2024 Russian Second League Division B

The 2024 Russian Second League Division B was the second season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 30 March 2024 and ended on 16 November 2024. There was a three-week break in July after half of the games have been played.

Russian Second League Division B

Season	2024
Dates	30 March 2024 – 16 November 2024
← 2023 2025 →

Overview

In the summer of 2023, the Russian Second League was reorganized and split into two tiers - third-tier Russian Second League Division A and fourth-tier Russian Second League Division B.^[1] Division B also switched to the spring-to-autumn, March-to-November schedule. 2023 was a transitional half-year season.^[2] 2024 season was the first full-length season.

Division B is split into 4 groups, mostly based on geographical location. At the end of the year, four winners of their groups were promoted into the Division A Second Stage Silver Group. Four bottom teams from the Division A First Stage Silver Group were relegated to 2025 Division B.

Team movement

At the end of the 2023 season, Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk, Khimik Dzerzhinsk, Kaluga and Torpedo Miass were promoted to Division A as winners of their Division B groups. Forte Taganrog, Amkar Perm, Chertanovo Moscow and Salyut Belgorod were relegated to Division B from Division A.

Torpedo-2 and Peresvet Domodedovo were relegated from Division B. SKA Rostov-on-Don and Zorkiy Krasnogorsk voluntarily dropped out.^[3][4] Sakhalinets Moscow and Khimik-Avgust Vurnary dissolved their professional squads.^[5][6] Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk failed licensing for the season.^[7]

Elektron Veliky Novgorod moved to Nizhny Novgorod and was renamed to Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.^[8]

Pobeda Khasavyurt, Dynamo Stavropol, Kolomna, Orenburg-2 and Akron-2 Tolyatti, which finished the 2023 season in relegation spots, were kept in the league because of the other teams dropping out.

New teams were Angusht Nazran, Lada-Tolyatti, Nart Cherkessk, Oryol, Sokol Kazan and Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (promoted from the Russian Amateur Football League), Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara, Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-2 and Spartak-2 Moscow (farm clubs of the Russian Premier League teams).^{[9][10][11][12][13][14]}

Group 1

Group 1 included 17 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 30 March 2024 to 16 November 2024.^[15] The opening games that were initially scheduled for 23 March 2024 were postponed due to the Crocus City Hall attack.^[16] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were qualified to be relegated from Division B.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Forte Taganrog	32	22	5	5	68	30	+38	71	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Rubin Yalta	32	20	4	8	48	26	+22	64
3	Dynamo Stavropol	32	18	9	5	54	31	+23	63
4	Legion Makhachkala	32	18	6	8	57	26	+31	60
5	Rostov-2	32	19	3	10	57	33	+24	60
6	Sevastopol	32	17	7	8	47	30	+17	58
7	Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky[a]	32	13	9	10	44	34	+10	48
8	Astrakhan	32	14	5	13	40	42	−2	47
9	Nart Cherkessk	32	13	5	14	43	47	−4	44
10	Druzhba Maykop	32	13	3	16	41	42	−1	42
11	Angusht Nazran	32	8	14	10	22	27	−5	38
12	Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya	32	9	10	13	29	37	−8	37
13	Spartak Nalchik	32	10	7	15	47	50	−3	37
14	Biolog-Novokubansk[b]	32	8	6	18	41	56	−15	30	Dissolved after the season
15	Pobeda Khasavyurt	32	7	9	16	36	49	−13	30
16	Alania-2 Vladikavkaz	32	4	5	23	24	87	−63	17	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
17	Dynamo-2 Makhachkala[c]	32	3	5	24	19	70	−51	14

Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway
Notes:

1. Stroitel was purchased by a new owner in February 2025 and relocated to Tomsk as FC KDV Tomsk.^[17]
2. Biolog-Novokubansk was dissolved in early 2025.^[18]
3. Dynamo-2 was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B.^[19]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Magomed Abakarov	Forte Taganrog	17
	Vadim Zubavlenko	Rubin Yalta
3	Aleksandr Olenev	Legion Makhachkala	14
	Alan Khachirov	Spartak Nalchik
5	Makhach Abdulkhamidov	Dynamo Stavropol	12
6	Islam Tlupov	Spartak Nalchik	11
	Bekkhan Aliyev	Angusht Nazran
8	Anar Panayev	Legion Makhachkala	10
	Gadzhimurad Abdullayev	Druzhba Maykop
Stanislav Ruban	Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky

