| Competition: | Russian Second League Division B |
| Season: | 2024 |
| Dates: | 30 March 2024 – 16 November 2024 |
| Prevseason: | 2023 |
| Nextseason: | 2025 |
The 2024 Russian Second League Division B is the second season of Russia's fourth-tier football league. The season began on 30 March 2024 and ended on 16 November 2024. There was a three-week break in July after half of the games have been played.
In the summer of 2023, the Russian Second League was reorganized and split into two tiers - third-tier Russian Second League Division A and fourth-tier Russian Second League Division B.[1] Division B also switched to the spring-to-autumn, March-to-November schedule. 2023 was a transitional half-year season.[2] 2024 season is the first full-length season.
Division B is split into 4 groups, mostly based on geographical location. At the end of the year, four winners of their groups will be promoted into the Division A Second Stage Silver Group. Four bottom teams from the Division A First Stage Silver Group will be relegated to 2025 Division B.
At the end of the 2023 season, Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk, Khimik Dzerzhinsk, Kaluga and Torpedo Miass were promoted to Division A as winners of their Division B groups. Forte Taganrog, Amkar Perm, Chertanovo Moscow and Salyut Belgorod were relegated to Division B from Division A.
Torpedo-2 and Peresvet Domodedovo were relegated from Division B. SKA Rostov-on-Don and Zorkiy Krasnogorsk voluntarily dropped out.[3] [4] Sakhalinets Moscow and Khimik-Avgust Vurnary dissolved their professional squads.[5] [6] Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk failed licensing for the season.[7]
Elektron Veliky Novgorod moved to Nizhny Novgorod and was renamed to Volna Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.[8]
Pobeda Khasavyurt, Dynamo Stavropol, Kolomna, Orenburg-2 and Akron-2 Tolyatti, which finished the 2023 season in relegation spots, were kept in the league because of the other teams dropping out.
New teams were Angusht Nazran, Lada-Tolyatti, Nart Cherkessk, Oryol, Sokol Kazan and Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (promoted from the Russian Amateur Football League), Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara, Pari NN-2 Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-2 and Spartak-2 Moscow (farm clubs of the Russian Premier League teams).[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
Group 1 included 17 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 30 March 2024 to 16 November 2024.[15] The opening games that were initially scheduled for 23 March 2024 were postponed due to the Crocus City Hall attack.[16] The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magomed Abakarov | Forte Taganrog | 17 |
| Vadim Zubavlenko | Rubin Yalta | ||
| 3 | Aleksandr Olenev | Legion Makhachkala | 14 |
| Alan Khachirov | Spartak Nalchik | ||
| 5 | Makhach Abdulkhamidov | Dynamo Stavropol | 12 |
| 6 | Islam Tlupov | Spartak Nalchik | 11 |
| Bekkhan Aliyev | Angusht Nazran | ||
| 8 | Anar Panayev | Legion Makhachkala | 10 |
| Gadzhimurad Abdullayev | Druzhba Maykop | ||
| Stanislav Ruban | Stroitel Kamensk-Shakhtinsky | ||
Group 2 included 16 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 6 April 2024 to 3 November 2024.[17] The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vitaly Karpenko | Spartak-2 Moscow | 18 | |
| 2 | Anton Betyuzhnov | Dynamo Vologda | 12 | |
| Denis Bokov | Dynamo-2 Moscow | |||
| Artyom Bykovsky | Spartak-2 Moscow | |||
| 5 | Stanislav Basyrov | Leon Saturn Ramenskoye | 11 |
Group 3 included 15 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 7 April 2024 to 3 November 2024. The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrei Chasovskikh | Spartak Tambov | 12 | |
| Nikolai Boyarkin | Salyut Belgorod | |||
| Kirill Pomeshkin | Kosmos Dolgoprudny | |||
| Oleg Trofimov | Khimki-M | |||
| 5 | Astemir Khashkulov | SKA-Khabarovsk-2 | 11 |
Group 4 included 14 teams that played each other twice, home and away, from 13 April 2024 to 19 October 2024.[18] The group winner will be promoted to the Division A Second Stage Silver Group, the bottom two teams will be relegated from Division B.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ilya Yurchenko | Amkar Perm | 13 |
| Daniil Motorin | Rubin-2 Kazan | ||
| 3 | Ilya Kozhukhar | Dynamo Kirov | 12 |
| 4 | Daniil Nagovitsin | Dynamo Kirov | 11 |
| 5 | Dmitry Usov | Orenburg-2 | 9 |