2025 Russian Second League Division B

Russian Second League Division B

Season	2025
Dates	22 March 2025 – November 2025
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The 2025 Russian Second League Division B is the third season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 22 March 2025 and will end in November 2025.

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 will be promoted into the Division B Second Stage Silver Group. Four bottom teams from the Division A First Stage Silver Group will be relegated to 2026 Division B.

Team movement

At the end of the 2024 season, Forte Taganrog, Dynamo-2 Moscow, Dynamo Vladivostok and Dynamo Kirov were promoted to Division A as winners of their Division B groups. Irtysh Omsk, Khimik Dzerzhinsk, Metallurg Lipetsk and Krasnodar-2 were relegated to Division B from Division A. Following relegation, Krasnodar-2 was suspended indefinitely by their parent club and did not apply for Division B license. ^[3]

Alania-2 Vladikavkaz was relegated from Division B. Biolog-Novokubansk, Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Lada-Tolyatti and Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod were dissolved. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

Leon Saturn Ramenskoye was renamed to Saturn Ramenskoye, Baltika-BFU Kaliningrad was renamed to Baltika-2 Kaliningrad. ^{[8] [9]} Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky was moved to Tomsk and re-branded as KDV Tomsk. ^[10] Kompozit Pavlovsky Posad merged into Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo. ^[11]

Dynamo-2 Makhachkala, Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk, Zvezda Saint Petersburg, Kolomna, Kvant Obninsk and Akron-2 Tolyatti, which finished the 2024 season in relegation spots, were kept in the league because of the other teams dropping out or moving zones. That was the second consecutive occasion that happened for Kolomna and Akron-2.

New teams were Cherepovets (promoted from the Russian Amateur Football League), Sochi-2, Rotor-2 Volgograd (farm-clubs of Russian First League clubs) and Chelyabinsk-2 (farm-club of a Second League Division A club). ^{[12] [13]}

Group 1

Group 1 includes 14 teams.

In the first stage, 14 teams played each other twice, home and away, from 22 March 2025 to 14 September 2025. At the end of the first stage, top 6 teams qualified for the second stage subgroup 1A, and the remaining 8 qualified for the second stage subgroup 1B.

The results of the games played in the first stage were included in the second stage standings.

Subgroup 1A teams play each other twice more, home and away, from 20 September 2025 to 22 November 2025. Subgroup 1B teams play each other once, from 20 September 2025 to 1 November 2025.

Subgroup 1A winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams of subgroup 1B will be relegated from Division B. ^[14]

First stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dynamo Stavropol	26	15	7	4	38	23	+15	52	Qualification for the Second Stage Subgroup 1A
2	Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya	26	14	9	3	48	23	+25	51
3	Sevastopol	26	13	9	4	41	30	+11	48
4	Pobeda Khasavyurt	26	15	3	8	32	25	+7	48
5	Rostov-2	26	13	5	8	37	22	+15	44
6	Nart Cherkessk	26	12	6	8	37	22	+15	42
7	Sochi-2	26	11	7	8	40	29	+11	40	Qualification for the Second Stage Subgroup 1B
8	Druzhba Maykop	26	10	7	9	37	27	+10	37
9	Astrakhan	26	9	10	7	33	24	+9	37
10	Rubin Yalta	26	9	6	11	26	32	−6	33
11	Legion Makhachkala	26	7	8	11	26	42	−16	29
12	Angusht Nazran	26	5	8	13	21	31	−10	23
13	Spartak Nalchik	26	3	5	18	18	48	−30	14
14	Dynamo-2 Makhachkala	26	0	2	24	15	71	−56	2

Source: Soccerway

Second stage

Subgroup 1A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dynamo Stavropol	27	16	7	4	40	24	+16	55	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya	27	14	10	3	48	23	+25	52
3	Sevastopol	27	14	9	4	43	31	+12	51
4	Pobeda Khasavyurt	27	15	3	9	33	27	+6	48
5	Rostov-2	27	13	6	8	37	22	+15	45
6	Nart Cherkessk	27	12	6	9	38	24	+14	42

Updated to match(es) played on 20 September 2025. Source: Russian Second League

Subgroup 1B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sochi-2	27	11	8	8	40	29	+11	41
2	Astrakhan	27	10	10	7	34	24	+10	40
3	Druzhba Maykop	27	10	7	10	37	28	+9	37
4	Rubin Yalta	27	10	6	11	29	33	−4	36
5	Legion Makhachkala	27	7	8	12	27	45	−18	29
6	Angusht Nazran	27	5	8	14	21	32	−11	23
7	Spartak Nalchik	27	4	5	18	19	48	−29	17	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
8	Dynamo-2 Makhachkala (R)	27	0	3	24	15	71	−56	3

