1982 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League

Season	1982
Champions	Dinamo Minsk
Relegated	Kuban Krasnodar, Kairat Alma-Ata
European Cup	Dinamo Minsk
Cup Winners' Cup	Shakhter Donetsk
UEFA Cup	Spartak Moscow Dinamo Kiev
Matches played	306
Goals scored	776 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	(23) Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)
← 1981 1983 →

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1982 season.

Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and Dinamo Minsk won the championship.

The rules stated that a team could only have a maximum of 10 draws; all points from matches draw since the eleventh wouldn't be counted.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dinamo Minsk (C)	34	19	9	6	63	35	+28	47	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	34	18	10	6	58	25	+33	46	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Spartak Moscow	34	16	9	9	59	35	+24	41
4	Dinamo Tbilisi	34	16	9	9	51	47	+4	41
5	Ararat Yerevan	34	14	10	10	50	47	+3	38
6	Pakhtakor Tashkent	34	13	11	10	42	38	+4	36
7	Zenit Leningrad	34	12	9	13	44	41	+3	33
8	Torpedo Moscow	34	11	12	11	36	33	+3	32
9	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	34	11	12	11	34	38	−4	32
10	Chornomorets Odessa	34	11	11	12	30	36	−6	32
11	Dynamo Moscow	34	13	5	16	42	52	−10	31
12	Metalist Kharkiv	34	10	11	13	32	34	−2	30
13	Torpedo Kutaisi	34	10	10	14	39	45	−6	30
14	Shakhtar Donetsk	34	10	9	15	42	57	−15	29	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
15	CSKA Moscow	34	10	9	15	41	46	−5	29
16	Neftchi Baku	34	10	7	17	42	63	−21	27
17	Kuban Krasnodar (R)	34	9	9	16	37	48	−11	27	Relegation to First League
18	Kairat Alma-Ata (R)	34	7	10	17	34	56	−22	24

Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	CHO	CSK	DNI	DYK	DMN	DYN	DTB	KAI	KUB	MKH	NEF	PAK	SHA	SPA	TKU	TOR	ZEN
Ararat Yerevan		6–1	3–2	1–3	2–3	1–1	2–2	1–1	3–2	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	4–1	2–0
Chornomorets Odessa	0–1		0–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	3–2	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–0
CSKA Moscow	2–3	1–2		1–1	1–1	2–3	1–2	2–3	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–2	3–0	2–1	1–1
Dnipro Dnipropetrosk	1–1	1–0	1–0		0–0	1–3	3–2	0–0	3–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	3–1
Dynamo Kyiv	4–0	0–0	3–0	1–1		2–3	2–1	3–1	3–0	3–0	2–1	4–0	1–0	5–0	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–1
Dinamo Minsk	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–1		1–0	2–0	3–2	0–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	3–0	1–0	3–2	0–1	0–0
Dynamo Moscow	2–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	2–1	0–7		2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	0–3	0–2	2–1	1–1	2–0
Dinamo Tbilisi	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–5	4–1	1–0		1–0	3–1	1–0	5–3	2–1	2–2	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–1
Kairat Alma-Ata	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–2	1–2	2–2		2–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–4	1–0	1–1	2–3
Kuban Krasnodar	1–0	3–3	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–3	4–1	0–2	1–1		1–0	3–1	2–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–2
Metalist Kharkiv	1–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–1	1–0		2–1	2–0	2–0	1–3	3–3	1–2	0–0
Neftçi Baku	0–1	1–1	2–2	3–0	2–1	3–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–3	1–0		4–2	2–2	4–3	3–2	0–2	1–0
Pakhtakor Tashkent	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	0–2	0–3	3–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–2		2–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	5–0
Shakhtar Donetsk	3–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–3	3–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–1		2–2	1–1	0–1	4–3
Spartak Moscow	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	3–4	0–1	4–1	3–0	3–1	0–0	5–0	0–0	3–2		2–0	2–0	1–1
Torpedo Kutaisi	2–0	1–1	0–2	2–3	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–4		2–1	2–0
Torpedo Moscow	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	5–1	1–2	0–0		2–0
Zenit Leningrad	5–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	0–2	2–0	3–1	5–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	1–0	4–2

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

Top scorers

23 goals

• Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)

18 goals

• Merab Megreladze (Torpedo Kutaisi)

16 goals

• Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA)

13 goals

• Igor Gurinovich (Dinamo Minsk)

12 goals

• Boris Chukhlov (Zenit)
• Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow)
• Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
• Andrei Redkous (Torpedo Moscow)
• Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dinamo Minsk

Goalkeepers: Mikhail Vergeyenko (28 / 1), Yury Kurbyko (7). Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (31 / 7), Yury Trukhan (29), Viktor Yanushevsky (27), Sergei Borovsky (25), Viktor Shishkin (18), Liudas Rumbutis (17), Igor Belov (12). Midfielders: Aleksandr Prokopenko (31 / 11), Sergey Gotsmanov (31 / 2), Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (29 / 3), Sergei Aleinikov (21 / 8), Valeri Melnikov (18), Alyaksandr Vanyushkin (1). Forwards: Georgi Kondratyev (32 / 10), Igor Gurinovich (28 / 13), Pyotr Vasilevsky (20 / 5), Viktor Sokol (2 / 1). Manager: Eduard Malofeyev. Transferred out during the season: none.

2. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (24), Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (12). Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (32 / 5), Oleksandr Sorokalet (29), Volodymyr Lozynskyi (28 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (25 / 2), Volodymyr Bezsonov (18 / 4), Oleksandr Boyko (12), Yuriy Makhynya (2). Midfielders: Andriy Bal (31 / 5), Yaroslav Dumanskyi (29 / 2), Leonid Buryak (21 / 3), Aleksandr Khapsalis (14 / 2), Vasyl Rats (11 / 1), Volodymyr Veremeyev (10), Pavlo Yakovenko (4). Forwards: Viktor Khlus (31 / 10), Vadym Yevtushenko (25 / 9), Oleg Blokhin (24 / 10), Hryhoriy Pasechnyi (4 / 1). Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi. Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (28), Aleksei Prudnikov (12). Defenders: Oleg Romantsev (33 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (27), Vladimir Shcherbak (24), Boris Pozdnyakov (19), Vladimir Bukiyevskiy (4), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (2), Alexander Mirzoyan (2). Midfielders: Sergey Shavlo (34 / 11), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Yuri Gavrilov (31 / 6), Edgar Gess (30 / 5), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (17), Sergei Nikitin (2). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (30 / 9), Aleksandr Kalashnikov (26 / 5), Sergei Shvetsov (24 / 9), Viktor Hrachov (5 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (3), Vladimir Nikonov (1), Oleg Smirnov (1). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: Viktor Hrachov (to FC Shakhtar Donetsk).

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	6	CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Kuban Krasnodar, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad
2	Ukrainian SSR	5	Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk
3	Georgian SSR	2	Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi
4	Armenian SSR	1	Ararat Yerevan
	Azerbaijan SSR		Neftchi Baku
	Belarusian SSR		Dinamo Minsk
	Kazakh SSR		Kairat Alma-Ata
	Uzbek SSR		Pakhtakor Tashkent

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)