1952 in Soviet football

none the Soviet Union 1952 Class A Spartak Moscow Class B Lokomotiv Kharkov Soviet Cup Torpedo Moscow 1951 1953 yes The 1952 Soviet football championship was the 20th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 14th among teams of sports societies and factories. Spartak Moscow won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the fourth time and the first after World War II, the Spartak's main rivals Dinamo again had a difficult season struggling only for the second. The defending champions CDSA were expelled from the league for the poor performance of the USSR national football team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. The Class A started late mid-summer consisting only of a single round-robin with almost all games played in Moscow. Honours CompetitionWinnerRunner-upClass ASpartak Moscow (4)Dinamo KievClass BLokomotiv KharkovSpartak VilniusSoviet CupTorpedo Moscow (2)Spartak Moscow Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition Soviet Union football championship 1952 Soviet Top League Class A main WDL Q 2 SPA RSFSR 1937 Spartak Moscow DKI Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kiev DYN RSFSR 1937 Dynamo Moscow DTB Georgian SSR Dynamo Tbilisi DLE RSFSR 1937 Dynamo Leningrad KAL RSFSR 1937 Kalinin ZEN RSFSR 1937 Zenit Leningrad KRY RSFSR 1937 Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev LOK RSFSR 1937 Lokomotiv Moscow TOR RSFSR 1937 Torpedo Moscow VVS RSFSR 1937 VVS Moscow DAU Latvian SSR 1940 Daugava Riga SHA Ukrainian SSR Shakhtyor Stalino DMI Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk 9 2 2 26 12 C 7 3 3 26 14 7 3 3 24 14 5 6 2 19 12 5 5 3 17 17 5 4 4 19 19 6 2 5 20 21 5 3 5 16 14 5 2 6 19 21 3 6 4 11 15 2 6 5 11 14 R 2 5 6 10 14 R 1 6 6 14 26 R 1 3 9 10 29 R Gold League champions C red1 Relegation to Class B R R R R complete rsssf.com Class B (second stage) 1952 Soviet Class B For places 1-9 main WDL P 2 y y Rep Republic LKH UKR Lokomotiv Kharkov SVI LTU Spartak Vilnius DOT GEO DO Tbilisi KZI RUS Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo VLE RUS VMS Leningrad VMS Moskva relocated to Leningrad. TGO RUS Torpedo Gorkiy NBA AZE Neftyanik Baku BKI MDA Burevestnik Kishinev DAA KAZ Dinamo Alma-Ata y 9 3 4 21 11 6 7 3 23 20 6 5 5 24 15 8 1 7 24 25 6 4 6 19 15 4 8 4 16 19 5 5 6 20 21 6 3 7 21 27 1 6 9 13 28 + - + - - inherit Promoted P P complete rsssf.com For places 10-18 Played in Rostov-na-Donu main WDL Q 2 y y Rep Republic 10 DYE ARM Dinamo Yerevan TST RUS Torpedo Stalingrad DOS RUS DO Sverdlovsk KZP RUS Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk DOK UKR DO Kiev KTA EST Kalev Tallinn DOT UZB DO Tashkent DST TJK Dinamo Stalinabad SAS TKM Spartak Ashkhabad 7 0 1 18 3 5 1 2 16 7 4 1 3 14 8 4 1 3 18 16 4 0 4 13 9 OR 4 0 4 10 12 3 1 4 10 17 3 0 5 11 20 0 0 8 2 20 + + + red1 Relegation play-off REL complete rsssf.com Relegation play-off To the play-off qualified the champion of the 1952 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and the worst Ukrainian team of masters of the 1952 Soviet Class B. ODO Kiev 6–1 Metallurg Zaporozhie 3–0 3–1 |} Top goalscorers Class A Andrei Zazroyev (Dinamo Kiev) – 11 goals References External links 1952 Soviet football championship. RSSSF 1952