Soviet Class A Second Group

Soviet Class A Second Group

Founded	1963
Folded	1970
Country	Soviet Union
Level on pyramid	Level 2 & 3
Promotion to	Soviet Class A First Group
Relegation to	Soviet Class B
Last champions	Metalurh Zaporizhia Avtomobilist Nalchik

The Soviet Class A Second Group (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу (Класс А. Вторая группа), Soviet football championship (Class A Second Group)) was the second and for a season third highest division of Soviet football, below the Soviet Class A First Group. The league was formed in 1963 by splitting away from the Class A and forcing the Class B of the Soviet football championship to downgrade to the third tier.

In 1970 the Soviet Class A was expanded even further adding additional tier to the top and downgrading the Soviet Class A Second Group to the third tier. In 1971 it was replaced with the Soviet Second League.

Winners

Second tier

Season	Winner		Runners-up	Third

1963	Shinnik Yaroslavl		Torpedo Gorkiy	Trud Voronezh

1964	Subgroup 1	FC Avanhard Kharkiv	FC Chornomorets Odessa	Žalgiris Vilnius
	Subgroup 2	SCA Odessa	FC Shakhter Karaganda	Lokomotiv Moscow

	Final	Lokomotiv Moscow	SCA Odessa	Pakhtakor Tashkent

1965	Subgroup 1	FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo	FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk	FC Avanhard Kharkiv
	Subgroup 2	FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	FC Zorya Luhansk	Žalgiris Vilnius

	Final	Ararat Yerevan	Kairat Alma-Aty	Avanhard Kharkiv

1966	Subgroup 1	Žalgiris Vilnius	FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo	FC Kuban Krasnodar
	Subgroup 2	FC Zorya Luhansk	SKA Kyiv	SKA Lviv
	Subgroup 3	FC Politodel	FC Shakhter Karaganda	FC Stroitel Ufa

	Final	Zorya Luhansk	Žalgiris Vilnius	Politotdel Tashkent

1967	Subgroup 1	FC Dinamo Kirovabad	FK Daugava Riga	FC Kuban Krasnodar
	Subgroup 2	SKA Kyiv	FC Metalurh Zaporizhia	SKA Lviv
	Subgroup 3	FC Shakhter Karaganda	FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk	FC Alga Frunze

	Final	Dynamo Kirovabad	Shakhtar Karaganda	SKA Kyiv

1968	Subgroup 1	FC Karpaty Lviv	SKA Kyiv	SKA Odessa
	Subgroup 2	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv	FC Metalist Kharkiv	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
	Subgroup 3	FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk	FC Spartak Ordzhonikidze	FC Dynamo Makhachkala
	Subgroup 4	FC Irtysh Omsk	FC Kuzbass Kemerovo	SKA Khabarovsk

	Final	Uralmash Sverdlovsk	Karpaty Lviv	Irtysh Omsk

1969	Subgroup 1	FC Spartak Ordzhonikidze	FC Dynamo Leningrad	FC Kuban Krasnodar
	Subgroup 2	SKA Khabarovsk	FC Rubin Kazan	FC Metallurg Kuibyshev
	Subgroup 3	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	SKA Kyiv	FC Metalist Kharkiv
	Subgroup 4	Žalgiris Vilnius	FC Shakhter Karaganda	FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi

	Final	Spartak Ordzhonikidze	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	SKA Khabarovsk

Third tier

Season	Zone	Winner	Runners-up	Third	Notes
1970	Ukraine	Metalurh Zaporizhia	Tavriya Simferopol	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr	three zones; top two teams of second and third groups played in final Russian group
1970	Russia	Avtomobilist Nalchik	Spartak Yoshkar‑Ola	Kuzbass Kemerevo

References

v t e Second level Soviet football championship seasons
Group B	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Second Group	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Class B	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Second Group (Class A)	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
First Group (Class A)	1970
First League	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991

v t e Third level Soviet football championship seasons
Group V	1936 1937 1938 ... 1962
Class B	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
Class A Second Group	1970
Second League	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991

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Winners

Second tier

Third tier

References