1991 Soviet Top League

54th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union Soviet Top League 1991 10 March – 2 November 1991 CSKA Moscow(7th title) none (7 clubs withdrew) Champions League CSKA Moscow (for Russia) Cup Winners' Cup Spartak Moscow (for Russia) UEFA Cup Dynamo MoscowTorpedo Moscow(for Russia) (18) Igor Kolyvanov (Dynamo Moscow) Spartak – Dynamo M. 7–1 (26th) Dynamo M. – Torpedo 1–4 (18th) Metalurh – Chornomorets 1–4 (16th) Spartak – Dynamo M. 7–1 (26th) Dynamo M. – Dnipro 6–2 (28th) 1990 1992 (Soviet)1992 (Russia) The 1991 Soviet Top League season (ru Чемпионат СССР по футболу 1991 (высшая лига)) was 22nd in the Top League and the 54th since the establishment of nationwide club competition, also the last one. Dynamo Kyiv were the defending 13-times champions and came fifth this season. A total of sixteen teams participated in the league, twelve of them have contested in the 1990 season while the remaining four were promoted from the Soviet First League due to withdrawals. The representatives of the Baltic states as well as Georgia chose not to take part in the competition. The season began on 10 March and lasted until 2 November 1991. The season was won by PFC CSKA Moscow that returned to the top league prior to the last season while winning the Soviet Cup competition as well. The season's culmination occurred in its final rounds, when the army team managed to overtake Spartak, while with four rounds left in the season, Spartak was leading the table a point ahead of CSKA and a recent thrashing of Dynamo Moscow 7 to 1. Due to participants withdrawal in the preceding season four new teams entered the league. Upon the conclusion of the season no clubs were relegated and 12 out of its 16 participants formed a base for either the Russian or the Ukrainian competitions, while other four participants joined their own newly formed national leagues. If the Soviet Union had remained intact, Metalist Kharkiv and Lokomotiv Moscow would have been relegated to the Soviet First League for the next season, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. The top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. Participating teams The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated to the 1991 Soviet First League. Rotor Volgograd returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while at the same time Lokomotiv Moscow returned to the Soviet Top League after only a one-season absence. Beside the fourth placed Lokomotiv three more teams were promoted and included the champion (FC Spartak Vladikavkaz) and the runners-up of the 1990 Soviet First League (FC Pakhtakor Tashkent and FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia). FC Spartak Vladikavkaz – champions (returning for the first time since 1970 after 20 seasons absence) FC Pakhtakor Tashkent – 2nd place (returning after six seasons) FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia – 3rd place (debut) FC Lokomotiv Moscow – promotion play-off (returning after a season) Locations Soviet Union Soviet Union location map (no rivers).svg 1100 none Location of teams in the 1991 Soviet Top League. Soviet Union #FFFFF0 MoscowSpartakCSKADynamoLokomotivTorpedo right 55.75 37.61 Soviet Union #FFFFF0 Dynamo Kyiv top 50.45 30.523333 Soviet Union #FFFFF0 Chornomorets top 46.466667 30.733333 Soviet Union #f8f9fa Ararat left 40.183333 44.516667 Soviet Union #FFFFF0 Dinamo Minsk 53.9 27.566667 Soviet Union #FFFFF0 Pamir right 38.585906 68.769511 Soviet Union #FFFFF0 Spartak Vladikavkaz top 43.016667 44.65 Soviet Union #FFFFF0 Dnipro top 48.45 34.983333 Soviet Union #FFFFF0 Shakhtar 48.002778 