# 1974 Soviet Second League

1974 Soviet Second League was a Soviet competition in the Soviet Second League. There were 116 teams split in 6 groups.

## Qualifying groups
### Group I [Central Asia]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | KGZ | Alga Frunze | 30 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 46 | 18 | +28 | 42 |
| 2 | UZB | Yangiyer | 30 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 57 | 25 | +32 | 39 |
| 3 | KAZ | Shakhtyor Karaganda | 30 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 53 | 34 | +19 | 38 |
| 4 | UZB | Neftyanik Fergana | 30 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 38 | 29 | +9 | 37 |
| 5 | KAZ | Traktor Pavlodar | 30 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 36 | 27 | +9 | 34 |
| 6 | KAZ | Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 38 | 27 | +11 | 32 |
| 7 | UZB | Spartak Termez | 30 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 41 | 36 | +5 | 32 |
| 8 | UZB | Yangiaryk | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 27 | 33 | −6 | 31 |
| 9 | KAZ | Orbita Kzil-Orda | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 41 | 37 | +4 | 29 |
| 10 | UZB | Trud Jizak | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 42 | 35 | +7 | 28 |
| 11 | KAZ | Dinamo Tselinograd | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 26 | 37 | −11 | 26 |
| 12 | KAZ | Alatau Jambul | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 27 | 39 | −12 | 26 |
| 13 | KAZ | Spartak Semipalatinsk | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 30 | 41 | −11 | 24 |
| 14 | UZB | Andizhanets Andizhan | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 48 | −28 | 23 |
| 15 | KAZ | Metallurg Chimkent | 30 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 32 | 58 | −26 | 22 |
| 16 | TKM | Amu-Darya Charjou | 30 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 23 | 53 | −30 | 17 |
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* ↑ Avtomobilist Termez changed name to Spartak.
* ↑ Avtomobilist Kzil-Orda changed name to Orbita.
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### Group II [Centre and Northwest]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | RUS | Dinamo Leningrad | 40 | 26 | 10 | 4 | 70 | 25 | +45 | 62 |
| 2 | LVA | Daugava Riga | 40 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 76 | 28 | +48 | 59 |
| 3 | RUS | Volga Gorkiy | 40 | 24 | 9 | 7 | 64 | 32 | +32 | 57 |
| 4 | RUS | Spartak Ryazan | 40 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 50 | 28 | +22 | 50 |
| 5 | RUS | Spartak Kostroma | 40 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 61 | 44 | +17 | 49 |
| 6 | RUS | Lokomotiv Kaluga | 40 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 44 | 30 | +14 | 49 |
| 7 | LTU | Atlantas Klaipeda | 40 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 52 | 39 | +13 | 43 |
| 8 | LTU | Žalgiris Vilnius | 40 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 50 | 40 | +10 | 43 |
| 9 | RUS | Volga Kalinin | 40 | 17 | 8 | 15 | 59 | 48 | +11 | 42 |
| 10 | RUS | Metallurg Tula | 40 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 42 | 51 | −9 | 41 |
| 11 | BLR | GomSelMash Gomel | 40 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 53 | 57 | −4 | 39 |
| 12 | BLR | Dnepr Mogilyov | 40 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 37 | 53 | −16 | 38 |
| 13 | RUS | Dinamo Kirov | 40 | 12 | 11 | 17 | 34 | 39 | −5 | 35 |
| 14 | BLR | Bug Brest | 40 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 33 | 44 | −11 | 34 |
| 15 | RUS | Electron Novgorod | 40 | 8 | 18 | 14 | 32 | 44 | −12 | 34 |
| 16 | LVA | Zvejnieks Liepaja | 40 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 26 | 42 | −16 | 33 |
| 17 | RUS | Baltika Kaliningrad | 40 | 12 | 9 | 19 | 41 | 60 | −19 | 33 |
| 18 | RUS | Mashinostroitel Pskov | 40 | 11 | 8 | 21 | 40 | 56 | −16 | 30 |
| 19 | RUS | Sever Murmansk | 40 | 11 | 7 | 22 | 38 | 65 | −27 | 29 |
| 20 | BLR | Dvina Vitebsk | 40 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 20 | 47 | −27 | 25 |
| 21 | BLR | Khimik Grodno | 40 | 3 | 9 | 28 | 21 | 71 | −50 | 15 |

