1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR


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" 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.

Teams

Debuting

Bilshovyk Zaporizhia, Dynamo Chernihiv, Dynamo Chortkiv, 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, ODO Kyiv, Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk, Spartak Kyiv

Renamed

UDKA Kyiv → ODO Kyiv

Qualification group stage

West

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

Ukrainian clubs at the All-Union level