The 1952 Soviet football championship was the 20th seasons of competitive

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in the

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and the 14th among teams of sports societies and factories.

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won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the fourth time and the first after

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, the Spartak's main rivals Dinamo again had a difficult season struggling only for the second. The defending champions CDSA were expelled from the league for the poor performance of the

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at the

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. The Class A started late mid-summer consisting only of a single round-robin with almost all games played in

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Honours

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Soviet Union football championship

Class A

Class B (second stage)

For places 1-9

For places 10-18

Played in Rostov-na-Donu

Relegation play-off

To the play-off qualified the champion of the 1952 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR and the worst Ukrainian team of masters of the 1952 Soviet Class B.

Top goalscorers

Class A *

Andrei Zazroyev Andrey Ivanovich Zazroyev (Zazroshvili) ( ka, ანდრო ივანეს ძე ზაზროევი (ზაზროშვილი); russian: Андрей Иванович Зазроев (Зазрошвили); 21 October 1925 – 1 ...

(

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) – 11 goals

References

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