# 1976 Soviet Second League

1976 Soviet Second League was a Soviet competition in the Soviet Second League.

## Qualifying groups
### Group I [Soviet republics]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | GEO | Guria Lanchkhuti | 38 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 67 | 34 | +33 | 52 |
| 2 | BLR | Dinamo Brest | 38 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 65 | 38 | +27 | 50 |
| 3 | LTU | Žalgiris Vilnius | 38 | 20 | 6 | 12 | 67 | 31 | +36 | 46 |
| 4 | ARM | Shirak Leninakan | 38 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 68 | 41 | +27 | 46 |
| 5 | GEO | Dila Gori | 38 | 21 | 4 | 13 | 54 | 40 | +14 | 46 |
| 6 | GEO | Dinamo Batumi | 38 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 44 | 31 | +13 | 45 |
| 7 | GEO | Dinamo Zugdidi | 38 | 20 | 4 | 14 | 46 | 54 | −8 | 44 |
| 8 | AZE | Avtomobilist Baku | 38 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 49 | 30 | +19 | 43 |
| 9 | BLR | Khimik Grodno | 38 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 44 | 30 | +14 | 39 |
| 10 | LTU | Atlantas Klaipeda | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 37 | 41 | −4 | 37 |
| 11 | BLR | Mashinostroitel Gomel | 38 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 44 | 48 | −4 | 36 |
| 12 | AZE | Progress Kirovabad | 38 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 47 | 62 | −15 | 36 |
| 13 | GEO | Lokomotiv Samtredia | 38 | 14 | 7 | 17 | 41 | 65 | −24 | 35 |
| 14 | MDA | Sperantsa Drokia | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 42 | 38 | +4 | 33 |
| 15 | BLR | Dvina Vitebsk | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 30 | 37 | −7 | 33 |
| 16 | LVA | Zvejnieks Liepaja | 38 | 13 | 6 | 19 | 37 | 49 | −12 | 32 |
| 17 | ARM | SKIF Yerevan | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 36 | 61 | −25 | 32 |
| 18 | GEO | Magaroeli Chiatura | 38 | 10 | 8 | 20 | 30 | 57 | −27 | 28 |
| 19 | BLR | Dnepr Mogilyov | 38 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 34 | 60 | −26 | 25 |
| 20 | GEO | Metallurg Rustavi | 38 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 28 | 63 | −35 | 22 |
* ↑ Bug Brest changed name to Dinamo.
* 1 2 3 +
* ↑ GomSelMash Gomel changed name to Mashinostroitel.

### Group II [Central Asia]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | UZB | Meliorator Yangiyer | 40 | 26 | 7 | 7 | 70 | 28 | +42 | 59 |
| 2 | UZB | Neftyanik Fergana | 40 | 24 | 5 | 11 | 73 | 37 | +36 | 53 |
| 3 | KAZ | Tselinnik Tselinograd | 40 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 54 | 34 | +20 | 51 |
| 4 | KGZ | Alga Frunze | 40 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 61 | 31 | +30 | 50 |
| 5 | KAZ | Spartak Semipalatinsk | 40 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 57 | 43 | +14 | 43 |
| 6 | KAZ | Shakhtyor Karaganda | 40 | 19 | 5 | 16 | 49 | 41 | +8 | 43 |
| 7 | UZB | Zarafshan Navoi | 40 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 51 | 50 | +1 | 41 |
| 8 | KAZ | Metallurg Chimkent | 40 | 17 | 6 | 17 | 53 | 60 | −7 | 40 |
| 9 | KAZ | Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk | 40 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 51 | 47 | +4 | 39 |
| 10 | KAZ | Traktor Pavlodar | 40 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 48 | 48 | 0 | 39 |
| 11 | KAZ | Gornyak Nikolskiy | 40 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 39 | 44 | −5 | 39 |
| 12 | UZB | Avtomobilist Termez | 40 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 45 | 40 | +5 | 38 |
| 13 | KAZ | Khimik Jambul | 40 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 57 | 53 | +4 | 38 |
| 14 | KAZ | Orbita Kzil-Orda | 40 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 41 | 44 | −3 | 38 |
| 15 | UZB | Horezm Yangiaryk | 40 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 32 | 39 | −7 | 37 |
| 16 | KAZ | Aktyubinets Aktyubinsk | 40 | 13 | 10 | 17 | 41 | 59 | −18 | 36 |
| 17 | UZB | Irrigator Jizak | 40 | 16 | 3 | 21 | 36 | 45 | −9 | 35 |
| 18 | UZB | Pahtachi Gulistan | 40 | 13 | 8 | 19 | 39 | 51 | −12 | 34 |
| 19 | UZB | Dinamo Samarkand | 40 | 14 | 5 | 21 | 38 | 49 | −11 | 33 |
| 20 | TJK | Hojent Leninabad | 40 | 14 | 1 | 25 | 46 | 81 | −35 | 29 |
| 21 | UZB | Amudarya Nukus | 40 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 28 | 85 | −57 | 25 |
* ↑ Yangiyer changed name to Meliorator Yangiyer.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 +
* ↑ Hanki Yangiaryk changed name to Horezm.
* ↑ Jizak changed name to Irrigator Jizak.

