1964 Soviet Top League

26th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union Class A First Group 1964 27 March–8 November18 November–22 November (playoffs) Dinamo Tbilisi (1st title) Volga GorkyKairat Alma-AtaShinnik YaroslavlMoldova Chisinau European Cup none Cup Winners' Cup Dynamo Kyiv 274 544 Valery Voronin (Torpedo M) Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA) Viktor Bannikov (Dynamo Kv) 1963 1965 The 1964 Class A First Group was the 26th season of the Soviet football championship at top division and the 15th for Class A. The season started on 27 March 1964 and finished on 8 November 1964. Upon conclusion of the regular season, at the end of November in warmer Tashkent took place additional play-offs for the first place and the 13th place. 17 teams took part in the league with FC Dinamo Tbilisi winning the championship. Volga Gorky and Shinnik Yaroslavl were the newly promoted clubs. According to the rules, if two teams had the equal number of points the winner was decided by the final match between them. The game between Dinamo and Torpedo took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan SSR with FC Dinamo Tbilisi winning 4-1 after extra time. FC Dynamo Kyiv qualified for CWC 1965–66 by beating Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 1–0 in the national cup this year becoming the first Soviet football club in European competitions. The defending champions Dynamo Moscow placed seventh. League standings main WDL Q 2 DTB Georgian SSR Dinamo Tbilisi TOR RSFSR Torpedo Moscow CSK RSFSR CSKA Moscow SKA RSFSR SKA Rostov-on-Don SHK Ukrainian SSR Shakhtyor Donetsk DK Ukrainian SSR Dinamo Kiev DYN RSFSR Dinamo Moscow SPA RSFSR Spartak Moscow DMI Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk KRY RSFSR Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev ZEN RSFSR Zenit Leningrad NEF Azerbaijan SSR Neftyanik Baku KUT Georgian SSR Torpedo Kutaisi VOL RSFSR Volga Gorky KAI Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata SHI RSFSR Shinnik Yaroslavl CHI Moldavian SSR Moldova Chișinău 18 10 4 48 30 C 19 8 5 52 19 16 11 5 49 23 16 6 10 40 28 13 11 8 35 26 10 16 6 42 29 12 10 10 33 31 12 8 12 34 32 7 17 8 24 21 7 14 11 24 35 9 9 14 30 35 8 11 13 25 30 10 7 15 20 37 7 13 12 19 38 R 8 10 14 23 27 R 6 9 17 20 48 R 6 6 20 15 44 R Gold League champions C yellow1 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round CWC red1 Relegation to Class A Second Group R R R R complete rsssf.com Results main FBR grey CSK DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KRY MOL NEF TOR SHA SHI SKA SPA TKU VOL ZEN Dinamo Tbilisi 3–1 3–0 2–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 1–0 3–1 1–1 2–0 4–3 1–0 2–0 2–2 3–1 1–0 Torpedo Moscow 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 5–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 3–1 3–0 CSKA Moscow 4–1 2–1 1–0 0–2 1–2 1–1 2–0 0–0 4–2 0–0 0–0 4–0 5–2 2–0 10–2 1–0 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1–2 0–2 1–0 1–0 2–2 2–1 0–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–1 7–0 0–1 1–0 2–0 1–0 Shakhtyor Donetsk 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–2 0–0 1–2 3–0 0–5 3–0 2–1 1–0 3–0 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 Dinamo Kiev 1–1 1–2 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–1 2–2 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–1 3–0 1–1 3–1 2–0 4–1 Dinamo Moscow 3–1 2–1 1–2 3–2 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 0–2 0–1 0–0 1–0 2–1 Spartak Moscow 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 2–2 0–0 0–0 0–2 1–0 2–1 Dinamo Minsk 0–0 0–3 0–0 2–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–2 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 4–0 Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 3–3 0–4 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 4–0 1–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–2 1–0 3–1 Zenit Leningrad 0–0 0–4 0–2 2–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–4 1–1 4–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 1–0 4–0 3–0 Neftyanik Baku 0–1 3–1 1–1 0–1 3–1 1–0 0–1 0–4 0–2 0–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 Torpedo Kutaisi 1–1 1–0 0–1 4–1 0–1 0–0 1–0 0–3 0–1 0–0 0–2 1–0 3–0 2–0 0–2 2–0 Volga Gorky 0–0 1–1 0–1 0–4 0–1 0–3 2–2 1–4 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 3–2 1–0 Kairat Alma-Ata 0–0 1–2 1–1 0–0 2–2 1–0 0–0 0–1 2–0 0–1 2–2 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 0–1 Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–1 1–4 1–2 1–1 0–2 2–2 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–1 Moldova Chisinau 1–0 0–2 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–3 0–3 1–1 0–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 0–1 0–0 1–0 0–0 complete Top scorers 16 goals Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA) 15 goals Viktor Kanevskyi (Dinamo Kiev) 14 goals Valentin Ivanov (Torpedo Moscow) 13 goals Ilya Datunashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi) 12 goals Slava Metreveli (Dinamo Tbilisi) 10 goals Oleg Kopayev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) Eduard Malofeyev (Dinamo Minsk) Viktor Ponedelnik (SKA Rostov-on-Don) Oleg Sergeyev (Torpedo Moscow) 9 goals Yuri Ananchenko (Shakhtyor) Vladimir Barkaya (Dinamo Tbilisi) Igor Chislenko (Dynamo Moscow) Valeryan Chkhartishvili (Torpedo Kutaisi) Boris Kazakov (CSKA) References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) Category:Soviet Top League seasons 1 Soviet