### Group III [Centre and Greater Caucasus]

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | RUS | Torpedo Vladimir | 38 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 62 | 27 | +35 | 54 |
| 2 | GEO | Dinamo Batumi | 38 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 55 | 29 | +26 | 52 |
| 3 | GEO | Dila Gori | 38 | 22 | 7 | 9 | 86 | 41 | +45 | 51 |
| 4 | RUS | Dinamo Vologda | 38 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 62 | 38 | +24 | 51 |
| 5 | RUS | Iskra Smolensk | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 59 | 31 | +28 | 49 |
| 6 | RUS | Uralan Elista | 38 | 20 | 7 | 11 | 52 | 37 | +15 | 47 |
| 7 | RUS | Khimik Dzerzhinsk | 38 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 54 | 35 | +19 | 43 |
| 8 | RUS | Dinamo Stavropol | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 60 | 40 | +20 | 41 |
| 9 | GEO | Lokomotiv Samtredia | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 46 | 53 | −7 | 41 |
| 10 | AZE | Dinamo Kirovabad | 38 | 17 | 5 | 16 | 57 | 52 | +5 | 39 |
| 11 | GEO | Guria Lanchkhuti | 38 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 56 | 53 | +3 | 37 |
| 12 | RUS | Dinamo Bryansk | 38 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 47 | 48 | −1 | 37 |
| 13 | GEO | Dinamo Zugdidi | 38 | 14 | 6 | 18 | 50 | 67 | −17 | 34 |
| 14 | GEO | Mertskhali Makharadze | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 42 | 62 | −20 | 34 |
| 15 | ARM | Shirak Leninakan | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 54 | 67 | −13 | 33 |
| 16 | RUS | Kalitva Belaya Kalitva | 38 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 38 | 50 | −12 | 31 |
| 17 | GEO | Kolkhida Poti | 38 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 38 | 58 | −20 | 30 |
| 18 | RUS | Khimik Novomoskovsk | 38 | 10 | 3 | 25 | 37 | 63 | −26 | 23 |
| 19 | ARM | Lori Kirovakan | 38 | 4 | 9 | 25 | 27 | 82 | −55 | 17 |
| 20 | AZE | Hazar Sumgait | 38 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 26 | 75 | −49 | 16 |
* ↑ Polad Sumgait changed name to Hazar.

### Group IV [Central Strip and Ural]

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Terek Grozny | 40 | 24 | 10 | 6 | 65 | 32 | +33 | 58 | |
| 2 | Rubin Kazan | 40 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 53 | 33 | +20 | 51 | |
| 3 | Avangard Kursk | 40 | 21 | 8 | 11 | 60 | 39 | +21 | 50 | |
| 4 | Torpedo Togliatti | 40 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 37 | 28 | +9 | 49 | |
| 5 | Druzhba Maykop | 40 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 55 | 34 | +21 | 48 | |
| 6 | Dinamo Makhachkala | 40 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 61 | 47 | +14 | 48 | |
| 7 | Volgar Astrakhan | 40 | 17 | 11 | 12 | 47 | 36 | +11 | 45 | |
| 8 | Mashuk Pyatigorsk | 40 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 43 | 40 | +3 | 44 | |
| 9 | Stal Oryol | 40 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 49 | 40 | +9 | 42 | |
| 10 | Lokomotiv Orenburg | 40 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 50 | 48 | +2 | 42 | |
| 11 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 40 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 49 | 48 | +1 | 42 | |
| 12 | Trud Voronezh | 40 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 35 | 36 | −1 | 40 | |
| 13 | Salyut Belgorod | 40 | 15 | 8 | 17 | 38 | 47 | −9 | 38 | |
| 14 | Sokol Saratov | 40 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 46 | 52 | −6 | 36 | |
| 15 | Spartak Yoshkar-Ola | 40 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 38 | 46 | −8 | 35 | |
| 16 | Zenit Izhevsk | 40 | 14 | 7 | 19 | 33 | 48 | −15 | 35 | |
| 17 | Revtrud Tambov | 40 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 30 | 55 | −25 | 32 | |
| 18 | Volga Ulyanovsk | 40 | 11 | 9 | 20 | 38 | 71 | −33 | 31 | |
| 19 | Barrikady Volgograd | 40 | 12 | 5 | 23 | 40 | 56 | −16 | 29 | |
| 20 | Stroitel Ufa | 40 | 8 | 9 | 23 | 25 | 56 | −31 | 25 | |
| 21 | Kord Balakovo | 40 | 8 | 4 | 28 | 25 | 24 | +1 | 20 | Withdrew |

