1969 Soviet Class A Second Group

Football league season 1969 Class A Second Group FC Spartak OrdzhonikidzeFC SKA KhabarovskFC Dnepr DnepropetrovskFK Žalgiris Vilnius FC Spartak Ordzhonikidze European Cup Winners' Cup FC Karpaty Lvov 1968 1970 The 1969 Soviet Football Championship of the Class A Second Group (ru Чемпионат СССР 1969 года во второй группе класса «А») was the seventh season of the Class A Second Group that was established in 1963. It was also the 29th season of the Soviet second tier league competition. The season started on April 1, 1969, with the Round 1 games in Group 4. The season ended with the last round of the Final stage played on November 6, 1969. In August of 1969, Karpaty Lvov won the Football Cup of the Soviet Union (a parallel elimination tournament), thus qualifying for the 1970–71 European Cup Winners' Cup. Karpaty became the only Soviet team of masters that qualified for the continental competition while playing in the second tier of the Soviet football league pyramid. Format The competition involved participation of 87 clubs split in four groups by geographic principle with 2 groups consisting of only teams only from Russian SFSR, one group consisting of teams from Ukrainian SSR, and the other group involved teams from other union republics of the Soviet Union. Three groups conducted their competitions in simple double round-robin format, while one group was split in two subgroups which had double round-robin format and after that each subgroup was split in half with best teams from each playing with best teams of other subgroup, and worst teams from each subgroup playing with worst teams of other subgroup. At the end all winners from each of the four groups qualified for the final stage where teams played each other in single round-robin tournament. The best team out of 87 received promotion to the 1970 Class A Top Group (predecessor of the Top League). For the next season, the Class A Second Group was to be renamed as the Class A First Group and its composition reduced. For that reason, only 18 teams preserved their place for the next season with 68 teams being either relegated or withdrawn. First stage Subgroup 1 (Russia) Teams Promoted Dinamo Bryansk Spartak Belgorod Mashuk Pyatigorsk Renamed Avtomobilist Nalchik was called Spartak Nalchik Subgroup 1 table main WDL 2 y SOR Spartak Orjonikidze DLE Dinamo Leningrad KKR Kuban Krasnodar TIV Textilshchik Ivanovo MTU Metallurg Tula SYA Shinnik Yaroslavl MLI Metallurg Lipetsk DMA Dinamo Makhachkala VKA Volga Kalinin BKA Baltika Kaliningrad TTA Torpedo Taganrog DST Dinamo Stavropol ROS RostSelMash Rostov-na-Donu DBR Dinamo Bryansk ANA Avtomobilist Nalchik TVO Trud Voronezh SBE Spartak Belgorod MPY Mashuk Pyatigorsk LKA Lokomotiv Kaluga TGR Terek Grozny y 22 12 4 60 25 23 8 7 59 27 14 17 7 31 24 15 14 9 34 20 12 19 7 36 25 16 11 11 40 34 10 19 9 36 33 11 14 13 35 32 12 12 14 36 39 9 18 11 34 43 10 15 13 37 43 8 18 12 32 32 14 6 18 39 40 11 12 15 26 43 12 9 17 37 43 7 18 13 27 36 11 10 17 32 43 10 12 16 31 43 10 11 17 25 42 10 11 17 28 48 Final stage P red3 Relegated to the Class A Second Group RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA red1 Relegated to the Class B RELB complete Subgroup 2 (Russia) Teams Promoted Kalininets Sverdlovsk Renamed Dinamo Barnaul was called Temp Barnaul First Zone main WDL 2 y SKH SKA Khabarovsk KKE Kuzbass Kemerovo SUU Selenga Ulan-Ude AIR Aeroflot Irkutsk TLT TomLes Tomsk KSV Kalininets Sverdlovsk SCH SKA Chita LCH Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk IOM Irtysh Omsk LVL Luch Vladivostok RKR Rassvet Krasnoyarsk DBA Dinamo Barnaul y 12 7 3 36 20 12 5 5 34 22 8 9 5 18 15 8 8 6 29 17 7 9 6 15 17 8 7 7 19 20 7 9 6 17 19 8 6 8 18 18 7 7 8 21 21 3 9 10 12 29 2 10 10 11 21 5 4 13 17 28 complete Second Zone main WDL 2 y MKU Metallurg Kuibyshev RKA Rubin Kazan SSA Sokol Saratov VGO Volga Gorkiy VAS Volgar Astrakhan SYO Spartak Yoshkar-Ola ZPE Zvezda Perm TVO Traktor Volgograd ZIZ Zenit Izhevsk VUL Volga Ulyanovsk MMA Metallurg Magnitogorsk SUF Stroitel Ufa y 11 7 4 32 12 10 9 3 27 15 12 3 7 34 21 10 7 5 22 16 10 5 7 25 20 9 6 7 20 25 8 4 10 22 20 8 4 10 18 26 7 3 12 26 37 4 8 10 15 22 5 6 11 16 30 3 8 11 14 27 complete For places 1-12 main WDL 2 y SKH SKA Khabarovsk RKA Rubin Kazan MKU Metallurg Kuibyshev VAS Volgar Astrakhan SSA Sokol Saratov VGO Volga Gorkiy KKE Kuzbass Kemerovo AIR Aeroflot Irkutsk TLT TomLes Tomsk SYO Spartak Yoshkar-Ola KSV Kalininets Sverdlovsk SUU Selenga Ulan-Ude