2023 Russian Second League Division B

The 2023 Russian Second League Division B is the first season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 16 July 2023.

Russian Second League Division B
Season2023
Dates16 July 2023 – November 2023
2024–25 Division A
2024 Division B →

Before the season, the Russian Second League was reorganized and split into two tiers - third-tier Russian Second League Division A and fourth-tier Russian Second League Division B.[1] Division B also switches to the spring-to-autumn, March-to-November schedule. 2023 is a transitional half-year season.[2] The teams that finished in 6th place or below in their groups in the 2022–23 Russian Second League are included into Division B.

The fourth tier of Russian football was semi-professional before from 1994 to 1997 as Russian Third League, and since then the fourth tier was taken by the Russian Amateur Football League until 2023.

Division B is split into 4 groups, mostly based on geographical location. At the end of the year, four winners of their groups will be promoted into the Division A Second Stage Silver Group. Four bottom teams from the Division A First Stage Silver Group would be relegated to 2024 Division B.

81 clubs were originally licensed for Division B.[3] FC Zenit-Izhevsk dropped out of the division after receiving the license.[4] FC Balashikha and FC Yadro Saint Petersburg did not receive the license, FC Yessentuki was excluded from the league during the 2022–23 season. FC Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya, which was eligible for Division A, decided to enter Division B; FC Metallurg Lipetsk took their Division A spot.[5]

New clubs entering the league were FC Akron-2 Tolyatti, FC Rubin-2 Kazan, FC Dynamo-2 Makhachkala (reserve teams of Russian Premier League and Russian First League clubs), SC Astrakhan, FC Dynamo Kirov, FC Irkutsk, FC Kompozit Pavlovsky Posad, FC Pobeda Khasavyurt, FC Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil (promoted from the Russian Amateur Football League), FC Rubin Yalta and FC Sevastopol (from the Crimean Premier League).

Group 1

Group 1 was initially split into two subgroups 1.1 and 1.2 of 7 teams each; each team in subgroup played each other twice from 16 July to 14 October. New subgroups were organized then, 1A (which includes top 3 teams from 1.1 and 1.2) and 1B (which includes the remaining 8 teams). Only results between the teams that qualified for a particular second-stage subgroup count for the second-stage standings (i.e., only results of the 6 games played between top 3 teams of subgroup 1.1 were included in the standings of subgroup 1A and so on). Then, from October to November, the teams in these new subgroups will play the teams that were in a different subgroup in the first stage, twice (for 6 additional games in 1A and 8 additional games in 1B for each team). The winner of subgroup 1A will be promoted to Division A Silver Group. The bottom two teams of subgroup 1B will be relegated from Division B.[6]

Subgroup 1.1
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya 12 8 0 4 20 8 +12 24 Qualification for the
Second Stage Subgroup 1A
2 Druzhba Maykop 12 7 2 3 8 9 −1 23
3 Rubin Yalta 12 6 3 3 19 12 +7 21
4 Sevastopol 12 6 2 4 11 13 −2 20 Qualification for the
Second Stage Subgroup 1B
5 Biolog-Novokubansk 12 4 3 5 14 12 +2 15
6 SKA Rostov-on-Don 12 4 1 7 10 14 −4 13
7 Dynamo Stavropol 12 1 1 10 3 17 −14 4
Updated to match(es) played on 14 October 2023. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway

Subgroup 1.2
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk 12 9 1 2 21 9 +12 28 Qualification for the
Second Stage Subgroup 1A
2 Legion Makhachkala 12 6 5 1 20 11 +9 23
3 Astrakhan 12 5 3 4 21 15 +6 18
4 Spartak Nalchik 12 5 2 5 16 16 0 17 Qualification for the
Second Stage Subgroup 1B
5 Dynamo-2 Makhachkala 12 2 5 5 10 13 −3 11
6 Alania-2 Vladikavkaz 12 3 2 7 17 31 −14 11
7 Pobeda Khasavyurt 12 2 2 8 13 23 −10 8
Updated to match(es) played on 14 October 2023. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway

Subgroup 1A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk 5 3 1 1 6 4 +2 10 Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya 5 2 1 2 4 2 +2 7
3 Rubin Yalta 5 2 1 2 3 3 0 7
4 Druzhba Maykop 5 2 1 2 4 6 −2 7
5 Legion Makhachkala 5 1 3 1 5 5 0 6
6 Astrakhan 5 0 3 2 6 8 −2 3
Updated to match(es) played on 22 October 2023. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway

