1950_Soviet_Class_B

1950 Soviet Class B

Football league season

The 1950 Soviet football championship Class B was the 11th season of the Soviet football championship second tier and inaugural season of the Class B (predecessor of Soviet First League). In 1950 the Soviet football championship rebranded its both tiers from groups First (Pervaya Gruppa) and Second (Vtoraya Gruppa) to Classes A and B.

Quick Facts Season ...

Soviet Class B
Season	1950
← 1949 1951 →

FC VMS Moscow won the championship.

Organization

The league was reduced from a multi-group tournament to single group to which were grandfathered seven teams from last season "Central Zone" and one team from every other zones, also two more teams were promoted. Many teams from last season were forced into relegation to their respective republican competitions.

Promoted teams

Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk (debut, runner-up of the Karelo-Finnish Championship)
Bolshevik Stalinabad (debut, newly established team from the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic)
- Bolshevik were promoted ahead of the republican champions Dynamo Stalinabad

Relegated teams

No teams were relegated from the 1949 Soviet Pervaya Gruppa (top tier)

Final standings

More information Pos, REP ...

Pos	REP	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	RUS	VMS Moskva	26	18	6	2	60	15	+45	42	Promoted
2	RUS	Torpedo Gorkiy	26	11	12	3	37	18	+19	34	Promoted

3	LTU	Spartak Vilnius (O)	26	13	6	7	53	37	+16	32	Relegation play-off
4	RUS	Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo	26	13	6	7	31	22	+9	32
5	UZB	DO Tashkent (O)	26	10	8	8	43	27	+16	28	Relegation play-off
6	MDA	Burevestnik Kishinev^{[lower-alpha 1]} (O)	26	11	6	9	41	41	0	28
7	RUS	Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk (R)	26	11	5	10	49	50	−1	27
8	UKR	Pishchevik Odessa (R)	26	8	10	8	33	32	+1	26
9	KAZ	Dinamo Alma-Ata (O)	26	7	9	10	36	37	−1	23
10	KAR	Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk (O)	26	6	10	10	16	27	−11	22^{[lower-alpha 2]}
11	KGZ	Trudoviye Rezervy Frunze^{[lower-alpha 3]} (O)	26	6	8	12	31	50	−19	20
12	EST	Kalev Tallinn (O)	26	3	11	12	25	39	−14	17
13	TKM	Spartak Ashkhabad^{[lower-alpha 4]} (O)	26	7	3	16	19	61	−42	17
14	TJK	Bolshevik Stalinabad (O)	26	4	8	14	19	37	−18	16^{[lower-alpha 5]}

Source: rsssf.com
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Burevestnik Kishinev was called Dinamo.
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Trudoviye Rezervy Frunze was called Zenit.
Spartak Ashkhabad was called Lokomotiv.
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Relegation play-off

Ukrainian SSR

To the play-off qualified the champion of the 1950 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and the worst Ukrainian team of masters of the 1950 Soviet Class B.