1974 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League

Season	1974
← 1973 1975 →

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1974 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Dynamo Kyiv won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	30	14	12	4	49	24	+25	40	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Spartak Moscow	30	15	9	6	41	23	+18	39	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Chornomorets Odessa	30	12	11	7	35	31	+4	35
4	Torpedo Moscow	30	13	7	10	35	28	+7	33
5	Ararat Yerevan	30	11	10	9	37	28	+9	32	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
6	Dynamo Moscow	30	10	11	9	42	33	+9	31
7	Zenit Leningrad	30	8	15	7	36	41	−5	31
8	Pakhtakor Tashkent	30	10	10	10	45	44	+1	30
9	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	8	14	8	29	34	−5	30
10	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	9	11	10	31	39	−8	29
11	Karpaty Lviv	30	8	12	10	33	33	0	28
12	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	8	12	10	31	35	−4	28
13	CSKA Moscow	30	7	12	11	28	33	−5	26
14	Zarya Voroshilovgrad	30	8	10	12	32	41	−9	26
15	Kairat Alma-Ata (R)	30	8	10	12	37	47	−10	26	Relegation to First League
16	Nistru Kishinev (R)	30	4	8	18	32	59	−27	16

Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	CHO	CSK	DNI	DYK	DYN	DTB	KAI	KAR	NIS	PAK	SHA	SPA	TOR	ZAR	ZEN
Ararat Yerevan		2–0	3–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	4–2	4–0
Chornomorets Odessa	2–1		1–0	2–2	3–3	0–0	2–2	3–3	2–0	5–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–0
CSKA Moscow	0–1	1–0		2–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–3	0–1
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1–0	1–1	1–0		0–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–4	0–0	0–2	1–1
Dynamo Kyiv	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–1		2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	5–0	5–0
Dynamo Moscow	2–3	1–1	1–2	3–1	1–2		0–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	4–0	3–0	1–1	0–1	5–0	3–1
Dinamo Tbilisi	1–0	2–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–0		1–1	0–0	4–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	3–2	1–1
Kairat Alma-Ata	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	5–0		0–2	2–0	4–3	0–0	0–4	1–1	2–1	2–2
Karpaty Lviv	1–1	1–1	1–1	4–3	0–0	4–1	0–0	2–2		3–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–2
Nistru Kishinev	2–2	1–2	3–3	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–3	4–2	1–0		0–1	2–2	1–0	0–3	0–0	1–1
Pakhtakor Tashkent	0–0	0–1	4–1	5–0	3–3	0–0	2–1	4–1	1–0	3–0		3–1	0–3	2–2	4–2	1–1
Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	5–2	2–1	2–1	2–0		0–0	0–2	0–0	2–2
Spartak Moscow	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	4–1	1–3		0–0	2–2	1–1
Torpedo Moscow	1–0	0–0	0–2	3–0	1–1	0–2	4–1	3–1	0–1	4–3	0–1	2–1	3–1		2–1	2–1
Zarya Voroshilovgrad	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	3–0		0–1
Zenit Leningrad	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	3–3	1–2	3–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

20 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

16 goals

• Anatoli Ionkin (Kairat)
• Vadim Pavlenko (Dynamo Moscow)

13 goals

• Vladimir Makarov (Chornomorets Odessa)

12 goals

• Vadim Nikonov (Torpedo Moscow)

11 goals

• Mikhail An (Pakhtakor)
• Anatoly Baidachny (Dynamo Moscow)
• Vladimir Onischenko (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)

10 goals

• Vladimir Danilyuk (Karpaty)
• Aleksandr Piskaryov (Spartak Moscow)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)