Group 2

Group 2 included 16 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 6 April 2024 to 3 November 2024.^[20] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Dynamo-2 Moscow	30	22	4	4	66	28	+38	70	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Spartak-2 Moscow	30	19	5	6	67	33	+34	62
3	Leon Saturn Ramenskoye[a]	30	17	7	6	68	43	+25	58
4	Irkutsk	30	17	6	7	43	35	+8	57
5	Chertanovo Moscow	30	17	4	9	54	38	+16	55
6	Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg	30	14	9	7	45	30	+15	51
7	Dynamo Vologda	30	15	6	9	45	31	+14	51
8	Baltika-BFU Kaliningrad[b]	30	14	8	8	50	45	+5	50
9	Dynamo Saint Petersburg	30	11	6	13	54	50	+4	39
10	Torpedo Vladimir	30	11	6	13	43	40	+3	39
11	Rodina-M Moscow	30	9	7	14	51	48	+3	34
12	Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo	30	9	4	17	27	52	−25	31
13	Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki	30	7	7	16	24	41	−17	28
14	Tver	30	6	7	17	30	57	−27	25
15	Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk[c]	30	3	5	22	26	66	−40	14
16	Zvezda Saint Petersburg[d]	30	1	5	24	24	80	−56	8

Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway
Notes:

1. Leon Saturn was renamed back to Saturn at the end of 2024.^[21]
2. The team was renamed to Baltika-2 in January 2025.^[22]
3. Yenisey-2 was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B.^[19]
4. Zvezda was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B.^[19]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Vitaly Karpenko	Spartak-2 Moscow	18
2	Anton Betyuzhnov	Dynamo Vologda	12
	Denis Bokov	Dynamo-2 Moscow
	Artyom Bykovsky	Spartak-2 Moscow
5	Stanislav Basyrov	Leon Saturn Ramenskoye	11

Group 3

Group 3 included 15 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 7 April 2024 to 3 November 2024.^[20] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Dynamo Vladivostok	28	20	3	5	42	17	+25	63	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Kosmos Dolgoprudny	28	16	6	6	45	23	+22	54
3	Kompozit Pavlovsky Posad[a]	28	16	6	6	59	40	+19	54
4	Salyut Belgorod	28	13	9	6	49	34	+15	48
5	Spartak Tambov	28	12	8	8	37	28	+9	44
6	Khimki-M	28	13	5	10	37	34	+3	44
7	Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk[b]	28	12	6	10	29	24	+5	42	Dissolved after the season
8	Zenit Penza	28	10	7	11	34	35	−1	37
9	Ryazan	28	9	8	11	33	31	+2	35
10	Oryol	28	10	5	13	34	32	+2	35
11	Strogino Moscow	28	9	4	15	24	38	−14	31
12	Arsenal-2 Tula	28	9	4	15	31	40	−9	31
13	SKA-Khabarovsk-2	28	7	6	15	38	50	−12	27
14	Kolomna[c]	28	5	6	17	22	56	−34	21
15	Kvant Obninsk[d]	28	4	7	17	19	51	−32	19

Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway
Notes:

1. Kompozit has been merged into FC Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo in 2025.^[23]
2. Sakhalin was dissolved at the end of the year.^[24]
3. FC Kolomna was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B.^[19]
4. FC Kvant Obnisnk was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B.^[19]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Andrei Chasovskikh	Spartak Tambov	12
	Nikolai Boyarkin	Salyut Belgorod
	Kirill Pomeshkin	Kosmos Dolgoprudny
	Oleg Trofimov	Khimki-M
5	Astemir Khashkulov	SKA-Khabarovsk-2	11

Group 4

Group 4 included 14 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 13 April 2024 to 19 October 2024.^[25] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Dynamo Kirov	26	17	6	3	52	19	+33	57	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Amkar Perm	26	16	7	3	35	15	+20	55
3	Rubin-2 Kazan	26	12	10	4	38	18	+20	46
4	Sokol Kazan	26	13	6	7	49	35	+14	45
5	Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	26	13	4	9	41	31	+10	43
6	Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara	26	10	10	6	34	28	+6	40
7	Ural-2 Yekaterinburg	26	9	8	9	31	24	+7	35
8	Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil	26	9	5	12	29	36	−7	32
9	Lada-Tolyatti[a]	26	8	5	13	30	36	−6	29	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
10	Dynamo Barnaul	26	7	6	13	29	43	−14	27
11	Nosta Novotroitsk	26	6	7	13	27	39	−12	25
12	Orenburg-2	26	6	7	13	26	44	−18	25
13	Akron-2 Tolyatti[b]	26	6	4	16	21	41	−20	22
14	Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod[c]	26	4	7	15	20	53	−33	19	Dissolved after the season

Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway
Notes:

1. Lada-Tolyatti dropped out of professional football for financial reasons.^[26]
2. Akron-2 was not relegated and was included in the 2025 Second League Division B.^[27]
3. Pari NN-2 was dissolved by the parent club at the conclusion of the season.^[28]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ilya Yurchenko	Amkar Perm	13
	Daniil Motorin	Rubin-2 Kazan
3	Ilya Kozhukhar	Dynamo Kirov	12
4	Daniil Nagovitsin	Dynamo Kirov	11
5	Dmitry Usov	Orenburg-2	9