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

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Dinamo Barnaul | 34 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 60 | 22 | +38 | 47 |
| 2 | Vulkan Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy | 34 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 49 | 22 | +27 | 46 |
| 3 | Amur Blagoveshchensk | 34 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 45 | 24 | +21 | 46 |
| 4 | Luch Vladivostok | 34 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 68 | 33 | +35 | 45 |
| 5 | SKA Khabarovsk | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 57 | 40 | +17 | 43 |
| 6 | Uralets Nizhniy Tagil | 34 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 53 | 39 | +14 | 37 |
| 7 | Chkalovets Novosibirsk | 34 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 48 | 37 | +11 | 37 |
| 8 | Avtomobilist Krasnoyarsk | 34 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 43 | 38 | +5 | 36 |
| 9 | Selenga Ulan-Ude | 34 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 37 | 35 | +2 | 36 |
| 10 | Neftyanik Tyumen | 34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 41 | 42 | −1 | 35 |
| 11 | Irtysh Omsk | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 38 | 47 | −9 | 34 |
| 12 | Zauralets Kurgan | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 38 | 38 | 0 | 32 |
| 13 | Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 28 | 37 | −9 | 29 |
| 14 | Torpedo Tomsk | 34 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 28 | 54 | −26 | 28 |
| 15 | Lokomotiv Chita | 34 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 20 | 39 | −19 | 25 |
| 16 | Shakhtyor Prokopyevsk | 34 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 23 | 56 | −33 | 21 |
| 17 | Aviator Irkutsk | 34 | 7 | 6 | 21 | 31 | 63 | −32 | 20 |
| 18 | Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk | 34 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 64 | −41 | 15 |
* ↑ TomLes Tomsk changed name to Torpedo.
* ↑ SKA Chita were replaced by Lokomotiv Chita.
* ↑ Aeroflot Irkutsk changed name to Aviator.

### Group VI (Ukraine)

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv (C) | 38 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 47 | 18 | +29 | 55 | |
| 2 | Metalist Kharkiv (P) | 38 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 63 | 42 | +21 | 45 | Promoted |
| 3 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 38 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 47 | 33 | +14 | 44 | |
| 4 | Frunzenets Sumy | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 54 | 41 | +13 | 44 | |
| 5 | Hoverla Uzhhorod | 38 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 45 | 38 | +7 | 44 | |
| 6 | SC Chernihiv | 38 | 17 | 9 | 12 | 63 | 46 | +17 | 43 | |
| 7 | Lokomotyv Vinnytsia | 38 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 48 | 33 | +15 | 42 | |
| 8 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 50 | 39 | +11 | 41 | |
| 9 | SC Lutsk | 38 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 33 | 31 | +2 | 40 | |
| 10 | Lokomotyv Kherson | 38 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 49 | 48 | +1 | 39 | |
| 11 | FC Tiraspol | 38 | 9 | 21 | 8 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 39 | |
| 12 | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 38 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 51 | 45 | +6 | 38 | |
| 13 | Avanhard Sevastopol | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 46 | 47 | −1 | 37 | |
| 14 | Dynamo Khmelnytskyi | 38 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 32 | 38 | −6 | 36 | |
| 15 | Kolos Poltava | 38 | 9 | 17 | 12 | 25 | 29 | −4 | 35 | |
| 16 | Hranit Cherkasy | 38 | 9 | 16 | 13 | 32 | 49 | −17 | 34 | Excluded |
| 17 | Zirka Kirovohrad | 38 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 34 | 46 | −12 | 31 | |
| 18 | Avanhard Rovno | 38 | 12 | 6 | 20 | 33 | 52 | −19 | 30 | |
| 19 | Budivelnyk Ternopil | 38 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 31 | 49 | −18 | 26 | Relegated |
| 20 | Pischevik Bendery | 38 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 14 | 73 | −59 | 16 | Relegated |

## Promotion playoffs
### Semifinal Group 1

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | KGZ | Alga Frunze | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | +11 | 9 |
| 2 | RUS | Rubin Kazan | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 | RUS | Amur Blagoveshchensk | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 5 |
| 4 | RUS | Dinamo Leningrad | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 4 |
| 5 | UKR | Krivbass Krivoi Rog | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 |
| 6 | GEO | Dinamo Batumi | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | −8 | 3 |

### Semifinal Group 2

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | RUS | Terek Grozny | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 8 |
| 2 | UZB | Yangiyer | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 |
| 3 | GEO | Dila Gori | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 5 |
| 4 | RUS | Vulkan Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 4 |
| 5 | RUS | Volga Gorkiy | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
| 6 | UKR | Sudostroitel Nikolayev | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |

### Semifinal Group 3

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | UKR | Metallist Kharkov | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 7 |
| 2 | KAZ | Shakhtyor Karaganda | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 7 |
| 3 | RUS | Torpedo Vladimir | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | LVA | Daugava Riga | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 |
| 5 | RUS | Dinamo Barnaul | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
| 6 | RUS | Avangard Kursk | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 2 |

### Final group

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | KGZ | Alga Frunze | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 7 | Promoted |
| 2 | RUS | Rubin Kazan | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 6 | Promoted |
| 3 | UKR | Metallist Kharkov | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 6 | Promoted |
| 4 | RUS | Terek Grozny | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 5 | |
| 5 | KAZ | Shakhtyor Karaganda | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 3 | |
| 6 | UZB | Yangiyer | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | |
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