1956 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League

Season	1956
← 1955 1957 →

12 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spartak Moscow (C)	22	15	4	3	68	28	+40	34	League champions
2	Dynamo Moscow	22	10	8	4	45	31	+14	28
3	CDSA Moscow	22	10	5	7	40	32	+8	25
4	Dynamo Kiev	22	7	10	5	32	31	+1	24
5	Torpedo Moscow	22	8	7	7	40	37	+3	23
6	Burevestnik Kishinyov	22	9	5	8	38	49	−11	23
7	Shakhtyor Stalino	22	7	7	8	30	39	−9	21
8	Dynamo Tbilisi	22	8	4	10	42	46	−4	20
9	Zenit Leningrad	22	4	11	7	27	43	−16	19
10	Lokomotiv Moscow	22	5	8	9	38	28	+10	18
11	ODO Sverdlovsk (R)	22	6	4	12	31	45	−14	16	Relegation to Class B
12	Trudovyye Rezervy Leningrad (R)	22	3	7	12	25	47	−22	13

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BUR	CDS	DYK	DYN	DTB	LOK	ODO	SHA	SPA	TOR	TRL	ZEN
Burevestnik Chişinău		3–1	3–3	2–2	2–1	2–1	3–2	4–3	0–3	2–2	2–1	2–3
CDSA Moscow	1–0		1–2	2–2	3–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	3–4	4–2	4–2	3–1
Dynamo Kiev	2–1	1–0		0–2	2–1	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1
Dynamo Moscow	6–0	1–0	0–2		5–2	1–1	2–3	2–1	1–1	3–2	5–0	4–0
Dynamo Tbilisi	3–0	1–1	3–1	1–1		0–1	2–0	2–0	2–3	4–2	2–1	4–0
Lokomotiv Moscow	1–1	2–2	0–0	7–1	9–2		1–2	3–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–2
ODO Sverdlovsk	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	4–2	1–4		0–1	3–1	2–2	1–1	1–3
Shakhtyor Stalino	2–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	5–3	1–0	2–5		0–5	1–1	4–1	0–0
Spartak Moscow	9–2	3–0	4–3	1–1	4–2	3–1	6–0	5–1		2–1	3–0	1–1
Torpedo Moscow	1–4	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	4–0	2–1	2–0		5–3	3–1
Trudovyye Rezervy Leningrad	0–2	1–3	1–5	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	3–1	4–1		1–1
Zenit Leningrad	1–1	1–5	5–1	3–3	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–6	1–3	1–1

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

Top scorers

17 goals

• Vasily Buzunov (ODO Sverdlovsk)

16 goals

• Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)

15 goals

• Yuri Belyayev (CDSA Moscow)

14 goals

• Anatoli Isayev (Spartak Moscow)

13 goals

• Valentin Ivanov (Torpedo Moscow)

12 goals

• Alakbar Mammadov (Dynamo Moscow)
• Eduard Streltsov (Torpedo Moscow)

11 goals

• Avtandil Chkuaseli (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Ivan Mozer (Spartak Moscow)

9 goals

• Boris Khasaya (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Pyotr Ponomarenko (Shakhtyor Stalino)
• Viktor Sokolov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
• Vitali Vatskevich (Burevestnik Kishinyov)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)