City Championships of Russia and the USSR (Soviet Union) (original) (raw)

Tournaments between city selections for the championship title of theRussian Empire (1912-1914),the Russian SFSR (1920-1934) and theSoviet Union (1923-1935).
Not to be confused with the annual Inter-City Championshipheld on nine occasions between 1928 and 1936.

Palmares

Championship of the Russian Empire

Year Winners 1912 Sankt-Peterburg 1913 not awarded 1914 abandoned due to World War I

Number of Wins (1)

1 Sankt-Peterburg

Championship of the Russian SFSR

Year Winners 1920 Moskva 1924 Leningrad [qualifying tournament for Championship of the USSR] 1927 Moskva 1928 Moskva [part of the 1928 All-Union Spartakiad] 1931 Moskva 1932 Leningrad [qualifying tournament for Championship of the USSR] 1934 Voronezh

Number of Wins (7)

4 Moskva

2 Leningrad

1 Voronezh

Military Championship

Year Winners 1922 Moskva

NB: sometimes considered as a first ever USSR championship (although the USSR had not yet been formed at the time of the tournament)

Championship of the USSR

Year Winners 1923 Moskva 1924 Kharkov 1928 Moskva [part of the 1928 All-Union Spartakiad] 1931 Russian SFSR 1932 Moskva 1935 Moskva

Number of Wins (7; includes military championship 1922)

5 Moskva

1 Kharkov Russian SFSR

Championship of the Russian Empire 1912

The 1912 Russian Empire Football Championship is the first ever Russian football championship, held in 1912 under the auspices of the All-Russian Football Union. The tournament was supposed to consist of three stages (quarterfinals, semifinals and final) and teams from eight cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, Sevastopol, Nikolaev, Yuzovka) had planned to take part.

Quarterfinals [Sep 14] Kharkov +:- Odessa

Semifinals [Sep 16] Sankt-Peterburg +:- Kiev Kharkov 1-6 Moskva [N.N. (pen) 1-1; Boris Manin (2, scored 0-1), Harry Newman (2), D. Lann(pen), Andrey Akimov]

Final [Sep 23] Moskva 2-2 Sankt-Peterburg [aet] [Boris Manin 45, Harry Newman 52; Andrey Suvorov 35, Ivan Egorov 75]

Final Replay [Oct 7] Moskva 1-4 Sankt-Peterburg [D. Lann 15; Alexander Monroe 6, Vasily Butusov 59, Broer Wiberg 77, Petr Sokolov 82pen]

Championship of the Russian Empire 1913

The tournament consisted of several stages. First, a "Northern Championship" and a "Southern Championship" were played, for which the teams of Moskva, Bogorodsk, Sankt-Peterburg, Lodz (North) and Yuzovka, Rostov-na-Donu, Kharkov, Kiev, Kherson, Sevastopol, Odessa, Nikolaev (South) announced their participation; the winners of the two regional tournaments were to meet in the championship final.

By decision of the All-Russian Football Union a restriction was introduced to the maximum number of foreign football players on the field as part of one team: three; however, nationals of other states who permanently lived and worked in Russia for at least two years were not considered foreigners.

Northern Championship

Semifinals [Aug 15] Bogorodsk 0-10 Moskva [N.N. 20, William Charnock, Vasily Zhitarev (3), other scorers not known] [Sep 16] Lodz -:+ Sankt-Peterburg [Sankt-Peterburg refused to travel to Lodz, not agreeing with the offer of 300 rubles to pay for travel expenses; Lodz were considered to have forfeited]

Final [Oct 6] Sankt-Peterburg 3-0 Moskva [aet] [Sergey Filippov 98, Vasily Butusov 112, Nikolay Detlov 116]

Southern Championship

Quarterfinals [Jul 28] Yuzovka 5-1 Rostov-na-Donu [Aug 15] Kiev -:+ Kharkov [not played due to an unexpected postponement of the match date by Kiev, who were considered to have forfeited] Kherson +:- Sevastopol [not played; Sevastopol team were considered to have forfeited] [Aug 18] Odessa +:- Nikolaev [Odessa refused to play in Nikolaev citing the behaviour of local fans, who habitually threw stones at players of visiting teams during games; the All-Russian Football Union then moved the game to Odessa, but Nikolaev refused to play there, not agreeing with this decision, and were considered to have forfeited]

Semifinals [Sep 1] Kharkov 4-0 Yuzovka [declared unofficial, see below] [John Winning (3), Sergey Retivov] Odessa 10-0 Kherson [Prokopov (5), Ernest Jacobs, Zlochevsky (2), Chorba, Gizer]

Final [Oct 13] Odessa 2-0 Kharkov [declared unofficial, see below] [Aleksandr Zlochevsky 13, 65]

Russian Championship Final

[Oct 20] Odessa 4-2 Sankt-Peterburg [declared unofficial, see below] [Ernest Jacobs 29, 68pen, Townend 48, Grigory Bogemsky 51; Vasily Butusov 45, 80]

NB: after the match, Sankt-Peterburg filed a protest demanding Odessa to be punished for using too many foreigners (four, according to Sankt-Peterburg); the protest was rejected, but as part of the investigations the federation annulled the technical result of the match between Kharkov and Kiev (Aug 15) and consequently also ruled the southern semifinal between Kharkov and Yuzovka (Sep 1) and the southern final between Odessa and Kharkov were to be considered as friendlies, as well as the all-Russian final on Oct 20; the main verdict was to withhold the title.

Championship of the Russian Empire 1914

After the scandal that ended the previous tournament, a significant change was made to the regulations of the championship: now the number of foreigners in the teams was not limited, but all of them had to be "permanent residents of the locality".

The set-up of tournament was analogous to the 1913 edition. First, the "Northern Championship" and the "Southern Championship" were to be played out. It is reliably known that the teams of Rzhev, Torzhok, Orekhovo-Zuevo and Moskva entered the Northern Championship, and played in the first round, but it is not certain whether any other teams (presumably at least Sankt-Peterburg) planned to participate. The Southern Championship bracket was divided into western and eastern regions. Kishinev, Kherson, Elisavetgrad, Nikolaev, Kiev, Chernigov and Odessa entered in the western region, while Rostov-na-Donu, Yuzovka, Simferopol, Sevastopol and Kharkov were to play in the eastern region.

Northern Championship

First Round [Jun 29] Rzhev 2-3 Torzhok Orekhovo-Zuevo 0-6 Moskva

Southern Championship - Western Region

NB: Kiev and Chernigov bye to second round; Odessa bye to fourth round

First Round Kishinev - Kherson Elisavetgrad - Nikolaev

Second Round Kiev - Chernigov Kishinev/Kherson - Elisavetgrad/Nikolaev

Third Round between second round winners

Fourth Round Odessa - third round winners

Southern Championship - Eastern Region

NB: Kharkov bye to third round

First Round Simferopol - Sevastopol Rostov-na-Donu - Yuzovka

Second Round between first round winners

Third Round Kharkov - second round winners

NB: tournament abandoned due to outbreak WW I.

Championship of the Russian SFSR 1920

Tournament played in Moscow as part of the All-Russian pre-Olympic tournament in honour of the 2nd Congress of the Third International. In addition to the hosts, six teams took part in the competition: two from Yaroslavl (military - team of the Vsevobuch of the Yaroslavl Military District and civilian - "Mars"), as well as one each from Samara, Tver (Morozov Sports Club), Smolensk (Smolensk Sports Club) and the Baltic Fleet.

