1938 Soviet Top League

Group A

Season	1938
Champions	FC Spartak Moscow
Relegated	12 teams
Matches played	325
Goals scored	1,175 (3.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	(20) Makar Honcharenko (Dynamo K.)
Biggest home win	Metallurg 8–1 Burevestnik (August 28)
Biggest away win	Burevestnik 1–9 Dynamo L. (May 25)
Highest scoring	Burevestnik 1–9 Dynamo L. (May 25)
← 1937 1939 →

The 1938 Soviet Top League combined all the Groups into one Super League.

The season started on May 10 with the game between FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Spartak Kharkiv in Moscow. The last game was played on November 14 between FC Dynamo Rostov-na-Donu and FC Dynamo Odessa in Rostov-na-Donu. Each team played once with every other. The point system changed as well and stayed this way to the end of the competition in 1991: 2 for win, 1 for draw, and none for loss. This all-National championship was experimental and was disbanded next year. A half of the League was relegated at the end of the season.

Spartak beside becoming the champion in the League format won the national cup competition, defeating a surprise team Elektrik from Leningrad, that last year was called Krasnaya Zarya.

Standings

Pos	Republic	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Russian SFSR	Spartak Moscow	25	18	3	4	74	19	+55	39
2	Russian SFSR	CDKA Moscow	25	17	3	5	52	24	+28	37
3	Russian SFSR	Metallurg Moscow	25	16	5	4	57	29	+28	37
4	Ukrainian SSR	Dynamo Kiev	25	15	6	4	76	35	+41	36
5	Russian SFSR	Dynamo Moscow	25	14	4	7	69	34	+35	32
6	Georgian SSR	Dynamo Tbilisi	25	11	9	5	54	39	+15	31
7	Russian SFSR	Dynamo Leningrad	25	12	6	7	52	32	+20	30
8	Russian SFSR	Lokomotiv Moscow	25	12	6	7	44	37	+7	30
9	Russian SFSR	Torpedo Moscow	25	9	11	5	51	38	+13	29
10	Ukrainian SSR	Dynamo Odessa	25	9	11	5	39	35	+4	29
11	Ukrainian SSR	Stakhanovets Stalino	25	11	7	7	56	51	+5	29
12	Russian SFSR	Traktor Stalingrad	25	12	3	10	53	48	+5	27
13	Russian SFSR	Elektrik Leningrad	25	8	8	9	42	44	−2	24
14	Russian SFSR	Stalinets Leningrad	25	7	10	8	38	57	−19	24
15	Ukrainian SSR	Silmash Kharkiv (R)	25	8	6	11	34	45	−11	22
16	Russian SFSR	Stalinets Moscow (R)	25	8	5	12	36	44	−8	21
17	Ukrainian SSR	Lokomotyv Kiev (R)	25	8	5	12	43	64	−21	21
18	Russian SFSR	Dynamo Rostov-na-Donu (R)	25	7	6	12	39	43	−4	20
19	Azerbaijan SSR	Temp Baku (R)	25	6	8	11	33	40	−7	20
20	Russian SFSR	Spartak Leningrad (R)	25	6	8	11	30	39	−9	20
21	Ukrainian SSR	Spartak Kharkiv (R)	25	5	7	13	43	63	−20	17
22	Russian SFSR	Zenit Leningrad (R)	25	7	3	15	35	57	−22	17
23	Russian SFSR	Pishchevik Moscow (R)	25	5	6	14	25	53	−28	16
24	Georgian SSR	Lokomotiv Tbilisi (R)	25	5	5	15	44	62	−18	15
25	Russian SFSR	Krylia Sovetov Moscow (R)	25	4	7	14	28	56	−28	15
26	Russian SFSR	Burevestnik Moscow (R)	25	4	4	17	28	87	−59	12

