1978 Soviet Top League

41st season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union Soviet Top League 1978 Dinamo Tbilisi Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk European Cup Dinamo Tbilisi Cup Winners' Cup Dinamo Moscow UEFA Cup Dinamo KievShakhter Donetsk (19) Georgi Yartsev (Spartak) 240 560 1977 1979 Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1978 season. Overview It was contested by 16 teams, and Dinamo Tbilisi won the championship. Introduction of draw limit, a number of games tied during a season. League standings main WDL QR 2 DTB Georgian SSR Dinamo Tbilisi DK Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kyiv SHK Ukrainian SSR Shakhtar Donetsk DYN RSFSR Dynamo Moscow SPA RSFSR Spartak Moscow CSK RSFSR CSKA Moscow CHE Ukrainian SSR Chornomorets Odessa TOR RSFSR Torpedo Moscow ZAR Ukrainian SSR Zaria Voroshilovgrad ZEN RSFSR Zenit Leningrad PAK Uzbek SSR Pakhtakor Tashkent KAI Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata NEF Azerbaijan SSR Neftchi Baku ARA Armenian SSR Ararat Yerevan LOK RSFSR Lokomotiv Moscow DNI Ukrainian SSR Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 17 8 5 45 24 C 15 9 6 42 20 16 5 9 42 31 14 10 6 37 23 14 5 11 42 33 14 4 12 36 40 12 10 8 41 26 11 11 8 36 29 9 8 13 38 44 9 8 13 31 46 9 8 13 42 43 9 7 14 29 41 8 7 15 28 39 8 6 16 20 42 7 9 14 26 40 9 3 18 25 39 R -1 1 point deducted (8 draw limit). -2 2 points deducted (8 draw limit). -2 DYN -3 3 points deducted (8 draw limit). -1 DK green1 Qualification for European Cup first round CC blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round UC UC yellow1 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round CWC red1 Relegation to First League R complete Results main FBR grey ARA CHO CSK DNI DYK DYN DTB KAI LOK NEF PAK SHA SPA TOR ZAR ZEN Dinamo Tbilisi 1–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 4–1 2–1 2–2 3–0 4–1 3–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 2–0 1–0 Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 1–2 1–0 3–0 0–0 0–0 0–2 2–2 4–1 1–0 3–0 1–1 3–0 3–1 5–1 Shakhtar Donetsk 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–2 3–1 2–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–3 3–1 2–0 2–1 2–1 Dynamo Moscow 1–1 0–0 2–1 0–0 1–2 2–3 0–1 1–0 2–1 3–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 3–1 1–0 Spartak Moscow 2–1 0–2 2–0 1–2 1–2 1–1 0–1 2–1 4–1 1–1 4–1 5–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 CSKA Moscow 1–2 0–1 1–0 2–4 1–2 2–1 2–1 3–1 2–1 2–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–1 1–0 Chornomorets Odessa 0–1 0–0 1–0 0–1 2–1 4–0 2–1 4–1 1–1 3–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 0–1 2–0 Torpedo Moscow 1–0 1–2 1–2 0–0 2–2 0–0 2–2 1–1 2–0 3–0 4–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–2 Pakhtakor Tashkent 3–0 1–1 2–1 0–0 1–3 1–0 1–1 1–1 0–1 3–0 1–0 5–1 2–0 1–1 1–1 Zaria Voroshilovgrad 1–2 1–2 2–2 0–1 0–0 1–0 2–1 3–0 2–1 4–0 2–2 1–0 1–0 1–2 2–2 Zenit Leningrad 1–0 1–0 0–3 1–1 3–1 2–1 0–0 1–1 5–4 1–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 3–1 2–2 Kairat Alma-Ata 1–2 0–0 0–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 2–2 3–2 2–1 3–2 0–0 2–0 2–2 1–0 Neftçi Baku 3–3 0–1 1–0 1–1 3–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–2 2–1 0–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 4–1 Ararat Yerevan 0–0 1–4 1–1 1–4 1–0 3–0 0–2 0–1 1–0 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 Lokomotiv Moscow 0–0 1–1 2–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 0–3 0–0 3–2 1–1 0–0 0–2 2–1 2–1 1–0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0–1 1–0 1–2 1–0 0–2 1–2 1–0 2–0 0–1 0–2 2–1 2–0 3–1 0–1 1–0 complete Top scorers 19 goals Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow) 15 goals Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi) 13 goals Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) 11 goals Nikolai Latysh (Shakhtar) 10 goals Vladimir Klementyev (Zenit) 9 goals Nikolai Kolesov (Dynamo Moscow) 8 goals Aleksei Belenkov (CSKA Moscow) Vakhtang Koridze (Dinamo Tbilisi) Viktor Kuznetsov (Zorya Voroshylovhrad) 7 goals Konstantin Bakanov (Pakhtakor) Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftchi) Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow) Vladimir Fyodorov (Pakhtakor) Yevgeni Khrabrostin (Torpedo Moscow) David Kipiani (Dinamo Tbilisi) Aleksandr Maksimenkov (Dynamo Moscow) Vladimir Onischenko (Dynamo Kyiv) Vladimir Ploskina (Chornomorets) Andrei Redkous (Zenit) Yuri Reznik (Shakhtar) Vitaliy Shevchenko (Chornomorets) Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar) Attendances Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov78.htm Historical attendances www.european-football-statistics.co.uk No. Club Average 1 Dinamo Tbilisi 56,867 2 Shakhtar Donetsk 27,133 3 Chornomorets 23,000 4 Spartak Moscow 22,800 5 Dynamo Kyiv 21,107 6 Paxtakor 18,533 7 Zenit 17,133 8 Kairat 16,800 9 Neftçhi 15,133 10 Dnipro 14,067 11 Zorya 12,267 12 Torpedo Moscow 12,253 13 Ararat 10,033 14 Dynamo Moscow 8,987 15 PFC CSKA 7,627 16 Lokomotiv Moscow 6,253 References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) 1969 1 Soviet