2025 Russian Second League Division B
| Season | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 22 March 2025 – November 2025 |
← 2024 2026 → | |
The 2024 Russian Second League Division B will be the third season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season will begin on 22 March 2025 and end in November 2025.
Overview
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Group 1 includes 14 teams that will play each other twice, home and away, from 22 March 2025 to November 2025. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rostov-2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 3 | Promotion to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group |
| 2 | Dynamo Stavropol | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 | |
| 3 | Sevastopol | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Sochi-2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 | |
| 5 | Nart Cherkessk | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 | |
| 6 | Rubin Yalta | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 | |
| 7 | Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | Astrakhan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 | Spartak Nalchik | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 0 | |
| 10 | Dynamo-2 Makhachkala | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 0 | |
| 11 | Pobeda Khasavyurt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 0 | |
| 12 | Angusht Nazran | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0 | |
| 13 | Druzhba Maykop | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0 | Relegation to the Russian Amateur Football League |
| 14 | Legion Makhachkala | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Бюро исполкома РФС утвердило реформу Второй лиги" (in Russian). Russian Football Union. 10 May 2023.
- ^ "ВТОРАЯ ЛИГА БУДЕТ РЕФОРМИРОВАНА С СЕЗОНА 2023/2024" (in Russian). FNL. 10 May 2023.
- ^ "В «Краснодаре» объяснили решение распустить вторую команду" (in Russian). Championat. 13 November 2024.
- ^ "Клуб LEON-Второй лиги «Биолог-Новокубанск» будет расформирован" (in Russian). Metaratings. 15 January 2025.
- ^ "Спортивный регион? ФК "Сахалин" решено ликвидировать" (in Russian). SakhPost. 29 December 2024.
- ^ "«Лада-Тольятти» не примет участия в новом сезоне второй лиги Б" (in Russian). Sport Express. 14 November 2024.
- ^ "«Пари НН» объявил об упразднении второй команды" (in Russian). Sport Express. 18 December 2024.
- ^ "БК Леон и ФК «Леон Сатурн» завершают сотрудничество" (in Russian). FC Saturn Ramenskoye. 6 December 2024. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ "СПАСИБО ЗА СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВО!" (in Russian). FC Baltika Kaliningrad. 13 January 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ "Новая футбольная команда появилась у Томска. Ее приобрел основатель KDV Денис Штенгелов" (in Russian). Новая футбольная команда появилась у Томска. Ее приобрел основатель KDV Денис Штенгелов. 21 February 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ "Старейший футбольный клуб России «Знамя Труда» объединился в одну команду с «Композитом»" (in Russian). Match TV. 31 January 2025.
- ^ "Определены календари для групп 1, 2 и 3 LEON-Второй Лиги Б" (in Russian). Russian Second League. 5 March 2025.
- ^ "Определен календарь для группы 4 LEON-Второй Лиги Б" (in Russian). Russian Second League. 12 March 2025.