1991 Soviet First League

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Soviet First League
Season1991
Champions Rotor Volgograd
Relegatednone
Top goalscorer(25) Serhiy Husyev (Tiligul Tiraspol)
1990

Soviet First League 1991 was the last season of the Soviet First League. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the football structure was reformed. All of its participants have entered the Top Divisions of the republics of their origin, except of Dinamo Sukhumi that because of the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia was dissolved.

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Due to the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, a process of dissolution of the Soviet Union accelerated as well as a process of decommunization in former union republics. Number of cities changed their names returning to their original names.

Teams

Relegated teams

Renamed teams

Replaced or withdrawn teams

With fall of the Soviet Union, the promoted FC Daugava Riga was dissolved and replaced with FC Pardaugava Riga that was based on the junior squad of the Latvia national U-21 football team and took part in the 1990 Baltic League placing only 15th out 17 teams.

Locations

League standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Rotor Volgograd (C)42241177944+3559Promoted to the 1992 Soviet Top League
2 Flag of Moldavian SSR.svg Tiligul Tiraspol 422210106445+1954
3 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Uralmash Yekaterinburg/Sverdlovsk 42219126840+2851
4 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don 422010124739+850
5 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg Bukovyna Chernivtsi 42208145649+748Withdrew
6 Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg Tavriya Simferopol 421910136456+848
7 Flag of the Uzbek SSR.svg Neftiannik Fergona 42215165456247Promoted to the 1992 Soviet Top League
8 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod 421713124635+1147
9 Flag of the Uzbek SSR.svg Novbahor 42197166053+745
10 Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg Dinamo Sukhumi 421611155050043
11 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Textilschik Kamyshin 421513145652+443
12 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Shinnik Yaroslavl 42177185759241
13 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Fakel Voronezh 42177184550541
14 Flag of the Kazakh SSR.svg Kairat Almaty 42176195852+640Promoted to the 1992 Soviet Top League
15 Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1956-1991).svg Neftchi Baku 42175206058+239
16 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Dinamo Stavropol 421411175054439
17 Flag of Armenian SSR.svg Kotayk Abovyan 421572030481837Withdrew
18 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Zenit St. Petersburg/Leningrad 421114174450636Promoted to the 1992 Soviet Top League
19 Flag of Moldavian SSR.svg Zimbru Chisinau 4211131836491335
20 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Geolog Tyumen 4211131832471535
21 Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Kuban Krasnodar 428102440682826
22 Flag of Latvian SSR.svg Pardaugava Riga 42762931734220Withdrew
Source: [ citation needed ]
(C) Champion

Notes:

Number of teams by union republic

Rank Union republic Number of teamsClub(s)
1Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg  RSFSR 11 Dinamo Stavropol, Fakel Voronezh, Geolog Tyumen, Kuban Krasnodar, Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod, Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu, Rotor Volgograd, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Tekstilschik Kamyshin, Uralmash Yekaterinburg, Zenit Saint Petersburg
2Flag of Moldavian SSR.svg  Moldavian SSR 2 Tiligul Tiraspol, Zimbru Kishenev
Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg  Ukrainian SSR Bukovina Chernovtsy, Tavriya Simferopol
Flag of the Uzbek SSR.svg  Uzbek SSR Navbahor Namangan, Neftiannik Fergana
5Flag of Armenian SSR.svg  Armenian SSR 1 Kotaik Abovian
Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1956-1991).svg  Azerbaijan SSR Neftchi Baku
Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.svg  Georgian SSR / (Flag of Abkhazian ASSR.svg  Abkhazia) Dinamo Sukhumi
Flag of the Kazakh SSR.svg  Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata
Flag of Latvian SSR.svg  Latvian SSR Pardaugava Riga

Top scorers

#PlayerClubGoalsGames
1 Serhiy Husyev «Tiligul Tiraspol»2536
2 Serhiy Shevchenko «Tavriya Simferopol»2140
3 Valeri Shushlyakov «Uralmash Yekaterinburg»2038
4 Vladislav Lemish «Kuban Krasnodar»2042
5 Rustam Zabirov «Navbahor Namangan»1935
6 Yuri Kalitvintsev «Rotor Volgograd»1837
7 Aleksandr Tikhonov «Rostselmash Rostov»1740
8 Yunis Hüseynov «Neftchi Baku»1634
9 Vəli Qasımov «Neftchi Baku»1638
10 Rustem Shaymukhametov «Textilshchik Kamyshin»1538
11 Yuriy Hudymenko «Rotor Volgograd»1539

Managers

ClubHead coach
FC Rotor Volgograd Leonid Koltun
SC Tiligul Tiraspol Vladimir Veber
FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk
FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg
Korney Shperling (until July)
Nikolai Agafonov (from July)
FC Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu Enver Yulgushov
FC Bukovina Chernovtsy Yukhym Shkolnykov
SC Tavriya Simferopol Anatoliy Zayaev
FC Neftiannik Fergona Yuriy Sarkisyan
FC Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod Valeri Ovchinnikov
FC Navbakhor Namangan Igor Volchok
FC Dinamo Sukhumi Oleg Dolmatov
FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin Sergei Pavlov
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl Stanislav Vorotilin
FC Fakel Voronezh Sergei Savchenkov (until June)
Fyodor Novikov (from July)
FC Kairat Alma-Ata Boris Stukalov
FC Neftchi Baku Ruslan Abdullaev (until April)
Kazbek Tuaev (from May)
FC Dinamo Stavropol Viktor Nosov (until July)
Vladimir Kitin (from July, interim)
FC Kotayk Abovyan Arkady Andreasyan
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Yury Morozov
FC Zimbru Kishinev Ion Caras
FC Geolog Tyumen Rudolf Atamalyan
Serhiy Morozov (from July)
FC Kuban Krasnodar Vladimir Brazhnikov (until July)
Yuri Marushkin (from July)
FK Pārdaugava Riga Jānis Skredelis

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