1950 Soviet Class B

1950 Soviet Class B 1949 1951 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. 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 main WDL P 2 y REP Republic VMS VMS Moskva GOR Torpedo Gorkiy VIL Spartak Vilnius KZI Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo DOT DO Tashkent BUR Burevestnik Kishinev Burevestnik Kishinev was called Dinamo. CHE Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk PIS Pishchevik Odessa ALM Dinamo Alma-Ata PET Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk TRF Trudoviye Rezervy Frunze Trudoviye Rezervy Frunze was called Zenit. KAL Kalev Tallinn ASH Spartak Ashkhabad Spartak Ashkhabad was called Lokomotiv. BOL Bolshevik Stalinabad y 18 6 2 60 15 11 12 3 37 18 13 6 7 53 37 O 13 6 7 31 22 10 8 8 43 27 O 11 6 9 41 41 O 11 5 10 49 50 R 8 10 8 33 32 R 7 9 10 36 37 O 6 10 10 16 27 O 6 8 12 31 50 O 3 11 12 25 39 O 7 3 16 19 61 O 4 8 14 19 37 O RUS RUS LTU RUS UZB MDA RUS UKR KAZ KAR KGZ EST TKM TJK + + inherit Promoted P P red1 Relegation play-off REL REL REL REL REL REL REL REL REL REL REL complete rsssf.com 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. Pishchevik Odessa 1–2 Spartak Uzhgorod 1–1 0–1 |} Russian SFSR Worst team of the Russian SFSR qualified for relegation playoff. Both matches were taken place in Makhachkala. The city of Kalinin were champions of the 1950 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR. Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk 2–7 Kalinin city 1–0 1–7 |} For 1950 MVO Moscow was stationed in city of Kalinin. Turkmen SSR Spartak Ashkhabat 6–4 ODO Ashkhabat 4–3 2–1 |} Karelo-Finnish SSR Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk 4–1 ODO Petrozavodsk 3–1 1–0 |} Lithuanian SSR Spartak Vilnius 7–3 Inkaras Kaunas 5–1 2–2 |} Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk 0–2 ODO Minsk 0–1 0–1 |} Dinamo Minsk 2–1 ODO Minsk 1–1 1–0 |} Kazakh SSR Dinamo Alma-Ata 2–0 Dinamo Alma-Ata (reserves) 1–0 1–0 |} Moldavian SSR Burevestnik Kishinev 10–3 Krasnoye Znamia Kishinev 7–2 3–1 |} Uzbek SSR ODO Tashkent 4–0 Spartak Tashkent 2–0 2–0 |} Estonian SSR Kalev Tallinn 10–2 Dinamo Tallinn 3–0 7–2 |} Tajik SSR Bolshevik Stalinabad w/o Dinamo Stalinabad |} Kyrgyz SSR Trudovye Rezervy Frunze w/o Spartak Frunze |} Number of teams by republics Number Union republics Team(s)4Russian SFSRVMS MoscowFC Torpedo Gorky, FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk1Karelo-Finnish SSRFC Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk1Lithuanian SSRFC Spartak Vilnius1Uzbek SSRDO Tashkent1Moldavian SSRFC Burevestnik Kishinev1Ukrainian SSRFC Pischevik Odessa1Kazakh SSRFC Dinamo Alma-Ata1Kyrgyz SSRFC Trudovye Rezervy Frunze1Estonian SSRFC Kalev Tallinn1Turkmen SSRFC Spartak Asgabat1Tajik SSRFC Bolshevik Stalinobad See also 1950 Soviet Class A 1950 Soviet Cup References 1950 at rsssf.com 1950 Ukrainian championship https://web.archive.org/web/20200818231426/http://football.lg.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6900:1950ua&catid=243:1950allsssr&Itemid=775 2020-08-18 at "Luhansk Our Football" (in Russian) 1950 2 Soviet Soviet