### Group III [Central Russia]

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Dinamo Leningrad | 40 | 24 | 10 | 6 | 78 | 32 | +46 | 58 |
| 2 | Iskra Smolensk | 40 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 67 | 31 | +36 | 54 |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Kaluga | 40 | 21 | 10 | 9 | 48 | 30 | +18 | 52 |
| 4 | Avangard Kursk | 40 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 46 | 37 | +9 | 50 |
| 5 | Volga Kalinin | 40 | 21 | 7 | 12 | 57 | 37 | +20 | 49 |
| 6 | Novolipetsk Lipetsk | 40 | 19 | 10 | 11 | 48 | 37 | +11 | 48 |
| 7 | Trud Voronezh | 40 | 19 | 10 | 11 | 44 | 38 | +6 | 48 |
| 8 | Spartak Ryazan | 40 | 19 | 9 | 12 | 49 | 34 | +15 | 47 |
| 9 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 40 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 50 | 42 | +8 | 46 |
| 10 | Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo | 40 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 44 | 38 | +6 | 43 |
| 11 | Salyut Belgorod | 40 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 45 | 41 | +4 | 43 |
| 12 | Textilshchik Ivanovo | 40 | 17 | 8 | 15 | 65 | 52 | +13 | 42 |
| 13 | Dinamo Vologda | 40 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 42 | 39 | +3 | 39 |
| 14 | Saturn Rybinsk | 40 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 37 | 43 | −6 | 39 |
| 15 | Khimik Novomoskovsk | 40 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 39 | 52 | −13 | 38 |
| 16 | Spartak Kostroma | 40 | 10 | 9 | 21 | 52 | 63 | −11 | 29 |
| 17 | Electron Novgorod | 40 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 24 | 54 | −30 | 28 |
| 18 | Mashinostroitel Tula | 40 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 26 | 57 | −31 | 24 |
| 19 | Sever Murmansk | 40 | 8 | 6 | 26 | 33 | 68 | −35 | 22 |
| 20 | Spartak Oryol | 40 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 35 | 73 | −38 | 22 |
| 21 | Dinamo Bryansk | 40 | 5 | 9 | 26 | 28 | 59 | −31 | 19 |

### Group IV [Russian South]

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Mashuk Pyatigorsk | 40 | 28 | 7 | 5 | 60 | 21 | +39 | 63 |
| 2 | RostSelMash Rostov-na-Donu | 40 | 29 | 4 | 7 | 70 | 32 | +38 | 62 |
| 3 | Dinamo Makhachkala | 40 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 56 | 31 | +25 | 53 |
| 4 | Sokol Saratov | 40 | 23 | 4 | 13 | 57 | 40 | +17 | 50 |
| 5 | Dinamo Stavropol | 40 | 22 | 4 | 14 | 67 | 39 | +28 | 48 |
| 6 | Torpedo Togliatti | 40 | 19 | 7 | 14 | 74 | 48 | +26 | 45 |
| 7 | Druzhba Yoshkar-Ola | 40 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 41 | 51 | −10 | 43 |
| 8 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 40 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 52 | 43 | +9 | 42 |
| 9 | Torpedo Vladimir | 40 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 32 | 31 | +1 | 41 |
| 10 | Rotor Volgograd | 40 | 16 | 8 | 16 | 58 | 60 | −2 | 40 |
| 11 | Druzhba Maykop | 40 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 39 | 30 | +9 | 38 |
| 12 | Uralan Elista | 40 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 35 | 52 | −17 | 38 |
| 13 | Torpedo Taganrog | 40 | 12 | 11 | 17 | 39 | 45 | −6 | 35 |
| 14 | Volga Gorkiy | 40 | 13 | 9 | 18 | 42 | 53 | −11 | 35 |
| 15 | Khimik Dzerzhinsk | 40 | 14 | 6 | 20 | 34 | 41 | −7 | 34 |
| 16 | Volgar Astrakhan | 40 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 38 | 51 | −13 | 32 |
| 17 | Dinamo Kirov | 40 | 10 | 9 | 21 | 36 | 58 | −22 | 29 |
| 18 | Gazovik Orenburg | 40 | 11 | 7 | 22 | 41 | 65 | −24 | 29 |
| 19 | Volga Ulyanovsk | 40 | 10 | 9 | 21 | 42 | 76 | −34 | 29 |
| 20 | Torpedo Volzhskiy | 40 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 24 | 42 | −18 | 27 |
| 21 | Revtrud Tambov | 40 | 8 | 11 | 21 | 28 | 56 | −28 | 27 |
* ↑ Lokomotiv Orenburg changed name to Gazovik.

