1936 in Soviet football

The 1936 Soviet football championship was the 6th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union split into two halves. It was also the inaugural competition for the Soviet league format (round-robin) transitioning from the cities football competition format that was grandfathered from the Imperial Russian sports events.

FC Dynamo Moscow won the championship in spring and FC Spartak Moscow won it in fall. Between both championships in the summer there was held the first Soviet Cup competition.

In the fall the defending champions Dynamo were going neck-to-neck with their main rivals Spartak, but just a round away from the finish line they tied with weaker Dynamo Leningrad which costed them the title.

Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad avoided relegation from Group A in the spring, while CDKA Moscow avoided relegation in the fall.

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

Lokomotiv Moscow beat Dinamo Tbilisi 2–0 in the Soviet Cup final. Goals were scored by Aleksei Sokolov and Viktor Lavrov. The Georgian side was coached by a foreign head coach out of France Jules Limbeck.

Group A

• Mikhail Semichastny (Dinamo Moscow) – 6 goals

Group B

• Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi) – 7 goals

Football competitions of union republics

• No republican-level round-robin competitions were conducted in Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR

• No republican-level cup competitions were conducted in Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Uzbek SSR

• New union republics were established in 1936: Kazakh SSR and Kirgiz SSR

• Transcaucasian SFSR was dissolved into its three constituent republics

• Ukrainian SSR – Ordzhonikidze Factory Kramatorsk (see 1936 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR)

• Belarusian SSR – city of Minsk (see Football Championship of the Belarusian SSR)

• Transcaucasian SFSR – unknown

• Uzbek SSR – city of Tashkent

• Ukrainian SSR – FC Dynamo Kyiv (see 1936 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR)

• Belarusian SSR – FC Dinamo Minsk

• Transcaucasian SFSR – unknown

• Turkmen SSR – Lokomotiv Ashkhabad

• 1936 Soviet football championship. RSSSF