1991 Soviet First League

Soviet First League

Season	1991
Champions	Rotor Volgograd
Relegated	none
Top goalscorer	(25) Serhiy Husyev (Tiligul Tiraspol)
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Soviet First League 1991 was the last season of the Soviet First League. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the football structure was reformed. All of its participants have entered the Top Divisions of the republics of their origin, except of Dinamo Sukhumi that because of the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia was dissolved.

Teams

Promoted teams

• FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg – Winner of the Second League, Zone East (returning after an absence of 10 seasons)
• FC Bukovina Chernovtsy – Winner of the Second League, Zone West (debut)
• FC Neftianik Fergona – Winner of the Second League finals (debut)
• FC Novbakhor Namangan – Winner of the Second League finals (debut)
• FC Textilshchik Kamyshin – Winner of the Second League finals (debut)
• FC Daugava Riga – Winner of the Second League, Zone West (debut)

Relegated teams

• Rotor Volgograd – (Returning after 2 seasons)

Renamed teams

• Prior to the start of the season Tiras Tiraspol was renamed to Tiligul Tiraspol.
• Prior to the start of the season Nistru Kishenev was renamed to Zimbrul Kishinev.

Replaced or withdrawn teams

With fall of the Soviet Union, the promoted FC Daugava Riga was dissolved and replaced with FC Pardaugava Riga that was based on the junior squad of the Latvian national football team (U-21) and took part in the 1990 Baltic League placing only 15th out 17 teams.

Locations

Rotor

Tiligul

Uralmash

Rostselmash

Bukovyna

Tavriya

Neftiannik

Lokomotiv

Novbahor

Dinamo Sukh

Tekstilschik

Shinnik

Fakel

Kairat

Neftchi

Dinamo Stav

Kotayk

Zenit

Zimbru

Geolog

Kuban

Pardaugava

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Location of teams in the 1991 Soviet First League.

League standings

Pos	Republic	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Rotor Volgograd (C)	42	24	11	7	79	44	+35	59
2	Moldovan Divizia Naţională	FC Tiligul Tiraspol	42	22	10	10	64	45	+19	54	Left the Soviet/Russian competitions
3	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg	42	21	9	12	68	40	+28	51
4	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu	42	20	10	12	47	39	+8	50
5	Ukraine Vyscha Liha	FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi	42	20	8	14	56	49	+7	48	Left the Soviet/Russian competitions
6	Ukraine Vyscha Liha	SC Tavriya Simferopol	42	19	10	13	64	56	+8	48
7	Uzbek League	FC Neftiannik Fergona	42	21	5	16	54	56	−2	47
8	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod	42	17	13	12	46	35	+11	47
9	Uzbek League	FC Novbahor	42	19	7	16	60	53	+7	45	Left the Soviet/Russian competitions
10		FC Dinamo Sukhumi	42	16	11	15	50	50	0	43	Dissolved
11	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Textilschik Kamyshin	42	15	13	14	56	52	+4	43
12	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	42	17	7	18	57	59	−2	41
13	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Fakel Voronezh	42	17	7	18	45	50	−5	41
14	Kazakh SSR	FC Kairat Almaty	42	17	6	19	58	52	+6	40	Left the Soviet/Russian competitions
15	Azerbaijan SSR	PFC Neftchi Baku	42	17	5	20	60	58	+2	39
16	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Dinamo Stavropol	42	14	11	17	50	54	−4	39
17	Armenian SSR	FC Kotaik Abovian	42	15	7	20	30	48	−18	37	Left the Soviet/Russian competitions
18	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Zenit Saint Petersburg	42	11	14	17	44	50	−6	36
19	Moldovan Divizia Naţională	FC Zimbru Chisinau	42	11	13	18	36	49	−13	35	Left the Soviet/Russian competitions
20	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Geolog Tyumen	42	11	13	18	32	47	−15	35
21	Russian Vysshaya Liga	FC Kuban Krasnodar	42	8	10	24	40	68	−28	26
22	Latvian Virs Liga	FC Pardaugava Riga	42	7	6	29	31	73	−42	20	Left the Soviet/Russian competitions

Source:
(C) Champions

Notes:

• The city of Leningrad was renamed into Saint Petersburg
• The city of Sverdlovsk was renamed into Yekaterinburg

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	11	Dinamo Stavropol, Fakel Voronezh, Geolog Tyumen, Kuban Krasnodar, Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod, Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu, Rotor Volgograd, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Tekstilschik Kamyshin, Uralmash Yekaterinburg, Zenit Saint Petersburg
2	Moldavian SSR	2	Tiligul Tiraspol, Zimbru Kishenev
	Ukrainian SSR		Bukovina Chernovtsy, Tavriya Simferopol
	Uzbek SSR		Navbahor Namangan, Neftiannik Fergana
5	Armenian SSR	1	Kotaik Abovian
	Azerbaijan SSR		Neftchi Baku
	Georgian SSR		Dinamo Sukhumi
	Kazakh SSR		Kairat Alma-Ata
	Latvian SSR		Pardaugava Riga

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals	Games
1	Serhiy Husyev	«Tiligul Tiraspol»	25	36
2	Serhiy Shevchenko	«Tavriya Simferopol»	21	40
3	Valeri Shushlyakov	«Uralmash Yekaterinburg»	20	38
4	Vladislav Lemish	«Kuban Krasnodar»	20	42
5	Rustam Zabirov	«Navbahor Namangan»	19	35
6	Yuri Kalitvintsev	«Rotor Volgograd»	18	37
7	Aleksandr Tikhonov	«Rostselmash Rostov»	17	40
8	Yunis Hüseynov	«Neftchi Baku»	16	34
9	Vəli Qasımov	«Neftchi Baku»	16	38
10	Rustem Shaymukhametov	«Textilshchik Kamyshin»	15	38
11	Yuriy Hudymenko	«Rotor Volgograd»	15	39

See also

• 1991 Soviet Top League
• 1991 Soviet Second League
• 1991 Soviet Second League B

External links

• 1990 First League at the RSSSF