1937 Group B (Soviet football championship)

Group B 1937 FC Spartak Leningrad FC Dinamo Kazan July 23 – October 18 Viktor Smagin7 goals Temp 6–0 Dinamo Kz (August 13) Dinamo Kz 2–5 Stalinets L. (August 30) Torpedo 1–4 Dinamo R/D (September 24) Stalinets M. 5–4 Stalinets L. (October 1) 42 122 1936 Fall 1939 The 1937 Gruppa B was third season of the Soviet (second tier) professional football competitions. Unlike the previous season that was split into two halves, this one was played as a double round-robin among seven teams. The tournament was won by Spartak Leningrad that according to pre-season regulation was to be promoted to the Gruppa A for 1938 season, however later arrangements for the next season were changed and all participants except for the last placed Dinamo Kazan gained promotion. Also, after only playing 3 of its scheduled games and winning only one of them, CSKA Moscow was transferred to Gruppa A mid-season.Game protocol of CSKA Moscow – Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu. fc-dynamo.ru. Teams No teams were relegated to the Gruppa B. Promoted One team was promoted from the 1936 Gruppa V fall tournament. Dinamo Kazan – (debut) League standings main WDL P y y Republic y 3 2 1 SPL Russian SFSR Spartak Leningrad P DRD Russian SFSR FC Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu P TMP Azerbaijan SSR Temp Baku P ZEN Russian SFSR Stalinets Leningrad P STM Russian SFSR FC Stalinets Moscow P TOR Russian SFSR FC Torpedo Moscow P DKZ Russian SFSR FC Dynamo Kazan CSM Russian SFSR CDKA Moscow 6 2 4 19 13 6 2 4 19 14 6 1 5 19 14 5 3 4 22 18 5 3 4 16 17 4 4 4 16 18 1 3 8 11 28 1 1 0 3 2 green1 P P P P P P lightgrey WD complete CDKA was returned during the season to the Soviet Top League after playing two games in the season. Their results were scratched for this League this season. Top scorers RankScorerTeamGoals(Pen.)1Viktor SmaginStalinets Leningrad72Arkadiy AmirjanovTemp Baku6Vladimir KuskovSpartak Leningrad64Sergei IvanovStalinets Moscow5Timofei RudovDinamo Rostov-na-Donu5Yefim SemyonovTorpedo Moscow57Ivan BibkoDinamo Rostov-na-Donu4Ilya BizyukovSpartak Leningrad4Veniamin SarkisovTemp Baku4Konstantin SazonovStalinets Leningrad4Aleksei ShumovStalinets Moscow4 See also 1937 Soviet Cup 1937 Group A (Soviet football championship) 1937 Group V (Soviet football championship) 1937 Group G (Soviet football championship) 1937 groups D and cities of Far East References External links 1937 Gruppa B. RSSSF 1937 Gruppa B. Luhansk Our Football. (in Russian) 1937 2 Soviet Soviet