1973 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1973 season.

Overview[]

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

League standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PKW	PKL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ararat Yerevan (C)	30	18	3	4	5	52	26	+26	39	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	16	4	4	6	44	23	+21	36	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Dynamo Moscow	30	13	7	3	7	43	30	+13	33	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Spartak Moscow	30	14	3	5	8	37	28	+9	31
5	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	13	5	2	10	42	33	+9	31
6	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	14	3	4	9	32	26	+6	31
7	Zarya Voroshilovgrad	30	14	1	5	10	38	26	+12	29
8	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	9	8	1	12	36	40	−4	26
9	Kairat Alma-Ata	30	8	10	1	11	25	37	−12	26
10	CSKA Moscow	30	10	5	4	11	33	36	−3	25
11	Zenit Leningrad	30	9	3	9	9	33	35	−2	21
12	Pakhtakor Tashkent	30	9	2	4	15	37	44	−7	20
13	Torpedo Moscow	30	9	1	7	13	28	37	−9	19
14	Karpaty Lviv	30	8	3	3	16	28	48	−20	19
15	Dinamo Minsk (R)	30	7	3	6	14	21	36	−15	17	Relegation to First League
16	SKA Rostov-on-Don (R)	30	3	5	4	18	19	43	−24	11

Top scorers[]

18 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

16 goals

• Anatoli Kozhemyakin (Dynamo Moscow)

13 goals

• Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat)

12 goals

• Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor)
• Aleksandr Piskaryov (Spartak Moscow)

11 goals

• (Spartak Moscow)
• Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)

10 goals

• Eduard Markarov (Ararat)
• Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)

9 goals

• (CSKA)
• Viktor Kuznetsov (Zorya)

References[]

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)