# 1947 Vtoraya Gruppa

The 1947 Vtoraya Gruppa of the Soviet football championship was the 8th season in the 2nd tier football competitions in the Soviet Union.
The number of participating teams almost tripled compared to the last season and increased again from 26 to 67 which were split into six groups. There were created three groups for the Russian SFSR, one for the Ukrainian SSR, one group of Transcaucasian union republics and one group for the Central Asian union republics. The smaller republics of Baltics along with Belarus competed in of the groups designated for the Russian SFSR, known as the Central Group, while the Moldavian representative took part along with Ukrainian teams. In this championship participated at least one team from almost all of the union republics of the Soviet Union except for the Karelo-Finnish SSR. The Karelo-Finish teams really struggled placing dead last in preceding republican qualification tournament.
Six group winners qualified for the Final Group which determined the season's winner.
Lokomotiv Moscow won the championship in the Vtoraya Gruppa.

## Teams
### Relegated teams

* none

### Promoted teams

Many teams were promoted to the league that took part in republican competitions of the 1946 season. With asterisk identified teams that did not take part in the 1946 season last year.

#### Returning teams

* FC Dinamo Sverdlovsk – Third placed in the 1946 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (returning, last played in 1937)
* FC Dzerzhinets Leningrad – (returning, last played in 1940)
* FC Dinamo Kazan – (returning, last played in 1939)
* FC Dinamo Baku – (returning, last played in 1945)
* FC Spartak Yerevan – (returning, last played in 1940)

#### First appearance

* FC Dinamo Riga – Champions of the 1946 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (debut)
* FC Zenit Kaliningrad – Runner-up of the 1946 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (debut)
* FC Dinamo Saratov – Fourth placed in the 1946 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (debut)
* FC Krylia Sovetov Novosibirsk – Fifth placed in the 1946 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (debut)
* FC Dinamo Vilnius – (debut)
* DO Leningrad – (debut)
* FC Zenit Izhevsk – (debut)
* FC Zenit Kovrov – (debut)
* FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk – (debut)
* FC Dinamo Chelyabinsk – (debut)
* FC Dzerzhinets Nizhniy Tagil – (debut)
* FC Krylia Sovetov Omsk – (debut)
* FC Spartak Uzhhorod – Champions of the 1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (debut)
* FC Krylia Sovetov Tbilisi – Champions of the 1946 Football Championship of Transcaucasia (debut)
* FC Dinamo Alma-Ata – Champions of the 1946 Football Championship of Central Asia (debut)
* DO Minsk – Champions of the 1946 Football Championship of the Belarusian SSR (debut)
* ODO Kiev – Runner-up of the 1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (debut)
* FC Dzerzhinets Kharkov – (debut)
* FC Bolshevik Zaporozhye – (debut)
* FC Spartak Lviv – (debut)
* FC Spartak Kherson – (debut)
* FC Dinamo Voroshilovgrad – (debut)
* FC Dinamo Stalinabad – (debut)
* FC Lokomotiv Ashkhabad – (debut)
* FC Dinamo Frunze – (debut)
* ODO Tashkent – (debut)
* FC Dinamo Kishinev* – (debut)
* FC Kalev Tallinn* – (debut)
* FC Metro Moscow* – (debut)
* FC Sudostroitel Leningrad* – (debut)
* FC Torpedo Ulyanovsk* – (debut)
* FC Torpedo Yaroslavl* – (debut)
* FC Traktor Kuibyshev* – (debut)
* FC Krylia Sovetov Ufa* – (debut)
* FC Avangard Svedlovsk* – (debut)
* FC Dinamo Tashkent* – (debut)
* FC Spartak Alma-Ata* – (debut)
* FC Zenit Frunze* – (debut)
* FC Spartak Tashkent* – (debut)

## Qualifying stage
### Central Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 28 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 56 | 22 | +34 | 45 | Qualified to Final Group |
| 2 | MVO Moscow | 28 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 58 | 20 | +38 | 44 | |
| 3 | Dynamo Riga | 28 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 70 | 38 | +32 | 38 | |
| 4 | VMS Moscow | 28 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 46 | 36 | +10 | 35 | |
| 5 | Trudovye Rezervy Moscow | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 61 | 46 | +15 | 31 | |
| 6 | Burevestnik Moscow | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 52 | 45 | +7 | 31 | Relegation |
| 7 | DO Leningrad | 28 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 26 | 27 | −1 | 30 | |
| 8 | Dynamo Vilnius | 28 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 55 | 47 | +8 | 28 | |
| 9 | Metro Moscow | 28 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 32 | 41 | −9 | 27 | |
| 10 | Spartak Leningrad | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 35 | 38 | −3 | 25 | |
| 11 | Kalev Tallinn | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 30 | 57 | −27 | 23 | |
| 12 | Pishchevik Moscow | 28 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 37 | 45 | −8 | 22 | Relegation |
| 13 | Dzerzhynets Leningrad | 28 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 34 | 50 | −16 | 18 | Relegation |
| 14 | Sudostroitel Leningrad | 28 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 24 | 53 | −29 | 18 | |
| 15 | DO Minsk | 28 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 66 | −51 | 5 | |

