1983 Soviet Top League

46th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union Soviet Top League 1983 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Torpedo Kutaisi, Nistru Kishinev European Cup Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Cup Winners' Cup Dinamo Moscow UEFA Cup Spartak MoscowDinamo Minsk (18) Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak) 306 725 1982 1984 Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1983 season. Teams Promoted teams Žalgiris Vilnius – champion (returning after 21 seasons) Nistru Kishinev – 2nd place (returning after nine seasons) Location center 700 500 52.0 50.0 53.9 27.566667 Dynamo Mi right Red pog.svg blue 47.022778 28.835278 Nistru left Red pog.svg blue 54.683333 25.283333 Žalgiris right Red pog.svg blue 50.45 30.523333 Dynamo K left Red pog.svg blue 48.45 34.983333 Dnepr left Red pog.svg blue 48.002778 37.805278 Shakhter right Red pog.svg blue 50.004444 36.231389 Metallist right Red pog.svg blue 46.485722 30.743444 Chornomorets bottom Red pog.svg blue 40.395278 49.882222 Neftchi right Red pog.svg blue 41.716667 44.783333 Dynamo T right Red pog.svg blue 41.266667 69.216667 Pakhtakor left Red pog.svg blue 40.183333 44.516667 Ararat right Red pog.svg blue 59.95 30.3 Zenit left Red pog.svg blue 55.75 37.61 Dynamo left Red pog.svg blue 55.75 37.61 Spartak top Red pog.svg blue 55.75 37.61 Torpedo M bottom Red pog.svg blue 55.75 37.61 CSKA right Red pog.svg blue 42.25 42.7 Torpedo K bottom Red pog.svg blue 4 Locations of teams in the 1984 Top League League standings main WDL Q 2 5 DNI Ukrainian SSR Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk SPA RSFSR Spartak Moscow DMI Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk ZEN RSFSR Zenit Leningrad ŽAL Lithuanian SSR Žalgiris Vilnius TOR RSFSR Torpedo Moscow DK Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kyiv CHE Ukrainian SSR Chornomorets Odessa SHK Ukrainian SSR Shakhtar Donetsk PAK Uzbek SSR Pakhtakor Tashkent MET Ukrainian SSR Metalist Kharkiv CSK RSFSR CSKA Moscow NEF Azerbaijan SSR Neftchi Baku ARA Armenian SSR Ararat Yerevan DYN RSFSR Dynamo Moscow DTB Georgian SSR Dinamo Tbilisi TKU Georgian SSR Torpedo Kutaisi NIS Moldavian SSR Nistru Kishinev 22 5 7 63 36 C 18 9 7 60 25 17 9 8 51 34 15 11 8 42 32 15 9 10 38 36 14 11 9 40 34 14 10 10 50 34 16 5 13 44 46 16 5 13 48 40 13 9 12 37 34 12 8 14 38 40 11 12 11 37 33 10 10 14 32 38 11 7 16 29 47 9 11 14 30 37 9 9 16 41 48 4 10 20 26 58 R 3 4 27 19 73 R -1 1 point deducted (10 draw limit) -1 ZEN -2 2 points deducted (10 draw limit) -1 ZEN 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 R complete Results main FBR grey ARA CHO CSK DNI DYK DMN DYN DTB MKH NEF NIS PAK SHA SPA TKU TOR ŽAL ZEN Dnipro 4–2 2–1 1–0 3–1 2–1 2–1 2–0 3–2 2–1 2–1 1–2 1–0 4–0 3–1 2–1 0–0 6–0 Spartak Moscow 1–1 0–2 3–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 4–0 1–2 1–0 1–0 2–2 2–0 3–1 3–0 5–1 0–0 1–0 Dinamo Minsk 1–2 3–2 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 3–0 2–0 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 0–0 Zenit Leningrad 2–2 0–2 3–1 0–0 3–2 1–1 2–1 0–2 0–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 4–1 Žalgiris Vilnius 2–1 1–0 2–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 2–0 3–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 5–0 Torpedo Moscow 3–0 0–2 0–4 0–2 1–1 2–1 0–1 0–0 1–1 3–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 1–0 4–1 1–0 Dynamo Kyiv 2–1 1–1 0–2 2–2 4–1 0–1 6–0 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 0–0 3–0 2–1 1–1 8–0 3–0 Chornomorets Odessa 1–0 1–0 3–1 2–0 0–0 2–3 1–2 2–1 0–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 4–1 0–0 1–1 Shakhtar Donetsk 1–3 0–4 3–0 0–0 3–0 1–0 1–2 2–0 0–1 1–0 0–1 2–0 3–0 0–1 6–3 1–0 6–2 Pakhtakor Tashkent 0–1 0–0 2–2 0–3 0–0 1–3 3–0 1–2 2–1 4–1 1–0 4–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 Metalist Kharkiv 1–1 1–2 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 4–3 1–0 3–1 CSKA Moscow 0–2 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–2 0–0 4–1 1–2 1–0 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–2 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 Neftçi Baku 2–2 2–1 2–1 2–5 3–0 0–1 2–0 1–1 3–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 3–0 1–1 3–2 0–0 0–0 Ararat Yerevan 0–2 0–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 3–0 0–1 1–2 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–2 1–0 Dynamo Moscow 1–0 0–0 2–2 1–2 1–2 1–1 1–1 0–4 0–1 0–0 2–1 1–2 3–1 2–1 1–0 1–1 2–1 Dinamo Tbilisi 3–1 0–3 1–2 1–2 3–1 0–0 1–0 3–0 2–3 