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Football in the Soviet Union
Season	1977
Men's football
Top League	Dinamo Kiev
First League	Spartak Moscow
Second League	Zhalgiris Vilnius (Group 1); SKA Odessa (Group 2); Kuban Krasnodar (Group 3); Spartak Nalchik (Group 4); Yangiyer (Group 5); Spartak Semipalatinsk (Group 6)
Soviet Cup	Dinamo Moscow

The 1977 Soviet football championship was the 46th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union, the 40th among teams of masters. Dinamo Kiev won the Top League championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the eighth time.

Honours

Competition		Winner	Runner-up
Top League		Dinamo Kiev (8)	Dinamo Tbilisi
First League		Spartak Moscow (1)	Pakhtakor Tashkent
Second League	Group 1	Zhalgiris Vilnius	Iskra Smolensk
	Group 2	SKA Odessa	SKA Kiev
	Group 3	Kuban Krasnodar	Fakel Voronezh
	Group 4	Spartak Nalchik	Dinamo Makhachkala
	Group 5	Yangiyer	Alga Frunze
	Group 6	Spartak Semipalatinsk	SKA Khabarovsk
Soviet Cup		Dinamo Moscow (5)	Torpedo Moscow

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Soviet Union football championship

Top League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	30	14	15	1	51	12	+39	43	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	13	13	4	43	26	+17	39	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Torpedo Moscow	30	12	13	5	30	23	+7	37	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Dynamo Moscow	30	9	17	4	34	20	+14	35
5	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	9	16	5	31	24	+7	34	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
6	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	9	14	7	27	25	+2	32
7	Chornomorets Odessa	30	11	8	11	33	41	−8	30
8	Kairat Alma-Ata	30	6	17	7	26	31	−5	29
9	Zaria Voroshilovgrad	30	8	12	10	28	24	+4	28
10	Zenit Leningrad	30	8	12	10	34	33	+1	28
11	Ararat Yerevan	30	7	13	10	28	34	−6	27
12	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	9	9	12	24	31	−7	27
13	Neftchi Baku	30	5	17	8	25	34	−9	27
14	CSKA Moscow	30	5	17	8	28	39	−11	27
15	Karpaty Lviv (R)	30	6	14	10	26	30	−4	26	Relegation to First League
16	Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev (R)	30	2	7	21	18	59	−41	11	Relegation to First League

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

First League

Pos	Rep	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	RUS	Spartak Moskva	38	22	10	6	83	42	+41	54^[a]	Promoted
2	UZB	Pahtakor Tashkent	38	19	14	5	57	28	+29	52	Promoted

3	UKR	Tavria Simferopol	38	21	7	10	57	34	+23	49
4	BLR	Dinamo Minsk	38	19	9	10	48	29	+19	47^[a]
5	TJK	Pamir Dushanbe	38	19	7	12	54	36	+18	45
6	RUS	Kuzbass Kemerovo	38	20	5	13	51	38	+13	45
7	RUS	Terek Grozny	38	17	7	14	59	48	+11	41
8	RUS	Shinnik Yaroslavl	38	14	13	11	50	44	+6	41
9	GEO	Torpedo Kutaisi	38	15	8	15	45	48	−3	38
10	RUS	SKA Rostov-na-Donu	38	12	12	14	43	48	−5	36
11	MDA	Nistru Kishinev	38	11	14	13	45	51	−6	36
12	RUS	UralMash Sverdlovsk	38	13	10	15	52	62	−10	36^[b]
13	RUS	Dinamo Leningrad	38	11	12	15	51	54	−3	34^[b]
14	UKR	Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk	38	10	14	14	38	52	−14	34
15	RUS	Spartak Orjonikidze	38	11	11	16	38	45	−7	33
16	UKR	Metallurg Zaporozhye	38	11	11	16	35	48	−13	33
17	TKM	Kolhozchi Ashkhabad	38	12	8	18	43	60	−17	32

18	UKR	Krivbass Krivoi Rog	38	10	8	20	43	59	−16	28^[b]	Relegated
19	RUS	Zvezda Perm	38	7	10	21	32	62	−30	24
20	RUS	Rubin Kazan	38	6	10	22	40	76	−36	22

Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

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Second League (playoffs)

[Oct 31, Nov 5]
Spartak Semipalatinsk  2-2 0-3  SKA Odessa 
Kuban Krasnodar        2-0 1-2  Yangiyer 
Spartak Nalchik        1-0 0-1  Žalgiris Vilnius

Replay

[Nov 8]
KUBAN Krasnodar        2-0  Yangiyer         [in Simferopol] 
Žalgiris Vilnius       2-1  Spartak Nalchik  [in Kishinev]

Top goalscorers

Top League

Oleh Blokhin (Dinamo Kiev) – 17 goals

First League

Ihor Nadeyin (Nistru Kishinev), Vitaliy Razdayev (Kuzbass Kemerovo), Anatoliy Zinchenko (Dinamo Leningrad) – 19 goals

References

External links

1977 Soviet football championship. RSSSF

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