The 1946 Soviet football championship was the 14th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 8th among teams of sports societies and factories. Among the worst teams of the top tier before World War II, CDKA Moscow won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the first time.
The defending champions Dinamo once again had a slow start in the first half and were not able to regain their champion pace in the second half as well, almost placing third behind clubmates from Tbilisi.
In 1946 there was reintroduced the third tier for a season, status of which is not determined and data for which is sparse.
Honours CompetitionWinnerRunner-up1st GroupCDKA Moscow (1)Dinamo Moscow2nd GroupVVS MoscowPischevik MoscowSoviet CupSpartak Moscow (3*)Dinamo Tbilisi
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition
Soviet Union football championship
First Group
Second Group Subgroup South
Subgroup East All Russia
Tier final [Sep 18, 22]
VVS Moskva 3-2 1-0 Pishchevik Moskva
Top goalscorers
1st Group Aleksandr Ponomarev (Torpedo Moscow) – 18 goals
2nd Group Aleksandr Surianinov (Torpedo Gorkiy) – 14 goals
Republican level The top level of republican football competitions was proclaimed as the "Third Group" (Tretia Gruppa). There were two separate winners one from the Russian SFSR and the other from the union republics.
The competition was organized in eight Russian SFSR groups, four Ukrainian SSR groups, Belarusian SSR tournament, Transcaucasian tournament, and Central Asian tournament. The football competition in the "Third Group" involved participation of some 118 football teams.
Third Group (Russian SFSR) West Dinamo Riga (1945 Latvian Champions) Kirovskiy Zavod Leningrad DO Leningrad Spartak Kaunas (1945 Lithuanian Champions) Dinamo Tallinn (1945 Estonian Champions) Stroitel Moscow Energiya Moscow Aeroflot Moscow DO Petrozavodsk
Center Zenit Kaliningrad Zenit Kovrov Spartak Podolsk Traktor Liubetsy Zenit Tula Krasnoye Znamia Orekhovo-Zuyevo Dinamo Yaroslavl Spartak Kursk Dinamo Oryol Dinamo Voronezh
Lower Volga Dinamo Saratov ODO Kuybyshev Pischevik Astrakhan Lokomotiv Kuybyshev Dinamo Stalingrad ZiV Kuybyshev Traktor Penza
Volga Krylia Sovetov Gorkiy Zenit Izhevsk Krasnaya Etna Gorkiy Azot Dzerzhinsk Spartak Ivanovo Dinamo Gorkiy Dinamo Kazan DO Gorkiy
Ural Dinamo Sverdlovsk Dinamo Cheliabinsk Dinamo Molotov Dzerzhinets Nizhniy Tagil Lokomotiv Tyumen Metallurg Vostoka Pervouralsk Tsvetmet Kamensk-Uralsky Metallurg Vostoka Lysva
Sibir Krylia Sovetov Novosibirsk Krylia Sovetov Omsk Traktor Barnaul Dinamo Novosibirsk Metallurg Vostoka Stalinsk-Kuznetsk Traktor Novosibirsk Ugolschik Prokopyevsk Azot Kemerovo
Northern Caucasus Dinamo Krasnodar Dinamo Stavropol Traktor Taganrog SKA Rostov-na-Donu Dinamo Nalchik Dinamo Groznyi Dinamo Makhachkala Dinamo Dzaudzhikau
Far East Dinamo Khabarovsk Dinamo Komsomolsk-na-Amure DOF Vladivostok DKA Khabarovsk Dinamo Chita Lokomotiv Irkutsk
Play-offs for the Final group Dinamo Saratov v Dinamo Krasnodar 2–0 Krylia Sovetov Gorkiy v Dinamo Sverdlovsk 1–1, 1–3 Krylia Sovetov Novosibirsk v Dinamo Khabarovsk 2–1
Final Dinamo Riga Zenit Kaliningrad Dinamo Sverdlovsk Dinamo Saratov Krylia Sovetov Novosibirsk
Third Group (Union republics) Ukraine
Spartak Uzhgorod DO Kiev Dzerzhinets Kharkiv Bolshevik Zaporozhye
Belarus DO Minsk Spartak Bobruisk Lokomotiv Grodno Dinamo-2 Minsk Lokomotiv Gomel DO Baranovichi Lokomotiv Brest
Caucasus Krylia Sovetov Tbilisi Dinamo Sukhumi Dinamo Batumi Dinamo Kutaisi Dinamo Baku Spartak Yerevan Dinamo Leninakan
Central Asia Dinamo Alma-Ata DO Tashkent Lokomotiv Ashkhabad Dinamo Stalinabad Dinamo Frunze
Final Spartak Uzhgorod Krylia Sovetov Tbilisi Dinamo Alma-Ata DO Minsk DO Kiev
Republican level Football competitions of union republics1946 год. regional-football.ru
Football championships Azerbaijan SSR – Lokomotiv Baku Armenian SSR – Dinamo Yerevan Belarusian SSR – ODO Minsk (see Football Championship of the Belarusian SSR) Estonian SSR – Baltflot Tallinn (see 1946 Estonian SSR Football Championship) Georgian SSR – Dinamo Kutaisi Kazakh SSR – Dinamo Alma-Ata Karelo-Finish SSR – unknown Kirgiz SSR – none Latvian SSR – Daugava Liepaja Lithuanian SSR – Dinamo Kaunas Moldavian SSR – Dinamo Kishinev Russian SFSR – unknown Tajik SSR – none Turkmen SSR – Dinamo Ashkhabad Uzbek SSR – none Ukrainian SSR – Spartak Uzhhorod (see Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR)
Football cups Azerbaijan SSR – none Armenian SSR – Dinamo Yerevan Belarusian SSR – ODO Minsk Estonian SSR – Dinamo Tallinn Georgian SSR – Burevestnik Tbilisi Kazakh SSR – none Karelo-Finish SSR – unknown Kirgiz SSR – none Latvian SSR – Daugava Liepaja Lithuanian SSR – none Moldavian SSR – Dinamo Kishinev Russian SFSR – Dinamo Sverdlovsk Tajik SSR – Dinamo Stalinabad Turkmen SSR – Dinamo Ashkhabad Uzbek SSR – DO Tashkent Ukrainian SSR – FC Dynamo Kyiv (see 1946 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR)
References
External links 1946 Soviet football championship. RSSSF