The 1948 Vtoraya Gruppa of the Soviet football championship was the 9th season of the second tier football competitions in the Soviet Union.
The format of the competition was preserved from the previous season and included six groups, but number of participants was increased once again to total of 75. Group winners qualified to the final group, the winner of which was the ultimate winner and gained promotion to the Pervaya Gruppa (Top League).
Lokomotiv Kharkov won the championship. Five teams gained promotion to the 1949 Pervaya Gruppa.
Teams Relegated teams none
Promoted teams
With the asterisk identified teams that may have been created just before the start of the season.
Renamed teams Spartak Vilnius last season was known as Dinamo Vilnius
Qualifying stage Central Zone
Russian SFSR Zone 1
Russian SFSR Zone 2
Ukrainian Zone The zone was expanded from 13 to 16 teams split into two subgroups. The relegated Bolshevik Zaporozhie was replaced with the best three teams of Donbas group (Group 6) including Lokomotiv Zaporozhie and the champion of the 1947 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR.
FC Shakhter Stalino was promoted to the 1949 Pervaya Gruppa without the need to qualify for the league's finals.
Subgroup A
Subgroup B
Final
1st place play-off Lokomotiv Kharkov - Stal Dnepropetrovsk 3:1
Southern Zone
Central-Asian Zone
Final stage
Number of teams by republics Number Union republics Team(s)38FC Metallurg Moscow, MVO Moscow, FC Sudostroitel Leningrad, FC Trudovye Rezervy Moscow, DO Leningrad, VMS Moscow, FC Metro Moscow, FC Spartak LeningradFC Dinamo Kazan, FC Torpedo Gorky, FC Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo, FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk, FC Khimik Orekhovo-Zuevo, FC Dinamo Moscow Oblast, FC Zenit Kaliningrad, FC Zenit Kovrov, FC Dzerzhinets Kolomna, FC Zenit Izhevsk, FC Dinamo Saratov, FC Spartak Ivanovo, FC Spartak Voronezh, FC Spartak Penza, FC Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk, ODO Novosibirsk, ODO Sverdlovsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Molotov, FC Dinamo Sverdlovsk, FC Dzerzhinets Nizhniy Tagil, FC Dinamo Chelyabinsk, FC Avangard Sverdlovsk, FC Krylia Sovetov Omsk, FC Khimik Kemerovo, FC Metallurg Magnitogorsk, FC Tsvetmet Kamensk-Uralskiy, FC Gornyak Kemerovo, FC Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu, FC Traktor Taganrog, FC Pischevik Astrakhan15FC Lokomotiv Kharkov, FC Stal Dnepropetrovsk, FC Shakhter Stalino, FC Dinamo Voroshilovgrad, FC Lokomotiv Zaporozhye, FC Avangard Kramatorsk, FC Dzerzhinets Kharkov, FC Shakhter Kadeevka, FC Bolshevik Mukachevo, DO Kiev, FC Spartak Lvov, FC Spartak Uzhgorod, FC Pischevik Odessa, FC Spartak Kherson, FC Sudostroitel Nikolaev3FC Spartak Tbilisi, FC Lokomotiv Tbilisi, ODO Tbilisi2FC Dinamo Riga, FC Daugava Riga2FC Spartak Minsk, DO Minsk2FC Kalev Tallinn, FC Dinamo Tallinn2FC Neftianik Baku, FC Dinamo Baku2FC Dinamo Yerevan, FC Spartak Yerevan2ODO Tashkent, FC Dinamo Tashkent2FC Dinamo Alma-Ata, FC Spartak Alma-Ata1FC Spartak Vilnius1FC Dinamo Kishinev1FC Lokomotiv Ashkhabat1FC Zenit Frunze1FC Dinamo Stalinabad
See also 1948 Soviet First Group 1948 Soviet Cup
References
1948 at rsssf.com