1941 FC Traktor Stalingrad season

The 1941 Traktor Stalingrad season was the 6th season in USSR championships.

Traktor Stalingrad

1941 season
Manager	Aleksandr Keller
Stadium	Traktor, Stalingrad
Group A	not completed
Top goalscorer	League: Viktor Matveyev (8) All: Viktor Matveyev (8)
Highest home attendance	12,000
Lowest home attendance	3,000
Average home league attendance	7,000
Home colours Away colours

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  URS Vasili Yermasov — GK  URS Arkadi Usov — DF  URS Konstantin Belikov (captain) — DF  URS Sergei Plonski — DF  URS Nikolai Pokrovski — DF  URS Ivan Tyazhlov — MF  URS Aleksandr Grigoryev — MF  URS Aleksandr Rudin — MF  URS Yevgeni Shpinev

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  URS Khanon Diner — FW  URS Valentin Liventsev — FW  URS Vasili Makarov — FW  URS Viktor Matveyev — FW  URS Sergei Papkov — FW  URS Ivan Serov — FW  URS Viktor Shvedchenko — FW  URS Leonid Sheremet — FW  URS Mikhail Yanovski

Transfers

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  URS Sergei Plonski (from Torpedo Gorky) — MF  URS Yevgeni Shpinev (from Torpedo Gorky) — FW  URS Leonid Sheremet (from Sudostroitel Mykolaiv) — FW  URS Sergei Papkov (from Metallurg Moscow) — FW  URS Khanon Diner (from Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk) — FW  URS Vasili Makarov (from Dynamo Kharkiv) — FW  URS Viktor Shvedchenko (from Zenit Stalingrad)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  URS Yegor Borisov — FW  URS Georgi Ivanov (to Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow) — FW  URS Sergei Kolesnikov — FW  URS Aleksandr Ponomarev (to Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow) — FW  URS Vasili Provornov (to Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow) — FW  URS Sergei Protsenko (to Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow) — FW  URS Aleksandr Sapronov — FW  URS Boris Terentyev

Competitions

Friendlies

14 April 1941

Sudostroitel Mykolaiv

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Traktor Stalingrad

Mykolaiv

24 April 1941	Traktor Stalingrad	4 – 2	Dynamo Stalingrad	Stalingrad
	1:0 Matveyev  7' 2:1 Shvedchenko 3:2 Liventsev  ?' (pen.) 4:2 Yanovski  90'		1:1 Kireyev 2:2 ?	Stadium: Traktor

USSR Championship. Group A

27 April 1941 1	Traktor Stalingrad	2 – 3	Dynamo Kyiv	Stalingrad
	1:0 Liventsev  26' (pen.) 2:1 Liventsev  45'	Summary	1:1 Balakin  32' 2:2 Onishchenko  56' 2:3 Onishchenko  60'	Stadium: Metallurg Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Vyacheslav Morgunov (Moscow)

3 May 1941 2	Traktor Stalingrad	2 – 1	Zenit Leningrad	Stalingrad
	1:0 Matveyev  37' 2:0 Matveyev  49'	Summary	2:1 Levin-Kogan  65'	Stadium: Traktor Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Kirillov (Stalingrad)

11 May 1941 3	Traktor Stalingrad	1 – 1	Spartak Leningrad	Stalingrad
	1:0 Diner  80'	Summary	1:1 Smagin  82'	Stadium: Traktor Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Viktor Arkhipov (Moscow)

18 May 1941 4	Dinamo Tbilisi	1 – 1	Traktor Stalingrad	Tbilisi
	1:0 Paichadze  13'	Summary	Matveyev 27' 1:1 Matveyev  80'	Stadium: Dinamo Referee: Ivan Privalov (Kharkiv)

25 May 1941 5	Traktor Stalingrad	1 – 1	Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow	Stalingrad
	1:1 Papkov  9'	Summary	0:1 Stupakov  4'	Stadium: Traktor Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Viktor Arkhipov (Moscow)

28 May 1941 6	Traktor Stalingrad	1 – 1	Spartak Odessa	Stalingrad
	1:1 Matveyev  82'	Summary	0:1 Shatski  30'	Stadium: Traktor Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Mikhail Dmitriev (Moscow)

1 June 1941 7	Traktor Stalingrad	1 – 1	Dynamo Leningrad	Stalingrad
	1:1 Sheremet  68'	Summary	0:1 Viktorov  10'	Stadium: Traktor Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Sergei Rudnev (Moscow)

5 June 1941 8	Traktor Stalingrad	1 – 3	Spartak Moscow	Stalingrad
	1:0 Serov  6'	Summary	1:1 A.Sokolov  38' 1:2 Morozov  53' 1:3 Kornilov  58'	Stadium: Traktor Attendance: 9,000 Referee: G.Gritsuk (Kharkiv)

