1953 Soviet Top League
11 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.
League standings
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spartak Moscow | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 47 | 15 | +32 | 29 |
| 2 | Dynamo Tbilisi | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 39 | 24 | +15 | 27 |
| 3 | Torpedo Moscow | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 34 | 34 | 0 | 25 |
| 4 | Dynamo Moscow | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 34 | 19 | +15 | 23 |
| 5 | Zenit Leningrad | 20 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 21 | +4 | 23 |
| 6 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 28 | −7 | 18 |
| 7 | Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 25 | −3 | 17 |
| 8 | Dynamo Kiev | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 26 | −4 | 17 |
| 9 | Lokomotiv Kharkov | 20 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 34 | −15 | 16 |
| 10 | Dynamo Leningrad | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 33 | −13 | 14 |
| 11 | Spartak Vilnius | 20 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 33 | −23 | 11 |
Source: rsssf.com
Top scorers
- 14 goals
- Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)
- Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- 9 goals
- Vitali Vatskevich (Torpedo Moscow)
- 8 goals
- Georgi Borzenko (Lokomotiv Kharkov)
- Pyotr Katrovsky (Zenit Leningrad)
- Boris Tatushin (Spartak Moscow)
- 7 goals
- Aleksandr Gulevsky (Zenit Kuybyshev)
- Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- Mykhaylo Koman (Dynamo Kiev)
- Vladimir Savdunin (Dynamo Moscow)