Quarterfinals [Jul 19] Samara 3-2 Smolensk Moskva 10-0 Baltisky Flot Tver 5-0 Yaroslavl VO Yaroslavl bye

Semifinals [Jul 21] Moskva 10-0 Samara Tver 5-0 Yaroslavl

Final [Jul 25] Moskva 2-1 Tver [Konstantin Blinkov (1-0), Nikolay Nikitin 88; Aleksandr Rozanov (1-1)]

Military Championship 1922

The tournament was organized in Moscow by the Main Directorate of Vsevobuch. Since the tournament was held by Vsevobuch the subjects of the competition were the military districts into which the territory unofficially called "Soviet Russia" was divided at that time, which included not only the RSFSR itself, but also the formally independent Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian military district), BSSR (Belarusian Military District), ZSFSR (Transcaucasian Military District). Because of this, a number of football historians suggest that this tournament be considered a USSR championship (although the USSR had not yet been formed at the time of the tournament).

[Sep 9] Moskva 16-0 Kaluga [declared unofficial, see below] [Fedor Selin (3), Nikolay Starostin (3), Viktor Prokofiev (2), Pavel Kanunnikov (5), Sergey Sysoev (2), Sergey Dimitriev-Moro] [Sep 12] Kharkov 2-1 Kazan [declared unofficial, see below] [Aleksandr Shpakovsky, Ivan Natarov - Abakumov] [Sep 13] Tver 3-2 Baltflot [declared unofficial, see below] [Steklov, P. Kozlov, A. Kozlov; Kushel, Ivanov]

The tournament began before the gathering of all participants and the drawing up of regulations; several games were played. When, finally, the composition of the teams became clear, it turned out that before that the teams that had participated in the tournament were not exactly the ones whose participation was expected. In the end, the results of the games above were cancelled and the tournament started anew.

Participants (4): Moskovsky VO (represented by Moskva) Ukrainsky VO (represented by Kharkov) Privolzhsky VO (represented by mixed team from Kazan, Samara and Saratov) Uralsky VO (represented by Perm)

Semifinals [Sep 14] Kharkov 2-1 Privolzhye [aet] [Nikolay Kazakov 86, Adam Bem 119; Emelyanov 80] [Sep 15] Moskva 17-0 Perm [Viktor Prokofiev 5, Pavel Kanunnikov 8, 13, 15, 56, Pavel Nogotkov 9, Fedor Selin 22, 32, 38, 48, 65, Nikolay Starostin 26, 50, 53, 58, Konstantin Zhiboyedov 70, 75]

Final [Sep 17] Moskva 8-0 Kharkov [Pavel Kanunnikov 21, 26, 32, 70, Konstantin Zhiboyedov 37, Pavel Nogotkov 58, Fedor Selin 63, 81]

Championship of the USSR 1923

Tournament played in Moscow as part of the All-Union Physical Education Festival.

15 teams from three of the four union republics that formed the USSR took part:

Kharkov (team of the Southern Railway) Tbilisi (OKA - Separate Red Banner Red Army) Moskva Voronezh (team of the South Eastern Railway) Rzhev (team of the Moscow-Belarusian-Baltic Railway) Ufa (KSMB - Communist Youth Union of Bashkiria) Ivanovo Yaroslavl Kolomna Tambov Nizhny Novgorod Kovrov Kaluga Irkutsk Gomel

Preliminary Round [Sep 3] Tbilisi 3-1 Voronezh
[B.Kulvets 23, Nikita Khromov 37, M. Makagonov 72; Deryuzhkin 56] Moskva 7-0 Ivanovo
[Aleksey Shaposhnikov 9, Fedor Selin 15, 18, Nikolay Troitsky 23, Sergey Troitsky 28, Taras Grigoriev 37, 42]

Round 1 [Sep 3] Irkutsk 15-0 Ufa
[Anufriev 8, 20, 23, 44, 67, 71, Vyatkin 15, Donskoy 31, Nilov 37, 83, Druzhinin 39, 49, Klimov 45, Krasilnikov 60, 86] Yaroslavl 2-1 Gomel
[V. Petrov 16, Tikhomirov 81; M. Kovalev 36] [Sep 4] Kolomna 6-0 Rzhev
[B. Dementyev 21, 38, 65, Afanasiev 43, Bryzgalov 56, 83] Tambov 3-2 Nizhny Novgorod [A. Popov 49, M. Anisimov 62, I. Popov 78; Polzunov 24, 65] [Sep 5] Kovrov 3-2 Kaluga
[Osipov 48, Petrov 57, Kositsky 72; Eremetsky 26 Fedorov 70] Moskva 6-0 Tbilisi
[Aleksey Shaposhnikov 21, 63, Nikolay Troitsky 38, Sergey Troitsky 58, Fedor Selin 74, Sergey Bukhteev 82] Kharkov bye Tula bye

Quarterfinals [Sep 5] Irkutsk 1-0 Yaroslavl
[Gradusov 78og] Kolomna 2-0 Tambov
[B. Dementyev 33, 69] Kharkov 0-0 Tula [aet] [Sep 6] Moskva 4-0 Kovrov
[Pavel Savostyanov 22, Aleksandr Kholin 34, Konstantin Blinkov 55, 71]

Quarterfinal Replay [Sep 6] Kharkov 3-0 Tula
[V. Butenko 26, Shcherban 63, Putsenko 74]

Semifinals [Sep 7] Kharkov 5-1 Kolomna
[Shcherban 22, V.Butenko 43, 63, Putsenko 65, Trotsenko 80; B.Dementyev 12] Moskva 15-0 Irkutsk
[Aleksey Shaposhnikov 8, 21, 30, 78, Fedor Selin 13, 18, 39, 42, 84, Nikolay Troitsky 49, 52, Sergey Troitsky 58, 63, 64, Taras Grigoriev 73]

Final [Sep 9] Moskva 3-0 Kharkov
[Sergey Sysoev 4, Fedor Selin 8, Taras Grigoriev 24]

Consolation Tournament

Quarterfinals [Sep 5] Kaluga +:- Ivanovo
[Sep 6] Nizhny Novgorod 4-2 Tver
[Sep 7] Tula +:- Ufa
[Sep 8] Voronezh 3-2 Gomel

Semifinals [Sep 8] Nizhny Novgorod 2-1 Kaluga
Voronezh +:- Tula

Final [Sep 9] Nizhny Novgorod 3-2 Voronezh

Championship of the Russian SFSR 1924

In the qualifying tournament, the entire territory of the RSFSR was divided into regions: Ural, Siberia, North, Volga, Northern Caucasus/South-East, North-West, Centre, Autonomous Republics/Eastern Regions, Autonomous Republics/Western Regions

Qualifying Tournament

Ural

Semifinals Izhevsk n/p Perm
Chelyabinsk n/p Ekaterinburg

NB: competition did not take place

Siberia

Quarterfinals Krasnoyarsk +:- Irkutsk
Novonikolaevsk n/p Tomsk
Semipalatinsk +:- Barnaul
Omsk 7-0 Tyumen

