1984 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League

Season	1984
Champions	Zenit Leningrad
Relegated	Pakhtakor Tashkent, CSKA Moscow
Champions League	Zenit Leningrad
Cup Winners' Cup	Dinamo Kiev
UEFA Cup	Spartak Moscow Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Chernomorets Odessa
Top goalscorer	(19) Sergey Andreyev (SKA)
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Statistics of Soviet Top League in season 1984.

18 teams participated, and Zenit Leningrad won the championship. The 10 games draw limit was implemented this season.

Teams

Promoted teams

• FC Kairat Alma-Ata – champion (returning after a season)
• SKA Rostov-na-Donu – 2nd place (returning after two seasons)

Location

500km
300miles

Pakhtakor

SKA R/D

CSKA

Torpedo M

Spartak

Dynamo

Chornomorets

Dynamo T

Neftchi

Metallist

Žalgiris

Shakhter

Dnepr

Zenit

Kairat

Dynamo Mi

Ararat

Dynamo K

  

Locations of teams in the 1984 Top League

League standings

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Zenit Leningrad	34	19	9	6	60	32	28	47
2	Spartak Moscow	34	18	9	7	53	29	24	45
3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	34	17	8	9	54	40	14	42
4	Chornomorets Odessa	34	16	9	9	49	38	11	41
5	Dinamo Minsk	34	15	13	6	43	28	15	40
6	Torpedo Moscow	34	15	10	9	43	36	7	40
7	Dinamo Tbilisi	34	14	8	12	36	41	-5	36
8	Kairat Almaty	34	13	8	13	44	42	2	34
9	Žalgiris Vilnius	34	12	11	11	30	38	-8	34
10	Dynamo Kyiv	34	12	13	9	46	30	16	34
11	Ararat Yerevan	34	12	7	15	46	50	-4	31
12	Metalist Kharkiv	34	12	5	17	42	53	-11	29
13	Shakhtar Donetsk	34	10	9	15	47	46	1	29
14	SKA Rostov-on-Don	34	10	7	17	48	58	-10	27
15	Neftchi Baku	34	9	8	17	30	50	-20	26
16	Dynamo Moscow	34	8	10	16	35	43	-8	26
17	Pakhtakor Tashkent	34	10	5	19	37	58	-21	25
18	CSKA Moscow	34	5	9	20	24	55	-31	19

Top scorers

19 goals

• Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

18 goals

• Hamlet Mkhitaryan (Ararat)

17 goals

• Oleh Protasov (Dnipro)
• Yuri Tarasov (Metalist)
• Yuri Zheludkov (Zenit)

14 goals

• Andrei Redkous (Torpedo Moscow)

13 goals

• Sergey Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)
• Sergei Stukashov (Kairat)

12 goals

• Georgi Kondratyev (Dinamo Minsk)
• Yevstafi Pekhlevanidi (Kairat)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Zenit Leningrad

Goalkeepers: Mikhail Biryukov (34). Defenders: Aleksei Stepanov (32 / 2), Sergei Vedeneyev (28 / 1), Anatoli Davydov (27 / 1), Vladimir Dolgopolov (27), Sergey Kuznetsov (22), Valeri Zolin (13), Nikolai Vorobyov (8), Gennadi Timofeyev (6). Midfielders: Valeri Broshin (32 / 4), Yuri Zheludkov (31 / 17), Arkadi Afanasyev (28 / 1), Vyacheslav Melnikov (21 / 3), Dmitri Barannik (19), Nikolay Larionov (9 / 2), Igor Komarov (5 / 2). Forwards: Sergey Dmitriev (30 / 8), Vladimir Klementyev (29 / 10), Boris Chukhlov (28 / 7), Yuri Gerasimov (7 / 1), Aleksandr Zakharikov (6). Manager: Pavel Sadyrin. Transferred out during the season: none.

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Stanislav Cherchesov (2), Andrei Mikhalychev (1). Defenders: Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 2), Aleksandr Bubnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (31), Boris Pozdnyakov (30 / 2), Sergei Bazulev (16), Sergei Shvetsov (11), Sergei Shulgin (3), Almir Kayumov (1). Midfielders: Yuri Gavrilov (34 / 8), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (34 / 5), Sergey Shavlo (32 / 5), Yevgeni Sidorov (26 / 4), Fyodor Cherenkov (25 / 8), Guram Adzhoyev (13 / 1), Valeri Gladilin (12 / 3), Oleksandr Baranov (2). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (32 / 13), Mikhail Rusyayev (6 / 1), Jevgeņijs Miļevskis (6), Oleg Kuzhlev (5). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (31 / 3), Viktor Konsevich (3). Defenders: Sergei Bashkirov (32), Serhiy Puchkov (29 / 2), Oleksandr Lysenko (28 / 2), Mykola Pavlov (19 / 1), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (17), Petro Kutuzov (17), Petro Chylibi (9), Andriy Bobrikov (1), Anatoliy Nazarenko (1), Oleksandr Chervonyi (1). Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (33 / 7), Vyktor Kuznetsov (30 / 2), Andriy Dilay (30 / 1), Volodymyr Bahmut (25 / 2), Oleksiy Cherednyk (19 / 2), Oleh Serebryanskyi (13 / 2), Mykola Fedorenko (9), Serhiy Khudozhylov (3), Anatoli Zagrebayev (2), Volodymyr Ustymchyk (2). Forwards: Oleh Protasov (34 / 17), Volodymyr Lyutyi (30 / 8), Oleh Taran (20 / 7). One own goal scored by Yuri Lykov (FC SKA Rostov-on-Don). Manager: Volodymyr Yemets. Transferred out during the season: Volodymyr Ustymchyk (retired).

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)