# 1971 Soviet Second League

1971 Soviet Second League was a Soviet competition in the Soviet Second League.

## Qualifying groups
### Group I [Ukraine]

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (C, Q) | 50 | 31 | 10 | 9 | 78 | 32 | +46 | 72 | Promotion qualification |
| 2 | Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv | 50 | 30 | 11 | 9 | 69 | 31 | +38 | 71 | |
| 3 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 50 | 25 | 15 | 10 | 58 | 30 | +28 | 65 | |
| 4 | Shakhtar Kadiivka | 50 | 24 | 15 | 11 | 67 | 34 | +33 | 63 | |
| 5 | Tavriya Simferopol | 50 | 24 | 11 | 15 | 79 | 50 | +29 | 59 | |
| 6 | Zirka Kirovohrad | 50 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 52 | 33 | +19 | 59 | |
| 7 | Lokomotyv Vinnytsia | 50 | 17 | 22 | 11 | 47 | 35 | +12 | 56 | |
| 8 | Budivelnyk Poltava | 50 | 21 | 13 | 16 | 54 | 43 | +11 | 55 | |
| 9 | Shakhtar Horlivka | 50 | 17 | 20 | 13 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 54 | |
| 10 | Khimik Severodonetsk | 50 | 19 | 15 | 16 | 66 | 61 | +5 | 53 | |
| 11 | Metalurh Zhdanov | 50 | 18 | 15 | 17 | 62 | 55 | +7 | 51 | |
| 12 | SKA Odessa | 50 | 18 | 15 | 17 | 50 | 48 | +2 | 51 | |
| 13 | Lokomotyv Kherson | 50 | 18 | 14 | 18 | 46 | 53 | −7 | 50 | |
| 14 | Avanhard Ternopil | 50 | 18 | 13 | 19 | 43 | 46 | −3 | 49 | |
| 15 | Frunzenets Sumy | 50 | 15 | 18 | 17 | 42 | 43 | −1 | 48 | |
| 16 | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 50 | 17 | 14 | 19 | 35 | 38 | −3 | 48 | |
| 17 | SKA Kiev | 50 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 43 | 44 | −1 | 47 | |
| 18 | Dynamo Khmelnytskyi | 50 | 15 | 16 | 19 | 35 | 45 | −10 | 46 | |
| 19 | Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | 50 | 18 | 9 | 23 | 46 | 46 | 0 | 45 | |
| 20 | Hoverla Uzhhorod | 50 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 42 | 55 | −13 | 45 | |
| 21 | Avanhard Sevastopol | 50 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 37 | 54 | −17 | 45 | |
| 22 | Lokomotyv Donetsk | 50 | 12 | 16 | 22 | 40 | 62 | −22 | 40 | |
| 23 | SKA Lviv | 50 | 10 | 17 | 23 | 33 | 55 | −22 | 37 | Reformed |
| 24 | Dnipro Cherkasy | 50 | 9 | 15 | 26 | 28 | 69 | −41 | 33 | Relegated |
| 25 | Torpedo Lutsk | 50 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 21 | 66 | −45 | 30 | Reformed |
| 26 | Horyn Rovno | 50 | 9 | 10 | 31 | 27 | 72 | −45 | 28 | |
* ↑ Kryvbas qualified for the play off with the third team that placed third in final tournament. After winning the play off, Kryvbas was promoted.
* 1 2 3 According to the season's regulations two bottom teams had to be relegated including Torpedo Lutsk and Horyn Rovno, but the Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR, considering the loss of professional team in two adjacent oblasts in western Ukraine, adopted a decision to leave teams of both cities in the Second League. However, in 1972 on a basis of the Lutsk city team, there was formed professional team of the Carpathian Military District and created SC Lutsk. At the same time, the original professional team of the Carpathian Military District SKA Lviv was merged with the newly formed SC Lutsk. Moreover, other two army sports clubs of Ukrainian competitions, SKA Kiev and SKA Odessa, moved next year to another cities.

