The 1937 Gruppa B was third season of the Soviet (second tier) professional football competitions.
Unlike the previous season that was split into two halves, this one was played as a double round-robin among seven teams. The tournament was won by Spartak Leningrad that according to pre-season regulation was to be promoted to the Gruppa A for 1938 season, however later arrangements for the next season were changed and all participants except for the last placed Dinamo Kazan gained promotion.
Also, after only playing 3 of its scheduled games and winning only one of them, CSKA Moscow was transferred to Gruppa A mid-season.Game protocol of CSKA Moscow – Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu. fc-dynamo.ru.
Teams No teams were relegated to the Gruppa B.
Promoted One team was promoted from the 1936 Gruppa V fall tournament. Dinamo Kazan – (debut)
League standings
Top scorers RankScorerTeamGoals(Pen.)1Viktor SmaginStalinets Leningrad72Arkadiy AmirjanovTemp Baku6Vladimir KuskovSpartak Leningrad64Sergei IvanovStalinets Moscow5Timofei RudovDinamo Rostov-na-Donu5Yefim SemyonovTorpedo Moscow57Ivan BibkoDinamo Rostov-na-Donu4Ilya BizyukovSpartak Leningrad4Veniamin SarkisovTemp Baku4Konstantin SazonovStalinets Leningrad4Aleksei ShumovStalinets Moscow4
See also 1937 Soviet Cup 1937 Group A (Soviet football championship) 1937 Group V (Soviet football championship) 1937 Group G (Soviet football championship) 1937 groups D and cities of Far East
References
External links 1937 Gruppa B. RSSSF 1937 Gruppa B. Luhansk Our Football. (in Russian)