1952 in Soviet football

Football in the Soviet Union

Season	1952
Men's football
Class A	Spartak Moscow
Class B	Lokomotiv Kharkov
Soviet Cup	Torpedo Moscow

The 1952 Soviet football championship was the 20th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 14th among teams of sports societies and factories. Spartak Moscow won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the fourth time and the first after World War II, the Spartak's main rivals Dinamo again had a difficult season struggling only for the second.

The defending champions CDSA were expelled from the league for the poor performance of the USSR national football team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. The Class A started late mid-summer consisting only of a single round-robin with almost all games played in Moscow.

Honours

Competition	Winner	Runner-up
Class A	Spartak Moscow (4)	Dinamo Kiev
Class B	Lokomotiv Kharkov	Spartak Vilnius
Soviet Cup	Torpedo Moscow (2)	Spartak Moscow

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Soviet Union football championship

Main article: 1952 Soviet Top League

Class A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spartak Moscow (C)	13	9	2	2	26	12	+14	20	League champions
2	Dynamo Kiev	13	7	3	3	26	14	+12	17
3	Dynamo Moscow	13	7	3	3	24	14	+10	17
4	Dynamo Tbilisi	13	5	6	2	19	12	+7	16
5	Dynamo Leningrad	13	5	5	3	17	17	0	15
6	Kalinin	13	5	4	4	19	19	0	14
7	Zenit Leningrad	13	6	2	5	20	21	−1	14
8	Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	13	5	3	5	16	14	+2	13
9	Lokomotiv Moscow	13	5	2	6	19	21	−2	12
10	Torpedo Moscow	13	3	6	4	11	15	−4	12
11	VVS Moscow (R)	13	2	6	5	11	14	−3	10	Relegation to Class B
12	Daugava Riga (R)	13	2	5	6	10	14	−4	9
13	Shakhtyor Stalino (R)	13	1	6	6	14	26	−12	8
14	Dinamo Minsk (R)	13	1	3	9	10	29	−19	5

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Class B (second stage)

Further information: 1952 Soviet Class B

For places 1-9

Pos	Rep	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	UKR	Lokomotiv Kharkov	16	9	3	4	21	11	+10	21	Promoted
2	LTU	Spartak Vilnius	16	6	7	3	23	20	+3	19
3	GEO	DO Tbilisi	16	6	5	5	24	15	+9	17
4	RUS	Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo	16	8	1	7	24	25	−1	17
5	RUS	VMS Leningrad	16	6	4	6	19	15	+4	16
6	RUS	Torpedo Gorkiy	16	4	8	4	16	19	−3	16
7	AZE	Neftyanik Baku	16	5	5	6	20	21	−1	15
8	MDA	Burevestnik Kishinev	16	6	3	7	21	27	−6	15
9	KAZ	Dinamo Alma-Ata	16	1	6	9	13	28	−15	8

Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

For places 10-18

Played in Rostov-na-Donu

Pos	Rep	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
10	ARM	Dinamo Yerevan	8	7	0	1	18	3	+15	14
11	RUS	Torpedo Stalingrad	8	5	1	2	16	7	+9	11
12	RUS	DO Sverdlovsk	8	4	1	3	14	8	+6	9
13	RUS	Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk	8	4	1	3	18	16	+2	9
14	UKR	DO Kiev (O, R)	8	4	0	4	13	9	+4	8	Relegation play-off
15	EST	Kalev Tallinn	8	4	0	4	10	12	−2	8
16	UZB	DO Tashkent	8	3	1	4	10	17	−7	7
17	TJK	Dinamo Stalinabad	8	3	0	5	11	20	−9	6
18	TKM	Spartak Ashkhabad	8	0	0	8	2	20	−18	0

Source: rsssf.com
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Relegation play-off

To the play-off qualified the champion of the 1952 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and the worst Ukrainian team of masters of the 1952 Soviet Class B.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ODO Kiev	6–1	Metallurg Zaporozhie	3–0	3–1

Top goalscorers

Class A

• Andrei Zazroyev (Dinamo Kiev) – 11 goals

External links

• 1952 Soviet football championship. RSSSF