37.805278 Soviet Union Metalurh left 47.833333 35.166667 Soviet Union #FFFFF0 Metalist 50.004444 36.231389 Soviet Union #FFFFF0 Pakhtakor top 41.266667 69.216667 Stadiums Stadium Team Opened Capacity NotesRepublican Stadium, KyivDynamo Kyiv 1923 100,062 Olympic Stadium Luzhniki, MoscowSpartak Moscow195681,000 CSKA Central Stadium Dynamo, MoscowDynamo Moscow 1928 71,430 Central Stadium Hrazdan, YerevanArarat 1970 70,000 BSS Central Stadium, OdesaChornomorets 1935 55,000 Central Stadium Pakhtakor, TashkentPakhtakor 1956 55,000 OSC Metalist, KharkivMetalist 1926 42,000 Dinamo Stadium, MinskDinamo Minsk 1934 40,000 Meteor Stadium, DnipropetrovskDnipro 1966 40,000 Republican Stadium Spartak, VladikavkazSpartak Vladikavkaz 1962 32,464 Central Stadium Shakhtar, DonetskShakhtar 1936 31,718 Central Stadium Lokomotiv, MoscowLokomotiv 1966 30,000 SC Olimpiyskiy, MoscowDynamo Moscow 1980 22,000 used in round 2ndFrunze Republican Stadium, DushanbePamir 1946 21,400 Torpedo Stadium, MoscowTorpedo195916,000 CSKA used in round 29thAbovyan City Stadium, AbovyanArarat 1966 5,500 used in rounds 19th, 22nd, 23rdLFK CSKA, MoscowCSKA19794,000 used in rounds 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6thSpartak Moscow used in round 3rdDynamo Moscow used in rounds 1st, 5th, 6thLokomotiv used in round 4thCentral Stadium Metalurh, ZaporizhzhiaMetalurh 1938 ? Managers Club Head coachPFC CSKA Moscow Pavel SadyrinFC Spartak Moscow Oleg RomantsevFC Torpedo Moscow Valentin Ivanov (until September)Yevgeni Skomorokhov (from September)FC Chornomorets Odesa Viktor ProkopenkoFC Dynamo Kyiv Anatoliy PuzachFC Dynamo Moscow Semen Altman (until March)Valery Gazzaev (from April)FC Dinamo Minsk Eduard Malofeyev (until April)Mikhail Vergeyenko (from April)FC Ararat Yerevan Armen SarkisyanFC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Yevhen KucherevskyiFC Pamir Dushanbe Sharif NazarovFC Spartak Vladikavkaz Valery Gazzaev (until March)Nikolai Khudiyev (April to July)Ruslan Khadartsev (from July)FC Shakhtar Donetsk Valeriy YaremchenkoFC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Ihor NadeinFC Pakhtakor Tashkent Fyodor Novikov (until June)Ahrol Inoyatov (from July to October)Alexander Tarkhanov (from November)FC Metalist Kharkiv Leonid TkachenkoFC Lokomotiv Moscow Valeri Filatov Final standings main WDL 2 Top League Q CSK RSFSR CSKA Moscow SPA RSFSR Spartak Moscow TOR RSFSR Torpedo Moscow CHE Ukrainian SSR Chornomorets DK Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kyiv MOS RSFSR Dynamo Moscow ARA Armenian SSR Ararat MIN Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk DNI Ukrainian SSR Dnipro PAM Tajik SSR Pamir Dushanbe ALA RSFSR Spartak Vladikavkaz SHK Ukrainian SSR Shakhtar Donetsk MZP Ukrainian SSR Metalurh Zaporizhzhia PAK Uzbek SSR Pakhtakor Tashkent MET Ukrainian SSR Metalist Kharkiv LOK RSFSR Lokomotiv Moscow 17 9 4 57 32 C 17 7 6 57 30 13 10 7 36 20 10 16 4 39 24 13 9 8 43 34 12 7 11 43 42 11 7 12 29 36 9 11 10 29 31 9 10 11 31 36 7 13 10 28 32 9 8 13 33 41 6 14 10 33 41 9 7 14 27 38 Metallurg received more head-to-head points against Pakhtakor. 9 7 14 37 45 MZP 8 9 13 32 43 Metallist placed last in total wins tie-breaker to Metallurg and Pakhtakor. 5 8 17 18 47 green1 Qualification for Champions League first round CL yellow1 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round CWC blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round UC UC black2 Withdrew from the league WD WD WD WD WD WD WD Avoided relegation NR complete footbook.ru footballfacts.ru 1) Total points (If two or more teams have equal points for the first place, the winner is determined by additional single round-robin play-off on condition and place determined by the Federation); 2) Total wins; 3) Head-to-head results (3.1. points 3.2. goal difference 3.3. goal scored); 4) Total goal difference; 5) Total games scored; 6) Draw lotshttp://football.lg.