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1963 Soviet Class A Second Group

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competition	Soviet Class A Second Group
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The 1963 Soviet Class A Second Group was the inaugural season of the Soviet Class A Second Group football competitions that was reorganized based on the best teams of the 1962 Soviet Class B season. It was also the 23rd season of the Soviet second tier league competition.

The league was consolidated into a single group of 18 clubs.

Qualified teams

Team	Class B zones and position in 1962
Daugava Riga	Class A (relegation)
Žalgiris Vilnius	Class A (relegation)
Shinnik Yaroslavl	I Zone (Russia)
Trud Voronezh	II Zone (Russia)
Kuban Krasnodar	III Zone (Russia)
Traktor Volgograd	III Zone (Russia)
UralMash Sverdlovsk	IV Zone (Russia)
Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk	IV Zone (Russia)
SKA Novosibirsk	V Zone (Russia)
Chernomorets Odessa	I Zone (Ukraine)
Metallurg Zaporozhye	II Zone (Ukraine)
Trudoviye Rezervy Lugansk	III Zone (Ukraine)
Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk	III Zone (Ukraine)
Lokomotiv Gomel	I Zone (Union rep)
Shakhtyor Karaganda	II Zone (Union rep)
Alga Frunze	II Zone (Union rep)
Volga Gorkiy	new
Karpaty Lvov	new

Notes:

FC Kuban Krasnodar was previously called as Spartak.
FC Volga Gorkiy was added after merger of Torpedo Gorkiy and Raketa Gorkiy.
FC Karpaty Lvov replaced SKA Lvov.

Final standings

Top scorers

;13 goals

Anatoli Isayev (Shinnik Yaroslavl)
Viktor Korolkov (Shakhter Karaganda)

;12 goals

Valentyn Hrishyn (Trudovye Rezervy Lugansk)
Albert Liber (Trud Voronezh)

;11 goals

Vitaliy Kovalenko (Metallurg Zaporozhie)

Number of teams by republics

Number	Union republics	Team(s)
8	Russian SFSR	FC Shinnik Yaroslavl, FC Trud Voronezh, FC Kuban Krasnodar, FC Traktor Volgograd, FC UralMash Sverdlovsk, FC Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk, SKA Novosibirsk, FC Volga Gorkiy
5	Ukrainian SSR	FC Chernomorets Odessa, FC Metallurg Zaporozhye, FC Trudoviye Rezervy Lugansk, FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, FC Karpaty Lvov
1	Latvian SSR	FC Daugava Riga
1	Lithuanian SSR	FK Žalgiris Vilnius
1	Belarusian SSR	FC Lokomotiv Gomel
1	Kazakh SSR	FC Shakhter Karaganda
1	Kyrgyz SSR	FC Alga Frunze

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