Semifinals Omsk 4-2 Semipalatinsk
Krasnoyarsk n/p winners Novonikolaevsk/Tomsk

NB: competition not completed

North

Quarterfinals Vyatka +:- Cherepovets
Veliky Ustyug unk Ust Sysolsk

Semifinals Vyatka +:- winners Veliky Ustyug/Ust Sysolsk Vologda +:- Arkhangelsk

Final [Jul 13] Vyatka 4-0 Vologda

NB: Vyatka qualified for final tournament

Volga

Preliminary Round Saratov +:- Uralsk

Quarterfinals: Samara 1-0 Ulyanovsk
Nizhny Novgorod +:- Vladimir
Tsaritsin 2-0 Astrakhan
Markstadt +:- Saratov

NB: competition not completed

South-East/Northern Caucasus

Northern Caucasus Vladikavkaz +:- Temir-Khan-Shura

NB: Vladikavkaz to inter-district final

South-East Semifinals Krasnodar n/p Stavropol

South-East Final Rostov-na-Donu n/p winners semifinal

NB: competition did not take place; Rostov-na-Donu to inter-district final

Inter-District Final Rostov-na-Donu +:- Vladikavkaz

NB: Rostov-na-Donu qualified for final tournament

North-West

Round 1 Yaroslavl 4-1 Kostroma [aet] Leningrad 3-1 Tver

Semifinals Leningrad +:- Yaroslavl
Novgorod +:- Pskov

Final [Jul 15] Leningrad 9-1 Novgorod

NB: Leningrad qualified for final tournament

Centre

Round 1 Moskva +:- Tula
Kursk +:- Orel
Kaluga +:- Bryansk
Voronezh +:- Tambov
Penza +:- Ryazan

Quarterfinals Moskva 7-0 Ivanovo-Voznesensk Kaluga bt Kursk
Voronezh 3-1 Penza
Smolensk bye

Semifinals Moskva +:- Smolensk
Kaluga +:- Voronezh

Final: [Jul 27] Moskva 10-0 Kaluga

NB: Moskva qualified for final tournament

Autonomous Republics and Eastern Regions

Round 1 Kazan +:- Ufa
Cheboksary unk Krasnokokshaysk

Semifinals Kazan bt Cheboksary/Krasnokokshaysk Tashkent 5-1 Orenburg
NB: Kazan presumably won their semifinal by walkover

Final [Jul 1] Kazan 4-1 Tashkent

NB: Kazanb qualified for final tournament

Autonomous Republics and Western Regions

Petrozavodsk qualified for final tournament as only participants

Final Tournament

Played in Moskva and Leningrad.

Quarterfinals [Aug 6] Leningrad +:- Petrozavodsk
Moskva 4-2 Rostov-na-Donu
Kazan bye Vyatka bye

Semifinals: [Aug 17] Leningrad +:- Vyatka
Moskva 5-1 Kazan
[Lazar Sandlori 73, (2-1), (3-1), (4-1), (5-1); Mironychev 20]

Final [Aug 24] Leningrad 4-4 Moskva [aet] [Petr Antipov (1-0), Eduard Emmerich 30pen, 31pen, Mikhail Butusov (4-3); Nikolay Starostin( 1-1), 80, Petr Artemiev (1-2), Konstantin Blinkov (3-3)]

Final Replay [Aug 31] Leningrad 1-0 Moskva
[Petr Grigoriev 39]

NB: Leningrad qualified for Championship of the USSR 1924

Championship of the USSR 1924

Played in Moscow as part of the II All-Union Physical Education Festival.

The winners of the republican football championships - the Byelorussian SSR, the ZSFSR (Transcaucasian SFSR), the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR took part:

Leningrad (winners 1924 RSFSR championship) Kharkov (winners 1924 Ukrainian SSR championship) Zakavkazye XI (players from Baku, Batumi and Tbilisi; represented ZSFSR whose championship was not finished) Minsk (winners 1924 Byelorussian SSR championship; did not show)

Semifinals [Sep 3]
Leningrad +:- Minsk
Kharkov 4-0 Zakavkazye
[Nikolay Kazakov 18, Yakov Alferov 40, Ivan Natarov 65, Vladimir Fomin 73]

Final [Sep 6] Kharkov 2-1 Leningrad
[Nikolay Kazakov 32, Yakov Alferov 65; Dimitri Rodionov 75]

Championship of the Russian SFSR 1927

Played as part of the All-Russian Physical Education Festival.

The All-Russian holiday of physical education was preceded by regional holidays, based on the results of which regional teams were formed. The territory of the RSFSR was divided into regions: North, North-West, Middle Volga, Central Industrial Region, Lower Volga, Central Black Earth, Moskva, Centre, West, Northern Caucasus, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Far East, Leningrad, Ural, Crimea

Qualifying Tournament

North

Semifinal Arkhangelsk 5-0 Murmansk

Final [Jul 31] Arkhangelsk 3-1 Vologda

NB: Arkhangelsk qualified for final tournament

North-West

[Jul 19] Novgorod 2-1 Cherepovets

NB: Novgorod qualified for final tournament

Middle Volga

Quarterfinals Samara +:- Ufa
Vyatka 6-0 Izhevsk
Kazan 5-1 Penza
Cheboksary 5-4 Ulyanovsk

Semifinals 5th-8th Place Ufa +:- Izhevsk
Penza +:- Ulyanovsk

Semifinals Samara 3-2 Vyatka
Kazan 5-1 Cheboksary

Fifth Place Match Ufa 3-1 Penza

Third Place Match Vyatka +:- Cheboksary

Final [Jul 16] Samara 3-1 Kazan [aet]

NB: Middle Volga ("Srednyaya Volga") represented at final tournament by a mixed team from Samara, Kazan and Vyatka

Central Industrial Region

Preliminary Round Yaroslavl 6-4 Kostroma

Semifinals Nizhny Novgorod 6-1 Ivanovo
Vladimir 10-3 Yaroslavl

Final [Jul 10] Vladimir 5-1 Nizhny Novgorod

NB: Vladimir provincial team (based on Kovrov team, reinforced by players from Vladimir, Murom and other cities) qualified for final tournament

Lower Volga

NB: no competition; Stalingrad selected to represent the region ("Nizhnyaya Volga") at final tournament

Central Black Earth

Semifinals Kursk 2-1 Orel
Tambov bt Voronezh

Final [Jul 30] Kursk 3-2 Tambov

NB: Kursk qualified for final tournament

Moskva

[Jul 31] Tver 1-7 Moskva

NB: Moskva qualified for final tournament

Centre

NB: no competition; region ("Tsentralny") not represented at final tournament

West

[Jul 10] Smolensk 4-1 Bryansk

NB: region ("Zapadny") represented at final tournament by a mixed team from Smolensk, Bryansk and Yartsevo

Northern Caucasus

NB: no competition; a mixed team from Rostov-na-Donu and Taganrog was formed to represent the region ("Severny Kavkaz") at final tournament

Siberia

Round 1 [Aug 7] Irkutsk 5-1 Tomsk
Minusinsk 2-1 Biysk
Omsk 3-1 Rutsovsk
Novosibirsk 9-0 Kamen

Quarterfinals [Aug 7] Krasnoyarsk 6-1 Barnaul
Kuznetsk 6-1 Achinsk
[Aug 8] Irkutsk 3-0 Minusinsk
Omsk 5-1 Novosibirsk

