USSR (Soviet Union) - Championship of the Two Capitals

Match between the city champions or cup winners of Petrograd/Leningrad and Moskva; held seven times in eleven years between 1919 and 1929; prior to the establishment of a national club league in 1936, this may be considered as the prime club honour in the Soviet Union.
Note that Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in January 1924.

Since 1928, an annual championship of city selections was held (until 1936), which eventually appears to have replaced the club match.

Year Winners                          Losers             

1919 Kolomyagi (Petrograd)      3-1   ZKS (Moskva)                       [Sep 7, 1919]
1921 Merkur (Petrograd)         4-3   SKZ (Moskva)   
1922 OLLS (Moskva)              1-0   Sport (Petrograd)                  [Jun 25, 1922]
1923 Kolomyagi (Petrograd)      3-1   Krasnaya Presnya (Moskva)          [Jul 22, 1923]
1924 Krasnaya Presnya (Moskva)  3-1   Petrogradsky (Leningrad)           [Oct 25, 1924]
1928 Dynamo (Moskva)            3-2   Pishchevkus (Leningrad)            [Jul 8, 1928]
1929 Pishcheviki (Moskva)       3-1   Pishchevkus (Leningrad)            [Jul 6, 1929]

Number of Wins [7 editions; lost finals between square brackets]

 2 [ 1] Krasnaya Presnya/Pishcheviki (Moskva)
 2      Kolomyagi (Petrograd)

 1      Dynamo (Moskva)
 1      Merkur (Petrograd)
 1      OLLS (Moskva)

   [ 2] Pishchevkus (Leningrad)
   [ 1] Petrogradsky (Leningrad)
   [ 1] SKZ (Moskva)
   [ 1] Sport (Petrograd) 
   [ 1] ZKS (Moskva)

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: 11 Apr 2024