1973 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League
Season1973
1972
1974

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1973 season.

Overview

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It was contested by 16 teams, and Ararat Yerevan won the championship.

League standings

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Pos Team Pld W PKW PKL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Ararat Yerevan (C) 30 18 3 4 5 52 26 +26 39 Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kyiv 30 16 4 4 6 44 23 +21 36 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dynamo Moscow 30 13 7 3 7 43 30 +13 33 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Spartak Moscow 30 14 3 5 8 37 28 +9 31
5 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Tbilisi 30 13 5 2 10 42 33 +9 31
6 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Shakhtar Donetsk 30 14 3 4 9 32 26 +6 31
7 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Zarya Voroshilovgrad 30 14 1 5 10 38 26 +12 29
8 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 30 9 8 1 12 36 40 −4 26
9 Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kairat Alma-Ata 30 8 10 1 11 25 37 −12 26
10 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic CSKA Moscow 30 10 5 4 11 33 36 −3 25
11 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Zenit Leningrad 30 9 3 9 9 33 35 −2 21
12 Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Pakhtakor Tashkent 30 9 2 4 15 37 44 −7 20
13 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Torpedo Moscow 30 9 1 7 13 28 37 −9 19
14 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Karpaty Lviv 30 8 3 3 16 28 48 −20 19
15 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Minsk (R) 30 7 3 6 14 21 36 −15 17 Relegation to First League
16 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic SKA Rostov-on-Don (R) 30 3 5 4 18 19 43 −24 11
Source: [citation needed]
Rules for classification: Drawn matches decided by penalties, the winners obtaining 1 point, the losers 0.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Results

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Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn.

Home \ Away ARA CSK DNI DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KAR PAK SHA SKA SPA TOR ZAR ZEN
Ararat Yerevan 1–0 1–0 3–1 2–1 1–1(3–5) 3–0 4–0 3–0 4–0 3–0 2–2(4–5) 3–1 1–3 1–1(4–3) 3–2
CSKA Moscow 0–1 0–0(3–5) 3–0 3–2 1–1(4–5) 1–1(5–4) 1–0 1–0 3–0 0–1 3–1 2–2(5–3) 3–2 1–0 0–0(8–7)
Dnipo Dnipropetrovsk 1–1(5–4) 4–1 1–0 1–0 2–3 0–0(4–2) 2–0 1–1(4–3) 1–1(5–3) 2–1 2–0 0–1 2–0 2–0 3–1
Dynamo Kyiv 3–1 1–0 5–2 4–0 3–0 2–1 3–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 1–1(7–8) 1–1(3–2) 0–0(5–3) 1–0 2–0
Dinamo Minsk 1–0 1–1(5–3) 2–0 0–0(4–5) 2–1 0–1 1–0 1–1(4–5) 0–1 0–0(8–9) 1–1(5–4) 0–1 1–0 1–2 0–0(4–5)
Dynamo Moscow 0–1 3–0 1–0 2–2(5–4) 1–1(5–4) 4–1 1–1(3–4) 2–0 1–1(6–5) 2–0 2–0 0–0(5–3) 1–1(4–5) 2–1 1–1(5–4)
Dinamo Tbilisi 0–0(4–3) 3–1 2–0 0–1 4–0 0–3 3–0 3–0 4–0 0–0(6–5) 2–0 1–0 4–2 1–1(4–3) 1–1(6–5)
Kairat Alma-Ata 1–4 1–1(4–3) 2–2(4–5) 0–0(5–3) 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–1(5–4) 2–0 0–0(5–4) 1–2 1–1(4–3) 1–1(4–3) 0–0(5–2)
Karpaty Lviv 3–0 0–9 3–2 0–0(4–5) 1–0 3–5 1–3 0–1 2–1(5–4) 0–1 1–0 3–2 1–0 0–2 2–2(4–5)
Pakhtakor Tashkent 2–3 1–0 4–1 0–1 4–0 2–0 2–2(2–5) 4–1 3–1 0–1 0–1 1–0 1–2 1–2 5–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0(3–4) 4–1 2–1 0–2 1–0 1–1(4–3) 0–1 0–0(3–5) 3–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 2–0 3–1 3–1
SKA Rostov-on-Don 0–2 0–1 2–2(6–5) 1–1(10–9) 1–2 0–1 2–3 1–2 0–1 1–1(4–5) 0–0(2–4) 1–1(6–5) 0–1 1–0 2–0
Spartak Moscow 2–2(4–5) 2–1 3–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–1 1–0 1–0 4–0 0–0(5–1) 1–0 1–1(5–4) 0–2 2–0
Torpedo Moscow 0–1 2–2(3–4) 3–1 0–2 1–1(3–5) 1–0 1–0 1–3 1–1(3–4) 1–0 0–1 1–0 2–0 0–3 0–1
Zarya Voroshilovgrad 0–1 1–0 0–0(3–4) 1–0 0–2 0–1 3–0 1–0 4–1 3–1 2–1 3–1 2–0 0–0(5–3) 0–0(2–4)
Zenit Leningrad 1–0 1–2 0–0(11–12) 2–1 1–1(7–6) 2–3 1–0 1–1(3–4) 3–0 0–0(3–4) 3–0 3–0 0–0(4–5) 3–1 3–2
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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18 goals
16 goals
13 goals
12 goals
11 goals
10 goals
9 goals

References

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