1941 Soviet Top League
7th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union
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The 1941 Soviet Football Championship Group A (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу 1941 (группа «А»)) was the 7th season in the Soviet first-tier football competition. Dynamo Moscow were the defending champions. The competition started on April 27, 1941, and was expected to finish on November 9, 1941.
| Season | 1941 |
|---|---|
← 1940 1945 → | |
It was cancelled with the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22. Two matches took place two days after the start of hostilities on June 24, 1941, in Stalino (today Donetsk) and Tbilisi.
The USSR football department of the USSR All-Union Council of Physical Culture adopted a decision about early termination of the season due to the announced mobilization of athletes (sportsmen) to the Workers'-Peasants' Red Army.
According to the Russian and Soviet journalist Aksel Vartanyan, the Soviet teams of masters were preserved and competed in the Moscow city football competitions.[1]
Teams
Team changes
| Promoted from 1940 Gruppa B |
Relegated from 1940 Gruppa A |
|---|---|
| Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad[2] Spartak Leningrad[2] |
None |
Two teams were promoted from the 1940 Gruppa B competitions: Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad as the 1940 Gruppa B winner and Spartak Leningrad as the 1940 Gruppa B runner-up. Both teams were returning to the Gruppa A competitions after one and two seasons of absence, respectively.
Additional ivitees
- Other added clubs (specially invited): (Dinamo Minsk 1940 Gruppa B 6th place, new clubs Spartak Odessa and Spartak Kharkiv)[2]
Mergers
- Out of Moscovite Lokomotiv, Torpedo, Metallurg, and Krylya Sovetov were formed teams Profsoyuzy-1 and Profsoyuzy-2.[3]
- Out of Leningradis Zenit, Avangard (Gruppa B), and Krasnaya Zaria (Gruppa B) were formed teams Profsoyuz of Leningrad which was renamed again into Zenit.[3]
- Merger of Stakhanovets Stalino and Traktor Stalingrad was cancelled.[3]
Name changes
- CDKA (now CSKA) participated as Krasnaya Armiya[2]
League standings as of June 24, 1941
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynamo Moscow | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 12 | 2.333 | 15 | |
| 2 | Dynamo Tbilisi | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 1.692 | 15 | |
| 3 | Dynamo Leningrad | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 1.818 | 14 | |
| 4 | Traktor Stalingrad | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 1.000 | 13 | |
| 5 | Stakhanovets Stalino | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 1.000 | 12 | |
| 6 | Krasnaya Armiya Moscow | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 1.154 | 11 | |
| 7 | Spartak Moscow | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 1.417 | 10 | |
| 8 | Dynamo Kyiv | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 1.143 | 10 | |
| 9 | Profsoyuzy-2 Moscow | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 1.100 | 10 | |
| 10 | Spartak Odessa | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 22 | 0.727 | 8 | |
| 11 | Zenit Leningrad | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 0.857 | 7 | |
| 12 | Spartak Leningrad | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 0.500 | 6 | |
| 13 | Dynamo Minsk | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 21 | 0.476 | 6 | |
| 14 | Spartak Kharkiv | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 0.368 | 5 | |
| 15 | Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 0.667 | 4 | Relegation[4] |
- Note: there were no commercial sports in the Soviet Union; all "teams of masters" were ultimately subsidized by the state through sports societies.
Results
Top scorers
- 8 goals
- Viktor Matveyev (Traktor Stalingrad)
- Aleksei Sokolov (Spartak Moscow)
- 7 goals
- Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)
- 6 goals
- Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- Viktor Panyukov (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- Pyotr Shcherbakov (Spartak Odessa)
- 5 goals
- Aleksandr Fyodorov (Dynamo Leningrad)
- Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow)
- 4 goals
- Ilya Bizyukov (Dynamo Leningrad)
- Pavel Kornilov (Spartak Moscow)
- Ivan Mitronov (Profsoyuzy-2 Moscow)
- Konstantin Sazonov (Dynamo Leningrad)