1972 in Soviet football

none the Soviet Union 1972 Top League Zaria Voroshilovgrad First League Pakhtakor Tashkent Second League Kuzbass Kemerovo Soviet Cup Torpedo Moscow 1971 1973 yes The 1972 Soviet football championship was the 40th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 34th among teams of sports societies and factories. Zaria Voroshilovgrad won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the first time. Honours CompetitionWinnerRunner-upTop LeagueZaria Voroshilovgrad (1)Dinamo KievFirst LeaguePakhtakor Tashkent (1)Shakhter DonetskSecond LeagueKuzbass KemerovoMetallurg LipetskSoviet CupTorpedo Moscow (5)Spartak Moscow Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition Soviet Union football championship 1972 Soviet Top League Top League main WDL QR 2 ZAR Ukrainian SSR Zarya Voroshilovgrad DK Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kyiv DTB Georgian SSR Dinamo Tbilisi ARA Armenian SSR Ararat Yerevan CSK RSFSR CSKA Moscow DNI Ukrainian SSR Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk ZEN RSFSR Zenit Leningrad DMI Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk TOR RSFSR Torpedo Moscow DYN RSFSR Dynamo Moscow SPA RSFSR Spartak Moscow SKA RSFSR SKA Rostov-on-Don KAI Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata KAR Ukrainian SSR Karpaty Lviv LOK RSFSR Lokomotiv Moscow NEF Azerbaijan SSR Neftchi Baku 15 10 5 52 30 C 12 11 7 52 38 12 11 7 41 34 12 10 8 38 29 15 4 11 37 33 12 10 8 37 37 11 11 8 44 30 10 11 9 27 28 11 9 10 31 33 12 6 12 39 35 8 10 12 29 30 8 10 12 31 35 6 14 10 23 27 8 8 14 27 43 6 9 15 29 48 R 6 8 16 28 55 R 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 First League main WDL PR 2 y y Rep Republic PTA UZB Pahtakor Tashkent SDO UKR Shakhtyor Donetsk COD UKR Chernomorets Odessa KSK RUS Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev TKU GEO Torpedo Kutaisi ZPE RUS Zvezda Perm SYA RUS Shinnik Yaroslavl PDU TJK Pamir Dushanbe SOR RUS Spartak Orjonikidze SKA KAZ Shakhtyor Karaganda AFR KGZ Alga Frunze NKI MDA Nistru Kishinev Nistru Kishinev was called Moldova. TIV RUS Textilshchik Ivanovo MZA UKR Metallurg Zaporozhye ANA RUS Avtomobilist Nalchik MKH UKR Metallist Kharkov SAS TKM Stroitel Ashkhabad UMS RUS UralMash Sverdlovsk KKR UKR Krivbass Krivoi Rog DLE RUS Dinamo Leningrad y y 24 7 7 74 36 19 13 6 57 21 20 8 10 67 36 14 17 7 50 35 19 6 13 49 32 14 16 8 41 35 15 10 13 39 44 13 13 12 52 51 14 10 14 49 50 11 13 14 37 48 10 14 14 42 44 11 12 15 39 49 11 12 15 37 52 13 7 18 45 49 8 17 13 28 43 10 12 16 33 42 11 10 17 36 55 11 9 18 38 58 10 10 18 50 62 7 14 17 32 53 - + - - + + + inherit Promoted P P inherit Relegated R R R complete rsssf.com Second League (finals) 1972 Soviet Second League [Nov 4-18, Sochi] main WDL PQ 2 y y Rep Republic KKE RUS Kuzbass Kemerovo MLI RUS Metallurg Lipetsk DRI LVA Daugava Riga ABL RUS Amur Blagoveshchensk SSA RUS Sokol Saratov TGR RUS Terek Grozny y y 3 2 0 7 3 2 3 0 5 3 2 2 1 6 2 1 1 3 4 6 1 1 3 6 10 1 1 3 6 10 - - inherit Promoted P P inherit Additional Play-Off APO complete rsssf.com Additional Play-Off [Nov 22, 25] SPARTAK Ivano-Frankovsk 0-1 3-1 Daugava Riga Top goalscorers Top League Oleg Blokhin (Dinamo Kiev) – 14 goals First League Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor Tashkent) – 34 goals References External links 1972 Soviet football championship. RSSSF 1972