1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR

The 1946 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR were part of the 1946 Soviet republican football competitions in the Soviet Ukraine as well as so called Soviet "Tretya Gruppa" (Group 3) which by some football enthusiasts consider a predecessor of the Soviet Second League.

It was the first republican league competition in Ukraine following the World War II. Competitions were restructured and instead of tiered competitions, all tiers were combined into single tier divided by geographic groups.

Except for Spartak Kyiv, the top 2 from each qualification group also qualified for the 1947 Vtoraya Gruppa, Zone Ukraine.

Beside Ukrainian teams, in competitions took place one Moldovan team, Spartak Chisinau (Southern Group).

Debuting
Bilshovyk Zaporizhia, Dynamo Chernihiv, Dynamo Chortkiv (withdrew), Dynamo Kirovohrad, Dynamo Lutsk, Dynamo Rivne, Dynamo Sumy, Dynamo Voroshylovhrad, Dzerzhynets Kharkiv, Lokomotyv Ternopil, Lokomotyv Yasynuvata, Spartak Chernivtsi, Spartak Chisinau, Spartak Drohobych, Spartak Izmail, Spartak Kherson, Spartak Lviv, Spartak Stanislav, Spartak Uzhhorod, Stakhanovets Rutchenkove, Stal Mariupol, Zdorovia Kharkiv

Relegated
Lokomotyv Kyiv, Silmash Kharkiv

Returning
Dynamo Odesa (last in 1939), ODO Kyiv (last in 1939), Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk (last in 1937), Spartak Kyiv (last in 1937)

Renamed
UDKA Kyiv → ODO Kyiv

West

 * Lokomotyv Ternopil replaced Dynamo Chortkiv which withdrew after Round 2. The Dynamo's record was passed on to Lokomotyv.

Ukrainian clubs at the All-Union level

 * First Group (1): Dynamo Kyiv
 * Second Group (5): Lokomotyv Kharkiv, Kharchovyk Odesa, Shakhtar Stalino, Stal Dnipropetrovsk, Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv