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1952 in Soviet football

The 1952 Soviet football championship was the 20th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 14th among teams of sports societies and factories. Spartak Moscow won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the fourth time and the first after World War II, the Spartak's main rivals Dinamo again had a difficult season struggling only for the second.

Football in the Soviet Union
Season1952
Men's football
Class ASpartak Moscow
Class BLokomotiv Kharkov
Soviet CupTorpedo Moscow
← 1951 Soviet Union 1953 →

The defending champions CDSA were expelled from the league for the poor performance of the USSR national football team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. The Class A started late mid-summer consisting only of a single round-robin with almost all games played in Moscow.

Honours

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Competition Winner Runner-up
Class A Spartak Moscow (4) Dinamo Kiev
Class B Lokomotiv Kharkov Spartak Vilnius
Soviet Cup Torpedo Moscow (2) Spartak Moscow

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Soviet Union football championship

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Main article: 1952 Soviet Top League

Class A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Spartak Moscow (C) 13 9 2 2 26 12 +14 20 League champions
2   Dynamo Kiev 13 7 3 3 26 14 +12 17
3   Dynamo Moscow 13 7 3 3 24 14 +10 17
4   Dynamo Tbilisi 13 5 6 2 19 12 +7 16
5   Dynamo Leningrad 13 5 5 3 17 17 0 15
6   Kalinin 13 5 4 4 19 19 0 14
7   Zenit Leningrad 13 6 2 5 20 21 −1 14
8   Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev 13 5 3 5 16 14 +2 13
9   Lokomotiv Moscow 13 5 2 6 19 21 −2 12
10   Torpedo Moscow 13 3 6 4 11 15 −4 12
11   VVS Moscow (R) 13 2 6 5 11 14 −3 10 Relegation to Class B
12   Daugava Riga (R) 13 2 5 6 10 14 −4 9
13   Shakhtyor Stalino (R) 13 1 6 6 14 26 −12 8
14   Dinamo Minsk (R) 13 1 3 9 10 29 −19 5
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Class B (second stage)

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Further information: 1952 Soviet Class B

For places 1-9

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Pos Rep Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion
1 UKR Lokomotiv Kharkov 16 9 3 4 21 11 +10 21 Promoted
2 LTU Spartak Vilnius 16 6 7 3 23 20 +3 19
3 GEO DO Tbilisi 16 6 5 5 24 15 +9 17[a]
4 RUS Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo 16 8 1 7 24 25 −1 17
5 RUS VMS Leningrad[b] 16 6 4 6 19 15 +4 16[c]
6 RUS Torpedo Gorkiy 16 4 8 4 16 19 −3 16[c]
7 AZE Neftyanik Baku 16 5 5 6 20 21 −1 15
8 MDA Burevestnik Kishinev 16 6 3 7 21 27 −6 15
9 KAZ Dinamo Alma-Ata 16 1 6 9 13 28 −15 8
Source: rsssf.com
Notes:
  1. ^ +
  2. ^ VMS Moskva relocated to Leningrad.
  3. ^ a b -

For places 10-18

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Played in Rostov-na-Donu

Pos Rep Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
10 ARM Dinamo Yerevan 8 7 0 1 18 3 +15 14
11 RUS Torpedo Stalingrad 8 5 1 2 16 7 +9 11
12 RUS DO Sverdlovsk 8 4 1 3 14 8 +6 9[a]
13 RUS Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk 8 4 1 3 18 16 +2 9
14 UKR DO Kiev (O, R) 8 4 0 4 13 9 +4 8[a] Relegation play-off
15 EST Kalev Tallinn 8 4 0 4 10 12 −2 8
16 UZB DO Tashkent 8 3 1 4 10 17 −7 7
17 TJK Dinamo Stalinabad 8 3 0 5 11 20 −9 6
18 TKM Spartak Ashkhabad 8 0 0 8 2 20 −18 0
Source: rsssf.com
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b +

Relegation play-off

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To the play-off qualified the champion of the 1952 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and the worst Ukrainian team of masters of the 1952 Soviet Class B.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
ODO Kiev 6–1 Metallurg Zaporozhie 3–0 3–1

Top goalscorers

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Class A

References

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