1983 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League

Season	1983
Champions	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
Relegated	Torpedo Kutaisi, Nistru Kishinev
European Cup	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
Cup Winners' Cup	Dinamo Moscow
UEFA Cup	Spartak Moscow Dinamo Minsk
Top goalscorer	(18) Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak)
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Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1983 season.

Teams

Promoted teams

• Zhalgiris Vilnuis – champion (returning after 21 seasons)
• Nistru Kishinev – 2nd place (returning after nine seasons)

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (C)	34	22	5	7	63	36	+27	49	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Spartak Moscow	34	18	9	7	60	25	+35	45	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Dinamo Minsk	34	17	9	8	51	34	+17	43
4	Zenit Leningrad	34	15	11	8	42	32	+10	40
5	Žalgiris Vilnius	34	15	9	10	38	36	+2	39
6	Torpedo Moscow	34	14	11	9	40	34	+6	38
7	Dynamo Kyiv	34	14	10	10	50	34	+16	38
8	Chornomorets Odessa	34	16	5	13	44	46	−2	37
9	Shakhtar Donetsk	34	16	5	13	48	40	+8	37
10	Pakhtakor Tashkent	34	13	9	12	37	34	+3	35
11	Metalist Kharkiv	34	12	8	14	38	40	−2	32
12	CSKA Moscow	34	11	12	11	37	33	+4	32
13	Neftchi Baku	34	10	10	14	32	38	−6	30
14	Ararat Yerevan	34	11	7	16	29	47	−18	29
15	Dynamo Moscow	34	9	11	14	30	37	−7	28	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
16	Dinamo Tbilisi	34	9	9	16	41	48	−7	27
17	Torpedo Kutaisi (R)	34	4	10	20	26	58	−32	18	Relegation to First League
18	Nistru Kishinev (R)	34	3	4	27	19	73	−54	10

Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Top scorers

18 goals

• Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak Moscow)

17 goals

• Igor Gurinovich (Dinamo Minsk)

15 goals

• Volodymyr Fink (Chornomorets)
• Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
• Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar)
• Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)

14 goals

• Sigitas Jakubauskas (Žalgiris)

13 goals

• Viktor Kolyadko (CSKA Moscow)
• Oleh Taran (Dnipro)

11 goals

• Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow)
• Valeriy Petrakov (Torpedo Moscow)
• Igor Ponomaryov (Neftchi)
• Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA Moscow)
• Vadym Yevtushenko (Dynamo Kyiv)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (34). Defenders: Mykola Pavlov (33 / 3), Petro Kutuzov (27), Oleksandr Lysenko (17 / 1), Yuriy Mirhorodskyi (17), Serhiy Puchkov (13), Oleksandr Chervonyi (9), Andriy Bobrikov (7), Volodymyr Ustinov (6), Anatoliy Nazarenko (5), Valeriy Zuyev (2). Midfielders: Andriy Dilay (34 / 2), Vyktor Kuznetsov (31 / 7), Volodymyr Ustymchyk (30 / 5), Oleh Serebryanskyi (26 / 1), Hennadiy Lytovchenko (24 / 5), Mykola Fedorenko (17 / 3), Volodymyr Bahmut (6), Volodymyr Kobzarev (5). Forwards: Oleh Taran (30 / 13), Volodymyr Lyutyi (24 / 9), Oleh Protasov (21 / 7), Aleksandr Pogorelov (21 / 5). Manager: Volodymyr Yemets. Transferred out during the season: Volodymyr Ustinov (to FC Kolos Nikopol), Valeriy Zuyev (retired).

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Andrei Mikhalychev (1). Defenders: Sergei Bazulev (30), Gennady Morozov (30), Yevgeni Mileshkin (29 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (25 / 3), Boris Pozdnyakov (25), Oleg Romantsev (17), Aleksandr Bubnov (13), Sergei Savchenkov (3), Sergei Shulgin (1). Midfielders: Yuri Gavrilov (34 / 18), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (34 / 5), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Valeri Gladilin (26 / 9), Yuri Reznik (25 / 4), Edgar Gess (18 / 2), Sergei Shvetsov (8), Mikhail Dubinin (5 / 2), Vladimir Korolyov (1), Sergei Nikitin (1). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (16 / 5), Sergei Argudyayev (6), Mikhail Rusyayev (5), Oleg Kuzhlev (2), Oleg Smirnov (1). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: Oleg Romantsev (retired), Mikhail Dubinin (to FC Metallurg Aldan).

3. FC Dinamo Minsk

Goalkeepers: Yury Kurbyko (30), Mikhail Vergeyenko (4), Arkadi Batalov (1). Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (32 / 1), Sergei Borovsky (32), Viktor Yanushevsky (30), Viktor Shishkin (24), Liudas Rumbutis (22 / 3), Oļegs Aleksejenko (18), Igor Belov (10), Yury Trukhan (5). Midfielders: Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 1), Sergey Gotsmanov (29 / 5), Sergei Aleinikov (29 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (26 / 1), Aleksandr Prokopenko (12 / 2), Valeri Melnikov (9 / 1). Forwards: Igor Gurinovich (28 / 17), Georgi Kondratyev (28 / 8), Viktor Sokol (18 / 9), Pyotr Vasilevsky (17 / 1). Manager: Eduard Malofeyev. Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Prokopenko (released).

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	5	CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad
	Ukrainian SSR		Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk
3	Georgian SSR	2	Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi
4	Armenian SSR	1	Ararat Yerevan
	Azerbaijan SSR		Neftchi Baku
	Belarusian SSR		Dinamo Minsk
	Moldavian SSR		Nistru Kishinev
	Lithuanian SSR		Zhalgiris Vilnius
	Uzbek SSR		Pakhtakor Tashkent

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)