1990 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League
Season	1990
Champions	Dynamo Kyiv
European Cup	Dynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' Cup	CSKA Moscow
UEFA Cup	Dynamo Moscow; Torpedo Moscow; Spartak Moscow
Top goalscorer	(12) Oleh Protasov (Dynamo Kyiv); Valeri Shmarov (Spartak Moscow)
Biggest home win	CSKA – Rotor 7–0
Biggest away win	Chornomorets – Dynamo K. 0–3
Highest scoring	Spartak – CSKA 5–4
	← 1989 1991 →

The 1990 Soviet Top League season was the 53rd since its establishment. Spartak Moscow were the defending 12-times champions. The league was shortened and a total of fourteen teams participated. By the start of the season both Georgian teams have withdrew followed by another withdrawal from Žalgiris at the start of competition. The league consisted of ten teams contested in the 1989 season and the Army club promoted from the Soviet First League. The representatives of the Baltic states as well as Georgia chose not to take part in the competition.

The season began on 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv.

Participating teams[]

The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League.

Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back in 1938 through the club's merger.

Originally two teams were promoted from the 1989 Soviet First League and included PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Guria Lanchkhuti. Just before the start of new season Georgian clubs and Žalgiris left the league.

Promoted teams[]

PFC CSKA Moscow – champion (returning after two seasons)
FC Guria Lanchkhuti – 2nd place (returning after two seasons)

Withdrawn teams[]

FC Guria Lanchkhuti, joined the Georgian Top League (Umaglesi Liga)
FC Dinamo Tbilisi, joined the Georgian Top League (Umaglesi Liga)
FC Zalgiris Vilnius, joined the 1990 Baltic League

Locations[]

Moscow
Spartak
CSKA
Dinamo
Torpedo

Dynamo Kyiv

Chornomorets

Ararat

Dinamo Minsk

Pamir

Dnipro

Shakhtar

~~Žalgiris~~

Metalist

Rotor

Location of teams in the 1990 Soviet Top League.

Stadiums[]

Stadium	Team	Opened	Capacity	Notes
Republican Stadium, Kyiv	Dynamo Kyiv	1923	100,062
Olimpic Stadium Luzhniki, Moscow	Spartak	1956	81,000
Olimpic Stadium Luzhniki, Moscow	CSKA	1956	81,000
Central Stadium Dinamo, Moscow	Dinamo Moscow	1928	71,430
Central Stadium Hrazdan, Yerevan	Ararat	1970	70,000
BSS Central Stadium, Odesa	Chornomorets	1935	55,000
OSC Metalist, Kharkiv	Metalist	1926	42,000
Dinamo Stadium, Minsk	Dinamo Minsk	1934	40,000
Meteor Stadium, Dnipropetrovsk	Dnipro	1966	40,000
Central Stadium, Volgograd	Rotor	1962	40,000
Central Stadium Shakhtar, Donetsk	Shakhtar	1936	31,718
SC Olimpiyskiy, Moscow	Spartak	1980	22,000	used in round 3rd, 4th, 7th, 9th
Frunze Republican Stadium, Dushanbe	Pamir	1946	21,400
Torpedo Stadium, Moscow	Torpedo	1959	16,000
LFK CSKA, Moscow	CSKA	1979	4,000	used in rounds 1st, 2nd, 5th, 10th
	Dinamo Moscow			used in rounds 1st, 2nd, 5th

Final standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification^[a]
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	24	14	6	4	44	20	+24	34	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	CSKA Moscow	24	13	5	6	43	26	+17	31	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Dinamo Moscow	24	12	7	5	27	24	+3	31	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Torpedo Moscow	24	13	4	7	28	24	+4	30
5	Spartak Moscow	24	12	5	7	39	26	+13	29
6	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	24	11	6	7	39	26	+13	28
7	Ararat Yerevan	24	8	7	9	25	23	+2	23
8	Shakhtar Donetsk	24	6	10	8	23	31	−8	22
9	Chornomorets Odesa	24	8	3	13	23	29	−6	19
10	Pamir Dushanbe	24	7	4	13	26	34	−8	18
11	Metalist Kharkiv	24	5	8	11	13	28	−15	18
12	Dinamo Minsk	24	6	3	15	20	34	−14	15
13	Rotor Volgograd (R)	24	4	6	14	14	39	−25	14	Qualification for Relegation play-off
14	Žalgiris Vilnius^[b] (R)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	Withdrew from the league

Source:^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Guria and Dinamo Tbilisi never played any games in the league for the season and joined their national competition. Žalgiris joined the 1990 Baltic League which was a regional international competition.
^ Žalgiris Vilnius withdrew from the championship after losing to Chornomorets 1–0 in Odesa. Žalgiris' record was 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss with 0-1 goal difference and later was annulled. As Žalgiris withdrew, its European berth was transferred to Chornomorets.