### Group II [Centre and Northwest]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | RUS | Iskra Smolensk | 38 | 23 | 13 | 2 | 57 | 15 | +42 | 82 |
| 2 | RUS | Metallurg Tula | 38 | 23 | 8 | 7 | 58 | 28 | +30 | 77 |
| 3 | RUS | Salyut Belgorod | 38 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 46 | 27 | +19 | 68 |
| 4 | RUS | Volga Kalinin | 38 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 35 | 20 | +15 | 66 |
| 5 | RUS | Baltika Kaliningrad | 38 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 47 | 30 | +17 | 62 |
| 6 | BLR | GomSelMash Gomel | 38 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 47 | 28 | +19 | 61 |
| 7 | RUS | Lokomotiv Kaluga | 38 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 45 | 41 | +4 | 58 |
| 8 | RUS | Spartak Petrozavodsk | 38 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 42 | 38 | +4 | 55 |
| 9 | BLR | Spartak Brest | 38 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 33 | 29 | +4 | 55 |
| 10 | RUS | Spartak Oryol | 38 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 36 | 34 | +2 | 49 |
| 11 | RUS | Mashinostroitel Pskov | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 34 | 42 | −8 | 46 |
| 12 | BLR | Neman Grodno | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 28 | 36 | −8 | 45 |
| 13 | RUS | Dinamo Bryansk | 38 | 9 | 16 | 13 | 30 | 36 | −6 | 43 |
| 14 | BLR | Spartak Mogilyov | 38 | 9 | 16 | 13 | 30 | 40 | −10 | 43 |
| 15 | LTU | Atlantas Klaipeda | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 23 | 34 | −11 | 40 |
| 16 | BLR | Dvina Vitebsk | 38 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 42 | −21 | 35 |
| 17 | RUS | Sever Murmansk | 38 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 21 | 43 | −22 | 35 |
| 18 | RUS | Trudoviye Rezervy Kursk | 38 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 24 | 40 | −16 | 31 |
| 19 | LVA | Zvejnieks Liepaja | 38 | 7 | 10 | 21 | 20 | 48 | −28 | 31 |
| 20 | RUS | Electron Novgorod | 38 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 32 | 59 | −27 | 29 |
* ↑ Onezhets Petrozavodsk changed name to Spartak.
* ↑ Electron Pskov changed name to Mashinostroitel.

### Group III [Volga and Greater Caucasus]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | RUS | Avtomobilist Nalchik | 38 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 58 | 24 | +34 | 55 |
| 2 | RUS | Druzhba Maykop | 38 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 44 | 20 | +24 | 48 |
| 3 | RUS | Volga Gorkiy | 38 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 52 | 31 | +21 | 46 |
| 4 | RUS | Mashuk Pyatigorsk | 38 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 47 | 30 | +17 | 44 |
| 5 | RUS | Kuban Krasnodar | 38 | 17 | 9 | 12 | 45 | 31 | +14 | 43 |
| 6 | RUS | Kord Balakovo | 38 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 38 | 27 | +11 | 43 |
| 7 | RUS | Terek Grozny | 38 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 37 | 30 | +7 | 42 |
| 8 | RUS | Volga Ulyanovsk | 38 | 17 | 6 | 15 | 39 | 38 | +1 | 40 |
| 9 | RUS | Dinamo Makhachkala | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 38 | 41 | −3 | 39 |
| 10 | ARM | Shirak Leninakan | 38 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 45 | 50 | −5 | 39 |
| 11 | RUS | Dinamo Stavropol | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 38 | 36 | +2 | 38 |
| 12 | ARM | Lori Kirovakan | 38 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 37 | −5 | 36 |
| 13 | RUS | Stal Volgograd | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 31 | 38 | −7 | 35 |
| 14 | RUS | Khimik Dzerzhinsk | 38 | 14 | 6 | 18 | 31 | 43 | −12 | 34 |
| 15 | RUS | Uralan Elista | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 40 | 51 | −11 | 33 |
| 16 | RUS | Torpedo Togliatti | 38 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 25 | 40 | −15 | 32 |
| 17 | RUS | Energiya Cheboksary | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 30 | 51 | −21 | 31 |
| 18 | RUS | Sokol Saratov | 38 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 33 | 50 | −17 | 29 |
| 19 | RUS | Spartak Yoshkar-Ola | 38 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 33 | 43 | −10 | 28 |
| 20 | RUS | Torpedo Taganrog | 38 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 25 | 50 | −25 | 25 |

### Group IV [Russia and Georgia]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | RUS | Metallurg Lipetsk | 38 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 64 | 21 | +43 | 55 |
| 2 | GEO | Metallurg Rustavi | 38 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 54 | 25 | +29 | 51 |
| 3 | RUS | Spartak Kostroma | 38 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 47 | 32 | +15 | 43 |
| 4 | GEO | Dinamo Batumi | 38 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 35 | 28 | +7 | 43 |
| 5 | RUS | Trud Voronezh | 38 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 59 | 41 | +18 | 40 |
| 6 | GEO | Mertskhali Makharadze | 38 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 32 | 39 | −7 | 40 |
| 7 | GEO | Dila Gori | 38 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 50 | 52 | −2 | 39 |
| 8 | RUS | Spartak Ryazan | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 38 |
| 9 | RUS | Motor Vladimir | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 39 | 44 | −5 | 38 |
| 10 | RUS | Khimmashevets Penza | 38 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 37 | 34 | +3 | 37 |
| 11 | GEO | Kolkhida Poti | 38 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 34 | 38 | −4 | 37 |
| 12 | RUS | Saturn Rybinsk | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 39 | 48 | −9 | 37 |
| 13 | GEO | Dinamo Sukhumi | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 36 |
| 14 | RUS | Mashinostroitel Podolsk | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 36 | 40 | −4 | 36 |
| 15 | GEO | Meshakhte Tkibuli | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 47 | 57 | −10 | 35 |
| 16 | RUS | Dinamo Kirov | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 35 | 38 | −3 | 34 |
| 17 | RUS | Spartak Saransk | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 29 | 40 | −11 | 33 |
| 18 | RUS | Dinamo Vologda | 38 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 26 | 49 | −23 | 33 |
| 19 | RUS | Khimik Novomoskovsk | 38 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 27 | 48 | −21 | 30 |
| 20 | RUS | Spartak Tambov | 38 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 24 | 40 | −16 | 25 |
* ↑ Mashinostroitel Balashikha relocated to Podolsk.

