# 1973 Soviet Second League

1973 Soviet Second League was a Soviet competition in the Soviet Second League.

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

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Tavriya Simferopol (C, P) | 44 | 26 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 75 | 36 | +39 | 58 | Promoted |
| 2 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 44 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 62 | 36 | +26 | 53 | |
| 3 | Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv | 44 | 23 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 69 | 35 | +34 | 52 | |
| 4 | Hoverla Uzhhorod | 44 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 65 | 52 | +13 | 51 | |
| 5 | Lokomotyv Vinnytsia | 44 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 64 | 33 | +31 | 47 | |
| 6 | Shakhtar Horlivka | 44 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 58 | 47 | +11 | 45 | Withdrew |
| 7 | Avanhard Sevastopol | 44 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 12 | 44 | 40 | +4 | 45 | |
| 8 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 44 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 53 | 45 | +8 | 42 | |
| 9 | Dynamo Khmelnytskyi | 44 | 18 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 57 | 45 | +12 | 41 | |
| 10 | Lokomotyv Kherson | 44 | 17 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 49 | 33 | +16 | 39 | |
| 11 | SC Chernihiv | 44 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 63 | 56 | +7 | 38 | |
| 12 | Zirka Kirovohrad | 44 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 63 | 57 | +6 | 36 | |
| 13 | Shakhtar Makiivka | 44 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 50 | 48 | +2 | 35 | Withdrew |
| 14 | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 44 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 44 | 52 | −8 | 35 | |
| 15 | Khimik Severodonetsk | 44 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 51 | 64 | −13 | 33 | Withdrew |
| 16 | Frunzenets Sumy | 44 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 49 | 47 | +2 | 32 | |
| 17 | Shakhtar Kadiivka | 44 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 42 | 70 | −28 | 32 | Withdrew |
| 18 | Kolos Poltava | 44 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 24 | 44 | 68 | −24 | 31 | |
| 19 | SC Lutsk | 44 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 22 | 25 | 50 | −25 | 30 | |
| 20 | Budivelnyk Ternopil | 44 | 13 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 45 | 55 | −10 | 29 | |
| 21 | Avanhard Rovno | 44 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 34 | 57 | −23 | 27 | |
| 22 | Lokomotyv Donetsk | 44 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 35 | 72 | −37 | 24 | Withdrew |
| 23 | Metalurh Zhdanov | 44 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 41 | 84 | −43 | 24 | Withdrew |

### Group II [Soviet Northwest]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | RUS | Iskra Smolensk | 32 | 25 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 53 | 14 | +39 | 51 |
| 2 | LVA | Daugava Riga | 32 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 64 | 20 | +44 | 49 |
| 3 | LTU | Žalgiris Vilnius | 32 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 48 | 23 | +25 | 41 |
| 4 | LTU | Atlantas Klaipeda | 32 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 46 | 29 | +17 | 37 |
| 5 | RUS | Volga Kalinin | 32 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 44 | 28 | +16 | 32 |
| 6 | RUS | Dinamo Leningrad | 32 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 43 | 32 | +11 | 31 |
| 7 | RUS | Mashinostroitel Pskov | 32 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 31 | 34 | −3 | 27 |
| 8 | RUS | Baltika Kaliningrad | 32 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 41 | 48 | −7 | 25 |
| 9 | RUS | Mashinostroitel Podolsk | 32 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 31 | 34 | −3 | 24 |
| 10 | LVA | Zvejnieks Liepaja | 32 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 29 | 35 | −6 | 24 |
| 11 | BLR | Bug Brest | 32 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 35 | 46 | −11 | 23 |
| 12 | BLR | GomSelMash Gomel | 32 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 32 | 49 | −17 | 19 |
| 13 | BLR | Dvina Vitebsk | 32 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 38 | 36 | +2 | 19 |
| 14 | BLR | Khimik Grodno | 32 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 24 | 42 | −18 | 19 |
| 15 | RUS | Electron Novgorod | 32 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 22 | 45 | −23 | 19 |
| 16 | BLR | Dnepr Mogilyov | 32 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 21 | 38 | −17 | 17 |
| 17 | RUS | Sever Murmansk | 32 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 21 | 50 | −29 | 17 |
* ↑ Spartak Brest changed name to Bug.
* ↑ Neman Grodno changed name to Khimik.
* ↑ Spartak Mogilyov changed name to Dnepr.