Source: rsssf.com
(R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	BUR	CDK	DYK	DLE	DYN	DOD	DRD	DTB	ELE	KSM	LOK	LTB	LKY	MTM	PSH	SKH	SPK	SPL	SPA	STS	STL	STM	TBK	TOR	TRA	ZEN
Burevestnik Moscow			0–6	1–9					2–6	2–2	1–2	3–1	3–2		1–1		0–6		0–5	2–3			1–0
CDKA Moscow	2–0				1–0	2–2		3–0			0–1	2–0				3–0		1–0			6–0	2–1		1–0		2–1
Dynamo Kiev		2–1		0–1			3–0		4–1	4–1			1–1		4–2		3–0	7–0		2–0			6–0		3–3
Dynamo Leningrad		2–0				1–1	3–2	2–1						3–2	2–2			1–1		7–0	3–4	1–0		0–0	1–2	2–1
Dynamo Moscow	7–1		2–3	3–0					6–2	4–2	4–1	5–2	7–1	1–1			4–0		1–4	2–0			2–2
Dynamo Odessa	1–0		1–1		3–1			0–0			3–1	2–1				2–0			0–1			2–2	1–1	1–1		1–0
Dynamo Rostov-na-Donu	4–0	5–3			0–1	4–0		1–1				1–0				2–3		0–0			2–2	0–2		0–2		0–0
Dynamo Tbilisi	2–0		2–2		2–2				2–0	5–3	2–0	4–1	4–3	3–2		1–1	7–1		1–6				2–1
Elektrik Leningrad		1–1		2–1		2–1	0–4							1–3	2–0			4–1		2–3	2–0	0–1		0–3	6–0	1–1
Krylia Sovetov Moscow		0–3		1–2		1–4	1–1		1–1					1–1	0–1			2–1		2–1	0–1			2–2	1–0	0–1
Lokomotiv Moscow			2–2	1–1			2–1		0–1	2–0					2–1		3–3		0–0	4–3			3–1		2–3
Lokomotiv Tbilisi			3–4	2–1					3–1	3–3	1–1		4–1		2–1		2–2		1–3	3–3			1–3		1–1
Lokomotyv Kiev		2–5		2–2		0–1	3–1		1–1	1–0	2–3			0–3	4–2			3–2		2–6	1–1			2–3	3–2
Metallurg Moscow	8–1	0–2	3–2			6–2	1–1				4–2	2–1			1–0			4–2	2–1		2–2		2–1		3–0
Pishchevik Moscow		0–6			1–1	0–0	2–1	0–5								3–0		2–1			2–2	0–2		2–2	1–0	0–2
Silmash Kharkiv	1–0		0–4	1–2	1–0				2–2	3–0	0–2	5–2	0–1	0–0			2–0		0–2				1–0
Spartak Kharkiv		2–2		2–1		2–2	2–6		2–2	5–1			1–3	0–1	2–0			0–2		1–4	5–1				0–3
Spartak Leningrad	6–0				1–2	2–2		1–0			0–0	2–1				1–1			0–1		0–0	3–0		0–3		2–1
Spartak Moscow		1–2	1–1	0–4			7–1		0–0	6–1			5–0		3–0		5–0			5–0			5–1	2–3	5–1
Stakhanovets Stalino		4–0				1–1	1–0	1–1						1–3	5–2	3–2		2–2			2–2	2–0		1–1	2–2	5–2
Stalinets Leningrad	1–1		2–7		1–2	3–2		2–2			2–1	2–1				1–1			0–4			5–1		1–5		1–1
Stalinets Moscow	1–3		3–2		2–1			0–0		0–1	1–3	4–1	1–1	1–2		2–3	3–2		0–1				2–2
Temp Baku		0–1		1–0			0–2		2–2	2–2			5–2		3–0		1–1	0–0		1–3	3–0				2–0
Torpedo Moscow	2–2		5–1		0–3			3–3			0–2	3–5		1–0		2–2	2–2					1–1	1–1			5–2
Traktor Stalingrad	6–2	0–1			3–2	2–4	4–0	2–1								6–2		2–0			1–2	4–0		2–1		4–3
Zenit Leningrad	3–2		1–2		0–6			2–3			1–4	3–2	1–2	0–1		4–3	3–2		0–1			2–6	+:-

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

20 goals

• Makar Goncharenko (Dynamo Kiev)

19 goals

• Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow)
• Aleksandr Ponomarev (Traktor Stalingrad)

18 goals

• Sergei Kapelkin (Metallurg Moscow)
• Aleksei Sokolov (Spartak Moscow)

15 goals

• Pyotr Petrov (Torpedo Moscow)
• Aleksandr Sinyakov (Torpedo Moscow)

14 goals

• Arkadi Alov (Dynamo Leningrad)
• Pyotr Layko (Dynamo Kiev)
• Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Sergei Protsenko (Traktor Stalingrad)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)