1948 Vtoraya Gruppa

The 1948 Vtoraya Gruppa of the Soviet football championship was the 9th season of the second tier football competitions in the Soviet Union.

The format of the competition was preserved from the previous season and included six groups, but number of participants was increased once again to total of 75. Group winners qualified to the final group, the winner of which was the ultimate winner and gained promotion to the Pervaya Gruppa (Top League).

Lokomotiv Kharkov won the championship. Five teams gained promotion to the 1949 Pervaya Gruppa.

Relegated teams

 * none

Promoted teams
• FC Metallurg Moscow – (returning, last played in 1936 as "Serp i Molot Moscow")

• FC Spartak Minsk – (returning, last played in 1939)

• FC Bolshevik Mukachevo – Champions of the 1947 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR (debut)

• FC Dinamo Tallinn – Champions of the 1947 Estonian SSR Football Championship (debut)

• FC Daugava Riga – (debut)

• FC Spartak Ivanovo – (debut)

• FC Spartak Penza – (debut)

• FC Khimik Kemerevo – (debut)

• FC Traktor Taganrog – (debut)

• FC Pischevik Astrakhan – (debut)

• FC Avanhard Kramatorsk – (debut)

• FC Shakhter Kadievka – (debut)

• FC Lokomotiv Zaporozhye

• FC Metallurg Magnitogorsk – (debut)

• FC Khimik Orekhovo-Zuyevo* – (debut)

• FC Dinamo Moscow Oblast* – (debut)

• FC Dzerzhinets Kolomna* – (debut)

• FC Spartak Voronezh* – (debut)

• FC Tsvetmet Kamensk-Uralskiy* – (debut)

• FC Gornyak Kemerevo* – (debut)
 * With the asterisk identified teams that may have been created just before the start of the season.

Renamed teams

 * Spartak Vilnius last season was known as Dinamo Vilnius

Ukrainian Zone
The zone was expanded from 13 to 16 teams split into two subgroups. The relegated Bolshevik Zaporozhie was replaced with the best three teams of Donbas group (Group 6) including Lokomotiv Zaporozhie and the champion of the 1947 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR.

FC Shakhter Stalino was promoted to the 1949 Pervaya Gruppa without the need to qualify for the league's finals.

1st place play-off
Lokomotiv Kharkov - Stal Dnepropetrovsk 3:1