1938 Soviet Top League
| 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 very 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
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| 1
| align=left|Spartak Moscow||25||18||3||4||74||19|| 55||39
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Russian SFSR
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| 2
| align=left|CDKA Moscow||25||17||3||5||52||24|| 28||37
| align=left| Russian SFSR
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| 3
| align=left|Metallurg Moscow||25||16||5||4||57||29|| 28||37
| align=left| Russian SFSR
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| 4
| align=left|Dynamo Kiev||25||15||6||4||30||24|| 6||36
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Ukrainian SSR
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| 5
| align=left|Dynamo Moscow||25||14||4||7||69||34|| 35||32
| align=left| Russian SFSR
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| 6
| align=left|Dynamo Tbilisi||25||11||9||5||53||38|| 15||31
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Georgian SSR
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| 7
| align=left|Dynamo Leningrad||25||12||6||7||52||32|| 20||30
| align=left| Russian SFSR
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| 8
| align=left|Lokomotiv Moscow||25||12||6||7||44||37|| 7||30
| align=left| Russian SFSR
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| 9
| align=left|Torpedo Moscow||25||9||11||5||51||38|| 13||29
| align=left| Russian SFSR
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| 10
| align=left|Dynamo Odessa||25||9||11||5||39||35|| 4||29
| align=left| Ukrainian SSR
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| 11
| align=left|Stakhanovets Stalino||25||11||7||7||55||50|| 5||29
| align=left| Ukrainian SSR
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| 12
| align=left|Traktor Stalingrad||25||12||3||10||53||48|| 5||27
| align=left| Russian SFSR
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| 13
| align=left|Elektrik Leningrad||25||8||8||9||42||44|| -2||24
| align=left| Russian SFSR
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| 14
| align=left|Stalinets Leningrad1||25||7||10||8||38||57|| -19||24
| align=left| Russian SFSR
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| 15
| align=left|Silmash Kharkiv (R)||25||8||6||11||34||45|| -11||22
| align=left| Ukrainian SSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 16
| align=left|Stalinets Moscow (R)||25||8||5||12||36||44|| -8||21
| align=left| Russian SFSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 17
| align=left|Lokomotyv Kiev (R)||25||8||5||12||43||64|| -21||21
| align=left| Ukrainian SSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 18
| align=left|Dynamo Rostov-na-Donu (R)||25||7||6||12||39||43|| -4||20
| align=left| Russian SFSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 19
| align=left|Temp Baku (R)||25||6||8||11||33||40|| -7||20
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Azerbaijan SSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 20
| align=left|Spartak Leningrad (R)||25||6||8||11||30||39|| -9||20
| align=left| Russian SFSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 21
| align=left|Spartak Kharkiv (R)||25||5||7||13||43||63|| -20||17
| align=left| Ukrainian SSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 22
| align=left|Zenit Leningrad (R)||25||7||3||15||35||57|| -22||17
| align=left| Russian SFSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 23
| align=left|Pishchevik Moscow (R)||25||5||6||14||25||53|| -28||16
| align=left| Russian SFSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 24
| align=left|Lokomotiv Tbilisi (R)||25||5||5||15||44||62|| -18||15
| align=left| Georgian SSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 25
| align=left|Krylia Sovetov Moscow (R)||25||4||7||14||28||56|| -28||15
| align=left| Russian SFSR
|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
| 26
| align=left|Burevestnik Moscow (R)||25||4||4||17||28||87|| -59||12
| align=left| Russian SFSR
|}
- Note:
- 1 Stalinets Leningrad merged with Zenit in 1939.
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)