1941 FC Traktor Stalingrad season

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

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

Squad

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

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

No. Position Player FW Khanon Diner FW Valentin Liventsev FW Vasili Makarov FW Viktor Matveyev FW Sergei Papkov FW Ivan Serov FW Viktor Shvedchenko FW Leonid Sheremet FW 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. Position Player DF Sergei Plonski (from Torpedo Gorky) MF Yevgeni Shpinev (from Torpedo Gorky) FW Leonid Sheremet (from Sudostroitel Mykolaiv) FW Sergei Papkov (from Metallurg Moscow) FW Khanon Diner (from Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk) FW Vasili Makarov (from Dynamo Kharkiv) FW 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. Position Player DF Yegor Borisov FW Georgi Ivanov (to Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow) FW Sergei Kolesnikov FW Aleksandr Ponomarev (to Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow) FW Vasili Provornov (to Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow) FW Sergei Protsenko (to Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow) FW Aleksandr Sapronov FW Boris Terentyev

Competitions

Friendlies

Sudostroitel Mykolaiv v Traktor Stalingrad

14 April 1941	Sudostroitel Mykolaiv	v	Traktor Stalingrad	Mykolaiv

Traktor Stalingrad v Dynamo Stalingrad

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

Main article: 1941 Soviet Top League

Traktor Stalingrad v Dynamo Kyiv

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)

Traktor Stalingrad v Zenit Leningrad

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)

Traktor Stalingrad v Spartak Leningrad

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)

Dinamo Tbilisi v Traktor Stalingrad

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)

Traktor Stalingrad v Profsoyuzy-1 Moscow

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)

Traktor Stalingrad v Spartak Odessa

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)

Traktor Stalingrad v Dynamo Leningrad

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)

Traktor Stalingrad v Spartak 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)

Traktor Stalingrad v Spartak 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)

Krasnaya Armiya Moscow v Traktor Stalingrad

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)

Dynamo Moscow v Traktor Stalingrad

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)

Stakhanovets Stalino v Traktor Stalingrad

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

Squad 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

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.