# 1969 Soviet Class A Second Group

The 1969 Soviet Football Championship of the Class A Second Group (Russian: 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 For that reason, only 18 teams preserved their place for the next season with 68 teams being either relegated or withdrawn.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

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | Spartak Orjonikidze | 38 | 22 | 12 | 4 | 60 | 25 | +35 | 56 | Final stage |
| 2 | Dinamo Leningrad | 38 | 23 | 8 | 7 | 59 | 27 | +32 | 54 | |
| 3 | Kuban Krasnodar | 38 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 31 | 24 | +7 | 45 | |
| 4 | Textilshchik Ivanovo | 38 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 34 | 20 | +14 | 44 | |
| 5 | Metallurg Tula | 38 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 36 | 25 | +11 | 43 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 6 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 38 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 40 | 34 | +6 | 43 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 7 | Metallurg Lipetsk | 38 | 10 | 19 | 9 | 36 | 33 | +3 | 39 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 8 | Dinamo Makhachkala | 38 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 35 | 32 | +3 | 36 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 9 | Volga Kalinin | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 36 | 39 | −3 | 36 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 10 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 38 | 9 | 18 | 11 | 34 | 43 | −9 | 36 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 11 | Torpedo Taganrog | 38 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 37 | 43 | −6 | 35 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 12 | Dinamo Stavropol | 38 | 8 | 18 | 12 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 34 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 13 | RostSelMash Rostov-na-Donu | 38 | 14 | 6 | 18 | 39 | 40 | −1 | 34 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 14 | Dinamo Bryansk | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 26 | 43 | −17 | 34 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 15 | Avtomobilist Nalchik | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 37 | 43 | −6 | 33 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 16 | Trud Voronezh | 38 | 7 | 18 | 13 | 27 | 36 | −9 | 32 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 17 | Spartak Belgorod | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 32 | 43 | −11 | 32 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 18 | Mashuk Pyatigorsk | 38 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 31 | 43 | −12 | 32 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 19 | Lokomotiv Kaluga | 38 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 25 | 42 | −17 | 31 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 20 | Terek Grozny | 38 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 28 | 48 | −20 | 31 | Relegated to the Class B |

### Subgroup 2 (Russia)
#### Teams
##### Promoted

* Kalininets Sverdlovsk

##### Renamed

* Dinamo Barnaul was called Temp Barnaul

#### First Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | SKA Khabarovsk | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 36 | 20 | +16 | 31 |
| 2 | Kuzbass Kemerovo | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 34 | 22 | +12 | 29 |
| 3 | Selenga Ulan-Ude | 22 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 15 | +3 | 25 |
| 4 | Aeroflot Irkutsk | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 29 | 17 | +12 | 24 |
| 5 | TomLes Tomsk | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 17 | −2 | 23 |
| 6 | Kalininets Sverdlovsk | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 20 | −1 | 23 |
| 7 | SKA Chita | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 19 | −2 | 23 |
| 8 | Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 22 |
| 9 | Irtysh Omsk | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 21 |
| 10 | Luch Vladivostok | 22 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 29 | −17 | 15 |
| 11 | Rassvet Krasnoyarsk | 22 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 21 | −10 | 14 |
| 12 | Dinamo Barnaul | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 28 | −11 | 14 |

#### Second Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Metallurg Kuibyshev | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 32 | 12 | +20 | 29 |
| 2 | Rubin Kazan | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 27 | 15 | +12 | 29 |
| 3 | Sokol Saratov | 22 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 34 | 21 | +13 | 27 |
| 4 | Volga Gorkiy | 22 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 16 | +6 | 27 |
| 5 | Volgar Astrakhan | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 25 | 20 | +5 | 25 |
| 6 | Spartak Yoshkar-Ola | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 25 | −5 | 24 |
| 7 | Zvezda Perm | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 20 | +2 | 20 |
| 8 | Traktor Volgograd | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 26 | −8 | 20 |
| 9 | Zenit Izhevsk | 22 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 26 | 37 | −11 | 17 |
| 10 | Volga Ulyanovsk | 22 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 22 | −7 | 16 |
| 11 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 30 | −14 | 16 |
| 12 | Stroitel Ufa | 22 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 27 | −13 | 14 |

