1963 Soviet Class A Second Group

Soviet Class A Second Group
Season	1963
	← 1962 1964 →

The 1963 Soviet Class A Second Group was the inaugural season of the Soviet Class A Second Group football competitions that was reorganized based on the best teams of the 1962 Soviet Class B season. It was also the 23rd season of the Soviet second tier league competition.

The league was consolidated into a single group of 18 clubs.

Qualified teams

Team	Class B zones and position in 1962
Daugava Riga	Class A (relegation)	21
Žalgiris Vilnius	Class A (relegation)	22
Shinnik Yaroslavl	I Zone (Russia)	1
Trud Voronezh	II Zone (Russia)	1
Kuban Krasnodar	III Zone (Russia)	1
Traktor Volgograd	III Zone (Russia)	2
UralMash Sverdlovsk	IV Zone (Russia)	1
Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk	IV Zone (Russia)	2
SKA Novosibirsk	V Zone (Russia)	1
Chernomorets Odessa	I Zone (Ukraine)	1
Metallurg Zaporozhye	II Zone (Ukraine)	2
Trudoviye Rezervy Lugansk	III Zone (Ukraine)	1
Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk	III Zone (Ukraine)	6
Lokomotiv Gomel	I Zone (Union rep)	1
Shakhtyor Karaganda	II Zone (Union rep)	1
Alga Frunze	II Zone (Union rep)	2
Volga Gorkiy	new
Karpaty Lvov	new

Notes:

FC Kuban Krasnodar was previously called as Spartak.
FC Volga Gorkiy was added after merger of Torpedo Gorkiy and Raketa Gorkiy.
FC Karpaty Lvov replaced SKA Lvov.

Final standings

Pos	Republic	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Russian SFSR	Shinnik Yaroslavl	34	16	13	5	42	19	+23	45
2	Russian SFSR	Volga Gorkiy	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
3	Russian SFSR	Trud Voronezh	34	15	12	7	43	26	+17	42
4	Ukrainian SSR	Metallurg Zaporozhie	34	12	17	5	36	17	+19	41
5	Ukrainian SSR	Trudovye rezervy Lugansk	34	15	11	8	41	26	+15	41
6	Ukrainian SSR	Chernomorets Odessa	34	13	13	8	39	31	+8	39
7	Ukrainian SSR	Karpaty Lvov	34	14	11	9	28	22	+6	39
8	Ukrainian SSR	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk	34	13	10	11	36	34	+2	36
9	Latvian SSR	Daugava Riga	34	13	9	12	38	40	−2	35
10	Russian SFSR	Kuban Krasnodar	34	8	18	8	26	21	+5	34
11	Russian SFSR	Uralmash Sverdlovsk	34	12	8	14	31	40	−9	32
12	Kazakh SSR	Shakhter Karaganda	34	9	12	13	37	46	−9	30
13	Russian SFSR	Lokomotiv Cheliabinsk	34	7	15	12	23	36	−13	29
14	Lithuanian SSR	Zalgiris Vilnius	34	9	10	15	36	42	−6	28
15	Kyrgyz SSR	Alga Frunze	34	8	12	14	28	40	−12	28
16	Russian SFSR	Traktor Volgograd	34	9	9	16	25	40	−15	27
17	Russian SFSR	SKA Novosibirsk	34	2	16	16	15	37	−22	20
18	Byelorussian SSR	Lokomotiv Gomel	34	4	12	18	13	46	−33	14^[a]

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

Top scorers

13 goals

Anatoli Isayev (Shinnik Yaroslavl)
Viktor Korolkov (Shakhter Karaganda)

12 goals

Valentyn Hrishyn (Trudovye Rezervy Lugansk)
Albert Liber (Trud Voronezh)

11 goals

Vitaliy Kovalenko (Metallurg Zaporozhie)

Number of teams by republics

Number	Union republics	Team(s)
8	Russian SFSR	FC Shinnik Yaroslavl, FC Trud Voronezh, FC Kuban Krasnodar, FC Traktor Volgograd, FC UralMash Sverdlovsk, FC Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk, SKA Novosibirsk, FC Volga Gorkiy
5	Ukrainian SSR	FC Chernomorets Odessa, FC Metallurg Zaporozhye, FC Trudoviye Rezervy Lugansk, FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, FC Karpaty Lvov
1	Latvian SSR	FC Daugava Riga
1	Lithuanian SSR	FK Žalgiris Vilnius
1	Belarusian SSR	FC Lokomotiv Gomel
1	Kazakh SSR	FC Shakhter Karaganda
1	Kyrgyz SSR	FC Alga Frunze

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