The 1954 Class B Soviet Football Championship was the 5th season in the Soviet second tier competitions since its reorganization in 1950 and the 14th season since the establishment of the tier in 1936.
FC Shakhter Stalino won the championship by placing 1st in the 6 teams final group and a home turf advantage.
Teams Relegated teams One team was relegated from the 1953 Soviet Class A (top tier). Spartak Vilnius – (return after a year absence)
Promoted teams Spartak Uzhgorod – return after a two-year absence, Champion of the 1953 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR ODO Lvov – return after a four-year absence DOF Sevastopol – debut Energia Saratov – return after a four-year absence (previously as Dinamo Saratov) Neftianik Krasnodar – return after a four-year absence (previously as Dinamo Krasnodar) Krylia Sovetov Voronezh – debut, Runner-up of the 1953 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR Shakhter Mosbass – debut Pischevik Minsk – debut
Reinstated teams ODO Kiev ODO Tbilisi ODO Sverdlovsk
Renamed teams Dinamo Yerevan → Spartak Yerevan Voronezh → Krylia Sovetov Voronezh
First stage Zone I
Number of teams by republics Number Union republics Team(s)4FC Avangard Chelyabinsk, FC Avangard Sverdlovsk, ODO Sverdlovsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Molotov1FC Spartak Yerevan1FC Neftianik Baku1ODO Tbilisi1FC Lokomotiv Alma-Ata1FC Gornyak Leninabad1FC Spartak Asgabat1FC Spartak Tashkent1FC Iskra Frunze
Zone II
Number of teams by republics Number Union republics Team(s)7FC Zenit Kaliningrad, FC Khimik Moscow, FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Spartak Kalinin, FC Energia Saratov, FC Krylia Sovetov Voronezh, FC Shakhter Mosbass1FC Spartak Vilnius1FC Pischevik Minsk1FC Daugava Riga1FC Kalev Tallinn1FC Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk
Zone III
Number of teams by republics Number Union republics Team(s)8FC Shakhter Stalino, FC Metallurg Zaporozhye, FC Metallurg Dnepropetrovsk, FC Spartak Uzhgorod, FC Metallurg Odessa, ODO Lvov, DOF Sevastopol, ODO Kiev3FC Torpedo Rostov-na-Donu, FC Torpedo Stalingrad, FC Neftianik Krasnodar1FC Burevestnik Kishinev
Final stage
Played in Stalino See also 1954 Soviet Class A 1954 Soviet Cup
References
1954 at rsssf.com Чемпионат СССР 1954. footballfacts.ru