# 1948 Vtoraya Gruppa

The 1948 Vtoraya Gruppa of the Soviet football championship was the 9th season of the second tier football competitions in the Soviet Union.
The format of the competition was preserved from the previous season and included six groups, but number of participants was increased once again to total of 75. Group winners qualified to the final group, the winner of which was the ultimate winner and gained promotion to the Pervaya Gruppa (Top League).
Lokomotiv Kharkov won the championship. Five teams gained promotion to the 1949 Pervaya Gruppa.

## Teams
### Relegated teams

* none

### Promoted teams

* FC Metallurg Moscow – (returning, last played in 1936 as "Serp i Molot Moscow")
* FC Spartak Minsk – (returning, last played in 1939)
* FC Bolshevik Mukachevo – Champions of the 1947 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (debut)
* FC Dinamo Tallinn – Champions of the 1947 Estonian SSR Football Championship (debut)
* FC Daugava Riga – (debut)
* FC Spartak Ivanovo – (debut)
* FC Spartak Penza – (debut)
* FC Khimik Kemerevo – (debut)
* FC Traktor Taganrog – (debut)
* FC Pischevik Astrakhan – (debut)
* FC Avanhard Kramatorsk – (debut)
* FC Shakhter Kadievka – (debut)
* FC Lokomotiv Zaporozhye
* FC Metallurg Magnitogorsk – (debut)
* FC Khimik Orekhovo-Zuyevo* – (debut)
* FC Dinamo Moscow Oblast* – (debut)
* FC Dzerzhinets Kolomna* – (debut)
* FC Spartak Voronezh* – (debut)
* FC Tsvetmet Kamensk-Uralskiy* – (debut)
* FC Gornyak Kemerevo* – (debut)
* With the asterisk identified teams that may have been created just before the start of the season.

### Renamed teams

* Spartak Vilnius last season was known as Dinamo Vilnius

## Qualifying stage
### Central Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Metallurg Moscow | 28 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 43 | 22 | +21 | 42 | |
| 2 | Dynamo Riga | 28 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 57 | 27 | +30 | 38 | |
| 3 | MVO Moscow | 28 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 52 | 28 | +24 | 38 | |
| 4 | Spartak Vilnius | 28 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 54 | 30 | +24 | 36 | |
| 5 | Sudostroitel Leningrad | 28 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 42 | 28 | +14 | 35 | |
| 6 | Trudovye Rezervy Moscow | 28 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 41 | 33 | +8 | 32 | |
| 7 | Kalev Tallinn | 28 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 34 | 34 | 0 | 28 | |
| 8 | Daugava Riga | 28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 31 | 45 | −14 | 27 | |
| 9 | DO Leningrad | 28 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 29 | 36 | −7 | 26 | |
| 10 | Spartak Minsk | 28 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 38 | 37 | +1 | 24 | |
| 11 | VMS Moscow | 28 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 44 | 59 | −15 | 23 | |
| 12 | Metro Moscow | 28 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 27 | 39 | −12 | 19 | |
| 13 | DO Minsk | 28 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 48 | −25 | 19 | |
| 14 | Spartak Leningrad | 28 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 25 | 46 | −21 | 18 | Relegation |
| 15 | Dinamo Tallinn | 28 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 51 | −28 | 15 | Relegation |

### Russian SFSR Zone 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Dynamo Kazan | 26 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 71 | 18 | +53 | 43 |
| 2 | Torpedo Gorky | 26 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 81 | 31 | +50 | 39 |
| 3 | Krasnoye Znamia Ivanovo | 26 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 64 | 31 | +33 | 39 |
| 4 | Khimik Dzerzhynsk | 26 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 60 | 32 | +28 | 37 |
| 5 | Khimik Orekhovo-Zuyevo | 26 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 58 | 26 | +32 | 35 |
| 6 | Dinamo Moscow Region | 26 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 55 | 41 | +14 | 30 |
| 7 | Zenit Kaliningrad | 26 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 45 | 39 | +6 | 27 |
| 8 | Zenit Kovrov | 26 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 37 | 53 | −16 | 20 |
| 9 | Dzerzhinets Kolomna | 26 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 37 | 49 | −12 | 18 |
| 10 | Zenit Izhevsk | 26 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 35 | 60 | −25 | 18 |
| 11 | Dynamo Saratov | 26 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 37 | 63 | −26 | 17 |
| 12 | Spartak Ivanovo | 26 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 33 | 66 | −33 | 16 |
| 13 | Spartak Voronezh | 26 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 70 | −51 | 13 |
| 14 | Spartak Penza | 26 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 39 | 92 | −53 | 12 |

