1951 in Soviet football

Football in the Soviet Union
Season	1951
Men's football
Class A	CDSA Moscow
Class B	VMS Moscow
Soviet Cup	Spartak Moscow

The 1951 Soviet football championship was the 19th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 13th among teams of sports societies and factories. CDSA Moscow again won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the fifth time and tied with Dynamo for the number of league titles won.

The defending champions CDSA defeated their main rivals Dinamo (2–1, 2–0) and took this season title.

Honours

Competition	Winner	Runner-up
Class A	CDSA Moscow (5)	Dinamo Tbilisi
Class B	MVO Kalinin	Dinamo Minsk
Soviet Cup	CDSA Moscow (3)	MVO Kalinin

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Soviet Union football championship

Class A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	CDSA Moscow (C)	28	18	7	3	53	19	+34	43	League champions
2	Dynamo Tbilisi	28	15	6	7	59	36	+23	36
3	Shakhtyor Stalino	28	12	10	6	44	30	+14	34
4	Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	28	11	12	5	34	25	+9	34
5	Dynamo Moscow	28	13	6	9	62	41	+21	32
6	Spartak Moscow	28	13	5	10	50	35	+15	31
7	Zenit Leningrad	28	10	8	10	36	40	−4	28
8	Dynamo Kiev	28	9	9	10	43	39	+4	27
9	Dynamo Leningrad	28	11	5	12	46	53	−7	27
10	VVS Moscow	28	11	4	13	44	56	−12	26
11	Daugava Riga	28	9	7	12	44	44	0	25
12	Torpedo Moscow	28	8	8	12	37	48	−11	24
13	VMS Moscow (R)	28	7	9	12	30	50	−20	23	Relegation to Class B
14	Spartak Tbilisi (R)	28	7	2	19	32	56	−24	16
15	Torpedo Gorky (R)	28	4	6	18	20	62	−42	14

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Class B

Pos	Rep	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	RUS	MVO Kalinin	34	19	11	4	62	26	+36	49^[a]	Promoted
2	BLR	Dinamo Minsk	34	21	7	6	57	30	+27	49^[b]
3	RUS	Lokomotiv Moskva	34	19	10	5	72	38	+34	48^[b]

4	AZE	Neftyanik Baku	34	17	11	6	56	27	+29	45^[b]
5	RUS	Torpedo Stalingrad	34	16	11	7	66	38	+28	43^[b]
6	UKR	Lokomotiv Kharkov	34	17	9	8	60	38	+22	43^[b]
7	LTU	Spartak Vilnius	34	15	9	10	47	40	+7	39
8	ARM	Dinamo Yerevan	34	14	10	10	40	22	+18	38^[b]
9	UKR	Spartak Uzhgorod (R)	34	14	9	11	51	41	+10	37^[a]	Relegated after play-off
10	MDA	Burevestnik Kishinev	34	12	10	12	47	37	+10	34
11	RUS	Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo	34	13	7	14	49	49	0	33
12	KAR	Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk^[c]	34	10	9	15	28	39	−11	29^[a]
13	UZB	DO Tashkent	34	10	7	17	30	48	−18	27
14	EST	Kalev Tallinn	34	9	7	18	31	48	−17	25
15	TJK	Dinamo Stalinabad^[d]	34	10	5	19	33	74	−41	25^[a]
16	KGZ	Trudoviye Rezervy Frunze	34	7	7	20	36	67	−31	21
17	KAZ	Dinamo Alma-Ata	34	6	8	20	30	59	−29	20
18	TKM	Spartak Ashkhabad	34	2	3	29	17	91	−74	7

Source: rsssf.com
(R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d +
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f -
^ Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk replaced withdrawn Lokomotiv
^ Dinamo Stalinabad replaced withdrawn Bolshevik

Top goalscorers

Class A

Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi) – 16 goals

References

External links

1951 Soviet football championship. RSSSF

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