1938 Soviet Top League

The 1938 Soviet Top League combined all the Groups into one Super League.

The season started on May 10 with the game between FC Torpedo Moscow and in Moscow. The last game was played on November 14 between and FC Dynamo Odessa in Rostov-na-Donu. Each team played once with every other. The point system changed as well and stayed this way to the end of the competition in 1991: 2 for win, 1 for draw, and none for loss. This all-National championship was experimental and was disbanded next year. A half of the League was relegated at the end of the season.

Spartak beside becoming the champion in the League format won the national cup competition, defeating a surprise team Elektrik from Leningrad, that last year was called Krasnaya Zarya.

Standings[]

Pos	Republic	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Russian SFSR	Spartak Moscow	25	18	3	4	74	19	+55	39
2	Russian SFSR	CDKA Moscow	25	17	3	5	52	24	+28	37
3	Russian SFSR	Metallurg Moscow	25	16	5	4	57	29	+28	37
4	Ukrainian SSR	Dynamo Kiev	25	15	6	4	30	24	+6	36
5	Russian SFSR	Dynamo Moscow	25	14	4	7	69	34	+35	32
6	Georgian SSR	Dynamo Tbilisi	25	11	9	5	53	38	+15	31
7	Russian SFSR	Dynamo Leningrad	25	12	6	7	52	32	+20	30
8	Russian SFSR	Lokomotiv Moscow	25	12	6	7	44	37	+7	30
9	Russian SFSR	Torpedo Moscow	25	9	11	5	51	38	+13	29
10	Ukrainian SSR	Dynamo Odessa	25	9	11	5	39	35	+4	29
11	Ukrainian SSR	Stakhanovets Stalino	25	11	7	7	55	50	+5	29
12	Russian SFSR	Traktor Stalingrad	25	12	3	10	53	48	+5	27
13	Russian SFSR	Elektrik Leningrad	25	8	8	9	42	44	−2	24
14	Russian SFSR	Stalinets Leningrad[a]	25	7	10	8	38	57	−19	24
15	Ukrainian SSR	Silmash Kharkiv (R)	25	8	6	11	34	45	−11	22
16	Russian SFSR	Moscow (R)	25	8	5	12	36	44	−8	21
17	Ukrainian SSR	Lokomotyv Kiev (R)	25	8	5	12	43	64	−21	21
18	Russian SFSR	Rostov-na-Donu (R)	25	7	6	12	39	43	−4	20
19	Azerbaijan SSR	Baku (R)	25	6	8	11	33	40	−7	20
20	Russian SFSR	Spartak Leningrad (R)	25	6	8	11	30	39	−9	20
21	Ukrainian SSR	Kharkiv (R)	25	5	7	13	43	63	−20	17
22	Russian SFSR	Zenit Leningrad (R)	25	7	3	15	35	57	−22	17
23	Russian SFSR	Moscow (R)	25	5	6	14	25	53	−28	16
24	Georgian SSR	Lokomotiv Tbilisi (R)	25	5	5	15	44	62	−18	15
25	Russian SFSR	Moscow (R)	25	4	7	14	28	56	−28	15
26	Russian SFSR	Moscow (R)	25	4	4	17	28	87	−59	12

Top scorers[]

20 goals

• Makar Goncharenko (Dynamo Kiev)

19 goals

• Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow)
• Aleksandr Ponomarev (Traktor Stalingrad)

18 goals

• (Metallurg Moscow)
• (Spartak Moscow)

15 goals

• Pyotr Petrov (Torpedo Moscow)
• (Torpedo Moscow)

14 goals

• Arkadi Alov (Dynamo Leningrad)
• (Dynamo Kiev)
• Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• (Traktor Stalingrad)

References[]

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)