1988 Soviet First League

Soviet First League
Season	1988
Champions	Pamir Dushanbe
Promoted	Pamir Dushanbe; Rotor Volgograd
Relegated	Zorya Voroshylovhrad; Zvezda Perm; Kolos Nikopol
Top goalscorer	(22) Mukhsin Mukhamadiyev (Pamir Dushanbe) and Aleksandr Nikitin (Rotor Volgograd)
	← 1987 1989 →

The 1988 Soviet First League was the 49th season of the Soviet First League, the second tier of association football in the Soviet Union.

Teams

Rostov- on- Don
Rostselmash
SKA

Location of teams in the 1988 Soviet First League.

Pos	Republic	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Tajik SSR	FC Pamir Dushanbe (P)	42	24	10	8	78	44	+34	58
2	Russian SFSR	FC Rotor Volgograd (P)	42	25	7	10	76	37	+39	57
3	Russian SFSR	CSKA Moscow	42	23	10	9	69	35	+34	56
4	Georgian SSR	FC Guria Lanchkhuti	42	23	7	12	71	44	+27	53
5	Uzbek SSR	FC Pakhtakor Tashkent	42	21	10	11	64	38	+26	52
6	Russian SFSR	FC Dynamo Stavropol	42	18	11	13	59	46	+13	47
7	Ukrainian SSR	SKA Karpaty Lviv	42	18	8	16	51	39	+12	44
8	Latvian SSR	FC Daugava Riga	42	18	7	17	56	54	+2	43
9	Russian SFSR	FC SKA Rostov-on-Don	42	16	10	16	57	64	−7	42
10	Russian SFSR	FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	42	16	8	18	59	67	−8	40
11	Russian SFSR	FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	42	16	8	18	48	48	0	40
12	Russian SFSR	FC Geolog Tyumen	42	17	5	20	46	58	−12	39
13	Russian SFSR	FC Spartak Ordjonikidze	42	15	9	18	57	60	−3	39
14	Ukrainian SSR	SC Tavriya Simferopol	42	13	14	15	34	43	−9	38^[a]
15	Russian SFSR	FC Kuzbass Kemerevo	42	13	14	15	38	39	−1	38^[a]
16	Georgian SSR	FC Dinamo Batumi	42	15	6	21	40	53	−13	36
17	Ukrainian SSR	FC Metalurh Zaporizhia	42	12	13	17	30	43	−13	36^[a]
18	Armenian SSR	FC Kotayk Abovian	42	14	7	21	55	83	−28	35
19	Russian SFSR	FC Kuban Krasnodar	42	12	11	19	41	56	−15	35
20	Ukrainian SSR	FC Zorya Voroshylovhrad (R)	42	11	10	21	44	59	−15	32
21	Russian SFSR	FC Zvezda Perm (R)	42	10	12	20	37	69	−32	32
22	Ukrainian SSR	FC Kolos Nikopol (R)	42	10	7	25	31	62	−31	27

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(P) Promoted to the Soviet Top League; (R) Relegated to the Soviet Second League
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c There was a draw limit for the draws earned, 12. Only twelve draws earn a point, in contrast, over the limit draws earn no points.

#	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mukhsin Mukhamadiyev	Pamir Dushanbe	22
1	Aleksandr Nikitin	Rotor Volgograd	22
3	Viktor Khlus	Guria Lanchkhuti	21
4	Valeriy Korneyev	Dynamo Stavropol	19
4	Merab Zhordania	Guria Lanchkhuti	19
6	Sergei Andreyev	Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	18
	Jevgenijs Milevskis	Daugava Riga	18
	Hamlet Mkhitaryan	Kotayk Abovian	18
9	Oleksandr Malyshenko	Zorya Voroshylovhrad	17

v t e Second level Soviet football championship seasons
Group B	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Second Group	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Class B	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Second Group (Class A)	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
First Group (Class A)	1970
First League	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991