1969 Soviet Class A Second Group

Football league season
Football league season
Class A Second Group
Season1969
ChampionsFC Spartak Ordzhonikidze
FC SKA Khabarovsk
FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
FK Žalgiris Vilnius
PromotedFC Spartak Ordzhonikidze
European Cup Winners' CupFC Karpaty Lvov
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The 1969 Soviet Football Championship of the Class A Second Group (Russian: Чемпионат СССР 1969 года во второй группе класса «А») was the seventh season of the Class A Second Group that was established in 1963. It was also the 29th season of the Soviet second tier league competition. The season started on April 1, 1969, with the Round 1 games in Group 4. The season ended with the last round of the Final stage played on November 6, 1969.

In August of 1969, Karpaty Lvov won the Football Cup of the Soviet Union (a parallel elimination tournament), thus qualifying for the 1970–71 European Cup Winners' Cup. Karpaty became the only Soviet team of masters that qualified for the continental competition while playing in the second tier of the Soviet football league pyramid.

Format

The competition involved participation of 87 clubs split in four groups by geographic principle with 2 groups consisting of only teams only from Russian SFSR, one group consisting of teams from Ukrainian SSR, and the other group involved teams from other union republics of the Soviet Union. Three groups conducted their competitions in simple double round-robin format, while one group was split in two subgroups which had double round-robin format and after that each subgroup was split in half with best teams from each playing with best teams of other subgroup, and worst teams from each subgroup playing with worst teams of other subgroup. At the end all winners from each of the four groups qualified for the final stage where teams played each other in single round-robin tournament. The best team out of 87 received promotion to the 1970 Class A Top Group (predecessor of the Top League).

For the next season, the Class A Second Group was to be renamed as the Class A First Group and its composition reduced. For that reason, only 18 teams preserved their place for the next season with 68 teams being either relegated or withdrawn.

First stage

Subgroup 1 (Russia)

Teams

  • Dinamo Bryansk
  • Spartak Belgorod
  • Mashuk Pyatigorsk
Renamed
  • Avtomobilist Nalchik was called Spartak Nalchik

Subgroup 1 table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Spartak Orjonikidze 38 22 12 4 60 25 +35 56 Final stage
2 Dinamo Leningrad 38 23 8 7 59 27 +32 54
3 Kuban Krasnodar 38 14 17 7 31 24 +7 45
4 Textilshchik Ivanovo 38 15 14 9 34 20 +14 44
5 Metallurg Tula 38 12 19 7 36 25 +11 43 Relegated to the Class A Second Group
6 Shinnik Yaroslavl 38 16 11 11 40 34 +6 43
7 Metallurg Lipetsk 38 10 19 9 36 33 +3 39
8 Dinamo Makhachkala 38 11 14 13 35 32 +3 36
9 Volga Kalinin 38 12 12 14 36 39 −3 36
10 Baltika Kaliningrad 38 9 18 11 34 43 −9 36
11 Torpedo Taganrog 38 10 15 13 37 43 −6 35
12 Dinamo Stavropol 38 8 18 12 32 32 0 34
13 RostSelMash Rostov-na-Donu 38 14 6 18 39 40 −1 34
14 Dinamo Bryansk 38 11 12 15 26 43 −17 34
15 Avtomobilist Nalchik 38 12 9 17 37 43 −6 33
16 Trud Voronezh 38 7 18 13 27 36 −9 32
17 Spartak Belgorod 38 11 10 17 32 43 −11 32
18 Mashuk Pyatigorsk 38 10 12 16 31 43 −12 32
19 Lokomotiv Kaluga 38 10 11 17 25 42 −17 31
20 Terek Grozny 38 10 11 17 28 48 −20 31 Relegated to the Class B
Source: [citation needed]

Subgroup 2 (Russia)

Teams

  • Kalininets Sverdlovsk
Renamed
  • Dinamo Barnaul was called Temp Barnaul

First Zone

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 SKA Khabarovsk 22 12 7 3 36 20 +16 31
2 Kuzbass Kemerovo 22 12 5 5 34 22 +12 29
3 Selenga Ulan-Ude 22 8 9 5 18 15 +3 25
4 Aeroflot Irkutsk 22 8 8 6 29 17 +12 24
5 TomLes Tomsk 22 7 9 6 15 17 −2 23
6 Kalininets Sverdlovsk 22 8 7 7 19 20 −1 23
7 SKA Chita 22 7 9 6 17 19 −2 23
8 Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk 22 8 6 8 18 18 0 22
9 Irtysh Omsk 22 7 7 8 21 21 0 21
10 Luch Vladivostok 22 3 9 10 12 29 −17 15
11 Rassvet Krasnoyarsk 22 2 10 10 11 21 −10 14
12 Dinamo Barnaul 22 5 4 13 17 28 −11 14
Source: [citation needed]