10 June 1941 9	Traktor Stalingrad	1 – 0	Spartak Kharkiv	Stalingrad
	1:0 Matveyev  72' (pen.)	Summary		Stadium: Traktor Attendance: 4,000 Referee: K.Terekhov (Moscow)

15 June 1941 10	Krasnaya Armiya Moscow	1 – 1	Traktor Stalingrad	Moscow
	1:0 Karchevski  13'	Summary	1:1 Matveyev  38' Matveyev	Stadium: Dynamo Attendance: 18,000 Referee: I.Averkin (Leningrad)

19 June 1941 11	Dynamo Moscow	1 – 1	Traktor Stalingrad	Moscow
	1:0 Yakushin  34' Solovyov 55'	Summary	1:1 Liventsev  56' (pen.)	Stadium: Dynamo Attendance: 30,000 Referee: T.Soshenko (Kharkiv)

24 June 1941 12	Stakhanovets Stalino	2 – 3	Traktor Stalingrad	Stalino
	1:0 Bikezin  8' (pen.) 2:2 Nesmekha  56'	Summary	1:1 Matveyev  23' 1:2 Matveyev  49' 2:3 Rudin  82'	Stadium: Stakhanovets Attendance: 10,000

Note: The championship was not completed because of the Great Patriotic War.

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dynamo Moscow	10	6	3	1	28	12	+16	15
2	Dinamo Tbilisi	10	6	3	1	22	13	+9	15
3	Dynamo Leningrad	11	5	4	2	20	11	+9	14
4	Traktor Stalingrad	12	3	7	2	16	16	0	13
5	Stakhanovets Stalino	11	6	0	5	13	13	0	12
6	Krasnaya Armiya Moscow	9	5	1	3	15	13	+2	11
7	Spartak Moscow	9	4	2	3	17	12	+5	10
8	Dynamo Kyiv	9	4	2	3	16	14	+2	10
9	Profsoyuzy-2 Moscow	10	3	4	3	11	10	+1	10
10	Spartak Odessa	10	3	2	5	16	22	−6	8
11	Zenit Leningrad	8	2	3	3	12	14	−2	7
12	Spartak Leningrad	9	1	4	4	8	16	−8	6
13	Dinamo Minsk	10	3	0	7	10	21	−11	6
14	Spartak Kharkiv	9	2	1	6	7	19	−12	5
15	Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow	9	1	2	6	10	15	−5	4

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		USSR Championship
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	GK		Vasili Yermasov	8	-9	8	-9
	GK		Arkadi Usov	5	-7	5	-7
	DF		Sergei Plonski	10	0	10	0
	DF		Konstantin Belikov	9	0	9	0
	DF		Ivan Tyazhlov	9	0	9	0
	MF		Aleksandr Rudin	11	1	11	1
	MF		Aleksandr Grigoryev	11	0	11	0
	MF		Nikolai Pokrovski	10	0	10	0
	MF		Yevgeni Shpinev	3	0	3	0
	FW		Leonid Sheremet	12	1	12	1
	FW		Viktor Matveyev	11	8	11	8
	FW		Vasili Makarov	11	0	11	0
	FW		Ivan Serov	9	1	9	1
	FW		Sergei Papkov	9	1	9	1
	FW		Valentin Liventsev	6	3	6	3
	FW		Khanon Diner	5	1	5	1
	FW		Viktor Shvedchenko	3	0	3	0
	FW		Mikhail Yanovski	2	0	2	0

Top Scorers

Player	USSR Championship	Total
Viktor Matveyev	8	8
Valentin Liventsev	3	3
Khanon Diner	1	1
Sergei Papkov	1	1
Ivan Serov	1	1
Aleksandr Rudin	1	1
Leonid Sheremet	1	1
Total	16	16

General Statistics

Tournament	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	YC	RC	Pts
USSR Championship	12	3	7	2	16	16	0	?	?	13/24 (54,2 %)
Всего	12	3	7	2	16	16	0	?	?	13/24 (54,2 %)

Sources

• Летопись областного футбола. Царицын. Сталинград. Волгоград. 1909-1962 [Chronicles of the regional football. Tsaritsyn. Stalingrad. Volgograd. 1909-1962] (in Russian). 2000. p. 238.
• Sklyarenko, Aleksandr (2000). "РОТОР" от сталинградского "Трактора" до наших дней. Футбольные хроники [Rotor from Traktor Stalingrad to this day. Football chronicles] (in Russian). Volgograd: Volgogradskaya pravda. p. 288. Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-02-22.