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
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.
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.
For 1950 MVO Moscow was stationed in city of Kalinin.
Turkmen SSR
Karelo-Finnish SSR
Lithuanian SSR
Belarusian SSR
Kazakh SSR
Moldavian SSR
Uzbek SSR
Estonian SSR
Tajik SSR
Kyrgyz SSR
Number of teams by republics Number Union republics Team(s)4VMS MoscowFC Torpedo Gorky, FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk1FC Lokomotiv Petrozavodsk1FC Spartak Vilnius1DO Tashkent1FC Burevestnik Kishinev1FC Pischevik Odessa1FC Dinamo Alma-Ata1FC Trudovye Rezervy Frunze1FC Kalev Tallinn1FC Spartak Asgabat1FC Bolshevik Stalinobad
See also 1950 Soviet Class A 1950 Soviet Cup
References
1950 at rsssf.com 1950 Ukrainian championship at "Luhansk Our Football" (in Russian)