1936 in Soviet football

Football in the Soviet Union
Season1936
Men's football
Group ADinamo Moscow (spring)
Spartak Moscow (fall)
Group BDinamo Tbilisi (spring)
Serp i Molot Moscow (fall)
Soviet CupLokomotiv Moscow
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The 1936 Soviet football championship was the 6th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union split into two halves. It was also the inaugural competition for the Soviet league format (round-robin) transitioning from the cities football competition format that was grandfathered from the Imperial Russian sports events.

FC Dynamo Moscow won the championship in spring and FC Spartak Moscow won it in fall. Between both championships in the summer there was held the first Soviet Cup competition.

In the fall the defending champions Dynamo were going neck-in-neck with their main rivals Spartak, but just a round away from the finish line they tied with weaker Dynamo Leningrad which costed them the title.

Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad avoided relegation from the Group A in spring, while CDKA Moscow avoided relegation in fall.

Honours

Competition Winner (spring) Runner-up (spring) Winner (fall) Runner-up (fall)
Group A Dinamo Moscow (1*) Dinamo Kiev Spartak Moscow (1) Dinamo Moscow
Group B Dinamo Tbilisi ZiS Moscow Serp i Molot Moscow Temp Baku
Group V Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu Stroiteli Baku Dinamo Kazan Spartak Kharkov
Group G KhTZ Kharkov Krylia Sovetov Moscow KhTZ Kharkov Stal Dnepropetrovsk
Soviet Cup Winner Runner-up
Lokomotiv Moscow (1*) Dinamo Tbilisi

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

Soviet Cup

Main article: 1936 Soviet Cup

Lokomotiv Moscow beat Dinamo Tbilisi 2–0 in the Soviet Cup final. Goals were scored by Aleksei Sokolov and Viktor Lavrov. The Georgian side was coached by a foreign head coach out of France Jules Limbeck.

Soviet Union spring football championship

Main article: 1936 Soviet Top League

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Republic
1 Dynamo Moscow 6 6 0 0 22 5 4.400 18  Russian SFSR
2 Dynamo Kiev 6 4 0 2 18 11 1.636 14  Ukrainian SSR
3 Spartak Moscow 6 3 1 2 12 7 1.714 13  Russian SFSR
4 CDKA Moscow 6 2 1 3 13 18 0.722 11  Russian SFSR
5 Lokomotiv Moscow 6 2 0 4 7 11 0.636 10  Russian SFSR
6 Dynamo Leningrad 6 1 1 4 5 12 0.417 9  Russian SFSR
7 Krasnaya Zarya Leningrad 6 1 1 4 8 21 0.381 9  Russian SFSR
Source: [citation needed]
Rules for classification: Classification is done by points and then goal ratio.

Group B

Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Promotion or relegation
1  Georgian SSR Dinamo Tbilisi (P) 6 5 1 0 19 4 4.750 17 Promoted
2  Russian SFSR Zavod imeni Stalina Moscow 6 3 1 2 10 7 1.429 13
3  Russian SFSR Stalinets Leningrad 6 2 3 1 9 9 1.000 13
4  Russian SFSR Stalinets Moscow 6 1 4 1 8 9 0.889 12
5  Russian SFSR Serp i Molot Moscow 6 1 2 3 7 8 0.875 10
6  Russian SFSR Spartak Leningrad 6 1 2 3 8 17 0.471 10
7  Ukrainian SSR Dinamo Dnepropetrovsk (R) 6 1 1 4 7 14 0.500 9
8  Ukrainian SSR Dinamo Kharkov (R) 0 - - - - - — 0 Withdrew - results annulled
Source: [citation needed]
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Group V

Pos Rep Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Promotion or relegation
1  Russian SFSR Dynamo Rostov-na-Donu (P) 7 5 1 1 19 12 1.583 18 Promoted
2  Azerbaijan SSR Stroiteli Baku (P) 7 4 1 2 18 10 1.800 16
3  Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Odessa 7 3 2 2 15 9 1.667 15
4  Russian SFSR Dynamo Kazan 7 3 2 2 14 15 0.933 15
5  Georgian SSR Lokomotivi Tbilisi 7 2 3 2 14 11 1.273 14
6  Ukrainian SSR Spartak Kharkiv 7 1 3 3 8 16 0.500 12
7  Ukrainian SSR Ugolschiki Staline 7 2 1 4 14 24 0.583 12
8  Ukrainian SSR Lokomotyv Kyiv (R) 7 1 1 5 7 12 0.583 10 Relegated
Source: [citation needed]
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Group G

Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1  Ukrainian SSR FC Traktor Plant Kharkiv 4 3 1 0 9 3 3.000 11
2  Russian SFSR FC Krylya Sovetov Moscow 4 2 1 1 5 4 1.250 9
3  Russian SFSR FC Dynamo Piatigorsk 4 2 0 2 11 8 1.375 8
4  Ukrainian SSR FC Stal Dnipropetrovsk 4 2 0 2 3 5 0.600 8
5  Russian SFSR FC Molotov Automobile Plant Gorky 4 0 0 4 5 13 0.385 3[a]
Source: [citation needed]
Notes:
  1. ^ The Gorky's Club was docked a point for a failure to play a scheduled game against the Dnipropetrovsk's club.

