The 1987–88 Soviet Championship League season was the 42nd season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Fourteen teams participated in the league, and CSKA Moscow won the championship.

R	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	CSKA Moscow	26	21	2	3	149	67	44
2	Krylya Sovetov Moscow	26	16	1	9	102	80	33
3	Spartak Moscow	26	13	5	8	89	78	31
4	Dynamo Moscow	26	13	4	9	111	91	30
5	Traktor Chelyabinsk	26	11	5	10	77	67	27
6	Avtomobilist Sverdlovsk	26	9	8	9	88	96	26
7	Sokol Kiev	26	10	5	11	107	96	25
8	Khimik Voskresensk	26	10	5	11	90	100	25
9	SKA Leningrad	26	11	2	13	82	91	24
10	Dinamo Riga	26	10	4	12	88	92	24
11	Torpedo Yaroslavl	26	11	2	13	81	100	24
12	Torpedo Gorky	26	9	4	13	89	109	22
13	Izhstal Izhevsk	26	7	2	17	85	141	16
14	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk	26	5	3	18	91	121	13

R	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	CSKA Moscow	18	11	5	2	81	44	27
2	Dynamo Moscow	18	11	4	3	67	45	26
3	Dinamo Riga	18	11	3	4	66	46	25
4	Krylya Sovetov Moscow	18	9	5	4	63	43	23
5	Spartak Moscow	18	9	3	6	63	46	21
6	Sokol Kiev	18	8	2	8	77	68	18
7	Traktor Chelyabinsk	18	6	4	8	49	55	16
8	Khimik Voskresensk	18	5	3	10	60	72	13
9	SKA Leningrad	18	2	2	14	47	88	6
10	Avtomobilist Sverdlovsk	18	0	3	15	42	106	3

R	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	Torpedo Gorky	36	23	3	10	157	99	49
2	Torpedo Yaroslavl	36	23	2	11	151	102	48
3	Dinamo Minsk	36	22	2	12	148	116	46
4	Dinamo Kharkiv	36	21	2	13	138	107	44
5	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk	36	19	4	13	172	135	42
6	Izhstal Izhevsk	36	15	3	18	131	156	33
7	SK Uritskogo Kazan	36	12	7	17	102	103	31
8	Sibir Novosibirsk	36	12	3	21	126	171	27
9	Torpedo Togliatti	36	12	3	21	96	154	27
10	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	36	6	1	29	92	171	13

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