2025 Russian Second League Division B

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Russian Second League Division B
Season2025
Dates22 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.

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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 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

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Dynamo Stavropol 2615743823+1552Qualification for the
Second Stage Subgroup 1A
2 Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya 2614934823+2551
3 Sevastopol 2613944130+1148
4 Pobeda Khasavyurt 2615383225+748
5 Rostov-2 2613583722+1544
6 Nart Cherkessk 2612683722+1542
7 Sochi-2 2611784029+1140Qualification for the
Second Stage Subgroup 1B
8 Druzhba Maykop 2610793727+1037
9 Astrakhan 2691073324+937
10 Rubin Yalta 2696112632633
11 Legion Makhachkala 26781126421629
12 Angusht Nazran 26581321311023
13 Spartak Nalchik 26351818483014
14 Dynamo-2 Makhachkala 2602241571562
Source: Soccerway

Second stage

Subgroup 1A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Dynamo Stavropol 2716744024+1655Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya 27141034823+2552
3 Sevastopol 2714944331+1251
4 Pobeda Khasavyurt 2715393327+648
5 Rostov-2 2713683722+1545
6 Nart Cherkessk 2712693824+1442
Updated to match(es) played on 20 September 2025. Source: Russian Second League

Subgroup 1B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Sochi-2 2711884029+1141
2 Astrakhan 27101073424+1040
3 Druzhba Maykop 27107103728+937
4 Rubin Yalta 27106112933436
5 Legion Makhachkala 27781227451829
6 Angusht Nazran 27581421321123
7 Spartak Nalchik 27451819482917Relegation to the
Russian Amateur Football League
8 Dynamo-2 Makhachkala (R)2703241571563
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]

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg 2320214917+3262Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Dynamo Vologda 2215434120+2149
3 Spartak-2 Moscow 2313283826+1241
4 Baltika-2 Kaliningrad 2210663827+1136
5 Irkutsk 229673429+533
6 Tver 228773330+331
7 Torpedo Vladimir 227872223129
8 Saturn Ramenskoye 227693334127
9 Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki 236892427326
10 Zvezda Saint Petersburg 2366113239724
11 Kosmos Dolgoprudny 2365122533823
12 Chertanovo Moscow 2264123138722
13 Cherepovets 22631323371421
14 Kolomna 2249917321521Relegation to the
Russian Amateur Football League
15 Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk 23541422502819
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.

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Dynamo Bryansk 2315353816+2248Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Salyut Belgorod 2214354320+2345
3 Dynamo St. Petersburg 2312833519+1644
4 Spartak Tambov 2212553914+2541
5 Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo 2212464220+2240
6 Metallurg Lipetsk 2212463015+1540
7 Ryazan 2212462920+940
8 Oryol 238782331831
9 Rodina-M Moscow 226793033325
10 Arsenal-2 Tula 2365122432823
11 Zenit Penza 2264122029922
12 Rotor-2 Volgograd 2257102433922
13 SKA-Khabarovsk-2 22531426441818
14 Strogino Moscow 23531525583318
15 Kvant Obninsk 23171514584410Relegation 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]

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Khimik Dzerzhinsk 2217415218+3455Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Amkar Perm 2216334918+3151
3 Dynamo Barnaul 2211562529438
4 Orenburg-2 2210843723+1438
5 Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil 2210662924+536
6 KDV Tomsk 229763120+1134
7 Rubin-2 Kazan 229583125+632
8 Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 229493132131
9 Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara 226882732526
10 Chelyabinsk-2 22651116321623
11 Ural-2 Yekaterinburg 22551220442420
12 Nosta Novotroitsk 22541323462319
13 Akron-2 Tolyatti 22531435481318Relegation to the
Russian Amateur Football League
14 Sokol Kazan [a] (R)222119823157
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.

References

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  2. "ВТОРАЯ ЛИГА БУДЕТ РЕФОРМИРОВАНА С СЕЗОНА 2023/2024" (in Russian). FNL. 10 May 2023.
  3. "В «Краснодаре» объяснили решение распустить вторую команду" (in Russian). Championat. 13 November 2024.
  4. "Клуб LEON-Второй лиги «Биолог-Новокубанск» будет расформирован" (in Russian). Metaratings. 15 January 2025.
  5. "Спортивный регион? ФК "Сахалин" решено ликвидировать" (in Russian). SakhPost. 29 December 2024.
  6. "«Лада-Тольятти» не примет участия в новом сезоне второй лиги Б" (in Russian). Sport Express. 14 November 2024.
  7. "«Пари НН» объявил об упразднении второй команды" (in Russian). Sport Express. 18 December 2024.
  8. "БК Леон и ФК «Леон Сатурн» завершают сотрудничество" (in Russian). FC Saturn Ramenskoye. 6 December 2024. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  9. "СПАСИБО ЗА СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВО!" (in Russian). FC Baltika Kaliningrad. 13 January 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  10. "Новая футбольная команда появилась у Томска. Ее приобрел основатель KDV Денис Штенгелов" (in Russian). Новая футбольная команда появилась у Томска. Ее приобрел основатель KDV Денис Штенгелов. 21 February 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  11. "Старейший футбольный клуб России «Знамя Труда» объединился в одну команду с «Композитом»" (in Russian). Match TV. 31 January 2025.
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  13. "Определен календарь для группы 4 LEON-Второй Лиги Б" (in Russian). Russian Second League. 12 March 2025.
  14. 1 2 3 4 "Спортивные условия проведения Соревнования в спортивном сезоне 2025 года в 1 (первой) группе команд" (PDF) (in Russian). Russian Second League. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  15. "Клуб распускает вторую команду" (in Russian). FC Khimki. 30 May 2025.
  16. ""Химки-2" исключены из состава участников LEON-Второй Лиги Б сезона 2025" (in Russian). Russian Second League. 30 May 2025.
  17. "Футбольный клуб «Сокол» Казань официально снимается с LEON-Второй Лиги Б и FONBET Кубка России в связи с финансовыми сложностями" (in Russian). Sokol Kazan. 15 July 2025.