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. 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

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	URS	Vasili Yermasov	8	-9	8	-9
	GK	URS	Arkadi Usov	5	-7	5	-7
	DF	URS	Sergei Plonski	10	0	10	0
	DF	URS	Konstantin Belikov	9	0	9	0
	DF	URS	Ivan Tyazhlov	9	0	9	0
	MF	URS	Aleksandr Rudin	11	1	11	1
	MF	URS	Aleksandr Grigoryev	11	0	11	0
	MF	URS	Nikolai Pokrovski	10	0	10	0
	MF	URS	Yevgeni Shpinev	3	0	3	0
	FW	URS	Leonid Sheremet	12	1	12	1
	FW	URS	Viktor Matveyev	11	8	11	8
	FW	URS	Vasili Makarov	11	0	11	0
	FW	URS	Ivan Serov	9	1	9	1
	FW	URS	Sergei Papkov	9	1	9	1
	FW	URS	Valentin Liventsev	6	3	6	3
	FW	URS	Khanon Diner	5	1	5	1
	FW	URS	Viktor Shvedchenko	3	0	3	0
	FW	URS	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. Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-02-22.