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6657:1991reglament&catid=200:sovietua91&Itemid=775 ФУТБОЛ - 1991. О ПРОВЕДЕНИЕ СОРЕВНОВАНИЙ. (Football – 1991. On conducting the competitions. Центральный стадион им. В.И.Ленина (Tsentralny Stadion imeni V.I.Lenina) 13 March 2023 13 March 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230313230805/http://football.lg.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6657:1991reglament&catid=200:sovietua91&Itemid=775 live Immediately following this season, initially only Ukrainian-based teams officially informed the Football Federation of the Soviet Union about their withdrawal and participation in own national competitions. Just before organization of the next season, the Football Federation of the Soviet Union discovered that Armenian Ararat has no intentions to continue its participation either. Results main FBR grey ARA CHO CSK DNE DYK DMN DMO LOK MKH MZA PAK PAM SHA SPA SPV TOR CSKA Moscow 0–1 3–1 4–3 0–0 1–0 2–1 3–1 1–0 2–1 2–1 3–4 4–0 3–1 4–0 5–1 Spartak Moscow 2–0 1–2 1–1 0–2 7–1 3–2 4–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 3–1 2–1 4–0 2–0 1–1 Torpedo Moscow 1–2 1–2 0–0 1–0 0–2 2–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 5–0 Chornomorets Odesa 1–1 1–1 2–1 0–1 3–0 5–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–3 1–1 3–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 Dynamo Kyiv 2–2 2–3 1–3 0–1 2–1 4–3 3–1 2–0 2–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 3–3 1–1 2–0 Dynamo Moscow 1–2 1–1 1–4 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 6–2 0–0 3–1 1–1 1–1 3–1 2–1 6–1 Ararat Yerevan 0–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–1 2–0 2–1 2–1 1–0 Dinamo Minsk 0–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 2–2 1–0 0–0 4–1 2–2 0–1 3–0 2–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 Dnipro 2–2 0–2 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–2 1–1 3–1 1–0 1–3 3–0 2–0 Pamir Dushanbe 2–2 2–2 0–0 1–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 0–0 2–0 0–0 3–0 0–1 2–2 0–0 Spartak Vladikavkaz 1–1 3–3 1–0 1–2 1–1 1–2 2–0 0–2 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 2–2 Shakhtar Donetsk 1–1 1–1 2–2 2–2 1–2 2–3 2–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 2–3 0–0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 0–0 2–1 0–0 1–4 2–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 3–2 2–0 2–0 0–0 3–0 0–1 3–0 Pakhtakor Tashkent 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 2–0 1–2 3–1 1–1 1–2 2–2 2–0 4–1 0–0 4–2 1–0 Metalist Kharkiv 3–2 1–3 0–2 3–1 0–2 0–1 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 2–0 2–2 3–1 3–1 3–1 Lokomotiv Moscow 1–3 0–2 0–2 0–0 1–2 1–0 0–0 2–0 0–2 2–0 1–2 0–0 2–0 2–1 0–0 complete Number of teams by union republic Rank Union republic Number of teams Club(s)1 RSFSR6CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Spartak Vladikavkaz, Torpedo Moscow Ukrainian SSRChornomorets Odesa, Dynamo Kyiv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Metalist Kharkiv, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia, Shakhtar Donetsk3 Armenian SSR1Ararat Yerevan Belarusian SSRDinamo Minsk Tajik SSRPamir Dushanbe Uzbek SSRPakhtakor Tashkent Top scorers 18 goals Igor Kolyvanov (Dynamo Moscow) 14 goals Oleg Salenko (Dynamo Kyiv) Igor Shkvyrin (Pakhtakor) 13 goals Aleksandr Mostovoi (Spartak Moscow) Dmitri