1950 Soviet Class B

The 1950 Soviet football championship Class B was the 11th season of the Soviet football championship second tier and inaugural season of the Class B (predecessor of Soviet First League). In 1950 the Soviet football championship rebranded its both tiers from groups First (Pervaya Gruppa) and Second (Vtoraya Gruppa) to Classes A and B.

Soviet Class B

Season	1950
← 1949 1951 →

FC VMS Moscow won the championship.

Organization

The league was reduced from a multi-group tournament to single group to which were grandfathered seven teams from last season "Central Zone" and one team from every other zones, also two more teams were promoted. Many teams from last season were forced into relegation to their respective republican competitions.

Promoted teams

• Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk (debut, runner-up of the Karelo-Finnish Championship)
• Bolshevik Stalinabad (debut, newly established team from the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic)
  • Bolshevik were promoted ahead of the republican champions Dynamo Stalinabad

Relegated teams

No teams were relegated from the 1949 Soviet Pervaya Gruppa (top tier)

Final standings

Pos	REP	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	RUS	VMS Moskva	26	18	6	2	60	15	+45	42	Promoted
2	RUS	Torpedo Gorkiy	26	11	12	3	37	18	+19	34
3	LTU	Spartak Vilnius (O)	26	13	6	7	53	37	+16	32	Relegation play-off
4	RUS	Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo	26	13	6	7	31	22	+9	32
5	UZB	DO Tashkent (O)	26	10	8	8	43	27	+16	28	Relegation play-off
6	MDA	Burevestnik Kishinev[a] (O)	26	11	6	9	41	41	0	28
7	RUS	Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk (R)	26	11	5	10	49	50	−1	27
8	UKR	Pishchevik Odessa (R)	26	8	10	8	33	32	+1	26
9	KAZ	Dinamo Alma-Ata (O)	26	7	9	10	36	37	−1	23
10	KAR	Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk (O)	26	6	10	10	16	27	−11	22[b]
11	KGZ	Trudoviye Rezervy Frunze[c] (O)	26	6	8	12	31	50	−19	20
12	EST	Kalev Tallinn (O)	26	3	11	12	25	39	−14	17
13	TKM	Spartak Ashkhabad[d] (O)	26	7	3	16	19	61	−42	17
14	TJK	Bolshevik Stalinabad (O)	26	4	8	14	19	37	−18	16[e]

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

1. Burevestnik Kishinev was called Dinamo.
2. +
3. Trudoviye Rezervy Frunze was called Zenit.
4. Spartak Ashkhabad was called Lokomotiv.
5. +

Relegation play-off

Ukrainian SSR

To the play-off qualified the champion of the 1950 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and the worst Ukrainian team of masters of the 1950 Soviet Class B.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pishchevik Odessa	1–2	Spartak Uzhgorod	1–1	0–1

Russian SFSR

Worst team of the Russian SFSR qualified for relegation playoff. Both matches were taken place in Makhachkala. The city of Kalinin were champions of the 1950 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk	2–7	Kalinin city	1–0	1–7

For 1950 MVO Moscow was stationed in city of Kalinin.

Turkmen SSR

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Spartak Ashkhabat	6–4	ODO Ashkhabat	4–3	2–1

Karelo-Finnish SSR

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk	4–1	ODO Petrozavodsk	3–1	1–0

Lithuanian SSR

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Spartak Vilnius	7–3	Inkaras Kaunas	5–1	2–2

Belarusian SSR

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dinamo Minsk	0–2	ODO Minsk	0–1	0–1

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dinamo Minsk	2–1	ODO Minsk	1–1	1–0

Kazakh SSR

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dinamo Alma-Ata	2–0	Dinamo Alma-Ata (reserves)	1–0	1–0

Moldavian SSR

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Burevestnik Kishinev	10–3	Krasnoye Znamia Kishinev	7–2	3–1

Uzbek SSR

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ODO Tashkent	4–0	Spartak Tashkent	2–0	2–0

Estonian SSR

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kalev Tallinn	10–2	Dinamo Tallinn	3–0	7–2

Tajik SSR

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bolshevik Stalinabad	w/o	Dinamo Stalinabad

Kyrgyz SSR

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Trudovye Rezervy Frunze	w/o	Spartak Frunze

Number of teams by republics

Number	Union republics	Team(s)
4	Russian SFSR	VMS Moscow FC Torpedo Gorky, FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk
1	Karelo-Finnish SSR	FC Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk
1	Lithuanian SSR	FC Spartak Vilnius
1	Uzbek SSR	DO Tashkent
1	Moldavian SSR	FC Burevestnik Kishinev
1	Ukrainian SSR	FC Pischevik Odessa
1	Kazakh SSR	FC Dinamo Alma-Ata
1	Kyrgyz SSR	FC Trudovye Rezervy Frunze
1	Estonian SSR	FC Kalev Tallinn
1	Turkmen SSR	FC Spartak Asgabat
1	Tajik SSR	FC Bolshevik Stalinobad

See also

• 1950 Soviet Class A
• 1950 Soviet Cup