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1963 Ukrainian Class B

Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR
Season1963
ChampionsSKA Odessa
PromotedSKA Odessa
Relegatednone
1962
1964

The 1963 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) 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 (Class B) 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 Note teams were relegated or withdrawn and only one was promoted to the Subgroup A (the First League).

Location map

Zone 1

Relegated teams

  • none

Promoted teams

Relocated and renamed teams

League's standing

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 FC Lokomotyv Vinnytsia 38 25 10 3 58 22 +36 60
2 SKA Lviv 38 26 7 5 82 35 +47 59
3 FC Zirka Kirovohrad 38 23 6 9 72 26 +46 52
4 FC Polissya Zhytomyr 38 21 7 10 58 36 +22 49
5 FC Avanhard Ternopil 38 14 19 5 44 26 +18 47
6 FC Kolhospnyk Cherkasy 38 19 8 11 50 35 +15 46
7 SKA Kyiv 38 16 12 10 54 26 +28 44
8 FC Budivelnyk Kherson 38 14 13 11 48 47 +1 41
9 FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi 38 14 9 15 41 47 −6 37
10 FC Arsenal Kyiv 38 13 10 15 38 39 −1 36
11 FC Desna Chernihiv 38 12 12 14 35 42 −7 36
12 FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 38 15 5 18 44 48 −4 35
13 FC Verkhovyna Uzhhorod 38 13 9 16 36 42 −6 35
14 FC Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv 38 11 12 15 33 43 −10 34
15 FC Avanhard Chernivtsi 38 11 8 19 40 66 −26 30
16 FC Shakhtar Oleksandria 38 7 12 19 28 56 −28 26
17 FC Volyn Lutsk 38 8 10 20 24 61 −37 26
18 FC Kolhospnyk Rivne 38 9 7 22 37 57 −20 25
19 FC Naftovyk Drohobych 38 5 14 19 36 54 −18 24
20 FC Dnipro Kremenchuk 38 5 8 25 32 82 −50 18
Source: [1]

Zone 2

Relegated teams

  • none

Promoted teams

Relocated and renamed teams

League's standing

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 SKA Odessa 38 23 12 3 59 11 +48 58
2 FC Azovstal Zhdanov 38 19 11 8 54 37 +17 49
3 FC Torpedo Kharkiv 38 19 9 10 50 33 +17 47
4 FC Burevisnyk Melitopol 38 14 16 8 38 28 +10 44
5 FC Shakhtar Horlivka 38 14 15 9 49 44 +5 43
6 FC Khimik Severodonetsk 38 14 15 9 44 40 +4 43
7 FC Lokomotyv Donetsk 38 14 13 11 35 37 −2 41
8 FC Shakhtar Kadiyevka 38 12 16 10 51 37 +14 40
9 FC Kolhospnyk Poltava 38 15 10 13 40 32 +8 40
10 FC Dniprovets Dniprodzerhynsk 38 17 5 16 53 51 +2 39
11 FC Metalurh Kommunarsk 38 15 9 14 41 46 −5 39
12 SC Navy Sevastopol 38 15 8 15 48 32 +16 38
13 FC Trubnik Nikopol 38 12 14 12 42 35 +7 38
14 FC Avanhard Zhovti Vody 38 15 7 16 42 44 −2 37
15 SC Tavriya Simferopol 38 13 11 14 39 41 −2 37
16 FC Avanhard Kramatorsk 38 11 11 16 34 44 −10 33
17 FC Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih 38 8 10 20 37 64 −27 26
18 FC Metalurh Yenakiyeve 38 9 8 21 38 74 −36 26
19 FC Metalurh Kerch 38 6 9 23 28 57 −29 21
20 FC Spartak Sumy 38 6 9 23 28 63 −35 21
Source: [2]

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.

Relegation play-offs

References

  1. ^ Koshel, Yuriy (1993). Футбол в СССР 1936-1991 годы [Football in USSR 1936-1991] (in Russian). Vol. 1. Kaliningrad: Luch-1. p. 239. ISBN 5-900612-02-3.
  2. ^ Koshel, Yuriy (1993). Футбол в СССР 1936-1991 годы [Football in USSR 1936-1991] (in Russian). Vol. 1. Kaliningrad: Luch-1. p. 240. ISBN 5-900612-02-3.

See also