Second Zone

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Metallurg Kuibyshev 22 11 7 4 32 12 +20 29
2 Rubin Kazan 22 10 9 3 27 15 +12 29
3 Sokol Saratov 22 12 3 7 34 21 +13 27
4 Volga Gorkiy 22 10 7 5 22 16 +6 27
5 Volgar Astrakhan 22 10 5 7 25 20 +5 25
6 Spartak Yoshkar-Ola 22 9 6 7 20 25 −5 24
7 Zvezda Perm 22 8 4 10 22 20 +2 20
8 Traktor Volgograd 22 8 4 10 18 26 −8 20
9 Zenit Izhevsk 22 7 3 12 26 37 −11 17
10 Volga Ulyanovsk 22 4 8 10 15 22 −7 16
11 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 22 5 6 11 16 30 −14 16
12 Stroitel Ufa 22 3 8 11 14 27 −13 14
Source: [citation needed]

For places 1-12

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 SKA Khabarovsk 22 11 7 4 33 17 +16 29 Final stage
2 Rubin Kazan 22 10 8 4 22 13 +9 28
3 Metallurg Kuibyshev 22 10 6 6 31 16 +15 26 Merged with Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
4 Volgar Astrakhan 22 9 7 6 24 26 −2 25
5 Sokol Saratov 22 10 4 8 31 21 +10 24 Relegated to the Class A Second Group
6 Volga Gorkiy 22 8 6 8 24 27 −3 22
7 Kuzbass Kemerovo 22 7 7 8 20 26 −6 21
8 Aeroflot Irkutsk 22 5 9 8 26 26 0 19
9 TomLes Tomsk 22 6 7 9 17 22 −5 19
10 Spartak Yoshkar-Ola 22 5 9 8 14 27 −13 19
11 Kalininets Sverdlovsk 22 6 5 11 25 35 −10 17
12 Selenga Ulan-Ude 22 4 7 11 17 28 −11 15
Source: [citation needed]

For places 13-24

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
13 Irtysh Omsk 34 13 10 11 33 30 +3 36 Relegated to the Class A Second Group
14 SKA Chita 34 11 14 9 28 31 −3 36
15 Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk 34 13 8 13 26 27 −1 34
16 Traktor Volgograd 34 13 7 14 34 37 −3 33
17 Luch Vladivostok 34 10 12 12 28 39 −11 32
18 Rassvet Krasnoyarsk 34 8 13 13 24 32 −8 29
19 Zenit Izhevsk 34 11 6 17 40 51 −11 28
20 Zvezda Perm 34 10 7 17 29 32 −3 27
21 Stroitel Ufa 34 7 12 15 28 40 −12 26
22 Volga Ulyanovsk 34 7 12 15 22 35 −13 26
23 Dinamo Barnaul 34 9 7 18 30 41 −11 25
24 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 34 8 8 18 22 40 −18 24 Relegated to the Class B
Source: [citation needed]

Subgroup 3 (Ukraine)

Teams

  • Bukovina Chernovtsy
  • Avangard Ternopol
  • Desna Chernigov
  • Shakhter Kadievka
  • Dinamo Khmelnitskiy
Renamed
  • Stroitel Poltava was called Selstroi Poltava

Subgroup 3 table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 42 24 9 9 73 39 +34 57 Final stage
2 SKA Kiev 42 18 16 8 51 30 +21 52
3 Metallist Kharkov 42 19 14 9 40 27 +13 52
4 Avtomobilist Zhitomir 42 21 9 12 57 31 +26 51 Relegated to the Class A Second Group
5 Zvezda Kirovograd 42 20 11 11 43 30 +13 51
6 Karpaty Lvov 42 17 12 13 63 50 +13 46 Qualification for European Cup Winners' Cup
7 Metallurg Zaporozhye 42 15 14 13 49 35 +14 44 Relegated to the Class A Second Group
8 Tavria Simferopol 42 14 16 12 60 49 +11 44
9 Bukovina Chernovtsy 42 16 12 14 32 33 −1 44
10 Stroitel Poltava 42 14 15 13 34 33 +1 43
11 Lokomotiv Kherson 42 13 15 14 42 38 +4 41
12 Sudostroitel Nikolayev 42 14 13 15 38 35 +3 41
13 SKA Lvov 42 14 11 17 40 47 −7 39
14 Avangard Ternopol 42 11 17 14 32 41 −9 39
15 Krivbass Krivoi Rog 42 13 10 19 41 52 −11 36
16 Azovets Zhdanov 42 12 12 18 40 52 −12 36
17 SKA Odessa 42 13 10 19 36 55 −19 36
18 Desna Chernigov 42 11 14 17 30 59 −29 36
19 Shakhtyor Kadiyevka 42 11 13 18 29 49 −20 35
20 Lokomotiv Vinnitsa 42 8 18 16 37 49 −12 34 Relegated to the Class B
21 Dinamo Khmelnitskiy 42 9 16 17 32 47 −15 34
22 Khimik Severodonetsk 42 11 11 20 40 58 −18 33
Source: [citation needed]

