1937 Group B (Soviet football championship)
| Season | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Dates | July 23 – October 18 |
| Champions | FC Spartak Leningrad |
| Relegated | FC Dinamo Kazan |
| Matches | 42 |
| Goals | 122 (2.9 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Viktor Smagin 7 goals |
| Biggest home win | Temp 6–0 Dinamo Kz (August 13) |
| Biggest away win | Dinamo Kz 2–5 Stalinets L. (August 30) Torpedo 1–4 Dinamo R/D (September 24) |
| Highest scoring | Stalinets M. 5–4 Stalinets L. (October 1) |
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The 1937 Gruppa B was third season of the Soviet (second tier) professional football competitions.
Unlike the previous season that was split into two halves, this one was played as a double round-robin among seven teams. The tournament was won by Spartak Leningrad that according to pre-season regulation was to be promoted to the Gruppa A for 1938 season, however later arrangements for the next season were changed and all participants except for the last placed Dinamo Kazan gained promotion.
Also, after only playing 3 of its scheduled games and winning only one of them, CSKA Moscow was transferred to Gruppa A mid-season.[1]
Teams
No teams were relegated to the Gruppa B.
Promoted
One team was promoted from the 1936 Gruppa V fall tournament.
- Dinamo Kazan – (debut)
League standings
| Pos | Republic | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | .svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_(1954%E2%80%931991).svg.png){kind=small} Russian SFSR | Spartak Leningrad (P) | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 1.462 | 26 |
| 2 | Russian SFSR | FC Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu (P) | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 1.357 | 26 |
| 3 | .svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1952%E2%80%931991).svg.png){kind=small} Azerbaijan SSR | Temp Baku (P) | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 1.357 | 25 |
| 4 | Russian SFSR | Stalinets Leningrad (P) | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 1.222 | 25 |
| 5 | Russian SFSR | FC Stalinets Moscow (P) | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 0.941 | 25 |
| 6 | Russian SFSR | FC Torpedo Moscow (P) | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 0.889 | 24 |
| 7 | Russian SFSR | FC Dynamo Kazan | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 28 | 0.393 | 17 |
| 8 | Russian SFSR | CDKA Moscow[a] | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1.500 | 5 |
- ^ CDKA was returned during the season to the Soviet Top League after playing two games in the season. Their results were scratched for this League this season.
Top scorers
| Rank | Scorer | Team | Goals (Pen.) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor Smagin | Stalinets Leningrad | 7 |
| 2 | Arkadiy Amirjanov | Temp Baku | 6 |
| Vladimir Kuskov | Spartak Leningrad | 6 | |
| 4 | Sergei Ivanov | Stalinets Moscow | 5 |
| Timofei Rudov | Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu | 5 | |
| Yefim Semyonov | Torpedo Moscow | 5 | |
| 7 | Ivan Bibko | Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu | 4 |
| Ilya Bizyukov | Spartak Leningrad | 4 | |
| Veniamin Sarkisov | Temp Baku | 4 | |
| Konstantin Sazonov | Stalinets Leningrad | 4 | |
| Aleksei Shumov | Stalinets Moscow | 4 |
See also
- 1937 Soviet Cup
- 1937 Group A (Soviet football championship)
- 1937 Group V (Soviet football championship)
- 1937 Group G (Soviet football championship)
- 1937 groups D and cities of Far East
References
- ^ Game protocol of CSKA Moscow – Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu. fc-dynamo.ru.
External links
- 1937 Gruppa B. RSSSF
- 1937 Gruppa B. Luhansk Our Football. (in Russian)
