| Season: | 1947 |
| Dates: | Regional groups: 16 May – 17 September Final group: 28 September – 14 October |
| Nextseason: | 1948 |
The 1947 Vtoraya Gruppa of the Soviet football championship was the 8th season in the 2nd tier football competitions in the Soviet Union.
The number of participating teams almost tripled compared to the last season and increased again from 26 to 67 which were split into six groups. There were created three groups for the Russian SFSR, one for the Ukrainian SSR, one group of Transcaucasian union republics and one group for the Central Asian union republics. The smaller republics of Baltics along with Belarus competed in of the groups designated for the Russian SFSR, known as the Central Group, while the Moldavian representative took part along with Ukrainian teams. In this championship participated at least one team from almost all of the union republics of the Soviet Union except for the Karelo-Finnish SSR. The Karelo-Finish teams really struggled placing dead last in preceding republican qualification tournament.
Six group winners qualified for the Final Group which determined the season's winner.
Lokomotiv Moscow won the championship in the Vtoraya Gruppa.
Many teams were promoted to the league that took part in republican competitions of the 1946 season. With asterisk identified teams that did not take part in the 1946 season last year.
The zone was formed from the 5 teams of the 1946 Vtoraya Gruppa season competing in the Southern Zone and top-8 of the 1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR. Only instead of Spartak Kyiv, there was admitted Moldavian representative Dynamo Kishenev (possibly based on Spartak Kishenev).
The final stage was conducting in Moscow September 28 – October 14. Participants played on stadiums Dynamo and Stalinets.
| Number | Union republics | Team(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | FC Lokomotiv Moscow, MVO Moscow, VMS Moscow, FC Trudovye Rezervy Moscow, FC Burevestnik Moscow, DO Leningrad, FC Metro Moscow, FC Spartak Leningrad, FC Pischevik Moscow, FC Dzerzhinets Leningrad, FC Sudostroitel Leningrad FC Torpedo Gorky, FC Dinamo Saratov, FC Zenit Izhevsk, FC Kirkizh Plant Kovrov, FC Torpedo Ulyanovsk, FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Dinamo Kazan, FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk, FC Kalinin Plant Kaliningrad, FC Torpedo Yaroslavl, FC Traktor Kuibyshev, FC Krylia Sovetov Ufa, FC Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk, ODO Novosibirsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Molotov, FC Dinamo Chelyabinsk, ODO Sverdlovsk, FC Dzerzhinets Nizhniy Tagil, FC Dinamo Sverdlovsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Omsk, FC Avangard Sverdlovsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Novosibirsk, FC Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu | ||
| 12 | FC Lokomotiv Kharkov, FC Shakhter Stalino, FC Pischevik Odessa, FC Stal Dnepropetrovsk, ODO Kiev, FC Spartak Lvov, FC Spartak Kherson, FC Spartak Uzhgorod, FC Dzerzhinets Kharkov, FC Sudostroitel Nikolaev, FC Dinamo Voroshilovgrad, FC Bolshevik Zaporozhye | ||
| 3 | ODO Tbilisi, FC Lokomotiv Tbilisi, FC Krylia Sovetov Tbilisi | ||
| 3 | FC Dinamo Tashkent, ODO Tashkent, FC Spartak Tashkent | ||
| 2 | FC Neftianik Baku, FC Dinamo Baku | ||
| 2 | FC Dinamo Yerevan, FC Spartak Yerevan | ||
| 2 | FC Dinamo Alma-Ata, FC Spartak Alma-Ata | ||
| 2 | FC Dinamo Frunze, FC Zenit Frunze | ||
| 1 | FC Dinamo Riga | ||
| 1 | FC Kalev Tallinn | ||
| 1 | DO Minsk | ||
| 1 | FC Dinamo Vilnius | ||
| 1 | FC Dinamo Kishinev | ||
| 1 | FC Dinamo Stalinabad | ||
| 1 | FC Lokomotiv Ashkhabat |