1952 in Soviet football

20th season of competitive football in the Soviet Union

Football in the Soviet UnionSeason| 1952

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Men's football
Class A| Spartak Moscow
Class B| Lokomotiv Kharkov
Soviet Cup| Torpedo Moscow
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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.

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

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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

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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

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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
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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

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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

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ODO Kiev | 6–1  | Metallurg Zaporozhie | 3–0  | 3–1

### Top goalscorers

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Class A

* Andrei Zazroyev (Dinamo Kiev) – 11 goals

## References

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## External links

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* 1952 Soviet football championship. RSSSF

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