### Group III [Russian South and Caucasus]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | RUS | Kuban Krasnodar | 34 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 61 | 26 | +35 | 49 |
| 2 | RUS | Terek Grozny | 34 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 73 | 37 | +36 | 41 |
| 3 | RUS | Druzhba Maykop | 34 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 39 | 25 | +14 | 39 |
| 4 | RUS | Dinamo Stavropol | 34 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 52 | 31 | +21 | 38 |
| 5 | AZE | Dinamo Kirovabad | 34 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 40 | 30 | +10 | 36 |
| 6 | RUS | Uralan Elista | 34 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 43 | 35 | +8 | 36 |
| 7 | RUS | Mashuk Pyatigorsk | 34 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 45 | 41 | +4 | 34 |
| 8 | RUS | Stal Oryol | 34 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 44 | 36 | +8 | 32 |
| 9 | RUS | Dinamo Makhachkala | 34 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 49 | 44 | +5 | 32 |
| 10 | RUS | Salyut Belgorod | 34 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 35 | 36 | −1 | 31 |
| 11 | ARM | Shirak Leninakan | 34 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 33 | 36 | −3 | 27 |
| 12 | RUS | Kalitva Belaya Kalitva | 34 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 40 | 51 | −11 | 27 |
| 13 | RUS | Avangard Kursk | 34 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 39 | 49 | −10 | 26 |
| 14 | RUS | Khimik Novomoskovsk | 34 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 32 | 50 | −18 | 24 |
| 15 | ARM | Lori Kirovakan | 34 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 28 | 44 | −16 | 23 |
| 16 | RUS | Metallurg Tula | 34 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 37 | 61 | −24 | 19 |
| 17 | RUS | Volgar Astrakhan | 34 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 45 | −27 | 19 |
| 18 | AZE | Polad Sumgait | 34 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 38 | 69 | −31 | 18 |
* ↑ Spartak Oryol changed name to Stal.
* ↑ Trudoviye Rezervy Kursk changed name to Avangard.

### Group IV [Russia and Georgia]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | RUS | Spartak Kostroma | 34 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 63 | 27 | +36 | 46 |
| 2 | RUS | Lokomotiv Kaluga | 34 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 51 | 30 | +21 | 44 |
| 3 | RUS | Torpedo Vladimir | 34 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 65 | 32 | +33 | 41 |
| 4 | RUS | Dinamo Vologda | 34 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 49 | 32 | +17 | 40 |
| 5 | MDA | Zvezda Tiraspol | 34 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 43 | 32 | +11 | 38 |
| 6 | GEO | Mertskhali Makharadze | 34 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 46 | 43 | +3 | 33 |
| 7 | RUS | Volga Gorkiy | 34 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 51 | 35 | +16 | 32 |
| 8 | GEO | Guria Lanchkhuti | 34 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 52 | 52 | 0 | 31 |
| 9 | RUS | Trud Voronezh | 34 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 43 | 42 | +1 | 30 |
| 10 | GEO | Kolkhida Poti | 34 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 32 | 49 | −17 | 28 |
| 11 | GEO | Dinamo Batumi | 34 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 36 | 39 | −3 | 27 |
| 12 | GEO | Lokomotiv Samtredia | 34 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 39 | 61 | −22 | 27 |
| 13 | RUS | Spartak Ryazan | 34 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 44 | 52 | −8 | 26 |
| 14 | GEO | Dila Gori | 34 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 41 | 54 | −13 | 26 |
| 15 | RUS | Revtrud Tambov | 34 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 35 | 61 | −26 | 22 |
| 16 | RUS | Saturn Rybinsk | 34 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 30 | 47 | −17 | 21 |
| 17 | GEO | Dinamo Sukhumi | 34 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 32 | 53 | −21 | 21 |
| 18 | RUS | Dinamo Bryansk | 34 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 43 | 54 | −11 | 20 |
* ↑ Motor Vladimir changed name to Torpedo.

### Group V [Volga and Ural]

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | UralMash Sverdlovsk | 32 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 61 | 15 | +46 | 50 |
| 2 | Rubin Kazan | 32 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 58 | 26 | +32 | 47 |
| 3 | Kord Balakovo | 32 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 62 | 25 | +37 | 46 |
| 4 | Khimik Dzerzhinsk | 32 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 47 | 32 | +15 | 38 |
| 5 | Spartak Yoshkar-Ola | 32 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 40 | 34 | +6 | 32 |
| 6 | Sokol Saratov | 32 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 44 | 38 | +6 | 31 |
| 7 | Barrikady Volgograd | 32 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 38 | 31 | +7 | 28 |
| 8 | Torpedo Togliatti | 32 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 35 | 29 | +6 | 28 |
| 9 | Energiya Cheboksary | 32 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 29 | 37 | −8 | 28 |
| 10 | Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk | 32 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 33 | 43 | −10 | 23 |
| 11 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 32 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 34 | 54 | −20 | 22 |
| 12 | Zenit Izhevsk | 32 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 22 | 33 | −11 | 21 |
| 13 | Uralets Nizhniy Tagil | 32 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 30 | 45 | −15 | 21 |
| 14 | Lokomotiv Orenburg | 32 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 35 | 51 | −16 | 20 |
| 15 | Volga Ulyanovsk | 32 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 41 | −20 | 19 |
| 16 | Dinamo Kirov | 32 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 25 | 48 | −23 | 18 |
| 17 | Stroitel Ufa | 32 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 27 | 59 | −32 | 14 |