#### For places 1-12

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | SKA Khabarovsk | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 33 | 17 | +16 | 29 | Final stage |
| 2 | Rubin Kazan | 22 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 13 | +9 | 28 | |
| 3 | Metallurg Kuibyshev | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 31 | 16 | +15 | 26 | Merged with Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev |
| 4 | Volgar Astrakhan | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 24 | 26 | −2 | 25 | |
| 5 | Sokol Saratov | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 31 | 21 | +10 | 24 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 6 | Volga Gorkiy | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 27 | −3 | 22 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 7 | Kuzbass Kemerovo | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 26 | −6 | 21 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 8 | Aeroflot Irkutsk | 22 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 19 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 9 | TomLes Tomsk | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 22 | −5 | 19 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 10 | Spartak Yoshkar-Ola | 22 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 27 | −13 | 19 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 11 | Kalininets Sverdlovsk | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 25 | 35 | −10 | 17 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 12 | Selenga Ulan-Ude | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 28 | −11 | 15 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |

#### For places 13-24

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 13 | Irtysh Omsk | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 33 | 30 | +3 | 36 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 14 | SKA Chita | 34 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 28 | 31 | −3 | 36 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 15 | Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 27 | −1 | 34 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 16 | Traktor Volgograd | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 34 | 37 | −3 | 33 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 17 | Luch Vladivostok | 34 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 28 | 39 | −11 | 32 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 18 | Rassvet Krasnoyarsk | 34 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 24 | 32 | −8 | 29 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 19 | Zenit Izhevsk | 34 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 40 | 51 | −11 | 28 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 20 | Zvezda Perm | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 29 | 32 | −3 | 27 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 21 | Stroitel Ufa | 34 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 28 | 40 | −12 | 26 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 22 | Volga Ulyanovsk | 34 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 22 | 35 | −13 | 26 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 23 | Dinamo Barnaul | 34 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 30 | 41 | −11 | 25 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 24 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 34 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 22 | 40 | −18 | 24 | Relegated to the Class B |

### 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

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk | 42 | 24 | 9 | 9 | 73 | 39 | +34 | 57 | Final stage |
| 2 | SKA Kiev | 42 | 18 | 16 | 8 | 51 | 30 | +21 | 52 | |
| 3 | Metallist Kharkov | 42 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 40 | 27 | +13 | 52 | |
| 4 | Avtomobilist Zhitomir | 42 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 57 | 31 | +26 | 51 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 5 | Zvezda Kirovograd | 42 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 43 | 30 | +13 | 51 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 6 | Karpaty Lvov | 42 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 63 | 50 | +13 | 46 | Qualification for European Cup Winners' Cup |
| 7 | Metallurg Zaporozhye | 42 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 49 | 35 | +14 | 44 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 8 | Tavria Simferopol | 42 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 60 | 49 | +11 | 44 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 9 | Bukovina Chernovtsy | 42 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 32 | 33 | −1 | 44 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 10 | Stroitel Poltava | 42 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 34 | 33 | +1 | 43 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 11 | Lokomotiv Kherson | 42 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 42 | 38 | +4 | 41 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 12 | Sudostroitel Nikolayev | 42 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 38 | 35 | +3 | 41 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 13 | SKA Lvov | 42 | 14 | 11 | 17 | 40 | 47 | −7 | 39 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 14 | Avangard Ternopol | 42 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 32 | 41 | −9 | 39 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 15 | Krivbass Krivoi Rog | 42 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 41 | 52 | −11 | 36 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 16 | Azovets Zhdanov | 42 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 40 | 52 | −12 | 36 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 17 | SKA Odessa | 42 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 36 | 55 | −19 | 36 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 18 | Desna Chernigov | 42 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 30 | 59 | −29 | 36 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 19 | Shakhtyor Kadiyevka | 42 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 29 | 49 | −20 | 35 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 20 | Lokomotiv Vinnitsa | 42 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 37 | 49 | −12 | 34 | Relegated to the Class B |
| 21 | Dinamo Khmelnitskiy | 42 | 9 | 16 | 17 | 32 | 47 | −15 | 34 | Relegated to the Class B |
| 22 | Khimik Severodonetsk | 42 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 40 | 58 | −18 | 33 | Relegated to the Class B |