Semifinals [Aug 8] Krasnoyarsk 3-0 Kuznetsk
[Aug 10] Irkutsk 1-0 Omsk

Final [Aug 12] Irkutsk 3-3 Krasnoyarsk [aet]

Final Replay [Aug 13] Irkutsk +:- Krasnoyarsk

NB: no team to represent the region ("Sibir") entered final tournament

Kazakhstan

Orenburg 4-1 Frunze
Frunze 1-0 Aktyubinsk

NB: a mixed team from Orenburg and Aktyubinsk was formed to represent the region ("Kazakskaya ASSR") at final tournament

Far East

NB: no competition; a team was formed to represent the region ("Dalny Vostok") at final tournament

Leningrad

NB: no competition; Leningrad selected to represent the region at final tournament

Ural

Quarterfinals Sverdlovsk 5-2 Chelyabinsk
Troitsk 4-1 Zlatoust
Sarapul 3-1 Verkhnekamsk
Tagil 3-3 Kungur

Quarterfinal Replay Tagil abd Kungur [abandoned at 2-1]

Quarterfinal Second Replay Tagil 5-4 Kungur

Semifinals Sverdlovsk 8-1 Troitsk
Sarapul 6-0 Tagil

Final Sarapul 3-2 Sverdlovsk

NB: Ural region represented at final tournament by Perm, reinforced by players from Sverdlovsk, Nevyansk and Shadrinsk

Crimea

NB: Feodosiya and Eupatoria eliminated in preliminary round

Final Stage Sim Sev Ker 1.Simferopol 2 1 1 0 4- 3 3 xxx 3-2 1-1 2.Sevastopol 2 1 0 1 6- 4 2 xxx 4-1 3.Kerch 2 0 1 1 2- 5 1 xxx

NB: Simferopol qualified for final tournament

Final Tournament

Round 1 [Aug 6] Severny Kavkaz 4-2 Simferopol
[Gushchin 65, A. Serlin (2-2), Nosov (3-2), I. Fesenko (4-2); N.N. (0-1), N.N. (0-2)] Zapadny 0-0 Leningrad
[Aug 7] Vladimir 3-8 Moskva
[A. Petrov (1-2); Taras Grigoriev 1; other scorers not known] Stalingrad 0-1 Srednyaya Volga [Aug 17] Kazakskaya ASSR 4-1 Perm
[Aug 18] Novgorod 4-0 Arkhangelsk
Kursk +:- Tsentralny
Dalny Vostok +:- Sibir

Round 1 Replay Zapadny +:- Leningrad

Quarterfinals [Aug 20] Moskva +:- Kursk
Severny Kavkaz 2-1 Srednyaya Volga Kazakskaya ASSR +:- Dalny Vostok
Zapadny 6-4 Novgorod

Semifinals [Aug 23] Moskva 4-2 Severny Kavkaz
[Moskva scorers not known; A. Serlin 1-1, Gushchin 40] Zapadny 8-0 Kazakskaya ASSR

Seventh Place Match Kursk +:- Dalny Vostok

Fifth Place Match Srednyaya Volga +:- Novgorod

Third Place Match Severny Kavkaz +:- Kazakskaya ASSR

Final [Aug 27] Moskva 15-0 Zapadny
[Nikolay Starostin (4), Sergey Ivanov (4), Konstantin Blinkov (3), Aleksandr Kholin (2), Fedor Selin, Sergey Egorov]

Championship of the Russian SFSR 1928

Final stage played in Moscow as part of the All-Union Spartakiad.

Qualifying Tournament

Moskva

NB: no competition; Moskva selected to represent the region at final tournament

Leningrad

NB: no competition; Leningrad selected to represent the region at final tournament

Autonomous Republics and Regions

Quarterfinals Tatarskaya ASSR 4-0 Chuvaskaya ASSR Kazakskaya ASSR 5-0 Votskaya AO

Semifinals Tatarskaya ASSR 9-1 Mariskaya AO Kazakskaya ASSR 2-0 Bashkirskaya ASSR

Final [Aug 4] Tatarskaya ASSR 5-1 Kazakskaya ASSR

NB: region represented at final tournament by Kazan reinforced by one player from the Kazakh ASSR

Volga

Quarterfinals Ulyanovsk 4-0 Orenburg
Saratov 5-1 Astrakhan
Stalingrad 4-0 Penza
Samara bye

Semifinal 5th-7th Place Orenburg 6-1 Penza
Astrakhan bye

Semifinals Samara 2-1 Saratov
Stalingrad 2-0 Ulyanovsk

Fifth Place Match Orenburg 2-1 Astrakhan

Third Place Match Saratov +:- Ulyanovsk

Final [Aug 2] Samara abd Stalingrad [abandoned at 2-1 due to rain]

Final Replay [Aug 3] Samara 1-0 Stalingrad

NB: a mixed team from Samara, Stalingrad, Ulyanovsk, Saratov and Astrakhan was formed to represent the region ("Volga") at final tournament

Siberia

NB: no competition; Irkutsk reinforced by players from Omsk and Novosibirsk represent the region at final tournament

Central Agricultural Region

Quarterfinals Bryansk 2-1 Smolensk
Kaluga +:- Ryazan
Kursk 1-0 Orel
Voronezh 1-1 Tambov [Voronezh qualified on lots]

Semifinals Voronezh 3-0 Kursk
Bryansk 2-1 Kaluga

Final [Jul 22] Bryansk awd Voronezh [abandoned at 2-3 in 80'; awarded to Bryansk]

NB: region represented at final tournament by Bryansk reinforced by players from Smolensk

Central Industrial Region

Semifinals Kostroma 4-3 Nizhny Novgorod Ivanovo 3-1 Vladimir

Final [Jul 22] Ivanovo 5-0 Kostroma

NB: region represented at final tournament by Ivanovo reinforced by players from Yaroslavl, Tula and Nizhny Novgorod

Ural

[Aug 5] Ural 1-0 Vyatka

NB: region represented at final tournament by Vyatka reinforced by players from Perm and Sverdlovsk

Crimea

Preliminary Round Kerch 1-0 Feodosiya
Sevastopol 6-0 Dzhankoy
Simferopol 9-0 Eupatoria

Final Stage Sim Sev Ker 1.Simferopol 2 2 0 0 3- 1 4 xxx +:- 3-1 2.Sevastopol 2 1 0 1 3- 0 2 xxx 3-0 3.Kerch 2 0 0 2 1- 6 0 xxx

NB: a mixed team from Simferopol and Sevastopol was formed to represent the region ("Krym") at final tournament

Northern Caucasus

NB: no competition; a mixed team from Taganrog, Rostov, Adygea, Sulina and Armavir was formed to represent the region ("Severny Kavkaz") at final tournament

North

Semifinal Arkhangelsk 7-0 Veliky Ustyug
Vologda bye

Final [Aug 3] Arkhangelsk 1-0 Vologda

NB: a mixed team from Arkhangelsk and Vologda was formed to represent the region ("Sever") at final tournament

Far East

NB: no competition; a mixed team from Vladivostok and Khabarovsk was formed to represent the region ("Dalny Vostok") at final tournament

