1971 Soviet Second League, Zone 1

The 1971 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 41st season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 1. It was the first season in the newly established Soviet Second League, after both Class A and Class B competitions were discontinued.

See also: 1971 Soviet Second League
Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR
Season1971
ChampionsKryvbas Kryvyi Rih
PromotedKryvbas Kryvyi Rih
RelegatedDnipro Cherkasy, Torpedo Lutsk, SKA Odessa (transferred out)
Top goalscorer21 – Stanislav Vovk (Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih)
1972 →

The season started on 3 April 1971.

The 1971 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih.

Reorganization

The division became a part of big football reform that took place in the Soviet Union and stretched over two years 1970–1971. Most of the club previously competed in the 1970 Class A Second Group (Zone 1) and were grandfathered into the newly established Second League (Zone 1). Clubs from other union republics (Belorussian SSR) were weeded out into other Zone. The lower tier Class B competition were completely disbanded with only eight teams allowed to advance to the Second League, thus replacing those club of other union republics.

Teams

Location map
Locations of teams in Second League, Zone 6

Relegated teams
  • SKA Kiev – (returning after five seasons)

Eight clubs were promoted from the 1970 Class B (Ukrainian SSR).

Relocated and renamed teams

Final standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (C, Q) 50 31 10 9 78 32 +46 72 Promotion qualification[lower-alpha 1]
2 Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv 50 30 11 9 69 31 +38 71
3 Avtomobilist Zhytomyr 50 25 15 10 58 30 +28 65
4 Shakhtar Kadiivka 50 24 15 11 67 34 +33 63
5 Tavriya Simferopol 50 24 11 15 79 50 +29 59
6 Zirka Kirovohrad 50 21 17 12 52 33 +19 59
7 Lokomotyv Vinnytsia 50 17 22 11 47 35 +12 56
8 Budivelnyk Poltava 50 21 13 16 54 43 +11 55
9 Shakhtar Horlivka 50 17 20 13 50 50 0 54
10 Khimik Severodonetsk 50 19 15 16 66 61 +5 53
11 Metalurh Zhdanov 50 18 15 17 62 55 +7 51
12 SKA Odessa 50 18 15 17 50 48 +2 51
13 Lokomotyv Kherson 50 18 14 18 46 53 −7 50
14 Avanhard Ternopil 50 18 13 19 43 46 −3 49
15 Frunzenets Sumy 50 15 18 17 42 43 −1 48
16 Bukovyna Chernivtsi 50 17 14 19 35 38 −3 48
17 SKA Kiev 50 15 17 18 43 44 −1 47
18 Dynamo Khmelnytskyi 50 15 16 19 35 45 −10 46
19 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 50 18 9 23 46 46 0 45
20 Hoverla Uzhhorod 50 15 15 20 42 55 −13 45
21 Avanhard Sevastopol 50 14 17 19 37 54 −17 45
22 Lokomotyv Donetsk 50 12 16 22 40 62 −22 40
23 SKA Lviv 50 10 17 23 33 55 −22 37 Reformed[lower-alpha 2]
24 Dnipro Cherkasy 50 9 15 26 28 69 −41 33 Relegated
25 Torpedo Lutsk 50 7 16 27 21 66 −45 30 Reformed[lower-alpha 2]
26 Horyn Rovno 50 9 10 31 27 72 −45 28 [lower-alpha 2]
Source:
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:
  1. Kryvbas qualified for the play off with the third team that placed third in final tournament. After winning the play off, Kryvbas was promoted.
  2. According to the season's regulations two bottom teams had to be relegated including Torpedo Lutsk and Horyn Rovno, but the Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR, considering the loss of professional team in two adjacent oblasts in western Ukraine, adopted a decision to leave teams of both cities in the Second League. However, in 1972 on a basis of the Lutsk city team, there was formed professional team of the Carpathian Military District and created SC Lutsk.[1] At the same time, the original professional team of the Carpathian Military District SKA Lviv was merged with the newly formed SC Lutsk. Moreover, other two army sports clubs of Ukrainian competitions, SKA Kiev and SKA Odessa, moved next year to another cities.

Top goalscorers

The following were the top goalscorers.

# Scorer Goals
(Pen.)		 Team
1 Stanislav Vovk 21 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
2 Valentyn Prylepskyi 20 Tavriya Simferopol
Yevhen Dereviaha 20 Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
4 Yevhen Satayev 19 Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
Vladyslav Nechai 19 Khimik Severodonetsk
6 Volodymyr Tovchykh 17 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
7 Yuriy Nesmiyan 16 Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
Andriy Cheremysin 16 Tavriya Simferopol
Oleksiy Katsman 16 Zirka Kirovohrad
10 Vitaliy Starukhin 15 Budivelnyk Poltava

See also

Notes

    References
    1. Club: History (Клуб: Історія). FC Volyn Lutsk.
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