Soviet Class A Second Group Explained

Soviet Class A Second Group
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Country:	Soviet Union
Founded:	1963
Folded:	1970
Promotion:	Soviet Class A First Group
Relegation:	Soviet Class B
Levels:	Level 2 & 3
Champions:	Metalurh Zaporizhia Avtomobilist Nalchik

The Soviet Class A Second Group (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу (Класс А. Вторая группа), Soviet football championship (Class A Second Group)) was the second and for a season third highest division of Soviet football, below the Soviet Class A First Group. The league was formed in 1963 by splitting away from the Class A and forcing the Class B of the Soviet football championship to downgrade to the third tier.

In 1970 the Soviet Class A was expanded even further adding additional tier to the top and downgrading the Soviet Class A Second Group to the third tier. In 1971 it was replaced with the Soviet Second League.

Winners

Second tier

Season	Winner		Runners-up	Third

1963	Shinnik Yaroslavl		Torpedo Gorkiy	Trud Voronezh

1964	Subgroup 1	FC Avanhard Kharkiv	FC Chornomorets Odessa	Žalgiris Vilnius
	Subgroup 2	SCA Odessa	FC Shakhter Karaganda	Lokomotiv Moscow

	Final	Lokomotiv Moscow	SCA Odessa	Pakhtakor Tashkent

1965	Subgroup 1	FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo	FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk	FC Avanhard Kharkiv
	Subgroup 2	FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	FC Zorya Luhansk	Žalgiris Vilnius

	Final	Ararat Yerevan	Kairat Alma-Aty	Avanhard Kharkiv

1966	Subgroup 1	Žalgiris Vilnius	FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo	FC Kuban Krasnodar
	Subgroup 2	FC Zorya Luhansk	SKA Kyiv	SKA Lviv
	Subgroup 3	FC Politodel	FC Shakhter Karaganda	FC Stroitel Ufa

	Final	Zorya Luhansk	Žalgiris Vilnius	Politotdel Tashkent

1967	Subgroup 1	FC Dinamo Kirovabad	FK Daugava Riga	FC Kuban Krasnodar
	Subgroup 2	SKA Kyiv	FC Metalurh Zaporizhia	SKA Lviv
	Subgroup 3	FC Shakhter Karaganda	FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk	FC Alga Frunze

	Final	Dynamo Kirovabad	Shakhtar Karaganda	SKA Kyiv

1968	Subgroup 1	FC Karpaty Lviv	SKA Kyiv	SKA Odessa
	Subgroup 2	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv	FC Metalist Kharkiv	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
	Subgroup 3	FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk	FC Spartak Ordzhonikidze	FC Dynamo Makhachkala
	Subgroup 4	FC Irtysh Omsk	FC Kuzbass Kemerovo	SKA Khabarovsk

	Final	Uralmash Sverdlovsk	Karpaty Lviv	Irtysh Omsk

1969	Subgroup 1	FC Spartak Ordzhonikidze	FC Dynamo Leningrad	FC Kuban Krasnodar
	Subgroup 2	SKA Khabarovsk	FC Rubin Kazan	FC Metallurg Kuibyshev
	Subgroup 3	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	SKA Kyiv	FC Metalist Kharkiv
	Subgroup 4	Žalgiris Vilnius	FC Shakhter Karaganda	FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi

	Final	Spartak Ordzhonikidze	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	SKA Khabarovsk

Third tier

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Season	Zone	Winner	Runners-up	Third	Notes
1970	Ukraine	Metalurh Zaporizhia	Tavriya Simferopol	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr	three zones; top two teams of second and third groups played in final Russian group
1970	Russia	Avtomobilist Nalchik	Spartak Yoshkar‑Ola	Kuzbass Kemerevo