1979 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League in season 1979.

Overview

1979 Top League was composed of 18 teams, the championship was won by Spartak Moscow.

On 11 August 1979, a mid-air collision killed virtually the entire FC Pakhtakor Tashkent team. The Top League ordered all the other teams to make three players available for a draft to restock the team, and Pakhtakor was given exemption from relegation for the next three years.

League standings

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Spartak Moscow	34	21	10	3	66	25	41	50
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	34	20	8	6	57	33	24	48
3	Dynamo Kyiv	34	21	5	8	51	26	25	47
4	Dinamo Tbilisi	34	19	12	3	54	27	27	46
5	Dynamo Moscow	34	17	9	8	41	27	14	42
6	Dinamo Minsk	34	15	6	13	48	38	10	36
7	Ararat Yerevan	34	12	13	9	44	32	12	32
8	CSKA Moscow	34	12	8	14	46	46	0	32
9	Pakhtakor Tashkent	34	11	9	14	42	53	-11	30
10	Zenit Leningrad	34	11	9	14	41	45	-4	30
11	Chornomorets Odessa	34	10	11	13	32	37	-5	28
12	Lokomotiv Moscow	34	8	12	14	44	57	-13	24
13	Kairat Almaty	34	8	9	17	29	44	-15	24
14	Neftchi Baku	34	8	8	18	29	50	-21	24
15	SKA Rostov-on-Don	34	8	14	12	37	50	-13	24
16	Torpedo Moscow	34	8	9	17	32	46	-14	24
17	Zaria Voroshilovgrad	34	6	11	17	41	62	-21	20
18	Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev	34	7	5	22	24	60	-36	19

Top scorers

26 goals

• Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)

17 goals

• Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
• Valeriy Petrakov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

16 goals

• Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow)
• Vladimir Kazachyonok (Zenit)

14 goals

• Aleksandr Prokopenko (Dinamo Minsk)
• Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow)
• Nikolai Vasilyev (Torpedo Moscow)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)