1972 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1972 season.

Overview[]

Sixteen (16) teams competed for the championships, and Zarya Voroshilovgrad won the championship.

League standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Zarya Voroshilovgrad (C)	30	15	10	5	52	30	+22	40	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	12	11	7	52	38	+14	35	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	12	11	7	41	34	+7	35
4	Ararat Yerevan	30	12	10	8	38	29	+9	34
5	CSKA Moscow	30	15	4	11	37	33	+4	34
6	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	12	10	8	37	37	0	34
7	Zenit Leningrad	30	11	11	8	44	30	+14	33
8	Dinamo Minsk	30	10	11	9	27	28	−1	31
9	Torpedo Moscow	30	11	9	10	31	33	−2	31	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
10	Dynamo Moscow	30	12	6	12	39	35	+4	30
11	Spartak Moscow	30	8	10	12	29	30	−1	26
12	SKA Rostov-on-Don	30	8	10	12	31	35	−4	26
13	Kairat Alma-Ata	30	6	14	10	23	27	−4	26
14	Karpaty Lviv	30	8	8	14	27	43	−16	24
15	Lokomotiv Moscow (R)	30	6	9	15	29	48	−19	21	Relegation to First League
16	Neftchi Baku (R)	30	6	8	16	28	55	−27	20

Top scorers[]

14 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

13 goals

• Oganes Zanazanyan (Ararat)

12 goals

• (Zenit)
• (Torpedo Moscow)

11 goals

• Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv)

10 goals

• Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftchi)
• Vladimir Onischenko (Zorya)
• Aleksei Yeskov (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

9 goals

• Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat)
• Vladimir Muntyan (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Pavel Sadyrin (Zenit)
• (Dinamo Minsk)
• Yuri Yeliseyev (Zorya)

References[]

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)