2025 Russian Second League Division B

Season2025

Dates22 March 2025 – 22 November 2025

PromotedDynamo Stavropol
Zenit-2 St. Petersburg
Dynamo Bryansk
Amkar Perm

RelegatedKuban-Holding Pavlovskaya
Sochi-2
Kolomna
Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo
Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil
Sokol Kazan

Russian Second League Division B
Season	2025
Dates	22 March 2025 – 22 November 2025
Promoted	Dynamo Stavropol Zenit-2 St. Petersburg Dynamo Bryansk Amkar Perm
Relegated	Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya Sochi-2 Kolomna Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil Sokol Kazan
← 2024 2026 →

The 2025 Russian Second League Division B is the third season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 22 March 2025 and ended on 22 November 2025.

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 will be promoted into the Division B Second Stage Silver Group. Four bottom teams from the Division A First Stage Silver Group will be relegated to 2026 Division B.

Team movement

At the end of the 2024 season, Forte Taganrog, Dynamo-2 Moscow, Dynamo Vladivostok and Dynamo Kirov were promoted to Division A as winners of their Division B groups. Irtysh Omsk, Khimik Dzerzhinsk, Metallurg Lipetsk and Krasnodar-2 were relegated to Division B from Division A. Following relegation, Krasnodar-2 was suspended indefinitely by their parent club and did not apply for Division B license.^[3]

Alania-2 Vladikavkaz was relegated from Division B. Biolog-Novokubansk, Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Lada-Tolyatti and Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod were dissolved.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Leon Saturn Ramenskoye was renamed to Saturn Ramenskoye, Baltika-BFU Kaliningrad was renamed to Baltika-2 Kaliningrad.^[8]^[9] Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky was moved to Tomsk and re-branded as KDV Tomsk.^[10] Kompozit Pavlovsky Posad merged into Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo.^[11]

Dynamo-2 Makhachkala, Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk, Zvezda Saint Petersburg, Kolomna, Kvant Obninsk and Akron-2 Tolyatti, which finished the 2024 season in relegation spots, were kept in the league because of the other teams dropping out or moving zones. That was the second consecutive occasion that happened for Kolomna and Akron-2.

New teams were Cherepovets (promoted from the Russian Amateur Football League), Sochi-2, Rotor-2 Volgograd (farm-clubs of Russian First League clubs) and Chelyabinsk-2 (farm-club of a Second League Division A club).^[12]^[13]

Group 1

Group 1 includes 14 teams.

In the first stage, 14 teams played each other twice, home and away, from 22 March 2025 to 14 September 2025. At the end of the first stage, top 6 teams qualified for the second stage subgroup 1A, and the remaining 8 qualified for the second stage subgroup 1B.

The results of the games played in the first stage were included in the second stage standings.

Subgroup 1A teams played each other twice more, home and away, from 20 September 2025 to 22 November 2025. Subgroup 1B teams played each other once, from 20 September 2025 to 1 November 2025.

Subgroup 1A winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams of subgroup 1B will be relegated from Division B.^[14]

First stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dynamo Stavropol	26	15	7	4	38	23	+15	52	Qualification for the Second Stage Subgroup 1A
2	Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya	26	14	9	3	48	23	+25	51
3	Sevastopol	26	13	9	4	41	30	+11	48
4	Pobeda Khasavyurt	26	15	3	8	32	25	+7	48
5	Rostov-2	26	13	5	8	37	22	+15	44
6	Nart Cherkessk	26	12	6	8	37	22	+15	42
7	Sochi-2	26	11	7	8	40	29	+11	40	Qualification for the Second Stage Subgroup 1B
8	Druzhba Maykop	26	10	7	9	37	27	+10	37
9	Astrakhan	26	9	10	7	33	24	+9	37
10	Rubin Yalta	26	9	6	11	26	32	−6	33
11	Legion Makhachkala	26	7	8	11	26	42	−16	29
12	Angusht Nazran	26	5	8	13	21	31	−10	23
13	Spartak Nalchik	26	3	5	18	18	48	−30	14
14	Dynamo-2 Makhachkala	26	0	2	24	15	71	−56	2

Source: Soccerway

Second stage

Subgroup 1A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dynamo Stavropol (C, P)	36	21	10	5	55	32	+23	73	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Sevastopol	36	20	12	4	57	36	+21	72
3	Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya^[a] (R)	36	16	14	6	56	29	+27	62	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
4	Nart Cherkessk	36	17	8	11	47	29	+18	59
5	Pobeda Khasavyurt	36	16	4	16	40	47	−7	52
6	Rostov-2	36	14	7	15	43	37	+6	49

