1974 Soviet Top League

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Vysshaya Liga
Season1974
Dates12 April – 21 November 1974
Champions Dynamo Kyiv
6th top-tier title
Relegated Kairat Alma-Ata
Nistru Kishinev
European Cup Dynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' Cup Ararat Yerevan
UEFA Cup Spartak Moscow
Chernomorets Odessa
Top goalscorer Oleg Blokhin (20)
← 1973
1975 →

The 1974 Soviet Top League was the 36th season of the Soviet top tier football competitions. It also was the 4th season since the establishing of Vysshaya Liga (Soviet Top League) in place of the Soviet Class A competition.

Contents

The league's title was contested by 16 teams, and Dynamo Kyiv won the championship which was their sixth title. The last season's champions Ararat placed fifth trailing 8 points. The newly promoted Chernomorets placed third qualifying for the continental competitions for the first time.

Teams

Pre-season promotion

Teams promoted from the 1973 Soviet First League:

Pre-season relegation

Teams relegated to the 1974 Soviet First League:

Managers

ClubHead coach
Ararat Yerevan Nikita Simonyan
Dynamo Kyiv Valeriy Lobanovskyi
Dynamo Moscow Gavriil Kachalin
Spartak Moscow Nikolay Gulyayev
Dinamo Tbilisi Givi Chokheli (until August)
Mikhail Yakushin (from August)
Shakhter Donetsk Yuriy Zakharov (until August)
Vladimir Salkov (from August)
Zaria Voroshilovgrad Vsevolod Blinkov (until July)
Yevhen Pestov (from July)
Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Viktor Kanevsky
Kairat Alma-Ata Artem Falyan
CSKA Moscow Vladimir Agapov
Zenit Leningrad German Zonin
Pakhtakor Tashkent Vyacheslav Solovyov
Torpedo Moscow Valentin Ivanov
Karpaty Lvov Valentin Babukin (until September)
Ernest Yust (from September)
Chernomorets Odessa Akhmed Aleskerov
Nistru Kishenev Viktor Korolkov

League standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Dynamo Kyiv (C)30141244924+2540Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Spartak Moscow 3015964123+1839Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Chornomorets Odessa 30121173531+435
4 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Torpedo Moscow 30137103528+733
5 Flag of Armenian SSR.svg Ararat Yerevan 30111093728+932Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
6 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Dynamo Moscow 30101194233+931
7 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Zenit Leningrad 3081573641−531
8 Flag of the Uzbek SSR.svg Pakhtakor Tashkent 301010104544+130
9 Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg Dinamo Tbilisi 3081482934−530
10 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 30911103139−829
11 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Karpaty Lviv 30812103333028
12 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Shakhtar Donetsk 30812103135−428
13 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg CSKA Moscow 30712112833−526
14 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Zarya Voroshilovgrad 30810123241−926
15 Flag of the Kazakh SSR.svg Kairat Alma-Ata (R)30810123747−1026Relegation to First League
16 Flag of Moldavian SSR.svg Nistru Kishinev (R)3048183259−2716
Source: [ citation needed ]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away ARA CHO CSK DNI DYK DYN DTB KAI KAR NIS PAK SHA SPA TOR ZAR ZEN
Ararat Yerevan 2–03–21–10–02–22–21–01–12–13–12–02–00–14–24–0
Chornomorets Odessa 2–11–02–23–30–02–23–32–05–11–01–01–01–02–12–0
CSKA Moscow 0–11–02–11–11–10–10–02–01–11–11–11–21–01–30–1
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1–01–11–00–03–10–01–03–12–02–01–01–40–00–21–1
Dynamo Kyiv 2–02–02–03–12–02–02–01–14–21–11–01–02–05–05–0
Dynamo Moscow 2–31–11–23–11–20–01–22–11–04–03–01–10–15–03–1
Dinamo Tbilisi 1–02–01–30–00–00–01–10–04–21–11–00–10–03–21–1
Kairat Alma-Ata 0–00–00–01–02–12–15–00–22–04–30–00–41–12–12–2
Karpaty Lviv 1–11–11–14–30–04–10–02–23–02–01–11–11–00–03–2
Nistru Kishinev 2–21–23–31–21–00–11–34–21–00–12–21–00–30–01–1
Pakhtakor Tashkent 0–00–14–15–03–30–02–14–11–03–03–10–32–24–21–1
Shakhtar Donetsk 1–02–10–02–12–20–01–15–22–12–12–00–00–20–02–2
Spartak Moscow 1–03–02–10–02–00–01–01–02–12–14–11–30–02–21–1
Torpedo Moscow 1–00–00–23–01–10–24–13–10–14–30–12–13–12–12–1
Zarya Voroshilovgrad 1–00–00–01–11–11–22–11–02–01–11–12–00–13–00–1
Zenit Leningrad 0–02–00–01–12–03–31–23–21–01–12–21–11–11–02–0
Source: [ citation needed ]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

20 goals
16 goals
13 goals
12 goals
11 goals
10 goals

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