1979 Soviet Top League

42nd season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union Soviet Top League 1979 Spartak Moscow Zaria Voroshilovgrad, Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev European Cup Spartak Moscow Cup Winners' Cup Dinamo Tbilisi UEFA Cup Dinamo MoscowDinamo KievShakhter Donetsk (26) Vitaliy Starukhin (Shakhter) 306 758 1978 1980 Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1979 season. Overview 1979 Top League was composed of 18 teams, the championship was won by Spartak Moscow. On 11 August 1979, a mid-air collision killed virtually the entire FC Pakhtakor Tashkent team. The Top League ordered all the other teams to make three players available for a draft to restock the team, and Pakhtakor was given exemption from relegation for the next three years. League standings main WDL QR 2 SPA RSFSR Spartak Moscow SHK Ukrainian SSR Shakhtar Donetsk DK Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kyiv DTB Georgian SSR Dinamo Tbilisi DYN RSFSR Dynamo Moscow DMI Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk ARA Armenian SSR Ararat Yerevan CSK RSFSR CSKA Moscow PAK Uzbek SSR Pakhtakor Tashkent ZEN RSFSR Zenit Leningrad CHE Ukrainian SSR Chornomorets Odessa LOK RSFSR Lokomotiv Moscow KAI Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata NEF Azerbaijan SSR Neftchi Baku SKA RSFSR SKA Rostov-on-Don TOR RSFSR Torpedo Moscow ZAR Ukrainian SSR Zaria Voroshilovgrad KRY RSFSR Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 21 10 3 66 25 C 20 8 6 57 33 21 5 8 51 26 19 12 3 54 27 17 9 8 41 27 15 6 13 48 38 12 13 9 44 32 12 8 14 46 46 11 9 14 42 53 11 9 14 41 45 10 11 13 32 37 8 12 14 44 57 8 9 17 29 44 8 8 18 29 50 8 14 12 37 50 8 9 17 32 46 6 11 17 41 62 R 7 5 22 24 60 R -2 2 points deducted (8 draw limit) -4 4 points deducted (8 draw limit) -1 1 point deducted (8 draw limit) -5 5 points deducted (8 draw limit) -1 DYN -1 DYN -3 3 points deducted (8 draw limit) -4 DTB -1 DYN -6 6 points deducted (8 draw limit) -1 DYN -3 CHE green1 Qualification for European Cup first round CC blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round UC UC UC yellow1 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round CWC red1 Relegation to First League R R complete Results main FBR grey ARA CHO CSK DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KRY LOK NEF PAK SHA SKA SPA TOR ZAR ZEN Spartak Moscow 3–1 1–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 1–0 4–1 1–1 3–1 1–1 4–0 0–0 3–0 0–0 0–1 3–1 1–0 Shakhtar Donetsk 2–0 1–0 3–3 2–0 1–0 2–0 3–2 3–0 3–1 1–1 4–1 1–0 2–0 3–0 2–0 2–1 3–2 Dynamo Kyiv 0–2 2–0 1–1 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 4–3 3–0 1–0 3–1 2–1 5–1 2–1 2–0 2–0 4–1 Dinamo Tbilisi 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 3–1 4–0 2–0 3–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 3–1 3–1 3–0 2–1 Dynamo Moscow 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–1 2–1 2–0 0–0 3–0 3–2 2–0 3–0 2–0 0–2 2–2 1–0 Dinamo Minsk 1–2 2–0 0–0 1–2 2–3 3–2 0–0 2–1 3–1 2–0 3–1 1–0 3–0 2–2 2–0 6–2 0–0 Ararat Yerevan 2–0 1–1 3–1 0–0 0–0 4–1 2–1 3–1 1–1 2–0 2–2 4–2 0–0 2–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 CSKA Moscow 2–5 0–0 0–1 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–3 1–1 1–1 3–0 0–3 4–0 2–1 2–2 1–2 2–1 1–0 Pakhtakor Tashkent 1–1 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–2 2–0 0–1 1–1 2–1 0–1 2–0 1–2 0–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 3–2 Zenit Leningrad 0–1 1–2 1–3 0–1 2–0 2–1 0–0 1–2 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–2 2–2 1–1 1–2 4–1 Chornomorets Odessa 1–1 0–0 2–0 0–1 3–1 0–1 2–1 0–1 2–1 1–2 2–0 0–0 2–0 2–2 1–1 3–1 1–0 Lokomotiv Moscow 1–8 1–1 1–2 4–2 0–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 0–0 5–0 1–0 1–2 2–1 Kairat Alma-Ata 1–2 1–2 1–0 0–0 0–2 1–0 1–0 2–3 0–1 1–0 1–3 2–2 3–1 4–1 0–0 2–1 0–2 Neftçi Baku 0–2 3–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 4–2 0–3 0–1 2–2 1–0 2–0 1–0 2–2 1–0 1–1 3–0 SKA Rostov-on-Don 2–3 2–0 0–0 1–1 1–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 1–3 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 2–0 2–1 2–2 2–0 Torpedo Moscow 1–1 1–2 0–4 1–1 0–3 1–2 1–1 1–2 6–2 1–2 0–0 1–2 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 Zaria Voroshilovgrad 1–2 3–5 1–1 1–3 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–3 4–1 1–2 2–1 2–2 1–1 1–0 1–2 4–2 1–1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 0–5 0–3 0–1 1–3 2–0 1–4 0–3 1–0 1–1 0–2 1–1 0–4 2–1 0–1 2–1 1–0 1–0 complete Top scorers 26 goals Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar) 17 goals Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat) Valeriy Petrakov (Lokomotiv Moscow) 16 goals Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow) Vladimir Kazachyonok (Zenit) 14 goals Aleksandr Prokopenko (Dinamo Minsk) Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow) Nikolai Vasilyev (Torpedo Moscow) Attendances Source:Historical attendances https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov79.htm 2026-08-29 www.european-football-statistics.co.uk No. Club Average 1 Dinamo Tbilisi 55,882 2 Shakhtar Donetsk 38,471 3 Spartak Moscow 30,588 4 Paxtakor 29,941 5 Dinamo Minsk 19,824 6 Chornomorets 19,353 7 Zenit 18,000 8 Rostov-on-Don 17,806 9 Neftçhi 16,412 10 Kairat 16,353 11 Dynamo Kyiv 15,706 12 Ararat 15,047 13 Krylia Sovetov 13,118 14 Zorya 11,118 15 Torpedo Moscow 10,647 16 PFC CSKA 10,471 17 Dynamo Moscow 10,147 18 Lokomotiv Moscow 4,735 References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) Category:Soviet Top League seasons 1 Soviet