List of Soviet and Russian football champions
Football had been played in Russia since the Russian Empire days in the early 1900s, but it was not until 1936, 19 years after the Russian Revolution, that the Soviet Union established a national championship of clubs. Before then local leagues in Moscow and Saint Petersburg/Leningrad were the only prominent league competitions in the country, with some national championships held intermittently from 1912 to 1933, made up of city selections.[citation needed]
Teams in bold indicates doubles won with the Soviet Cup before 1992 and with the Russian Cup thereafter. Teams in italics include Cup winners between the 2nd and 3rd league places.
Football championship of Russian Empire
[edit]| Year | Champions (number of titles) |
Runners-up | Third place | Leading goalscorer | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | Saint Petersburg | Moscow | Kharkov / Kiev | ||
| 1913 | Odessa | Saint Petersburg | Kharkov / Moscow | ||
| 1914 | cancelled due to World War I | ||||
Football championship of Russian SFSR among city teams
[edit]| Year | Champions (number of titles) |
Runners-up | Third place | Leading goalscorer | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Moscow | MKS Tver | Samara / Mars Yaroslavl | ||
| 1921 | no championship | ||||
| 1922 | Moscow | Kharkov | Perm / Kazan | ||
| 1923 | no championship | ||||
| 1924 | Petrograd | Moscow | Viatka / Kazan | ||
| no championship in 1925-26 | |||||
| 1927 | Moscow | Western Oblast | North Caucasus Krai | ||
| 1928 | Moscow | Leningrad | Autonomous republics | ||
| no championship in 1929-30 | |||||
| 1931 | Moscow | Leningrad | North Caucasus Krai / Nizhniy Novgorod Krai | ||
| 1932 | Leningrad | Moscow | Samara / Sverdlovsk | ||
| 1933 | no championship | ||||
| 1934 | Voronezh | Ivanovo | Sverdlovsk | ||
| 1935 | no championship | ||||
USSR championship
[edit]Note: according to Dynamo sports society, the first Soviet football championship took place in 1924,[1] while other sources (megabook.ru) indicate that the first championship took place earlier in 1923. In Moscow it was decided to consider the football tournament of the 1924 All-Union festival of physical culture as the first national championship.[2]
| Year | Champions (number of titles) |
Runners-up | Third place | Leading goalscorer | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | Moscow | Southern Railways (Kharkov) | |||
| 1924 | Kharkov | Petrograd | Yakov Alferov | 2 | |
| 1925 | no championship | ||||
| 1926 | no championship | ||||
| 1927 | no championship | ||||
| 1928 | Moscow | Ukrainian SSR | |||
| 1929 | no championship | ||||
| 1930 | no championship | ||||
| 1931 | Moscow | Russian SFSR | Transcaucasian SFSR | ||
| 1932 | Moscow | Leningrad | Vasily Smirnov | 4 | |
| 1933 | no championship | ||||
| 1934 | no championship | ||||
| 1935 | Moscow | Leningrad | Kharkov | Mikhail Yakushev | 6 |
Russian SFSR championship
[edit]Republican level competitions among teams from the Russian SFSR. Until 1960 it included teams that were considered amateurs, after 1960 the competition was conducted as part of the Soviet Second League.
