1950 Soviet Class B
# 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.

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 | Promoted |
| 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 (O) | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 41 | 41 | 0 | 28 | Relegation play-off |
| 7 | RUS | Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk (R) | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 49 | 50 | −1 | 27 | Relegation play-off |
| 8 | UKR | Pishchevik Odessa (R) | 26 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 33 | 32 | +1 | 26 | Relegation play-off |
| 9 | KAZ | Dinamo Alma-Ata (O) | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 36 | 37 | −1 | 23 | Relegation play-off |
| 10 | KAR | Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk (O) | 26 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 27 | −11 | 22 | Relegation play-off |
| 11 | KGZ | Trudoviye Rezervy Frunze (O) | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 50 | −19 | 20 | Relegation play-off |
| 12 | EST | Kalev Tallinn (O) | 26 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 25 | 39 | −14 | 17 | Relegation play-off |
| 13 | TKM | Spartak Ashkhabad (O) | 26 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 19 | 61 | −42 | 17 | Relegation play-off |
| 14 | TJK | Bolshevik Stalinabad (O) | 26 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 19 | 37 | −18 | 16 | Relegation play-off |

* ↑ Burevestnik Kishinev was called Dinamo.
* ↑ Trudoviye Rezervy Frunze was called Zenit.
* ↑ Spartak Ashkhabad was called Lokomotiv.

## 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. | 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. | 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. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Spartak Ashkhabat | 6–4 | ODO Ashkhabat | 4–3 | 2–1 |

### Karelo-Finnish SSR

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk | 4–1 | ODO Petrozavodsk | 3–1 | 1–0 |

### Lithuanian SSR

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Spartak Vilnius | 7–3 | Inkaras Kaunas | 5–1 | 2–2 |

### Belarusian SSR

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Dinamo Minsk | 0–2 | ODO Minsk | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Dinamo Minsk | 2–1 | ODO Minsk | 1–1 | 1–0 |

### Kazakh SSR

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

### Moldavian SSR

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Burevestnik Kishinev | 10–3 | Krasnoye Znamia Kishinev | 7–2 | 3–1 |

### Uzbek SSR

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| ODO Tashkent | 4–0 | Spartak Tashkent | 2–0 | 2–0 |

### Estonian SSR

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Kalev Tallinn | 10–2 | Dinamo Tallinn | 3–0 | 7–2 |

### Tajik SSR

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Bolshevik Stalinabad | w/o | Dinamo Stalinabad | | |

### Kyrgyz SSR

| Team 1 | Agg. | 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 MoscowFC 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 |