Top goalscorers

Group A

Group B

Soviet Union fall football championship

Main article: 1936 Soviet Top League

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Republic
1 Spartak Moscow (C) 7 4 2 1 19 10 1.900 17  Russian SFSR
2 Dynamo Moscow 7 3 3 1 21 12 1.750 16  Russian SFSR
3 Dynamo Tbilisi 7 3 3 1 14 9 1.556 16  Transcaucasian SFSR
4 Lokomotiv Moscow[a] 7 4 0 3 18 14 1.286 15  Russian SFSR
5 Krasnaya Zarya Leningrad 7 3 0 4 13 18 0.722 13  Russian SFSR
6 Dynamo Kiev 7 1 3 3 16 19 0.842 12  Ukrainian SSR
7 Dynamo Leningrad 7 1 3 3 7 15 0.467 12  Russian SFSR
8 CDKA Moscow[b] (R) 7 2 0 5 9 20 0.450 11  Russian SFSR
Source: [citation needed]
Rules for classification: Classification is done by points and then goal ratio.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Lokomoyiv Moscow beat Dinamo Tbilisi in the Cup final 2:0. The first Soviet Cup edition took place exactly between the spring and the fall parts of 1936 seasons.
  2. ^ CDKA Moscow was relegated to the Group B (second tier) for the next season, however, soon after playing only 3 games in the 1937 season, the team was returned back to the top tier for the next 1937 season.

Group B

Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Promotion or relegation
1  Russian SFSR Serp i Molot Moscow (P) 7 6 0 1 25 6 4.167 19 Promoted
2  Azerbaijan SSR Temp Baku 7 5 1 1 16 7 2.286 18
3  Russian SFSR Stalinets Moscow 7 4 1 2 13 10 1.300 16
4  Russian SFSR Torpedo Moscow 7 4 0 3 11 7 1.571 15
5  Russian SFSR Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu 7 3 0 4 13 18 0.722 13
6  Russian SFSR Stalinets Leningrad 7 2 1 4 6 13 0.462 12
7  Russian SFSR Spartak Leningrad 6 1 2 3 8 13 0.615 9[a]
8  Ukrainian SSR Selmash Kharkov (R) 7 0 1 6 6 24 0.250 8 Relegated
Source: [citation needed]
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ 1 point deducted?

Group V

Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1  Russian SFSR Dynamo Kazan (P) 7 5 1 1 18 9 2.000 18
2  Ukrainian SSR Spartak Kharkiv 7 4 2 1 15 11 1.364 17
3  Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk 7 4 0 3 14 14 1.000 15
4  Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Odessa 7 3 1 3 9 7 1.286 13[a]
5  Georgian SSR Lokomotivi Tbilisi 7 3 0 4 14 15 0.933 13
6  Ukrainian SSR Ugolschiki Staline 7 3 0 4 11 14 0.786 13
7  Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kharkiv 7 1 3 3 6 14 0.429 12
8  Russian SFSR Dynamo Pyatigorsk (R) 7 1 1 5 8 11 0.727 7[b]
Source: [citation needed]
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ −1 point
  2. ^ −3 points

Group G

Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1  Ukrainian SSR FC Traktor Plant Kharkiv 5 3 1 1 9 6 1.500 12
2  Ukrainian SSR FC Stal Dnipropetrovsk 5 2 1 2 13 10 1.300 10
3  Ukrainian SSR FC Lokomotyv Kyiv 5 1 3 1 7 6 1.167 10
4  Russian SFSR FC Dynamo Gorky 5 2 1 2 5 6 0.833 10
5  Russian SFSR FC Traktor Stalingrad 5 2 1 2 5 9 0.556 10
6  Ukrainian SSR FC Frunze Plant Kostiantynivka[a] 5 1 1 3 3 5 0.600 7
Source: [citation needed]
Notes:
  1. ^ 1 point deducted?

Republican level

Football competitions of union republics[1]

  • No republican-level round-robin competitions were conducted in Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR
  • No republican-level cup competitions were conducted in Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Uzbek SSR
  • New union republics were established in 1936: Kazakh SSR and Kirgiz SSR
  • Transcaucasian SFSR was dissolved into its three constituent republics

Football championships

Football cups

References

  1. ^ 1936 год. regional-football.ru

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