1985 Soviet Top League

48th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union Soviet Top League 1985 1 March – 23 November27 November – 15 December(relegation tournament) FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Fakel Voronezh, FC SKA Rostov-na-Donu European Cup Dynamo Kyiv Cup Winners' Cup Torpedo Moscow UEFA Cup FC Dinamo MinskSpartak MoscowDnipro Dnipropetrovsk (35) Oleh Protasov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) 306 795 1984 1986 The 1985 Soviet Top League was the 16th season of the Soviet Top League, the highest tier football league in the Soviet Union. It also was 48th season of the top tier club competition. Zenit Leningrad were the defending champions. Teams Promoted teams FC Fakel Voronezh – champion (returning for the first time since 1961 after twenty 24 seasons, known as Trud Voronezh) FC Torpedo Kutaisi – 2nd place (returning after a season) Location center 700 500 52.0 50.0 53.9 27.566667 Dynamo Mi right Red pog.svg blue 43.2775 76.895833 Kairat left Red pog.svg blue 54.683333 25.283333 Žalgiris right Red pog.svg blue 50.45 30.523333 Dynamo K left Red pog.svg blue 48.45 34.983333 Dnepr left Red pog.svg blue 48.002778 37.805278 Shakhter right Red pog.svg blue 50.004444 36.231389 Metallist right Red pog.svg blue 46.485722 30.743444 Chornomorets bottom Red pog.svg blue 40.395278 49.882222 Neftchi right Red pog.svg blue 41.716667 44.783333 Dynamo T right Red pog.svg blue 42.25 42.7 Torpedo K left Red pog.svg blue 40.183333 44.516667 Ararat right Red pog.svg blue 59.95 30.3 Zenit left Red pog.svg blue 55.75 37.61 Dynamo left Red pog.svg blue 55.75 37.61 Spartak top Red pog.svg blue 55.75 37.61 Torpedo M bottom Red pog.svg blue 51.671667 39.210556 Fakel bottom Red pog.svg blue 47.233333 39.7 SKA R/D bottom Red pog.svg blue 4 Locations of teams in the 1989 Top League Final table main WDL QR 2 DK Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kyiv SPA RSFSR Spartak Moscow DNI Ukrainian SSR Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk DMI Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk TOR RSFSR Torpedo Moscow ZEN RSFSR Zenit Leningrad ŽAL Lithuanian SSR Žalgiris Vilnius DTB Georgian SSR Dinamo Tbilisi KAI Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata MET Ukrainian SSR Metalist Kharkiv TKU Georgian SSR Torpedo Kutaisi SHK Ukrainian SSR Shakhtar Donetsk ARA Armenian SSR Ararat Yerevan DMO RSFSR Dinamo Moscow CHE Ukrainian SSR Chornomorets Odessa NEF Azerbaijan SSR Neftçi Baku FAK RSFSR Fakel Voronezh SKA RSFSR SKA Rostov-na-Donu 20 8 6 64 26 C 18 10 6 72 28 16 11 7 71 41 16 9 9 40 31 13 10 11 42 40 14 7 13 48 38 12 11 11 43 49 11 10 13 34 39 11 13 10 43 46 12 7 15 39 55 11 9 14 40 51 10 12 12 46 45 10 12 12 42 46 11 7 16 37 50 11 7 16 44 65 O 9 11 14 30 40 O 9 9 16 24 45 R 7 7 20 36 60 R -1 1 point deducted (10 draw limit) -1 DNI -3 3 points deducted (10 draw limit) -2 2 points deducted (10 draw limit) -2 SHK -1 DNI green1 Qualification for European Cup first round C blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round UC UC UC red2 Qualification for Relegation play-off RP RP red1 Relegation to First League R R complete rsssf.com Post-season promotion/relegation tournament For the following season the League was reduced to 16 members. The teams that finished 15th and 16th played a mini-tournament in format of home-away double round-robin with the two best out of the Soviet First League (Daugava Riga and CSKA Moscow). Out of this tournament the two best teams (Chernomorets Odessa and Nefchi Baku) continued on in the Soviet Top League. The tournament was conducted in winter-like conditions from 27 November to 15 December. main WDL Q 2 CHE Ukrainian SSR Chornomorets Odessa NEF Azerbaijan SSR Neftçi Baku DAU Latvian SSR Daugava Riga CSK RSFSR CSKA Moscow 3 3 0 6 3 2 3 1 9 4 1 3 