### Group V [Ural and Central Asia]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | RUS | Zvezda Perm | 34 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 61 | 24 | +37 | 54 |
| 2 | KAZ | Alatau Jambul | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 43 | 32 | +11 | 46 |
| 3 | UZB | Yangiyer | 34 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 39 | 24 | +15 | 43 |
| 4 | RUS | Zenit Izhevsk | 34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 43 | 31 | +12 | 41 |
| 5 | AZE | Dinamo Kirovabad | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 36 | 21 | +15 | 39 |
| 6 | KAZ | Avtomobilist Kzil-Orda | 34 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 36 |
| 7 | UZB | Avtomobilist Termez | 34 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 40 | 39 | +1 | 35 |
| 8 | RUS | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 35 |
| 9 | UZB | Neftyanik Fergana | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 30 | 36 | −6 | 33 |
| 10 | RUS | Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk | 34 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 40 | 35 | +5 | 32 |
| 11 | RUS | Lokomotiv Orenburg | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 31 | 36 | −5 | 32 |
| 12 | UZB | Zarafshan Navoi | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 29 | 38 | −9 | 31 |
| 13 | UZB | Politotdel Tashkent Region | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 32 | 33 | −1 | 29 |
| 14 | RUS | Stroitel Ufa | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 33 | 39 | −6 | 29 |
| 15 | RUS | Neftyanik Tyumen | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 17 | 27 | −10 | 27 |
| 16 | KAZ | Metallurg Chimkent | 34 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 33 | 45 | −12 | 26 |
| 17 | RUS | Uralets Nizhniy Tagil | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 27 | 46 | −19 | 26 |
| 18 | KGZ | Alay Osh | 34 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 24 | 52 | −28 | 18 |
* ↑ Energetik Jambul changed name to Alatau.

### Group VI (Siberia and Kazakhstan)

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | KAZ | Spartak Semipalatinsk | 38 | 25 | 6 | 7 | 67 | 33 | +34 | 81 |
| 2 | RUS | TomLes Tomsk | 38 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 45 | 20 | +25 | 74 |
| 3 | RUS | SKA Khabarovsk | 38 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 39 | 23 | +16 | 71 |
| 4 | RUS | Avtomobilist Krasnoyarsk | 38 | 21 | 6 | 11 | 66 | 34 | +32 | 69 |
| 5 | RUS | Irtysh Omsk | 38 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 57 | 32 | +25 | 65 |
| 6 | RUS | Selenga Ulan-Ude | 38 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 44 | 31 | +13 | 59 |
| 7 | RUS | SKA Chita | 38 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 43 | 31 | +12 | 59 |
| 8 | RUS | Dinamo Barnaul | 38 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 53 | 44 | +9 | 55 |
| 9 | RUS | Amur Blagoveshchensk | 38 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 35 | 33 | +2 | 53 |
| 10 | RUS | Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 33 | 40 | −7 | 51 |
| 11 | KAZ | Dinamo Tselinograd | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 38 | 47 | −9 | 51 |
| 12 | RUS | Luch Vladivostok | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 37 | 38 | −1 | 50 |
| 13 | KAZ | Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk | 38 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 30 | 34 | −4 | 50 |
| 14 | RUS | Start Angarsk | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 28 | 37 | −9 | 47 |
| 15 | RUS | Aeroflot Irkutsk | 38 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 26 | 48 | −22 | 42 |
| 16 | RUS | Dzerzhinets Novosibirsk | 38 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 28 | 45 | −17 | 36 |
| 17 | RUS | Metallurg Novokuznetsk | 38 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 30 | 54 | −24 | 35 |
| 18 | KAZ | Traktor Pavlodar | 38 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 31 | 43 | −12 | 34 |
| 19 | RUS | Zauralets Kurgan | 38 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 30 | 57 | −27 | 32 |
| 20 | RUS | Vulkan Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy | 38 | 1 | 14 | 23 | 16 | 52 | −36 | 17 |
* ↑ Cementnik Semipalatinsk changed name to Spartak.
* ↑ SETM Novosibirsk changed name to Dzerzhinets.

## Promotion playoffs
### Final group

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | RUS | Zvezda Perm | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 7 | Promoted |
| 2 | RUS | Avtomobilist Nalchik | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 5 | Promoted |
| 3 | RUS | Iskra Smolensk | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 4 | Additional play-off |
| 4 | RUS | Metallurg Lipetsk | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 | |
| 5 | KAZ | Spartak Semipalatinsk | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 | |

### Additional play-off

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| KRIVBASS Krivoi Rog | 5-1 | Iskra Smolensk | 3-1 | 2-0 |