1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR

Football Championship of UkrSSR
Season	1946
Champions	FC Spartak Uzhhorod
Promoted	FC Spartak Uzhhorod, ODO Kiev, FC Dzerzhynets Kharkiv, FC Bilshovyk Zaporizhia, FC Spartak Kherson, FC Spartak Lviv, FC Dynamo Voroshylohrad, Moldavian rep.
	← 1940 1947 →

The 1946 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR were part of the 1946 Soviet republican football competitions in the Soviet Ukraine as well as so called Soviet "Tretya Gruppa" (Group 3) which by some football enthusiasts consider a predecessor of the Soviet Second League.

It was the first republican league competition in Ukraine following the World War II. Competitions were restructured and instead of tiered competitions, all tiers were combined into single tier divided by geographic groups.

Except for Spartak Kyiv, the top 2 from each qualification group also qualified for the 1947 Vtoraya Gruppa, Zone Ukraine.

Beside Ukrainian teams, in competitions took place one Moldovan team, Spartak Chisinau (Southern Group).

Teams

Debuting

Bilshovyk Zaporizhia, Dynamo Chernihiv, Dynamo Chortkiv (withdrew), Dynamo Kirovohrad, Dynamo Lutsk, Dynamo Rivne, Dynamo Sumy, Dynamo Voroshylovhrad, Dzerzhynets Kharkiv, Lokomotyv Ternopil, Lokomotyv Yasynuvata, Spartak Chernivtsi, Spartak Chisinau, Spartak Drohobych, Spartak Izmail, Spartak Kherson, Spartak Lviv, Spartak Stanislav, Spartak Uzhhorod, Stakhanovets Rutchenkove, Stal Mariupol, Zdorovia Kharkiv

Relegated

Lokomotyv Kyiv, Silmash Kharkiv

Returning

Dynamo Odesa (last in 1939), ODO Kyiv (last in 1939), Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk (last in 1937), Spartak Kyiv (last in 1937)

Renamed

UDKA Kyiv → ODO Kyiv

Qualification group stage

West

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Spartak Uzhhorod	14	13	1	0	77	14	+63	27
2	Spartak Lviv	14	12	1	1	81	14	+67	25
3	Dynamo Lutsk	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
4	Spartak Chernivtsi	14	5	2	7	31	52	−21	12
5	Spartak Drohobych	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
6	Spartak Stanislav	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
7	Lokomotyv Ternopil	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
8	Dynamo Rivne	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Lokomotyv Ternopil replaced Dynamo Chortkiv which withdrew after Round 2. The Dynamo's record was passed on to Lokomotyv.

Center

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	ODO Kyiv	18	18	0	0	87	8	+79	36
2	Spartak Kyiv	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
3	Spartak Dnipropetrovsk	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
4	Dynamo Sumy	18	7	6	5	–	–	—	20
5	Lokomotyv Kyiv	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
6	Spartak Poltava	18	8	0	10	–	–	—	16
7	Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
8	Dynamo Zhytomyr	18	4	0	14	–	–	—	8
9	Dynamo Chernihiv	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
10	Dynamo Proskuriv	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

East

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dzerzhynets Kharkiv	18	13	1	4	56	21	+35	27
2	Dynamo Voroshylovhrad	18	11	3	4	38	23	+15	25
3	Stal Mariupol	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
4	Silmash Kharkiv	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
5	Avanhard Kramatorsk	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
6	Stal Kostyantynivka	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
7	Lokomotyv Yasynuvata	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
8	Zdorovia Kharkiv	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
9	Avanhard Horlivka	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
10	Stakhanovets Rutchenkove	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

South

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Bilshovyk Zaporizhia	14	13	1	0	38	9	+29	27
2	Spartak Kherson	14	11	1	2	47	18	+29	23
3	Dynamo Odesa	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
4	Spartak Chisinau	14	6	1	7	23	29	−6	13
5	Sudnobudivnyk-2 Mykolaiv	14	6	1	7	22	29	−7	13
6	Spartak Vinnytsia	14	5	0	9	25	25	0	10
7	Dynamo Kirovohrad	14	3	2	9	16	26	−10	8
8	Spartak Izmail	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Final

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	FC Spartak Uzhhorod	3	3	0	0	16	3	+13	6
2	ODO Kiev	3	2	0	1	9	6	+3	4
3	FC Dzerzhynets Kharkiv	3	0	1	2	3	10	−7	1
4	FC Bilshovyk Zaporizhia	3	0	1	2	5	14	−9	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Ukrainian clubs at the All-Union level

First Group (1): Dynamo Kyiv
Second Group (5): Lokomotyv Kharkiv, Kharchovyk Odesa, Shakhtar Stalino, Stal Dnipropetrovsk, Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv

Number of teams by region

Number	Region	Team(s)
Number	Region	Ukrainian SSR	All-Union
6 (1)	Donetsk Oblast	Stal Mariupol, Avanhard Kramatorsk, Stal Kostiantynivka, Lokomotyv Yasynuvata, Avanhard Horlvika, Stakhanovets Rutchenkove	Stakhanovets Stalino
3 (1)	Kyiv Oblast	ODO Kyiv, Spartak Kyiv, Lokomotyv Kyiv	Dynamo Kyiv
3 (1)	Kharkiv Oblast	Dzerzhynets Kharkiv, Silmash Kharkiv, Zdorovia Kharkiv	Dynamo Kharkiv
2 (1)	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	Spartak Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk	Stal Dnipropetrovsk
2 (0)	Ternopil Oblast	Lokomotyv Ternopil, Dynamo Chortkiv	–
1 (1)	Mykolaiv Oblast	Sudnobudivnyk-2 Mykolaiv	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
1 (1)	Odesa Oblast	Dynamo Odesa	Kharchovyk Odesa
1 (0)	Luhansk Oblast	Dynamo Voroshylovhrad
1 (0)	Zaporizhia Oblast	Bilshovyk Zaporizhia	–
1 (0)	Poltava Oblast	Spartak Poltava	–
1 (0)	Sumy Oblast	Dynamo Sumy	–
1 (0)	Chernihiv Oblast	Dynamo Chernihiv	–
1 (0)	Zhytomyr Oblast	Dynamo Zhytomyr	–
1 (0)	Khmelnytskyi Oblast	Dynamo Proskuriv	–
1 (0)	Kirovohrad Oblast	Dynamo Kirovohrad	–
1 (0)	Vinnytsia Oblast	Spartak Vinnytsia	–
1 (0)	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	Spartak Stanislav	–
1 (0)	Lviv Oblast	Spartak Lviv	–
1 (0)	Volyn Oblast	Dynamo Lutsk	–
1 (0)	Rivne Oblast	Dynamo Rivne	–
1 (0)	Zakarpattia Oblast	Spartak Uzhhorod	–
1 (0)	Chernivtsi Oblast	Spartak Chernivtsi	–
1 (0)	Kherson Oblast	Spartak Kherson	–
1 (0)	Drohobych Oblast	Spartak Drohobych	–
1 (0)	Izmail Oblast	Spartak Izmail	–
1 (0)	Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic	Spartak Chisinau	–