1947 Vtoraya Gruppa

The 1947 Vtoraya Gruppa of the Soviet football championship was the 8th season in the 2nd tier football competitions in the Soviet Union.

The number of participating teams almost tripled compared to the last season and increased again from 26 to 67 which were split into six groups. There were created three groups for the Russian SFSR, one for the Ukrainian SSR, one group of Transcaucasian union republics and one group for the Central Asian union republics. The smaller republics of Baltics along with Belarus competed in of the groups designated for the Russian SFSR, known as the Central Group, while the Moldavian representative took part along with Ukrainian teams. In this championship participated at least one team from almost all of the union republics of the Soviet Union except for the Karelo-Finnish SSR. The Karelo-Finish teams really struggled placing dead last in preceding republican qualification tournament.

Six group winners qualified for the Final Group which determined the season's winner.

Lokomotiv Moscow won the championship in the Vtoraya Gruppa.

Relegated teams

 * none

Promoted teams
Many teams were promoted to the league that took part in republican competitions of the 1946 season. With asterisk identified teams that did not take part in the 1946 season last year.

Returning teams

 * FC Dinamo Sverdlovsk – Third placed in the 1946 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (returning, last played in 1937)
 * FC Dzerzhinets Leningrad – (returning, last played in 1940)
 * FC Dinamo Kazan – (returning, last played in 1939)
 * FC Dinamo Baku – (returning, last played in 1945)
 * FC Spartak Yerevan – (returning, last played in 1940)

First appearance
• FC Dinamo Riga – Champions of the 1946 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (debut)

• FC Zenit Kaliningrad – Runner-up of the 1946 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (debut)

• FC Dinamo Saratov – Fourth placed in the 1946 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (debut)

• FC Krylia Sovetov Novosibirsk – Fifth placed in the 1946 Football Championship of the Russian SFSR (debut)

• FC Dinamo Vilnius – (debut)

• DO Leningrad – (debut)

• FC Zenit Izhevsk – (debut)

• FC Zenit Kovrov – (debut)

• FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk – (debut)

• FC Dinamo Chelyabinsk – (debut)

• FC Dzerzhinets Nizhniy Tagil – (debut)

• FC Krylia Sovetov Omsk – (debut)

• FC Spartak Uzhhorod – Champions of the 1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (debut)

• FC Krylia Sovetov Tbilisi – Champions of the 1946 Football Championship of Transcaucasia (debut)

• FC Dinamo Alma-Ata – Champions of the 1946 Football Championship of Central Asia (debut)

• DO Minsk – Champions of the 1946 Football Championship of the Belarusian SSR (debut)

• ODO Kiev – Runner-up of the 1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (debut)

• FC Dzerzhinets Kharkov – (debut)

• FC Bolshevik Zaporozhye – (debut)

• FC Spartak Lviv – (debut)

• FC Spartak Kherson – (debut)

• FC Dinamo Voroshilovgrad – (debut)

• FC Dinamo Stalinabad – (debut)

• FC Lokomotiv Ashkhabad – (debut)

• FC Dinamo Frunze – (debut)

• ODO Tashkent – (debut)

• FC Dinamo Kishinev* – (debut)

• FC Kalev Tallinn* – (debut)

• FC Metro Moscow* – (debut)

• FC Sudostroitel Leningrad* – (debut)

• FC Torpedo Ulyanovsk* – (debut)

• FC Torpedo Yaroslavl* – (debut)

• FC Traktor Kuibyshev* – (debut)

• FC Krylia Sovetov Ufa* – (debut)

• FC Avangard Svedlovsk* – (debut)

• FC Dinamo Tashkent* – (debut)

• FC Spartak Alma-Ata* – (debut)

• FC Zenit Frunze* – (debut)

• FC Spartak Tashkent* – (debut)

Ukraine
The zone was formed from the 5 teams of the 1946 Vtoraya Gruppa season competing in the Southern Zone and top-8 of the 1946 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR. Only instead of Spartak Kyiv, there was admitted Moldavian representative Dynamo Kishenev (possibly based on Spartak Kishenev).

Final stage
The final stage was conducting in Moscow September 28 – October 14. Participants played on stadiums Dynamo and Stalinets.