### Russian SFSR Zone 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Dzerzhynets Chelyabinsk | 24 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 80 | 27 | +53 | 39 |
| 2 | ODO Novosibirsk | 24 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 62 | 27 | +35 | 39 |
| 3 | ODO Sverdlovsk | 24 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 56 | 25 | +31 | 30 |
| 4 | Krylia Sovetov Molotov | 24 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 54 | 30 | +24 | 30 |
| 5 | Dynamo Sverdlovsk | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 51 | 44 | +7 | 27 |
| 6 | Dzerzhynets Nizhniy Tagil | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 27 |
| 7 | Dynamo Chelyabinsk | 24 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 39 | 39 | 0 | 24 |
| 8 | Avangard Sverdlovsk | 24 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 44 | 48 | −4 | 23 |
| 9 | Krylia Sovetov Omsk | 24 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 44 | 39 | +5 | 21 |
| 10 | Khimmik Kemerovo | 24 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 42 | 45 | −3 | 21 |
| 11 | Metallurg Magnitagorsk | 24 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 34 | 66 | −32 | 15 |
| 12 | TsvetMet Kamensk-Uralskiy | 24 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 33 | 91 | −58 | 10 |
| 13 | Gornyak Kemerovo | 24 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 20 | 80 | −60 | 6 |

### Ukrainian Zone

The zone was expanded from 13 to 16 teams split into two subgroups. The relegated Bolshevik Zaporozhie was replaced with the best three teams of Donbas group (Group 6) including Lokomotiv Zaporozhie and the champion of the 1947 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR.
FC Shakhter Stalino was promoted to the 1949 Pervaya Gruppa without the need to qualify for the league's finals.

#### Subgroup A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Lokomotiv Kharkov (Q) | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 40 | 10 | +30 | 21 |
| 2 | Stal Dnepropetrovsk (Q) | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 34 | 24 | +10 | 20 |
| 3 | Shakhter Stalino (P) | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 15 | +18 | 19 |
| 4 | Dynamo Voroshylovgrad | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 30 | 29 | +1 | 14 |
| 5 | Lokomotiv Zaporozhie | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 30 | −8 | 11 |
| 6 | Avanhard Kramatorsk | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 40 | −17 | 10 |
| 7 | Dzerzhynets Kharkov | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 16 | 37 | −21 | 9 |
| 8 | Shakhter Kadievka | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 29 | −13 | 8 |

#### Subgroup B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Bolshevik Mukachevo (Q) | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 35 | 16 | +19 | 22 |
| 2 | DO Kiev (Q) | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 14 | +13 | 22 |
| 3 | Spartak Lvov | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 26 | 22 | +4 | 17 |
| 4 | Spartak Uzhgorod | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 33 | 19 | +14 | 16 |
| 5 | Pishchevik Odessa | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 18 | +1 | 15 |
| 6 | Spartak Kherson | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 22 | −4 | 13 |
| 7 | Dynamo Kishenev | 14 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 35 | −24 | 4 |
| 8 | Sudostroitel Nikolaev | 14 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 31 | −23 | 3 |

#### Final

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Lokomotiv Kharkov (Q, P) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 5 |
| 2 | Stal Dnepropetrovsk | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 5 |
| 3 | ODO Kiev | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 2 |
| 4 | Bolshevik Mukachevo | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |

##### 1st place play-off

Lokomotiv Kharkov - Stal Dnepropetrovsk 3:1

### Southern Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Dynamo Yerevan | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 48 | 12 | +36 | 30 |
| 2 | ODO Tbilisi | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 40 | 16 | +24 | 29 |
| 3 | Spartak Tbilisi | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 52 | 24 | +28 | 25 |
| 4 | Neftyanik Baku | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 19 | +8 | 21 |
| 5 | Lokomotiv Tbilisi | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 40 | 37 | +3 | 19 |
| 6 | Dynamo Rostov-on-Don | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 40 | 33 | +7 | 17 |
| 7 | Dynamo Baku | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 26 | 28 | −2 | 16 |
| 8 | Spartak Yerevan | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 21 | 35 | −14 | 11 |
| 9 | Traktor Taganrog | 18 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 19 | 47 | −28 | 9 |
| 10 | Pishchevik Astrakhan | 18 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 72 | −62 | 3 |