### Group VI (Central Asia)

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | KAZ | Traktor Pavlodar | 30 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 51 | 25 | +26 | 38 |
| 2 | KAZ | Alatau Jambul | 30 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 43 | 23 | +20 | 38 |
| 3 | KAZ | Dinamo Tselinograd | 30 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 43 | 25 | +18 | 35 |
| 4 | UZB | Avtomobilist Termez | 30 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 41 | 26 | +15 | 30 |
| 5 | UZB | Yangiyer | 30 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 44 | 30 | +14 | 30 |
| 6 | KAZ | Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk | 30 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 36 | 29 | +7 | 29 |
| 7 | KAZ | Spartak Semipalatinsk | 30 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 32 | 37 | −5 | 28 |
| 8 | KAZ | Avtomobilist Kzil-Orda | 30 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 33 | 41 | −8 | 28 |
| 9 | UZB | Trud Jizak | 30 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 41 | 38 | +3 | 27 |
| 10 | UZB | Yangiaryk | 30 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 30 | 36 | −6 | 27 |
| 11 | RUS | Neftyanik Tyumen | 30 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 27 | 44 | −17 | 25 |
| 12 | KAZ | Yenbek Jezkazgan | 30 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 23 | 34 | −11 | 24 |
| 13 | UZB | Andizhanets Andizhan | 30 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 33 | 41 | −8 | 20 |
| 14 | RUS | Zauralets Kurgan | 30 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 24 | 36 | −12 | 18 |
| 15 | UZB | Neftyanik Fergana | 30 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 32 | 44 | −12 | 16 |
| 16 | TJK | Neftyanik Leninskiy District | 30 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 25 | 49 | −24 | 16 |
* 1 2 3 4 +

### Group VII (Siberia and the Far East)

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Sibiryak Bratsk | 30 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 25 | 19 | +6 | 34 |
| 2 | Dinamo Barnaul | 30 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 44 | 28 | +16 | 33 |
| 3 | Vulkan Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy | 30 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 31 | 26 | +5 | 33 |
| 4 | Amur Blagoveshchensk | 30 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 25 | 20 | +5 | 33 |
| 5 | Selenga Ulan-Ude | 30 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 29 | 21 | +8 | 32 |
| 6 | Irtysh Omsk | 30 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 38 | 26 | +12 | 30 |
| 7 | Avtomobilist Krasnoyarsk | 30 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 39 | 32 | +7 | 30 |
| 8 | Luch Vladivostok | 30 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 37 | 26 | +11 | 29 |
| 9 | Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 30 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 30 | 21 | +9 | 29 |
| 10 | Start Angarsk | 30 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 39 | 29 | +10 | 28 |
| 11 | TomLes Tomsk | 30 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 23 | −1 | 25 |
| 12 | SKA Khabarovsk | 30 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 31 | 36 | −5 | 23 |
| 13 | Aeroflot Irkutsk | 30 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 26 | 41 | −15 | 21 |
| 14 | Chkalovets Novosibirsk | 30 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 26 | 49 | −23 | 17 |
| 15 | Shakhtyor Prokopyevsk | 30 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 44 | −26 | 13 |
| 16 | SKA Chita | 30 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 36 | −19 | 8 |
* ↑ 3 bonus points?

## Promotion playoffs
### Final group

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | RUS | UralMash Sverdlovsk | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 9 | Promoted |
| 2 | UKR | Tavria Simferopol | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 8 | Promoted |
| 3 | RUS | Kuban Krasnodar | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 7 | Promoted |
| 4 | RUS | Iskra Smolensk | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | +1 | 6 | |
| 5 | RUS | Spartak Kostroma | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 14 | −5 | 6 | |
| 6 | RUS | Sibiryak Bratsk | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 12 | −10 | 1 | |
| 7 | KAZ | Traktor Pavlodar | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 0 | |