### Subgroup 4 (Union rep)
#### Teams
##### Relegated

* Dinamo Kirovobad

##### Promoted

* Spartak Brest

#### Subgroup 4 table

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | LTU | Žalgiris Vilnius | 40 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 50 | 21 | +29 | 53 | Final stage |
| 2 | KAZ | Shakhtyor Karaganda | 40 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 47 | 23 | +24 | 50 | |
| 3 | GEO | Lokomotiv Tbilisi | 40 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 49 | 29 | +20 | 49 | |
| 4 | TJK | Energetik Dushanbe | 40 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 44 | 31 | +13 | 49 | |
| 5 | TKM | Stroitel Ashkhabad | 40 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 50 | 35 | +15 | 44 | |
| 6 | MDA | Moldova Kishinev | 40 | 14 | 16 | 10 | 36 | 23 | +13 | 44 | |
| 7 | GEO | Dinamo Batumi | 40 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 37 | 31 | +6 | 43 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 8 | UZB | Neftyanik Fergana | 40 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 39 | 47 | −8 | 42 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 9 | KGZ | Alga Frunze | 40 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 41 | |
| 10 | UZB | Politotdel Tashkent Region | 40 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 33 | 38 | −5 | 41 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 11 | KAZ | Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk | 40 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 38 | 36 | +2 | 39 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 12 | LVA | Daugava Riga | 40 | 10 | 18 | 12 | 41 | 37 | +4 | 38 | |
| 13 | BLR | Spartak Brest | 40 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 30 | 29 | +1 | 37 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 14 | BLR | Neman Grodno | 40 | 7 | 23 | 10 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 37 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 15 | AZE | Dinamo Kirovabad | 40 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 34 | 43 | −9 | 37 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 16 | AZE | Polad Sumgait | 40 | 9 | 18 | 13 | 36 | 40 | −4 | 36 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 17 | UZB | Zarafshan Navoi | 40 | 13 | 9 | 18 | 41 | 49 | −8 | 35 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 18 | GEO | Meshakhte Tkibuli | 40 | 14 | 7 | 19 | 34 | 47 | −13 | 35 | Relegated to the Class B |
| 19 | KAZ | Metallurg Chimkent | 40 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 33 | 45 | −12 | 33 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 20 | ARM | Shirak Leninakan | 40 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 36 | 67 | −31 | 32 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |
| 21 | TJK | Pamir Leninabad | 40 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 31 | 68 | −37 | 25 | Relegated to the Class A Second Group |

#### Number of teams by republics

| Number | Union republics | Team(s) |
| 3 | Kazakh SSR | FC Shakher Karaganda, FC Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk, FC Metallurg Chimkent |
| 3 | Georgian SSR | FC Lokomotiv Tbilisi, FC Dinamo Batumi, FC Meshakhte Tkibuli |
| 3 | Uzbek SSR | FC Neftyanik Fergana, FC Politotdel Tashkent Region, FC Zarafshan Navoi |
| 2 | Tajik SSR | FC Energetik Dushanbe, FC Pamir Leninabad |
| 2 | Belarusian SSR | FC Spartak Brest, FC Neman Grodno |
| 2 | Azerbaijan SSR | FC Dinamo Kirovobad, FC Polad Sumgait |
| 1 | Lithuanian SSR | FK Žalgiris Vilnius |
| 1 | Turkmen SSR | FC Stroitel Ashkhabad |
| 1 | Moldavian SSR | FC Moldova Kishinev |
| 1 | Kyrgyz SSR | FC Alga Frunze |
| 1 | Latvian SSR | FC Daugava Riga |
| 1 | Armenian SSR | FC Shirak Leninakan |

## Final stage
### For places 1-4

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | RUS | Spartak Orjonikidze | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 | Promoted |
| 2 | UKR | Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | |
| 3 | RUS | SKA Khabarovsk | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 | LTU | Žalgiris Vilnius | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |