1940 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR

The 1940 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR were part of the 1940 Soviet republican football competitions in the Soviet Ukraine. Competitions in all three tiers were conducted in the fall.

Persha Hrupa

Promoted:

Avanhard Horlivka
Zenit Kharkiv
Spartak Dnipropetrovsk

Relegated: Dzerzhynets Voroshylovhrad

FC Stal Kostiantynivka withdrew from competitions

Druha Hrupa

Promoted:

Tsukrovyk Sumy, Spartak Poltava
Stal Voroshylovsk

Relegated: Sudnobudivnyk-2 Mykolaiv

Tretia Hrupa

Promoted: Spartak Vinnytsia

Replaced: Voskhod Zhytomyr → Dynamo Zhytomyr, Dynamo Kamianets-Podilskyi → Dynamo Proskurov

Ukrainian clubs at the All-Union level

Group A : Dynamo Kyiv, Stakhanovets Stalino
Group B : Dynamo Kharkiv, Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv, Silmash Kharkiv, Lokomotyv Kyiv, Kharchovyk Odesa

Withdrawn

Stal Dnipropetrovsk, Stal Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk, Traktor Kharkiv, Spartak Kharkiv, Spartak Kyiv, Dynamo Odesa
Spartak Kryvyi Rih, Kryla Rad Zaporizhia, Kharchovyk Tiraspol, Temp Vinnytsia, Stal Makiivka, Stakhanovets Krasnoarmiysk, Lokomotyv Synelnykove, Znannia Kherson, z-d im. Lenina Verkhiy, Stakhanovets Lysychansk, Lokomotyv Lozova, Lokomotyv Kharkiv, Lokomotyv Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo-2 Kyiv, Zenit Stalino, Zenit Voroshylovhrad, z-d im. Stalina Stalino, z-d KinAp Odesa, UDKA Kyiv, Stalinets Kharkiv, Voskhod Zhytomyr, Dynamo Kamianets-Podilskyi, Krasnyi Luch, Chystiakove, Melitopol, Berdiansk, Berdychiv, Novohrad-Volynskyi, Korosten, Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Uman, Koziatyn, Voznesensk, Kremenchuk, Konotop, Smila, Kupiansk, Starobilsk, Artemivsk, Sloviansk