1–1 0–0 2–0 1–1 3–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 Torpedo Kutaisi 2–3 0–4 1–1 1–0 1–2 3–1 0–1 1–3 3–1 1–1 1–2 1–6 0–0 0–0 0–2 2–2 0–1 Nistru Chișinău 0–1 1–6 1–3 0–1 1–1 0–3 0–1 1–4 0–1 2–0 0–2 1–2 0–1 2–4 0–3 1–0 1–2 complete Top scorers 18 goals Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak Moscow) 17 goals Igor Gurinovich (Dinamo Minsk) 15 goals Volodymyr Fink (Chornomorets) Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat) Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar) Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor) 14 goals Sigitas Jakubauskas (Žalgiris) 13 goals Viktor Kolyadko (CSKA Moscow) Oleh Taran (Dnipro) 11 goals Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow) Valeriy Petrakov (Torpedo Moscow) Igor Ponomaryov (Neftchi) Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi) Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA Moscow) Vadym Yevtushenko (Dynamo Kyiv) Medal squads (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) 1. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (34). Defenders: Mykola Pavlov (33 / 3), Petro Kutuzov (27), Oleksandr Lysenko (17 / 1), Yuriy Mirhorodskyi (17), Serhiy Puchkov (13), Oleksandr Chervonyi (9), Andriy Bobrikov (7), Volodymyr Ustinov (6), Anatoliy Nazarenko (5), Valeriy Zuyev (2). Midfielders: Andriy Dilay (34 / 2), Vyktor Kuznetsov (31 / 7), Volodymyr Ustymchyk (30 / 5), Oleh Serebryanskyi (26 / 1), Hennadiy Lytovchenko (24 / 5), Mykola Fedorenko (17 / 3), Volodymyr Bahmut (6), Volodymyr Kobzarev (5). Forwards: Oleh Taran (30 / 13), Volodymyr Lyutyi (24 / 9), Oleh Protasov (21 / 7), Aleksandr Pogorelov (21 / 5). Manager: Volodymyr Yemets. Transferred out during the season: Volodymyr Ustinov (to FC Kolos Nikopol), Valeriy Zuyev (retired). 2. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Andrei Mikhalychev (1). Defenders: Sergei Bazulev (30), Gennady Morozov (30), Yevgeni Mileshkin (29 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (25 / 3), Boris Pozdnyakov (25), Oleg Romantsev (17), Aleksandr Bubnov (13), Sergei Savchenkov (3), Sergei Shulgin (1). Midfielders: Yuri Gavrilov (34 / 18), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (34 / 5), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Valeri Gladilin (26 / 9), Yuri Reznik (25 / 4), Edgar Gess (18 / 2), Sergei Shvetsov (8), Mikhail Dubinin (5 / 2), Vladimir Korolyov (1), Sergei Nikitin (1). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (16 / 5), Sergei Argudyayev (6), Mikhail Rusyayev (5), Oleg Kuzhlev (2), Oleg Smirnov (1). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: Oleg Romantsev (retired), Mikhail Dubinin (to FC Metallurg Aldan). 3. FC Dinamo Minsk Goalkeepers: Yury Kurbyko (30), Mikhail Vergeyenko (4), Arkadi Batalov (1). Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (32 / 1), Sergei Borovsky (32), Viktor Yanushevsky (30), Viktor Shishkin (24), Liudas Rumbutis (22 / 3), Oļegs Aleksejenko (18), Igor Belov (10), Yury Trukhan (5). Midfielders: Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 1), Sergey Gotsmanov (29 / 5), Sergei Aleinikov (29 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (26 / 1), Aleksandr Prokopenko (12 / 2), Valeri Melnikov (9 / 1). Forwards: Igor Gurinovich (28 / 17), Georgi Kondratyev (28 / 8), Viktor Sokol (18 / 9), Pyotr Vasilevsky (17 / 1). Manager: Eduard Malofeyev. Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Prokopenko (released). Number of teams by union republic Rank Union republic Number of teams Club(s)1 RSFSR5CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad Ukrainian SSRChernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk3 Georgian SSR2Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi4 Armenian SSR1Ararat Yerevan Azerbaijan SSRNeftchi Baku Belarusian SSRDinamo Minsk Moldavian SSRNistru Kishinev Lithuanian SSRZhalgiris Vilnius Uzbek SSRPakhtakor Tashkent Attendances No. Club Average 1 Shakhtar Donetsk 31,376 2 Dinamo Minsk 27,024 3 Zenit 26,712 4 Metalist Kharkiv 26,412 5 Spartak Moscow 26,047 6 Dynamo Kyiv 25,147 7 Dinamo Tbilisi 24,024 8 Dnipro 23,347 9 Chornomorets 22,088 10 Paxtakor 19,841 11 Ararat 18,794 12 Torpedo Kutaisi 18,000 13 Neftçhi 17,265 14 Nistru 17,112 15 Žalgiris 12,141 16 PFC CSKA 10,782 17 Dynamo Moscow 8,576 18 Torpedo Moscow 6,835 Source:Historical attendances https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov83.htm 2026-08-10 www.european-football-statistics.co.uk References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) Category:Soviet Top League seasons 1 Soviet