### Group V [Siberia and the Far East]

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | UralMash Sverdlovsk | 34 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 73 | 26 | +47 | 51 |
| 2 | SKA Khabarovsk | 34 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 57 | 27 | +30 | 46 |
| 3 | Dinamo Barnaul | 34 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 42 | 32 | +10 | 43 |
| 4 | Amur Blagoveshchensk | 34 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 40 | 31 | +9 | 42 |
| 5 | Luch Vladivostok | 34 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 48 | 33 | +15 | 39 |
| 6 | Chkalovets Novosibirsk | 34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 39 | 30 | +9 | 38 |
| 7 | Uralets Nizhniy Tagil | 34 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 35 | 34 | +1 | 37 |
| 8 | Energiya Bratsk | 34 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 41 | 38 | +3 | 35 |
| 9 | Zenit Izhevsk | 34 | 15 | 5 | 14 | 37 | 36 | +1 | 35 |
| 10 | Angara Angarsk | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 33 | 36 | −3 | 33 |
| 11 | Selenga Ulan-Ude | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 43 | 49 | −6 | 33 |
| 12 | Zvezda Irkutsk | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 54 | 53 | +1 | 32 |
| 13 | Neftyanik Tyumen | 34 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 44 | 52 | −8 | 30 |
| 14 | Avtomobilist Krasnoyarsk | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 41 | 38 | +3 | 29 |
| 15 | Stroitel Ufa | 34 | 10 | 5 | 19 | 34 | 51 | −17 | 25 |
| 16 | Lokomotiv Chita | 34 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 55 | −35 | 22 |
| 17 | Irtysh Omsk | 34 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 34 | 56 | −22 | 21 |
| 18 | Torpedo Tomsk | 34 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 23 | 61 | −38 | 21 |
* 1 2 +
* ↑ Aviator Irkutsk changed name to Zvezda.

### Group VI (Ukraine)

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (C, P) | 38 | 22 | 9 | 7 | 60 | 22 | +38 | 53 | Promoted |
| 2 | Metalist Kharkiv | 38 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 51 | 29 | +22 | 46 | |
| 3 | SKA Odessa | 38 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 46 | 33 | +13 | 45 | |
| 4 | Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv | 38 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 43 | 32 | +11 | 44 | |
| 5 | Krystal Kherson | 38 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 36 | 24 | +12 | 43 | |
| 6 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 38 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 44 | 31 | +13 | 42 | |
| 7 | Zirka Kirovohrad | 38 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 42 | 34 | +8 | 42 | |
| 8 | Kolos Nikopol | 38 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 36 | 42 | −6 | 39 | |
| 9 | SC Lutsk | 38 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 34 | 34 | 0 | 38 | |
| 10 | Khvylya Khmelnytskyi | 38 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 34 | 34 | 0 | 36 | |
| 11 | SC Chernihiv | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 36 | 44 | −8 | 35 | |
| 12 | Lokomotyv Vinnytsia | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 38 | 47 | −9 | 35 | |
| 13 | Hoverla Uzhhorod | 38 | 14 | 7 | 17 | 26 | 38 | −12 | 35 | |
| 14 | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 29 | 34 | −5 | 34 | |
| 15 | Avanhard Rovno | 38 | 13 | 8 | 17 | 31 | 41 | −10 | 34 | |
| 16 | Kolos Poltava | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 38 | 44 | −6 | 33 | |
| 17 | Novator Zhdanov | 38 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 36 | 52 | −16 | 33 | |
| 18 | Frunzenets Sumy | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 40 | 57 | −17 | 33 | |
| 19 | Shakhtar Horlivka | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 36 | 45 | −9 | 32 | |
| 20 | Atlantyka Sevastopol | 38 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 42 | 61 | −19 | 28 | Avoided relegation |