1973 in Soviet football

none the Soviet Union 1973 Top League Ararat Yerevan First League Chernomorets Odessa Second League Uralmash Sverdlovsk Soviet Cup Ararat Yerevan 1972 1974 yes The 1973 Soviet football championship was the 41st seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 35th among teams of sports societies and factories. Ararat Yerevan won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the first time. Honours CompetitionWinnerRunner-upTop LeagueArarat Yerevan (1)Dinamo KievFirst LeagueChernomorets Odessa (2)Nistru KishinevSecond LeagueUralmash SverdlovskTavriya SimferopolSoviet CupArarat Yerevan (1)Dinamo Kiev Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition Soviet Union football championship 1973 Soviet Top League Top League main WL PK QR 2 1 0 ARA Armenian SSR Ararat Yerevan DK Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kyiv DYN RSFSR Dynamo Moscow SPA RSFSR Spartak Moscow DTB Georgian SSR Dinamo Tbilisi SHK Ukrainian SSR Shakhtar Donetsk ZAR Ukrainian SSR Zarya Voroshilovgrad DNI Ukrainian SSR Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk KAI Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata CSK RSFSR CSKA Moscow ZEN RSFSR Zenit Leningrad PAK Uzbek SSR Pakhtakor Tashkent TOR RSFSR Torpedo Moscow KAR Ukrainian SSR Karpaty Lviv DMI Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk SKA RSFSR SKA Rostov-on-Don 18 3 4 5 52 26 C 16 4 4 6 44 23 13 7 3 7 43 30 14 3 5 8 37 28 13 5 2 10 42 33 14 3 4 9 32 26 14 1 5 10 38 26 9 8 1 12 36 40 8 10 1 11 25 37 10 5 4 11 33 36 9 3 9 9 33 35 9 2 4 15 37 44 9 1 7 13 28 37 8 3 3 16 28 48 7 3 6 14 21 36 R 3 5 4 18 19 43 R green1 Qualification for European Cup first round CC yellow1 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round CWC blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round UC UC red1 Relegation to First League R R Drawn matches decided by penalties, the winners obtaining 1 point, the losers 0. complete First League main WL PK PR 2 1 0 y y Rep Republic COD UKR Chernomorets Odessa NKI MDA Nistru Kishinev LMO RUS Lokomotiv Moskva NBA AZE Neftchi Baku MLI RUS Metallurg Lipetsk MZA UKR Metallurg Zaporozhye SYA RUS Shinnik Yaroslavl KSK RUS Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev TKU GEO Torpedo Kutaisi SIF UKR Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk ZPE RUS Zvezda Perm TIV RUS Textilshchik Ivanovo SAS TKM Stroitel Ashkhabad PDU TJK Pamir Dushanbe KKE RUS Kuzbass Kemerovo SNA RUS Spartak Nalchik Spartak Nalchik was called Avtomobilist. SOR RUS Spartak Orjonikidze SKA KAZ Shakhtyor Karaganda MKH UKR Metallist Kharkov AFR KGZ Alga Frunze y y 24 4 2 8 83 38 25 2 5 6 71 35 20 6 2 10 47 32 17 5 3 13 58 43 14 7 5 12 42 38 14 6 5 13 62 53 16 2 6 14 48 41 15 4 3 16 46 51 16 2 2 18 40 46 14 5 2 17 40 54 14 4 5 15 50 52 14 4 4 16 41 46 14 4 3 17 46 58 14 3 5 16 50 44 14 2 7 15 42 46 12 6 2 18 46 61 13 4 3 18 29 44 12 4 5 17 42 60 11 5 4 18 34 50 6 2 8 22 49 54 - + - - + + + inherit Promoted P P inherit Relegated R R R complete rsssf.com Second League (finals) 1973 Soviet Second League [Nov 4-20, Sochi] main WL PK P 2 1 0 y y Rep Republic UMS RUS UralMash Sverdlovsk TSI UKR Tavria Simferopol KKR RUS Kuban Krasnodar ISM RUS Iskra Smolensk SKO RUS Spartak Kostroma SBR RUS Sibiryak Bratsk TPA KAZ Traktor Pavlodar y 4 1 0 1 14 7 4 0 1 1 13 5 2 3 1 0 11 4 3 0 1 2 12 11 3 0 0 3 9 14 0 1 0 5 2 12 0 0 2 4 4 12 - + inherit Promoted P P P complete rsssf.com Top goalscorers Top League Oleg Blokhin (Dinamo Kiev) – 18 goals First League Anatoliy Shepel (Chernomorets Odessa) – 38 goals References External links 1973 Soviet football championship. RSSSF 1973