed to Baltika-2 in January 2025. [22]
  3. Yenisey-2 was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B. [19]
  4. Zvezda was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B. [19]

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1Vitaly Karpenko Spartak-2 Moscow 18
2 Anton Betyuzhnov Dynamo Vologda 12
Denis Bokov Dynamo-2 Moscow
Artyom Bykovsky Spartak-2 Moscow
5Stanislav Basyrov Leon Saturn Ramenskoye 11

Group 3

Group 3 included 15 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 7 April 2024 to 3 November 2024. [20] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Dynamo Vladivostok 2820354217+2563Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Kosmos Dolgoprudny 2816664523+2254
3 Kompozit Pavlovsky Posad [a] 2816665940+1954
4 Salyut Belgorod 2813964934+1548
5 Spartak Tambov 2812883728+944
6 Khimki-M 28135103734+344
7 Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk [b] 28126102924+542Dissolved after the season
8 Zenit Penza 28107113435137
9 Ryazan 2898113331+235
10 Oryol 28105133432+235
11 Strogino Moscow 28941524381431
12 Arsenal-2 Tula 2894153140931
13 SKA-Khabarovsk-2 28761538501227
14 Kolomna [c] 28561722563421
15 Kvant Obninsk [d] 28471719513219
Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway
Notes:
  1. Kompozit has been merged into FC Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo in 2025. [23]
  2. Sakhalin was dissolved at the end of the year. [24]
  3. FC Kolomna was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B. [19]
  4. FC Kvant Obnisnk was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B. [19]

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Andrei Chasovskikh Spartak Tambov 12
Nikolai Boyarkin Salyut Belgorod
Kirill Pomeshkin Kosmos Dolgoprudny
Oleg Trofimov Khimki-M
5Astemir Khashkulov SKA-Khabarovsk-2 11

Group 4

Group 4 included 14 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 13 April 2024 to 19 October 2024. [25] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Dynamo Kirov 2617635219+3357Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Amkar Perm 2616733515+2055
3 Rubin-2 Kazan 26121043818+2046
4 Sokol Kazan 2613674935+1445
5 Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 2613494131+1043
6 Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara 26101063428+640
7 Ural-2 Yekaterinburg 269893124+735
8 Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil 2695122936732
9 Lada-Tolyatti [a] 2685133036629Relegation to the
Russian Amateur Football League
10 Dynamo Barnaul 26761329431427
11 Nosta Novotroitsk 26671327391225
12 Orenburg-2 26671326441825
13 Akron-2 Tolyatti [b] 26641621412022
14 Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod [c] 26471520533319Dissolved after the season
Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway
Notes:
  1. Lada-Tolyatti dropped out of professional football for financial reasons. [26]
  2. Akron-2 was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B. [27]
  3. Pari NN-2 was dissolved by the parent club at the conclusion of the season. [28]

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Ilya Yurchenko Amkar Perm 13
Daniil Motorin Rubin-2 Kazan
3Ilya Kozhukhar Dynamo Kirov 12
4Daniil Nagovitsin Dynamo Kirov 11
5Dmitry Usov Orenburg-2 9

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