The 1952 Soviet football championship was the 20th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 14th among teams of sports societies and factories. Spartak Moscow won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the fourth time and the first after World War II, the Spartak's main rivals Dinamo again had a difficult season struggling only for the second.
The defending champions CDSA were expelled from the league for the poor performance of the USSR national football team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. The Class A started late mid-summer consisting only of a single round-robin with almost all games played in Moscow.
Honours CompetitionWinnerRunner-upClass ASpartak Moscow (4)Dinamo KievClass BLokomotiv KharkovSpartak VilniusSoviet CupTorpedo Moscow (2)Spartak Moscow
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition
Soviet Union football championship
Class A
Class B (second stage)
For places 1-9
For places 10-18 Played in Rostov-na-Donu
Relegation play-off To the play-off qualified the champion of the 1952 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and the worst Ukrainian team of masters of the 1952 Soviet Class B.
Top goalscorers
Class A Andrei Zazroyev (Dinamo Kiev) – 11 goals
References
External links 1952 Soviet football championship. RSSSF