Final Tournament

Preliminary Round [Aug 15] Irkutsk 5-1 Ivanovo
[Kutin 23pen, 75, Burenin 46, Shcherbakov 57, 58; Kiselev 12] Volga 3-2 Krym [aet] [Kuzmichev 44, Shukher 68, Kruze 108; Dangulov 15, Serlin 25] Moskva 4-2 Severny Kavkaz
[Pavel Kanunnikov 5, Petr Isakov 21, 82, Vladimir Blinkov 42; Polyakov 8, Zevli 87pen] Leningrad 16-2 Vyatka
[Mikhail Butusov 8, 21, 30, 44, 56, 66, 75, 86, Grigory Arkhangelsky 15, 47, 60, 78, Boris Shelagin 25, 51, Petr Grigoriev 28, Vladimir Kuskov 54; A. Andronnikov 72, Shestakov 80]

Quarterfinals [Aug 17] Kazan 7-1 Sever
[Sapozhnikov 21, 53, Guttsayt 64, Fedoseev 76, 79, Vlasov 84, 88; Duletov 70] Dalny Vostok 2-1 Bryansk
[Vladivostokov 8, Bakalyar 41; Ustinov 12] Leningrad 6-1 Volga
[Vladimir Kuskov 13, Mikhail Butusov 24pen, 43pen, 48pen, Grigory Arkhangelsky 36, Konstantin Egorov 54; Kruze 27] Moskva 8-3 Irkutsk
[Fedor Selin 8, Vladimir Blinkov 23, 57, Aleksandr Kholin 37, 45, Kozin 39og, Nikolay Starostin 73, Petr Isakov 82; Kutin 10, Shcherbakov 22, Druzhinin 40pen]

Semifinals 9th-12th Place [Aug 17] Severny Kavkaz 7-1 Vyatka
[Treynis 5, Serlin 28, 46, Dangulov 31, Vasyukov 51, 86, Gushchin 82; Fadeev 10] Krym 3-1 Ivanovo
[Varavva 9, Urbansky 39, Polyakov 57; Masterov 17]

Semifinals 5th-8th Place [Aug 19] Irkutsk 4-1 Bryansk
[Kutin 21, 42, Shcherbakov 44, 67; Alekseev 38] Volga 5-1 Sever
[Kuzmichev 19, Korotkov 27, 59, Kruze 36, Shukher 44; Duletov 71]

Semifinals [Aug 19] Moskva 12-1 Dalny Vostok
[Nikolay Starostin 8, 47, 59, 83, Petr Isakov 12, 49, 87, Aleksandr Kholin 28, 57, Vladimir Blinkov 38, Nikolay Troitsky 65, Evgeny Nikishin 77; I. Ivanov 16] Leningrad 12-1 Kazan
[Aleksandr Artemyev 13, 20, 38, 49, 67, Andrey Murashov 18, 31, 72, Petr Grigoriev 41, 69, Boris Shelagin 43, Vladimir Kuskov 45; Sapozhnikov 58]

Ninth Place Match [Aug 19] Severny Kavkaz 2-1 Krym
[Kurabo 26, Dangulov 79; Polyakov 56]

Seventh Place Match [Aug 21] Sever 3-1 Bryansk
[Duletov 26, Kuznetsov 64, Tonshev 75; Petrov 59]

Fifth Place Match [Aug 20] Irkutsk 4-2 Volga
[Shcherbakov 7, 58, Kutin 23, Arkhipov 67; Kruze 37, Shukher 43]

Third Place Match [Aug 21] Kazan 5-3 Dalny Vostok
[Khrustalov 8, Sapozhnikov 23, 65, Guttsayt 37, Vlasov 85; I. Ivanov 31, Vladivostokov 77, Disevago 81]

Final [Aug 21] Moskva 5-3 Leningrad
[Nikolay Starostin 20, 35, Vladimir Blinkov 53, 65, Aleksandr Kholin 76; Mikhail Butusov 2, 82, Rushchinsky 84og]

Championship of the USSR 1928

Played in Moscow as part of the All-Union Spartakiad.

Like the 1928 All-Union Spartakiad itself, its football tournament was a very ambitious event for its time; in terms of the number of planned participants (23), the tournament was to become the largest international football competition in the world (one team more than at the 1924 Olympic tournament, although only six teams from abroad entered, two of which never showed).

National teams of the union republics were invited (at that time in the USSR, in addition to the RSFSR, there were five of them), as well as representative teams of twelve regions of the RSFSR. Numerous invitations were also sent to "working sports union" teams from various countries; eventually, four travelled for the tournament.

Teams of the Soviet Union republics (5):

Ukrainian SSR (also "Kharkov" - Kharkov team reinforced by one player from Odessa) Transcaucasian SFSR (also "Tbilisi" - Tbilisi team reinforced by players from Baku) Belarusian SSR (also "Gomel" - Gomel team reinforced by players from Minsk and Polotsk) Uzbek SSR (also "Tashkent" - Tashkent team reinforced by players from Fergana) Turkmen SSR (also "Ashgabat")

Regional teams from the RSFSR (12):

Bryansk Dalny Vostok Ivanovo Kazan Krym Leningrad Moskva
Sever
Severny Kavkaz
Sibir
Volga
Vyatka

Working sports union selections from abroad (4):

England Finland Switzerland Uruguay

NB: Austria and Germany were part of the draw of the original, annulled tournament, but did not show and were not part of the official event.

Original Tournament (annulled)

Preliminary Round (losers to consolation tournament) [Aug 11] Uruguay 3-1 Ivanovo
Transcaucasia 3-0 Vyatka
Ukraine 13-1 Sever
[Aleksandr Shpakovsky (2); other scorers not known] Sibir 4-2 Turkmenistan
Moskva 4-0 England
[Nikolay Starostin (2), Pavel Kanunnikov, Aleksandr Kholin] [Aug 12] Finland 4-0 Volga
[Aug 13] Leningrad 9-0 Uzbekistan
byes: Austria, Belarus, Bryansk, Dalny Vostok, Germany, Kazan, Krym, Severny Kavkaz, Switzerland

1/8 Finals [Aug 12] Krym +:- Germany
Severny Kavkaz 2-1 Belarus
[Aug 13] Ukraine 3-2 Uruguay
Finland 3-2 Sibir
Moskva 9-0 Kazan
[Nikolay Starostin (4); other scorers not known] Switzerland 7-1 Bryansk
[Khiss (2); other scorers not known] Dalny Vostok +:- Austria
[Aug 14] Leningrad n/p Transcaucasia

Consolation Tournament (places 17-23)

Round 1 [Aug 13] Ivanovo 4-0 Sever
Volga 6-0 Turkmenistan
Vyatka n/p Uzbekistan
England bye

Initially, the set-up did not distinguish the entrants by geographic or national characteristics, and all teams were supposed to compete in one general tournament according to the "Olympic system" (knock-out).

However, after the first three days of the Spartakiad, representatives of the teams of the Union republics demanded to separate the competion into a tournament for the Union republics (and foreign teams formally equated to them) and another for the regions of the RSFSR, as having a different political status.

The results of the already started tournament were cancelled and a new draw was held, now dividing the teams according to the specified criteria into two non-overlapping parts of the tournament grid. The first only contained teams from the RSFSR and is interpreted as the RSFSR championship; its winners met the winners of the second ("foreign") part in the final, where the titles of champions of the USSR (only for teams from the USSR) and winners of the Spartakiad were played out.

