The 1961 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was the 31st season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Ukrainian Class B. It was the twelfth in the Soviet Class B.
The 1961 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was won by FC Chornomorets Odesa.
Location map
Zone 1
Relegated teams
none
Promoted teams
none
Relocated and renamed teams
FC Mayak Kherson was last year known as FC Spartak Kherson
FC Desna Chernihiv was last year known as FC Avanhard Chernihiv
FC Verkhovyna Uzhhorod was last year known as FC Spartak Uzhhorod
League's standing
Zone 2
Relegated teams
none
Promoted teams
SKA Kiev – (debut)
Relocated and renamed teams
SKF Sevastopol was last year known as SKCF Sevastopol
FC Azovstal Zhdanov was last year known as FC Avanhard Zhdanov
League's standing
Play-offs
FC Chornomorets Odesa - SKA Odesa 2:1 0:0
FC Lokomotyv Vinnytsia - FC Trudovi Rezervy Luhansk 0:0 2:0
FC Zirka Kirovohrad - FC Avanhard Zhovti Vody 2:1 0:0
SKA Lviv - FC Metalurh Zaporizhia 0:0 2:1
FC Avanhard Simferopol - FC Desna Chernihiv 2:0 2:2
FC Shakhtar Horlivka - FC Polissya Zhytomyr 3:1 2:1
FC Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv - FC Khimik Severodonetsk 2:2 2:2
SKF Sevastopol - FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi 4:2 1:1
FC Kolhospnyk Poltava - FC Avanhard Chernivtsi 1:0 2:3
FC Avanhard Sumy - FC Kolhospnyk Rivno 2:1 1:1
FC Azovstal Zhdanov - FC Verkhovyna Uzhhorod 0:0 0:0
FC Spartak Stanislav - SKA Kiev 3:0 3:3
FC Lokomotyv Stalino - FC Mayak Kherson 3:1 1:1
FC Metalurh Dnipropetrovsk - FC Avanhard Ternopil 2:1 1:0
FC Avanhard Kryvyi Rih - FC Arsenal Kyiv 1:0 1:0
FC Shakhtar Kadiivka - FC Kolhospnyk Cherkasy 3:1 1:0
FC Avanhard Kramatorsk - FC Naftovyk Drohobych 3:1 3:2
FC Volyn Lutsk - FC Torpedo Kharkiv 2:0 1:3
FC Khimik Dniprodzerzhynsk - bye
Relegation play-offs
FC Volyn Lutsk - GDO Vladimir-Volynskiy 4:2 1:1
FC Khimik Dniprodzerzhynsk - FC Trubnyk Nikopol 0:0 0:2
FC Polissya Zhytomyr - FC Chervona Zirka Malyn +:-
FC Verkhovyna Uzhhorod - FC Kolhospnyk Berehovo 1:1 0:0 2:0
FC Zirka Kirovohrad - FC Shakhtar Oleksandriya 3:0 3:1
SKF Sevastopol - FC Metalurh Kerch 2:0 2:0
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia - FC Burevisnyk Melitopol 2:2 2:1
FC Kolhospnyk Poltava - FC Lokomotyv Poltava 2:0 5:2
FC Kolhospnyk Rivno - FC Spartak Rivno 2:1 1:1
FC Shakhtar Kadiivka - FC Avanhard Sverdlovsk 2:1 2:0 0:0
FC Avanhard Sumy - FC Ekran Shostka 4:2 1:1
FC Avanhard Ternopil - FC Burevisnyk Kremenets 2:2 2:0
FC Torpedo Kharkiv - FC Start Chuhuyiv 3:0 1:0
FC Mayak Kherson - FC Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka 2:1 1:0
FC Avanhard Kamianets-Podilskyi - FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi 1:0 0:3
FC Kolhospnyk Cherkasy - FC Shakhtar Vatutine 3:1 1:1
FC Avanhard Chernivtsi - FC Mashynobudivnyk Chernivtsi 1:0 4:0
FC Desna Chernihiv - FC Zirka Chernihiv 6:0 5:0
FC Arsenal Kyiv - FC Temp Kyiv 2:1 3:1
FC Spartak Stanislav - FC Khimik Kalush 1:0 2:1
FC Avanhard Kramatorsk - FC Metalurh Yenakievo 4:0 1:2
FC Naftovyk Drohobych - FC Silmash Lviv 1:1 3:1
FC Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv - FC Torpedo Mykolaiv 1:1 2:0
Notes: Games between SKA Odessa and FC Lokomotyv Vinnytsia with champions of their respective oblasts were not conducted as the aforementioned teams finished in top three teams in each of the Class B zones. The champion of Kiev Oblast did not participate in relegation play-offs as the oblast did not have its own representative in the Class B competitions. FC Khimik Dniprodzerzhynsk has kept its place in the Class B competitions. FC Shakhtar Oleksandriya was promoted to the Class B even though it lost the relegation play-offs.