1940 in Soviet football

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Football in the Soviet Union
Season1940
Men's football
Group ADinamo Moscow
Group BKrasnaya Zaria Leningrad
Soviet Cupcancelled
All-Union Committee Cupcancelled
← 1939 Soviet Union 1941 →

The 1940 Soviet football championship was the 10th seasons of competitive

football in the Soviet Union. Dinamo Moscow
won the championship becoming the winner of Group A for the third time.

Honours

Competition Winner Runner-up
Group A Dinamo Moscow (3) Dinamo Tbilisi
Group B Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad Spartak Leningrad

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Soviet Union football championship

Group A

Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1  Russian SFSR Dynamo Moscow 24 16 4 4 74 30 2.467 36
2  Georgian SSR
Dynamo Tbilisi
24 15 4 5 56 30 1.867 34
3  Russian SFSR Spartak Moscow 24 13 5 6 54 35 1.543 31
4  Russian SFSR CDKA Moscow 24 10 9 5 46 35 1.314 29
5  Russian SFSR
Dynamo Leningrad
24 11 5 8 47 44 1.068 27
6  Russian SFSR Lokomotiv Moscow 24 10 5 9 36 52 0.692 25
7  Russian SFSR Traktor Stalingrad 24 8 7 9 38 37 1.027 23
8  Ukrainian SSR
Kiev
24 6 9 9 32 49 0.653 21
9  Russian SFSR Krylia Sovetov Moscow 24 6 7 11 26 34 0.765 19
10  Russian SFSR
Zenit Leningrad
24 6 6 12 37 42 0.881 18
11  Russian SFSR Torpedo Moscow 24 6 6 12 36 50 0.720 18
12  Ukrainian SSR
Stalino
24 6 4 14 32 43 0.744 16
13  Russian SFSR Metallurg Moscow 24 5 5 14 37 70 0.529 15
14  Georgian SSR
Lokomotiv Tbilisi
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: rsssf.com

Group B

Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1  Russian SFSR
Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad[a]
(C, P)
26 15 5 6 54 36 1.500 35
2  Russian SFSR Spartak Leningrad (P) 26 13 8 5 46 29 1.586 34
3  Azerbaijan SSR Stroitel Baku 26 12 7 7 39 29 1.345 31
4  Ukrainian SSR Dinamo Kharkov 26 12 5 9 44 37 1.189 29
5  Ukrainian SSR
Pischevik Odessa
(P)
26 12 4 10 49 40 1.225 28
6  Byelorussian SSR Dinamo Minsk (P) 26 10 6 10 42 41 1.024 26
7  Ukrainian SSR Lokomotiv Kiev 26 11 4 11 33 34 0.971 26
8  Ukrainian SSR
Sudostroitel Nikolayev
26 9 8 9 25 31 0.806 26
9  Russian SFSR
Torpedo Gorkiy
26 8 9 9 44 47 0.936 25
10  Russian SFSR Burevestnik Moscow 26 10 5 11 28 31 0.903 25
11  Russian SFSR Avangard Leningrad[a] 26 12 1 13 40 51 0.784 25
12  Russian SFSR Pischevik Moscow 26 7 6 13 31 40 0.775 20
13  Ukrainian SSR Selmash Kharkov 26 6 5 15 41 53 0.774 17
14  Armenian SSR Spartak Yerevan 26 4 9 13 25 42 0.595 17
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad and Avangard Leningrad were merged with Zenit Leningrad (Gruppa A) for the next season.

Top goalscorers

Group A

Republican level

Football championships

Football cups

  • Azerbaijan SSR – Dinamo Baku
  • Armenian SSR – Dinamo Leninakan
  • Belarusian SSR – Dinamo Minsk
  • Estonian SSR – unknown
  • Georgian SSR – unknown
  • Kazakh SSR – Dinamo Alma-Ata
  • Karelo-Finish SSR – Kem
  • Kirgiz SSR – Spartak Frunze
  • Latvian SSR – unknown
  • Lithuanian SSR – unknown
  • Moldavian SSR – unknown
  • Russian SFSR – Osnova Ivanovo
  • Tajik SSR – Dinamo Stalinabad
  • Turkmen SSR – Dinamo Ashkhabad
  • Uzbek SSR – Dinamo Tashkent
  • Ukrainian SSR – FC Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk (see 1940 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR)

References

  1. ^ 1940 год. regional-football.ru

External links