Union Republics and Foreign Teams

NB: 9 participants

Preliminary Round [Aug 15] Transcaucasia 2-2 Uzbekistan [aet] [Danielov 40og, Bodrov 44og; Aleksandr Adisman 69, Pijurin 72]

Preliminary Round Replay [Aug 16] Transcaucasia 5-1 Uzbekistan
[Nikolay Sorokin 16, 48, Grigory Pachulia 28, Vladimir Turkiya 42, N. Koyava 67; Aleksandr Adisman 53]

Quarterfinals [Aug 15] Finland 5-1 England
[Ronkanen 12, 63, Gronlund 17, 49, N.N. 5-1; Bellaptain 28pen] [Aug 17] Belarus 6-3 Switzerland
[Feoktistov 5, 25, Tikhomirov 24, 59, 77, Morozov 82; Khiss 22, 89, Goliat 53] Uruguay 3-0 Turkmenistan
[U. Villar 41, R. Fernandez 65, 78] [Aug 18] Ukraine 2-1 Transcaucasia
[Aleksandr Shpakovsky 51, Nikolay Kapustin 60pen; Nikolay Sorokin 26]

Semifinals 5th-8th Place [Aug 19] Uzbekistan 8-4 Switzerland [aet, Uzbekistan replaces Transcaucasia] [Pizhurin 12, 56, 108, Aleksandr Adisman 69, 106, 111, 113, Sizov 93; Goliat 8, Khiss 21, 37, Berger 97] Turkmenistan 4-2 England
[Kormashev 16, Frolov 40, Sergeev 52, 75; Bellaptain 43pen, Kobb 71]

Semifinals [Aug 19] Uruguay 3-1 Finland
[Lapera 44, R. Fernandez 47, Sevilla 48; Spiti 38] Ukraine 6-2 Belarus
[Evgeny Gubarev 18, Petr Mishchenko 47, 53, Aleksandr Shpakovsky 61, 75, 82; Morozov 29, Kochin 42]

Fifth Place Match [Aug 22] Uzbekistan 3-1 Turkmenistan
[Pizhurin 12, Aleksandr Adisman 36, Sizov 43; Frolov 27]

Third Place Match [Aug 22] Finland 2-1 Belarus
[Ronkanen 41, Gronlund 68; Tikhomirov 22]

Final [Aug 21] Ukraine 7-1 Uruguay
[Yakov Alferov 5, Petr Mishchenko 19, 80, Aleksandr Shpakovsky 35, 65, 84, Evgeny Gubarev 79; Sousa 9]

Championship of the Russian SFSR

NB: see full results above

Final [Aug 21] Moskva 5-3 Leningrad
[Nikolay Starostin 20, 35, Vladimir Blinkov 53, 65, Aleksandr Kholin 76; Mikhail Butusov 2, 82, Rushchinsky 84og]

Overall Final

Final [Aug 23] Moskva 1-0 Ukraine
[Nikolay Troitsky 61]

Championship of the Russian SFSR 1931

Played as part of the All-Union qualifying tournament for the World Workers Spartakiad (planned to start July 4 in Berlin) in honour of the 10th anniversary of the Red Sports International (KSI). In connection with the planned Spartakiad (which never took place due to a ban by the German authorities), the tournament had to be held before the start of the season, so teams in many Russian cities were simply not ready to host matches. Therefore, many Russian regions were unable to gather and enter their teams.

Participants: Moskva: Moskva Leningrad: Leningrad Northern Caucasus: Severny Kavkaz (mix from Rostov-na-Donu, Krasnodar and Taganrog) Crimea: Krimskaya ASSR (mix from Simferopol and Sevastopol) Karelia: Petrozavodsk Nizhny Novgorod: Nizhegorodskaya (mix from N. Novgorod, Sormovo, Dzherzinsk and Kanavino) Ural: Uralskaya (mix from Sverdlovsk, Perm and Motovilikhi) Ivanovo-Voznesensk: Ivanovo

Quarterfinals [May 19] Severny Kavkaz 5-0 Krimskaya ASSR
[May 23] Petrozavodsk 0-9 Leningrad
[May 24] Nizhegorodskaya 3-1 Uralskaya
[Meshcheryakov 17, Efimov 51, Nizov 51; N.N. 12] [May 25] Moskva 13-0 Ivanovo

Semifinals [May 29] Leningrad 17-0 Nizhegorodskaya Moskva 3-0 Severny Kavkaz
[Vasily Pavlov 17, 67, Sergey Ilyin 25]

Final [Jun 9] Leningrad 3-4 Moskva
[Mikhail Butusov 18, Petr Grigoriev 42, Pavel Batyrev 72pen; Vasily Pavlov 30, Sergey Ivanov 46, 56, 73]

Championship of the USSR 1931

The tournament was planned as an integral part of large-scale celebrations in honour of the 10th anniversary of the Red Sports International (KSI). Teams from the seven union republics that made up the USSR were supposed to take part in the tournament.

Russian SFSR (mixed team from Moskva and Leningrad) Turkmenistan SSR (Ashgabat) Uzbekistan SSR (Tashkent team reinforced by players from Kokand) Transcaucasian SFSR (mixed team from Baku, Erevan, Leninakan and Tiflis) Tajik SSR (Dushanbe) Ukrainian SSR Belarussian SSR - withdrew

Preliminary Round 1 [May 20] Uzbekistan 2-1 Tajikistan
NB: presumably Turkmenistan obtained a walkover against Belarus

Preliminary Round 2 [May 27] Turkmenistan 1-3 Uzbekistan

NB: Russia, Transcaucasia and Ukraine bye to semifinals

Semifinals [Jun 4] Russia 7-2 Uzbekistan
[Jun 10] Ukraine 0-3 Transcaucasia
[Ezhov 41, Vladimir Turkiya 63, V.Kostyukov 79]

Final [Jun 16] Russia 7-1 Transcaucasia
[Sergey Ivanov 41, 63, Petr Grigoriev 55, Vasily Pavlov 65, 71, 73, Sergey Ilyin 69; Grigory Pachulia 83pen]

Championship of the Russian SFSR 1932

Unlike previous tournaments, this time only city teams were allowed to participate.

Preliminary Round [Jul 24] Novosibirsk 12-1 Alma-Ata
[Jul 27] Pyatigorsk 6-0 Stalingrad

Round 1 [May 24] Smolensk 3-4 Leningrad [aet] Kazan 1-2 Sverdlovsk
Nizhny Novgorod 0-8 Moskva
[Jul 28] Voronezh 2-1 Kalinin
[Jul 30] Novosibirsk 0-5 Irkutsk
Pyatigorsk 5-1 Simferopol
Ivanovo bye Samara bye

Quarterfinals [Aug 1] Samara 2-1 Voronezh [aet] [Gudkov (pen) 1-0; other scorers not known] [Aug 6] Sverdlovsk 4-1 rkutsk
[Vazhenin 7, Fomichev 53, N.N. 60, N.N. 83; N.N. 50] [Aug 7] Pyatigorsk 1-5 Moskva
[Aug 12] Ivanovo 3-7 Leningrad

Semifinals [Aug 15] Moskva 12-0 Samara
[Nikolay Starostin (7); other scorers not known] [Aug 18] Sverdlovsk 0-4 Leningrad
[Mikhail Yakushin 9, Gavril Putilin 29, V.Osminkin 50, N.N. 63]

Final [Aug 26] Leningrad 3-2 Moskva
[Mikhail Butusov 23, Vladimir Kuskov 60, Evgeny Eliseev 75; Sergey Ilyin 15, Sergey Ivanov 55]

Championship of the USSR 1932

The two best teams from Russia, Ukraine and Transcaucasia, as well as the champions of Belarus and Uzbekistan were admitted to the tournament.

