1972 Soviet Top League

35th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union 1972 Soviet Top League 1971 1973 Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1972 season. Overview Sixteen (16) teams competed for the championships, and Zarya Voroshilovgrad won the championship. League standings 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 Results main FBR grey ARA CSK DNI DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KAR LOK NEF SKA SPA TOR ZAR ZEN Zarya Voroshilovgrad 3–0 2–2 4–0 1–0 3–0 2–1 0–1 1–1 2–0 3–1 1–1 2–1 4–1 1–1 3–0 Dynamo Kyiv 3–3 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–1 1–1 4–2 0–0 0–1 4–1 3–2 1–0 1–0 1–0 6–1 Dinamo Tbilisi 2–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 3–0 1–0 2–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 4–1 0–0 5–1 0–0 1–0 Ararat Yerevan 1–2 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–3 4–2 2–1 5–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–0 0–1 4–2 CSKA Moscow 2–1 3–2 3–2 0–1 2–0 2–1 0–3 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 3–1 3–1 3–2 1–0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1–2 2–2 2–1 0–0 2–1 3–3 1–0 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 4–0 0–0 1–0 5–0 Zenit Leningrad 0–0 2–2 5–0 2–0 1–1 2–2 0–2 0–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 3–1 3–1 Dinamo Minsk 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–1 2–1 0–0 2–0 0–2 0–3 2–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 1–1 Torpedo Moscow 2–4 1–0 0–3 0–0 2–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–4 2–1 0–2 2–1 0–0 0–1 3–0 Dynamo Moscow 0–1 2–1 1–1 0–1 1–0 3–0 1–4 0–1 1–4 1–4 2–0 1–1 3–2 1–1 2–1 Spartak Moscow 1–1 1–1 5–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–2 2–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–0 1–3 2–0 0–0 SKA Rostov-on-Don 3–1 0–2 0–0 1–1 1–2 4–0 0–0 0–0 1–0 0–3 0–1 1–1 3–1 1–1 1–1 Kairat Alma-Ata 0–1 1–1 0–2 0–1 0–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–2 1–1 3–0 1–0 Karpaty Lviv 2–2 2–3 0–0 1–0 1–3 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–3 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 3–1 2–0 Lokomotiv Moscow 0–0 1–0 2–2 0–1 2–1 0–0 1–6 1–2 0–1 1–3 1–2 2–4 0–2 4–1 1–0 Neftçi Baku 3–0 1–4 3–1 1–1 1–1 1–2 0–1 1–0 1–0 2–5 1–1 2–1 0–0 2–1 2–2 complete Top scorers 14 goals Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) 13 goals Oganes Zanazanyan (Ararat) 12 goals Gennadi Khromchenkov (Zenit) Yuri Smirnov (Torpedo Moscow) 11 goals Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv) 10 goals Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftchi) Vladimir Onischenko (Zorya) Aleksei Yeskov (SKA Rostov-on-Don) 9 goals Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat) Vladimir Muntyan (Dynamo Kyiv) Pavel Sadyrin (Zenit) Anatoli Vasilyev (Dinamo Minsk) Yuri Yeliseyev (Zorya) Attendances No. Club Average 1 Zenit 39,900 2 Dynamo Kyiv 39,533 3 Zorya 33,933 4 Dnipro 30,667 5 Ararat 30,547 6 Dinamo Minsk 30,533 7 Karpaty 29,600 8 Dinamo Tbilisi 27,667 9 Dynamo Moscow 21,787 10 Spartak Moscow 21,673 11 PFC CSKA 19,333 12 Torpedo Moscow 17,673 13 Rostov-on-Don 16,000 14 Kairat 15,733 15 Neftçhi 15,400 16 Lokomotiv Moscow 12,477 Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov72.htm References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) 1969 1 Soviet