1951 Soviet Class B

Soviet Class B
Season	1951
	← 1950 1952 →

Following are the results of the 1951 Class B football championship. FC MVO Moscow winning the championship.

Teams

Relegated teams

Six teams were relegated from the 1950 Soviet Class A (top tier).

Dinamo Minsk (return after a six-year absence)
Lokomotiv Moscow (return after a three-year absence)
Neftianik Baku (return after a two-year absence)
Torpedo Stalingrad (debut)
Lokomotiv Kharkov (return after a two-year absence)
Dinamo Yerevan

Promoted teams

No teams received direct promotion. Only three teams were promoted from republican competitions through last year post-season playoffs. One more was replaced, Lokomotiv for Krasnaya Zvezda.

Final standings

Pos	Rep	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	RUS	MVO Kalinin	34	19	11	4	62	26	+36	49^[a]	Promoted to Class A
2	BLR	Dinamo Minsk	34	21	7	6	57	30	+27	49^[b]
3	RUS	Lokomotiv Moskva	34	19	10	5	72	38	+34	48^[b]

4	AZE	Neftyanik Baku	34	17	11	6	56	27	+29	45^[b]
5	RUS	Torpedo Stalingrad	34	16	11	7	66	38	+28	43^[b]
6	UKR	Lokomotiv Kharkov	34	17	9	8	60	38	+22	43^[b]
7	LTU	Spartak Vilnius	34	15	9	10	47	40	+7	39
8	ARM	Dinamo Yerevan	34	14	10	10	40	22	+18	38^[b]
9	UKR	Spartak Uzhgorod (R)	34	14	9	11	51	41	+10	37^[a]	Relegated after play-off
10	MDA	Burevestnik Kishinev	34	12	10	12	47	37	+10	34
11	RUS	Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo	34	13	7	14	49	49	0	33
12	KAR	Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk^[c]	34	10	9	15	28	39	−11	29^[a]
13	UZB	DO Tashkent	34	10	7	17	30	48	−18	27
14	EST	Kalev Tallinn	34	9	7	18	31	48	−17	25
15	TJK	Dinamo Stalinabad^[d]	34	10	5	19	33	74	−41	25^[a]
16	KGZ	Trudoviye Rezervy Frunze	34	7	7	20	36	67	−31	21	Relegated
17	KAZ	Dinamo Alma-Ata	34	6	8	20	30	59	−29	20
18	TKM	Spartak Ashkhabad	34	2	3	29	17	91	−74	7

Source: rsssf.com
(R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d +
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f -
^ Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk replaced withdrawn Lokomotiv
^ Dinamo Stalinabad replaced withdrawn Bolshevik

Relegation play-off

To the play-off qualified the champion of the 1951 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and the worst Ukrainian team of masters of the 1951 Soviet Class B.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Spartak Uzhgorod	2–3	DO Kiev	0–0	2–3

Number of teams by republics

Number	Union republics	Team(s)
4	Russian SFSR	MVO Kalinin, FC Lokomotiv Moscow, FC Torpedo Stalingrad, FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo
2	Ukrainian SSR	FC Lokomotiv Kharkov, FC Spartak Uzhgorod
1	Belarusian SSR	FC Dinamo Minsk
1	Azerbaijan SSR	FC Neftianik Baku
1	Lithuanian SSR	FC Spartak Vilnius
1	Armenian SSR	FC Dinamo Yerevan
1	Moldavian SSR	FC Burevestnik Kishinev
1	Karelo-Finnish SSR	FC Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk
1	Uzbek SSR	DO Tashkent
1	Estonian SSR	FC Kalev Tallinn
1	Tajik SSR	FC Dinamo Stalinobad
1	Kyrgyz SSR	FC Trudovye Rezervy Frunze
1	Kazakh SSR	FC Dinamo Alma-Ata
1	Turkmen SSR	FC Spartak Asgabat

References

1951 at rsssf.com

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[table_hth_-0.1461584391753-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f -

[table_note_KZP0.1461584391753-3] Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk replaced withdrawn Lokomotiv

[table_note_DST0.1461584391753-4] Dinamo Stalinabad replaced withdrawn Bolshevik

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v t e Soviet Class B seasons
Tier 2	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Tier 3	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
Tier 4	1970

v t e Second level Soviet football championship seasons
Group B	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Second Group	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Class B	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Second Group (Class A)	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
First Group (Class A)	1970
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