1982 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League
Season1982
ChampionsDinamo Minsk
RelegatedKuban Krasnodar, Kairat Alma-Ata
European CupDinamo Minsk
Cup Winners' CupShakhter Donetsk
UEFA CupSpartak Moscow
Dinamo Kiev
Matches played306
Goals scored776 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer(23) Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)
← 1981
1983 →

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1982 season.

Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and Dinamo Minsk won the championship.

The rules stated that a team could only have a maximum of 10 draws; all points from matches draw since the eleventh wouldn't be counted.

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Minsk (C) 34 19 9 6 63 35 +28 47 Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kyiv 34 18 10 6 58 25 +33 46 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Spartak Moscow 34 16 9 9 59 35 +24 41
4 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Tbilisi 34 16 9 9 51 47 +4 41
5 Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Ararat Yerevan 34 14 10 10 50 47 +3 38
6 Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Pakhtakor Tashkent 34 13 11 10 42 38 +4 36[a]
7 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Zenit Leningrad 34 12 9 13 44 41 +3 33
8 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Torpedo Moscow 34 11 12 11 36 33 +3 32[b]
9 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 34 11 12 11 34 38 −4 32[b]
10 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Chornomorets Odessa 34 11 11 12 30 36 −6 32[a]
11 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dynamo Moscow 34 13 5 16 42 52 −10 31
12 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Metalist Kharkiv 34 10 11 13 32 34 −2 30[a]
13 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Torpedo Kutaisi 34 10 10 14 39 45 −6 30
14 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Shakhtar Donetsk 34 10 9 15 42 57 −15 29 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
15 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic CSKA Moscow 34 10 9 15 41 46 −5 29
16 Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Neftchi Baku 34 10 7 17 42 63 −21 27
17 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Kuban Krasnodar (R) 34 9 9 16 37 48 −11 27 Relegation to First League
18 Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kairat Alma-Ata (R) 34 7 10 17 34 56 −22 24
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c 1 point deducted (10 draw limit)
  2. ^ a b 2 points deducted (10 draw limit)

Results

Home \ Away ARA CHO CSK DNI DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KUB MKH NEF PAK SHA SPA TKU TOR ZEN
Ararat Yerevan 6–1 3–2 1–3 2–3 1–1 2–2 1–1 3–2 2–1 0–0 3–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 3–1 4–1 2–0
Chornomorets Odessa 0–1 0–2 1–1 1–0 1–0 3–2 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–2 3–2 3–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 0–0
CSKA Moscow 2–3 1–2 1–1 1–1 2–3 1–2 2–3 1–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 0–1 1–0 0–2 3–0 2–1 1–1
Dnipro Dnipropetrosk 1–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–3 3–2 0–0 3–2 1–0 0–0 2–0 0–0 2–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 3–1
Dynamo Kyiv 4–0 0–0 3–0 1–1 2–3 2–1 3–1 3–0 3–0 2–1 4–0 1–0 5–0 1–2 2–0 0–0 1–1
Dinamo Minsk 1–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 3–2 0–0 2–0 3–1 0–0 3–0 1–0 3–2 0–1 0–0
Dynamo Moscow 2–0 0–1 0–1 3–0 2–1 0–7 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 3–1 0–3 0–2 2–1 1–1 2–0
Dinamo Tbilisi 1–1 1–0 1–1 3–1 1–5 4–1 1–0 1–0 3–1 1–0 5–3 2–1 2–2 3–1 2–1 2–0 2–1
Kairat Alma-Ata 1–2 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 2–2 1–2 2–2 2–2 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 0–4 1–0 1–1 2–3
Kuban Krasnodar 1–0 3–3 2–0 0–1 0–1 1–3 4–1 0–2 1–1 1–0 3–1 2–2 1–0 0–2 1–0 0–0 1–2
Metalist Kharkiv 1–0 0–0 2–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 3–0 0–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–3 3–3 1–2 0–0
Neftçi Baku 0–1 1–1 2–2 3–0 2–1 3–2 2–1 0–0 1–0 2–3 1–0 4–2 2–2 4–3 3–2 0–2 1–0
Pakhtakor Tashkent 0–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 0–2 0–3 3–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 3–2 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–1 5–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 3–1 0–0 2–0 2–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 3–3 3–2 1–0 2–1 0–0 3–1 2–2 1–1 0–1 4–3
Spartak Moscow 1–2 1–1 2–1 0–0 1–2 3–4 0–1 4–1 3–0 3–1 0–0 5–0 0–0 3–2 2–0 2–0 1–1
Torpedo Kutaisi 2–0 1–1 0–2 2–3 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 2–2 1–0 3–1 2–0 2–4 2–1 2–0
Torpedo Moscow 1–0 2–0 1–1 2–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–0 1–1 3–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 5–1 1–2 0–0 2–0
Zenit Leningrad 5–0 0–0 1–2 2–1 2–0 0–2 2–0 3–1 5–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–1 3–0 0–0 1–0 4–2
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

23 goals
18 goals
16 goals
13 goals
12 goals

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dinamo Minsk

Goalkeepers: Mikhail Vergeyenko (28 / 1), Yury Kurbyko (7).
Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (31 / 7), Yury Trukhan (29), Viktor Yanushevsky (27), Sergei Borovsky (25), Viktor Shishkin (18), Liudas Rumbutis (17), Igor Belov (12).
Midfielders: Aleksandr Prokopenko (31 / 11), Sergey Gotsmanov (31 / 2), Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (29 / 3), Sergei Aleinikov (21 / 8), Valeri Melnikov (18), Alyaksandr Vanyushkin (1).
Forwards: Georgi Kondratyev (32 / 10), Igor Gurinovich (28 / 13), Pyotr Vasilevsky (20 / 5), Viktor Sokol (2 / 1).

Manager: Eduard Malofeyev.

Transferred out during the season: none.

2. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (24), Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (12).
Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (32 / 5), Oleksandr Sorokalet (29), Volodymyr Lozynskyi (28 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (25 / 2), Volodymyr Bezsonov (18 / 4), Oleksandr Boyko (12), Yuriy Makhynya (2).
Midfielders: Andriy Bal (31 / 5), Yaroslav Dumanskyi (29 / 2), Leonid Buryak (21 / 3), Aleksandr Khapsalis (14 / 2), Vasyl Rats (11 / 1), Volodymyr Veremeyev (10), Pavlo Yakovenko (4).
Forwards: Viktor Khlus (31 / 10), Vadym Yevtushenko (25 / 9), Oleg Blokhin (24 / 10), Hryhoriy Pasechnyi (4 / 1).

Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi.

Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (28), Aleksei Prudnikov (12).
Defenders: Oleg Romantsev (33 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (27), Vladimir Shcherbak (24), Boris Pozdnyakov (19), Vladimir Bukiyevskiy (4), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (2), Alexander Mirzoyan (2).
Midfielders: Sergey Shavlo (34 / 11), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Yuri Gavrilov (31 / 6), Edgar Gess (30 / 5), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (17), Sergei Nikitin (2).
Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (30 / 9), Aleksandr Kalashnikov (26 / 5), Sergei Shvetsov (24 / 9), Viktor Hrachov (5 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (3), Vladimir Nikonov (1), Oleg Smirnov (1).

Manager: Konstantin Beskov.

Transferred out during the season: Viktor Hrachov (to FC Shakhtar Donetsk).

Number of teams by union republic

Rank Union republic Number of teams Club(s)
1  RSFSR 6 CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Kuban Krasnodar, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad
2  Ukrainian SSR 5 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
 Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata
 Uzbek SSR Pakhtakor Tashkent

References