Source: Russian Second League
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

↑ On 16 January 2026, the management of Kuban-Holding announced their voluntary relegation from the Russian Second League.^[15]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Maksim Dmitriyev	Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya	17
2	Redvan Osmanov	Sevastopol	15
3	Makhach Abdulkhamidov	Dynamo Stavropol	10
3	Artyom Stepanovich	Dynamo Stavropol	10
5	Aleksandr Olenev	Nart Cherkessk	9
	Bekkhan Aliyev	Sevastopol
	Ratmir Mashezov	Nart Cherkessk

Subgroup 1B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Druzhba Maykop	33	15	8	10	50	30	+20	53
2	Astrakhan	33	14	10	9	42	29	+13	52
3	Sochi-2^[a] (R)	33	12	10	11	44	36	+8	46	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
4	Rubin Yalta	33	12	7	14	39	42	−3	43
5	Legion Makhachkala^[b]	33	9	9	15	33	58	−25	36
6	Angusht Nazran	33	7	10	16	27	37	−10	31
7	Spartak Nalchik^[c]	33	6	8	19	25	50	−25	26
8	Dynamo-2 Makhachkala^[d]	33	0	5	28	21	87	−66	5

Source: Russian Second League
(R) Relegated
Notes:

↑ Sochi-2 was voluntarily relegated.^[16]
↑ Legion was moved to a different city as FC Pobeda Nizhny Novgorod and also moved to Zone 4.
↑ Spartak Nalchik remained in the league for 2026 season despite finishing in relegation zone.
↑ Dynamo-2 remained in the league for 2026 season despite finishing in relegation zone.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gadzhimurad Abdullayev	Druzhba Maykop	15
2	Patcho	Astrakhan	13
3	Ramazan Aliyev	Dynamo-2 Makhachkala	12
4	Asker Delok	Druzhba Maykop	9
5	Amur Balkizov	Sochi-2	8

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg (C, P)	28	23	4	1	60	20	+40	73	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Dynamo Vologda	28	18	5	5	51	28	+23	59
3	Irkutsk	28	12	8	8	41	34	+7	44
4	Spartak-2 Moscow	28	13	5	10	42	32	+10	44
5	Baltika-2 Kaliningrad	28	10	10	8	46	37	+9	40
6	Tver	28	9	9	10	36	40	−4	36
7	Torpedo Vladimir	28	8	12	8	27	29	−2	36
8	Saturn Ramenskoye	28	9	8	11	38	45	−7	35
9	Cherepovets	28	9	6	13	35	43	−8	33
10	Chertanovo Moscow	28	8	8	12	43	45	−2	32
11	Zvezda Saint Petersburg	28	7	10	11	41	45	−4	31
12	Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki	28	7	9	12	26	31	−5	30
13	Kosmos Dolgoprudny	28	7	8	13	32	37	−5	29
14	Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk^[a]	28	6	7	15	28	58	−30	25
15	Kolomna (R)	28	4	11	13	23	45	−22	23	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Timur Ivanov	Zenit-2 St. Petersburg	12
Maksim Andreyev	Cherepovets
Roni Mikhaylovsky	Zvezda St. Petersburg
4	Ivan Yakovlev	Irkutsk	11
Aleksandr Pomalyuk	Chertanovo Moscow

Group 3

Group 3 included 15 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 28 March 2025 to 1 November 2025. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom team will be relegated from Division B.^[14]

FC Khimki-M, the reserve team of FC Khimki, was dissolved on 30 May 2025 after playing 9 games and gaining 7 points and removed from the league on the same day, also reducing the relegation zone from two worst teams to one.^[17]^[18] According to the league regulations, all the results of Khimki-M games played up to that point were discarded as it played less than half of their scheduled games.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Dynamo Bryansk (C, P)	28	19	4	5	49	18	+31	61	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Salyut Belgorod	28	19	3	6	53	24	+29	60
3	Dynamo St. Petersburg	28	17	8	3	57	20	+37	59
4	Spartak Tambov	28	16	5	7	47	25	+22	53
5	Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo^[a] (R)	28	16	4	8	57	29	+28	52	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
6	Ryazan	28	13	8	7	36	29	+7	47
7	Metallurg Lipetsk	28	13	5	10	36	25	+11	44
8	Oryol	28	10	8	10	36	37	−1	38
9	Arsenal-2 Tula	28	9	6	13	39	39	0	33
10	Rodina-M Moscow	28	8	8	12	39	46	−7	32
11	Zenit Penza	28	8	4	16	26	40	−14	28
12	SKA-Khabarovsk-2	28	8	3	17	39	64	−25	27
13	Rotor-2 Volgograd	28	5	8	15	26	44	−18	23
14	Strogino Moscow	28	6	3	19	31	73	−42	21
15	Kvant Obninsk^[b]	28	1	7	20	17	75	−58	10

