The 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 40th season of association football competition of the

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, which was part of the Second Group of

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in Zone 1. It was the eighth and last season in the Second Group of

. The season started on 11 April 1970. The 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by

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Reorganization

In 1970–1971 the Soviet football league structure went through reformation. The Soviet Class A introduced an extra tier expanding from two to three in total. To the previous First and Second groups, there was introduced Higher (or Top) group. With this, many clubs that previously competed at the second tier (Second Group) were relegated to lower third tier (Second Group). Because of that, many clubs also moved two tiers either up the league's ladder.

Teams

Location map

Relegated teams

18 clubs were relegated from the 1969 Second Group (Class A). *

SC Tavriya Simferopol Sports Club Tavriya () was a Ukrainian football club from Simferopol. Tavriya was a member of the Ukrainian Premier League from its founding and won the first Ukrainian Premier League 1992, Ukrainian Premier League making them one of three team ...

* FC Avtomobilist Zhytomyr * FC Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv * FC Azovets Zhdanov *

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* FC Lokomotyv Kherson *

FC Desna Chernihiv Football Club Desna Chernihiv () is a Ukraine, Ukrainian football (soccer), football club based in Chernihiv. The original name of the club was "Avanhard" (FC Avanhard Chernihiv) during its first year of existence as part of a republican Avanhar ...

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* FC Spartak Brest *

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Promoted teams

All four teams technically were never promoted as they stayed at the third tier. Three clubs were moved from the 1969 Ukrainian Class B, one more from the 1969 Russian Class B, Zone 1. *

FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was a Ukrainian football team based in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, the unofficial capital of the Prykarpattia region. History The club was founded in 1940 after the Soviet occupation of the Easte ...

* FC Shakhtar Kadiivka *

FC Spartak Sumy FC Spartak Sumy was a Ukrainian football club based in Sumy. History Yavir was established on January 12, 1982, at the village forestry Krasnopillya. In Ukrainian Yavir () means Sycamore (''Acer pseudoplatanus''). The team started playing in t ...

* FC Gomselmash Gomel

Relocated and renamed teams

* none

Final standings

Top goalscorers

The following were the top goalscorers.

Notes

References

External links

1970 season regulations
Luhansk football portal
1970 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 (Ukrainian SSR football championship)
Luhansk football portal

(all leagues) at helmsoccer.narod.ru
Class "A" – Druha Hrupa (Zone 1) – 1970 (Клас "А" - Друга група (1 зона) - 1970)
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