Quarterfinals [Aug 30] Moskva 6-1 Tbilisi
[Vladimir Stepanov 6, 68, Fedor Selin 11, Vasily Smirnov 42, Sergey Ilyin 46, Vasily Pavlov 49; Levan Abashidze 4] Minsk 0-4 Donbass
[I. Naumov 17, Viktor Shilovsky 33, Vasily Manov 61, Boris Terentyev 73] Leningrad 4-2 Baku
[Pavel Popov 18pen, Mikhail Butusov 58, Petr Dementyev 74, Evgeny Eliseev 87; Artashes Amirjanov 48, G. Malkin 49] Kharkov +:- Tashkent

Semifinals [Sep 3] Moskva 9-1 Donbass
[Vasily Pavlov 2, 67, Vladimir Stepanov 17, 28, 58, Nikolay Starostin 35, Vasily Smirnov 82, Sergey Ilyin 70, 74; Viktor Shilovsky 57pen] [Sep 5] Leningrad 4-3 Kharkov
[Petr Dementyev 31pen, Evgeny Eliseev 40, Vasily Butusov 53, 85; Sergey Kopeiko 7, Petr Parovyshnikov 62, Aleksandr Shpakovsky 89]

Final [Sep 7] Moskva 5-1 Leningrad
[Nikolay Starostin 14, Vasily Pavlov 39, Vasily Smirnov 47, 89, Sergey Ilyin 69; Vasily Toptalov 81pen]

Championship of the Russian SFSR 1934

Qualifying Tournament

Group 1

Semifinals Novosibirsk +:- Alma-Ata
Irkutsk +:- Khabarovsk

Final [Aug 17] Novosibirsk 3-3 Irkutsk [aet]

Final Replay Novosibirsk 1-1 Irkutsk [aet]

Final Second Replay [Aug 23] Novosibirsk 2-0 Irkutsk

Group 2

Semifinals Ivanovo +:- Smolensk
Arkhangelsk 3-2 Petrozavodsk

Final [Aug 18] Ivanovo 9-1 Arkhangelsk

Group 3

Semifinals Chelyabinsk 4-2 Ufa [aet] Sverdlovsk 4-0 Tyumen

Final [Aug 18] Sverdlovsk +:- Chelyabinsk [awarded to Sverdlovsk; originally 1-2, Chelyabinsk fielded Moskva players] Group 4

Semifinals Simferopol +:- Pyatigorsk
Voronezh 5-2 Rostov-na-Donu

Final [Aug 18] Voronezh 2-1 Simferopol

Group 5

Subgroup A Sam Sar Che Kaz 1.Samara 3 2 1 0 5- 2 8 xxx 2-0 1-1 2-1 2.Saratov 3 1 1 1 10- 8 6 xxx 6-2 4-4 3.Cheboksary 3 1 1 1 8-10 6 xxx 5-3 4.Kazan-2 3 0 1 2 8-11 4 xxx

Subgroup B Sta Kaz Eng Gor 1.Stalingrad 3 2 0 1 5- 0 7 xxx -:+ 5-0 +:- 2.Kazan 3 2 0 1 4- 4 7 xxx 2-3 2-1 3.Engels 3 1 0 2 3-13 5 xxx 0-6 4.Gorky 3 1 0 2 7- 2 4 xxx

Final Stalingrad 2-1 Samara

Final Tournament

One month before the start of the final tournament, the Supreme Council of Physical Culture (VSFK) of the USSR moved it from Gorky to Ivanovo.

Gorky, originally qualified as hosts, lost their place in the final stage and were replaced by Chelyabinsk, runners-up (after a protest) in group 3.

Stalingrad refused to participate in the final tournament and were replaced by Samara, runners-up in their group (5).

Moskva and Leningrad, who did not have to qualify, refused to participate.

Group A [Sep 24] Ivanovo 1-0 Sverdlovsk
[Boris Shchibrov (pen)] [Sep 25] Ivanovo 8-0 Novosibirsk
[Makar Goncharenko 63; other scorers not known] [Sep 27] Sverdlovsk 2-2 Novosibirsk
[N.N. 25, N.N. 54; N.N. 28, N.N. 1-2]

1.Ivanovo 2 2 0 0 9- 0 6 2.Sverdlovsk 2 0 1 1 2- 3 3 3.Novosibirsk 2 0 1 1 2-10 3

Group B [Sep 24] Voronezh 4-0 Samara
[N.N. 8pen, N.N. 22, N.N., N.N.] [Sep 26] Chelyabinsk 4-1 Samara
[N.N. (pen) 1-1, N.N. (pen) 2-1, N.N, N.N.; N.N. 20] Voronezh 3-0 Chelyabinsk
[Skoropulov 57, Nikolay Mikheev 83, N.N.]

1.Voronezh 2 2 0 0 7- 0 6 2.Chelyabinsk 2 1 0 1 4- 4 4 3.Samara 2 0 0 2 1- 8 2

Fifth Place Match [Sep 29] Samara 8-1 Novosibirsk

Third Place Match [Sep 30] Sverdlovsk 2-1 Chelyabinsk

Final [Sep 30] Ivanovo 0-5 Voronezh
[N.N. 12, A. Alekseev (0-2), 41, Nikolay Mikheev 48, N.N.-]

Championship of the USSR 1935

First Group

NB: served as "top level" tournament

Stage 1 ("Championship of the Four Cities"; played in Kiev)

[Jun 20] Kharkov 3-2 Moskva
[Valentin Liventsev 9, Petr Parovyshnikov 53pen, Anatoly Lesnoy 58; Sergey Ivanov 5, Mikhail Yakushin 75] Kiev 1-3 Leningrad
[Ivan Kuzmenko 75; Vladimir Kuskov 5, 86, Mikhail Butusov 80] [Jun 22] Kiev 2-1 Kharkov
[Makar Goncharenko 12, Viktor Shilovsky 70; Petr Parovyshnikov 30] Moskva 2-1 Leningrad
[Vasily Pavlov 6, Vasily Smirnov 85pen; Evgeny Nikishin 44pen] [Jun 24] Kiev 0-2 Moskva
[Mikhail Yakushin 6, Vasily Pavlov 35] Leningrad 4-1 Kharkov
[Mikhail Butusov 8, 31, 80, Vladimir Kuskov 20; Petr Parovyshnikov 36pen]

Stage 2 ("Ukraine & Transcaucasia"; played in Kharkov)

[Jul 6] Kharkov 2-2 Tbilisi
[Anatoly Lesnoy 6, Ivan Privalov 65; Akaky Kalichava 18, Ilya Panin 63] Baku 2-1 Kiev [abandoned due to rain; replayed Jul 10] [Viktor Smagin 5, 20; Nikolay Makhinya 65] [Jul 8] Kharkov 2-0 Baku [Petr Parovyshnikov 5(pen), Anatoly Lesnoy 59] Kiev 2-0 Tbilisi
[Makar Goncharenko 65, Viktor Shilovsky 74] [Jul 10] Baku 1-1 Kiev [replay Jul 6] [Viktor Pacevich 40pen; Makar Goncharenko 15]

