1973 Soviet Top League

36th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union 1973 Soviet Top League 1972 1974 Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1973 season. Overview It was contested by 16 teams, and Ararat Yerevan won the championship. League standings 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 Results Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn. main FBR grey ARA CSK DNI DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KAR PAK SHA SKA SPA TOR ZAR ZEN Ararat Yerevan 3–1 1–1(3–5) 3–1 3–0 3–0 1–1(4–3) 1–0 4–0 1–0 3–2 4–0 1–3 3–0 2–1 2–2(4–5) Dynamo Kyiv 3–1 3–0 1–1(3–2) 2–1 2–1 1–0 5–2 3–1 1–0 2–0 3–0 0–0(5–3) 1–0 4–0 1–1(7–8) Dynamo Moscow 0–1 2–2(5–4) 0–0(5–3) 4–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 1–1(3–4) 3–0 1–1(5–4) 1–1(6–5) 1–1(4–5) 2–0 1–1(5–4) 2–0 Spartak Moscow 2–2(4–5) 2–1 1–0 3–1 0–0(5–1) 0–2 3–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 4–0 1–1(5–4) 1–0 2–0 1–0 Dinamo Tbilisi 0–0(4–3) 0–1 0–3 1–0 0–0(6–5) 1–1(4–3) 2–0 3–0 3–1 1–1(6–5) 4–0 4–2 3–0 4–0 2–0 Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0(3–4) 0–2 1–1(4–3) 2–1 0–1 3–1 2–1 0–0(3–5) 4–1 3–1 1–0 2–0 3–1 1–0 3–0 Zarya Voroshilovgrad 0–1 1–0 0–1 2–0 3–0 2–1 0–0(3–4) 1–0 1–0 0–0(2–4) 3–1 0–0(5–3) 4–1 0–2 3–1 Dnipo Dnipropetrovsk 1–1(5–4) 1–0 2–3 0–1 0–0(4–2) 2–1 2–0 2–0 4–1 3–1 1–1(5–3) 2–0 1–1(4–3) 1–0 2–0 Kairat Alma-Ata 1–4 0–0(5–3) 1–0 1–2 1–0 2–0 1–1(4–3) 2–2(4–5) 1–1(4–3) 0–0(5–2) 1–1(5–4) 1–1(4–3) 2–1 1–0 0–0(5–4) CSKA Moscow 0–1 3–0 1–1(4–5) 2–2(5–3) 1–1(5–4) 0–1 1–0 0–0(3–5) 1–0 0–0(8–7) 3–0 3–2 1–0 3–2 3–1 Zenit Leningrad 1–0 2–1 2–3 0–0(4–5) 1–0 3–0 3–2 0–0(11–12) 1–1(3–4) 1–2 0–0(3–4) 3–1 3–0 1–1(7–6) 3–0 Pakhtakor Tashkent 2–3 0–1 2–0 1–0 2–2(2–5) 0–1 1–2 4–1 4–1 1–0 5–0 1–2 3–1 4–0 0–1 Torpedo Moscow 0–1 0–2 1–0 2–0 1–0 0–1 0–3 3–1 1–3 2–2(3–4) 0–1 1–0 1–1(3–4) 1–1(3–5) 1–0 Karpaty Lviv 3–0 0–0(4–5) 3–5 3–2 1–3 0–1 0–2 3–2 0–1 0–9 2–2(4–5) 2–1(5–4) 1–0 1–0 1–0 Dinamo Minsk 1–0 0–0(4–5) 2–1 0–1 0–1 0–0(8–9) 1–2 2–0 1–0 1–1(5–3) 0–0(4–5) 0–1 1–0 1–1(4–5) 1–1(5–4) SKA Rostov-on-Don 0–2 1–1(10–9) 0–1 1–1(6–5) 2–3 0–0(2–4) 1–0 2–2(6–5) 1–2 0–1 2–0 1–1(4–5) 0–1 0–1 1–2 complete Top scorers 18 goals Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) 16 goals Anatoli Kozhemyakin (Dynamo Moscow) 13 goals Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat) 12 goals Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor) Aleksandr Piskaryov (Spartak Moscow) 11 goals Mikhail Bulgakov (Spartak Moscow) Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi) 10 goals Eduard Markarov (Ararat) Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar) 9 goals Vladimir Dorofeyev (CSKA) Viktor Kuznetsov (Zorya) Attendances Source:Historical attendances https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov73.htm 2026-08-01 www.european-football-statistics.co.uk No. Club Average 1 Ararat 56,867 2 Dynamo Kyiv 41,200 3 Shakhtar Donetsk 31,000 4 Zorya 27,800 5 Dinamo Tbilisi 25,467 6 Zenit 25,133 7 Karpaty 24,467 8 Paxtakor 24,333 9 Dinamo Minsk 22,200 10 Spartak Moscow 21,407 11 Dnipro 21,067 12 Dynamo Moscow 19,967 13 Kairat 19,467 14 Torpedo Moscow 19,100 15 PFC CSKA 18,533 16 Rostov-on-Don 12,900 References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) 1969 1 Soviet