### Russian Zone 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Torpedo Gorky | 22 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 58 | 20 | +38 | 37 | Qualified to Final Group |
| 2 | Dynamo Saratov | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 54 | 41 | +13 | 28 | |
| 3 | Zenit Izhevsk | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 53 | 43 | +10 | 25 | |
| 4 | Kirkizh Plant Kovrov | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 45 | 39 | +6 | 25 | |
| 5 | Torpedo Ulyanovsk | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 32 | 30 | +2 | 25 | Relegation |
| 6 | Krasnoye Znamia Ivanovo | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 54 | 34 | +20 | 22 | |
| 7 | Dynamo Kazan | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 34 | 30 | +4 | 19 | |
| 8 | Khimik Dzerzhynsk | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 30 | 53 | −23 | 19 | |
| 9 | Kalinin Plant Kaliningrad | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 38 | 45 | −7 | 18 | |
| 10 | Torpedo Yaroslavl | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 37 | −13 | 17 | Relegation |
| 11 | Traktor Kuibyshev | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 26 | 50 | −24 | 17 | Relegation |
| 12 | Krylia Sovetov Ufa | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 34 | 60 | −26 | 12 | Relegation |

### Russian Zone 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Dzerzhynets Chelyabinsk | 18 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 62 | 6 | +56 | 31 | Qualified to Final Group |
| 2 | ODO Novosibirsk | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 35 | 16 | +19 | 27 | |
| 3 | Krylia Sovetov Molotov | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 43 | 24 | +19 | 24 | |
| 4 | Dynamo Chelyabinsk | 18 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 35 | 27 | +8 | 21 | |
| 5 | ODO Sverdlovsk | 18 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 33 | 20 | +13 | 20 | |
| 6 | Dzerzhynets Nizhniy Tagil | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 28 | 40 | −12 | 18 | |
| 7 | Dynamo Sverdlovsk | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 27 | 35 | −8 | 15 | |
| 8 | z-d imeni Baranova Omsk | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 26 | 41 | −15 | 14 | |
| 9 | Avangard Sverdlovsk | 18 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 19 | 46 | −27 | 9 | |
| 10 | Krylia Sovetov Novosibirsk | 18 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 64 | −53 | 1 | Relegation |

### Ukraine

The zone was formed from the 5 teams of the 1946 Vtoraya Gruppa season competing in the Southern Zone and top-8 of the 1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR. Only instead of Spartak Kyiv, there was admitted Moldavian representative Dynamo Kishenev (possibly based on Spartak Kishenev).
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Lokomotiv Kharkov (Q) | 24 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 60 | 23 | +37 | 42 | Qualified to Final Group |
| 2 | Shakhtyor Stalino | 24 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 48 | 19 | +29 | 34 | |
| 3 | Pishchevik Odessa | 24 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 44 | 21 | +23 | 33 | |
| 4 | Stal Dnepropetrovsk | 24 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 54 | 35 | +19 | 30 | |
| 5 | ODO Kiev | 24 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 56 | 34 | +22 | 27 | |
| 6 | Spartak Lvov | 24 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 47 | 41 | +6 | 26 | |
| 7 | Spartak Kherson | 24 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 40 | 46 | −6 | 25 | |
| 8 | Spartak Uzhgorod | 24 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 42 | 41 | +1 | 21 | |
| 9 | Dzerzhynets Kharkov | 24 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 43 | 47 | −4 | 21 | |
| 10 | Sudostroitel Nikolayev | 24 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 35 | 53 | −18 | 19 | |
| 11 | Dynamo Voroshilovgrad | 24 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 32 | 55 | −23 | 14 | |
| 12 | Bolshevik Zaporozhie (R) | 24 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 26 | 72 | −46 | 11 | Relegation |
| 13 | Dynamo Kishenev | 24 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 61 | −40 | 9 | |

