1940 in Soviet football

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.

Football in the Soviet Union

Season	1940
Men's football
Group A	Dinamo Moscow
Group B	Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad
Soviet Cup	cancelled
All-Union Committee Cup	cancelled

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

Main article: 1940 Soviet Top League

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	Dynamo 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	Stakhanovets 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 (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	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:
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:

Top goalscorers

Group A

• Grigoriy Fedotov (CDKA Moscow), Sergey Solovyov (Dinamo Moscow) – 21 goals

Republican level

Football competitions of union republics

Football championships

• Azerbaijan SSR – Lokomotiv Baku
• Armenian SSR – Spartak Yerevan
• Belarusian SSR – DKA Minsk (see Football Championship of the Belarusian SSR)
• Estonian SSR – unknown
• Georgian SSR – Dinamo Batumi
• Kazakh SSR – none
• Karelo-Finish SSR – unknown
• Kirgiz SSR – Spartak Frunze
• Latvian SSR – unfinished
• Lithuanian SSR – unknown
• Moldavian SSR – city of Kishinev
• Russian SFSR – none
• Tajik SSR – none
• Turkmen SSR – none
• Uzbek SSR – none
• Ukrainian SSR – Lokomotyv Zaporizhia (see 1940 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR)

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)

External links

• 1940 Soviet football championship. RSSSF