The 2024 Russian Second League Division B was the second season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 30 March 2024 and ended on 16 November 2024. There was a three-week break in July after half of the games had been played.
Overview In the summer of 2023, the Russian Second League was reorganized and split into two tiers - third-tier Russian Second League Division A and fourth-tier Russian Second League Division B. Division B also switched to the spring-to-autumn, March-to-November schedule. 2023 was a transitional half-year season. 2024 season was the first full-length season.
Division B is split into 4 groups, mostly based on geographical location. At the end of the year, four winners of their groups were promoted into the Division A Second Stage Silver Group. Four bottom teams from the Division A First Stage Silver Group were relegated to 2025 Division B.
Team movement At the end of the 2023 season, Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk, Khimik Dzerzhinsk, Kaluga and Torpedo Miass were promoted to Division A as winners of their Division B groups. Forte Taganrog, Amkar Perm, Chertanovo Moscow and Salyut Belgorod were relegated to Division B from Division A.
Torpedo-2 and Peresvet Domodedovo were relegated from Division B. SKA Rostov-on-Don and Zorkiy Krasnogorsk voluntarily dropped out. Sakhalinets Moscow and Khimik-Avgust Vurnary dissolved their professional squads. Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk failed licensing for the season.
Elektron Veliky Novgorod moved to Nizhny Novgorod and was renamed to Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
Pobeda Khasavyurt, Dynamo Stavropol, Kolomna, Orenburg-2 and Akron-2 Tolyatti, which finished the 2023 season in relegation spots, were kept in the league because of the other teams dropping out.
New teams were Angusht Nazran, Lada-Tolyatti, Nart Cherkessk, Oryol, Sokol Kazan and Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (promoted from the Russian Amateur Football League), Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara, Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-2 and Spartak-2 Moscow (farm clubs of the Russian Premier League teams).
Group 1 Group 1 included 17 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 30 March 2024 to 16 November 2024. The opening games that were initially scheduled for 23 March 2024 were postponed due to the Crocus City Hall attack. The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were qualified to be relegated from Division B.
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1Magomed AbakarovForte Taganrog 17Vadim ZubavlenkoRubin Yalta 3Aleksandr OlenevLegion Makhachkala 14Alan KhachirovSpartak Nalchik 5Makhach AbdulkhamidovDynamo Stavropol 12 6Islam TlupovSpartak Nalchik 11Bekkhan AliyevAngusht Nazran 8Anar PanayevLegion Makhachkala 10Gadzhimurad AbdullayevDruzhba MaykopStanislav RubanStroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
Group 2 Group 2 included 16 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 6 April 2024 to 3 November 2024. The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1Vitaly KarpenkoSpartak-2 Moscow 18 2Anton BetyuzhnovDynamo Vologda 12Denis BokovDynamo-2 MoscowArtyom BykovskySpartak-2 Moscow 5Stanislav BasyrovLeon Saturn Ramenskoye 11
Group 3 Group 3 included 15 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 7 April 2024 to 3 November 2024. The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1Andrei ChasovskikhSpartak Tambov 12Nikolai BoyarkinSalyut BelgorodKirill PomeshkinKosmos DolgoprudnyOleg TrofimovKhimki-M 5Astemir KhashkulovSKA-Khabarovsk-2 11
Group 4 Group 4 included 14 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 13 April 2024 to 19 October 2024. The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1Ilya YurchenkoAmkar Perm 13Daniil MotorinRubin-2 Kazan 3Ilya KozhukharDynamo Kirov 12 4Daniil NagovitsinDynamo Kirov 11 5Dmitry UsovOrenburg-2 9
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