y 11 7 4 33 17 10 8 4 22 13 10 6 6 31 16 9 7 6 24 26 10 4 8 31 21 8 6 8 24 27 7 7 8 20 26 5 9 8 26 26 6 7 9 17 22 5 9 8 14 27 6 5 11 25 35 4 7 11 17 28 Final stage P black1 Merged with Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev MRG red3 Relegated to the Class A Second Group RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA complete For places 13-24 main WDL 2 y 13 IOM Irtysh Omsk SCH SKA Chita LCH Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk TVO Traktor Volgograd LVL Luch Vladivostok RKR Rassvet Krasnoyarsk ZIZ Zenit Izhevsk ZPE Zvezda Perm SUF Stroitel Ufa VUL Volga Ulyanovsk DBA Dinamo Barnaul MMA Metallurg Magnitogorsk 13 10 11 33 30 11 14 9 28 31 13 8 13 26 27 13 7 14 34 37 10 12 12 28 39 8 13 13 24 32 11 6 17 40 51 10 7 17 29 32 7 12 15 28 40 7 12 15 22 35 9 7 18 30 41 8 8 18 22 40 red3 Relegated to the Class A Second Group RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA red1 Relegated to the Class B RELB complete Subgroup 3 (Ukraine) Teams Promoted Bukovina Chernovtsy Avangard Ternopol Desna Chernigov Shakhter Kadievka Dinamo Khmelnitskiy Renamed Stroitel Poltava was called Selstroi Poltava Subgroup 3 table main WDL 2 y DDN Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk SKI SKA Kiev MKH Metallist Kharkov AVT Avtomobilist Zhitomir ZKI Zvezda Kirovograd KLV Karpaty Lvov MZA Metallurg Zaporozhye TSI Tavria Simferopol BCH Bukovina Chernovtsy SPO Stroitel Poltava LKH Lokomotiv Kherson SNI Sudostroitel Nikolayev SLV SKA Lvov ATE Avangard Ternopol KKR Krivbass Krivoi Rog AZV Azovets Zhdanov SOD SKA Odessa DCH Desna Chernigov SKA Shakhtyor Kadiyevka LVI Lokomotiv Vinnitsa DKH Dinamo Khmelnitskiy KSE Khimik Severodonetsk y 24 9 9 73 39 18 16 8 51 30 19 14 9 40 27 21 9 12 57 31 20 11 11 43 30 17 12 13 63 50 15 14 13 49 35 14 16 12 60 49 16 12 14 32 33 14 15 13 34 33 13 15 14 42 38 14 13 15 38 35 14 11 17 40 47 11 17 14 32 41 13 10 19 41 52 12 12 18 40 52 13 10 19 36 55 11 14 17 30 59 11 13 18 29 49 8 18 16 37 49 9 16 17 32 47 11 11 20 40 58 Final stage P red3 Relegated to the Class A Second Group RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA red1 Relegated to the Class B RELB RELB RELB blue1 Qualification for European Cup Winners' Cup CC complete Subgroup 4 (Union rep) Teams Relegated Dinamo Kirovobad Promoted Spartak Brest Subgroup 4 table main WDL 2 y y Rep Republic ŽVI LTU Žalgiris Vilnius SKA KAZ Shakhtyor Karaganda LTB GEO Lokomotiv Tbilisi EDU TJK Energetik Dushanbe SAS TKM Stroitel Ashkhabad MKI MDA Moldova Kishinev DBA GEO Dinamo Batumi NFE UZB Neftyanik Fergana AFR KGZ Alga Frunze PTR UZB Politotdel Tashkent Region VUK KAZ Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk DRI LVA Daugava Riga SBR BLR Spartak Brest NGR BLR Neman Grodno DKI AZE Dinamo Kirovabad PSU AZE Polad Sumgait ZNA UZB Zarafshan Navoi MTK GEO Meshakhte Tkibuli MCH KAZ Metallurg Chimkent SLE ARM Shirak Leninakan PLE TJK Pamir Leninabad y 21 11 8 50 21 19 12 9 47 23 19 11 10 49 29 16 17 7 44 31 16 12 12 50 35 14 16 10 36 23 14 15 11 37 31 16 10 14 39 47 12 17 11 25 25 13 15 12 33 38 12 15 13 38 36 10 18 12 41 37 12 13 15 30 29 7 23 10 27 27 12 13 15 34 43 9 18 13 36 40 13 9 18 41 49 14 7 19 34 47 11 11 18 33 45 11 10 19 36 67 7 11 22 31 68 Final stage P red3 Relegated to the Class A Second Group RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA RELA red1 Relegated to the Class B RELB complete Number of teams by republics Number Union republics Team(s)3Kazakh SSRFC Shakher Karaganda, FC Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk, FC Metallurg Chimkent3Georgian SSRFC Lokomotiv Tbilisi, FC Dinamo Batumi, FC Meshakhte Tkibuli3Uzbek SSRFC Neftyanik Fergana, FC Politotdel Tashkent Region, FC Zarafshan Navoi2Tajik SSRFC Energetik Dushanbe, FC Pamir Leninabad2Belarusian SSRFC Spartak Brest, FC Neman Grodno2Azerbaijan SSRFC Dinamo Kirovobad, FC Polad Sumgait1Lithuanian SSRFK Žalgiris Vilnius1Turkmen SSRFC Stroitel Ashkhabad1Moldavian SSRFC Moldova Kishinev1Kyrgyz SSRFC Alga Frunze1Latvian SSRFC Daugava Riga1Armenian SSRFC Shirak Leninakan Final stage For places 1-4 [Oct 31 - Nov 6, Simferopol] main WDL P 2 y y Rep Republic SOR RUS Spartak Orjonikidze DDN UKR Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk SKH RUS SKA Khabarovsk ŽVI LTU Žalgiris Vilnius y 2 0 1 4 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 2 2 2 inherit Promoted P complete rsssf.com See also Soviet First League External links 1969 season. 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