Updated to match(es) played on 20 September 2025. Source: Russian Second League
(R) Relegated

Group 2

Group 2 includes 15 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 30 March 2025 to 2 November 2025. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B. ^[14]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg	23	20	2	1	49	17	+32	62	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Dynamo Vologda	22	15	4	3	41	20	+21	49
3	Spartak-2 Moscow	23	13	2	8	38	26	+12	41
4	Baltika-2 Kaliningrad	22	10	6	6	38	27	+11	36
5	Irkutsk	22	9	6	7	34	29	+5	33
6	Tver	22	8	7	7	33	30	+3	31
7	Torpedo Vladimir	22	7	8	7	22	23	−1	29
8	Saturn Ramenskoye	22	7	6	9	33	34	−1	27
9	Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki	23	6	8	9	24	27	−3	26
10	Zvezda Saint Petersburg	23	6	6	11	32	39	−7	24
11	Kosmos Dolgoprudny	23	6	5	12	25	33	−8	23
12	Chertanovo Moscow	22	6	4	12	31	38	−7	22
13	Cherepovets	22	6	3	13	23	37	−14	21
14	Kolomna	22	4	9	9	17	32	−15	21	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
15	Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk	23	5	4	14	22	50	−28	19

Updated to match(es) played on 22 September 2025. Source: Soccerway

Group 3

Group 3 includes 15 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 28 March 2025 to 1 November 2025. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom team will be relegated from Division B. ^[14]

FC Khimki-M, the reserve team of FC Khimki, was dissolved on 30 May 2025 after playing 9 games and gaining 7 points and removed from the league on the same day, also reducing the relegation zone from two worst teams to one. ^{[15] [16]} According to the league regulations, all the results of Khimki-M games played up to that point were discarded as it played less than half of their scheduled games.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Dynamo Bryansk	23	15	3	5	38	16	+22	48	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Salyut Belgorod	22	14	3	5	43	20	+23	45
3	Dynamo St. Petersburg	23	12	8	3	35	19	+16	44
4	Spartak Tambov	22	12	5	5	39	14	+25	41
5	Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo	22	12	4	6	42	20	+22	40
6	Metallurg Lipetsk	22	12	4	6	30	15	+15	40
7	Ryazan	22	12	4	6	29	20	+9	40
8	Oryol	23	8	7	8	23	31	−8	31
9	Rodina-M Moscow	22	6	7	9	30	33	−3	25
10	Arsenal-2 Tula	23	6	5	12	24	32	−8	23
11	Zenit Penza	22	6	4	12	20	29	−9	22
12	Rotor-2 Volgograd	22	5	7	10	24	33	−9	22
13	SKA-Khabarovsk-2	22	5	3	14	26	44	−18	18
14	Strogino Moscow	23	5	3	15	25	58	−33	18
15	Kvant Obninsk	23	1	7	15	14	58	−44	10	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League

Updated to match(es) played on 21 September 2025. Source: Soccerway

Group 4

Group 4 includes 14 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 12 April 2025 to 19 October 2025. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B. ^[14]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Khimik Dzerzhinsk	22	17	4	1	52	18	+34	55	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Amkar Perm	22	16	3	3	49	18	+31	51
3	Dynamo Barnaul	22	11	5	6	25	29	−4	38
4	Orenburg-2	22	10	8	4	37	23	+14	38
5	Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil	22	10	6	6	29	24	+5	36
6	KDV Tomsk	22	9	7	6	31	20	+11	34
7	Rubin-2 Kazan	22	9	5	8	31	25	+6	32
8	Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	22	9	4	9	31	32	−1	31
9	Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara	22	6	8	8	27	32	−5	26
10	Chelyabinsk-2	22	6	5	11	16	32	−16	23
11	Ural-2 Yekaterinburg	22	5	5	12	20	44	−24	20
12	Nosta Novotroitsk	22	5	4	13	23	46	−23	19
13	Akron-2 Tolyatti	22	5	3	14	35	48	−13	18	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
14	Sokol Kazan [a] (R)	22	2	1	19	8	23	−15	7

Updated to match(es) played on 22 September 2025. Source: Soccerway
(R) Relegated
Notes:

1. On 15 July 2025, Sokol announced the club will drop out of the Second League competition due to financial issues. ^[17] As they played half of their scheduled games at that point, all their remaining games will be awarded to the opponents, without adjustments to the goal difference. The results of the games they did play will remain in place.

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