Subgroup 4 (Union rep)

Teams

Relegated
  • Dinamo Kirovobad
  • Spartak Brest

Subgroup 4 table

Pos Rep Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 LTU Žalgiris Vilnius 40 21 11 8 50 21 +29 53 Final stage
2 KAZ Shakhtyor Karaganda 40 19 12 9 47 23 +24 50
3 GEO Lokomotiv Tbilisi 40 19 11 10 49 29 +20 49
4 TJK Energetik Dushanbe 40 16 17 7 44 31 +13 49
5 TKM Stroitel Ashkhabad 40 16 12 12 50 35 +15 44
6 MDA Moldova Kishinev 40 14 16 10 36 23 +13 44
7 GEO Dinamo Batumi 40 14 15 11 37 31 +6 43 Relegated to the Class A Second Group
8 UZB Neftyanik Fergana 40 16 10 14 39 47 −8 42
9 KGZ Alga Frunze 40 12 17 11 25 25 0 41
10 UZB Politotdel Tashkent Region 40 13 15 12 33 38 −5 41 Relegated to the Class A Second Group
11 KAZ Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk 40 12 15 13 38 36 +2 39
12 LVA Daugava Riga 40 10 18 12 41 37 +4 38
13 BLR Spartak Brest 40 12 13 15 30 29 +1 37 Relegated to the Class A Second Group
14 BLR Neman Grodno 40 7 23 10 27 27 0 37
15 AZE Dinamo Kirovabad 40 12 13 15 34 43 −9 37
16 AZE Polad Sumgait 40 9 18 13 36 40 −4 36
17 UZB Zarafshan Navoi 40 13 9 18 41 49 −8 35
18 GEO Meshakhte Tkibuli 40 14 7 19 34 47 −13 35 Relegated to the Class B
19 KAZ Metallurg Chimkent 40 11 11 18 33 45 −12 33 Relegated to the Class A Second Group
20 ARM Shirak Leninakan 40 11 10 19 36 67 −31 32
21 TJK Pamir Leninabad 40 7 11 22 31 68 −37 25
Source: [citation needed]

Number of teams by republics

Number Union republics Team(s)
3  Kazakh SSR FC Shakher Karaganda, FC Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk, FC Metallurg Chimkent
3  Georgian SSR FC Lokomotiv Tbilisi, FC Dinamo Batumi, FC Meshakhte Tkibuli
3  Uzbek SSR FC Neftyanik Fergana, FC Politotdel Tashkent Region, FC Zarafshan Navoi
2  Tajik SSR FC Energetik Dushanbe, FC Pamir Leninabad
2  Belarusian SSR FC Spartak Brest, FC Neman Grodno
2  Azerbaijan SSR FC Dinamo Kirovobad, FC Polad Sumgait
1  Lithuanian SSR FK Žalgiris Vilnius
1  Turkmen SSR FC Stroitel Ashkhabad
1  Moldavian SSR FC Moldova Kishinev
1  Kyrgyz SSR FC Alga Frunze
1  Latvian SSR FC Daugava Riga
1  Armenian SSR FC Shirak Leninakan

Final stage

For places 1-4 

[Oct 31 - Nov 6, Simferopol]
Pos Rep Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion
1 RUS Spartak Orjonikidze 3 2 0 1 4 2 +2 4 Promoted
2 UKR Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 3 1 1 1 2 3 −1 3
3 RUS SKA Khabarovsk 3 1 1 1 1 2 −1 3
4 LTU Žalgiris Vilnius 3 1 0 2 2 2 0 2
Source: rsssf.com

See also

External links

  • 1969 season. RSSSF
  • 1969 season (second tier). fc-dynamo.ru
  • 1969 season Group 1 (second tier). teams.by
  • 1969 season Group 2 (second tier). teams.by
  • 1969 season Group 3 (second tier). teams.by
  • 1969 season Group 4 (second tier). teams.by
  • 1969 season Final (second tier). teams.by
  • 1969 season (second tier). footballfacts.ru
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