1963 Ukrainian Class B
The 1963 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 33rd season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Ukrainian Class B. It was the thirteenth in the Ukrainian Class B.
The 1963 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by SKA Odessa.
There was reorganization of professional football competitions with Class A being expanded by adding extra tier and all Class B competitions including in Ukraine were moved to the third tier. Due to reorganization 35 out of 39 teams were relegated to lower tier by continuing to compete in the Ukrainian Class B competitions.
Format
The Ukrainian Republican competition consisted of two zones of 20 clubs. Upon conclusion of the league format each club qualified for a playoff with another club that placed the same place in the other group. The pair of the first placed clubs was sort of a republican championship playoff. The playoffs consisted of two legs – home and away. Note teams were relegated or withdrawn and only one was promoted to the Subgroup A.Zone 1
Relegated teams
Promoted teams
FC Dnipro Kremenchuk – ''''Relocated and renamed teams
FC Zirka Kirovohrad was last year known as FC Dynamo KirovohradFC Budivelnyk Kherson was last year known as FC Mayak KhersonFC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was last year known as FC Spartak StanislavLeague's standing
Zone 2
Relegated teams
- none
Promoted teams
FC Burevisnyk Melitopol – 'FC Metalurh Komunarsk – 'FC Metalurh Yenakiyeve – 'FC Metalurh Kerch''' – ''''Relocated and renamed teams
SC Tavriya Simferopol was last year known as FC Avanhard SimferopolFC Spartak Sumy was last year known as FC Avanhard SumyLeague's standing
Play-offs
Each team played against the same ranking team from the other zone. Only the two top pairs that really mattered concerning promotion are listed next. No teams were relegated. SKA Odessa obtained the promotion from the Ukraine zone. They were classified as the Republican champions and were promoted to the Inter-Republican level, the Class A.- FC Lokomotyv Vinnytsia – SKA Odessa 0:2 0:1FC Azovstal Zhdanov – SKA Lviv 0:0 1:0
- FC Zirka Kirovohrad – FC Torpedo Kharkiv 1:1 0:2
- FC Burevisnyk Melitopol – FC Polissya Zhytomyr 1:0 1:3
- FC Avanhard Ternopil – FC Shakhtar Horlivka 1:1 0:0
- FC Kolhospnyk Cherkasy – FC Khimik Severodonetsk 2:1 0:2
- FC Lokomotyv Donetsk – SKA Kyiv 0:2 1:2
- FC Budivelnyk Kherson – FC Shakhtar Kadiivka 3:2 0:2FC Dynamo Khmelnytsky – FC Kolhospnyk Poltava 5:1 0:1
- FC Arsenal Kyiv – FC Dniprovets Dniprodzerzhynsk 3:2 1:2FC Desna Chernihiv – FC Metalurh Kommunarsk 3:1 1:2
- SC Navy Sevastopol – FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 2:1 1:4
- FC Verkhovyna Uzhhorod – FC Trubnyk Nikopol 0:0 1:2FC Avanhard Zhovti Vody – FC Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv 1:1 1:0FC Avanhard Chernivtsi – SC Tavriya Simferopol 6:0 0:1
- FC Avanhard Kramatorsk – FC Shakhtar Oleksandriya 1:1 0:2
- FC Volyn Lutsk – FC Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih 0:0 0:3FC Kolhospnyk Rivne – FC Metalurh Yenakieve 3:1 2:2
- FC Metalurh Kerch – FC Naftovyk Drohobych 0:1 0:0
- FC Dnipro Kremenchuk – FC Spartak Sumy 0:0 0:2
Relegation play-offs
- FC Volyn Lutsk – Zenit Volodymyr-Volynskyi 0:1 3:3FC Metalurh Yenakieve – FC Shakhtar Chystyakove 1:0 2:0FC Dnipro Kremenchuk – FC Strila Poltava 4:0 1:0