1982 Soviet Top League

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Soviet Top League
Season1982
Champions Dinamo Minsk
Relegated Kuban Krasnodar, Kairat Alma-Ata
European Cup Dinamo Minsk
Cup Winners' Cup Shakhter Donetsk
UEFA Cup Spartak Moscow
Dinamo Kiev
Matches played306
Goals scored776 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer(23) Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)
1981
1983

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1982 season.

Contents

Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and Dinamo Minsk won the championship.

The rules stated that a team could only have a maximum of 10 draws; all points from matches draw since the eleventh wouldn't be counted.

League standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1951-1991).svg Dinamo Minsk (C)3419966335+2847Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Dynamo Kyiv 34181065825+3346Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Spartak Moscow 3416995935+2441
4 Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg Dinamo Tbilisi 3416995147+441
5 Flag of Armenian SSR.svg Ararat Yerevan 341410105047+338
6 Flag of the Uzbek SSR.svg Pakhtakor Tashkent 341311104238+436 [a]
7 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Zenit Leningrad 34129134441+333
8 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Torpedo Moscow 341112113633+332 [b]
9 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 341112113438432 [b]
10 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Chornomorets Odessa 341111123036632 [a]
11 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Dynamo Moscow 341351642521031
12 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Metalist Kharkiv 341011133234230 [a]
13 Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg Torpedo Kutaisi 341010143945630
14 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg Shakhtar Donetsk 341091542571529Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
15 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg CSKA Moscow 34109154146529
16 Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1956-1991).svg Neftchi Baku 341071742632127
17 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Kuban Krasnodar (R)34991637481127Relegation to First League
18 Flag of the Kazakh SSR.svg Kairat Alma-Ata (R)347101734562224
Source: [ citation needed ]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. 1 2 3 1 point deducted (10 draw limit)
  2. 1 2 2 points deducted (10 draw limit)

Results

Home \ Away ARA CHO CSK DNI DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KUB MKH NEF PAK SHA SPA TKU TOR ZEN
Ararat Yerevan 6–13–21–32–31–12–21–13–22–10–03–01–12–11–13–14–12–0
Chornomorets Odessa 0–10–21–11–01–03–20–11–11–01–23–23–12–01–00–11–00–0
CSKA Moscow 2–31–21–11–12–31–22–31–02–21–02–00–11–00–23–02–11–1
Dnipro Dnipropetrosk 1–11–01–00–01–33–20–03–21–00–02–00–02–00–01–10–03–1
Dynamo Kyiv 4–00–03–01–12–32–13–13–03–02–14–01–05–01–22–00–01–1
Dinamo Minsk 1–12–11–12–01–11–02–03–20–02–03–10–03–01–03–20–10–0
Dynamo Moscow 2–00–10–13–02–10–72–12–01–11–12–03–10–30–22–11–12–0
Dinamo Tbilisi 1–11–01–13–11–54–11–01–03–11–05–32–12–23–12–12–02–1
Kairat Alma-Ata 1–21–01–01–01–22–21–22–22–21–12–01–12–10–41–01–12–3
Kuban Krasnodar 1–03–32–00–10–11–34–10–21–11–03–12–21–00–21–00–01–2
Metalist Kharkiv 1–00–02–21–00–02–12–13–00–11–02–12–02–01–33–31–20–0
Neftçi Baku 0–11–12–23–02–13–22–10–01–02–31–04–22–24–33–20–21–0
Pakhtakor Tashkent 0–02–02–13–10–20–33–02–00–02–12–13–22–12–00–01–15–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 3–10–02–02–10–02–11–13–33–21–02–10–03–12–21–10–14–3
Spartak Moscow 1–21–12–10–01–23–40–14–13–03–10–05–00–03–22–02–01–1
Torpedo Kutaisi 2–01–10–22–31–10–02–11–02–01–12–21–03–12–02–42–12–0
Torpedo Moscow 1–02–01–12–10–11–21–20–01–13–12–00–00–05–11–20–02–0
Zenit Leningrad 5–00–01–22–12–00–22–03–15–01–21–01–10–13–00–01–04–2
Source: [ citation needed ]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

23 goals
18 goals
16 goals
13 goals
12 goals

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dinamo Minsk

Goalkeepers: Mikhail Vergeyenko (28 / 1), Yury Kurbyko (7).
Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (31 / 7), Yury Trukhan (29), Viktor Yanushevsky (27), Sergei Borovsky (25), Viktor Shishkin (18), Liudas Rumbutis (17), Igor Belov (12).
Midfielders: Aleksandr Prokopenko (31 / 11), Sergey Gotsmanov (31 / 2), Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (29 / 3), Sergei Aleinikov (21 / 8), Valeri Melnikov (18), Alyaksandr Vanyushkin (1).
Forwards: Georgi Kondratyev (32 / 10), Igor Gurinovich (28 / 13), Pyotr Vasilevsky (20 / 5), Viktor Sokol (2 / 1).

Manager: Eduard Malofeyev.

Transferred out during the season: none.

2. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (24), Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (12).
Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (32 / 5), Oleksandr Sorokalet (29), Volodymyr Lozynskyi (28 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (25 / 2), Volodymyr Bezsonov (18 / 4), Oleksandr Boyko (12), Yuriy Makhynya (2).
Midfielders: Andriy Bal (31 / 5), Yaroslav Dumanskyi (29 / 2), Leonid Buryak (21 / 3), Aleksandr Khapsalis (14 / 2), Vasyl Rats (11 / 1), Volodymyr Veremeyev (10), Pavlo Yakovenko (4).
Forwards: Viktor Khlus (31 / 10), Vadym Yevtushenko (25 / 9), Oleg Blokhin (24 / 10), Hryhoriy Pasechnyi (4 / 1).

Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi.

Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (28), Aleksei Prudnikov (12).
Defenders: Oleg Romantsev (33 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (27), Vladimir Shcherbak (24), Boris Pozdnyakov (19), Vladimir Bukiyevskiy (4), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (2), Alexander Mirzoyan (2).
Midfielders: Sergey Shavlo (34 / 11), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Yuri Gavrilov (31 / 6), Edgar Gess (30 / 5), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (17), Sergei Nikitin (2).
Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (30 / 9), Aleksandr Kalashnikov (26 / 5), Sergei Shvetsov (24 / 9), Viktor Hrachov (5 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (3), Vladimir Nikonov (1), Oleg Smirnov (1).

Manager: Konstantin Beskov.

Transferred out during the season: Viktor Hrachov (to FC Shakhtar Donetsk).

Number of teams by union republic

Rank Union republic Number of teamsClub(s)
1Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg  RSFSR 6 CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Kuban Krasnodar, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad
2Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1949-1991).svg  Ukrainian SSR 5 Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk
3Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg  Georgian SSR 2 Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi
4Flag of Armenian SSR.svg  Armenian SSR 1 Ararat Yerevan
Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1956-1991).svg  Azerbaijan SSR Neftchi Baku
Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1951-1991).svg  Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk
Flag of the Kazakh SSR.svg  Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata
Flag of the Uzbek SSR.svg  Uzbek SSR Pakhtakor Tashkent

References