Source: Footballfacts.ru
Soviet League (1936–1991)
[edit]Soviet Group A
[edit]| Year | Champions (number of titles) |
Runners-up | Third place | Leading goalscorer | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 (spring) | Dynamo Moscow | Dynamo Kiev | Spartak Moscow | Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow) | 6 |
| 1936 (autumn) | Spartak Moscow | Dynamo Moscow | Dinamo Tbilisi | Georgy Glazkov (Spartak Moscow) | 7 |
| 1937 | Dynamo Moscow (2) | Spartak Moscow | Dynamo Kiev | Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi) Leonid Rumyantsev (Spartak Moscow) Vasily Smirnov (Dynamo Moscow) |
8 |
| 1938 | Spartak Moscow (2) | CDKA Moscow | Metallurg Moscow | Makar Goncharenko (Dinamo Kiev) | 19 |
| 1939 | Spartak Moscow (3) | Dinamo Tbilisi | CDKA Moscow | Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow) | 21 |
| 1940 | Dynamo Moscow (3) | Dinamo Tbilisi | Spartak Moscow | Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow) Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow) |
21 |
| 1941 | Cancelled on 24 June due to World War II (Dynamo Moscow had the best record at that time) | ||||
| 1942-44 | Cancelled due to World War II | ||||
Soviet First Group
[edit]| Year | Champions (number of titles) |
Runners-up | Third place | Leading goalscorer | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Dynamo Moscow (4) | CDKA Moscow | Torpedo Moscow | Vsevolod Bobrov (CDKA Moscow) | 24 |
| 1946 | CDKA Moscow | Dynamo Moscow | Dinamo Tbilisi | Aleksandr Ponomaryov (Torpedo Moscow) | 18 |
| 1947 | CDKA Moscow (2) | Dynamo Moscow | Dinamo Tbilisi | Vsevolod Bobrov (CDKA Moscow) Valentin Nikolayev (CDKA Moscow) Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow) |
14 |
| 1948 | CDKA Moscow (3) | Dynamo Moscow | Spartak Moscow | Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow) | 25 |
| 1949 | Dynamo Moscow (5) | CDKA Moscow | Spartak Moscow | Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow) | 26 |
Soviet Class A
[edit]Soviet Class A, 1st Group
[edit]| Year | Champions (number of titles) |
Runners-up | Third place | Leading goalscorer | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Dynamo Moscow (10) | Spartak Moscow | Dinamo Minsk | Oleg Kopaev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) | 27 |
| 1964 | Dinamo Tbilisi | Torpedo Moscow | CSKA Moscow | Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA Moscow) | 16 |
| 1965 | Torpedo Moscow (2) | Dynamo Kiev | CSKA Moscow | Oleg Kopaev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) | 18 |
| 1966 | Dynamo Kiev (2) | SKA Rostov-on-Don | Neftchi Baku | Ilya Datunashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi) | 20 |
| 1967 | Dynamo Kiev (3) | Dynamo Moscow | Dinamo Tbilisi | Mikhail Mustygin (Dinamo Minsk) | 19 |
| 1968 | Dynamo Kiev (4) | Torpedo Moscow | Spartak Moscow | Georgi Gavasheli (Dinamo Tbilisi) Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor Tashkent) |
22 |
| 1969 | Spartak Moscow (9) | Dynamo Kiev | Dinamo Tbilisi | Nikolai Osyanin (Spartak Moscow) Vladimir Proskurin (SKA Rostov-on-Don) Dzhemal Kherhadze (Torpedo Kutaisi) |
16 |
Soviet Supreme League (Soviet Top League)
[edit]Russian League (1992–present)
[edit]Russian Top League
[edit]| Year | Champions (number of titles) |
Runners-up | Third place | Leading goalscorer | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Spartak Moscow (13) | Spartak Vladikavkaz | Dynamo Moscow |  Vali Gasimov (Dynamo Moscow, 1st–8th place) Yuri Matveyev (Uralmash, 9th–20th place)
|
16 20 |
| 1993 | Spartak Moscow (14) | Rotor Volgograd | Dynamo Moscow | Viktor Panchenko (KamAZ Naberezhnye Chelny)
|
21 |
| 1994 | Spartak Moscow (15) | Dynamo Moscow | Lokomotiv Moscow |  Igor Simutenkov (Dynamo Moscow)
|
21 |
| 1995 | Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz | Lokomotiv Moscow | Spartak Moscow | Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd)
|
25 |
| 1996 | Spartak Moscow (16) | Alania Vladikavkaz | Rotor Volgograd | Aleksandr Maslov (Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don)
|
23 |
| 1997 | Spartak Moscow (17) | Rotor Volgograd | Dynamo Moscow | Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd)
|
22 |
Russian Top Division
[edit]| Year | Champions (number of titles) |
Runners-up | Third place | Leading goalscorer | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Spartak Moscow (18) | CSKA Moscow | Lokomotiv Moscow | Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd)
|
22 |
| 1999 | Spartak Moscow (19) | Lokomotiv Moscow | CSKA Moscow |  Georgi Demetradze (Alania Vladikavkaz)
|
21 |
| 2000 | Spartak Moscow (20) | Lokomotiv Moscow | Torpedo Moscow | Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
|
18 |
| 2001 | Spartak Moscow (21) | Lokomotiv Moscow | Zenit Saint Petersburg | Dmitri Vyazmikin (Torpedo Moscow)
|
18 |
Russian Premier League
[edit]
Performances by club
[edit]Spartak Moscow are the most successful club in the overall ranking, having won 22 national titles. They are followed by city rivals CSKA Moscow with thirteen. Dynamo Kiev also have thirteen titles, although the team no longer competes in the Russian football system, since it is now part of Ukraine. Fourth place is taken by Dinamo Moscow, who were the dominant team in Soviet Russia during the 1930s and 1950s. Dinamo Moscow has won eleven titles, although their last title came in 1976. Zenit Saint Petersburg is by far the most successful Russian team outside of Moscow. They have won seven titles, mostly in the 2000s and 2010s.
