1937 Group B (Soviet football championship)

Group B
Season1937
DatesJuly 23 – October 18
ChampionsFC Spartak Leningrad
RelegatedFC Dinamo Kazan
Matches played42
Goals scored122 (2.9 per match)
Top goalscorerViktor Smagin
7 goals
Biggest home winTemp 6–0 Dinamo Kz (August 13)
Biggest away winDinamo Kz 2–5 Stalinets L. (August 30)
Torpedo 1–4 Dinamo R/D (September 24)
Highest scoringStalinets M. 5–4 Stalinets L. (October 1)
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.[1]

Teams

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No teams were relegated to the Gruppa B.

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One team was promoted from the 1936 Gruppa V fall tournament.

League standings

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Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1  Russian SFSR Spartak Leningrad (P) 12 6 2 4 19 13 1.462 26
2  Russian SFSR FC Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu (P) 12 6 2 4 19 14 1.357 26
3  Azerbaijan SSR Temp Baku (P) 12 6 1 5 19 14 1.357 25
4  Russian SFSR Stalinets Leningrad (P) 12 5 3 4 22 18 1.222 25
5  Russian SFSR FC Stalinets Moscow (P) 12 5 3 4 16 17 0.941 25
6  Russian SFSR FC Torpedo Moscow (P) 12 4 4 4 16 18 0.889 24
7  Russian SFSR FC Dynamo Kazan 12 1 3 8 11 28 0.393 17
8  Russian SFSR CDKA Moscow[a] 2 1 1 0 3 2 1.500 5
Source: [citation needed]
(P) Promoted
Notes:
  1. ^ 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

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Rank Scorer Team Goals
(Pen.)
1 Viktor Smagin Stalinets Leningrad 7
2 Arkadiy Amirjanov Temp Baku 6
Vladimir Kuskov Spartak Leningrad 6
4 Sergei Ivanov Stalinets Moscow 5
Timofei Rudov Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu 5
Yefim Semyonov Torpedo Moscow 5
7 Ivan Bibko Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu 4
Ilya Bizyukov Spartak Leningrad 4
Veniamin Sarkisov Temp Baku 4
Konstantin Sazonov Stalinets Leningrad 4
Aleksei Shumov Stalinets Moscow 4

See also

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References

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