### Central-Asian Zone

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | ODO Tashkent | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 9 | +28 | 18 |
| 2 | Dynamo Alma-Ata | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 9 | +13 | 17 |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Ashkhabad | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 13 | +8 | 13 |
| 4 | Zenit Frunze | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 21 | −9 | 11 |
| 5 | Dynamo Tashkent | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 25 | −9 | 9 |
| 6 | Dynamo Stalinabad | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 21 | −8 | 9 |
| 7 | Spartak Alma-Ata | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 38 | −23 | 7 |

## Final stage

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Lokomotiv Kharkov (H, C) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 7 |
| 2 | Metallurg Moscow | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6 |
| 3 | Dinamo Yerevan | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 6 |
| 4 | Dzerzhynets Chelyabinsk | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 6 |
| 5 | Dinamo Kazan | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 5 |
| 6 | ODO Tashkent | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 19 | −12 | 1 |
* ↑ 1 bonus point?

## Number of teams by republics

| Number | Union republics | Team(s) |
| 38 | Russian SFSR | FC Metallurg Moscow, MVO Moscow, FC Sudostroitel Leningrad, FC Trudovye Rezervy Moscow, DO Leningrad, VMS Moscow, FC Metro Moscow, FC Spartak LeningradFC Dinamo Kazan, FC Torpedo Gorky, FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk, FC Khimik Orekhovo-Zuevo, FC Dinamo Moscow Oblast, FC Zenit Kaliningrad, FC Zenit Kovrov, FC Dzerzhinets Kolomna, FC Zenit Izhevsk, FC Dinamo Saratov, FC Spartak Ivanovo, FC Spartak Voronezh, FC Spartak Penza, FC Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk, ODO Novosibirsk, ODO Sverdlovsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Molotov, FC Dinamo Sverdlovsk, FC Dzerzhinets Nizhniy Tagil, FC Dinamo Chelyabinsk, FC Avangard Sverdlovsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Omsk, FC Khimik Kemerovo, FC Metallurg Magnitogorsk, FC Tsvetmet Kamensk-Uralskiy, FC Gornyak Kemerovo, FC Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu, FC Traktor Taganrog, FC Pischevik Astrakhan |
| 15 | Ukrainian SSR | FC Lokomotiv Kharkov, FC Stal Dnepropetrovsk, FC Shakhter Stalino, FC Dinamo Voroshilovgrad, FC Lokomotiv Zaporozhye, FC Avangard Kramatorsk, FC Dzerzhinets Kharkov, FC Shakhter Kadeevka, FC Bolshevik Mukachevo, DO Kiev, FC Spartak Lvov, FC Spartak Uzhgorod, FC Pischevik Odessa, FC Spartak Kherson, FC Sudostroitel Nikolaev |
| 3 | Georgian SSR | FC Spartak Tbilisi, FC Lokomotiv Tbilisi, ODO Tbilisi |
| 2 | Latvian SSR | FC Dinamo Riga, FC Daugava Riga |
| 2 | Belarusian SSR | FC Spartak Minsk, DO Minsk |
| 2 | Estonian SSR | FC Kalev Tallinn, FC Dinamo Tallin |
| 2 | Azerbaijan SSR | FC Neftianik Baku, FC Dinamo Baku |
| 2 | Armenian SSR | FC Dinamo Yerevan, FC Spartak Yerevan |
| 2 | Uzbek SSR | ODO Tashkent, FC Dinamo Tashkent |
| 2 | Kazakh SSR | FC Dinamo Alma-Ata, FC Spartak Alma-Ata |
| 1 | Lithuanian SSR | FC Spartak Vilnius |
| 1 | Moldavian SSR | FC Dinamo Kishinev |
| 1 | Turkmen SSR | FC Lokomotiv Ashkhabat |
| 1 | Kyrgyz SSR | FC Zenit Frunze |
| 1 | Tajik SSR | FC Dinamo Stalinabad |