2026 Russian Second League Division B
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| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 28 March 2026 – November 2026 |
← 2025 2027 → | |
The 2026 Russian Second League Division B is the fourth season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 28 March 2026 and will end in November 2026.
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. Division B also switched to the spring-to-autumn, March-to-November schedule. 2023 was a transitional half-year season. 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 2027 Division B.
Team movement
At the end of the 2025 season, Dynamo Stavropol, Zenit-2 St. Petersburg, Dynamo Bryansk and Amkar Perm were promoted to Division A as winners of their Division B groups. Avangard Kursk and Murom were relegated to Division B from Division A.
Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya, Sochi-2, Kolomna, Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil and Sokol Kazan were relegated or voluntarily dropped out.[1][2][3][4]
Legion Makhachkala was relocated and renamed to Pobeda Nizhny Novgorod, also moving from Zone 1 to Zone 4.[5] Rodina-M Moscow was renamed to Rodina-3 Moscow. Dynamo St. Petersburg moved from Group 3 to Group 2, Saturn Ramenskoye moved from Group 2 to Group 3, Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast moved from Group 4 to Group 3.
Spartak Nalchik, Dynamo-2 Makhachkala, Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk, Kvant Obninsk and Nosta Novotroitsk, which finished the 2025 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 Dynamo-2, Yenisey-2 and Kvant.
New teams were Zarya Lugansk, Kyzyltash Bakhchisaray, Neftyanik Izberbash, PSK Dinskaya, Shakhtyor, Iskra Smolensk, Shumbrat Saransk, Izhevsk (all promoted from lower-level amateur leagues) and Chayka-M Peschanokopskoye (reserve team of a Russian First League club).
Group 1
Group 1 includes 16 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 28 March 2026 to 30 October 2026. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.[6]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sevastopol | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 13 | Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group |
| 2 | PSK Dinskaya | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 12 | |
| 3 | Kyzyltash Bakhchisaray | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 11 | |
| 4 | Shakhtyor Donetsk | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 10 | |
| 5 | Rostov-2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 9 | |
| 6 | Angusht Nazran | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 9 | |
| 7 | Nart Cherkessk | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 8 | |
| 8 | Spartak Nalchik | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 8 | |
| 9 | Druzhba Maykop | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 7 | |
| 10 | Neftyanik Izberbash | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 6 | |
| 11 | Rubin Yalta | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 5 | |
| 12 | Dynamo-2 Makhachkala | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 4 | |
| 13 | Zarya Lugansk | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 3 | |
| 14 | Pobeda Khasavyurt | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 2 | |
| 15 | Astrakhan | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 2 | Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League |
| 16 | Chayka-M Peschanokopskoye | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 1 |
Group 2
Group 2 includes 15 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 28 March 2026 to 1 November 2026. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.[6]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynamo St. Petersburg | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 13 | Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group |
| 2 | Baltika-2 Kaliningrad | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 10 | |
| 3 | Murom | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 10 | |
| 4 | Cherepovets | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 9 | |
| 5 | Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 9 | |
| 6 | Chertanovo Moscow | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 8 | |
| 7 | Dynamo Vologda | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 | |
| 8 | Tver | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 6 | |
| 9 | Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 6 | |
| 10 | Zvezda Saint Petersburg | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | |
| 11 | Torpedo Vladimir | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | −4 | 3 | |
| 12 | Irkutsk | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 3 | |
| 13 | Kosmos Dolgoprudny | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 3 | |
| 14 | Iskra Smolensk | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 2 | Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League |
| 15 | Spartak-2 Moscow | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 1 |