Subgroup 1B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Sevastopol 7 5 1 1 11 4 +7 16
2 Alania-2 Vladikavkaz 7 4 2 1 15 10 +5 14
3 Spartak Nalchik 7 4 1 2 11 8 +3 13
4 SKA Rostov-on-Don 7 4 0 3 7 7 0 12
5 Biolog-Novokubansk 7 3 1 3 6 6 0 10
6 Pobeda Khasavyurt 7 2 0 5 10 16 −6 6
7 Dynamo-2 Makhachkala 7 1 3 3 8 10 −2 6 Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
8 Dynamo Stavropol 7 1 0 6 2 9 −7 3
Updated to match(es) played on 21 October 2023. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway

Group 2

Group 2 includes 18 teams that play each other once, from 22 July to 12 November, with the host team in each pair determined by the league. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams would be relegated from Division B.[7]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Khimik Dzerzhinsk 14 12 1 1 26 10 +16 37 Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg 14 9 3 2 25 8 +17 30
3 Irkutsk 14 8 4 2 20 9 +11 28
4 Dynamo-2 Moscow 14 8 3 3 26 19 +7 27
5 Dynamo Saint Petersburg 14 7 2 5 17 13 +4 23
6 Zorkiy Krasnogorsk 14 6 4 4 14 12 +2 22
7 Baltika-BFU Kaliningrad 14 6 4 4 18 17 +1 22
8 Dynamo Kirov 13 6 2 5 20 15 +5 20
9 Rodina-M Moscow 14 6 2 6 16 19 −3 20
10 Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo 13 5 3 5 17 19 −2 18
11 Dynamo Vologda 14 5 2 7 12 13 −1 17
12 Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk 14 3 6 5 18 29 −11 15
13 Zvezda Saint Petersburg 14 4 2 8 34 25 +9 14
14 Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki 14 3 4 7 14 20 −6 13
15 Tver 14 3 3 8 11 16 −5 12
16 Torpedo-2 14 2 5 7 10 19 −9 11
17 Elektron Veliky Novgorod 14 3 1 10 8 31 −23 10 Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
18 Torpedo Vladimir 14 2 3 9 15 27 −12 9
Updated to match(es) played on 22 October 2023. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway

Group 3

Group 3 includes 18 teams that play each other once, from 21 July to 12 November, with the host team in each pair determined by the league. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams would be relegated from Division B.[7]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Kaluga 14 10 2 2 39 6 +33 32 Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Dynamo Vladivostok 14 9 0 5 28 16 +12 27
3 Sakhalinets Moscow 14 8 3 3 31 18 +13 27
4 Arsenal-2 Tula 14 7 5 2 20 13 +7 26
5 Leon Saturn Ramenskoye 14 8 1 5 26 12 +14 25
6 Spartak Tambov 14 7 3 4 20 21 −1 24
7 Kompozit Pavlovsky Posad 14 7 3 4 23 19 +4 24
8 SKA-Khabarovsk-2 14 7 1 6 27 25 +2 22
9 Zenit Penza 14 6 4 4 17 17 0 22
10 Kvant Obninsk 14 5 5 4 16 20 −4 20
11 Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk 14 5 4 5 14 20 −6 19
12 Kosmos Dolgoprudny 14 4 4 6 17 24 −7 16
13 Khimki-M 14 5 1 8 17 22 −5 16
14 Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 14 5 1 8 10 16 −6 16
15 Ryazan 14 4 3 7 23 21 +2 15
16 Strogino Moscow 14 2 4 8 20 31 −11 10
17 Peresvet Domodedovo 14 2 1 11 18 47 −29 7 Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
18 Kolomna 14 0 5 9 12 30 −18 5
Updated to match(es) played on 23 October 2023. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway

Group 4

Group 4 includes 9 teams that play each other twice, home and away, from 16 July to 12 November. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams would be relegated from Division B.[7]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Torpedo Miass 13 9 2 2 25 9 +16 29 Promotion to the
Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2 Khimik-Avgust Vurnary 13 6 6 1 17 6 +11 24
3 Nosta Novotroitsk 13 6 5 2 18 12 +6 23
4 Rubin-2 Kazan 13 6 4 3 13 12 +1 22
5 Ural-2 Yekaterinburg 14 4 5 5 18 19 −1 17
6 Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil 13 4 4 5 5 7 −2 16
7 Dynamo Barnaul 13 4 3 6 20 18 +2 15
8 Orenburg-2 14 3 5 6 10 19 −9 14 Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
9 Akron-2 Tolyatti (R) 14 0 2 12 8 32 −24 2
Updated to match(es) played on 23 October 2023. Source: Second League Division B (in Russian), Soccerway
(R) Relegated

References
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  2. "ВТОРАЯ ЛИГА БУДЕТ РЕФОРМИРОВАНА С СЕЗОНА 2023/2024" (in Russian). FNL. 10 May 2023.
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  4. "ФК «Зенит-Ижевск» сняли с Первенства России" (in Russian). Kommersant. 7 July 2023.
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