2024 Russian Second League Division B
Football league season
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The 2024 Russian Second League Division B was the second season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 30 March 2024 and ended on 16 November 2024. There was a three-week break in July after half of the games have been played.
| Season | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 30 March 2024 – 16 November 2024 |
← 2023 2025 → | |
Overview
In the summer of 2023, the Russian Second League was reorganized and split into two tiers - third-tier Russian Second League Division A and fourth-tier Russian Second League Division B.[1] Division B also switched to the spring-to-autumn, March-to-November schedule. 2023 was a transitional half-year season.[2] 2024 season was the first full-length season.
Division B is split into 4 groups, mostly based on geographical location. At the end of the year, four winners of their groups were promoted into the Division A Second Stage Silver Group. Four bottom teams from the Division A First Stage Silver Group were relegated to 2025 Division B.
Team movement
At the end of the 2023 season, Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk, Khimik Dzerzhinsk, Kaluga and Torpedo Miass were promoted to Division A as winners of their Division B groups. Forte Taganrog, Amkar Perm, Chertanovo Moscow and Salyut Belgorod were relegated to Division B from Division A.
Torpedo-2 and Peresvet Domodedovo were relegated from Division B. SKA Rostov-on-Don and Zorkiy Krasnogorsk voluntarily dropped out.[3][4] Sakhalinets Moscow and Khimik-Avgust Vurnary dissolved their professional squads.[5][6] Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk failed licensing for the season.[7]
Elektron Veliky Novgorod moved to Nizhny Novgorod and was renamed to Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.[8]
Pobeda Khasavyurt, Dynamo Stavropol, Kolomna, Orenburg-2 and Akron-2 Tolyatti, which finished the 2023 season in relegation spots, were kept in the league because of the other teams dropping out.
New teams were Angusht Nazran, Lada-Tolyatti, Nart Cherkessk, Oryol, Sokol Kazan and Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (promoted from the Russian Amateur Football League), Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara, Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-2 and Spartak-2 Moscow (farm clubs of the Russian Premier League teams).[9][10][11][12][13][14]
Group 1
Group 1 included 17 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 30 March 2024 to 16 November 2024.[15] The opening games that were initially scheduled for 23 March 2024 were postponed due to the Crocus City Hall attack.[16] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were qualified to be relegated from Division B.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forte Taganrog | 32 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 68 | 30 | +38 | 71 | Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group |
| 2 | Rubin Yalta | 32 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 48 | 26 | +22 | 64 | |
| 3 | Dynamo Stavropol | 32 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 54 | 31 | +23 | 63 | |
| 4 | Legion Makhachkala | 32 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 57 | 26 | +31 | 60 | |
| 5 | Rostov-2 | 32 | 19 | 3 | 10 | 57 | 33 | +24 | 60 | |
| 6 | Sevastopol | 32 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 47 | 30 | +17 | 58 | |
| 7 | Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky[a] | 32 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 44 | 34 | +10 | 48 | |
| 8 | Astrakhan | 32 | 14 | 5 | 13 | 40 | 42 | −2 | 47 | |
| 9 | Nart Cherkessk | 32 | 13 | 5 | 14 | 43 | 47 | −4 | 44 | |
| 10 | Druzhba Maykop | 32 | 13 | 3 | 16 | 41 | 42 | −1 | 42 | |
| 11 | Angusht Nazran | 32 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 22 | 27 | −5 | 38 | |
| 12 | Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya | 32 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 29 | 37 | −8 | 37 | |
| 13 | Spartak Nalchik | 32 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 47 | 50 | −3 | 37 | |
| 14 | Biolog-Novokubansk[b] | 32 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 41 | 56 | −15 | 30 | Dissolved after the season |
| 15 | Pobeda Khasavyurt | 32 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 36 | 49 | −13 | 30 | |
| 16 | Alania-2 Vladikavkaz | 32 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 24 | 87 | −63 | 17 | Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League |
| 17 | Dynamo-2 Makhachkala[c] | 32 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 19 | 70 | −51 | 14 |
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magomed Abakarov | Forte Taganrog | 17 |
| Vadim Zubavlenko | Rubin Yalta | ||
| 3 | Aleksandr Olenev | Legion Makhachkala | 14 |
| Alan Khachirov | Spartak Nalchik | ||
| 5 | Makhach Abdulkhamidov | Dynamo Stavropol | 12 |
| 6 | Islam Tlupov | Spartak Nalchik | 11 |
| Bekkhan Aliyev | Angusht Nazran | ||
| 8 | Anar Panayev | Legion Makhachkala | 10 |
| Gadzhimurad Abdullayev | Druzhba Maykop | ||
| Stanislav Ruban | Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky | ||
Group 2
Group 2 included 16 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 6 April 2024 to 3 November 2024.[20] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynamo-2 Moscow | 30 | 22 | 4 | 4 | 66 | 28 | +38 | 70 | Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group |
| 2 | Spartak-2 Moscow | 30 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 67 | 33 | +34 | 62 | |
| 3 | Leon Saturn Ramenskoye[a] | 30 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 68 | 43 | +25 | 58 | |
| 4 | Irkutsk | 30 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 43 | 35 | +8 | 57 | |
| 5 | Chertanovo Moscow | 30 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 54 | 38 | +16 | 55 | |
