1963 Soviet Top League

Class A, Pervaya Gruppa
Season1963
Dates31 March – 29 November 1963
ChampionsDynamo Moscow
10th Soviet top-tier title
RelegatedDynamo Leningrad
Lokomotiv Moscow
Ararat Yerevan
Avangard Kharkov
Pakhtakor Tashkent
Top goalscorerOleg Kopayev (27)
← 1962
1964 →

The 1963 Class A, Pervaya Gruppa (Russian: класс «А», первая группа) was the 25th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union. Due to reorganization of the Soviet Union football competition by adding an extra tier, this season the top tier was renamed as Class A, Pervaya Gruppa compared to previously named as Class A.

20 teams took part in the league with FC Dynamo Moscow winning the championship. Spartak Moscow were the defending champions and came second trailing three points behind.

Team changes

Both Baltic clubs Daugava Rīga and Žalgiris Vilnius were relegated the last season to the Class A, Vtoraya Gruppa after finishing in the last two places. There were no new teams promoted to the league due to the reorganization and number of participants was reduced from 22 to 20.

Belarus Minsk changed its name to Dinamo Minsk, Spartak Yerevan changed its name to Ararat Yerevan.

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dynamo Moscow (C) 38 21 13 4 47 14 +33 55 League champions
2 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Spartak Moscow 38 22 8 8 65 33 +32 52
3 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Minsk 38 18 12 8 47 27 +20 48
4 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic SKA Rostov-on-Don 38 20 7 11 73 40 +33 47
5 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Tbilisi 38 17 13 8 56 42 +14 47
6 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Zenit Leningrad 38 14 17 7 45 32 +13 45
7 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic CSKA Moscow 38 14 17 7 39 27 +12 45
8 Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Neftyanik Baku 38 18 9 11 48 44 +4 45
9 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kyiv 38 16 12 10 68 48 +20 44
10 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Torpedo Moscow 38 12 16 10 46 41 +5 40
11 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Shakhtar Donetsk 38 11 14 13 29 33 −4 36
12 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Torpedo Kutaisi 38 6 21 11 22 37 −15 33
13 Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldova Chisinau 38 8 16 14 27 43 −16 32
14 Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kairat Alma-Ata 38 10 12 16 28 47 −19 32
15 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 38 11 7 20 45 53 −8 29
16 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dynamo Leningrad (R) 38 7 15 16 37 51 −14 29 Relegation to Class A Second Group
17 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Lokomotiv Moscow (R) 38 5 19 14 37 54 −17 29
18 Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Ararat Yerevan (R) 38 9 8 21 34 57 −23 26
19 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Avangard Kharkov (R) 38 6 13 19 25 56 −31 25
20 Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Pakhtakor Tashkent (R) 38 4 13 21 44 83 −39 21
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away ARA AVA CSK DYK DLE DMN DYN DTB KAI KRY LOK MOL NEF PAK SHA SKA SPA TKU TOR ZEN
Ararat Yerevan 0–0 0–1 1–3 1–1 3–0 0–3 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 3–1 1–2 5–1 0–0 0–3 0–3 2–0 0–1 3–4
Avangard Kharkov 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–2 0–0 1–2 1–1 3–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–2 1–4 1–1 2–0 1–1
CSKA Moscow 0–0 0–0 3–2 4–0 0–2 0–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 2–2 0–0 1–2 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–2 0–1 0–0 0–1
Dynamo Kyiv 5–0 2–0 0–0 3–2 1–0 0–1 5–1 4–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 4–1 3–1 2–0 2–1 1–1 1–1 0–0
Dynamo Leningrad 4–1 3–2 1–1 1–5 0–0 0–0 2–0 0–0 4–1 1–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 2–0 2–1 0–2 5–0 0–0 1–1
Dinamo Minsk 3–1 2–1 1–1 1–4 2–0 2–0 3–0 3–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 6–1 0–0 0–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–0
Dynamo Moscow 1–0 4–0 1–2 1–1 1–0 0–2 2–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 0–0 3–1 2–0 0–0 3–2 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–0
Dinamo Tbilisi 2–2 4–0 0–0 1–0 3–0 0–0 0–0 3–1 1–0 2–2 3–0 2–0 4–2 2–1 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 4–0
Kairat Alma-Ata 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 1–2 2–1 0–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–1
Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 2–0 2–0 4–0 3–1 2–2 1–0 0–1 0–0 4–0 1–0 3–3 0–1 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–3 3–0 0–2 0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 0–2 0–2 2–3 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–4 2–0 2–2 1–5 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–3
Moldova Chisinau 2–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–3 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 4–2 1–0 2–3 0–3 0–0 1–1 1–0
Neftyanik Baku 2–0 1–0 0–1 3–2 2–1 0–4 0–2 1–3 2–1 1–0 3–3 4–2 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–1
Pakhtakor Tashkent 2–2 0–0 1–6 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–4 2–2 1–1 5–2 5–2 1–2 1–5 0–1 0–0 2–2 0–0 0–0 2–4
Shakhtar Donetsk 1–0 1–0 0–3 3–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–1 3–2 0–1 1–1 2–0 0–0 0–0
SKA Rostov-on-Don 0–1 7–1 1–1 3–3 4–0 3–1 0–0 3–0 4–0 4–1 2–2 2–0 1–0 4–0 3–2 1–0 2–1 2–0 1–3
Spartak Moscow 1–0 2–0 3–0 3–1 3–1 2–2 0–1 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–3 3–0 4–2 4–4 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–2 0–0
Torpedo Kutaisi 2–0 1–0 0–0 1–4 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–2 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 2–1 0–0
Torpedo Moscow 0–1 3–1 1–1 7–1 1–1 0–0 0–3 1–4 3–0 3–2 0–0 2–2 0–2 3–2 3–1 2–1 2–2 1–1 3–2
Zenit Leningrad 0–0 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–1 2–0 0–0 2–2 3–0 2–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–2 3–1 2–1 2–2 0–0
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

27 goals
21 goals
17 goals
16 goals
15 goals
14 goals

References