All clubs are included with all national titles:
Note: Teams in bold are teams from Russia, flags indicate a club based outside Russia, namely 
Ukraine, 
Georgia, 
Armenia and 
Belarus. These teams are no longer eligible for the championship as they play in their own leagues.
Best finish in Europe by club
[edit]Table shows best-finish achievements in major European competitions starting from 1965-66 season. For non-Russian teams it is provided the results for Soviet period only.
| Club | European Cup / UEFA Champions League | UEFA Cup / Europa League | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | UEFA Super Cup | UEFA Intertoto Cup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamo Kiev
|
Semi-finals (2) 1976–77; 1986–87 |
Round of 16 (2) 1979–80; 1989–90 |
Winner (2) 1974–75;1985–86 |
Winner 1975 |
– |
| Spartak Moscow | Semi-finals 1990–91 |
Semi-finals 1997–98 |
Semi-finals 1992–93 |
– | Round 3 2004 |
| Dnipro
|
Quarter-finals (2) 1984–85; 1989–90 |
Runners-up 2014–15 |
– | – | – |
| CSKA Moscow | Quarter-finals 2009–10 |
Winner 2004–05 |
Round of 32 (2) 1991–92; 1994–95 |
Runners-up 2005 |
– |
| Dinamo Minsk
|
Quarter-finals 1983–84 |
Quarter-finals 1984–85 |
Quarter-finals 1987–88 |
– | – |
| Ararat Yerevan
|
Quarter-finals 1974–75 |
Round of 16 1972–73 |
Round of 16 1975–76 |
– | – |
| Zenit Saint Petersburg | Round of 16 (4) 1985–86; 2011–12; 2013–14; 2015–16 |
Winner 2007–08 |
– | Winner 2008 |
Runners-up 2000 |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | Round of 16 (2) 2002–03; 2003–04 |
Round of 16 2017–18 |
Semi-finals (2) 1997–98; 1997–98 |
– | – |
| Dinamo Tbilisi
|
Round of 16 1979-80 |
Round of 16 (3) 1973–74; 1977–78; 1987–88 |
Winner 1980–81 |
– | – |
| Zorya Voroshilovgrad
|
Round of 16 1973–74 |
– | – | – | – |
| Torpedo Moscow | Round of 32 (2) 1966-67; 1977-78 |
Quarter-finals 1990–91 |
Quarter-finals (2) 1967-68; 1986-87 |
– | Semi-finals 1997 |
| Rubin Kazan | Group Stage (2) 2009-10; 2010-11 |
Quarter-finals 2012-13 |
– | – | Round 3 2007 |
| Krasnodar | Group Stage 2020-21 |
Round of 16 (2) 2016-17; 2016-17 |
- | – | – |
| Rostov | Group Stage 2016-17 |
Round of 16 2016-17 |
- | – | Semi-finals 1999 |
| Dynamo Moscow | Qualifying Round 3 2009–10 |
Round of 16 (3) 1991–92; 1992–93; 2014–15 |
Runners-up 1971–72 |
– | Semi-finals 1997 |
| Alania Vladikavkaz | Qualifying Round 1996-97 |
Play-off Round 2011–12 |
- | – | – |
Table sorted by success at European Cup / UEFA Champions League first and foremost.
Further reading
[edit]- Afinogenov, V., Isaev, A. "Futbol-1988. Second half". Krasnodar, 1988. page 96. («Футбол-1988. Второй круг» (авторы-составители В.Афиногенов, А.Исаев. Краснодар. 1988, 96 с.))
- Gaidyshev, Yu.I. "Futbol-1992". Krasnodar, 1992. page 104. («Футбол-1992» (автор-составитель Ю. И. Гайдышев и др., Краснодар. 1992, 104 с.))
References
[edit]- ^ History (История). Kharkiv Oblast organization of the Physical Culture and Sports Society Dynamo Ukraine.
- ^ Rodionov, S. The Kharkiv football: from A to Z (Харьковский футбол: от А до Я). Sport.ua. 30 June 2005