USSR (Soviet Union) - Inter-City Championship

Tournament between city selections, held on nine occasions between 1928 and 1936; initially only between the two largest cities of Leningrad and Moskva (whose clubs also played off for a "national" title between 1919 and 1929), but gradually increasing in size until eight city selections entered in 1936.

Palmares

Year Winners                    
1928 Leningrad
1929 Moskva
1930   shared between Leningrad and Moskva
1931 Moskva
1932   shared between Kharkov, Leningrad and Moskva
1933 Moskva
1934 Moskva
1935   shared between Leningrad and Moskva
1936   shared between Kiev and Moskva 

Number of Wins (9; shared titles split into halves c.q. thirds)

 5⅚ Moskva

 2⅓ Leningrad

  ½ Kiev
  ⅓ Kharkov

1928

[Jun 30]
Leningrad       2-0 Moskva          
   [Grigory Arkhangelsky 20, Mikhail Butusov 30]

1929

[Jun 23]
Moskva          4-1 Leningrad      
  [Vladimir Blinkov 24, Nikolay Starostin 31, Vasily Pavlov 75, 80;
   Grigory Arkhangelsky 72]

1930

[Jun 21]
Leningrad       3-3 Moskva          [title shared]
  [Mikhail Butusov 52, Pavel Batyrev 63pen, Boris Ivin 65;
   Sergey Ilyin 23, Sergey Ivanov 35, Vasily Pavlov 40]

1931

NB: played in Moskva 

[Aug 2]
Moskva          1-1 Kharkov         
  [Serafim Krivonosov 29; Nikita Zub 10]
[Aug 3]
Moskva          6-2 Leningrad       
  [Stanislav Leuta 25, 40pen, Fedor Selin 32, Vasily Pavlov 47, 84,
   Georgy Bogdanov 70; Petr Grigoriev 27, Andrey Murashev 33]
[Aug 4]
Leningrad       2-2 Kharkov         
  [Petr Grigoriev 9, Fedor Aksonov 89; Boris Andreev 59, Nikita Zub 69]

 1.Moskva         2  1  1  0  7- 3  5
 2.Kharkov        2  0  2  0  3- 3  4
 3.Leningrad      2  0  1  1  4- 8  3
NB: 3-2-1 point system

1932

NB: played in Kharkov

[Jun 26]
Kharkov         4-1 Leningrad       
  [S.Andreev 5, Aleksandr Shpakovsky 15, 49, Ivan Privalov 36pen; Evgeny Eliseev 86]
[Jun 27]
Kharkov         0-3 Moskva          
  [Vladimir Stepanov 31, 60, Nikolay Starostin 83]
[Jun 28]
Leningrad       3-2 Moskva          
  [Pavel Popov 41pen, Petr Grigoriev 53, Pavel Batyrev 65pen;
   Nikolay Starostin 49, Sergey  Ilyin 60]

 1.Moskva         2  1  0  1  5- 3  4
   Kharkov        2  1  0  1  4- 4  4
   Leningrad      2  1  0  1  4- 6  4
NB: 3-2-1 point system

NB: title shared between all three entrants

1933

NB: played in Leningrad

[Aug 26]
Leningrad       2-4 Moskva          
  [Evgeny Eliseev 10, Nikolay Yartsev 30; Sergey Ilyin 3,
   Nikolay Starostin 50, 71, Sergey Ivanov 65]
[Aug 28]
Leningrad       0-1 Kharkov         
  [Aleksandr Shpakovsky 73]
[Aug 30]
Moskva          4-2 Kharkov         
  [Vasily Pavlov 19, 86, Sergey Ilyin 39, Sergey Ivanov 58;
   Anatoly Lesnoy 25, Vladimir Fomin 77pen]

 1.Moskva         2  2  0  0  8- 4  6
 2.Kharkov        2  1  0  1  3- 4  4
 3.Leningrad      2  0  0  2  2- 5  2
NB: 3-2-1 point system

1934

NB: played in Moskva 

[Jun 29]
Moskva          5-2 Kharkov         
  [Mikhail Yakushin 6 30, Sergey Ivanov 24, Sergey Ilyin 43pen,
   Vasily Smirnov 72; Petr Parovyshnikov 28pen, Sergey Kopeiko 52]
[Jun 30]
Moskva          2-1 Leningrad       
  [Andrey Starostin 60, Sergey Ilyin 63; Pavel Popov 12pen]
[Jul 2]
Leningrad       4-3 Kharkov         
  [Vladimir Kuskov 15, Petr Dementyev 35 40, Pavel Popov 51pen;
   Petr Parovyshnikov 38pen, 87, 88pen]

 1.Moskva         2  2  0  0  7- 3  6
 2.Leningrad      2  1  0  1  5- 5  4
 3.Kharkov        2  0  0  2  5- 9  2
NB: 3-2-1 point system

1935

NB: played in Kiev as part of the Championship of the USSR

[Jun 20]
Kharkov         3-2 Moskva          
  [Valentin Liventsev 9, Petr Parovyshnikov 53pen, Anatoly Lesnoy 58;
   Sergey Ivanov 5, Mikhail Yakushin 75]
Kiev            1-3 Leningrad       
  [Ivan Kuzmenko 75; Vladimir Kuskov 5, 86, Mikhail Butusov 80]
[Jun 22]
Kiev            2-1 Kharkov         
  [Makar Goncharenko 12, Viktor Shilovsky 70; Petr Parovyshnikov 30]
Moskva          2-1 Leningrad       
  [Vasily Pavlov 6, Vasily Smirnov 85pen; Evgeny Nikishin 44pen]
[Jun 24]
Kiev            0-2 Moskva          
  [Mikhail Yakushin 6, Vasily Pavlov 35]
Leningrad       4-1 Kharkov      
  [Mikhail Butusov 8, 31, 80, Vladimir Kuskov 20; Petr Parovyshnikov 36pen]

 1.Leningrad      3  2  0  1  8- 4  7
   Moskva         3  2  0  1  6- 4  7
 3.Kharkov        3  1  0  2  5- 8  5
   Kiev           3  1  0  2  3- 6  5
NB: 3-2-1 point system

NB: title shared between Leningrad and Moskva

1936

Group 1 (played in Gorky)

Round 1 [Jun 26]
Moskva        2-0 Kharkov       
  [Mikhail Semichastny, Sergey Ilyin]
Gorky         3-0 Baku          

Round 2 [Jun 28]
Moskva        2-0 Baku          
Gorky         unk Kharkov       

Round 3 [Jul 1]
Gorky         0-4 Moskva        
Kharkov       unk Baku          

 1.Moskva         3  3  0  0  8- 0  9  Final
   Kharkov
   Baku
   Gorky

Group 2 (played in Leningrad)

 1.Kiev                                Final
   Leningrad
   Rostov-na-Donu
 -.Tbilisi      withdrew

Final [Jul 18]
Moskva        n/p Kiev          

NB: final not played due to lack of space in the season calendar; title shared.

About this document

Sources included: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki, http://regional-football.ru/, https://footballfacts.ru/, https://vk.com/club57170415, https://historyrails.ru/

Prepared and maintained by Davide Angelini for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Davide Angelini
Last updated: 27 Mar 2024