### Caucasus Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | ODO Tbilisi | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 35 | 16 | +19 | 21 | Qualified to Final Group |
| 2 | Dynamo Yerevan | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 34 | 19 | +15 | 20 | |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Tbilisi | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 17 | +12 | 18 | |
| 4 | Neftyanik Baku | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 21 | +7 | 15 | |
| 5 | Krylia Sovetov Tbilisi | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 27 | −7 | 14 | Replaced with Spartak Tbilisi |
| 6 | Dynamo Rostov-on-Don | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 20 | −1 | 13 | |
| 7 | Dynamo Baku | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 32 | −14 | 7 | |
| 8 | Spartak Yerevan | 14 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 25 | 56 | −31 | 4 | |

### Central Asia Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Dynamo Stalinabad | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 42 | 12 | +30 | 25 | Qualified to Final Group |
| 2 | Dynamo Alma-Ata | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 44 | 18 | +26 | 23 | |
| 3 | Dynamo Tashkent | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 28 | 13 | +15 | 20 | |
| 4 | Lokomotiv Ashkhabad | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 37 | 24 | +13 | 20 | |
| 5 | Dynamo Frunze | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 34 | 21 | +13 | 20 | |
| 6 | ODO Tashkent | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 26 | 23 | +3 | 16 | |
| 7 | Spartak Alma-Ata | 16 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 21 | 47 | −26 | 10 | |
| 8 | Zenit Frunze | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 32 | −22 | 9 | |
| 9 | Spartak Tashkent | 16 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 58 | −52 | 1 | |

## Final stage

The final stage was conducting in Moscow September 28 – October 14. Participants played on stadiums Dynamo and Stalinets.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Lokomotiv Moscow (H, C) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 9 | Promoted to the 1948 Pervaya Gruppa |
| 2 | Torpedo Gorky | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 7 | |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Kharkov | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 7 | |
| 4 | Dzerzhynets Chelyabinsk | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 3 | |
| 5 | Dynamo Stalinabad | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 3 | |
| 6 | ODO Tbilisi | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 1 | |

## Number of teams by republics

| Number | Union republics | Team(s) |
| 34 | Russian SFSR | FC Lokomotiv Moscow, MVO Moscow, VMS Moscow, FC Trudovye Rezervy Moscow, FC Burevestnik Moscow, DO Leningrad, FC Metro Moscow, FC Spartak Leningrad, FC Pischevik Moscow, FC Dzerzhinets Leningrad, FC Sudostroitel LeningradFC Torpedo Gorky, FC Dinamo Saratov, FC Zenit Izhevsk, FC Kirkizh Plant Kovrov, FC Torpedo Ulyanovsk, FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Dinamo Kazan, FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk, FC Kalinin Plant Kaliningrad, FC Torpedo Yaroslavl, FC Traktor Kuibyshev, FC Krylia Sovetov Ufa, FC Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk, ODO Novosibirsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Molotov, FC Dinamo Chelyabinsk, ODO Sverdlovsk, FC Dzerzhinets Nizhniy Tagil, FC Dinamo Sverdlovsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Omsk, FC Avangard Sverdlovsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Novosibirsk, FC Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu |
| 12 | Ukrainian SSR | FC Lokomotiv Kharkov, FC Shakhter Stalino, FC Pischevik Odessa, FC Stal Dnepropetrovsk, ODO Kiev, FC Spartak Lvov, FC Spartak Kherson, FC Spartak Uzhgorod, FC Dzerzhinets Kharkov, FC Sudostroitel Nikolaev, FC Dinamo Voroshilovgrad, FC Bolshevik Zaporozhye |
| 3 | Georgian SSR | ODO Tbilisi, FC Lokomotiv Tbilisi, FC Krylia Sovetov Tbilisi |
| 3 | Uzbek SSR | FC Dinamo Tashkent, ODO Tashkent, FC Spartak Tashkent |
| 2 | Azerbaijan SSR | FC Neftianik Baku, FC Dinamo Baku |
| 2 | Armenian SSR | FC Dinamo Yerevan, FC Spartak Yerevan |
| 2 | Kazakh SSR | FC Dinamo Alma-Ata, FC Spartak Alma-Ata |
| 2 | Kyrgyz SSR | FC Dinamo Frunze, FC Zenit Frunze |
| 1 | Latvian SSR | FC Dinamo Riga |
| 1 | Estonian SSR | FC Kalev Tallinn |
| 1 | Belarusian SSR | DO Minsk |
| 1 | Lithuanian SSR | FC Dinamo Vilnius |
| 1 | Moldavian SSR | FC Dinamo Kishinev |
| 1 | Tajik SSR | FC Dinamo Stalinabad |
| 1 | Turkmen SSR | FC Lokomotiv Ashkhabat |