Promotion/relegation play-off[]

(13th team of the Top League and 4th team of the First League)

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lokomotiv Moscow	3–2	Rotor Volgograd	3–1	0–1

1990-11-11

Lokomotiv Moscow	3 – 1	Rotor Volgograd
Samatov 12' Rybakov 51' 79'	Report	Fyodorovsky 76'

LFK CSKA, Moscow

Attendance: 2,000 (4,600)^[1]

Referee: Petro Kobychek (Chernivtsi)

1990-11-17

Rotor Volgograd	1 – 0	Lokomotiv Moscow
Polstyanov 1'	Report	Gallakberov ?' 89'

Central Stadium of Trade Unions, Volgograd

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Minsk)

Lokomotiv Moscow won the promotion on 3–2 aggregate

Top scorers[]

12 goals

Oleg Protasov (Dynamo Kyiv)
Valeri Shmarov (Spartak Moscow)

10 goals

Eduard Son (Dnipro)

9 goals

Mykola Kudrytsky (Dnipro)
Aleksandr Mostovoi (Spartak Moscow)
Mukhsin Mukhamadiev (Pamir)
Sergei Yuran (Dynamo Kyiv)

8 goals

Igor Korneev (CSKA Moscow)
Valeri Masalitin (CSKA Moscow)
Yuri Savichev (Torpedo Moscow)

Medal squads[]

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dynamo Kyiv
Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (21), Aleksandr Zhidkov (4). Defenders: Serhiy Shmatovalenko (22 / 1), Oleh Kuznetsov (20 / 2), Akhrik Tsveiba (20), Serhiy Zayets (17 / 1), Anatoliy Demyanenko (15), Oleh Luzhny (12), Andriy Annenkov (8), Volodymyr Bezsonov (7 / 1), Andriy Bal (4), Borys Derkach (3 / 2), Andriy Aleksanenkov (3), Yuriy Moroz (3). Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (24 / 6), Vasyl Rats (21 / 2), Ivan Yaremchuk (18 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (11 / 2), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (8), Pavlo Yakovenko (6). Forwards: Oleg Salenko (21 / 4), Oleh Protasov (16 / 12), Sergei Yuran (13 / 9). Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi (until September), Anatoliy Puzach (from September). Transferred out during the season: Oleh Kuznetsov (to Rangers), Oleh Protasov (to Olympiacos), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (to Sampdoria).
2. PFC CSKA Moscow
Goalkeepers: Mikhail Yeremin (15), Aleksandr Guteyev (6), Yuri Shishkin (4). Defenders: Dmitri Bystrov (23 / 1), Dmitri Galiamin (23), Sergei Fokin (21 / 1), Sergei Kolotovkin (20), Oleg Malyukov (16), Viktor Yanushevsky (12). Midfielders: Valeri Broshin (24 / 5), Dmitri Kuznetsov (22 / 5), Igor Korneev (21 / 8), Vladimir Tatarchuk (21 / 3), Mikhail Kolesnikov (18 / 2), Igor Kozlov (8), Sergei Krutov (2), Aleksandr Grishin (1). Forwards: Oleg Sergeyev (24 / 6), Sergey Dmitriev (21 / 4), Valeri Masalitin (9 / 8). Manager: Pavel Sadyrin. Transferred out during the season: none.
3. FC Dynamo Moscow
Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Uvarov (20), Andrei Smetanin (3), Dmitri Kharine (1). Defenders: Andrei Chernyshov (22 / 2), Igor Sklyarov (21 / 1), Viktor Losev (20), Andrei Mokh (18 / 2), Yevgeni Smertin (18), Yevgeni Dolgov (16), Vyacheslav Tsaryov (10), Serhiy Protsyuk (9), Andrei Zhirov (2), Ravil Sabitov (2). Midfielders: Aleksei Sereda (23), Andrey Kobelev (21 / 4), Sergei Derkach (19 / 4), Igor Dobrovolski (15 / 4), Roman Pylypchuk (15 / 2), Aleksandr Zakharov (4), Aleksandr Smirnov (3), Aleksei Yeryomenko (2), Sergei Neyman (1). Forwards: Sergei Kiriakov (22 / 3), Igor Kolyvanov (19 / 5), Igor Simutenkov (1). Manager: Anatoli Byshovets (until July), Semen Altman (caretaker, from July). Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Smirnov, Ravil Sabitov (both to FC Dinamo Sukhumi).

Number of teams by union republic[]

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	5	CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow
1	Ukrainian SSR	5	Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk
3	Armenian SSR	1	Ararat Yerevan
	Belarusian SSR		Dinamo Minsk
	Tajik SSR		Pamir Dushanbe
	Lithuanian SSR		Zhalgiris Vilnius

References[]

^ "Фубольный манеж ЛФК ЦСКА". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-03-05.

External links[]

(in Russian) KLISF. 1990 Soviet Top League.^{[permanent dead link]}
KLISF. 1990 Soviet Top League (text only)
1990 season. FootballFacts.ru

[1] Guria and Dinamo Tbilisi never played any games in the league for the season and joined their national competition. Žalgiris joined the 1990 Baltic League which was a regional international competition.

[table_note_ŽAL0.66688629829645-2] Žalgiris Vilnius withdrew from the championship after losing to Chornomorets 1–0 in Odesa. Žalgiris' record was 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss with 0-1 goal difference and later was annulled. As Žalgiris withdrew, its European berth was transferred to Chornomorets.

[3] "Фубольный манеж ЛФК ЦСКА". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-03-05.

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