Source: Soccerway
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

↑ Znamya Truda did not enter the 2026 Second League due to financial difficulties.^[19]
↑ Kvant remained in the league for 2026 despite finishing in the relegation zone

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gocha Gogrichiani	Oryol	15
2	Vladislav Morozov	Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo	13
3	Timur Zhamaletdinov	Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo	12
3	Daniil Konoplyov	Dynamo Bryansk	12
5	Stepan Glotov	SKA-Khabarovsk-2	11
5	Nikita Pogrebnev	Ryazan	11

v t e Russian Second League teams
2025–26 Division A
Gold Group	Irtysh Omsk Kaluga Leningradets Leningrad Oblast Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk Rodina-2 Moscow Sibir Novosibirsk Tekstilshchik Ivanovo Torpedo Miass Veles Moscow Volgar Astrakhan
Silver Group	Alania Vladikavkaz Amkar Perm Dynamo Bryansk Dynamo Kirov Dynamo Stavropol Dynamo Vladivostok Dynamo-2 Moscow Kuban Krasnodar Tyumen Zenit-2 St. Petersburg
2026 Division B
Group 1	Angusht Nazran Astrakhan Chayka-M Peschanokopskoye Druzhba Maykop Dynamo-2 Makhachkala Kyzyltash Bakhchisaray Nart Cherkessk Neftyanik Izberbash Pobeda Khasavyurt PSK Dinskaya Rostov-2 Rubin Yalta Sevastopol Shakhtyor Donetsk Spartak Nalchik Zarya Lugansk
Group 2	Baltika-2 Kaliningrad Cherepovets Chertanovo Moscow Dynamo St. Petersburg Dynamo Vologda Irkutsk Iskra Smolensk Kosmos Dolgoprudny Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki Murom Spartak-2 Moscow Torpedo Vladimir Tver Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk Zvezda St. Petersburg
Group 3	Arsenal-2 Tula Avangard Kursk Kvant Obninsk Metallurg Lipetsk Oryol Rodina-3 Moscow Rotor-2 Volgograd Ryazan Salyut Belgorod Saturn Ramenskoye Shumbrat Saransk SKA-Khabarovsk-2 Spartak Tambov Strogino Moscow Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Zenit Penza
Group 4	Akron-2 Tolyatti Chelyabinsk-2 Dynamo Barnaul Izhevsk KDV Tomsk Khimik Dzerzhinsk Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara Nosta Novotroitsk Orenburg-2 Pobeda Nizhny Novgorod Rubin-2 Kazan Ural-2 Yekaterinburg

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2025 Russian Second League Division B

Team movement

Group 1

First stage

Second stage

Subgroup 1A

Top goalscorers

Subgroup 1B

Top goalscorers

Group 2

Top goalscorers

Group 3

Top goalscorers

Group 4

Top goalscorers

References

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Amkar Perm (C, P)	26	20	3	3	60	19	+41	63	Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group
2	Khimik Dzerzhinsk	26	19	5	2	56	20	+36	62
3	KDV Tomsk	26	13	7	6	41	25	+16	46
4	Orenburg-2	26	12	10	4	41	24	+17	46
5	Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil^[a] (R)	26	12	6	8	37	28	+9	42	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League
6	Dynamo Barnaul	26	12	5	9	30	40	−10	41
7	Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	26	12	4	10	33	35	−2	40
8	Rubin-2 Kazan	26	11	6	9	40	30	+10	39
9	Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara	26	7	8	11	29	39	−10	29
10	Akron-2 Tolyatti	26	8	3	15	41	52	−11	27
11	Chelyabinsk-2	26	7	6	13	18	40	−22	27
12	Ural-2 Yekaterinburg	26	5	6	15	22	53	−31	21
13	Nosta Novotroitsk^[b]	26	5	4	17	24	52	−28	19
14	Sokol Kazan^[c] (R)	26	2	1	23	8	23	−15	7	Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ilya Yurchenko	Khimik Dzerzhinsk	20
2	Daniil Zuyev	Amkar Perm	13
2	Artyom Kotik	Amkar Perm	13
4	Aleksandr Podbeltsev	Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil	11
5	Artyom Yarkin	Dynamo Barnaul	10