1985 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League

Season	1985
Champions	FC Dynamo Kyiv
Relegated	FC Fakel Voronezh, FC SKA Rostov-na-Donu
Champions League	Dynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' Cup	Torpedo Moscow
UEFA Cup	FC Dinamo Minsk Spartak Moscow Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Top goalscorer	(35) Oleh Protasov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
← 1984 1986 →

No	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF-GA	Pts	Rpblc	Notes
1	Dynamo Kyiv	34	20	8	6	64-26	48	Ukrainian SSR
2	Spartak Moscow	34	18	10	6	72-28	46	Russian SFSR
3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	34	16	11	7	71-41	42	Ukrainian SSR	-1
4	Dinamo Minsk	34	16	9	9	40-31	41	Byelorussian SSR
5	Torpedo Moscow	34	13	10	11	42-40	36	Russian SFSR
6	Zenit Leningrad	34	14	7	13	48-38	35	Russian SFSR
7	Žalgiris Vilnius	34	12	11	11	43-49	34	Lithuanian SSR	-1
8	Dinamo Tbilisi	34	11	10	13	34-39	32	Georgian SSR
9	Kairat Almaty	34	11	13	10	43-46	32	Kazakh SSR	-3
10	Metalist Kharkiv	34	12	7	15	39-55	31	Ukrainian SSR
11	Torpedo Kutaisi	34	11	9	14	40-51	31	Georgian SSR
12	Shakhtar Donetsk	34	10	12	12	46-45	30	Ukrainian SSR	-2
13	Ararat Yerevan	34	10	12	12	42-46	30	Armenian SSR	-2
14	Dinamo Moscow	34	11	7	16	37-50	29	Russian SFSR
15	Chornomorets Odessa	34	11	7	16	44-65	29	Ukrainian SSR	Relegation play-off
16	Neftçi Baku	34	9	11	14	30-40	28	Azerbaijan SSR	-1; Relegation play-off
17	Fakel Voronezh	34	9	9	16	24-45	27	Russian SFSR	Relegated
18	SKA Rostov-na-Donu	34	7	7	20	36-60	21	Russian SFSR	Relegated

• Draw limit - teams only receive points for the first 10 draws.
• For the following season the League was reduced to 16 members. The teams that finished 15th and 16th played a mini-tournament with the two best out of the Soviet First League. Out of this tournament the two best teams continued on in the Soviet Top League.

No	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF-GA	Pts	Rpblc	Notes
1	Chornomorets Odessa	6	3	3	0	6-3	9	Ukrainian SSR
2	Neftçi Baku	6	2	3	1	9-4	7	Azerbaijan SSR
3	Daugava Riga	6	1	3	2	7-7	5	Latvian SSR
4	CSKA Moscow	6	1	1	4	3-11	3	Russian SFSR

• For the 1986 season there was no promotion out of the Soviet First League.

Top scorers

35 goals

• Oleh Protasov (Dnipro)

14 goals

• Vladimir Klementyev (Zenit)
• Sergey Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)

13 goals

• Fyodor Cherenkov (Spartak Moscow)
• Oleh Taran (Dnipro)

12 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Viktor Grachyov (Shakhtar)
• Sigitas Jakubauskas (Žalgiris)

11 goals

• Georgi Kondratyev (Dinamo Minsk)
• Sergei Volgin (Kairat)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (34), Viktor Chanov (1). Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (34 / 8), Oleh Kuznetsov (29 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Volodymyr Bezsonov (25), Vasyl Yevseyev (19), Ivan Palamar (2), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (1), Vadym Karatayev (1). Midfielders: Vasyl Rats (34 / 6), Ivan Yaremchuk (33 / 3), Oleksandr Zavarov (31 / 9), Andriy Bal (31 / 1), Pavlo Yakovenko (29), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (20 / 2). Forwards: Ihor Belanov (31 / 10), Oleg Blokhin (29 / 12), Vadym Yevtushenko (22 / 10), Oleksandr Hushchyn (2), Viktor Khlus (2). Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi. Transferred out during the season: Viktor Khlus (to FC Chornomorets Odesa).

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Stanislav Cherchesov (2). Defenders: Aleksandr Bubnov (34), Boris Kuznetsov (34), Gennady Morozov (31 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (24 / 2), Almir Kayumov (14), Aleksandr Shibayev (4). Midfielders: Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 13), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (33 / 7), Sergei Novikov (31 / 7), Yuri Gavrilov (26 / 6), Sergey Shavlo (25 / 6), Yevgeni Sidorov (24 / 4), Guram Adzhoyev (7 / 1). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (29 / 14), Andrei Rudakov (23 / 8), Vladimir Kapustin (13 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (5 / 2), Oleg Kuzhlev (5). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (32), Valeriy Horodov (6). Defenders: Serhiy Puchkov (32 / 1), Oleksandr Lysenko (31 / 2), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (31), Sergei Bashkirov (29 / 1), Oleksandr Sorokalet (11), Sergey Kulinich (3), Anatoliy Nazarenko (3), Volodymyr Gerashchenko (2), Petro Kutuzov (2), Ihor Deli (1). Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (34 / 7), Vyktor Kuznetsov (33 / 3), Oleksiy Cherednyk (28 / 1), Andriy Dilay (27), Volodymyr Bahmut (20 / 1), Borys Shurshin (12 / 2), Mykola Kudrytsky (9), Serhiy Khudozhylov (2), Mykola Fedorenko (1). Forwards: Oleh Protasov (33 / 35), Oleh Taran (27 / 13), Volodymyr Lyutyi (22 / 4), Volodymyr Mozolyuk (1), Andriy Sydelnykov (1). Manager: Volodymyr Yemets. Transferred out during the season: Serhiy Khudozhylov, Mykola Fedorenko (both to FC Kolos Nikopol).