Radchenko (Spartak Moscow) Nazim Suleymanov (Spartak Vladikavkaz) 12 goals Dmitri Kuznetsov (CSKA Moscow) 10 goals Igor Korneev (CSKA Moscow) Andrei Piatnitski (Pakhtakor) 9 goals Andrei Kobelev (Dynamo Moscow) Viktor Leonenko (Dynamo Moscow) Oleg Sergeyev (CSKA Moscow) Valeri Velichko (Dinamo Minsk) Clean sheets 14 matches Viktor Hryshko (Chornomorets Odesa) 11 matches Yuri Kurbyko (Dinamo Minsk) 10 matches Valeri Sarychev (Torpedo Moscow) Valeriy Horodov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) Andriy Kovtun (Shakhtar Donetsk) 9 matches Stanislav Cherchesov (Spartak Moscow) Ihor Kutepov (Dynamo Kyiv) 8 matches Aleksandr Podshivalov (Torpedo Moscow) Andrei Manannikov (Pamir Dushanbe) Awards Prize Founder Laureate Footballer of the Year Football weekly Igor Kolyvanov Goalkeeper of the Year Ogoniok magazine Valeri Sarychev Top Scorer newspaper Labor Igor Kolyvanov Knight of Attack Soviet Warrior magazine Igor Kolyvanov Top Rookie Sport Games magazine Valeriy Velichko With Two Squads Football Federation Spartak Moscow Grigory Fedotov Memorial CSKA Moscow Spartak Moscow Fair Play Person and Law magazine Chornomorets Odesa Large Score Football weekly Chornomorets Odesa Will to Win newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya Pamir Dushanbe Best Difference of Aggregates Start magazine Spartak Moscow Aggressive Visitor newspaper Komsomol's Banner CSKA Moscow Danger of the Best Sport Moscow weekly Chornomorets Odesa Progress Cup newspaper Labor Newspaper Chornomrets Odesa First Height newspaper Socialist Industry CSKA Moscow Medal squads (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) 1. PFC CSKA MoscowЦСКА-1991. Последнее золото СССР. Как это было. www.championat.com. 27 October 2016Goalkeepers: Mikhail Yeremin (15 / -14), Dmitri Kharine (11 / -8), Aleksandr Guteyev (6 / -10). Defenders: Sergei Kolotovkin (25 / 1), Sergei Fokin (25 / 1), Dmitri Galiamin (21 / 2), Dmitri Bystrov (21), Oleg Malyukov (19), Vasili Ivanov (15), Valeri Minko (8), Viktor Yanushevsky (8), Mikhail Sinyov (1). Midfielders: Valeri Broshin (30 / 4), Dmitri Kuznetsov (29 / 12), Igor Korneev (29 / 10), Mikhail Kolesnikov (28 / 2), Vladimir Tatarchuk (24 / 5), Aleksandr Grishin (5), Dmitri Karsakov (1), Lev Matveyev (1). Forwards: Oleg Sergeyev (30 / 9), Valeri Masalitin (18 / 7), Sergey Dmitriev (16 / 4), Ilshat Faizulin (3). Manager: Pavel Sadyrin. Transferred in during the season: Dmitri Kharine (from Dynamo Moscow), Lev Matveyev (from Zvezda Perm), Sergey Dmitriev (from ESP Xerez CD), Viktor Yanushevsky (from GER Tennis Borussia). Transferred out during the season: Mikhail Yeremin (deceased), Dmitri Karsakov (to FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny), Dmitri Galiamin, Dmitri Kuznetsov, Igor Korneev (all to ESP Espanyol), Vladimir Tatarchuk (to CZE Slavia Prague), Valeri Broshin (to FIN Kuopion Palloseura), Sergei Fokin (to FIN HJK Helsinki), Sergey Dmitriev (to AUT Stahl Linz). 2. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Stanislav Cherchesov (30 / -30). Defenders: Dmitri Popov (30 / 5), Vasili Kulkov (22 / 1), Andrei Mokh (20 / 1), Dmitri Khlestov (14), Boris Pozdnyakov (10), Yevgeni Bushmanov (8 / 1), Dmitri Ananko (7), Dmitri Gradilenko (6), Sergei Bazulev (4), Sergei Chudin (1). Midfielders: Hennadiy Perepadenko (28 / 5), Valery Karpin (28 / 3), Aleksandr Mostovoi (27 / 13), Andrei Ivanov (23), Igor Shalimov (22 / 5), Fyodor Cherenkov (22 / 3), Oleg Ivanov (14), Valeri Popovitch (6), Igor Kozlov (2), Oleg Imrekov (1), Aleksandr Karatayev (1), Serhiy Perepadenko (1). Forwards: Dmitri Radchenko (29 / 13), Valeri Shmarov (19 / 6). One own goal