The 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 40th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Second Group of Soviet Class A in Zone 1. It was the eighth and last season in the Second Group of Soviet Class A.

The season started on 11 April 1970.

The 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Metalurh Zaporizhia.

In 1970–1971 the Soviet football league structure went through reformation. The Soviet Class A introduced an extra tier expanding from two to three in total. To the previous First and Second groups, there was introduced Higher (or Top) group. With this, many clubs that previously competed at the second tier (Second Group) were relegated to lower third tier (Second Group). Because of that, many clubs also moved two tiers either up the league's ladder.

Avtomobilist

Spartak

Metalurh

Bukovyna

Lokomotyv Kh.

Avanhard

Tavriya

Azovets

Zirka

Budivelnyk

Sudnobudivnyk

Spartak

Kryvbas

Avanhard

Shakhtar H.

Desna

SKA Odessa

Shakhtar K.

SKA Lviv

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Locations of teams in Second Group (Class A), Zone 1

Neman

Gomselmash

Spartak

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Locations of teams in Second Group (Class A), Zone 1

Baltika

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Locations of teams in Second Group (Class A), Zone 1

18 clubs were relegated from the 1969 Second Group (Class A).

All four teams technically were never promoted as they stayed at the third tier. Three clubs were moved from the 1969 Ukrainian Class B, one more from the 1969 Russian Class B, Zone 1.

• FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
• FC Shakhtar Kadiivka
• FC Spartak Sumy
• FC Gomselmash Gomel

• none

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Metalurh Zaporizhia (C, P)	42	26	10	6	73	33	+40	62	Promoted
2	Tavriya Simferopol	42	21	15	6	70	36	+34	57
3	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr	42	20	15	7	61	27	+34	55
4	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	42	18	14	10	58	53	+5	50
5	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv	42	17	14	11	47	36	+11	48
6	Azovets Zhdanov	42	15	18	9	44	34	+10	48
7	Zirka Kirovohrad	42	19	9	14	48	41	+7	47
8	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	42	17	12	13	45	39	+6	46
9	Shakhtar Kadiivka	42	16	13	13	49	37	+12	45
10	Lokomotyv Kherson	42	16	12	14	60	50	+10	44
11	Desna Chernihiv	42	17	10	15	43	45	−2	44	Dissolved[2]
12	Shakhtar Horlivka	42	14	13	15	42	47	−5	41
13	Budivelnyk Poltava	42	13	13	16	33	34	−1	39
14	SKA Lviv	42	12	15	15	30	41	−11	39
15	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	42	12	14	16	52	48	+4	38
16	Spartak Brest	42	12	13	17	32	48	−16	37
17	Avanhard Ternopil	42	12	12	18	38	47	−9	36
18	Neman Grodno	42	11	13	18	27	48	−21	35
19	Baltika Kaliningrad	42	10	11	21	24	51	−27	31
20	SKA Odessa	42	12	6	24	34	56	−22	30
21	Spartak Sumy	42	7	14	21	31	57	−26	28
22	Gomselmash Gomel	42	7	10	25	22	55	−33	24

The following were the top goalscorers.

• Soviet Second League

• 1970 season regulations. Luhansk football portal
• 1970 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 (Ukrainian SSR football championship). Luhansk football portal
• 1971 Soviet championships (all leagues) at helmsoccer.narod.ru
• Class "A" – Druha Hrupa (Zone 1) – 1970 (Клас "А" - Друга група (1 зона) - 1970). ukr-football.org