The 2024 Russian Second League Division B is the second season of
Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 30 March 2024 and will end on 16 November 2024. There is a three-week break in July after half of the games have been played.
Overview
In the summer of 2023, the
Russian Second League
The Russian Second League (russian: Первенство России II дивизиона ФНЛ), formerly Russian Professional Football League is the third level of Russian professional football.
History
In 1998–2010, it was run by the P ...
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 is 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 A Second Stage Silver Group. Four bottom teams from the Division A First Stage Silver Group will be relegated to 2025 Division B.
Team movement
At the end of the 2023 season,
Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk,
Khimik Dzerzhinsk
FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk (russian: ФК «Химик» Дзержинск) is an association football club from Dzerzhinsk, Russia
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,
Kaluga
Kaluga ( rus, Калу́га, p=kɐˈɫuɡə), a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast in Russia, stands on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Population:
Kaluga's most famous resident, the space travel pioneer Konstantin Tsiol ...
and
Torpedo Miass were promoted to Division A as winners of their Division B groups.
Forte Taganrog,
Amkar Perm
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,
Chertanovo Moscow
FC Chertanovo Moscow (russian: «Чертаново» (Москва)) is a Russian professional football club based in Chertanovo, Moscow who play in the FNL 2, the third tier of Russian football. It is the senior team of the Chertanovo Footbal ...
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.
Sakhalinets Moscow and
Khimik-Avgust Vurnary dissolved their professional squads.
Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk failed licensing for the season.
Elektron Veliky Novgorod moved to Nizhny Novgorod and was renamed to
Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
Pobeda Khasavyurt,
Dynamo Stavropol
PFC Dynamo Stavropol (russian: link=no, «Динамо» (Ставрополь)) is an association football club from Stavropol, south Russia, best known for winning the 1949 RSFSR championship in one of the 9 zones. In recent years it played mo ...
,
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
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,
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).
Group 1
Group 1 includes 17 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 30 March 2024 to 16 November 2024. The opening games that were initially scheduled for 23 March 2024 were postponed due to the
Crocus City Hall attack. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.
Group 2
Group 2 includes 16 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 6 April 2024 to 3 November 2024.
The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.
Group 3
Group 3 includes 15 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 7 April 2024 to 3 November 2024.
The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.
Group 4
Group 4 includes 14 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 13 April 2024 to 19 October 2024.
The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.
References
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