Stage 3 ("Transcaucasia & Capitals"; played in Moscow and Leningrad)

[Jul 13] Moskva 11-2 Tbilisi
[Vasily Smirnov 4, 67, 78, Sergey Ilyin 15, 69, Vasily Pavlov 19, 77, 82, Mikhail Yakushin 29, 48, Aleksey Lapshin 73; Ilya Panin 13, Levan Abashidze 56] [Jul 15] Leningrad 0-2 Baku
[Viktor Smagin 78, Veniamin Sarkisov 90] [Jul 19] Leningrad 6-1 Tbilisi
[Petr Dementyev 10, 30, Nikolay Svetlov 13, Mikhail Butusov 40pen, 68, Vladimir Kuskov 47; Levan Abashidze 39] [Jul 22] Moskva 7-1 Baku
[Vasily Smirnov 25, 39, Aleksey Lapshin 27, Mikhail Yakushin 43, 66, 87, Andrey Starostin 52; Petr Shibaev 11pen]

Stage 4 ("Transcaucasia", played in Baku)

[Jul 30] Baku 2-2 Tbilisi [annulled; appointed referee showed late, so this [Artem Markarov (pen) 1-2, match was refereed by an unauthorised one] Petr Perevezentsev 2-2; Mikhail Aslamazov 7, Levan Abashidze 25] Baku 0-1 Tbilisi [replay with appointed referee] [Mikhail Bolotin 26]

1.Moskva 5 4 0 1 24- 7 13 2.Leningrad 5 3 0 2 14- 7 11 3.Kharkov 5 2 1 2 9-10 10 Kiev 5 2 1 2 6- 7 10 5.Baku 5 1 1 3 4-11 8 Tbilisi 5 1 1 3 6-21 8 NB: 3-2-1 point system

Second Group

NB: apparently served as "second level" tournament

First Stage

Group 1 (played in Simferopol)

1.Rostov-na-Donu 2 2 0 0 4- 1 6 Qualified 2.Simferopol 3 1 0 2 4- 6 5 3.Sevastopol 3 0 0 3 1-11 3 -.Taganrog 2 2 0 0 11- 3 6 [!] NB: total goal difference -1

[!] Taganrog walked off in their last match against Rostov-na-Donu, when their goal keeper was sent off while 1-2 down; they were disqualified.

Group 2 (played in Dnepropetrovsk)

1.Dnepropetrovsk 3 2 0 1 17- 5 7 Qualified [g.a.: 3.40] Stalino 3 2 0 1 6- 7 7 [g.a.: 0.86] 3.Odessa 3 1 0 2 5- 7 5 Nikolaev 3 1 0 2 2-11 5

Group 3 (played in Chelyabinsk)

1.Ivanovo 3 2 1 0 16- 0 8 Qualified [g.a.: infinite] Chelyabinsk 3 2 1 0 14- 1 8 [g.a.: 14.00] 3.Sverdlovsk 3 1 0 2 2-11 5 4.Ufa 3 0 0 3 1-23 3 NB: total goal difference -2

Group 4A (played in Novosibirsk)

1.Novosibirsk 3 2 0 1 10- 2 7 Qualified 2.Omsk 3 1 1 1 6- 6 6 Krasnoyarsk 3 1 1 1 4- 8 6 4.Irkutsk 3 0 2 1 3- 7 5

Group 4B (played in Khabarovsk)

1.Khabarovsk 1 1 0 0 3- 2 3 Qualified 2.Vladivostok 1 0 0 1 2- 3 1 -.Ulan-Ude did not show -.Ussuriysk did not show

Group 5A (played in Minsk)

1.Minsk 3 3 0 0 11- 4 9 Qualified 2.Smolensk 3 2 0 1 6- 2 7 3.Voronezh 3 1 0 2 6- 7 5 4-Egoryevsk 3 0 0 3 2-11 3 NB: total goal difference +1

Group 5B (played in Kalinin)

1.Kursk 2 2 0 0 8- 0 6 Qualified 2.Kalinin 2 1 0 1 5- 3 4 3.Petrozavodsk 2 0 0 2 1-11 2 -.Arkhangelsk did not show

Group 6A (played in Saratov)

1.Stalingrad 3 3 0 0 12- 3 9 Qualified 2.Engels 3 1 0 2 5- 8 5 Kuybyshev 3 1 0 2 4- 7 5 Saratov 3 1 0 2 1- 4 5

Group 6B (played in Gorky)

1.Kazan 3 3 0 0 12- 3 9 Qualified 2.Gorky 3 1 0 2 5- 8 5 Yaroslavl 3 1 0 2 4- 7 5 4.Cheboksary 3 0 0 3 4-16 3 NB: 2 more losses than wins; total goal difference -9

Group 7 (played in Tashkent)

1.Ashgabat 3 2 1 0 12- 3 8 Qualified [g.a.: 4.00] Tashkent 3 2 1 0 10- 4 8 [g.a.: 2.50] 3.Alma-Ata 3 1 0 2 9- 9 5 4.Stalinabad 3 0 0 3 1-21 3 NB: total goal difference -5

Group 8 (played in Pyatigorsk)

Qualifying Match Makhachkala 3-2 Grozny

1.Pyatigorsk 3 3 0 0 8- 4 9 Qualified 2.Erevan 3 1 1 1 8- 7 6 Krasnodar 3 1 1 1 4- 4 6 4.Makhachkala 3 0 0 3 2- 7 3

Second Stage

Preliminary Round [Jun 30] Kazan 2-0 Stalingrad
[Aleksandr Kozelkov, Karp Guzev] [Jul 1] Minsk 4-0 Kursk
[Anatoly Shatsky 19; other scorers not known]

Quarterfinals [Jul 6] Kazan 2-1 Minsk [aet] Rostov-na-Donu 0-7 Dnepropetrovsk
[Leonid Bely 8, 54, 59, Viktor Krivosheev 14, Georgy Kurchaninov 29, Pavel Kornilov 80, 89] [Jul 8] Ivanovo 7-1 Novosibirsk
[Jul 9] Pyatigorsk 3-2 Ashgabat
[Nikolay Aleksandrov 5, Tengiz Gavasheli 8, Viktor Boyko 77pen; Florentsev 53, Karmashev 76]

Semifinals [Jul 10] Dnepropetrovsk 6-4 Ivanovo
[Viktor Krivosheev 15, Leonid Bely 21, Pavel Kornilov 25, Petr Layko (4-2), N.N., N.N.; N.N. 6, Viktor Vavilov 16, N.N. 59, N.N. 74] [Jul 20] Pyatigorsk 1-2 Kazan
[N.N. 83; Karp Guzev 0-1, Panteley Novitsky 75]

Final [Oct 30] Kazan 1-2 Dnepropetrovsk
[N.N. 1-0; Petr Layko 1-1, Nikolay Naumov 1-2]

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Prepared and maintained by Davide Angelini for theRec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Davide Angelini Last updated: 28 Mar 2024