| 6 | Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg | 30 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 45 | 30 | +15 | 51 | |
| 7 | Dynamo Vologda | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 45 | 31 | +14 | 51 | |
| 8 | Baltika-BFU Kaliningrad[b] | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 50 | 45 | +5 | 50 | |
| 9 | Dynamo Saint Petersburg | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 54 | 50 | +4 | 39 | |
| 10 | Torpedo Vladimir | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 43 | 40 | +3 | 39 | |
| 11 | Rodina-M Moscow | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 51 | 48 | +3 | 34 | |
| 12 | Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo | 30 | 9 | 4 | 17 | 27 | 52 | −25 | 31 | |
| 13 | Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki | 30 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 24 | 41 | −17 | 28 | |
| 14 | Tver | 30 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 30 | 57 | −27 | 25 | |
| 15 | Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk[c] | 30 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 26 | 66 | −40 | 14 | |
| 16 | Zvezda Saint Petersburg[d] | 30 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 24 | 80 | −56 | 8 |
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vitaly Karpenko | Spartak-2 Moscow | 18 |
| 2 | Anton Betyuzhnov | Dynamo Vologda | 12 |
| Denis Bokov | Dynamo-2 Moscow | ||
| Artyom Bykovsky | Spartak-2 Moscow | ||
| 5 | Stanislav Basyrov | Leon Saturn Ramenskoye | 11 |
Group 3
Group 3 included 15 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 7 April 2024 to 3 November 2024.[20] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynamo Vladivostok | 28 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 42 | 17 | +25 | 63 | Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group |
| 2 | Kosmos Dolgoprudny | 28 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 45 | 23 | +22 | 54 | |
| 3 | Kompozit Pavlovsky Posad[a] | 28 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 59 | 40 | +19 | 54 | |
| 4 | Salyut Belgorod | 28 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 49 | 34 | +15 | 48 | |
| 5 | Spartak Tambov | 28 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 37 | 28 | +9 | 44 | |
| 6 | Khimki-M | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 37 | 34 | +3 | 44 | |
| 7 | Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk[b] | 28 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 29 | 24 | +5 | 42 | Dissolved after the season |
| 8 | Zenit Penza | 28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 34 | 35 | −1 | 37 | |
| 9 | Ryazan | 28 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 33 | 31 | +2 | 35 | |
| 10 | Oryol | 28 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 34 | 32 | +2 | 35 | |
| 11 | Strogino Moscow | 28 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 24 | 38 | −14 | 31 | |
| 12 | Arsenal-2 Tula | 28 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 31 | 40 | −9 | 31 | |
| 13 | SKA-Khabarovsk-2 | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 38 | 50 | −12 | 27 | |
| 14 | Kolomna[c] | 28 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 56 | −34 | 21 | |
| 15 | Kvant Obninsk[d] | 28 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 19 | 51 | −32 | 19 |
- Kompozit has been merged into FC Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo in 2025.[23]
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrei Chasovskikh | Spartak Tambov | 12 |
| Nikolai Boyarkin | Salyut Belgorod | ||
| Kirill Pomeshkin | Kosmos Dolgoprudny | ||
| Oleg Trofimov | Khimki-M | ||
| 5 | Astemir Khashkulov | SKA-Khabarovsk-2 | 11 |
Group 4
Group 4 included 14 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 13 April 2024 to 19 October 2024.[25] The group winner were promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams were relegated from Division B.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynamo Kirov | 26 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 52 | 19 | +33 | 57 | Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group |
| 2 | Amkar Perm | 26 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 35 | 15 | +20 | 55 | |
| 3 | Rubin-2 Kazan | 26 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 38 | 18 | +20 | 46 | |
| 4 | Sokol Kazan | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 49 | 35 | +14 | 45 | |
| 5 | Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 26 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 41 | 31 | +10 | 43 | |
| 6 | Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara | 26 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 34 | 28 | +6 | 40 | |
| 7 | Ural-2 Yekaterinburg | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 31 | 24 | +7 | 35 | |
| 8 | Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 29 | 36 | −7 | 32 | |
| 9 | Lada-Tolyatti[a] | 26 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 30 | 36 | −6 | 29 | Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League |
| 10 | Dynamo Barnaul | 26 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 29 | 43 | −14 | 27 | |
| 11 | Nosta Novotroitsk | 26 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 27 | 39 | −12 | 25 | |
| 12 | Orenburg-2 | 26 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 26 | 44 | −18 | 25 | |
| 13 | Akron-2 Tolyatti[b] | 26 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 21 | 41 | −20 | 22 | |
| 14 | Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod[c] | 26 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 53 | −33 | 19 | Dissolved after the season |
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ilya Yurchenko | Amkar Perm | 13 |
| Daniil Motorin | Rubin-2 Kazan | ||
| 3 | Ilya Kozhukhar | Dynamo Kirov | 12 |
| 4 | Daniil Nagovitsin | Dynamo Kirov | 11 |
| 5 | Dmitry Usov | Orenburg-2 | 9 |