1988 Soviet Top League
Appearance
Season | 1988 |
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Dates | March 7 — November 19, 1988 |
Champions | Dnipro Dnepropetrovsk |
Relegated | Neftchi Baku Kairat Alma-Ata |
European Cup | Dnipr Dniprotervosk |
Cup Winners' Cup | Torpedo Moscow |
UEFA Cup | Spartak Moscow Dynamo Kiev Žalgiris Vilnius Zenit Leningrad |
Matches played | 240 |
Goals scored | 526 (2.19 per match) |
Top goalscorer | (16) Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow), Yevgeniy Shakhov (Dnipro Dneprotervosk) |
← 1987 1989 → |
The 1988 season was the 51st completed season of the USSR Football Championship: Top League. Spartak Moscow were the defending 11-times champions.
Teams
Promoted teams
- FC Chernomorets Odessa – champion (returning after a season)
- FC Lokomotiv Moscow – 2nd place (returning after seven seasons)
Location
Final standings
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (C) | 30 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 49 | 23 | +26 | 46 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 43 | 19 | +24 | 43 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
3 | Torpedo Moscow | 30 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 39 | 23 | +16 | 42 | Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round |
4 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 40 | 26 | +14 | 39[a] | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
5 | Žalgiris Vilnius | 30 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 39 | 35 | +4 | 35 | |
6 | Zenit Leningrad | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 35 | 34 | +1 | 31 | |
7 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 30 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 35 | 29 | +6 | 30[b] | |
8 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 30 | 28 | +2 | 28 | |
9 | Ararat Erevan | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 28 | −7 | 27 | |
10 | Dinamo Moscow | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 32 | 38 | −6 | 26 | |
11 | Metalist Kharkiv | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 29 | 36 | −7 | 26 | |
12 | Dinamo Minsk | 30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 29 | 34 | −5 | 25[a] | |
13 | Chornomorets Odessa | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 37 | −13 | 24 | |
14 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 30 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 28 | 37 | −9 | 23 | |
15 | Neftchi Baku (R) | 30 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 28 | 46 | −18 | 17 | Relegation to First League |
16 | Kairat Alma-Ata (R) | 30 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 25 | 53 | −28 | 16 |
Promotion
Results
Top scorers
- 16 goals
- Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow)
- Yevhen Shakhov (Dnipro)
- 15 goals
- Mikhail Rusyayev (Lokomotiv Moscow)
- 12 goals
- Sergei Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)
- 11 goals
- Oleg Protasov (Dynamo Kyiv)
- 10 goals
- Mashalla Akhmedov (Neftchi)
- Ihor Petrov (Shakhtar)
- 9 goals
- Sergei Dmitriyev (Zenit)
- Vladimir Grechnev (Torpedo Moscow)
- Gija Guruli (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- Vladimir Liuty (Dnipro)
- Arminas Narbekovas (Žalgiris)
- Andrei Rudakov (Torpedo Moscow)
Clean sheets
- 14 matches
- Valeri Sarychev (Torpedo Moscow)
- 12 matches
- Valeriy Horodov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
- 11 matches
- Stanislav Cherchesov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
- Aleksandr Podshivalov (Ararat Yerevan)
- Viktor Chanov (Dynamo Kyiv)
- 10 matches
- Rinat Dasayev (Spartak Moscow)
- 9 matches
- Otar Gabelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- Andrei Satsunkevich (Dinamo Minsk)
- 7 matches
- Mikhail Biryukov (Zenit Leningrad)
Medal squads
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
Number of teams by union republic
See also
References
External links
- 1988 season at RSSSF