1963 Soviet Top League

25th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union 1963 Class A, Pervaya Gruppa 31 March – 29 November 1963 Dynamo Moscow10th Soviet top-tier title Dynamo LeningradLokomotiv MoscowArarat YerevanAvangard KharkovPakhtakor Tashkent Oleg Kopayev (27) 1962 1964 The 1963 Class A, Pervaya Gruppa (ru класс «А», первая группа) was the 25th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union. Due to reorganization of the Soviet Union football competition by adding an extra tier, this season the top tier was renamed as Class A, Pervaya Gruppa compared to previously named as Class A. 20 teams took part in the league with FC Dynamo Moscow winning the championship. Spartak Moscow were the defending champions and came second trailing three points behind. Team changes Both Baltic clubs Daugava Rīga and Žalgiris Vilnius were relegated the last season to the Class A, Vtoraya Gruppa after finishing in the last two places. There were no new teams promoted to the league due to the reorganization and number of participants was reduced from 22 to 20. Belarus Minsk changed its name to Dinamo Minsk, Spartak Yerevan changed its name to Ararat Yerevan. League standings main WDL Q 2 DYN RSFSR Dynamo Moscow SPA RSFSR Spartak Moscow DMI Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk SKA RSFSR SKA Rostov-on-Don DTB Georgian SSR Dinamo Tbilisi ZEN RSFSR Zenit Leningrad CSK RSFSR CSKA Moscow NEF Azerbaijan SSR Neftyanik Baku DK Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kyiv TOR RSFSR Torpedo Moscow SHK Ukrainian SSR Shakhtar Donetsk KUT Georgian SSR Torpedo Kutaisi MOL Moldavian SSR Moldova Chisinau KAI Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata KRY RSFSR Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev DLE RSFSR Dynamo Leningrad LOK RSFSR Lokomotiv Moscow ARA Armenian SSR Ararat Yerevan MET Ukrainian SSR Avangard Kharkov PAK Uzbek SSR Pakhtakor Tashkent 21 13 4 47 14 C 22 8 8 65 33 18 12 8 47 27 20 7 11 73 40 17 13 8 56 42 14 17 7 45 32 14 17 7 39 27 18 9 11 48 44 16 12 10 68 48 12 16 10 46 41 11 14 13 29 33 6 21 11 22 37 8 16 14 27 43 10 12 16 28 47 11 7 20 45 53 7 15 16 37 51 R 5 19 14 37 54 R 9 8 21 34 57 R 6 13 19 25 56 R 4 13 21 44 83 R Gold League champions C red1 Relegation to Class A Second Group R R R R R complete rsssf.com Results main FBR grey ARA AVA CSK DYK DLE DMN DYN DTB KAI KRY LOK MOL NEF PAK SHA SKA SPA TKU TOR ZEN Dynamo Moscow 0–0 0–2 3–2 2–0 1–0 1–2 3–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 2–0 2–1 1–0 3–1 1–0 4–0 2–0 Spartak Moscow 0–1 2–2 2–0 2–1 0–0 3–0 4–2 3–1 1–2 1–0 1–0 3–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 1–3 1–0 2–0 4–4 Dinamo Minsk 2–0 1–0 0–2 3–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–4 1–1 0–0 1–0 2–0 3–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 3–1 2–1 6–1 SKA Rostov-on-Don 0–0 1–0 3–1 3–0 1–3 1–1 1–0 3–3 2–0 3–2 2–1 2–0 4–0 4–1 4–0 2–2 0–1 7–1 4–0 Dinamo Tbilisi 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 4–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 3–0 3–1 1–0 3–0 2–2 2–2 4–0 4–2 Zenit Leningrad 0–0 2–1 2–0 3–1 2–2 0–0 0–0 1–2 0–0 0–2 2–2 1–0 3–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–0 1–1 CSKA Moscow 0–0 1–2 0–2 2–1 3–0 0–1 1–2 3–2 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 4–0 2–2 0–0 0–0 1–0 Neftyanik Baku 0–2 1–1 0–4 2–1 1–3 0–1 0–1 3–2 0–0 1–1 2–1 4–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 3–3 2–0 1–0 1–0 Dynamo Kyiv 0–1 2–1 1–0 2–0 5–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 3–1 1–1 0–0 4–1 2–1 3–2 0–0 5–0 2–0 4–1 Torpedo Moscow 0–3 2–2 0–0 2–1 1–4 3–2 1–1 0–2 7–1 3–1 1–1 2–2 3–0 3–2 1–1 0–0 0–1 3–1 3–2 Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 0–3 0–1 3–1 0–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 3–2 Torpedo Kutaisi 0–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–4 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 Moldova Chisinau 1–3 0–3 0–0 2–3 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 4–2 Kairat Alma-Ata 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 1–2 1–1 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 0–1 1–3 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–2 4–0 0–1 3–1 0–2 2–0 3–0 3–3 4–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 Dynamo Leningrad 0–0 0–2 0–0 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–1 0–1 1–5 0–0 2–0 5–0 0–0 0–0 4–1 1–1 4–1 3–2 0–0 Lokomotiv Moscow 0–2 0–1 0–2 1–5 2–3 0–3 0–0 2–4 1–1 1–2 2–2 0–1 2–0 1–1 2–2 1–1 2–1 0–0 2–0 Ararat Yerevan 0–3 0–3 3–0 0–3 1–1 3–4 0–1 1–2 1–3 0–1 0–0 2–0 3–1 2–0 2–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 5–1 Avangard Kharkov 0–0 1–4 1–2 0–2 1–2 1–1 0–1 1–1 1–1 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 3–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–1 Pakhtakor Tashkent 0–4 2–2 2–0 0–0 2–2 2–4 1–6 1–5 1–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–2 1–1 5–2 1–0 5–2 2–2 0–0 complete Top scorers 27 goals Oleg Kopayev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) 21 goals Eduard Malofeyev (Dinamo Minsk) 17 goals Valentin Ivanov (Torpedo Moscow) 16 goals Boris Kazakov (Krylia Sovetov) 15 goals Vladimir Barkaya (Dinamo Tbilisi) Yuri Sevidov (Spartak Moscow) 14 goals Oleh Bazilevich (Dynamo Kyiv) Viktor Kanevski (Dynamo Kyiv) Gennadi Krasnitsky (Pakhtakor) Galimzyan Khusainov (Spartak Moscow) References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) Category:Soviet Top League seasons 1 Soviet