2 7 7 1 1 4 3 11 complete rsssf.com For the 1986 season there was no promotion out of the Soviet First League. Results main FBR grey ARA CHO DNI DYK DMN DYN DTB FAK KAI MKH NEF SHA SKA SPA TKU TOR ŽAL ZEN Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 0–0 1–1 1–2 3–1 3–0 2–0 3–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 4–0 5–0 0–1 2–1 2–0 4–2 Spartak Moscow 1–2 3–0 3–0 1–0 2–0 4–1 0–0 1–1 4–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 5–1 6–0 2–0 2–0 3–0 Dnipro 1–1 0–0 1–0 3–3 2–1 5–0 2–1 4–3 1–0 2–0 5–4 2–0 2–0 3–3 4–0 6–0 2–0 Dinamo Minsk 0–2 2–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–1 3–0 1–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 3–2 1–0 4–1 2–0 2–1 3–0 Torpedo Moscow 1–4 2–1 0–3 0–0 1–3 3–2 2–0 1–1 2–0 0–2 0–0 2–1 1–2 0–0 3–0 2–0 2–0 Zenit Leningrad 1–1 1–4 2–1 3–1 1–2 3–1 3–0 3–0 4–1 2–0 2–1 1–1 2–0 3–1 3–1 2–0 1–3 Žalgiris Vilnius 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–2 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 2–2 1–0 4–1 1–5 1–0 2–1 2–1 5–1 Dinamo Tbilisi 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 2–0 5–0 0–0 2–1 3–3 2–1 0–0 2–1 Kairat Alma-Ata 2–1 4–4 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–1 4–1 2–1 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–0 2–2 1–0 Metalist Kharkiv 2–2 0–7 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 3–0 3–1 1–0 2–1 0–1 2–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 Torpedo Kutaisi 2–1 1–2 4–3 1–1 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 4–1 1–4 1–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 0–0 Shakhtar Donetsk 1–2 1–2 1–1 3–0 2–1 1–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 4–0 1–1 0–1 3–1 Ararat Yerevan 1–1 0–0 3–5 1–0 2–1 1–0 3–3 1–0 4–2 3–1 3–1 3–3 1–1 1–2 0–0 3–0 2–0 Dynamo Moscow 1–2 2–0 1–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 0–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–3 2–0 1–1 3–1 0–1 0–0 3–4 Chornomorets Odessa 0–3 1–4 2–1 0–2 3–2 0–0 2–3 1–1 0–1 4–3 3–0 3–2 2–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 1–3 Neftçi Baku 1–1 2–2 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–0 4–1 0–0 3–1 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 Fakel Voronezh 1–3 0–5 0–2 2–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0–0 0–2 1–1 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–3 6–2 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–3 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–1 1–2 complete Top scorers 35 goals Oleh Protasov (Dnipro) 14 goals Vladimir Klementyev (Zenit) Sergey Rodionov (Spartak Moscow) 13 goals Fyodor Cherenkov (Spartak Moscow) Oleh Taran (Dnipro) 12 goals Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) Viktor Grachyov (Shakhtar) Sigitas Jakubauskas (Žalgiris) 11 goals Georgi Kondratyev (Dinamo Minsk) Sergei Volgin (Kairat) Medal squads (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) 1. FC Dynamo Kyiv Goalkeepers: Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (34), Viktor Chanov (1). Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (34 / 8), Oleh Kuznetsov (29 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Volodymyr Bezsonov (25), Vasyl Yevseyev (19), Ivan Palamar (2), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (1), Vadym Karatayev (1). Midfielders: Vasyl Rats (34 / 6), Ivan Yaremchuk (33 / 3), Oleksandr Zavarov (31 / 9), Andriy Bal (31 / 1), Pavlo Yakovenko (29), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (20 / 2). Forwards: Ihor Belanov (31 / 10), Oleg Blokhin (29 / 12), Vadym Yevtushenko (22 / 10), Oleksandr Hushchyn (2), Viktor Khlus (2). Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi. Transferred out during the season: Viktor Khlus (to FC Chornomorets Odesa). 2. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Stanislav Cherchesov (2). Defenders: Aleksandr Bubnov (34), Boris Kuznetsov (34), Gennady Morozov (31 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (24 / 2), Almir Kayumov (14), Aleksandr Shibayev (4). Midfielders: Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 13), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (33 / 7), Sergei Novikov (31 / 7), Yuri Gavrilov (26 / 6), Sergey Shavlo (25 / 6), Yevgeni Sidorov (24 / 4), Guram Adzhoyev (7 / 1). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (29 / 14), Andrei Rudakov (23 / 8), Vladimir Kapustin (13 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (5 / 2), Oleg Kuzhlev (5). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: none. 3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (32), Valeriy Horodov (6). Defenders: Serhiy Puchkov (32 / 1), Oleksandr Lysenko (31 / 2), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (31), Sergei Bashkirov (29 / 1), Oleksandr Sorokalet (11), Sergey Kulinich (3), Anatoliy Nazarenko (3), Volodymyr Gerashchenko (2), Petro Kutuzov (2), Ihor Deli (1). Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (34 / 7), Vyktor Kuznetsov (33 / 3), Oleksiy Cherednyk (28 / 1), Andriy Dilay (27), Volodymyr Bahmut (20 / 1), Borys Shurshin (12 / 2), Mykola Kudrytsky (9), Serhiy Khudozhylov (2), Mykola Fedorenko (1). Forwards: Oleh Protasov (33 / 35), Oleh Taran (27 / 13), Volodymyr Lyutyi (22 / 4), Volodymyr Mozolyuk (1), Andriy Sydelnykov (1). Manager: Volodymyr Yemets. Transferred out during the season: Serhiy Khudozhylov, Mykola Fedorenko (both to FC Kolos Nikopol). Number of teams by union republic Rank Union republic Number of teams Club(s)1 RSFSR6Dinamo Moscow, Fakel Voronezh, SKA Rostov-na-Donu, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad2 Ukrainian SSR5Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk3 Georgian SSR2Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi4 Armenian SSR1Ararat Yerevan Azerbaijan SSRNeftchi Baku Belarusian SSRDinamo Minsk Kazakh SSRKairat Alma-Ata Lithuanian SSRZhalgiris Vilnius Attendances { class"wikitable sortable" !#!!Football club!!Home games!!Average attendancehttps://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov85.htm Historical attendances European-football-statistics.co.uk August 30, 2026 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Dinamo Tbilisi 17 54,429 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Dynamo Kyiv 17 35,918 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Torpedo Kutaisi 17 26,765 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Ararat Yerevan 17 26,659 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Fakel Voronezh 17 25,676 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count FC Dnipro 17 25,506 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count FC Spartak Moscow 17 25,159 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count FC Zenit 17 24,882 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count FC Dinamo Minsk 17 24,435 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Shakhtar Donetsk 17 21,688 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Metalist Kharkiv 17 19,324 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Chornomorets Odesa 17 17,371 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count FC Kairat 17 16,424 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Neftçi 17 11,388 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count SKA Rostov-on-Don 17 9,771 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count FC Dynamo Moscow 17 9,129 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count FK Žalgiris 17 8,171 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count FC Torpedo Moscow 17 5,776 - } References External links 1985 season Category:Soviet Top League seasons 1 Soviet