1939 Soviet Top League

5th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union Group A 1939 FC Spartak Moscow FC Elektrik Leningrad FC Dynamo Odessa (21) Grigory Fedotov (CDKA) Spartak 8–0 Dynamo Od. (July 8) Dynamo Od. 0–6 Dynamo M. (October 12) Dynamo L. 3–7 CDKA (June 15) 182 649 1938 1940 1939 Soviet Top League was the fifth season of the Soviet Top League known at that time as Group A. It started on May 12 with six games of the first round. The main calendar was scheduled to be finished on October 19 with the Moscow derby between Lokomotiv and Dynamo. However, due to numerous protests and postponed games the championship finished on November 30 in Tbilisi with game between Dynamo Tbilisi and Dynamo Odessa. The new champions became Spartak Moscow with two teams being relegated: Elektrik Leningrad and Dynamo Odessa. This was the first full season championship with each team playing over 25 games. The last year defending champions were Spartak Moscow. There were no newly promoted teams and initially was decided to conduct the championship with 12 teams. However the Soviet sport committee allowed for two Leningrad teams Stalinets and Elektrik to remain in the league. Spartak once again won the cup competition that started in summer with final played in mid-September. That was the last edition of the cup before World War II. Representation by republic Russian SFSR 10 Ukrainian SSR 1937 3 Georgian SSR 1 Standings main WDL PR y 2 SPA Spartak Moscow DTB Dynamo Tbilisi CDKA CDKA Moscow TST Traktor Stalingrad LOK Lokomotiv Moscow MTM Metallurg Moscow DYN Dynamo Moscow DKV Dynamo Kiev TOR Torpedo Moscow DLE Dynamo Leningrad STL Stalinets Leningrad SHK Stakhanovets Stalino ELL Elektrik Leningrad ODE Dynamo Odessa 14 9 3 58 23 C 14 5 7 60 41 14 4 8 68 43 13 4 9 50 39 12 6 8 42 39 12 5 9 53 50 12 4 10 60 46 9 8 9 39 44 8 7 11 51 51 8 6 12 41 56 7 7 12 30 46 5 10 11 40 55 6 5 15 32 49 R 7 2 17 25 67 R green1 CP green3 P P red3 R R complete rsssf.com Results main FBR grey CDK DYK DLE DYN DOD DTB ELE LOK MTM STS STL SPA TOR TRA Spartak Moscow 3–0 0–1 3–1 2–0 0–1 0–0 3–1 2–2 2–0 4–0 5–0 3–1 8–0 Dinamo Tbilisi 0–0 2–1 1–1 3–0 3–1 4–1 2–2 3–0 4–1 3–1 3–2 0–1 1–0 CDKA Moscow 0–1 4–5 2–0 3–0 6–1 6–2 0–2 2–2 2–2 3–1 2–2 6–1 3–2 Traktor Stalingrad 3–1 2–2 2–4 1–1 0–2 3–1 2–3 3–2 2–0 0–1 3–0 1–0 6–0 Lokomotiv Moscow 2–2 3–1 1–0 1–4 4–3 1–6 1–2 4–0 1–1 0–0 2–2 2–0 2–0 Metallurg Moscow 3–3 0–3 2–3 1–1 2–1 3–4 4–1 4–3 1–2 3–0 3–2 3–2 6–2 Dinamo Moscow 1–1 3–2 4–1 2–3 0–1 2–0 2–1 4–1 1–3 4–2 1–2 1–1 5–1 Dinamo Kiev 2–2 3–2 1–1 0–2 2–1 2–2 3–1 0–2 4–5 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 Torpedo Moscow 1–3 0–1 4–3 4–1 0–1 1–1 2–2 2–1 4–1 3–1 2–2 4–0 0–1 Dinamo Leningrad 1–3 3–2 3–7 2–1 1–2 1–0 0–3 1–1 5–3 1–2 2–2 2–2 3–2 Stalinets Leningrad 1–4 2–2 1–5 3–0 2–2 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–5 2–0 1–1 3–0 2–0 Stakhanovets Stalino 1–1 2–4 0–2 2–3 1–2 2–3 1–3 3–1 3–3 1–1 1–0 2–1 0–2 Elektrik Leningrad 1–2 2–5 2–0 0–2 0–3 1–2 3–1 1–2 0–0 1–0 2–2 2–2 6–0 Dynamo Odessa 0–0 3–2 0–1 1–3 1–4 1–1 0–6 2–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 2–3 0–2 complete Top scorers 21 goals Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow) 19 goals Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi) 18 goals Sergei Kapelkin (CDKA Moscow) Viktor Semyonov (Spartak Moscow) 16 goals Ivan Mitronov (Metallurg Moscow) 15 goals Viktor Shylovskyi (Dynamo Kyiv) 14 goals Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow) 13 goals Aleksandr Nazarov (Dynamo Moscow) Aleksei Zaytsev (Metallurg Moscow) Georgi Zharkov (Torpedo Moscow) References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) Category:Soviet Top League seasons 1 Soviet