1937 Group B (Soviet football championship)

Group B

Season	1937
Dates	July 23 – October 18
Champions	FC Spartak Leningrad
Relegated	FC Dinamo Kazan
Matches played	42
Goals scored	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)
← 1936 Fall 1939 →

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	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	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

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(P) Promoted
Notes:

1. 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

• Soviet First League

References

1. 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)