scored by Viktor Vasilyev (FC Spartak Vladikavkaz). Manager: Oleg Romantsev. Transferred in during the season: Andrei Mokh (from Dynamo Moscow), Dmitri Radchenko (from Zenit Leningrad), Igor Kozlov (from CSKA Moscow), Fyodor Cherenkov (from FRA Red Star). Transferred out during the season: Igor Shalimov (to ITA Foggia), Vasili Kulkov, Aleksandr Mostovoi (both to POR Benfica), Valeri Shmarov (to GER Karlsruher SC), Boris Pozdnyakov, Oleg Imrekov (both to AUT FC Stahl Linz), Sergei Bazulev (to FIN OLS), Andrei Mokh (to ESP Espanyol), Hennadiy Perepadenko (to ISR Hapoel Tzafririm). 3. FC Torpedo Moscow Goalkeepers: Valeri Sarychev (17 / -12), Aleksandr Podshivalov (14 / -8). Defenders: Andrei Afanasyev (27 / 1), Aleksei Yushkov (24 / 5), Aleksandr Polukarov (19 / 1), Mikhail Solovyov (17), Maksim Cheltsov (5). Midfielders: Gennadi Grishin (29 / 7), Igor Chugainov (28 / 2), Sergei Shustikov (28 / 1), Sergey Agashkov (26 / 3), Andrei Kalaychev (23 / 2), Nikolai Savichev (21 / 3), Dmitri Ulyanov (16 / 1), Sergei Zhukov (9), Oleg Shirinbekov (8 / 1), Sergey Borisov (7), Vladimir Yeryomin (3), Aleksei Arefyev (1). Forwards: Yuri Tishkov (24 / 8), Vadim Rogovskoy (14), Yuri Matveyev (12 / 1), Aleksandr Kuzmichyov (6), Andrei Talalayev (5), Aleksandr Gitselov (3). Manager: Valentin Ivanov (until September), Yevgeni Skomorokhov (from September). Transferred in during the season: Aleksandr Podshivalov (from Ararat Yerevan), Aleksei Yushkov, Yuri Matveyev (both from Uralmash Sverdlovsk), Igor Chugainov (from Lokomotiv Moscow), Vladimir Yeryomin (from Chornomorets Odesa). Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Polukarov (to ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.), Vadim Rogovskoy (free agent), Oleg Shirinbekov (to HUN Vasas SC), Vladimir Yeryomin (to FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia), Aleksei Yushkov (to Dynamo Moscow), Aleksandr Gitselov (to POL Zagłębie Lubin), Sergei Zhukov, Aleksei Arefyev (both to BAN Abahani Dhaka), Yuri Matveyev (to Uralmash Yekaterinburg), Aleksandr Kuzmichyov (to Lokomotiv Moscow). See also 1991 Soviet First League 1991 Soviet Second League 1991 Soviet Second League B 1990–91 Soviet Cup 1991–92 Soviet Cup Attendances No. Club Average 1 Spartak Vladikavkaz 25,767 2 Paxtakor 17,247 3 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 15,240 4 Pamir 15,200 5 Spartak Moscow 14,853 6 Shakhtar Donetsk 13,647 7 Chornomorets 12,800 8 Dynamo Kyiv 11,820 9 PFC CSKA 11,553 10 Dinamo Minsk 11,173 11 Dnipro 7,967 12 Dynamo Moscow 7,627 13 Metalist 6,553 14 Lokomotiv Moscow 4,040 15 Torpedo Moscow 3,967 16 Ararat 3,373 References External links ru KLISF. Soviet Top League 1991. 1991 Soviet Top League. FootballFacts.ru 1991 season regulations https://web.archive.org/web/20230313230805/http://football.lg.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6657:1991reglament&catid=200:sovietua91&Itemid=775 2023-03-13 . football.lg.ua «Спартак» мог стать последним чемпионом СССР вместо ЦСКА. Не хватило духа?. www.championat.com В последнем чемпионате СССР странные матчи играл даже чемпион. ЦСКА отличился в Киеве. www.championat.com «Садырин распахнул дверь: «Вы что, козлы, одурели?!». www.championat.com ЦСКА-1991. Последнее золото СССР. Как это было. www.championat.com Чемпионат СССР по футболу 1991. Развал страны – последний розыгрыш. dzen.ru Category:Soviet Top League seasons 1 Soviet Category:1991 in Armenian football Category:1991 in Belarusian football Category:1991 in Russian football leagues Category:1991 in Tajikistani football Category:1991 in Ukrainian association football leagues Category:1991 in Uzbekistani football